August 29, 2020 at 3:57 a.m.
Be a help during our difficult times
Editorial
Be a help during our difficult times
It was a difficult week in what has already been a difficult year.
The year 2020 has been no picnic for anyone. The coronavirus pandemic has turned our world upside down.
Schools closed, annual events were canceled, we’ve been forced to keep more distance than we’d like in order to protect our family and friends from disease.
This week has piled on with a series of tragic events.
On Saturday night, a Missouri man was killed when he walked in front of a semi on Indiana 18.
On the same night, a rural Dunkirk woman died from a gunshot wound to the head. The man who shared the home with her was arrested for her murder three days later in eastern West Virginia.
On Sunday afternoon, a Portland man’s vehicle was found abandoned at Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve in northern Jay County. Police, family and volunteers searched, with his dead body eventually found Wednesday afternoon.
This series of tragic events are stacked on to the murder of twin brothers, who were last seen alive about this time last year; the January shooting of a Portland man that has resulted in three local women charged with murder; a police shooting that resulted in a fatality; and the death of a three-month old from acute methamphetamine intoxication that now has his parents both facing trial for neglect of a dependent resulting in death.
In Jay County, events like this are typically rare. Any one of them in a single year would shake our community. We’ve experienced all of those in the last 12 months.
We often hear the phrase, “those kind of things don’t happen here.” But they do. Not as often as in other places, but they still happen.
This week, as we mourn three more lives cut short, let us be reminded that nothing is guaranteed, that even in small-town America tragedy can strike, that we never know when we’re sharing that last conversation, laugh or hug with someone we hold dear.
Let it be a reminder to us to cherish those moments.
And let us reach out to those loved ones who remain, to offer a helping hand or a shoulder to cry on.
During difficult times, even just a moment of comfort can help give the strength to carry on. — R.C.
The year 2020 has been no picnic for anyone. The coronavirus pandemic has turned our world upside down.
Schools closed, annual events were canceled, we’ve been forced to keep more distance than we’d like in order to protect our family and friends from disease.
This week has piled on with a series of tragic events.
On Saturday night, a Missouri man was killed when he walked in front of a semi on Indiana 18.
On the same night, a rural Dunkirk woman died from a gunshot wound to the head. The man who shared the home with her was arrested for her murder three days later in eastern West Virginia.
On Sunday afternoon, a Portland man’s vehicle was found abandoned at Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve in northern Jay County. Police, family and volunteers searched, with his dead body eventually found Wednesday afternoon.
This series of tragic events are stacked on to the murder of twin brothers, who were last seen alive about this time last year; the January shooting of a Portland man that has resulted in three local women charged with murder; a police shooting that resulted in a fatality; and the death of a three-month old from acute methamphetamine intoxication that now has his parents both facing trial for neglect of a dependent resulting in death.
In Jay County, events like this are typically rare. Any one of them in a single year would shake our community. We’ve experienced all of those in the last 12 months.
We often hear the phrase, “those kind of things don’t happen here.” But they do. Not as often as in other places, but they still happen.
This week, as we mourn three more lives cut short, let us be reminded that nothing is guaranteed, that even in small-town America tragedy can strike, that we never know when we’re sharing that last conversation, laugh or hug with someone we hold dear.
Let it be a reminder to us to cherish those moments.
And let us reach out to those loved ones who remain, to offer a helping hand or a shoulder to cry on.
During difficult times, even just a moment of comfort can help give the strength to carry on. — R.C.
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