To the editor:
When I saw the faces of my friends Butch and Jan on the front page of the paper this morning I wanted to put a large, boldface "NO!" between them. I am so sad to see they are retiring. I visit Choctaw Station frequently to mail packages to my internet customers and have so enjoyed doing business at this location. Often they are asking an elderly customer how a spouse is getting on ... or relating a quick story about a childhood friend.
If you ask Butch how he's doing, his frequent reply is: "He let me get up this morning!"
Both Jan and Butch are friendly, helpful and a lot of fun. To quote an article by Tony Campolo: "Will you leave behind just a newspaper column telling people how important you were, or will you leave crying people who give testimonies of how they've lost the best friend they ever had? ...Titles are good things to have. But if it ever comes down to a choice between a title or a testimony -- go for the testimony."
Both Butch and Jan go above and beyond in helping their customers. They are examples of government employees who really care and want to do the best job possible. I will miss them as I know many others will!
And that is a TESTIMONY to two great people!
— Melinda Gholson
Laurel
Letters to the Editor
Retiring postal workers will be sadly missed
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Letter to the editor: Poor Planning
Just one year ago a killing tornado flattened a great portion of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Many families in this stricken area still don’t have a place to live or call home.
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- Reader disagrees with assessment of Tebow
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Donations requested for local kidney patient
To the Editor:
Mrs. Herticine Parkman is a kidney patient who has been battling with kidney failure for quite some time. Most of us have been blessed with the wealth of our health. With that being said we are asking for donations to help Mrs. Parkman with this process which has been very costly. -
Letter to the editor: Sheriff Hodge opposes early release of murderer
Please note my complete and total opposition to the early release of convicted murderer James Pugh who has an upcoming parole hearing before your Board.
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DAFS says thanks for your support
To the editor:
On behalf of the clients, staff and board of the Domestic Abuse Family Shelter, Inc., I want to thank all of you who have supported us throughout this past year. - Which side is Palazzo on?
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Constituent not happy with Palazzo
To the editor:
A year ago we replaced Congressman Gene Taylor because he had thrown in with the liberal Democrats and Speaker Pelosi and was voting with them most of the time. We elected Steven Palazzo to replace him because he was the only one running against Taylor and we were hoping he would do a better job. -
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.
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Athletics ‘dumbing down’ civilization
To the editor:
We can but muse about the reported $254 million dollar contract recently awarded a professional baseball player! Contracts in excess of $100 million have seemingly become routine in all of professional athletics: football, basketball, golf and who knows what else these days. We are told “these amounts (being paid to what can best be labeled ‘a discretionary workforce within our society’) are actually well within what the market will bear” — just mostly from dollars generated by television networks out of advertising accounts. - More Letters to the Editor Headlines
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Letter to the editor: Poor Planning
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