A true story
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A true story
A number of years ago, I was in my garage, hanging up a nice five-point buck, mule deer. It was hanging, hind legs up and head down near the floor. I was cleaning it up a little before taking it to the butcher to cut and wrap.
The garage door was open. A small neighbor girl came up to the door, with her dolly in her arms. She looked at the head first, then she looked up at me and said, “Santa sure is going to be mad at you.”
Lyle Chambers
Silver Lake
A Christmas thank you
I need to thank each and everyone who helped me over this last year while I was homeless. I was the woman in the wheelchair, who sat down on the corner of Seventh and Washington streets in west Kelso.
I want to let you all know I got my Social Security disability now and I have a nice warm place to lay my head at night.
Thank you to the woman who works in the bank behind where I sat. She brought me a sleeping bag to keep me warm. She had been homeless once also. God bless you. Merry Christmas to all who stopped and offered me what you could to help me, even if it was a kind word.
To all my old coworkers at PSA, I want to thank you for giving me a nice warm place to lay my head at Christmas last year. I cried when I laid my head down on that warm bed that night. I miss you all and I will be stopping by and bringing you some goodies for Christmas. I wish I was still able to work with you all — you are all a great bunch of people to work with.
Sue Morrow
Kelso
An alternative greeting
Since Christmas has become for most, as a recent letter to The Daily News concluded, no more than a celebration of Santa Claus, I have a suggestion for the diehards.
Instead of your old familiar refrain Merry Christmas, try this:
Have a joyful Winter Solstice and a gratifying Year Nine of the Second Millennium.
Lester H. Hayes
Longview
FDR saved capitalism
People know that FDR said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” but from the same speech is another line: “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.”
If you were unemployed, unskilled and had a family, you worked directly for the government with the Works Progress Administration. The WPA built 650,000 miles of roads, 78,000 bridges, 800 airports, 3,000 sewer treatment plants and 125,000 buildings, including Timberline Lodge, Catlin Pool and Longview’s football stadium. The WPA invented the school lunch program and had at least one project in every American county.
The purpose was not to rebuild infrastructure, which it also did, but to maintain the morale of the American worker, feed families and hold them together, prevent crime and anarchy and get people off their rumps.
The very conservative William Buckley said Roosevelt preserved capitalism. If Obama put 8 million people to work, as FDR did, a second WPA could make this nation mostly solar-powered within 10 years.
L.S. Wagle
Longview
A Christian message
I am writing in reference of the Christian message.
I grew up in the ’20s and ’30s, being raised in a Protestant church with a good Bible message. Wake up out there, all you faithless agnostic unbelievers. Proverbs says “The fool says there is no God. That does not make it so.”
Look around you. There is everywhere evidence of a creator. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. God called the firmament heaven and the dry land he called earth.
The disciples of Jesus knew him personally because they lived with him about three years. Souls conversion and calling to a new life came directly from Jesus by a great light from heaven that blinded him. He wrote and bore testimony for several years to some of the latter books in the New Testament. My own testimony, the new birth now for a lot of years, thank God. Redemption is the message to we mortals. Please accept it.
Floyd W. Bales
Kalama
Human error?
In regard to Dave Coons’ letter Dec. 15, Bible scholars have pointed out differences in the Bible.
Coons says Jesus was crucified on Passover (John 19:14) — the day before it was eaten. Not Passover.
Luke 2:39 has Mary and Joseph returned to Nazareth just over a month after they came to Bethlehem. Matthew second chapter says nothing of returning to Nazareth. Bethlehem was their home and they fled to Egypt — Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph (John 1:45).
Mark’s gospel is considered the oldest and most reliable by Bible scholars. Jesus had a family (Mark 3:20-21).
The books of the Bible were written by people and it is the differences that make it impossible to believe.
Ray Hepler
Castle Rock
Pampered pooches
After reading your (Dec. 16) article about the California dog owner building a house for her pets, my first thought was what in the #$%* is this article doing in our local paper.
With so many Americans homeless, without jobs, and trying just to survive day to day, it makes no sense to me why your paper would glorify this story. I’m sure most readers would find this insulting. Your editors should be ashamed of themselves.
Howard Woodruff
Rainier
Work is appreciated
I would like to say great job to the 911 dispatchers who were working the morning of Dec. 17 during the many calls of automobile accidents and other emergency needs. Thanks a lot for all the hard and dedicated work. It is greatly appreciated.
Dennis Gillogly
Castle Rock
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