Letters to the Editor 08-27-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Zoning Board - Customer Service - Life's Meaning - Bible Translation - Old-Fashioned Manners
Zoning Board
Editor, Times-Union:I recently learned that the Board of Zoning Appeals has granted a developer the right to build condominiums on Lake Wawasee. While I have no objection to their right to build these condos, I want the BZA to explain to the citizens of Kosciusko County why they granted permission to build within 20 feet of the lake shore, while all other owners must meet a 35-foot setback.
As a property owner on Lake Wawasee, I understand the wisdom of keeping all buildings back the recommended distance from lake fronts. I fully support this 35-foot setback rule. When we built a new home years ago, I accepted the BZA's ruling that pushed us back further from the lakefront than our initial design called for. We redesigned our home and are very pleased with it and the setback. Now I would like the BZA to explain to the lake citizens why they allowed a 20-foot setback for these proposed condos. Why should they be any different than the rest of us? Call the BZA and complain. Or are we just going to roll over and let these people play favorites when it suits them?
David C. Brandes
Syracuse
Customer Service
Editor, Times-Union:It has come to my attention or maybe I should say great surprise to me that when you enter a restaurant and order food, if they do not have the food you ordered, they can substitute with whatever they wish without asking you if it is alright. My family and I were served and when I asked for honey for my biscuit to go along with my chicken, I found that instead of a biscuit, I was given a burrito. I told the establishment that I could not eat the burrito because of my stomach. I was told sorry, that was all they had to give me because they were out of biscuits. If the establishment had told me prior to the order, I would just not have ordered. But instead, they tried to pull a fast one.
I asked for my money back and much to my surprise they told me that even though I had not taken the food to my seat, that they could not refund my money, a store policy. Now wouldn't this be a wonderful world if all businesses could give you something in place of what you wanted to buy and if you didn't want it could keep your money? After much arguing, I called the police and they agree with the store, that either we had to eat what they gave us or the store could keep our money. Now isn't that something; we paid $12 for our food we did not want and could not eat and received nothing in return. I wish that my business could sell something to the customer that they didn't want and keep the money. Well, after having to pay for my dinner twice, the police told me my only recourse is to take my receipts to small claims court. This is what I call the fleecing of the American public.
Burned in Syracuse ...
Mike Richardson
Syracuse
Life's Meaning
Editor, Times-Union:Earth exists so that human beings can live with meaning and purpose. But what is that meaning and purpose?
At 80+ years now I have pondered the dilemma of so many who lack life's meaning and purpose. Questioned at a Dale Carnegie meeting about goal setting, the majority present gave answers in big dollar figures.
One person present was asked, "What are you doing now?" "I work." "Why?" "To pay bills, to buy a home, to enjoy life." Then another question was asked: "But why do you live?" The answer again was to work.
I began to see the purposeless cycle that so many are living - work, to make money, to live, so I can work some more. The time is coming when some morning they will not show up for work.
Life's meaning and purpose for each one is more. Ask - Why am I here? What is life for? Only to die? Why not kill myself now? No, I am afraid. Should I wait for death to come? I fear that also. Then I must live. But what for? In order to die? The purposeless cycle again.
Where's the satisfying fulfilling answer?
A man found the answer to his dilemma and said it for us all.
"Wretched man that I am. Who will deliver me from my mortal life, my meaningless, purposeless life? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" In the Bible book of Romans 7:23-24.
Jesus is God, the visible expression of the creator of your and my life. He promised life abundant here on his Earth (John 10:10) by sharing his love and his sacrificial death for cleansing our lives from sin, and telling others that they too can be cleansed. He also promised that believing in him we will have life after death with him. (John 11:25-26).
Here alone is reason and purpose for life and living. Here is fulfillment which comes as we return by faith to God who gave us life.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
Bible Translation
Editor, Times-Union:Some Christians insist that the only Bible translation to use is the King James Version 1611. Other translations, even updated versions of the KJV are rejected. But I have yet to meet anyone who uses the KJV 1611. If you don't believe me, turn in your KJV to the "Gospel of S. Iohn III 16 (the spelling is correct). If your Bible doesn't read, "For God so loued y world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne; that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish but haue euerlasting life," then you are not reading the KJV 1611. Most KJVs are the revised 1769 edition. Jesus is Lord!
William M. Kelly
Warsaw
Old-Fashioned Manners
Editor, Times-Union:I am a lady 85 years old and was planning to enter the Teachers Credit Union from the front door when a young man leaving these doors and was down a step or two, returned to open my door and also went back in to open the second door. My thanks to him seems inadequate for this kindness.
He was most thoughtful and I wish to publicly express my appreciation to him.
Mary Blickenstaff
Winona Lake
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Zoning Board
Editor, Times-Union:I recently learned that the Board of Zoning Appeals has granted a developer the right to build condominiums on Lake Wawasee. While I have no objection to their right to build these condos, I want the BZA to explain to the citizens of Kosciusko County why they granted permission to build within 20 feet of the lake shore, while all other owners must meet a 35-foot setback.
As a property owner on Lake Wawasee, I understand the wisdom of keeping all buildings back the recommended distance from lake fronts. I fully support this 35-foot setback rule. When we built a new home years ago, I accepted the BZA's ruling that pushed us back further from the lakefront than our initial design called for. We redesigned our home and are very pleased with it and the setback. Now I would like the BZA to explain to the lake citizens why they allowed a 20-foot setback for these proposed condos. Why should they be any different than the rest of us? Call the BZA and complain. Or are we just going to roll over and let these people play favorites when it suits them?
David C. Brandes
Syracuse
Customer Service
Editor, Times-Union:It has come to my attention or maybe I should say great surprise to me that when you enter a restaurant and order food, if they do not have the food you ordered, they can substitute with whatever they wish without asking you if it is alright. My family and I were served and when I asked for honey for my biscuit to go along with my chicken, I found that instead of a biscuit, I was given a burrito. I told the establishment that I could not eat the burrito because of my stomach. I was told sorry, that was all they had to give me because they were out of biscuits. If the establishment had told me prior to the order, I would just not have ordered. But instead, they tried to pull a fast one.
I asked for my money back and much to my surprise they told me that even though I had not taken the food to my seat, that they could not refund my money, a store policy. Now wouldn't this be a wonderful world if all businesses could give you something in place of what you wanted to buy and if you didn't want it could keep your money? After much arguing, I called the police and they agree with the store, that either we had to eat what they gave us or the store could keep our money. Now isn't that something; we paid $12 for our food we did not want and could not eat and received nothing in return. I wish that my business could sell something to the customer that they didn't want and keep the money. Well, after having to pay for my dinner twice, the police told me my only recourse is to take my receipts to small claims court. This is what I call the fleecing of the American public.
Burned in Syracuse ...
Mike Richardson
Syracuse
Life's Meaning
Editor, Times-Union:Earth exists so that human beings can live with meaning and purpose. But what is that meaning and purpose?
At 80+ years now I have pondered the dilemma of so many who lack life's meaning and purpose. Questioned at a Dale Carnegie meeting about goal setting, the majority present gave answers in big dollar figures.
One person present was asked, "What are you doing now?" "I work." "Why?" "To pay bills, to buy a home, to enjoy life." Then another question was asked: "But why do you live?" The answer again was to work.
I began to see the purposeless cycle that so many are living - work, to make money, to live, so I can work some more. The time is coming when some morning they will not show up for work.
Life's meaning and purpose for each one is more. Ask - Why am I here? What is life for? Only to die? Why not kill myself now? No, I am afraid. Should I wait for death to come? I fear that also. Then I must live. But what for? In order to die? The purposeless cycle again.
Where's the satisfying fulfilling answer?
A man found the answer to his dilemma and said it for us all.
"Wretched man that I am. Who will deliver me from my mortal life, my meaningless, purposeless life? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" In the Bible book of Romans 7:23-24.
Jesus is God, the visible expression of the creator of your and my life. He promised life abundant here on his Earth (John 10:10) by sharing his love and his sacrificial death for cleansing our lives from sin, and telling others that they too can be cleansed. He also promised that believing in him we will have life after death with him. (John 11:25-26).
Here alone is reason and purpose for life and living. Here is fulfillment which comes as we return by faith to God who gave us life.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake
via e-mail
Bible Translation
Editor, Times-Union:Some Christians insist that the only Bible translation to use is the King James Version 1611. Other translations, even updated versions of the KJV are rejected. But I have yet to meet anyone who uses the KJV 1611. If you don't believe me, turn in your KJV to the "Gospel of S. Iohn III 16 (the spelling is correct). If your Bible doesn't read, "For God so loued y world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne; that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish but haue euerlasting life," then you are not reading the KJV 1611. Most KJVs are the revised 1769 edition. Jesus is Lord!
William M. Kelly
Warsaw
Old-Fashioned Manners
Editor, Times-Union:I am a lady 85 years old and was planning to enter the Teachers Credit Union from the front door when a young man leaving these doors and was down a step or two, returned to open my door and also went back in to open the second door. My thanks to him seems inadequate for this kindness.
He was most thoughtful and I wish to publicly express my appreciation to him.
Mary Blickenstaff
Winona Lake
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