Letters to the Editor 01-02-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Cosmetologists - Ice Fishermen - Road Conditions - Armstrong Road
Cosmetologists
Editor, Times-Union:Recently the Warsaw Cosmetology Association decided to spread a little holiday cheer. The WCA holds continuing education for re-licensure classes seven times a year. Our reduced price for members is quite a savings. Typically we hope to break even - we have to hire the certified educators.
We are a not-for-profit organization who believes that the key to staying successful is in continuing education. The state of Indiana instituted a law in 1996 that requires practicing cosmetologists to obtain 16 hours of continuing education in each licensing period (four years).
We have a membership of around 32 cosmetologists in the Kosciusko County area. We strive to provide these cosmetologists with affordable, necessary education. And I must say we do a fine job.
This year, due to the hospitality of Julie Steele of the Health Care Foundation of Kosciusko County Inc., we were able to use their room at the BABE store for free. Julie is a wonderful person and coordinator for this foundation. In honor of her and what the foundation does, we (the WCA) donated a $200 gift certificate to be used in buying items needed in the BABE store. Thank you, Julie!
The WCA was also able to remember the animals in our community. In cooperation with our local pet store, we were able to donate over $200 worth of dog and cat food to the Animal Welfare League. What a great feeling it was to unload the truck and know that the animals would have some good food for the holidays.
There are politicians in this area who believe that we, as cosmetologists, don't need to have continuing education. We strongly disagree. The onslaught of contagious diseases in this world today and how to prevent them are just but one reason for us to be educated. We could easily spread to the rest of our clientele and to our own families all kinds of contagious germs. As professionals, we strive to be just that - PROFESSIONAL.
Our next class will be at the BABE store on Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. The subject is Sanitation & Sterilization. All licensed cosmetologists are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact any of the officers listed below.
Kelly Golden, president WCA, 269-7788
Dawna Sheller, secretary WCA, 267-7877
Wendy Fairchild, treasurer WCA, 269-7788
Ice Fishermen
Editor, Times-Union:We have ice fishermen all over our private residential area again this winter. They stand right out there in front of us and urinate, they are using my parking area as a public turn around and one came within an inch of hitting our air conditioning unit with his hitch. Where will they be when we have to pay for grading and gravel? This road is not maintained by the county. I think we should have conservation officers hassle them daily and check every fish they bring out of the water to make sure it's legal length. I don't know how we can stop them from treating our lane like a public access site, but I'll find out. If they want waterfront, let them call a realtor and pay the taxes like we do. They wouldn't come down here and park in the summer and swim off of our sea wall. When my husband is out of town on business trips I am afraid with all of the strangers traveling up and down our road. How does a homeower protect their property and their privacy in these conditions?
Diane Manley
Irish Lake
via e-mail
Road Conditions
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to take this time to say thanks to the entire state of Indiana for endangering not only the life of my wife and I, but endangering the public's life as well. We took a trip to pick up our motorcycle and sidecar on the 17th of December to Murray, Ky. We had to take a trailer after it. We came back to Evansville and the highways were covered with ice, about a half-inch thick up to an inch or more thick. We did not see any highway trucks putting down any salt, gravel or sand, we can understand not putting down salt because of freezing temperaturess, but what about gravel and sand? We counted over 100 cars in the ditch between Evansville and Warsaw. The highways were not any better anywhere in the entire state of Indiana. We had to drive 30 to 40 mph all the way home, took us 16 and a half hours to get home. If they would have put down a little gravel and sand we feel it could have prevented a lot of slide-offs and gave people a lot more traction on all that ice. I guess what really put the icing on the cake or the roads, is the following Tuesday the governor of Indiana, Mr. O'Bannon, was on TV and radio bragging about a billion-dollar surplus that Indiana now has. I guess my question to him would be, where's the gravel and sand, Mr. O'Bannon? "Happy New Year." Oh yeah, Have A Nice Day.
Michael L. Stevens
Pierceton
via e-mail
Armstrong Road
Editor, Times-Union:I have lived in this area since 1985 and Armstrong Road is the way I get to all points north and east. I have never seen this road in such a state of neglect. Where is the sand? If school buses are not running, we don't get the maintenance required by the severe weather. I'm trying to understand the logic. It's not allowed to cause a school bus to slide off the road, but it is OK to orphan the school children when their parents attempt to get to and from work? It's an ice rink out there and the cars are spinning off of both sides of the road nearly two weeks after the storm. We need action.
E. Diane Manley
Irish Lake
via e-mail
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Cosmetologists
Editor, Times-Union:Recently the Warsaw Cosmetology Association decided to spread a little holiday cheer. The WCA holds continuing education for re-licensure classes seven times a year. Our reduced price for members is quite a savings. Typically we hope to break even - we have to hire the certified educators.
We are a not-for-profit organization who believes that the key to staying successful is in continuing education. The state of Indiana instituted a law in 1996 that requires practicing cosmetologists to obtain 16 hours of continuing education in each licensing period (four years).
We have a membership of around 32 cosmetologists in the Kosciusko County area. We strive to provide these cosmetologists with affordable, necessary education. And I must say we do a fine job.
This year, due to the hospitality of Julie Steele of the Health Care Foundation of Kosciusko County Inc., we were able to use their room at the BABE store for free. Julie is a wonderful person and coordinator for this foundation. In honor of her and what the foundation does, we (the WCA) donated a $200 gift certificate to be used in buying items needed in the BABE store. Thank you, Julie!
The WCA was also able to remember the animals in our community. In cooperation with our local pet store, we were able to donate over $200 worth of dog and cat food to the Animal Welfare League. What a great feeling it was to unload the truck and know that the animals would have some good food for the holidays.
There are politicians in this area who believe that we, as cosmetologists, don't need to have continuing education. We strongly disagree. The onslaught of contagious diseases in this world today and how to prevent them are just but one reason for us to be educated. We could easily spread to the rest of our clientele and to our own families all kinds of contagious germs. As professionals, we strive to be just that - PROFESSIONAL.
Our next class will be at the BABE store on Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. The subject is Sanitation & Sterilization. All licensed cosmetologists are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact any of the officers listed below.
Kelly Golden, president WCA, 269-7788
Dawna Sheller, secretary WCA, 267-7877
Wendy Fairchild, treasurer WCA, 269-7788
Ice Fishermen
Editor, Times-Union:We have ice fishermen all over our private residential area again this winter. They stand right out there in front of us and urinate, they are using my parking area as a public turn around and one came within an inch of hitting our air conditioning unit with his hitch. Where will they be when we have to pay for grading and gravel? This road is not maintained by the county. I think we should have conservation officers hassle them daily and check every fish they bring out of the water to make sure it's legal length. I don't know how we can stop them from treating our lane like a public access site, but I'll find out. If they want waterfront, let them call a realtor and pay the taxes like we do. They wouldn't come down here and park in the summer and swim off of our sea wall. When my husband is out of town on business trips I am afraid with all of the strangers traveling up and down our road. How does a homeower protect their property and their privacy in these conditions?
Diane Manley
Irish Lake
via e-mail
Road Conditions
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to take this time to say thanks to the entire state of Indiana for endangering not only the life of my wife and I, but endangering the public's life as well. We took a trip to pick up our motorcycle and sidecar on the 17th of December to Murray, Ky. We had to take a trailer after it. We came back to Evansville and the highways were covered with ice, about a half-inch thick up to an inch or more thick. We did not see any highway trucks putting down any salt, gravel or sand, we can understand not putting down salt because of freezing temperaturess, but what about gravel and sand? We counted over 100 cars in the ditch between Evansville and Warsaw. The highways were not any better anywhere in the entire state of Indiana. We had to drive 30 to 40 mph all the way home, took us 16 and a half hours to get home. If they would have put down a little gravel and sand we feel it could have prevented a lot of slide-offs and gave people a lot more traction on all that ice. I guess what really put the icing on the cake or the roads, is the following Tuesday the governor of Indiana, Mr. O'Bannon, was on TV and radio bragging about a billion-dollar surplus that Indiana now has. I guess my question to him would be, where's the gravel and sand, Mr. O'Bannon? "Happy New Year." Oh yeah, Have A Nice Day.
Michael L. Stevens
Pierceton
via e-mail
Armstrong Road
Editor, Times-Union:I have lived in this area since 1985 and Armstrong Road is the way I get to all points north and east. I have never seen this road in such a state of neglect. Where is the sand? If school buses are not running, we don't get the maintenance required by the severe weather. I'm trying to understand the logic. It's not allowed to cause a school bus to slide off the road, but it is OK to orphan the school children when their parents attempt to get to and from work? It's an ice rink out there and the cars are spinning off of both sides of the road nearly two weeks after the storm. We need action.
E. Diane Manley
Irish Lake
via e-mail
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