Compassion is a comfort for family

To the editor:
I would like to share a little story with everyone.  A couple of weeks ago I had to send our dog to Heaven.  He was a Siberan Husky with the most amazing blue eyes.  I got him when he was just a puppy.  As he got older he was able to give me four beautiful puppies — two girls and two boys. I still have one girl and two boys. 
So I fast forward to today. He is now 13 years old and his health is failing. He has arthritis in his hips and they are unable to support his weight for any length of time. His hips eventually got so bad that he was unable to climb the steps up to the front porch. Clearly he is in pain. So it was time to let him go. 
We made an appointment with Dr. Jim Wasson at the Redkey Veterinary clinic. When we arrived it was almost time for them to go home for the weekend. I remember walking through his front door. Of course I was crying as our dog meant the world to us. 
One of the girls at the counter offered me a tissue. We were offered to go into a private room in order to say our goodbyes.  Then Dr. Jim walked in. We explained to him how our dog’s health was and how he was going downhill very fast. 
He was very attentive to what we were saying and told us that we were making the right decision.  So our dog was put to sleep. We were with him as he slipped away very fast and without pain. Dr. Jim then helped us carry our dog to the truck. 
Everyone was very compassionate.
So three days later, we received in the mail, a very lovely post card with the most amazing poem on it.  It was from Dr. Jim and his entire staff.  Each person had signed it. 
I called them and thanked them for thinking of us in our time of grief. I just wanted to thank them again for thinking of us.
It takes special people like the ones working with Dr. Jim to help ease our pain and be able to do a good job when it comes time to put a family pet to sleep.
God Bless each and every one of you at the Redkey Veterinary Clinic.  You have shown me that there are still caring people in this world.
Sherry Blowers
Bryant

Questions
(Editor’s note: The following letter was trimmed from a letter to the editor published in Monday’s edition of The Commercial Review. It was removed because the original letter exceeded The CR’s word limit on letters to the editor).
To the editor:
I guess our only hope now is that the federal government (which is broke, like you need to be reminded) will not extend the wind production tax credit, or PTC.
I understand NextEra will not proceed with this project unless the PTC is extended.
What is PTC? NextEra, along with other wind energy companies, receive a 2.2 cent per kilowatt-hour subsidy that it needs to “compete” in the electrical power marketplace.
Since first adopted in 1992, the “temporary” PTC for wind energy has ballooned from $5 million in 1998 to more than $1 billion annually today. Paid by us the taxpayers.
Which begs the question, why did the Jay County Council grant NextEra (a $15 billion per year business) a 10-year tax abatement that will save Next-Era $4.5 million in taxes when they already receive a handout from the federal government? Wind energy can’t be cost effective if it needs such a crutch to compete.
Stephen Fouch Jr.
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