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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 08:00 |
Dear Editor,
Early Tuesday afternoon was a beautiful, just slightly cloudy day after a series of dark, rainy days. It seemed to be a perfect day for me to take my niece and nephew to Lake Miola outside of Paola to go swimming and play in the water. Their ages are 10 and 6, and they were very excited to go on our little outing. Unfortunately, their fun was ruined after only 45 minutes of swimming by the inappropriate behavior of other lake visitors.
The thing that has me the most appalled is the fact that the behavior was coming from the adults at the lake that day. The first occurrence happened when the two siblings were playing in the water with another brother and sister that they knew from school. The two women with these children were speaking so inappropriately that even I had to gasp at some of the phrases.
I quietly asked my niece and nephew to play on the other side of the swimming area and apologized that they would no longer be able to play with their young friends that day. Not even 10 minutes later, after the children had moved to another area, I looked up to check on them and saw an adult couple embracing each other in the water and necking and making out. This was only a few yards from where my niece and nephew were playing. Again, absolutely disgusted by the things that these children were being exposed to at a public lake, I stood and asked the kids to get out of the water.
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Written by Editorial Board
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:00 |
Miami County voters would be wise to renew the county’s quarter-cent sales tax when they head to the polls Aug. 3.
Paying more money in taxes for goods and services can be a tough pill to swallow, especially for Kansas consumers already facing a statewide 1 percent sales-tax increase, but the benefits of the quarter-cent sales tax program are too good to ignore.
The tax already has helped fund multiple road and bridge improvement projects throughout Miami County, and if it is renewed, the tax will help fund five more bridge repair projects spread throughout the county. No matter where you live in Miami County, odds are that one of these projects will benefit you during your routine travels.
Perhaps most importantly, though, the tax also gives the county a good chance to capture additional funding from the Kansas Department of Transportation to put toward the projects. During the past five years, the tax has generated about $5 million for projects, but it also helped the county get $5.2 million in federal highway grants.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 08:00 |
Dear Editor,
The Church of Christ of Fontana did an awesome job putting on the Fontana community picnic in City Park, complete with games and music.
Thanks for the hard work to all, with a special thanks to Joe Crooks and Greg Grant. I had a good time, even though my time was limited due to other commitments.
Darline Carter
Fontana Mayor
Dear Editor,
The Miami County AgriTourism Council has done a great job bringing concerned Miami County citizens and business owners together.
The AgriTourism Council wants to work with the County Commissioners to make Miami County more business friendly, increase improvements, and ultimately keep our taxes from going up.
The Council would like Miami County residents to join our efforts to grow OUR county. Make a difference, and share with us any obstacles that are holding you back from starting or growing your business, or any ideas that you might have to improve our county.
We need interested individuals to come to our next meeting, 6 p.m. July 13 at Casa Somerset. Call 557-9288 or e-mail
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We can choose not to join in the current recession, and use our natural resources to build businesses and create jobs. With so many large companies cutting back, now is the time to be your own entrepreneur.
Mike Hursey
Paola |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:00 |
Dear Editor,
I commend Sam Rourke on his article in the High School Reporter headlined “Halt Government Spending.”
Congress doesn’t seem to mind raising taxes to pay for its projects. They raise concern when they can spend a million dollars to get a hundred-thousand-dollar job. They have a job, and they are not on Social Security or other fixed income, although, they should be, and maybe they would leave it alone.
Thomas Jefferson said, “If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
Charles A. Beard said, “One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.”
Maybe there is still hope, with people like Sam.
Bill Davis
Paola
Dear Editor,
On your phone bill is a third party provider. Some companies are taking advantage of this by billing you services you have not ordered. One main one is ESBI –coming from Nevada? They say they will remove the charges and do not! They are usually under $100, so you aren’t willing to get an attorney to go after them.
On the Internet, go to ESBI and see all the complaints of people being scammed.
We need help to get this stopped. Some phone companies won’t block them.
This is my second month trying to get this charge off our bill.
Watch your phone bills. You may be next.
Lynne Lilleston
Paola |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:00 |
Yes, Virginia, there is a Shangri-la. I can’t give you a map to it or point to it when you arrive. But I can assure you Shangri-la is real. 
I know there is one because I just came from there. I could leave my doors unlocked and my keys in my car. Everyone returned my phone calls. Our neighbor had sheared down the underbrush in our treed quarter section as a surprise. Government bureaucrats filled out their own forms before I arrived and handed them to me completed. The bank promised to approve some checks that I had mistakenly written prior to transferring the necessary signatures. Without having given them a credit card number, businessmen delivered and installed products which I had ordered over the phone.
Even nature seemed blessed in Shangri-la. The creek babbled with fresh water. Baby calves blinked in contented wonderment. The sunrises splashed vibrant colors across the sky. Relaxed deer grazed on our lush lawn. Wild turkeys roosted in our mature trees. Birds chirped with delight.
How did I happen to step into this fairy tale universe?
My dad’s good name handed it to me. In the last year of his life, he lamented his ranch wasn’t large enough for five offspring. Each time, I reassured him that teaching us to be self-supporting trumped an empire, and that the only thing he really owed us was his good name.
With his passing and his good name firmly in hand, the doors swung open for us. Favors were offered, advice given, food extended. The good will everyone wanted to extend to him, they gave to us instead. The discord of the outside world seemed far, far away. There, in Shangri-la, we experienced joy, serenity, warmth.
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