To the editor: Let me get this straight. There is a senate committee looking at 50,000 pages of documents from Toyota, yet the whole Senate couldn’t read a 2,000-page health care bill!
Rufus Wallace
Millbury

Is it OK?
To the editor: In response to Lisa Grunden’s letter about owning two cats who have both been shot, I’m forced to wonder: why on earth would anyone think that it’s OK to treat some species well but do horrible things to others? And why would anyone think that it’s OK to shoot cats? Do you really think that God is OK with that?
Kelly Meister
Walbridge

Hard to comprehend
To the editor: There are times in life when it is hard to comprehend what just happened. Saturday morning I was meeting friends for breakfast at a local Elmore restaurant, when Willis Tasch came up to talk to me. We had a nice conversation for he is always a joy to talk to. Later on, I heard he had passed away, but how could that be?

He will certainly be missed around Elmore and at the Elmore and Genoa senior centers. He was a doer and never sought recognition for what he did. Willis was always smiling, had a cheery hello and did so much to help out at the senior centers.

Willis could make a cloudy day into a day of sunshine. He will truly be missed.
Betty Marlow Miller
Elmore

Light needed
To the editor: I witnessed yet another accident on Navarre Avenue in front of the Kroger store yesterday. Am I the only one who wonders why there is no traffic light in front of Kroger, arguably the busiest plaza on Navarre, but we have a pointless traffic light in front of the abandoned Food Town store? Are there that many cars in and out of Ralphie’s?
Michele Mackey
Oregon

Use it, don’t save it
To the editor: In 90 years, politicians and paid thinkers haven’t figured out that daylight savings time is costing society billions of dollars in wasted energy to light and heat the night – not to mention the pollution.

In 1917, steamships and trains ran on coal; planes and cars were new inventions; energy, environment and pollution were just words for future generations to think about.

Daylight savings time’s sole purpose was to give people an extra hour of daylight to play in by getting up an hour earlier. Today, it puts our kids on cold dark streets in winter and on the streets in summer at 10 p.m. It costs people billions in wasted energy and is polluting our environment.

My thinking congressman said daylight savings time lets people, especially school kids, get up an hour later in daylight, instead of the dark. I said, what? It is exactly the opposite. Come out of the ice age and use your hat racks.

We need to abandon daylight savings time for the sake of costs, the environment and especially for the kids.

In 2010, we can’t afford to heat and light the night in trade for free daylight. Use it – don’t save it.
Vincent Yancey
Curtice

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