Hotline

Under arrest
I am calling in reference to the gentleman that wrote from Independence about the drug arrest report feature. I think it is one of the best things the newspaper has done. I wish they would go one better and put their addresses in also because I like to know who is around my neighborhood doing some of these things.

Student loans
Now these Republicans are trying to go up on student loans. You can’t even get an education in this country anymore for the Republican Party.

Finding help
My car broke down Tuesday morning on Pipers Gap Road. Lots of cars went right on by. I don’t remember any names, but three vehicles stopped to help me and go make calls, since I was in a no-signal spot. They got the tow truck to me. One couple even came to the garage in Fancy Gap to see for sure I had made it okay. You know who you are, with the baby goats. Thank you all so much. God bless you all and I pray you will have help when you need it someday.

Speak for yourself

Incredibly silly
This is in response to the lady that wanted the Town of Hillsville to put an ordinance against jake brakes for truck drivers. We really don’t have many truck drivers in town unless there is a tragedy on Interstate 77. You know there are so many things in this world that we could all be worried about and that just seems incredibly silly to me. I wish all drivers — independent, company drivers — would stop just for one week. They would be begging to hear a truck driver’s jake brake. Thank you for the Hotline.

Neighborly deeds
I would like to thank my good neighbors in Grayson County for helping me out during the snows we had in January and again in April. One gentleman picked me up in the national forest on Route 21 when my truck wouldn’t go any farther, carrying me all the way home. Second gentleman driving his farm tractor there on Spring Valley Road towed my little old blue truck to the top of the mountain so I could make it the rest of the way home. Thanks again to the security guard in the little blue truck.