Letters to the Editor 07-14-2003
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Jobless Recovery - Wonderful Peace - 50/50 Grant - Holiday Storm
Jobless Recovery
Editor, Times-Union:A jobless recovery. There is an oxymoron. Here are some others: a thunderous silence, a waterless well, a sandless desert, a treeless forest. Whereas oxymorons are generally silly, joblessness isn't.
I'm always more acutely aware of what people say and do when I'm jobless.
Have you ever noticed the "help wanted" ads here in the local paper? The same ones appear every day. I don't believe they've hired anybody in 10 years. So those ads are like what ... a hand of hope?
Someone needs to inform Combined Community Services that what they tout as a job list is, instead, a list of companies that hire, albeit infrequently.
I recently stumbled on to an ad for seasonal help. They were taking applications at a swanky local hotel, so I figured what the heck, even if I didn't get the job, if I got there early enough, maybe I could indulge in a free cup of coffee. They were out at 9 a.m. So I stood in this long line till I got close enough to the room to peek inside, where I witnessed what appeared to be about 400 people filling out an application about as thick as Webster's Dictionary for the chance at a seasonal job. Something in me just snapped. I get that way when I haven't had my morning coffee. I just walked in and slammed my resume down on the desk and walked out. I just figured by the time I got that thing filled out, the season would have ended.
The cab driver tried to console me on the drive home. He was a real patriot. You know the kind. No matter how bad things get, you're still a lot better off in this country.
I took a moment to apply that to my circumstances, and decided he was right. If I was going to have to spend a night sleeping in some back ally, I stood a better chance at finding my throat intact the next morning if that alley was in the United States, as opposed to some place like Iraq or Morocco. I thanked him for his comforting words. I felt kind of bad that I couldn't tip him.
When you're unemployed, you have to be imaginative to make a buck. I'm going to try to locate these people that are running around trying to recover all this joblessness.
Maybe I'll give them a buzz and have them recover some of mine. Depending on how bad they need it, maybe they'll pay me a little something to take it.
Steven R. Frantz
Warsaw
Wonderful Peace
Editor, Times-Union:You and I are not physical beings with a spiritual soul. Just the opposite, we are spiritual beings with a physical body. My body, over 80 years of age, "ain't what it used to be!"
However, over 60 years ago I became a Christian, and have tried, with God's help, to live a life that makes a difference for him among those whom he gave me the privilege of living. Try as I have, I still need God's help every day and seek it.
I hope you, reader, realize that God gave you life. You are more than the result of the joining of a man and a woman biologically. Even that is a plan of God for the continuance of the human race as long as he plans. Like a mother or a father, God desires a relationship with you and me whom he has created.
Our guilt has damaged that relationship with God. So God sent Jesus, his son, to take away the guilt which you and I cannot do ourselves. God holds us accountable, yet out of his great love, sent Jesus to meet that accountability and free us by his death on the cross in our place.
This gift we must accept thankfully, or you and I will be separated from God our creator by our own sins and refusal of Jesus as our savior.
You and I need to pray "O God forgive me, I accept Jesus as my savior." Then you and I will know that most wonderful peace as we feel clean and free as God intended as children of God, a spiritual being in a physical body. I pray you will.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
50/50 Grant
Editor, Times-Union:As small business people, we want to take the opportunity to offer heartfelt thanks to Warsaw's City Council. Their 50/50 grant to improve the facade of our building is gratefully accepted.
Only through such wise civic pride and city support can we improve and beautify our treasured historic downtown. We are eagerly anticipating the possibility of streetscaping to further enhance our environment.
Again, the thoughtful generosity of all the council members is greatly appreciated.
Bill and Susan Allen
Allen's Designs Inc.
Warsaw
Holiday Storm
Editor, Times-Union:The storm that came through the Winona Lake community on the evening of July 4 caught a lot of people by surprise. Thankfully, the storm was no surprise to our Creator God. Psalm 104:4 says, "He makes winds his messengers."
As a result of that storm a tree on our property was knocked down on electric lines, which in turn led to a fire in a home that we own on 12th Street in Winona Lake. Thankfully, no one was home at the time of the fire, so no one was hurt.
Our sincere thanks to the fire departments of Winona Lake, Warsaw, Claypool and Pierceton, who all assisted in minimizing the damage by getting the fire extinguished as quickly as possible. We also owe a word of thanks to Al Disbro and several other people who made an extra effort in trying to locate us while we were vacationing out of state and completely unaware of the storm sweeping across the Winona Lake. What a great community to be part of!
Larry and Gladine McCall
Winona Lake
via e-mail
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- Jobless Recovery - Wonderful Peace - 50/50 Grant - Holiday Storm
Jobless Recovery
Editor, Times-Union:A jobless recovery. There is an oxymoron. Here are some others: a thunderous silence, a waterless well, a sandless desert, a treeless forest. Whereas oxymorons are generally silly, joblessness isn't.
I'm always more acutely aware of what people say and do when I'm jobless.
Have you ever noticed the "help wanted" ads here in the local paper? The same ones appear every day. I don't believe they've hired anybody in 10 years. So those ads are like what ... a hand of hope?
Someone needs to inform Combined Community Services that what they tout as a job list is, instead, a list of companies that hire, albeit infrequently.
I recently stumbled on to an ad for seasonal help. They were taking applications at a swanky local hotel, so I figured what the heck, even if I didn't get the job, if I got there early enough, maybe I could indulge in a free cup of coffee. They were out at 9 a.m. So I stood in this long line till I got close enough to the room to peek inside, where I witnessed what appeared to be about 400 people filling out an application about as thick as Webster's Dictionary for the chance at a seasonal job. Something in me just snapped. I get that way when I haven't had my morning coffee. I just walked in and slammed my resume down on the desk and walked out. I just figured by the time I got that thing filled out, the season would have ended.
The cab driver tried to console me on the drive home. He was a real patriot. You know the kind. No matter how bad things get, you're still a lot better off in this country.
I took a moment to apply that to my circumstances, and decided he was right. If I was going to have to spend a night sleeping in some back ally, I stood a better chance at finding my throat intact the next morning if that alley was in the United States, as opposed to some place like Iraq or Morocco. I thanked him for his comforting words. I felt kind of bad that I couldn't tip him.
When you're unemployed, you have to be imaginative to make a buck. I'm going to try to locate these people that are running around trying to recover all this joblessness.
Maybe I'll give them a buzz and have them recover some of mine. Depending on how bad they need it, maybe they'll pay me a little something to take it.
Steven R. Frantz
Warsaw
Wonderful Peace
Editor, Times-Union:You and I are not physical beings with a spiritual soul. Just the opposite, we are spiritual beings with a physical body. My body, over 80 years of age, "ain't what it used to be!"
However, over 60 years ago I became a Christian, and have tried, with God's help, to live a life that makes a difference for him among those whom he gave me the privilege of living. Try as I have, I still need God's help every day and seek it.
I hope you, reader, realize that God gave you life. You are more than the result of the joining of a man and a woman biologically. Even that is a plan of God for the continuance of the human race as long as he plans. Like a mother or a father, God desires a relationship with you and me whom he has created.
Our guilt has damaged that relationship with God. So God sent Jesus, his son, to take away the guilt which you and I cannot do ourselves. God holds us accountable, yet out of his great love, sent Jesus to meet that accountability and free us by his death on the cross in our place.
This gift we must accept thankfully, or you and I will be separated from God our creator by our own sins and refusal of Jesus as our savior.
You and I need to pray "O God forgive me, I accept Jesus as my savior." Then you and I will know that most wonderful peace as we feel clean and free as God intended as children of God, a spiritual being in a physical body. I pray you will.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
50/50 Grant
Editor, Times-Union:As small business people, we want to take the opportunity to offer heartfelt thanks to Warsaw's City Council. Their 50/50 grant to improve the facade of our building is gratefully accepted.
Only through such wise civic pride and city support can we improve and beautify our treasured historic downtown. We are eagerly anticipating the possibility of streetscaping to further enhance our environment.
Again, the thoughtful generosity of all the council members is greatly appreciated.
Bill and Susan Allen
Allen's Designs Inc.
Warsaw
Holiday Storm
Editor, Times-Union:The storm that came through the Winona Lake community on the evening of July 4 caught a lot of people by surprise. Thankfully, the storm was no surprise to our Creator God. Psalm 104:4 says, "He makes winds his messengers."
As a result of that storm a tree on our property was knocked down on electric lines, which in turn led to a fire in a home that we own on 12th Street in Winona Lake. Thankfully, no one was home at the time of the fire, so no one was hurt.
Our sincere thanks to the fire departments of Winona Lake, Warsaw, Claypool and Pierceton, who all assisted in minimizing the damage by getting the fire extinguished as quickly as possible. We also owe a word of thanks to Al Disbro and several other people who made an extra effort in trying to locate us while we were vacationing out of state and completely unaware of the storm sweeping across the Winona Lake. What a great community to be part of!
Larry and Gladine McCall
Winona Lake
via e-mail
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