Letters to the Editor 03-21-2000
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Congratulations - Our Father's House - Eye Bank Month
Congratulations
Editor, Times-Union:Congratulations to Valley 8th grade girls basketball team. You had a great year and an outstanding record for your middle school years.
What a great group of young ladies you are on and off the floor!
Max and Betty Blackburn
#43 Grandparents
Mentone
Our Father's House
Editor, Times-Union:We at Our Father's House would like to share some astounding news with you. We have had a record year of providing for people in our community. Our Father's House as you well know is non-denominational and is dedicated to serving the needs of the poor as a right rather than a privilege. We have approached this mission as a journey into understanding what poverty really is. Poverty is not always a condition of your family history, it sometimes is just a series of bad choices or being in the wrong company at the wrong time. Sometimes it is the product of generations of conditioning. Whatever the underlying cause, we at Our Father's House have been blessed to witness to what the willing can do.
We have seen restaurants, institutions and food service companies contribute goods that have started turning things around. Children have milk, eggs, bread, wholesome meals containing meat and vegetables. Through donations we are able to provide diapers and baby formula. We are more importantly able to provide back-up support that is as simple as stopping at your parents' home and raiding the refrigerator.
The astounding news is: 79,000 meals; 28,800 loaves of bread; 2,102 dozen diapers; 237,600 containers of milk; 4,992 dozen eggs; 1,246 pounds of baby formula; and $8,720.71 in free clothing and merchandise.
What a wonderful community we live in that can do this much with so little. The Scriptures tell us that you can not give enough away and that God will provide. We have seen it, we believe it and we are blessed to have been a part of it!
We are grateful for your prayerful support, all the leftovers from your church sales, from your church dinners, but most of all we are grateful for the opportunity to serve!
Roz Morgan, director
Our Father's House
Eye Bank Month
Editor, Times-Union:March is Eye Bank Month. Since eye banks were founded in the '40s, people have been asked to be eye donors. Thanks to the medical success of cornea transplants, eye donations can be used to restore sight to those who have lost their vision due to corneal disease or injury.
The cornea has been called the front window of the eye. If it becomes clouded or scarred, vision is impaired. Sight can be restored by replacing the defective cornea with a healthy one from a donor eye. Synthetic ones have not yet proven successful.
It is a sad fact, however, that with the improved surgical techniques and with 50 years of eye-banking experience, there are not enough donors to provide the corneas for those in need of a transplant.
One does not have to have perfect vision to be a donor. Only a transmissible disease would prevent donation. Infants to the elderly can give sight to another. Informing your next of kin of your desire to do so will make it more likely to happen when that critical time comes. Physicians are reluctant to remove corneal tissue or other organs without consent of next of kin. For further information, call 800-232-4384.
Berniece H. Dwyer
Milford
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Congratulations
Editor, Times-Union:Congratulations to Valley 8th grade girls basketball team. You had a great year and an outstanding record for your middle school years.
What a great group of young ladies you are on and off the floor!
Max and Betty Blackburn
#43 Grandparents
Mentone
Our Father's House
Editor, Times-Union:We at Our Father's House would like to share some astounding news with you. We have had a record year of providing for people in our community. Our Father's House as you well know is non-denominational and is dedicated to serving the needs of the poor as a right rather than a privilege. We have approached this mission as a journey into understanding what poverty really is. Poverty is not always a condition of your family history, it sometimes is just a series of bad choices or being in the wrong company at the wrong time. Sometimes it is the product of generations of conditioning. Whatever the underlying cause, we at Our Father's House have been blessed to witness to what the willing can do.
We have seen restaurants, institutions and food service companies contribute goods that have started turning things around. Children have milk, eggs, bread, wholesome meals containing meat and vegetables. Through donations we are able to provide diapers and baby formula. We are more importantly able to provide back-up support that is as simple as stopping at your parents' home and raiding the refrigerator.
The astounding news is: 79,000 meals; 28,800 loaves of bread; 2,102 dozen diapers; 237,600 containers of milk; 4,992 dozen eggs; 1,246 pounds of baby formula; and $8,720.71 in free clothing and merchandise.
What a wonderful community we live in that can do this much with so little. The Scriptures tell us that you can not give enough away and that God will provide. We have seen it, we believe it and we are blessed to have been a part of it!
We are grateful for your prayerful support, all the leftovers from your church sales, from your church dinners, but most of all we are grateful for the opportunity to serve!
Roz Morgan, director
Our Father's House
Eye Bank Month
Editor, Times-Union:March is Eye Bank Month. Since eye banks were founded in the '40s, people have been asked to be eye donors. Thanks to the medical success of cornea transplants, eye donations can be used to restore sight to those who have lost their vision due to corneal disease or injury.
The cornea has been called the front window of the eye. If it becomes clouded or scarred, vision is impaired. Sight can be restored by replacing the defective cornea with a healthy one from a donor eye. Synthetic ones have not yet proven successful.
It is a sad fact, however, that with the improved surgical techniques and with 50 years of eye-banking experience, there are not enough donors to provide the corneas for those in need of a transplant.
One does not have to have perfect vision to be a donor. Only a transmissible disease would prevent donation. Infants to the elderly can give sight to another. Informing your next of kin of your desire to do so will make it more likely to happen when that critical time comes. Physicians are reluctant to remove corneal tissue or other organs without consent of next of kin. For further information, call 800-232-4384.
Berniece H. Dwyer
Milford
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