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Church service leaves positive impression
Dear Editor, What a lovely way to spend an evening! This was my response to the Sunday evening service on May 5 at the First Church of God in Point Pleasant. The church hosted its own youth group of high school students who presented a moving musical program using bamboo-like wooden sticks to tell their story. Their first presentation depicted the birth of Jesus, His growth into manhood, the brutality of the Roman soldiers and finally His...
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Reader appreciates recent memorial service
Dear Editor, I would like to give a rose to Sheriff Greg Powers and the Mason County Sheriff’s Department for the very moving and much overdue memorial service at the Courthouse on Wednesday, May 15. Several other law enforcement agencies were present and participated, as were some of the officers who were injured in the 1976 explosion. As Craig Tatterson, prosecuting attorney, said in the opening statement of the ceremony, most of us c...
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Dear Editor, Oddly enough, all those “
Dear Editor, Oddly enough, all those “grant monies” that Main Street Point Pleasant now has to offer businesses on Main Street, puzzles me, to say the least. Most of the building owners can afford to fix their “building fronts” themselves. The sad few businesses we have on Main Street are rented properties, so I can’t help but wonder, who are the benefactors? Some of the people on the Board own these very buildings. This is identical to the...
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Reader shakes head at power of NRA
Dear Editor, Like The National Rifle Association, many parts of the entertainment industry and the legislative body are driven by money and power. It does not seem to matter in these modern times the damage all are causing on our civilization. The long arms of the NRA are more powerful than the Presidency, 90 percent of the American people and those leaders in Washington that want sensible gun control. It seems the government is no longer...
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Lessons learned from Willow Island?
Dear Editor, Exactly 35 years ago this week, West Virginia suffered the largest construction accident in American history when 51 lives were lost in a scaffolding collapse at the Willow Island power plant north of Parkersburg. The loss of these fathers, sons and brothers is compounded by the fact it was a totally preventable tragedy caused by unsafe working conditions. These men should still be celebrating anniversaries with their wives and...
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Reader sets facts straight about Korean War
Dear Editor, We hear and see on TV and read in the newspapers about how North Korea is giving us big problems about attacking us and other countries like Japan. This should never have happened because in 1952 Japan wanted to send troops to South Korea to help the United States and other U.N countries to stop the war, but the United States didn’t want them to help in the fighting in Korea against North Korea and Red China. I was in Korea a...
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Reader: Why is Cadle against workplace safety?
Dear Editor, Why is Delegate Scott Cadle opposed to workplace safety? A recent effort to improve construction worker safety on state projects was recently defeated at the West Virginia Legislature. The bill would simply require all workers on public projects to complete an OSHA 10-hour safety course to familiarize his/her knowledge of construction hazards. This training is highly popular throughout the private sector. So why wouldn’t certai...
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