Letters to the Editor 08-12-2004
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Moral Restraint - Warsaw School Board - Pierceton Thanks
Moral Restraint
Editor, Times-Union:As I read and hear the news, I think we are trying to run the Space Age with antiquated moral and spiritual equipment. Technology has no morals. Technology without moral restraints will and has brought human degradation, messing up many lives and families.
Only God can give you and me moral restraints and spiritual strength. He gave you and me life, and desires to give you and me newness of life which produces moral restraints and spiritual strength. As our parent who gave physical life to you and me, and who loves each of us, God awaits each of our decisions to call upon him. "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well." Matthew 6:33.
We need the love of God who created and sustains you and me daily and loves each of us so much. Have you, do you know, or do you want God's love? We are like the little boy who heard a couple say to him, "We will give you toys, a dog, nice clothes." He said "I just want someone to love me. Will you love me?" So you and I want God, our heavenly Father, to love us. And how he loves us! No matter how far we have wandered and sinned. God gave his son, Jesus, to suffer and die on the cross, to tell us there is a way to clean up our lives , and know new life through accepting Jesus as savior and living living life ahead with him as Lord.
Just pause a moment, and bow, and tell God you accept his great love offering, and thank him for your new life!
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
Warsaw School Board
Editor, Times-Union:The article on the front page of the Times-Union on Tuesday, Aug. 10, was appalling. I refer to the Warsaw Community Schools administrators voting themselves a 4 percent pay raise for 2004-05 school year.
As senior citizens living on a fixed income, we are still paying through the nose in taxes to keep the school system operating. Oh how I wish the federal government would vote us a 4 percent yearly cost of living increase in our benefits! Most workers, if lucky enough to even get a raise, will get about 1 percent or 2 percent.
I was under the erroneous assumption that three schools were closed to save money and improve the education of our young people. Then the School Board turns around and spends well over one-third of the $300,000 to fill their own pockets? How selfish can you be? Put that $300,000 together with all the money being spent on new sports complexes, and it would go a long way toward the goal they claimed they wanted to achieve. Or are sports more important than knowledge? It seems to be so in Kosciusko County.
Mr. McGuire, according to my calculations, you were already earning over $99,000 per year if you received "about a $4,000 raise." Wasn't that enough to live comfortably?
And when Rick Schooley commented that "Some of you guys are gonna be gone -" to Cathy Folk, I certainly can't see that she would take that as a threat. I would consider it more of a promise!
I will surely watch to see which of the school board members are up for re-election this year, and encourage everyone I know to vote against them.
I second Mary Green's challenge ... GIVE IT BACK.
Mary K. Omstead
Claypool
via e-mail
Pierceton Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:We would like to think everybody for coming to Pierceton Days. We had a really good crowd. We hope you saw old friends and met new ones. That's what we want Pierceton Days to be. A day to come back to old faces and new ones. A day to bring back a good memory in your life and to make a memory for the little ones. That what we get for doing Pierceton Days - laughter and a smile and happiness. And really that's all you need in life. See you next year.
Pierceton Days Committee
Kim Rose
Judy Hartup
Pierceton
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- Moral Restraint - Warsaw School Board - Pierceton Thanks
Moral Restraint
Editor, Times-Union:As I read and hear the news, I think we are trying to run the Space Age with antiquated moral and spiritual equipment. Technology has no morals. Technology without moral restraints will and has brought human degradation, messing up many lives and families.
Only God can give you and me moral restraints and spiritual strength. He gave you and me life, and desires to give you and me newness of life which produces moral restraints and spiritual strength. As our parent who gave physical life to you and me, and who loves each of us, God awaits each of our decisions to call upon him. "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well." Matthew 6:33.
We need the love of God who created and sustains you and me daily and loves each of us so much. Have you, do you know, or do you want God's love? We are like the little boy who heard a couple say to him, "We will give you toys, a dog, nice clothes." He said "I just want someone to love me. Will you love me?" So you and I want God, our heavenly Father, to love us. And how he loves us! No matter how far we have wandered and sinned. God gave his son, Jesus, to suffer and die on the cross, to tell us there is a way to clean up our lives , and know new life through accepting Jesus as savior and living living life ahead with him as Lord.
Just pause a moment, and bow, and tell God you accept his great love offering, and thank him for your new life!
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
Warsaw School Board
Editor, Times-Union:The article on the front page of the Times-Union on Tuesday, Aug. 10, was appalling. I refer to the Warsaw Community Schools administrators voting themselves a 4 percent pay raise for 2004-05 school year.
As senior citizens living on a fixed income, we are still paying through the nose in taxes to keep the school system operating. Oh how I wish the federal government would vote us a 4 percent yearly cost of living increase in our benefits! Most workers, if lucky enough to even get a raise, will get about 1 percent or 2 percent.
I was under the erroneous assumption that three schools were closed to save money and improve the education of our young people. Then the School Board turns around and spends well over one-third of the $300,000 to fill their own pockets? How selfish can you be? Put that $300,000 together with all the money being spent on new sports complexes, and it would go a long way toward the goal they claimed they wanted to achieve. Or are sports more important than knowledge? It seems to be so in Kosciusko County.
Mr. McGuire, according to my calculations, you were already earning over $99,000 per year if you received "about a $4,000 raise." Wasn't that enough to live comfortably?
And when Rick Schooley commented that "Some of you guys are gonna be gone -" to Cathy Folk, I certainly can't see that she would take that as a threat. I would consider it more of a promise!
I will surely watch to see which of the school board members are up for re-election this year, and encourage everyone I know to vote against them.
I second Mary Green's challenge ... GIVE IT BACK.
Mary K. Omstead
Claypool
via e-mail
Pierceton Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:We would like to think everybody for coming to Pierceton Days. We had a really good crowd. We hope you saw old friends and met new ones. That's what we want Pierceton Days to be. A day to come back to old faces and new ones. A day to bring back a good memory in your life and to make a memory for the little ones. That what we get for doing Pierceton Days - laughter and a smile and happiness. And really that's all you need in life. See you next year.
Pierceton Days Committee
Kim Rose
Judy Hartup
Pierceton
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