Letters To The Editor

Salvation Army

thanks community

To the editor: The Salvation Army Elmore unit thanks the Elmore Kiwanis, Key Club and all the volunteers for faithfully ringing the bells for our collection kettles.

A total of $1,821 was collected from the Elmore community.

A special thanks to all who donated money and bought gifts from the Angel Trees at the libraries in Woodville and Elmore.

This year we served 24 families and 70 children.

Thanks to Sharon and her helpers for organizing all the gifts and getting them ready for delivery.

Janice Netcher

Treasurer

Who is pro life?

To the editor: I am sick of the phony moralists of the so-called pro life movement who pretend morality.

The Republican Party is the party of death. It has been said pro lifers concern for life ends with birth and rightly so.

Republicans have long opposed health care, leading to thousands of deaths for the poor. Republicans have long opposed Obamacare and would prefer people to die without getting needed surgeries or treatments. Republicans support wild theories about immunity shots and others.

Our partisan Supreme Court has ruled against EPA regulations, which will result in thousands of deaths from cancer and lung disease.

Republicans have encouraged the widespread use of guns, resulting in thousands of deaths of men, women, and children.

Pro life my fanny.

Albert Kapustar

Oregon

Sports and

TV selling

To the editor: When it comes to modern day sporting events on TV, today’s so called marketing professionals have downgraded the great parts of the actual games themselves.

Ad men have extended the length of all games for the benefit of selling products not associated with the sport itself. The money hungry, big-time networks have more interest in money making and selling everything than they do the games they are airing.

In years past, the ads on TV were shown at the beginning of the game, during timeouts, the 15 minute break, the half hour break, the 45 minute break, the one-hour break and so on until the end of the game.

Not anymore, America.

We are bombarded from start to finish of all TV sporting events. The stations add about 30 TV minutes to every game, which completely disrupts the entire game. This unwanted marketing ploy is irritating.

My old sports watching friends and I have made a rule amongst ourselves to not buy any products shown during game times ever. We all took a vow to boycott all interruptive products.

You have all ruined a great American tradition. Nothing in TV sports is holy anymore.

They also have another money making trick. Throughout the football season, they air league games on regular TV stations, and we become school fans. Then the money hungry leaders change their rules.

No more playoffs or bowl games on regular TV stations from now on. All games are on ESPN and regular fans have to pay or not watch. Thank you all so much. We older people on Social Security income are shut out.

Well, OK keep your darn football. Remember when your days are over, so is your money. I hope you all remember what you – yes you – did to all of us old-timers.

Larry Erard

Walbridge