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mailmanI agree completely with what Dan Veaner wrote in his editorial (5/16/14) about not being able to read the electronic sign in front of the Lansing High School. I have heard many people complain about the same thing.  Dan's comments on proper, concise writing of public information is right on!

In addition, my thought is that the whole sign was not planned or designed carefully. Instead of wasting half the space on the almost-illegible plastic sign on the top which says 'Welcome to the LCSD', that space should have been devoted to a larger electronic display. Because even though Dan is right about the need for few words, public announcements still need to say the event name, date, and time to be informative.

If the school sign had had a larger electronic display, then it could mimic the old, perfectly-adequate, manually-arranged-letters sign it replaced. It could give the full information about some of the events and have more than one event posted at a time. For a LONGER TIME period. And yes, the time the message remained on the board would have to be increased to a reasonable amount of time to read the sign while driving by in a car.

Those of us who have no children at the school (therefore get no notices in back packs), still want to know about and attend events at the school. But we can't do that when we don't know what the events are because we can't read the sign as it flips quickly from one garishly-decorated message to another.

This last thought brings up another: Just because technology allows us to use a lot of fancy 'goodies', doesn't mean we should use them. I suggest the writers NOT USE the bright, variously-designed backgrounds and stick to just printing a brief message on a neutral background for each event.

Donna Scott
Lansing
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