Letters to the Editor 02-28-2002
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Money Well Spent - Planning - Lost Faith
Money Well Spent
Editor, Times-Union:We have attended several of the recent Warsaw Community School Board meetings and would like to express our appreciation to the board and the school administration for the work they have put into the recent spending proposals. It is difficult to please everyone entirely, but the board made a genuine effort to listen to the public's views. As a result, they have made several significant changes to the plan.
Along with addressing elementary school issues, the proposal will bring much-needed improvements to the high school facilities, both for the sports and performing arts. The money is an investment in our children and in our community. While it may be difficult to measure the gain in dollars, it is money well spent.
Steve and Jane Crim
Warsaw
via e-mail
Planning
Editor, Times-Union:Recently the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission has been considering cutting the amount of farmland acreage, or parcels owned by anybody, that could be divided.
Farmers are currently an impoverished minority little able to defend themselves from anyone who wants to hurt them.
There are a group of people, mainly anybody who doesn't need a new house, who hate to see open land sold to anybody else, who needs a house.
There are several ways to address the problem of urban sprawl, or selling off a few acres of land to somebody who wants a little farmette.
1. There should be a tax on everybody to compensate the farmers for land which could be sold off in lots, which will pay to keep farmland farmland. This is only fair. After all, if you live anywhere, it is on property that was once farmland. Farmers can get more for a lot than selling property for farmland and believe me, they need the money.
2. Stop incoming commerce to the county which will provide jobs that will ultimately produce workers who need new homes.
3. Stop reproducing children. This will only increase the population, requiring more homes.
Unless you are a person who conforms to all of the above, you should not be a person who says someone else should not make a profit by selling their property for the best price.
Russia tried Central Planning. They failed miserably. We should learn by their example and not plan what someone else will do with their farmland.
There are ways farmers could retaliate. One year of non-production of food should do it.
Julia Snoke Gilman
Clay Township landowner
Cincinnati, Ohio
Lost Faith
Editor, Times-Union:On Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, page 5A, I saw a wonderful "Good Luck" story about a very honest man, Richard Grossman.
It was titled "Faith in Humanity." The story was a great inspiration.
But it has no reflection on my own faith that I lost in 1995, when a truck driver rammed into the passenger side of my beautiful, nearly perfect, Mercury Marquis, LS.
This was in February 1995, when the crash caused my head to bust out my car door window, causing both brain damage and fractures to my neck and spine at both ends.
Today, Feb. 21, 2002, I am sitting here in the local library with very, very painful neck pains. I stopped my prayers in 1997 when I knew I was not going to be normal again.
I have lost my complete faith in humanity. Lost my faith in insurance, lost my own faith in lawyers or attorneys, whatever you may call them. For over 50 years, I have carried full coverage auto insurance and for over 50 years, I have never caused any car accident. The attorneys, along with my insurance company, waited out my time limits (called statute of limitations) and I had to settle for $4,000, when I should have been receiving $75 to $85 thousand dollars.
I take my wife to "our" church, but I do not go in myself. I simply have lost my faith in everything and everybody. I feel that I no longer have any close friends, only distant acquaintances, two I know their first names.
Yesterday, I was in Fort Wayne and saw my hearing doctor. He fixed my hearing aid so that I can get 25 percent results from this instrument. I lost the hearing in WWII when a German artillery shell exploded nearby, giving me two thigh wounds and lost hearing in my right ear. I could hear perfectly with my left ear until 1995.
So my faith is long gone, long lost in our American-made humanity.
I am sorry, Mr. Editor, for taking up so much space in your newspaper.
I do hope that this message of mine will be printed in full.
Thank you.
Al Smith
Warsaw
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- Money Well Spent - Planning - Lost Faith
Money Well Spent
Editor, Times-Union:We have attended several of the recent Warsaw Community School Board meetings and would like to express our appreciation to the board and the school administration for the work they have put into the recent spending proposals. It is difficult to please everyone entirely, but the board made a genuine effort to listen to the public's views. As a result, they have made several significant changes to the plan.
Along with addressing elementary school issues, the proposal will bring much-needed improvements to the high school facilities, both for the sports and performing arts. The money is an investment in our children and in our community. While it may be difficult to measure the gain in dollars, it is money well spent.
Steve and Jane Crim
Warsaw
via e-mail
Planning
Editor, Times-Union:Recently the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission has been considering cutting the amount of farmland acreage, or parcels owned by anybody, that could be divided.
Farmers are currently an impoverished minority little able to defend themselves from anyone who wants to hurt them.
There are a group of people, mainly anybody who doesn't need a new house, who hate to see open land sold to anybody else, who needs a house.
There are several ways to address the problem of urban sprawl, or selling off a few acres of land to somebody who wants a little farmette.
1. There should be a tax on everybody to compensate the farmers for land which could be sold off in lots, which will pay to keep farmland farmland. This is only fair. After all, if you live anywhere, it is on property that was once farmland. Farmers can get more for a lot than selling property for farmland and believe me, they need the money.
2. Stop incoming commerce to the county which will provide jobs that will ultimately produce workers who need new homes.
3. Stop reproducing children. This will only increase the population, requiring more homes.
Unless you are a person who conforms to all of the above, you should not be a person who says someone else should not make a profit by selling their property for the best price.
Russia tried Central Planning. They failed miserably. We should learn by their example and not plan what someone else will do with their farmland.
There are ways farmers could retaliate. One year of non-production of food should do it.
Julia Snoke Gilman
Clay Township landowner
Cincinnati, Ohio
Lost Faith
Editor, Times-Union:On Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, page 5A, I saw a wonderful "Good Luck" story about a very honest man, Richard Grossman.
It was titled "Faith in Humanity." The story was a great inspiration.
But it has no reflection on my own faith that I lost in 1995, when a truck driver rammed into the passenger side of my beautiful, nearly perfect, Mercury Marquis, LS.
This was in February 1995, when the crash caused my head to bust out my car door window, causing both brain damage and fractures to my neck and spine at both ends.
Today, Feb. 21, 2002, I am sitting here in the local library with very, very painful neck pains. I stopped my prayers in 1997 when I knew I was not going to be normal again.
I have lost my complete faith in humanity. Lost my faith in insurance, lost my own faith in lawyers or attorneys, whatever you may call them. For over 50 years, I have carried full coverage auto insurance and for over 50 years, I have never caused any car accident. The attorneys, along with my insurance company, waited out my time limits (called statute of limitations) and I had to settle for $4,000, when I should have been receiving $75 to $85 thousand dollars.
I take my wife to "our" church, but I do not go in myself. I simply have lost my faith in everything and everybody. I feel that I no longer have any close friends, only distant acquaintances, two I know their first names.
Yesterday, I was in Fort Wayne and saw my hearing doctor. He fixed my hearing aid so that I can get 25 percent results from this instrument. I lost the hearing in WWII when a German artillery shell exploded nearby, giving me two thigh wounds and lost hearing in my right ear. I could hear perfectly with my left ear until 1995.
So my faith is long gone, long lost in our American-made humanity.
I am sorry, Mr. Editor, for taking up so much space in your newspaper.
I do hope that this message of mine will be printed in full.
Thank you.
Al Smith
Warsaw
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