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Letters

  • A caution about Facebook

    Sad but true. Fools’ names, like their faces, are always found in public places. Your satisfaction comes from your belief that you can deceive others as you’ve deceived yourself.
    This is accomplished by your relationship with handchosen friends with similar kind of thought as you.
    You are now able to enjoy the fiddler but realize that soon there will come a time that he must be paid. There are honorable methods of communicating with God that you have chosen to obey not.
    You are simply using Facebook to develop a friendship of the world.

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  • Animal shelter policies questioned

    So, let me get this straight. The animal shelter manager was unaware that the Humane Society was interested in a specific dog.
    This same dog that they promptly euthanized was pictured the weekend before in The Gazette. One would think that they would keep dogs that have been featured in the paper for as long as possible.
    The shelter claims it had to make space for seven dogs that were “supposedly” being turned in to the shelter. We need specific answers from the shelter manager.

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  • Discover Woodlawn School's history

    I would like for all local citizens to know about an extraordinary opportunity to enjoy the history of Woodlawn School.
    Because this is the last year for Woodlawn School to be in existence, it was appropriate for a former student and graduate of Woodlawn High School to delve into the  history of the school.
    Shirley Steele, class of 1959, has compiled a three-CD PowerPoint of pictures and information about Woodlawn School from1878 to 2013.

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  • Family thanks community

     The family of Audrey Hope Gillespie would like to extend heartfelt thanks for the kindness and generosity extended during Sunday’s [Feb. 3] benefit held at First Baptist Church in Galax. The response and attendance was very uplifting.
    To the many individuals, businesses, churches, musicians and volunteers who contributed, as well as the hundreds who attended, we say “thank you!”
    The family would especially like to extend gratitude to First Baptist Church of Galax for hosting the benefit.

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  • Changes needed at animal shelter

    I am an eighteen year resident of Carroll County. In those years my family has adopted three wonderful pets from the shelter in Galax.
    The high kill rate at the shelter has been a long time concern of mine. Happily, in the last year the kill rate has dropped. The local humane society has been able to take advantage of the new transfer policy now in place at the shelter. Many, many adoptable animals have found good homes thanks to that policy.

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  • Power outage or outrage?

    Todd Jennings’ Jan. 25 column about power outages was a corker, catching the sentiments of many of us.
    Appalachian Power is failing to hire contract crews to keep trees trimmed back from the pole-to-pole power lines, according to a neighbor of mine who works for a tree trimming service.
    On Jan. 25 I finally got through to an AEP outage man in West Virginia — they no longer have any local responders to these calls, he said — after getting nothing but 15-minute waits and then a bunch of static from the 800 number listed on my AEP bill.

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  • A message to politicians

    This is for politicians. You are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
    Have you ever wondered why, if both Democrats and Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
    Have you ever wondered why, if you all are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
    You don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. I don’t set the fiscal policy. Congress does.

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  • Obama no ally of Israel

    There is a saying, “There is none so blind as those who will not see.”
    These words are just what America has become.
    President Obama has sent millions of taxpayer dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt.
    He has now sent them 20 American fighter jets.
    I wonder why he wants to build up Muslim countries. It is not hard to figure out. They hate Israel and will attack it sooner or later.
    But isn’t Israel our ally?

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  • Opposed to wind power

    The writer made these remarks to the Carroll Board of Supervisors Jan. 14.

    The supervisors promised Carroll County residents a resolution concerning not allowing windmills in Carroll County.
    Last meeting, it was decided to table this matter. Rodger Jennings and I furnished information regarding our concerns with the windmills. I oppose construction of windmills anywhere in Carroll County.

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  • The high ground of morality

    My wife and I and another couple had a 10-year ritual of a Friday evening meal at a local eating establishment. We got to be good friends with the owners.
    I fondly recall those rendezvous, especially after losing my wife to extended illness this past spring.
    Another couple asked me to accompany them to this diner last week. One of the owners came over to greet us and informed me that Walter Bell died the previous week.

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