Letters to the Editor 06-20-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- All America City - Fetal Transplant - School Work Session
All America City
Editor, Times-Union:A delegation of 13 people will be in Atlanta this week competing on behalf of Kosciusko County for a national civic league award called "All America City." Even though the award uses the name "city," we will be competing as a county.
This project got its start as a Kosciusko Leadership Academy white paper project. Our charge was to describe our community and how we meet challenges. We highlighted three projects in our application including:
n The Medication Assistance program, which is a division of Kosciusko Homecare & Hospice;
n The Sus Amigos program, which is a volunteer group that recently completed a welcome video for the Spanish-speaking members of our community along with the development of a Latino co-op program at Warsaw Community High School; and
n The YMCA's youth programs, coordinated by YMCA Youth and Family Director Ryan Finney.
One of the most difficult tasks involved in the process was choosing which of our community's many wonderful projects would be highlighted in our application.
In early May we found out that Kosciusko County was named one of 30 finalists out of 93 applying communities. Along with the other finalists, Kosciusko County will make a presentation to National Civic League judges expressing why our community should be named an All America Community. Such a designation would bring us national public relations driven toward tourism and industry recruitment. In addition, other communities would have an opportunity to become aware of the projects that have worked for the good in our community. Who knows? Kosciusko County may become a model around the country for grass-roots, community-driven projects that make big impacts in the lives of people.
Certainly, we would not have gotten as far as the finals without a lot of support from the community. KLA drove us to find a worthy project. Our employers Hampton & Voelz, Lake City Bank and the Kosciusko County Foundation not only supported us through KLA but also offered financial support for our involvement in the competition. The Times Union, WRSW and WAWC radio stations have been kind in helping us get the word out about the competition. Zimmer, Biomet, and the Oakwood Foundation offered their financial support. The Warsaw/Kosciusko County Chamber and the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber offered promotional materials. LifeQuest offered community statistics and research for the application. VSP-TV and Ken Anderson Films/Intercomm offered technical assistance in preparing video footage for our presentation; and Spectra Print provided resources to be used during our presentation.
Thank you to all who have helped us get this far! We look forward to showing the National Civic League what we already know ... that Kosciusko County is a great place to live.
Katy Howe
Stephanie Noffsinger
Angie Ritchey
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fetal Transplant
Editor, Times-Union:As if partial birth abortion and RU-486 were not enough, we now have a new bit of disgusting news. The New York Times and the New England Journal of Medicine have reported on a fetal transplant disaster. A report from scientific studies show that they have attempted to treat Parkinson's' disease. Cells from aborted babies have been injected into exactly the right place in the brains of patients with Parkinson's. This particularly hoped-for therapy backfired! It rips to shreds the myth that brain tissue taken from aborted babies possesses almost magical powers to cure an assortment of neurological ailments, starting with Parkinson's.
Not only are patients not improving, but there is a disastrous side effect in about 15 percent of patients. The cells apparently grew too well, churning out so much of the chemical that controls movement that the patients writhed and jerked uncontrollably, they chew constantly, their fingers go up and down and the sad thing is there is no way to remove or deactivate these transplanted cells. When regular drugs are used, a doctor can cut down the dosage, but there is no hope for the fetal tissue transplant patients. If this is not enough to frost you, they now want to clone baby cells to use for research! What next?
If you have heard about trafficking of baby parts and didn't believe it, well, believe because it is true! Have you wondered how money is made off this very lucrative industry when the selling or buying of the parts is supposedly against the law? Here's how it works. Fetal tissue wholesalers pay abortion clinics a "site fee" to place their employees, also known as "procurement agents," into these abortion clinics to collect various body parts of aborted babies.
Now these fetal tissue wholesalers put out a price list for baby parts, usually via Internet. No door-to-door salesman here. Researchers put in their orders, the order is given to the wholesale employee in the abortion clinic. In return, this employee has access to all desirable fetal tissue. The order is filled and they ship the tissue to the researchers at pharmaceutical companies, university research laboratories, etc. Technically, the wholesaler is not paying for the tissue itself, but renting space to harvest the body parts. The abortionist then "donates" the tissue to the wholesaler.
At the other end of the transaction, the wholesaler will "donate" the fetal material to researchers, BUT bill them for the cost of retrieval. Those of us who have seen price lists for the cost of retrieval (and I use the term loosely) cannot understand how this practice is allowed to continue.
Wanda J. Brown
Warsaw
School Work Session
Editor, Times-Union:I would highly encourage concerned parents and taxpayers of the Warsaw Community School Corp. to attend the special public work session scheduled for June 25 (Monday). This meeting will be conducted at 7 p.m. in the large lecture room at the high school. The purpose of the meeting is the "unveiling" of a facility study report commissioned by the school board. As noted in a school board news release, "the report is to provide an assessment of selected facilities as well as possible options for the future." Some people consider this meeting a preview as to the future of the Atwood and Silver Lake elementary school facilities.
However, the decisions made by the school board as a result of this study could very well have an impact on many more families in the Warsaw School Corp. than most people realize. With construction costs and other capital expenditures as well as major redistricting all being possibilities in the very near future, I suggest we take a long hard look at what is being presented and proposed. We're looking at the future of our children in these upcoming proposals and none of us in this school corporation can afford the wrong decision to be made.
Ron Yeiter
A parent and Atwood Elementary PTO president
via e-mail
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All America City
Editor, Times-Union:A delegation of 13 people will be in Atlanta this week competing on behalf of Kosciusko County for a national civic league award called "All America City." Even though the award uses the name "city," we will be competing as a county.
This project got its start as a Kosciusko Leadership Academy white paper project. Our charge was to describe our community and how we meet challenges. We highlighted three projects in our application including:
n The Medication Assistance program, which is a division of Kosciusko Homecare & Hospice;
n The Sus Amigos program, which is a volunteer group that recently completed a welcome video for the Spanish-speaking members of our community along with the development of a Latino co-op program at Warsaw Community High School; and
n The YMCA's youth programs, coordinated by YMCA Youth and Family Director Ryan Finney.
One of the most difficult tasks involved in the process was choosing which of our community's many wonderful projects would be highlighted in our application.
In early May we found out that Kosciusko County was named one of 30 finalists out of 93 applying communities. Along with the other finalists, Kosciusko County will make a presentation to National Civic League judges expressing why our community should be named an All America Community. Such a designation would bring us national public relations driven toward tourism and industry recruitment. In addition, other communities would have an opportunity to become aware of the projects that have worked for the good in our community. Who knows? Kosciusko County may become a model around the country for grass-roots, community-driven projects that make big impacts in the lives of people.
Certainly, we would not have gotten as far as the finals without a lot of support from the community. KLA drove us to find a worthy project. Our employers Hampton & Voelz, Lake City Bank and the Kosciusko County Foundation not only supported us through KLA but also offered financial support for our involvement in the competition. The Times Union, WRSW and WAWC radio stations have been kind in helping us get the word out about the competition. Zimmer, Biomet, and the Oakwood Foundation offered their financial support. The Warsaw/Kosciusko County Chamber and the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber offered promotional materials. LifeQuest offered community statistics and research for the application. VSP-TV and Ken Anderson Films/Intercomm offered technical assistance in preparing video footage for our presentation; and Spectra Print provided resources to be used during our presentation.
Thank you to all who have helped us get this far! We look forward to showing the National Civic League what we already know ... that Kosciusko County is a great place to live.
Katy Howe
Stephanie Noffsinger
Angie Ritchey
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fetal Transplant
Editor, Times-Union:As if partial birth abortion and RU-486 were not enough, we now have a new bit of disgusting news. The New York Times and the New England Journal of Medicine have reported on a fetal transplant disaster. A report from scientific studies show that they have attempted to treat Parkinson's' disease. Cells from aborted babies have been injected into exactly the right place in the brains of patients with Parkinson's. This particularly hoped-for therapy backfired! It rips to shreds the myth that brain tissue taken from aborted babies possesses almost magical powers to cure an assortment of neurological ailments, starting with Parkinson's.
Not only are patients not improving, but there is a disastrous side effect in about 15 percent of patients. The cells apparently grew too well, churning out so much of the chemical that controls movement that the patients writhed and jerked uncontrollably, they chew constantly, their fingers go up and down and the sad thing is there is no way to remove or deactivate these transplanted cells. When regular drugs are used, a doctor can cut down the dosage, but there is no hope for the fetal tissue transplant patients. If this is not enough to frost you, they now want to clone baby cells to use for research! What next?
If you have heard about trafficking of baby parts and didn't believe it, well, believe because it is true! Have you wondered how money is made off this very lucrative industry when the selling or buying of the parts is supposedly against the law? Here's how it works. Fetal tissue wholesalers pay abortion clinics a "site fee" to place their employees, also known as "procurement agents," into these abortion clinics to collect various body parts of aborted babies.
Now these fetal tissue wholesalers put out a price list for baby parts, usually via Internet. No door-to-door salesman here. Researchers put in their orders, the order is given to the wholesale employee in the abortion clinic. In return, this employee has access to all desirable fetal tissue. The order is filled and they ship the tissue to the researchers at pharmaceutical companies, university research laboratories, etc. Technically, the wholesaler is not paying for the tissue itself, but renting space to harvest the body parts. The abortionist then "donates" the tissue to the wholesaler.
At the other end of the transaction, the wholesaler will "donate" the fetal material to researchers, BUT bill them for the cost of retrieval. Those of us who have seen price lists for the cost of retrieval (and I use the term loosely) cannot understand how this practice is allowed to continue.
Wanda J. Brown
Warsaw
School Work Session
Editor, Times-Union:I would highly encourage concerned parents and taxpayers of the Warsaw Community School Corp. to attend the special public work session scheduled for June 25 (Monday). This meeting will be conducted at 7 p.m. in the large lecture room at the high school. The purpose of the meeting is the "unveiling" of a facility study report commissioned by the school board. As noted in a school board news release, "the report is to provide an assessment of selected facilities as well as possible options for the future." Some people consider this meeting a preview as to the future of the Atwood and Silver Lake elementary school facilities.
However, the decisions made by the school board as a result of this study could very well have an impact on many more families in the Warsaw School Corp. than most people realize. With construction costs and other capital expenditures as well as major redistricting all being possibilities in the very near future, I suggest we take a long hard look at what is being presented and proposed. We're looking at the future of our children in these upcoming proposals and none of us in this school corporation can afford the wrong decision to be made.
Ron Yeiter
A parent and Atwood Elementary PTO president
via e-mail
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