Letters to the Editor 11-30-2004
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Robotics Team Says Thanks - Instilling Values - Sports Salaries - Kmart Kindness
Robotics Team Says Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:We are the Swashbucklers, a Lego Robotics team from Warsaw Community Schools. Each year FLL (First Lego League) hosts a competition that contains two different parts, research and programming. This year, in the research part, our challenge is to make a real change in our community for people with disabilities. We began by looking at accessibility. We went to places on field trips to research accessibility of public places.
We decided that Warsaw Central Park would be a good place to bring about change. We were impressed with the accessibility of the playground for people with physical disabilities. Some of the great things we found were rubberized surfaces and the route from handicapped parking to the playground. We'd like to make a real change in our community by adding a wheelchair swing for the park.
We made a presentation to the park board. They support our idea and encouraged us to go ahead with our plan of applying for grant money to fund the swing. We are writing this letter as part of our project to raise community awareness of our idea. If we are successful, Central Park might have a wheelchair swing sometime soon. We hope the rest of the community can help this idea work. If you have ideas for our project, please e-mail Sue Armacost (one of our coaches) at [email protected]
We want to thank the park board for their support and DePuy for providing funding and engineers as coaches for our Lego Robotics teams.
The Swashbucklers:
Jessica Armacost
Quinton Bolduc
Tai Gunter
Graham Miles
Amanda Quiroz
Zack Rooker
Patrick Rosenbarger
via e-mail
Instilling Values
Editor, Times-Union:The recent decision in Texas to make all sex education textbooks exclusively teach abstinence is stirring up quite a bit of controversy. Parents on both sides of the issue vehemently defend their positions, assuming that the method taught will determine the destiny of their children.
However, these parents are missing the most obvious solution to the problem: themselves! There is a real lack in parenting when the first and only education on sex, pregnancy and STDs is left entirely up to the schools. It is the parents' responsibility to instill their values and preferences in their children. When this consequential task is left up to others, disappointment and failure should come as no surprise.
Bethany Jones
Winona Lake
Sports Salaries
Editor, Times-Union:In a news report today, Nov. 24, I read a college coach "signed a seven-year deal worth $1.25 million a season that could grow to more than $2 million with incentives."
There is something wrong somewhere. We have young men and women paying a supreme sacrifice for peanuts compared to this. It is no wonder people in other countries hate us when they see us doing such outrageous things like this when so many do not have housing or good food. There needs to be a zero taken off the pay for persons in sports. No doubt if this were done, a person who now gets $1 million would get only $100,000, which would then be a challenge for that person to be able to buy a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk.
We sure have our priorities out of whack, and people go ape over sporting events. I played sports in school and enjoyed them very much, but they were not the most important thing in my life.
Fred Yohey
Warsaw
Kmart Kindness
Editor, Times-Union:The staff of Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian wants to share with the community this heart-warming account.
In keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving, a representative of Kmart called our office asking for the names of 20 families for whom Kmart would prepare and deliver a food basket complete with a turkey. That act of kindness and generosity was accomplished this past Tuesday.
We are blessed to be part of a community that cares about its people. Thanks, too, to the Kmart employees who made the deliveries.
Staff
Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church
via e-mail
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Robotics Team Says Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:We are the Swashbucklers, a Lego Robotics team from Warsaw Community Schools. Each year FLL (First Lego League) hosts a competition that contains two different parts, research and programming. This year, in the research part, our challenge is to make a real change in our community for people with disabilities. We began by looking at accessibility. We went to places on field trips to research accessibility of public places.
We decided that Warsaw Central Park would be a good place to bring about change. We were impressed with the accessibility of the playground for people with physical disabilities. Some of the great things we found were rubberized surfaces and the route from handicapped parking to the playground. We'd like to make a real change in our community by adding a wheelchair swing for the park.
We made a presentation to the park board. They support our idea and encouraged us to go ahead with our plan of applying for grant money to fund the swing. We are writing this letter as part of our project to raise community awareness of our idea. If we are successful, Central Park might have a wheelchair swing sometime soon. We hope the rest of the community can help this idea work. If you have ideas for our project, please e-mail Sue Armacost (one of our coaches) at [email protected]
We want to thank the park board for their support and DePuy for providing funding and engineers as coaches for our Lego Robotics teams.
The Swashbucklers:
Jessica Armacost
Quinton Bolduc
Tai Gunter
Graham Miles
Amanda Quiroz
Zack Rooker
Patrick Rosenbarger
via e-mail
Instilling Values
Editor, Times-Union:The recent decision in Texas to make all sex education textbooks exclusively teach abstinence is stirring up quite a bit of controversy. Parents on both sides of the issue vehemently defend their positions, assuming that the method taught will determine the destiny of their children.
However, these parents are missing the most obvious solution to the problem: themselves! There is a real lack in parenting when the first and only education on sex, pregnancy and STDs is left entirely up to the schools. It is the parents' responsibility to instill their values and preferences in their children. When this consequential task is left up to others, disappointment and failure should come as no surprise.
Bethany Jones
Winona Lake
Sports Salaries
Editor, Times-Union:In a news report today, Nov. 24, I read a college coach "signed a seven-year deal worth $1.25 million a season that could grow to more than $2 million with incentives."
There is something wrong somewhere. We have young men and women paying a supreme sacrifice for peanuts compared to this. It is no wonder people in other countries hate us when they see us doing such outrageous things like this when so many do not have housing or good food. There needs to be a zero taken off the pay for persons in sports. No doubt if this were done, a person who now gets $1 million would get only $100,000, which would then be a challenge for that person to be able to buy a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk.
We sure have our priorities out of whack, and people go ape over sporting events. I played sports in school and enjoyed them very much, but they were not the most important thing in my life.
Fred Yohey
Warsaw
Kmart Kindness
Editor, Times-Union:The staff of Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian wants to share with the community this heart-warming account.
In keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving, a representative of Kmart called our office asking for the names of 20 families for whom Kmart would prepare and deliver a food basket complete with a turkey. That act of kindness and generosity was accomplished this past Tuesday.
We are blessed to be part of a community that cares about its people. Thanks, too, to the Kmart employees who made the deliveries.
Staff
Warsaw Evangelical Presbyterian Church
via e-mail
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