Letters to the Editor 09-14-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Justice System - Fuel Honesty - Gas Evil - Injustice - Bass Fisherman -
Justice System
Editor, Times-Union:I, along with Rev. J.R. Hall, Vic Andrews and Lisa Cochran, also question our local justice system. Just recently a Burket woman was given a two-year suspended sentence for neglect of her 4-year-old daughter. She'd left this child in the care of her boyfriend knowing he had been abusive to her in the past. She'd been warned by Child Protective Services NOT to leave this child alone with him again and yet she did. The court did nothing to punish her other than order her to pay the court costs, the cost of her court-appointed attorney and probation user's fee along with counseling and to comply with CPS requirements (which she obviously had not done prior to this or she wouldn't have gone to court in the first place).
What good does it do to warn these people if there is no punishment when it happens again? This mother either for some reason cannot find/afford a babysitter or has no regards for the safety of her child. In MY opinion (and this is only my opinion) this child should have been put in protective custody because child abusers continue to abuse. This makes them feel powerful and in control. The next time it happens it may be too late for her child.
This is a message to the mother and I don't need to name you, you know who you are. If you are desperate for a babysitter I will be glad to care for her for you and I can tell you without hesitation, I will not abuse her.
Linda Berger
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fuel Honesty
Editor, Times-Union:White's Amoco Station in North Webster appears to be about the only one in this area to resist the urge to gouge its customers. They did not raise the price of gas despite the fact that all around them were doing so.
While my husband waited in line last night, the truck stop at Bourbon raised the price 31 cents per gallon - after they had made him pay in advance, but before he had pumped the gas. I don't think the gas prices were raised by the oil companies. It looks like the stations were trying to make a fast buck at our expense.
Thanks to Steve and Jim White for being honest and for caring more about their customers than about turning a quick - and dishonest - buck.
Cheryl Doan
Bourbon
via e-mail
Gas Evil
Editor, Times-Union:Tuesday morning, an evil that cannot be questioned struck at several of our communities through the use of fuel in hijacked planes. By Tuesday afternoon, the nation saw an evil that must be questioned being unleashed in all of our communities. It also involved fuel. My town was not spared.
In an incredibly arrogant display of greed and contempt, many gas station owners set the price of the blood shed by strangers in New York and Washington as the amount of extra dollars and cents they could extort from their friends and neighbors. While Americans rallied in prayer and in sacrifice to respond to a national emergency, these owners responded to the need for solidarity as a nation by gouging fellow citizens who needed to travel.
On a talk radio show this morning, a woman called in who had lost three siblings she had been visiting before the collapse of the towers. Because she could not fly, she had to drive to get home. I could not help but feel shame that someone who had been deprived of so much by strangers would also be deprived of the little they could take from her by fellow citizens who felt the liberty to raise their prices.
Shame on those of you who displayed such greed and contempt for the rest of us. If those who display their disdain for others through vandalism target you, or those who rob others pick your stations to attack, understand that they are simply responding in kind. As for the rest of us I have noted well those who kept their prices the same and those who raised them in response to this crisis. I will do everything in my power to trade with the former and refrain from doing business at all with those in the second group. If I am joined by enough of my fellow citizens, we will succeed in driving out your businesses from our communities. You will then be free to relocate in places where minor and cowardly acts of terrorism are admired.
But not here.
Paul Spite
Warsaw
via e-mail
Injustice
Editor, Times-Union:As I read the newspaper, your page one was very appropriate due to the horendous happening in New York and Washington, D.C.
However, it was so appalling to read the letters about the injustice done in one of our courtrooms. It would be very interesting should one of the other court judges been trying the same perpetrator and Judge Huffer's son being the victim.
Mr. Huffer, I can't call you a judge, because what you did was not the law of justice being meted out. I totally agree with the previous writers. Don't look for a judgeship at the next election.
Also, I would like to challenge the prosecutor to investigate this so-called judge.
What are the procedures to have this judge recalled?
One reads about the injustice of judges in other cities and towns across the United States for their travesty of injustice in their court rooms. And LOOK, we have one in our own town of Warsaw.
I had a judge like this in California, and he threatend police officers for contempt of court, and here this character threatens a mother. When he just got finished with a gross injustice to her son.
Let's get rid of this judge. Thanks to all you who put him there.
Ken Stenstrom
Warsaw
via e-mail
Bass Fisherman
Editor, Times-Union:I'm writing in regard to your two-part article printed Aug. 14, 2001, regarding boat ramp congestion caused by bass fishing tournaments on Lake Wawasee.
I'm a bass fisherman and I fish these organized tournaments. I know we all use the public access, but organized tournaments use off-site parking so that the parking is not taken up at the ramp. We use either the high school parking area or the molasses factory across the tracks. This way the general public who want to go fishing or boating can use the parking area at the ramp. These organized tournaments also pay for the use of the shelter house and the restroom facilities.
All the fish caught at these events are released alive back into the lake after the tournaments.
We try to be courteous to others by giving priority to the public at the ramps when loading and unloading boats and recreational vehicles, sometimes even offering to help.
Please keep in mind, too, that these tournaments bring revenue into the area. Those include, but are not limited to, gas stations with sales of gasoline for boats and vehicles along with convenient purchases and restaurants. Hotels and motels also receive more business during tournaments.
This article mentions something about the noise caused by these tournaments. Apparently those making the complaints are tone deaf to train whistles.
Terry Schoettmer
Tournament fisherman
Claypool
via e-mail
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- Justice System - Fuel Honesty - Gas Evil - Injustice - Bass Fisherman -
Justice System
Editor, Times-Union:I, along with Rev. J.R. Hall, Vic Andrews and Lisa Cochran, also question our local justice system. Just recently a Burket woman was given a two-year suspended sentence for neglect of her 4-year-old daughter. She'd left this child in the care of her boyfriend knowing he had been abusive to her in the past. She'd been warned by Child Protective Services NOT to leave this child alone with him again and yet she did. The court did nothing to punish her other than order her to pay the court costs, the cost of her court-appointed attorney and probation user's fee along with counseling and to comply with CPS requirements (which she obviously had not done prior to this or she wouldn't have gone to court in the first place).
What good does it do to warn these people if there is no punishment when it happens again? This mother either for some reason cannot find/afford a babysitter or has no regards for the safety of her child. In MY opinion (and this is only my opinion) this child should have been put in protective custody because child abusers continue to abuse. This makes them feel powerful and in control. The next time it happens it may be too late for her child.
This is a message to the mother and I don't need to name you, you know who you are. If you are desperate for a babysitter I will be glad to care for her for you and I can tell you without hesitation, I will not abuse her.
Linda Berger
Warsaw
via e-mail
Fuel Honesty
Editor, Times-Union:White's Amoco Station in North Webster appears to be about the only one in this area to resist the urge to gouge its customers. They did not raise the price of gas despite the fact that all around them were doing so.
While my husband waited in line last night, the truck stop at Bourbon raised the price 31 cents per gallon - after they had made him pay in advance, but before he had pumped the gas. I don't think the gas prices were raised by the oil companies. It looks like the stations were trying to make a fast buck at our expense.
Thanks to Steve and Jim White for being honest and for caring more about their customers than about turning a quick - and dishonest - buck.
Cheryl Doan
Bourbon
via e-mail
Gas Evil
Editor, Times-Union:Tuesday morning, an evil that cannot be questioned struck at several of our communities through the use of fuel in hijacked planes. By Tuesday afternoon, the nation saw an evil that must be questioned being unleashed in all of our communities. It also involved fuel. My town was not spared.
In an incredibly arrogant display of greed and contempt, many gas station owners set the price of the blood shed by strangers in New York and Washington as the amount of extra dollars and cents they could extort from their friends and neighbors. While Americans rallied in prayer and in sacrifice to respond to a national emergency, these owners responded to the need for solidarity as a nation by gouging fellow citizens who needed to travel.
On a talk radio show this morning, a woman called in who had lost three siblings she had been visiting before the collapse of the towers. Because she could not fly, she had to drive to get home. I could not help but feel shame that someone who had been deprived of so much by strangers would also be deprived of the little they could take from her by fellow citizens who felt the liberty to raise their prices.
Shame on those of you who displayed such greed and contempt for the rest of us. If those who display their disdain for others through vandalism target you, or those who rob others pick your stations to attack, understand that they are simply responding in kind. As for the rest of us I have noted well those who kept their prices the same and those who raised them in response to this crisis. I will do everything in my power to trade with the former and refrain from doing business at all with those in the second group. If I am joined by enough of my fellow citizens, we will succeed in driving out your businesses from our communities. You will then be free to relocate in places where minor and cowardly acts of terrorism are admired.
But not here.
Paul Spite
Warsaw
via e-mail
Injustice
Editor, Times-Union:As I read the newspaper, your page one was very appropriate due to the horendous happening in New York and Washington, D.C.
However, it was so appalling to read the letters about the injustice done in one of our courtrooms. It would be very interesting should one of the other court judges been trying the same perpetrator and Judge Huffer's son being the victim.
Mr. Huffer, I can't call you a judge, because what you did was not the law of justice being meted out. I totally agree with the previous writers. Don't look for a judgeship at the next election.
Also, I would like to challenge the prosecutor to investigate this so-called judge.
What are the procedures to have this judge recalled?
One reads about the injustice of judges in other cities and towns across the United States for their travesty of injustice in their court rooms. And LOOK, we have one in our own town of Warsaw.
I had a judge like this in California, and he threatend police officers for contempt of court, and here this character threatens a mother. When he just got finished with a gross injustice to her son.
Let's get rid of this judge. Thanks to all you who put him there.
Ken Stenstrom
Warsaw
via e-mail
Bass Fisherman
Editor, Times-Union:I'm writing in regard to your two-part article printed Aug. 14, 2001, regarding boat ramp congestion caused by bass fishing tournaments on Lake Wawasee.
I'm a bass fisherman and I fish these organized tournaments. I know we all use the public access, but organized tournaments use off-site parking so that the parking is not taken up at the ramp. We use either the high school parking area or the molasses factory across the tracks. This way the general public who want to go fishing or boating can use the parking area at the ramp. These organized tournaments also pay for the use of the shelter house and the restroom facilities.
All the fish caught at these events are released alive back into the lake after the tournaments.
We try to be courteous to others by giving priority to the public at the ramps when loading and unloading boats and recreational vehicles, sometimes even offering to help.
Please keep in mind, too, that these tournaments bring revenue into the area. Those include, but are not limited to, gas stations with sales of gasoline for boats and vehicles along with convenient purchases and restaurants. Hotels and motels also receive more business during tournaments.
This article mentions something about the noise caused by these tournaments. Apparently those making the complaints are tone deaf to train whistles.
Terry Schoettmer
Tournament fisherman
Claypool
via e-mail
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