Archive By Section - Letters to the Editor
Keep rural post offices open
Dear Editor, I was saddened to read in the news that the United States Postal Service has put out yet another list of 3,000 additional post offices nationwide being studied for closure. Granted, we are in tough budgetary times, and obviously some belt-tightening may be necessary in a few areas. However, I feel it is a dreadful shame that America can send millions of dollars overseas to foreign countries such as Pakistan in foreign-aid, but ...
Firemen were on fire with repeat win
Dear Editor, What is a hero? Like art, heroism is in the eye of the beholder. As law enforcement officers and firefighters, we are fortunate to work with the American Red Cross and meet heroes every day. Law enforcement officers and firefighters from Barton County have teamed up with the Red Cross to raise awareness about the ongoing need for blood through the Battle of the Badges blood drive competition. The Firemen have proved they ...
Get county definitions right
Dear Editor, Recently the news media has reported, "the University of Kansas will have what it says is the smallest four-year medical education site in the country when eight students begin taking classes on Monday on a satellite campus in Salina. The move is in response to a shortage of rural doctors in the United States." How will this "satellite campus" "effect" rural Kansas? According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serivces, Rural ...
Wheatland School reunion was a great event
Dear Editor, The recent Wheatland School Reunion held many wonderful memories, shared by those who attended the school and the parents who shared this experience with them. This was all brought back to life as if it were only yesterday. For the After Harvest Festival Parade, many of the attendees rod on the two floats, all wearing their Wheatland t-shirts. Bill Ahlgrim, a former student, created a replica of the school, which was displayed on ...
How about that heat?
Dear Editor, How about that heat? Could it get any hotter out there? We have all heard the conversation starters about the weather. Of course the weather affects us all. Looking at the whole picture, not just the shimmering waves coming off the asphalt roads. It brings together a whole array of negative situations that are specific to rural areas, and that are amplified by the serious drought we are experiencing. Considering myself well aware ...
Call your legislator
Dear Editor, My apologies to Thumper, or more correctly, his mother, Mrs. Rabbit, and to my mom and dad who tried to teach me the same. You know, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all! President Obama's speech the other day wasn't his first foray into idiocy, but it speaks volumes about him when he actually says very little. He called Washington a Circus! Imagine that. Has it taken him all ...
Americans should choose how to spend
Dear Editor We know how important it is to have choice and flexibility in managing our health care expenses, particularly when it comes to the medicines our families need. So it doesn't make sense that President Obama's health care reform law took away some of those rights. While we both supported repealing the president's entire health care reform law, the motion was blocked. Now we are teaming up to introduce a bipartisan bill, the Restoring ...
It's time for us to take the drought seriously
Dear Editor, I would like to share some passages of Scripture with the readers today. These passage may shed some light on our present weather conditions. Haggai 1:7-11 says: "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Look at what's happening to you! Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. You hoped for rich harvests, ...
Badge battle opens doors for blood donations
Dear Editor, It is time again for Red Cross Battle ofthe Badges Blood Drive. This means local law enforcement will "battle" with local firefighters and EMS to see who can give the most blood. EMS personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers give time to the community; they give a sense of security to residents; and they often give blood too. As local heroes to many, their courage in the face of adversity bolsters people in ...
IOUs to next generation isn't the answer
Dear Editor, With $14.3 trillion worth of debt, annual deficits in the trillions, long-term obligations that threaten to bankrupt our nation, and continued threats of downgrade by credit institutions, America has a choice. We can continue to allow reckless and unsustainable borrowing and spending, or we can enact measures that will force Washington to get its habits under control. Only the latter ensures prosperity, freedom, and survival of the American Dream. If we are to ...
Youth's golden hour is fleeting fast
Dear Editor, I want to share with anyone who will take a moment and read this message, which to some will make them very angry and others, who may take it to heart. It's not uncommon to glance at the Facebook posts of some of the children, teens, tweens and young adults and hear the same old adage, "Life sucks. There's nothing to do. @#%!, I'm bored." There is an epidemic this summer that is ...
Gone but not forgotten
Dear Editor, Since there is no Bushton News or Holyrood Gazette, I decided to send my tribute to you. This is a tribute letter for three people who had lived in Bushton in the 1960s and have died recently. Paul Turnbal was the postmaster of Bushton, the years I lived there. He was on the school board and you couldn't mail a letter without seeing Mr. Turnbal. I was lucky to have met his ...
‘Lone voice’ tired of paying taxes
Dear Editor, It is a well know fact that the powerful and the wealthy have, through out history, taken advantage of the poor and weak. Their ability to control the political world, uses this clout to perpetuate their wealth and or greed. I must be the only person in Kansas who has the grit to stand up and say to our elected officials that all I care about is a tax policy that treats everyone ...
It's up to us to make the choice
Dear Editor, Due to a multitude of questions that have been hurled my way due to the marriage situation in New York, I have been pressed to write. First thing first, all sexuality is a choice! This may come as a surprise to many people in our world today. People are not, by nature, born homosexual. They are not born fornicators or adulterers. People are not born celibate. Abstinence is not natural either. We are ...
Classmates are invited to reunion
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to encourage the former students and parents to come to our reunion and help us celebrate those happy times of learning, reading, writing and arithmetic at the tune of a hickory stick school days. We had a great lady as cook and she always had great lunch. Those days will not be forgotten. Donna Bryant, Ellinwood
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Whoever believes in Him will inherit eternal life
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Don't support circus with live exotic animal acts
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Christianity is believing in a person not participating in a religion
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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.
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