July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Stealing from thrift shop is still stealing (01/03/05)
Letters to the editor
To the editor:
About six weeks ago the Salvation Army had a spot on the evening news about people stealing from the community drop-off boxes. I would like the people in this community to know this happens in our small town also.
But not with the Salvation Amy. It happens with our community thrift shop (run by Community and Family Services Inc.).
People in this community drop off clothes and other miscellaneous items to the thrift shop on South Wayne Street to be sold to help finance the food bank and help low-income families.
There are a select group of people, and it’s more than one, that steal from the shed.
Many have been spotted digging through stuff inside and outside the shed and putting it in their cars.
I do not want the good people to stop donating. Keep donating. But help to stop these people from stealing. If you see something report it to the police.
And to those doing it, there are many people watching the shed. Stop before the police catch you.
Arrowana Naylor and Bill and Joanne Kelly, for the many volunteers of the community thrift shop
Misguided effort?
To the editor:
The savagery in America's cities is epidemic. In 2005 perhaps thousands of Americans were beaten and many, like Vanessa Hawkins, were murdered.
The 26-year-old Hawkins, a mother of two small children, was savagely gunned down in Indianapolis this week. Earlier in the week 50-year-old Samuel McClain was dragged from his car in Milwaukee's inner city and beaten nearly to death. In both instances there was no police presence. None.
Oddly, both cities' primary airports — not known as high crime rate areas — were buzzing with law enforcement personnel and criminal detection devices. While terror prevention is a worthwhile cause, not one person was injured, let alone murdered, by terrorists in either city.
As Congress mulls the aftermath of breathing new life and billions of dollars in the Patriot Act, and as President Bush excuses the diversion of civil liberties while snooping out terrorists, perhaps its time to ask a pertinent question: Would our efforts not be better invested where Americans are truly terrorized — our inner-cities?
Kenn Gividen
Columbus[[In-content Ad]]
About six weeks ago the Salvation Army had a spot on the evening news about people stealing from the community drop-off boxes. I would like the people in this community to know this happens in our small town also.
But not with the Salvation Amy. It happens with our community thrift shop (run by Community and Family Services Inc.).
People in this community drop off clothes and other miscellaneous items to the thrift shop on South Wayne Street to be sold to help finance the food bank and help low-income families.
There are a select group of people, and it’s more than one, that steal from the shed.
Many have been spotted digging through stuff inside and outside the shed and putting it in their cars.
I do not want the good people to stop donating. Keep donating. But help to stop these people from stealing. If you see something report it to the police.
And to those doing it, there are many people watching the shed. Stop before the police catch you.
Arrowana Naylor and Bill and Joanne Kelly, for the many volunteers of the community thrift shop
Misguided effort?
To the editor:
The savagery in America's cities is epidemic. In 2005 perhaps thousands of Americans were beaten and many, like Vanessa Hawkins, were murdered.
The 26-year-old Hawkins, a mother of two small children, was savagely gunned down in Indianapolis this week. Earlier in the week 50-year-old Samuel McClain was dragged from his car in Milwaukee's inner city and beaten nearly to death. In both instances there was no police presence. None.
Oddly, both cities' primary airports — not known as high crime rate areas — were buzzing with law enforcement personnel and criminal detection devices. While terror prevention is a worthwhile cause, not one person was injured, let alone murdered, by terrorists in either city.
As Congress mulls the aftermath of breathing new life and billions of dollars in the Patriot Act, and as President Bush excuses the diversion of civil liberties while snooping out terrorists, perhaps its time to ask a pertinent question: Would our efforts not be better invested where Americans are truly terrorized — our inner-cities?
Kenn Gividen
Columbus[[In-content Ad]]
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