Editor,

I agree with Tom Pacher’s July 13 letter to editor. I didn’t even see times allowed for fireworks posted in the paper this year. But I don’t think he should blame just kids, but “big kids” too.

I’ve lived in Oak Harbor for some 45 years and have dreaded the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve. Each year I spent every night of the festivities with a large quivering, drooling dog in my lap.

Now we have much bigger and powerful fireworks, and boy, do they shake the foundations of the house. I guess they call them mortars.

So glad my dogs are in heaven now. Trying to go to sleep at midnight is not possible, because after a few minutes, “Boom! There goes another one.”

Mimi Bouchee

Oak Harbor