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Letters

  • Church helping families

    The volunteers at Asbury Thrift Shop would like to thank everyone for their support and donations during 2012.
    During the December clearance sale, we gave 580 pounds of potatoes to families in the community.
    We look forward to your continued support in 2013 as we attempt to be “the little church that strives to make a big difference in the community.”
    Karen Patton Poole
    Asbury United Methodist Church
    Galax
     

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  • Majority spoke in election

    Your letter writer (“Voters made mistake,” Dec. 17) described the re-election of President Obama as a “slap in God’s face” and the “most deadly decision in the history of the country.”
    Your writer accused the president of “treason. "Your writer, one of “God’s people [who] see the truth,” predicted that we would all die: “[there will be] no survivors.”
    After a hard-fought campaign, President Obama was reelected by a majority of Americans.

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  • Who is our Secret Santa?

    Approximately 40 gift bags were left at the Fries Recreation center for senior citizens who meet there on Monday and Wednesday mornings.
    Each bag contained three gifts that had been individually wrapped.
    No gift bag contained the same selection of gifts, which shows how much thought and time the giver spent selecting each item.
    We all were surprised and delighted with everything.

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  • Fix tax problem in Carroll

    There is a wrong in the Carroll County statutes that needs to be made right. Personal property tax is being levied on vehicles that are no longer registered or garaged in Carroll County.
    Those who move from Carroll County must pay personal property tax in their new county before their vehicles can be registered. Yet Carroll County levies the full year of tax on those same vehicles if they were registered in the county on Jan. 1.

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  • Voters made a mistake

    On Nov. 6, 2012, the people of the United States made the worst and most deadly decision in the history of the country.
    Our Founding Fathers based this country’s foundation on God’s word.
    Then the people put back in office a so-called Christian president, Obama. This was a complete slap in God’s face.
    The two strongest abominations were upheld. They are abortion, which is the murder of innocent children, and the backing of homosexuals.
    Do you think God is going to bless us now? Not by a long shot.

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  • Helping Backpack Buddies

    I would like to express my appreciation toward the wonderful mission of supplying food to less fortunate children that the Galax Backpack Buddies Program and that all Backpack Buddies Programs take on.
    My family and I volunteer with Galax Backpack Buddies so I get to witness firsthand the efforts put on by the numerous volunteers each week.
    Volunteers pack and deliver the backpacks to the Galax schools by hand.

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  • Angel Tree donors thanked

    On behalf of all the third-shift associates at the Galax Walmart Supercenter, I thank the following local businesses for contributions to help raise funds for this year’s Angel Tree project:
    Blue Ridge Lanes, Porky’s, County Line Café, Bojangle's, Rio Grande, RJ’s Pizza, Ciro’s of Galax, Tony’s Brick Oven Pizza, Stingray’s, Pizza Plus, Arby’s, Jasper Lures, plus many individual gifts.
    With this support we were able to sponsor six angels as opposed to the four we normally help.
    Herb VanOver

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  • Letters from Boy Scout Troop 188

    The following letters were submitted by Boy Scouts with Troop 188 in Galax:

    Bland lunches are wasted

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  • Conflict questions still unanswered

    The Carroll County administrator’s response to Supervisor Bob Martin’s effort to end the conflict of interest controversy was disturbing.
    Little things, like Mr. Larrowe referring to events as recent as 2010 as occurring “many, many years ago.”
    And big things, like his statement: “I… hate that some people have jumped off the team, and that is disappointing to me, Mr. Martin.”
    What “team” did he mean — the Larrowe support team?

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  • Fox penning a barbaric sport

    I find it unbelievable that there is still any debate over whether releasing packs of dogs on captive wildlife is an acceptable hobby for some in Virginia.
    The answer is an incontestable no.
    There is no fairness in the practice of fox penning.  Live trapping of foxes in all corners of the state, trucking them miles from their familiar habitat, and putting them in fenced enclosures to run for their lives is anything but fair. 

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