Archive By Section - Letters to the Editor
Thank you for supporting Red Cross blood program
Dear Editor, The American Red Cross would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to you and your community for continuously supporting the Red Cross blood program. Your support is a wonderful example of how to give back to your community and help patients in need. The Red Cross blood supply relies on the generosity of volunteer donors. People commonly underestimate the need for blood and the difference that even one donation can make to ...
Donate blood
Dear Editor, Thank you all for all the support in 2012 who donated to the American Red Cross and our lifesaving mission of collecting blood. With your help, we are able to spread the word about the need for blood and help give patients another chance at life. Your support has made a significant impact on the community and the blood supply. We cannot thank you enough for helping patients in need. The next drive ...
Thank you from Family Crisis Center
Dear Editor, The Family Crisis Center would like to take a moment to thank the many businesses, agencies, organizations, churches and individuals that have supported our work in 2012. We are overwhelmed by the generosity of our communities and the efforts of those who work closely with us to address the impact of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. It is only through your gifts that we are able to sustain our ability to ...
Support for Huelskamp
Dear Editor, I am wishing to express my appreciation and support for First District Congressman, Tim Huelskamp, for his strong stand on principles. When campaigning for Congress, Tim promised to NOT go to Washington and conduct business as usual. Tim has kept this promise. And for keeping this promise to his constituents he has been branded as being an obstructionist. Excuse me, but it seems that what some are calling obstructionist or not getting along, ...
Avoiding Increased Taxes
Dear Editor, Now that it appears the Fiscal Cliff negotiations have failed, many Americans are making year-end charitable gifts rather than allowing their assets to be taxed at potentially very high rates. As you consider the charitable gifts you will make to close out the year, I ask you to please remember Star of Hope and our work on behalf of children across the world. The current tax cuts are set to expire December 31 ...
Thank you to Great Bend Military Moms
Dear Editor, To the Great Bend Military Moms: Good afternoon all, Thank you very much for the three care packages you sent. I most definitely will make use of them - the hygiene items are definitely great. You also gave me so much stuff I share it with the my other fellow Marines here. You guys are most definitely appreciated for taking care of us while we're deployed. It's simply amazing to see how nice ...
Appreciaton for Tim Huelskamp
Dear Editor, I am wishing to express my appreciation and support for First District Congressman, Tim Huelskamp, for his strong stand on principles. When campaigning for Congress, Tim promised to not go to Washington and conduct business as usual. Tim has kept this promise. And for keeping this promise to his constituents he has been branded as being an obstructionist. Excuse me, but it seems that what some are calling obstructionist or not getting along, ...
Huelskamp stands strong
Dear Editor, I am wishing to express my appreciation and support for First District Congressman, Tim Huelskamp, for his strong stand on principles. When campaigning for Congress, Tim promised to NOT go to Washington and conduct business as usual. Tim has kept this promise. And for keeping this promise to his constituents he has been branded as being an obstructionist. Excuse me, but it seems that what some are calling obstructionist or not getting along, ...
Huelskamp protests committee assignments
Dear Editor, In a Dec. 3 statement, Representative Tim Huelskamp protested not being reappointed to the House Budget and Agriculture Committees, saying, this is clearly a vindictive move. On Dec. 11, he issued a statement after receiving a response to his request that the House Republican Leadership disclose the secret scorecard use to determine committee assignments. He said, with this letter, Speaker Boehner has confirmed a secret scorecard was used to punish conservative Republican Congressmen." ...
Local politics continue to be a problem
Dear Editor, The problem with politics never seems to end. Recently we have seen a neighborhood in the 1400 block of Broadway forced to have a commercial daycare center in a non commercial residential area because wealthy supporters of the mayor and council members owned the home and wanted the commercial daycare located there. This proves that money talks and that the average Great Bend citizen will always take a back seat to the influential ...
Representative Huelskamp
Dear Editor: It doesn't come as any surprise to me that Representative Huelskamp is no longer a favorite son of the Republican Party. Representative Huelskamp is a champion of the Tea Party mentality and unwilling to compromise. He is also unwilling to recognize that there are other issues and people in his district that he cares to neither represent nor support. There is the issue of not wanting to support the tax credit for those ...
Vandals caught destroying highways signs should face prosecution with multiple charges
Dear Editor, I read the article in The Great Bend Tribune: "A dangerous target --Vandalism to rural road signs a serious problem" (Dec 4). The article noted where Dale Phillips, Barton County Road and Bridge Director, showed the Barton County Commissioners an example of the near virtual destruction of a rural "stop sign" which was riddled with gunshot holes. It was jaw-dropping to learn that, so far this year, 150 road signs had to be ...
Shooting of hawks is illegal
Dear Editor, Wording from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service statement in the Dec. 6 Tribune article, "Injured eagles treated at Raptor Center" implied it is legal to kill hawks. All raptors (birds of prey) – hawks, owls, falcons, eagles, ospreys and vultures – are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. North American eagles are also protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Act. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act protects all migratory bird species, ...
Greatest Christmas gift ever given
Dear Editor, With all the hoopla about the 5125 year Mayan calendar cycle coming to the end, and all the people predicting the potential end of the world coming on December 21st, I feel compelled to speak out. I don't know the days and hours and am not going to make some crazy speculation, but, I do want you to know what you need to know in case the end is upon us. Now, when ...
Greenhouse gasses must be controlled
Dear Editor, A number of news reports and columns have been in the media discussing the renewable electricity production tax credit, which is set to expire Dec. 31. They present the decision whether or not to extend the credit as a debate about the jobs created by the wind energy industry versus the cost of the subsidy. But the credit was not created for job stimulus; it was created to reduce the probable harm caused ...
Articles by Section - Letters to the Editor
Don't support circus with live exotic animal acts
Dear Editor,
Christianity is believing in a person not participating in a religion
Dear Editor,
Myers explains actions at meeting
Yes I walked out of the council meeting. I should not have even sat there to begin with as I had told them I would not play their childish game and then I did. This was a planned rehearsed orchestrated attempt to discredit me with the voters. I wonder how many if not all of the council members discussed this with each other prior to the meeting.
GBHS Volunteer Work Day, May 1st a “Great Success”
Dear Editor,
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