July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Hospital event set for Nov. 8 (11/02/06)
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
We are reminding you to mark your calendars for Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. That is the date for the 13th annual Celebration of Lights ceremony at Jay County Hospital.
The hospital auxiliary sponsors the Celebration of Lights ceremony and the donations received are used for LifeLine - an emergency response system that provides help 24 hours a day to those who are in need. LifeLine is available to Jay County residents and to surrounding counties if they do not have an emergency response center. The fee for this service is just $15 a month. LifeLine allows the elderly and/or handicapped to live in their own homes, knowing that help is available when they push their help button.
We now have 150 units and 15 of these units have to be replaced at a cost of $769 each.
Lights can be placed on the trees for a donation of $5 per name or couple. A strand of lights may be purchased for $100, or a whole tree for $300. Lighting a light is a way to honor a friend, to remember an anniversary or birthday, or as a memorial for a loved one. Names of the honorees will appear on scrolls in the lobby of the hospital during the holidays.
The donations that are received help us to keep the fee for LifeLine at $15, where it has remained since 1988. We hope, through your donations, that we can keep it there. There is still time to make your donation. Forms are available at the hospital, banks and most businesses in Jay County.
On Wednesday, Nov., 8, we will have great entertainment: The Brass Band, with their quick wit, good humor and great music; and The Friendship Company, our Jay County High School youth who make beautiful music.
There will be refreshments following the ceremony, with entertainment provided by The Performance Company.
It is a beautiful sight when the lights are turned on and it is a great start to the holiday season.
Come join us.
Madonna Bisel, chairman,
Jay County Hospital
Auxiliary Celebration
of Lights Committee
Forgetting?
To the editor:
Resting on a bookshelf in my home sits a book that has been there more than six years. Back in May of 2000 when I first purchased this book, the story that it told was a very emotionally charged story written by a son who was trying to put together the pieces of a story that his father had never told him. A truly remarkable tale that he could not get directly from his father due to the fact that he had just passed away.
Now this book has been made into a movie and released nationwide. The movie is titled the same as the book, "Flags of Our Fathers." I went this week to see if it had been butchered up by the Hollywood process of turning a book into a feature film, as is so often the case. I must report that it was done very well, and unlike Saving Private Ryan, the underlying storyline in this film is true and actually happened.
What really was alarming to me, however, was what I did not see at the movie. That was an audience. I went on a weeknight to an early screening, and there was only a handful of people there, and I mean a handful, as in less than a dozen. I am telling you that this is the kind of film that after it ends, you almost cannot get up and leave the theater. And leave you should not, due to the fact that the director and editors saw fit to end the movie with actual photographs of the men portrayed.
I suppose that we as a nation are forgetting the sacrifices that were made on the God-forsaken island of Iwo Jima so many years ago. Every day we lose more of the great men and women who, through their sacrifices, enabled us to be victorious in that terrible war.
Very soon there will no longer be any more of them left to tell the story firsthand.
I hope that everyone will take the time to see this film and read the book. It will be time well spent, and will allow all to better understand the sacrifices that were made to allow us all to enjoy the lifestyle that we all benefit from in this great nation every day.
Sincerely and respectfully,
James D. Fulks III
Dunkirk
Tough choice
To the editor:
There is no doubt in my mind that the Republicans have done such a lousy job of running the country that they don't deserve to keep control of Congress. In an act of unbelievable stupidity they have totally abandoned the contract with America to court moderate voters who supported the contract with America. They have been spending like drunken sailors and they have put even more pork in the budget than the Democrats would have believed possible when they ruled the pork barrel. They have snubbed the Religious Right and they have passed a Campaign Finance Reform bill that is blatantly unconstitutional despite its approval by a left wing Supreme Court.
In an ideal world the opposition would offer a significantly better plan and be swept into power by a super majority. In the real world it is a tight contest because the opposition party wants to make everything the Republicans have done wrong even worse.
They want to fix a roaring economy by raising taxes on everyone including the middle class and increase spending even more. Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would bring to a vote bills to ban guns, desert Iraq, give prisoners of war Constitutional rights, legalize gay marriage, raise taxes, legalize and give Social Security to 10,000,000 illegal aliens, open the border even more, and legalize partial birth abortion. She would also become our first woman President if anything happened to Bush and Chaney, a President with ultra-left wing San Francisco values that aren't even mainstream for the Democrat party.
If only the Libertarian candidate actually had a chance to win he would get my vote.
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
We are reminding you to mark your calendars for Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. That is the date for the 13th annual Celebration of Lights ceremony at Jay County Hospital.
The hospital auxiliary sponsors the Celebration of Lights ceremony and the donations received are used for LifeLine - an emergency response system that provides help 24 hours a day to those who are in need. LifeLine is available to Jay County residents and to surrounding counties if they do not have an emergency response center. The fee for this service is just $15 a month. LifeLine allows the elderly and/or handicapped to live in their own homes, knowing that help is available when they push their help button.
We now have 150 units and 15 of these units have to be replaced at a cost of $769 each.
Lights can be placed on the trees for a donation of $5 per name or couple. A strand of lights may be purchased for $100, or a whole tree for $300. Lighting a light is a way to honor a friend, to remember an anniversary or birthday, or as a memorial for a loved one. Names of the honorees will appear on scrolls in the lobby of the hospital during the holidays.
The donations that are received help us to keep the fee for LifeLine at $15, where it has remained since 1988. We hope, through your donations, that we can keep it there. There is still time to make your donation. Forms are available at the hospital, banks and most businesses in Jay County.
On Wednesday, Nov., 8, we will have great entertainment: The Brass Band, with their quick wit, good humor and great music; and The Friendship Company, our Jay County High School youth who make beautiful music.
There will be refreshments following the ceremony, with entertainment provided by The Performance Company.
It is a beautiful sight when the lights are turned on and it is a great start to the holiday season.
Come join us.
Madonna Bisel, chairman,
Jay County Hospital
Auxiliary Celebration
of Lights Committee
Forgetting?
To the editor:
Resting on a bookshelf in my home sits a book that has been there more than six years. Back in May of 2000 when I first purchased this book, the story that it told was a very emotionally charged story written by a son who was trying to put together the pieces of a story that his father had never told him. A truly remarkable tale that he could not get directly from his father due to the fact that he had just passed away.
Now this book has been made into a movie and released nationwide. The movie is titled the same as the book, "Flags of Our Fathers." I went this week to see if it had been butchered up by the Hollywood process of turning a book into a feature film, as is so often the case. I must report that it was done very well, and unlike Saving Private Ryan, the underlying storyline in this film is true and actually happened.
What really was alarming to me, however, was what I did not see at the movie. That was an audience. I went on a weeknight to an early screening, and there was only a handful of people there, and I mean a handful, as in less than a dozen. I am telling you that this is the kind of film that after it ends, you almost cannot get up and leave the theater. And leave you should not, due to the fact that the director and editors saw fit to end the movie with actual photographs of the men portrayed.
I suppose that we as a nation are forgetting the sacrifices that were made on the God-forsaken island of Iwo Jima so many years ago. Every day we lose more of the great men and women who, through their sacrifices, enabled us to be victorious in that terrible war.
Very soon there will no longer be any more of them left to tell the story firsthand.
I hope that everyone will take the time to see this film and read the book. It will be time well spent, and will allow all to better understand the sacrifices that were made to allow us all to enjoy the lifestyle that we all benefit from in this great nation every day.
Sincerely and respectfully,
James D. Fulks III
Dunkirk
Tough choice
To the editor:
There is no doubt in my mind that the Republicans have done such a lousy job of running the country that they don't deserve to keep control of Congress. In an act of unbelievable stupidity they have totally abandoned the contract with America to court moderate voters who supported the contract with America. They have been spending like drunken sailors and they have put even more pork in the budget than the Democrats would have believed possible when they ruled the pork barrel. They have snubbed the Religious Right and they have passed a Campaign Finance Reform bill that is blatantly unconstitutional despite its approval by a left wing Supreme Court.
In an ideal world the opposition would offer a significantly better plan and be swept into power by a super majority. In the real world it is a tight contest because the opposition party wants to make everything the Republicans have done wrong even worse.
They want to fix a roaring economy by raising taxes on everyone including the middle class and increase spending even more. Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would bring to a vote bills to ban guns, desert Iraq, give prisoners of war Constitutional rights, legalize gay marriage, raise taxes, legalize and give Social Security to 10,000,000 illegal aliens, open the border even more, and legalize partial birth abortion. She would also become our first woman President if anything happened to Bush and Chaney, a President with ultra-left wing San Francisco values that aren't even mainstream for the Democrat party.
If only the Libertarian candidate actually had a chance to win he would get my vote.
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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