Uncle Matt Wants The Teenagers To Call Him

I hope that Matt's plea for teenagers to contact him isn't the whole game plan against violence in Allentown. If so, we better button down the hatches very tightly. I watched kids in Reading doing burnouts around the Pagoda on WFMZ.  I remember when it was Reading's pride and joy. WFMZ covers commotion in both Allentown and Reading. The news stories have a short shelf life. Likewise, the Morning Call vacillates with their stories, either not at all, or for months on end. Either one, either way, there is much more commotion than we hear about.

Over the weekend there was a rescue at Canal Park. Some female was pulled from the middle of the Lehigh River. If she was homegrown or from New Jersey, I don't know...the story only appeared very briefly.

Of course the big problem with Matt's call-in plan is who will be calling? The junior achievers will be calling in with good suggestions, but they're not the shooters. The shooters wouldn't be caught dead calling in, or they might end up that way.