Letters to the Editor 01-20-1998
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- 'Special' People - Appropriation - Corruption - Recycling - Barbee Sewers - Dismayed By Article - Heartless Theft
'Special' People
Editor, Times-Union:In the past I have read about the special people in Warsaw. I would also like to recognize some "special" people in Warsaw.
These are the people that drive around the signs that say "road closed, local residents only" when the waters of Pike Lake are high. These are also the people that come to the barricades, see the water across the road and in homeowners' driveways and move the barricades so they can plow through it, driving the water even higher into the driveways. These are also the same people that will drive around the barricades up over the curb onto the sidewalks or lawns of these homeowners rather than detour back or they're too lazy to move the barricades so they plow through them, scattering them everywhere and damaging the city's property.
This is a message to all you special people. If you're so interested in what's going on down here, why don't you buy a piece of property by the dam so you can see first-hand what's going on. I'm sure the owner of that piece of property would be glad to unload it.
Linda Berger
Warsaw
Appropriation
Editor, Times-Union:Did I miss something? We had numerous articles and letters between the Warsaw Police Department and Councilman Dewey Lawshe sniping at each other over a transfer of $5,000 within the police department. My understanding was that the council would decide the issue at the city employee Christmas dinner just before Christmas.
I'm not out and around enough to be hooked into the city grapevine, and I think I've been reading the Times-Union fairly thoroughly, but nowhere have I seen anything on the result of the council vote. If I've missed it, could somebody let me know what happened?
Dodie Stoops
Warsaw
Editor's Note: The council unanimously passed the $5,000 transfer ordinance at a 5 p.m. meeting on Dec. 22.
Corruption
Editor, Times-Union:In Mr. Gerard's New Views of Jan. 17 he asks why nobody seems to care about all the corruption in the current administration in Washington. I'm sure everyone, at least in this area, has wondered the same thing and all have their own ideas. I would like to express a few of my own.
The first problem, I believe, is the liberal media. They like Bill Clinton and his attempts to move this nation toward European socialism. If Mr. Clinton were a conservative he would have been tarred and feathered the second month of first administration. But the media will continue to support him and downplay all his sins, whatever they may be.
Another problem, I believe, is that Americans are more politically savvy than they are given credit for. Most people understand that if you drive Mr. Clinton out you're stuck with Mr. Gore and that gives most people nightmares. If you managed to boot them both you would have Mr. Gingrich, which would be fine with me, but would have both the liberals and moderates screaming their heads off.
But I think the biggest problem is simply the way the American people view government, politics and politicians. This country was founded by men that viewed government as, at best, a necessary evil, and most Americans still feel that way. May people view politics as a dirty game and only dirty people will get involved with it. I believe that is why only half the American people vote. The other half view it as a waste of time. They firmly believe it's a lose-lose endeavor. No matter who wins the election the American people are going to lose.
As I've said before, if the American people would vote like they are supposed to, we would never have gotten into this mess. The only way out now, short of war, is to get that other half involved in the system. Unless we find some way of accomplishing that, I'm afraid the American way is doomed.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
Recycling
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is in response to the letter written by 9-year-old Jamie Weaver of Warsaw. Thank you very much, Jamie, for caring enough about recycling to write a letter to the editor! Here at the Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District we are very concerned about resource reduction, recycling and reuse also! It is easy to recycle in Kosciusko County, where we have 12 recycling drop-off stations throughout the county as well as recycling days for other waste such as tires, appliances and paper. People can recycle tin/steel cans, plastic milk jugs or any other plastic labeled with a No. 2, 2-liter pop bottles or other plastic labeled with a No. 1, clear, green or brown glass, newspapers, corrugated cardboard and aluminum cans! The District is also available to county school classrooms to make special presentations about our waste stream and how to recycle, reduce and reuse! If there are any other students or teachers as concerned as Jamie, please contact the District office to arrange for one of these presentations for students! Thanks for caring!
Marsha J. Eikenberry
Director
Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District
Barbee Sewers
Editors, Times-Union:This is ridiculous. Here I sit in the middle of the Barbee Lakes. Over the past few days I have watched with interest as the water has risen to fill yards, cover septic systems, enter outbuildings, creep up on foundations and steps as it threatens to enter homes, and now it's complicated by freezing temperatures.
It is at times like this that stories circulate about what life is really like living on the Barbee chain of lakes. Over these past few days I have heard residents commiserating about the things they have to do to live with septic systems that do not work. Things like always using the bathroom at the office or a restaurant before going home; flushing only once a day; posting those funny little signs in their bathrooms; not being able to use washers, dishwashers or garbage disposals; asking guests to act accordingly; moving social gatherings to someone else's house because they cannot use their bathrooms, etc. The list goes on. Everyone has their own versions of these stories, if not about themselves, then about many people they know.
So, what is ridiculous about this: It is ridiculous that anyone ever has to ask, "Do we need a sewer?" It is even more ridiculous that the organizers of Barbee Quality Lakes Network (what a misleading name) can keep a straight face while pushing the idea that we do not need sewers.
I wonder if they will be able to keep a straight face years from now when their grandchildren ask, "Grandpa why didn't they put sewers in at the lake when they had the chance?"
We have all either created, contributed to or lived with this problem. Let's solve it now so our grandchildren won't have to solve it at a greatly increased cost.
William L. Thompson
Warsaw
Dismayed By Article
Editor, Times-Union:I read your recent AP "Outback Doctor" article with dismay and anger as the writer lauded the killing of innocent, adult Australians under the euphemism "euthanasia." Dr. Kitschke of Coolalinga is praised as an "unusual doctor" who "helps" people by killing them illegally! He is quoted as saying, "In each case I decide, 'Can I get away with this or can't I?' I ask you, Why is this worthy of print? At the very least the tone of the piece should be one of outrage and indignation as this lawbreaker flaunts his disregard for authority and disrespect of human life.
I know that many might react to my statements as the kneejerk reaction of another rabid fundamentalist, but I beg to differ. Though I do stand firm in my conviction that innocent bloodshed is an abomination to the most high God, my protest roots itself in the well- known Remmelink Report published in 1990 which documents the results of several years of legalized euthanasia in Holland. This official Dutch government study shockingly reveals the steadily increasing use of involuntary euthanasia (the ending of a patient's life without the consent or knowledge of the patient of family.) Nearly 10 percent of all deaths in Holland that year were due to euthanasia with over half of those losses being in the involuntary category. If replicated in the United States this would amount to 12.5 million people killed each year against the wishes of the individual or the family. That is 34,000 people a day!
Today the Dutch government struggles with the slippery slope they have created as thousands of chronically ill, disabled, elderly, mentally ill, mentally retarded and even depressed individuals are being routinely eliminated by "caring" physicians across their land. Right-to-die advocates often begin their subtle attack on human life by soft-pedaling euthanasia as a "choice issue." In the end though a significant number of patients end up having no choice at all. Euthanasia, by its very nature, is an abuse and the ultimate abandonment of patients. In its actual practice the "right to die" only gives doctors greater power and a license to kill as cost containment becomes a direct assault on their pocket books. Given the current cost containment attitude in today's environment many U.S. medical groups and facilities may be tempted to view patients in terms of their treatment costs instead of their innate value as human beings. For some, the bottom line would be, "Dead patients cost less than live ones." God help us if we ever reach that day.
Don Running
Warsaw
Heartless Theft
Editor, Times-Union:To the person or persons who drove up into my daughter's yard and under my grandsons' bedroom window and stole her children's battery-operated Big Foot.
My grandsons are ages 5 and 2. Today they learned a very sad lesson about ruthless thieves. Since it doesn't bother you to steal from two little boys, it doesn't matter how hard this single mother works and saves to give one nice gift to her sons. Since you couldn't save $250 to buy your own family one - you did the next best thing, steal one from two little boys. How close do you live to my daughter? The other little children on her street that have the same toys, are they next? Be sure when your child rides this toy, you tell them how proud they should be of you - you stole it for them - from two little boys. My 5-year-old grandson looked at me and said, "Grandma, don't they know that God doesn't like it when people steal? Those people must not know God or they wouldn't have taken our Big Foot truck."
My grandsons are taught to give away toys (they give away toys to get new ones) to other children; my daughter tries to set an example for them. If you hear that someone is trying to sell a Big Foot please call the Warsaw Police Department, you might be buying a stolen truck, just maybe this truck will be brought back to my grandsons.
I can't believe someone could be so mean to children. Makes you wonder how this person was raised, what kind of children they will raise. It doesn't sound good at all.
Rae Ana Hancock
North Webster
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'Special' People
Editor, Times-Union:In the past I have read about the special people in Warsaw. I would also like to recognize some "special" people in Warsaw.
These are the people that drive around the signs that say "road closed, local residents only" when the waters of Pike Lake are high. These are also the people that come to the barricades, see the water across the road and in homeowners' driveways and move the barricades so they can plow through it, driving the water even higher into the driveways. These are also the same people that will drive around the barricades up over the curb onto the sidewalks or lawns of these homeowners rather than detour back or they're too lazy to move the barricades so they plow through them, scattering them everywhere and damaging the city's property.
This is a message to all you special people. If you're so interested in what's going on down here, why don't you buy a piece of property by the dam so you can see first-hand what's going on. I'm sure the owner of that piece of property would be glad to unload it.
Linda Berger
Warsaw
Appropriation
Editor, Times-Union:Did I miss something? We had numerous articles and letters between the Warsaw Police Department and Councilman Dewey Lawshe sniping at each other over a transfer of $5,000 within the police department. My understanding was that the council would decide the issue at the city employee Christmas dinner just before Christmas.
I'm not out and around enough to be hooked into the city grapevine, and I think I've been reading the Times-Union fairly thoroughly, but nowhere have I seen anything on the result of the council vote. If I've missed it, could somebody let me know what happened?
Dodie Stoops
Warsaw
Editor's Note: The council unanimously passed the $5,000 transfer ordinance at a 5 p.m. meeting on Dec. 22.
Corruption
Editor, Times-Union:In Mr. Gerard's New Views of Jan. 17 he asks why nobody seems to care about all the corruption in the current administration in Washington. I'm sure everyone, at least in this area, has wondered the same thing and all have their own ideas. I would like to express a few of my own.
The first problem, I believe, is the liberal media. They like Bill Clinton and his attempts to move this nation toward European socialism. If Mr. Clinton were a conservative he would have been tarred and feathered the second month of first administration. But the media will continue to support him and downplay all his sins, whatever they may be.
Another problem, I believe, is that Americans are more politically savvy than they are given credit for. Most people understand that if you drive Mr. Clinton out you're stuck with Mr. Gore and that gives most people nightmares. If you managed to boot them both you would have Mr. Gingrich, which would be fine with me, but would have both the liberals and moderates screaming their heads off.
But I think the biggest problem is simply the way the American people view government, politics and politicians. This country was founded by men that viewed government as, at best, a necessary evil, and most Americans still feel that way. May people view politics as a dirty game and only dirty people will get involved with it. I believe that is why only half the American people vote. The other half view it as a waste of time. They firmly believe it's a lose-lose endeavor. No matter who wins the election the American people are going to lose.
As I've said before, if the American people would vote like they are supposed to, we would never have gotten into this mess. The only way out now, short of war, is to get that other half involved in the system. Unless we find some way of accomplishing that, I'm afraid the American way is doomed.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
Recycling
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is in response to the letter written by 9-year-old Jamie Weaver of Warsaw. Thank you very much, Jamie, for caring enough about recycling to write a letter to the editor! Here at the Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District we are very concerned about resource reduction, recycling and reuse also! It is easy to recycle in Kosciusko County, where we have 12 recycling drop-off stations throughout the county as well as recycling days for other waste such as tires, appliances and paper. People can recycle tin/steel cans, plastic milk jugs or any other plastic labeled with a No. 2, 2-liter pop bottles or other plastic labeled with a No. 1, clear, green or brown glass, newspapers, corrugated cardboard and aluminum cans! The District is also available to county school classrooms to make special presentations about our waste stream and how to recycle, reduce and reuse! If there are any other students or teachers as concerned as Jamie, please contact the District office to arrange for one of these presentations for students! Thanks for caring!
Marsha J. Eikenberry
Director
Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District
Barbee Sewers
Editors, Times-Union:This is ridiculous. Here I sit in the middle of the Barbee Lakes. Over the past few days I have watched with interest as the water has risen to fill yards, cover septic systems, enter outbuildings, creep up on foundations and steps as it threatens to enter homes, and now it's complicated by freezing temperatures.
It is at times like this that stories circulate about what life is really like living on the Barbee chain of lakes. Over these past few days I have heard residents commiserating about the things they have to do to live with septic systems that do not work. Things like always using the bathroom at the office or a restaurant before going home; flushing only once a day; posting those funny little signs in their bathrooms; not being able to use washers, dishwashers or garbage disposals; asking guests to act accordingly; moving social gatherings to someone else's house because they cannot use their bathrooms, etc. The list goes on. Everyone has their own versions of these stories, if not about themselves, then about many people they know.
So, what is ridiculous about this: It is ridiculous that anyone ever has to ask, "Do we need a sewer?" It is even more ridiculous that the organizers of Barbee Quality Lakes Network (what a misleading name) can keep a straight face while pushing the idea that we do not need sewers.
I wonder if they will be able to keep a straight face years from now when their grandchildren ask, "Grandpa why didn't they put sewers in at the lake when they had the chance?"
We have all either created, contributed to or lived with this problem. Let's solve it now so our grandchildren won't have to solve it at a greatly increased cost.
William L. Thompson
Warsaw
Dismayed By Article
Editor, Times-Union:I read your recent AP "Outback Doctor" article with dismay and anger as the writer lauded the killing of innocent, adult Australians under the euphemism "euthanasia." Dr. Kitschke of Coolalinga is praised as an "unusual doctor" who "helps" people by killing them illegally! He is quoted as saying, "In each case I decide, 'Can I get away with this or can't I?' I ask you, Why is this worthy of print? At the very least the tone of the piece should be one of outrage and indignation as this lawbreaker flaunts his disregard for authority and disrespect of human life.
I know that many might react to my statements as the kneejerk reaction of another rabid fundamentalist, but I beg to differ. Though I do stand firm in my conviction that innocent bloodshed is an abomination to the most high God, my protest roots itself in the well- known Remmelink Report published in 1990 which documents the results of several years of legalized euthanasia in Holland. This official Dutch government study shockingly reveals the steadily increasing use of involuntary euthanasia (the ending of a patient's life without the consent or knowledge of the patient of family.) Nearly 10 percent of all deaths in Holland that year were due to euthanasia with over half of those losses being in the involuntary category. If replicated in the United States this would amount to 12.5 million people killed each year against the wishes of the individual or the family. That is 34,000 people a day!
Today the Dutch government struggles with the slippery slope they have created as thousands of chronically ill, disabled, elderly, mentally ill, mentally retarded and even depressed individuals are being routinely eliminated by "caring" physicians across their land. Right-to-die advocates often begin their subtle attack on human life by soft-pedaling euthanasia as a "choice issue." In the end though a significant number of patients end up having no choice at all. Euthanasia, by its very nature, is an abuse and the ultimate abandonment of patients. In its actual practice the "right to die" only gives doctors greater power and a license to kill as cost containment becomes a direct assault on their pocket books. Given the current cost containment attitude in today's environment many U.S. medical groups and facilities may be tempted to view patients in terms of their treatment costs instead of their innate value as human beings. For some, the bottom line would be, "Dead patients cost less than live ones." God help us if we ever reach that day.
Don Running
Warsaw
Heartless Theft
Editor, Times-Union:To the person or persons who drove up into my daughter's yard and under my grandsons' bedroom window and stole her children's battery-operated Big Foot.
My grandsons are ages 5 and 2. Today they learned a very sad lesson about ruthless thieves. Since it doesn't bother you to steal from two little boys, it doesn't matter how hard this single mother works and saves to give one nice gift to her sons. Since you couldn't save $250 to buy your own family one - you did the next best thing, steal one from two little boys. How close do you live to my daughter? The other little children on her street that have the same toys, are they next? Be sure when your child rides this toy, you tell them how proud they should be of you - you stole it for them - from two little boys. My 5-year-old grandson looked at me and said, "Grandma, don't they know that God doesn't like it when people steal? Those people must not know God or they wouldn't have taken our Big Foot truck."
My grandsons are taught to give away toys (they give away toys to get new ones) to other children; my daughter tries to set an example for them. If you hear that someone is trying to sell a Big Foot please call the Warsaw Police Department, you might be buying a stolen truck, just maybe this truck will be brought back to my grandsons.
I can't believe someone could be so mean to children. Makes you wonder how this person was raised, what kind of children they will raise. It doesn't sound good at all.
Rae Ana Hancock
North Webster
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