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Letters for July 3, 2009
Thanks For San Leon Cemetery Support
As president of the San Leon Cemetery Committee, I extend the committee’s heartfelt thanks to all of the supporters from San Leon and surrounding communities at our annual fish-fry fundraiser. They made the benefit a huge success.
We also extend our thanks to all those who helped so graciously at the benefit — the cooks, servers, those who sold raffle tickets and 50/50s, the auctioneer, the band and our families, without whose help every year we’d not be able to keep up the pace.
We cannot express enough gratitude toward the Captain Roy and Kathy Casper for all they’ve done throughout the year to help beautify the cemetery and letting us hold the benefit on their property.
We had second thoughts about holding our benefit this year as Hurricane Ike had put a damper on so many of our lives in the community. In the end, we decided to go ahead with the fish fry and, like so many other times in the past, everyone pulled together and everyone had a good time, enjoyed the good food and made memories for our continuing future here in San Leon!
Jerry Berard
San Leon
Turn Trees To Art For A Beautiful City Future
In regard to the story “City offering free dead tree removal” (The Daily News, June 26): An alternative idea for the dead trees in Galveston could be the start of beautiful artwork.
Large wood carvings from eligible trees would be not only beautiful but unique.
That’s what happened in Ocean Springs, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina.
I hope this idea will be considered for our beautiful island.
Ann Mutschler
Galveston
Art Is A Better Idea For Trees Than Chopping
Whoever is in charge of the tree-removal project on Broadway in Galveston should visit Biloxi, Miss., and see the beautiful art created there from the live oak trees killed by Hurricane Katrina.
With the art community in Galveston, I’m sure we can somehow come up with a better idea then just chopping up the trees.
Marty Yates
Galveston
Depravity Predates No-Prayer Schools
In his letter “Sinful effect of taking prayer out of schools” (Daily News, June 11), Kenneth Maness postulated that all manner of evils prevalent in this country for the past half-century are directly attributable to the removal of prayer from schools in the early 1960s.
Disregarding the fact that most of the evils he cited were at least as rampant before that time, to what does Maness attribute the evils peculiar to the preceding half-century?
A partial list includes the gangster era, segregation, lynchings, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party, Leopold and Loeb, Orville Faubus, Charles Starkweather, flappers, bootleggers, over-the-counter opiates and the invention and proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Following Maness’ line of reasoning, because we had prayer in schools then, all this earlier depravity must have been sanctioned by our Heavenly Father. Amen.
Dan Braverman
Galveston
Report All The News, Deaths Or No Deaths
In her statement that reporting a fatal accident was more important than reporting two major accidents that needed Life Flight (“Daily News has right wreck reports policy,” The Daily News, June 26), Tamara Beene cited a Friendswood accident that occurred a day or two after those I was speaking about in my letter “Daily News wrong to omit island wrecks” (The Daily News, June 23).
Just because a death occurred in one incident does not mean that any other major accident that occurred is not important.
I’d like to know how the 13-year-old girl who broke her leg and had head trauma is doing.
Did she die? I don’t know. Her accident apparently wasn’t worthy enough of the news, but I am sure it was to her family.
As for Friendswood not being part of Houston, it may be in Galveston County but my relative’s address is Houston, and she lives in Friendswood. Big deal.
All important news needs to be reported.
Linette Devoe
Galveston
Our Health Insurance Needs A Public Option
To quote Marie Casey of the Seattle Democrat Examiner: “The public health-insurance option is gaining support in Congress and is backed by the president. If enacted, the plan would create a new, high-quality public health-insurance option. If consumers are able to choose, the for-profit insurers will have to offer higher-quality care for lower prices to compete. It would provide all of us with the security we need. The public health-insurance option will always be there for Americans who lose their insurance.”
Our nation’s paucity of good health-insurance coverage is a direct result of the exorbitant costs of private health-care insurance. Those businesses that have made the effort to provide coverage for their employees are being drained with the costs; they cannot compete viably in the marketplace.
We must have an alternative means of providing health care for our citizens. It is preferable to have government-managed health care than the insurance-company-managed dis-ease care we now have. At least the government is accountable to all the citizenry, rather than the elite insurance-company stockholders.
Carolyn Battle
Galveston
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