Letters

Elm Lawn Memorial Cemetery, from junior high through all ages, is a good place to visit history on Veterans Day or Memorial Day or any time that is comfortable. Take Warren Street (the street just south of the Pizza Hut) four blocks west off of Main Street.

What is the dirty little secret that the Bureau Valley School Board is keeping so hush-hush from the taxpayers of the school district? It has been stated that it involves an employee of the district ... Is the district hiding from the rumors from a year ago involving a former employee of the district, or is the district getting ready to be slapped with a civil lawsuit that is going to cost the district and the taxpayers for lawyers and settlement costs?

In my family there is a hard-working, taxpaying, active-church-member, give-back-to-the-community couple who are true saints. They have suffered expense, inconvenience, heartache and even danger caring for distantly related children with intolerable home situations. They have worked all their lives at low-paying jobs, usually without health insurance.

I was recently laid off from my job at a local factory. I was getting up in age when I was hired there. I was 49 when I started, and I was told there had never been a lay-off at this factory ever before. I thought if I did my best for the company, I could end up retiring from there. Boy was I wrong. I was devastated when I was given a letter saying the job I did most didn’t need to be ran.

This letter is in response to Stan White’s letter titled, “Citizens seem not to care.” Mr. White makes several points based on half-truths and a misrepresentation of the facts regarding current polices that he disagrees with.

I’m asking Ohio citizens if they know anyone who tampered with my mail. The papers were sent out by the Committee of 10 from Ohio. The papers were stapled. After the mail was put in my box, someone opened my box and opened my health papers from Rockford Clinic and put them in that envelope. The seal had to be steamed open and re-glued the envelope closed. I’ve turned it over to a government investigator.

Your recent articles entitled, “County to take legal action” (Oct. 14) and “Details released on road dispute” (Oct. 16) omitted a few pertinent details. On Sept. 18, Iberdrola Renewables, on behalf of the Providence Heights Wind, LLC (Providence Heights), was compelled to file a lawsuit against Bureau County over the county’s decision to breach the agreement which governs road repair. Among other things, the county refused to allow road repairs on Wyanet-Walnut and Kentville Roads. The decision to sue was made with great regret, but efforts to settle the dispute amicably, both before and after the lawsuit, were unsuccessful. We are disappointed that resources that could be used to fix the roads will instead be used to litigate the matter.

Yes, Devin (Vaughn), you are right.

If you feel the items below are the way to govern the United States of America, then you will very happy when the USA becomes a “third world country,” run by the U.S. government for everything in your life! When you start wishing for a job, getting a house to live in, a real education for your children, it’s not where singing praise for our leader, being educated by the NEA.    

An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by a partner every year. Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners and children when they become adults. Thirty to 60 percent of perpetrators of domestic violence also abuse children in the household. 

A well-rehearsed claim repeatedly trumpeted by wind project developers, and those wanting to join with them, promises substantial new property tax revenues as a windfall for our schools and counties.

Wind farms seem to be steadily encroaching into our once beautiful countryside.

I am Sean Piper, a resident of Oho and custodian at Ohio schools. I am around to see how much all the students love being a part of a small school. They all get along well together and seem like a big happy family.

Barb Kromphardt wrote an interesting article using FDR as reference. She was making a case for adding an economic bill of rights in addition to our original “Bill or Rights,” that enumerate and guarantee our personal freedoms. It’s altruistic and understandingly popular with many people that we should be entitled to a laundry list of economic rights, and the government should provide for them. I’ve met Barb. I like and respect her. She’s a good journalist. That being said, I would, respectfully, like to give a rebuttal.

I would like to answer a few of the points Barb Kromphardt made in her commentary.

To the Editor,

I don’t doubt that Mrs. Peterson believes what she wrote, however, simply presenting something as fact does not make it so. For instance, Page 50, Line (section) 152 of the health care bill she referenced does not have the language quoted, nor can it be interpreted as Mrs. Peterson represented, nor does it mention or even allude to illegal immigrants. You can point to as many e-mail forwards as you’d like that say it does, but take the time to research what you present. In other words, if you must shout, “You Lie!” please be sure of your facts. What that health care bill does say on Page 143 is: “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the Unite

The dances being held at the Bureau County Senior Center are not fundraising events. Each senior center in the Western Area Agency of Aging District submitted a proposal for a special grant of what they felt they could do to help promote their senior center.

When I attended the joint session of the Ohio High School and Grade School boards to discuss the future of Ohio High School on Oct. 5, I was impressed by the information gathered by the committee. It affirmed my belief that Ohio High School is a very good school.