Letters to the Editor 10-16-1998
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Animal Welfare - Roemer - License Bureau
Animal Welfare
Editor, Times-Union:On Nov. 1, the Animal Welfare League will be taking over operation of the county animal shelter. At that time, this shelter could not possibly be entrusted to any more responsible and caring people. I have been extremely impressed with the men and women of the AWL since I joined 10 months ago. They are deeply concerned for every cat, dog, kitten and puppy living in this county.
The shelter, though operated by the AWL, really will belong to the animals. It is their home till adopted. The goal of the shelter will be to reduce euthanasia of animals 50 percent the first year and to make it a "no kill" (no adoptable animals ever being euthanized) within the next half year. This very ambitious goal, if achieved, will make this one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of shelters.
The AWL cannot accomplish this on its own. It will take volunteered time and financial help of many county residents and corporations. The greatest way each pet owner can help make our shelter a "no kill" shelter is for you to make it your priority to have your pets spayed or neutered. Though you may always have been able to find homes for the kittens and puppies born to your pets, please remember that that lowered the number of homes into which cats and dogs at the shelter at those times could be placed. Some of those put to death could have been saved if your pet had been spayed and not had those litters. We need to stop lowering the chances of shelter animals being adopted by having all pets spayed and neutered.
Another way you can help us reach the shelter goal is to donate money and supplies, volunteer time to help with chores at the shelter and heartily support fund raisers benefitting the shelter. Please join us for the animals' sake!
A major way to enable us to reach our ambitious goal is for some of the fine corporations in this county whose owners have a real heart for animals and have ample financial resources to donate equipment and perhaps sponsor a much-reduced or free-to-poor pet owners spay-neuter program (the Houston Rockets basketball team sponsors a free spay/neuter mobile unit for needy pet owners in Houston) in the name of your corporation. Please give generously.
This is an ambitious goal, but there are so many silently suffering animals who need our help so they can live! They did not ask to be born and do not deserve to have their lives snuffed out.
All of us together can accomplish this goal. It's the only truly humane thing to do. Thank you for taking this to heart and getting involved. The Animal Welfare League and the animals need you.
Chuck Orlando, Warsaw
Roemer
Editor, Times-Union:Last Thursday Representative Tim Roemer, 3rd District Indiana, voted "Yes" twice. To date the media, of any type in the district, has not questioned him as to which yes was his real vote and which one was the phony. You can not have it both ways, unless you are trying to cover your political backside. If he really meant to vote for the full scale investigation of Clinton, then why did he vote yes to limit the probe?
Now Roemer brags about his 20 some votes on bills to reduce income taxes. In the eight years that he has been in office my federal tax percentage rate never went down. In fact on the same amount of yearly wages they went up. Can we thus assume for some 19 of those votes that they only favored the special interest groups that continually support his candidacies and that the last vote he made was a given because he knew that the Arkansas Fornicator would veto it anyway?
Since Candidate Holtz started to put pressure on Mr. Roemer in the area of education, there is now a push on for 100 million dollars to help establish home based education in the United States, along with other pie-in-the-sky proposals. If Roemer really wants to return educational programs to the states, local districts and parents just author a bill to shut down and do away with the Department of Education. That would not only solve the problem, think of all the money that would not have to go to Washington D.C. It would also return common sense to education, not like the liberals solve problems by throwing money at them.
In view of Mr. Roemer's poor past performance and his follow the leader approach to problem solving, it certainly is time for a change. There is nothing to gain by returning him to another term in Congress. As with Clinton, enough is enough.
Robert E. Villa, Bristol
License Bureau
Editor, Times-Union:If Evan Bayh can cut the license plate tax in half, I suggest some of the "saved" money be used to add more personnel to the License Bureau for the express purpose of giving driver tests.
A driver test is in order for me this year so, 20 days before my birthday, I phoned to make an appointment. To my great surprise the License Bureau is booked solid until Nov. 30 and to date have no permission to place reservations in December.
No time is available and there is no alternative in Kosciusko County. What does one do? Do we drive illegally until our county can take care us?
As a last resort I called Whitley County and received the same answer. This office did suggest that I try North Manchester or Goshen. She obliged me with both phone numbers. Goshen had one time still open on Nov. 30.
Later I called Plymouth and will be able to be attended before my birthday.
How can the county citizens be better served?
Imogene W. Waugh, Pierceton
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- Animal Welfare - Roemer - License Bureau
Animal Welfare
Editor, Times-Union:On Nov. 1, the Animal Welfare League will be taking over operation of the county animal shelter. At that time, this shelter could not possibly be entrusted to any more responsible and caring people. I have been extremely impressed with the men and women of the AWL since I joined 10 months ago. They are deeply concerned for every cat, dog, kitten and puppy living in this county.
The shelter, though operated by the AWL, really will belong to the animals. It is their home till adopted. The goal of the shelter will be to reduce euthanasia of animals 50 percent the first year and to make it a "no kill" (no adoptable animals ever being euthanized) within the next half year. This very ambitious goal, if achieved, will make this one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of shelters.
The AWL cannot accomplish this on its own. It will take volunteered time and financial help of many county residents and corporations. The greatest way each pet owner can help make our shelter a "no kill" shelter is for you to make it your priority to have your pets spayed or neutered. Though you may always have been able to find homes for the kittens and puppies born to your pets, please remember that that lowered the number of homes into which cats and dogs at the shelter at those times could be placed. Some of those put to death could have been saved if your pet had been spayed and not had those litters. We need to stop lowering the chances of shelter animals being adopted by having all pets spayed and neutered.
Another way you can help us reach the shelter goal is to donate money and supplies, volunteer time to help with chores at the shelter and heartily support fund raisers benefitting the shelter. Please join us for the animals' sake!
A major way to enable us to reach our ambitious goal is for some of the fine corporations in this county whose owners have a real heart for animals and have ample financial resources to donate equipment and perhaps sponsor a much-reduced or free-to-poor pet owners spay-neuter program (the Houston Rockets basketball team sponsors a free spay/neuter mobile unit for needy pet owners in Houston) in the name of your corporation. Please give generously.
This is an ambitious goal, but there are so many silently suffering animals who need our help so they can live! They did not ask to be born and do not deserve to have their lives snuffed out.
All of us together can accomplish this goal. It's the only truly humane thing to do. Thank you for taking this to heart and getting involved. The Animal Welfare League and the animals need you.
Chuck Orlando, Warsaw
Roemer
Editor, Times-Union:Last Thursday Representative Tim Roemer, 3rd District Indiana, voted "Yes" twice. To date the media, of any type in the district, has not questioned him as to which yes was his real vote and which one was the phony. You can not have it both ways, unless you are trying to cover your political backside. If he really meant to vote for the full scale investigation of Clinton, then why did he vote yes to limit the probe?
Now Roemer brags about his 20 some votes on bills to reduce income taxes. In the eight years that he has been in office my federal tax percentage rate never went down. In fact on the same amount of yearly wages they went up. Can we thus assume for some 19 of those votes that they only favored the special interest groups that continually support his candidacies and that the last vote he made was a given because he knew that the Arkansas Fornicator would veto it anyway?
Since Candidate Holtz started to put pressure on Mr. Roemer in the area of education, there is now a push on for 100 million dollars to help establish home based education in the United States, along with other pie-in-the-sky proposals. If Roemer really wants to return educational programs to the states, local districts and parents just author a bill to shut down and do away with the Department of Education. That would not only solve the problem, think of all the money that would not have to go to Washington D.C. It would also return common sense to education, not like the liberals solve problems by throwing money at them.
In view of Mr. Roemer's poor past performance and his follow the leader approach to problem solving, it certainly is time for a change. There is nothing to gain by returning him to another term in Congress. As with Clinton, enough is enough.
Robert E. Villa, Bristol
License Bureau
Editor, Times-Union:If Evan Bayh can cut the license plate tax in half, I suggest some of the "saved" money be used to add more personnel to the License Bureau for the express purpose of giving driver tests.
A driver test is in order for me this year so, 20 days before my birthday, I phoned to make an appointment. To my great surprise the License Bureau is booked solid until Nov. 30 and to date have no permission to place reservations in December.
No time is available and there is no alternative in Kosciusko County. What does one do? Do we drive illegally until our county can take care us?
As a last resort I called Whitley County and received the same answer. This office did suggest that I try North Manchester or Goshen. She obliged me with both phone numbers. Goshen had one time still open on Nov. 30.
Later I called Plymouth and will be able to be attended before my birthday.
How can the county citizens be better served?
Imogene W. Waugh, Pierceton
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