Reader Stefania Wójcik, considering the matter of street names, writes, among other things:
"no one has ever mentioned one, the one on the outskirts of the city, where eternal silence and peace prevail. It is a repulsive name—the street of Śluzowa. Do "all together" not have the right to have their own street in our city—the street of Cmentarna?"
Our reader Zofia Matyjewicz also wrote about the streets, presenting her own versions of several street names.
Since on 22 December the City Council members had already decided on changes to selected streets, this matter has probably lost its relevance for a longer period. It is only a pity—as our reader signing with the initials R. K. observes—that the city authorities "did not give people time to submit various proposals and hold a public debate. After the so-called raising of the issue on Local Television and in "Głos Bolesławca," a resolution was hastily adopted, as if it were the city's most urgent matter. So why turn to the people at all?"
"The Reader" (as he signed his anonymous letter) writes:
"....It is wonderful that there are people who can support some activity of our city, although I am not convinced that this money will serve our city. It would be good if "Głos Bolesławca" stated what purposes it was allocated for..."
We wrote to all supporting members and sponsors in New Year's greeting letters about the purposes for which the money obtained from supporting contributions was used. Above all, the money collected was used to publish "Głos Bolesławca" from May of the previous year onward, and the souvenir market was also enriched with reissued portfolios of prints by the artist M. Żołądź (one of the prints even reached the hands of the Pope).
Toward the end of the year, an artistic calendar for 1993 was published.
We would also like to remind readers that the Bolesławiec Enthusiasts' Society received no subsidies and carried out its statutory objectives exclusively through contributions and donations. As for the costs associated with publishing "Głos Bolesławca," they amount to 8 to 12 million złotys per month, depending on the number of pages (on average, one page costs 1 million złotys—hence several issues were "thin," eight pages long; we simply could not afford more pages in a given month).
With a promotional print run of 2,500 copies, selling even all the copies does not cover the cost of publishing the newspaper. The shortfall was sometimes made up by advertising. Does "Głos Bolesławca" serve the city, and does the city need such a publication? Before the war (when Bolesławiec had half its current number of inhabitants), three periodicals were published in the city, including one daily newspaper. Almost all cities and towns today have their own local publications, so why question the need for such a means of information and communication in our city?