Letters to the Editor 12-02-1998
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Eye Bank - Thanks To EMS - Seek The Truth - Thanks To Pastor - Animal Control - Pro-Life Position - No Integrity
Eye Bank
Editor Times-Union:On Thanksgiving Day, 1989, Rita Tucker of New Castle, Delaware, prepared a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for 22 family members. It was unusual because for the previous 17 years, she walked with a white cane and read by Braille. She was legally blind because of defective corneas. The cornea is the front window of the eye. When it becomes scarred or clouded, light cannot pass through and impaired vision results. After two corneal transplants, she was able to see well enough to resume normal activities.
Only a cornea from a healthy human eye can be used for a transplant. Synthetic ones have not yet proven satisfactory. Because of the shortage of donated eyes, the waiting list for a cornea can be long. Most people are willing to donate their eyes to give sight to another at the time of their death, but they fail to inform a member of their family that this is what they would like to have done. Physicians are reluctant to remove eyes or other organs without consent of next of kin. Eyes to be used for a corneal transplant should be removed within a few hours after death. Eyes which cannot be used for a transplant are used for research and education. A break-through in the treatment of a serious eye disease was found in a donated eye.
Signing a donor card and giving half of it to a family member as a reminder of one's wishes is a good idea. Signing the form on the back of your driver's license is also recommended, but having a conversation with your next of kin will make eye or organ donation more likely to happen.
For more information, call the Indiana Lions Eye Bank at 1-800-232-4384.
Berniece H. Dwyer, Milford
Thanks To EMS
Dear Multi-Township EMS Personnel:I would just like to thank all of you for all of your help while I have been a volunteer down there. It has been a great experince for me and I am not done down there yet. Wednesday and Thursday and Saturday night shifts we have a had a lot of fun together and a lot of learning experiences for me and everyone else. I just want the whole community to know you have a great EMS system in your county and don't take them for granted because they will always be there for you. All of you have taught me how to mature and be the person I am today and my parents have done the same too. I just need to say my thanks. Well that is it and I will see you all real soon.
Josh Sittler, EMT-Basic Volunteer
Seek The Truth
Editor, Times-Union:I was recently reading, when some words jumped off of the page:
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these things were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
These words speak clearly to our Nation. Thanksgiving is the one national holiday based on taking time to look heavenward and thank God for His bountiful goodness. The irony of our age is that the push for separation between church and state has brought us to the point of turning our backs on God while at the same time eliminating prayer, the 10 commandments and the Bible from public life. We live in a nation comfortable in prosperity, complacent in seeking the truth and careful in being politically correct. Our pride has blinded us to see that God has blessed and sustained everything we have in this nation.
The sad thing about this quote that caught my attention is that it came from the White House, however, during a different era. It was spoken during one of the darkest moments in our history by a man who probably would not be a serious candidate today because of his truthfulness and appearance. Abraham Lincoln did not rely on polls to direct his leadership. In humility, he focused on God's truth to lead this nation and reminded America of the 1860s that greatness does not come from technology, weapons or intellectual prowess. His words pierce even more sharply in the 1990s.
This holiday season, when we gather with our families may we take time to remember God's gracious hand has sustained us and blessed us beyond the wildest imagination of Lincoln. May we also follow in Lincoln's spirit of humility to acknowledge and not forget this God that has blessed America and seek His truth in our private as well as public lives.
Ken Locke, Warsaw
Thanks To Pastor
Editor, Times-Union:Thank you Pastor Larry Howard and his Akron church members For their compassion and generous Christ-like attitude. A check was given to me to pay my electric and have it reconnected, after being shut off for six months. I missed a day of work; I was in shock over the gift! May God bless you all.
Nita Messer, Akron
Animal Control
Editor, Times-Union:In the Times-Union, on 11-28-98, I was misquoted about the number of dogs taken in at A.W.L. What I said was 74 dogs have been taken in since the first of November, not on Monday November 23 alone.
Now about the ordinance itself, some people said it will take in all four legged pets. Not true. They have not read the ordinance. It only pertains to nuisance dogs. At the same commissioners meeting, a man asked "why should I be punished for owning a dog?" The answer is you won't be unless your dog harasses and bothers your neighbor. It's your dog not theirs! Why should they be punished because you own a dog?
The lady who let every criminal in the county know she doesn't have a gun in the house, is very inconsiderate of her neighbors and I think she demonstrated that at the meeting.
You people know that you are disturbing the peace and don't want to be fined for it. Keep your dogs quiet and you won't get fined.
In closing, the commissioners have stalled yet again. On Monday, November 30th, a TV station contacted a lady that was at the meeting whose dog was attacked by loose dogs. They want to do a story on the junk yard dogs of K-9 county and its irresponsible pet owners. Is that what we want? I hope not.
Herschel Rainwater, Warsaw
Pro-Life Position
Editor, Times-Union:In Ellen Goodman's editorial titled "New GOP Leadership Needs to Moderate" on Nov. 16 she says "Contrary to predictions, the anti-abortion issue didn't rally the right wing, it just alienated the middle." She claims that in California the governor won by labeling his opponent as an anti-abortion extremist.
The governor's race in California is hardly a good example to prove that the pro-life position is a negative for a political candidate. Dan Lungren was the republican pro-life candidate for governor in California. Grey Davis was the Democratic pro-abortion candidate. First of all, California has always been a liberal state when it comes to social issues, so it would not be surprising that a pro-abortion candidate would win. But more importantly, throughout the campaign Dan Lungren was hit with attack ad after attack ad from the Davis campaign and pro-abortion organizations like National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Unfortunately, Dan Lungren ran his ads less frequently than those of the pro-abortion organizations and "apologized" for his pro-life stance. Instead of giving up, he should have gone on the offensive and pointed out that Davis opposed sensible pro-life measures like parental notification and the partial-birth abortion ban. According to polls by the Los Angeles Times, a sizable majority of California residents support both measures.
Liberals and moderates continue to try to blame conservatives, and especially pro-lifers, for Republican losses in this year's election. However, in many cases exit polls showed that the pro-life stand of a candidate helped them win or kept them from losing by a wider margin. This happened in races in Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
We must not allow ourselves to be convinced by the media that the pro-life position is not appropriate in society or in the political arena. If we give up, the losers will be the many unborn babies who are killed each day and the women who are physically and emotionally hurt by abortion.
Dave Koontz, President, Kosciusko County Right to Life
No Integrity
Editor, Times-Union:I have subscribed to the Times-Union newspaper for over ten years and have now decided to cancel my subscription due to lack of journalistic integrity and value. I especially find your Saturday morning editorial column boring, self-righteous and filled with an holier than thou attitude. But allowing an employee to use the Letters to the Editor column to seek revenge for his own marital failure is the last straw! If I wanted to read a trash magazine/newspaper, I would pick one up at the nearest grocery check-out. I don't need one delivered to my home.
Mary Lou Plummer, Warsaw
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- Eye Bank - Thanks To EMS - Seek The Truth - Thanks To Pastor - Animal Control - Pro-Life Position - No Integrity
Eye Bank
Editor Times-Union:On Thanksgiving Day, 1989, Rita Tucker of New Castle, Delaware, prepared a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for 22 family members. It was unusual because for the previous 17 years, she walked with a white cane and read by Braille. She was legally blind because of defective corneas. The cornea is the front window of the eye. When it becomes scarred or clouded, light cannot pass through and impaired vision results. After two corneal transplants, she was able to see well enough to resume normal activities.
Only a cornea from a healthy human eye can be used for a transplant. Synthetic ones have not yet proven satisfactory. Because of the shortage of donated eyes, the waiting list for a cornea can be long. Most people are willing to donate their eyes to give sight to another at the time of their death, but they fail to inform a member of their family that this is what they would like to have done. Physicians are reluctant to remove eyes or other organs without consent of next of kin. Eyes to be used for a corneal transplant should be removed within a few hours after death. Eyes which cannot be used for a transplant are used for research and education. A break-through in the treatment of a serious eye disease was found in a donated eye.
Signing a donor card and giving half of it to a family member as a reminder of one's wishes is a good idea. Signing the form on the back of your driver's license is also recommended, but having a conversation with your next of kin will make eye or organ donation more likely to happen.
For more information, call the Indiana Lions Eye Bank at 1-800-232-4384.
Berniece H. Dwyer, Milford
Thanks To EMS
Dear Multi-Township EMS Personnel:I would just like to thank all of you for all of your help while I have been a volunteer down there. It has been a great experince for me and I am not done down there yet. Wednesday and Thursday and Saturday night shifts we have a had a lot of fun together and a lot of learning experiences for me and everyone else. I just want the whole community to know you have a great EMS system in your county and don't take them for granted because they will always be there for you. All of you have taught me how to mature and be the person I am today and my parents have done the same too. I just need to say my thanks. Well that is it and I will see you all real soon.
Josh Sittler, EMT-Basic Volunteer
Seek The Truth
Editor, Times-Union:I was recently reading, when some words jumped off of the page:
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these things were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
These words speak clearly to our Nation. Thanksgiving is the one national holiday based on taking time to look heavenward and thank God for His bountiful goodness. The irony of our age is that the push for separation between church and state has brought us to the point of turning our backs on God while at the same time eliminating prayer, the 10 commandments and the Bible from public life. We live in a nation comfortable in prosperity, complacent in seeking the truth and careful in being politically correct. Our pride has blinded us to see that God has blessed and sustained everything we have in this nation.
The sad thing about this quote that caught my attention is that it came from the White House, however, during a different era. It was spoken during one of the darkest moments in our history by a man who probably would not be a serious candidate today because of his truthfulness and appearance. Abraham Lincoln did not rely on polls to direct his leadership. In humility, he focused on God's truth to lead this nation and reminded America of the 1860s that greatness does not come from technology, weapons or intellectual prowess. His words pierce even more sharply in the 1990s.
This holiday season, when we gather with our families may we take time to remember God's gracious hand has sustained us and blessed us beyond the wildest imagination of Lincoln. May we also follow in Lincoln's spirit of humility to acknowledge and not forget this God that has blessed America and seek His truth in our private as well as public lives.
Ken Locke, Warsaw
Thanks To Pastor
Editor, Times-Union:Thank you Pastor Larry Howard and his Akron church members For their compassion and generous Christ-like attitude. A check was given to me to pay my electric and have it reconnected, after being shut off for six months. I missed a day of work; I was in shock over the gift! May God bless you all.
Nita Messer, Akron
Animal Control
Editor, Times-Union:In the Times-Union, on 11-28-98, I was misquoted about the number of dogs taken in at A.W.L. What I said was 74 dogs have been taken in since the first of November, not on Monday November 23 alone.
Now about the ordinance itself, some people said it will take in all four legged pets. Not true. They have not read the ordinance. It only pertains to nuisance dogs. At the same commissioners meeting, a man asked "why should I be punished for owning a dog?" The answer is you won't be unless your dog harasses and bothers your neighbor. It's your dog not theirs! Why should they be punished because you own a dog?
The lady who let every criminal in the county know she doesn't have a gun in the house, is very inconsiderate of her neighbors and I think she demonstrated that at the meeting.
You people know that you are disturbing the peace and don't want to be fined for it. Keep your dogs quiet and you won't get fined.
In closing, the commissioners have stalled yet again. On Monday, November 30th, a TV station contacted a lady that was at the meeting whose dog was attacked by loose dogs. They want to do a story on the junk yard dogs of K-9 county and its irresponsible pet owners. Is that what we want? I hope not.
Herschel Rainwater, Warsaw
Pro-Life Position
Editor, Times-Union:In Ellen Goodman's editorial titled "New GOP Leadership Needs to Moderate" on Nov. 16 she says "Contrary to predictions, the anti-abortion issue didn't rally the right wing, it just alienated the middle." She claims that in California the governor won by labeling his opponent as an anti-abortion extremist.
The governor's race in California is hardly a good example to prove that the pro-life position is a negative for a political candidate. Dan Lungren was the republican pro-life candidate for governor in California. Grey Davis was the Democratic pro-abortion candidate. First of all, California has always been a liberal state when it comes to social issues, so it would not be surprising that a pro-abortion candidate would win. But more importantly, throughout the campaign Dan Lungren was hit with attack ad after attack ad from the Davis campaign and pro-abortion organizations like National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Unfortunately, Dan Lungren ran his ads less frequently than those of the pro-abortion organizations and "apologized" for his pro-life stance. Instead of giving up, he should have gone on the offensive and pointed out that Davis opposed sensible pro-life measures like parental notification and the partial-birth abortion ban. According to polls by the Los Angeles Times, a sizable majority of California residents support both measures.
Liberals and moderates continue to try to blame conservatives, and especially pro-lifers, for Republican losses in this year's election. However, in many cases exit polls showed that the pro-life stand of a candidate helped them win or kept them from losing by a wider margin. This happened in races in Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
We must not allow ourselves to be convinced by the media that the pro-life position is not appropriate in society or in the political arena. If we give up, the losers will be the many unborn babies who are killed each day and the women who are physically and emotionally hurt by abortion.
Dave Koontz, President, Kosciusko County Right to Life
No Integrity
Editor, Times-Union:I have subscribed to the Times-Union newspaper for over ten years and have now decided to cancel my subscription due to lack of journalistic integrity and value. I especially find your Saturday morning editorial column boring, self-righteous and filled with an holier than thou attitude. But allowing an employee to use the Letters to the Editor column to seek revenge for his own marital failure is the last straw! If I wanted to read a trash magazine/newspaper, I would pick one up at the nearest grocery check-out. I don't need one delivered to my home.
Mary Lou Plummer, Warsaw
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