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Reader: Stop and think before using hurtful language
Dear Editor, I often wonder if people realize the impact of using the word ‘retarded’. Do they realize how they could be hurting the person standing beside them when they use this word? I would think that in this day and time, with the way that people are about speaking politically correct, that this would be one word that is no longer used. The definition of retarded is slow not “stupid”. There were/are many great people in history who w...
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GIB judges extend compliments to Gallipolis
Dear Editor, Judging for the 2012 America in Bloom Awards Program is happening right now all across the United States. The results of this year’s program will be announced on Saturday, September 22 at the America in Bloom Symposium and Awards in Fayetteville, Arkansas. What is apparent to us, your judges, is that Gallipolis is already blooming … Blooming with volunteers and community pride, with good government, with beautiful landscapes ...
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Reader answers common questions about foster parenting
To our Community Members, Have you ever wondered what you could do to help out someone in need? Here is your chance to learn more about foster care and becoming a foster parent. Each year, there are about 12,000 children in foster care in Ohio. Youth are placed in foster care for a variety of reasons. We, at Transitions for Youth, are lucky enough to get to work with these youth and help them learn the tools they need to make a change in ...
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Reader questions school guidelines for attendance
Dear Editor, I have a four year old daughter, who has been talking about her first day of preschool for close to five months. Asking every night before bed, “Mommy tomorrow do I get to ride the bus to my new school?” So I completed a sign-up form, mailed it to the Heart of the Valley School and received a phone call back saying they got her form and gave me the days of the week she would attend school, the bus times and date school starte...
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Reader rallies for Meigs K-9 unit
Making a difference Over the years, I have had the opportunity to do “ride-alongs” with law enforcement. I quietly sat in the passenger seat and observed what the officer did during a shift. One of those times was in Gallipolis. It was a great experience to see what challenges local law enforcement face on a daily basis. The experience in Gallipolis was especially interesting because the officer worked with a K-9 unit. Recently, Syracuse ...
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Money Matters
Many people have no understanding of the way that the titling of an asset directs its flow in their estate. They may have received a cover letter from their attorney detailing the steps needed to re-title their assets to complete their estate planning, but often it gets filed away with the documents and never addressed. When you do your review of your estate plan, make sure that the investment assets are titled properly and remember to check ...
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Reader addresses Vice President Biden’s history mix-up
Dear Editor, Vice President Biden in a speech recently got his history mixed up about the Republicans putting the blacks in chains. The Dems were the ones that put them in slavery for about 200 years. Republican Abraham Lincoln stated it was wrong to be one-half free and one-half slavery and fought a war to free the blacks. Approximately 600,000 Union soldiers lost their lives to free them, and 400,000 Rebels lost their lives to keep them i...
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Democrat and Republican hummingbirds?
Dear Editor, It is twenty to eight and my Democrat and Republican hummingbirds are still trying to get enough to eat before they go to roost for the night. I know one is a Democrat and the other a Republican because they both want exactly the same thing. When one hummingbird lands to drink the sweet water and the other sees him, he chases the other away. If he lands on the opposite side where he can’t be seen by the other, they both drink t...
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Reader: Legalization of marijuana would turn economy around
Dear Editor, Let me be frank … Until we legalize our largest agricultural cash crop, marijuana, our economy will contiue to be sluggish, at best. We cannot expect our economy to prosper as long as we keep the biggest agricultural commodity America has ever known illegal. It’s not going to happen, folks. On the other hand, if we legalize marijuana, our economy will go right through the roof … off the charts! Marijuana is huge, already de...
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Reader livid over handling of crash
Dear Editor, The other night, a drunk driver tore up the yard of two of my neighbors, hit a pole and almost hit a woman getting out of her truck. My boyfriend tried to see if the man needed help and tried to get him out of his truck, but he wouldn’t get out. When the city police showed up, they knew the man was drunk. The driver even told him he was and tried to give his keys to him and the police told him he didn’t want his keys. By then...
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Reader impressed with man’s integrity
Dear Editor, Each day we are bombarded with stories about people treating other people badly, but my story is just the opposite. Mason, W.Va. resident John T. Kearns, Jr. is someone who went out of his way to treat others well. Last weekend, he found some of the contents of a wallet along the road, including cash, gift cards and a check with my name on it. These valuables had been blown out of an open convertible driving along the road. R...
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Summer of 2012 should illustrate climate change reality
Dear Editor, This summer of 2012 should be sufficient evidence to persuade skeptics that climate change is a reality. Literally thousands of heat records were broken in our country alone. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes that the spring of 2012 “marked the largest temperature departure from average of any season on record for the contiguous United States.” As Leonardo da Vinci observed, Nature doesn’t break her ...
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Reader recognizes value of Social Security
Dear Editor, August 14, 1935, commemorated the day one of the most important and successful programs for American families began; President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. Since then, it has kept seniors, widows, the disabled and children of disabled or deceased parents from falling into poverty. As the son of elderly parents, I am thankful that FDR and LBJ led the way in creating Social Security and Medicar...
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Congratulations GAHS Class of 1962
To The GAHS Class of 1962: Where did 50 years go? It seems not to long ago we were walking the halls of Gallia Academy High School, enjoying life and discovering new things and feelings and emotions everyday. Going to assemblies, prom, pep-rallies, bon-fires, football games, hometown movie theaters, hayrides, swimming, drive-in movies, circling Bob Evans Drive-in, neighborhood games, sleigh riding, county fairs, youth groups, summer dances,...
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Sen. Brown helped preserve military family’s heritage
Dear Editor, Dad would not talk about Korea. My wife’s dad did not talk about what he did in the Korean War. Like many solders that had seen the front line action, there are memories they would rather suppress for a lifetime. But unfortunately, he never talked about it. To our loss, he died, and we may not have ever known all he had done for his county. My wife wanted to know more about her dad’s service in Korea, so his kids and grandkid...
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