Letters

We would like to say "thank you" to Charlie Wright and A-1 Paving for keeping the back roads clear and doing such a wonderful job!
The drifts and high winds kept them rolling, but they worked around the clock and even kept the driveways clear of snow at the beginning of them, best they could — especially Charlie.
Thanks, guys, for the long hours and hard work! We do appreciate it! Especially during Christmas.

Ronnie and Julie Bourne
Galax

Mount Rogers Community Extended Care and the Industrial and Developmental Center join together in thanking Proximity Lounge for its hospitality to our group recently.
This time last year we were devastated when Parrott Bay closed and our annual Christmas dance was scheduled the very next day. But Blue Ridge Country Club came to the rescue and we were able to pull it together (with their help) and Santa came right on time!

Our current economic plight creates a lot of questions, mainly: "Who is to blame?"
Perhaps the answer can be found at the enduring altar of the money changers and profiteers where gold is the deity to be revered, greed is the benediction, dominance is the credo and the covetous pray for "more, bigger, better, instant gratification. Too much ain't enough and make mine be the biggest."
Prime examples of this century's old mindset are Wall Street, big business, war profiteers and big government.

Like many others, I haven't been exactly front and center at the Grayson County Board of Supervisors’ meetings.
When there's a big issue, we pack the board room, sign up to speak and wait hours to ask questions that they decline to answer.
They know we will melt away as the heat dies down. But at the Nov. 30 tax protest meeting, we were standing-room only at the 1908 Courthouse, and I never before saw such a big mix of people — old-timers, farmers, move-ins and move-backs, old and young, some well-to-do and others barely getting by.