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Give
thanks for football — and community
By J.
FRANK LYNCH
jflynch@theCitizenNews.com
To the diehard fan
of high school football, the ultimate Thanksgiving thrill isn’t
knowing there’s an extra pan of dressing in the oven, it’s
knowing your team plays the next night.
Thanksgiving
in despair and joy
By SALLIE
SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
This has been an
extraordinary year. But we say that every year.
For
Thanksgiving, thank George
By Margaret
Kuhn
Media
relations manager, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate &
Gardens
Mount Vernon, Va.
— Americans don’t know it and children aren’t taught
it, but George Washington is responsible for our Thanksgiving holiday.
It was our first president who led the charge to make this day of thanks
a truly national event, not the Pilgrims and not Abraham Lincoln.
- LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Political
correctness rules with Avenue’s ‘Peace Tree’
The Avenue has demonstrated
its complete lack of moral courage by erecting a “Peace Tree”
in lieu of a Christmas tree. This, when the shopping center will benefit
immensely from the Christmas season, seems awfully ungrateful. No one
is going to The Avenue to buy presents to put under the Peace Tree,
after all.
Don’t
mess with the ‘Moose’
The story about
the “Moose” at Bugaboo Creek is, at first glance, a light-hearted
story about a statue of a moose, and some kidding around by some of
the Fayetteville City Council members. The reader will pass it off as
a human interest story with no possible effect on their daily lives.
I almost did.
Why
some faces are seen less than others in ‘Faces’
I would like to
thank those of you who have responded so positively to my series, “The
Faces That Built Fayette.” I enjoy all of your e-mails and encourage
all of you who are related to the long-time families of Fayette County
to continue writing me with your stories.
Reporter
left out ‘the other side’ in coach dismissal story
Unfortunately, the
reporter who reported on the situation at Whitewater Middle School did
not get the entire story. Obviously, no parents were interviewed, only
the principal and the Powers. The following facts were omitted from
the paper:
Tennant,
McMenamin: ‘We refuse to attend any meeting’ on Tourism Assoc
[Editor’s note:
The following letter was sent to Peachtree City Manager Bernard McMullen
just hours before the council meeting last week.]
Tourism
board: Will they help fix traffic problem?
I have lived in
Peachtree City for 30 years and have heard some hare-brained ideas floated
in that time. The dog park comes to mind as a recent example.
Avoid
F’ville after dark because of crime?
Losing freedom in
Fayetteville:
Judiciary
declares only atheism passes muster
Equating the current
idea of the “separation of church and state” with our founding
fathers is to rewrite history. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin,
Henry, on through the list, they consistently and publicly recognized
that religion should have a role to play in our nation’s leadership.
Bypass
just means more traffic
Just what Fayetteville
needs: More trees cut down and more pollution. Maybe they could develop
strip shopping centers all along the new road. How about another Eckerd
Drug store and a few more grocery stores.
Conservation
zoning doesn’t live up to billing
A new neighborhood
will soon be built in Fayette County under the new conservation zoning.
It conserves taxpayer’s money. It conserves the developer’s
money in a big way. It looks good on paper. What is it NOT good for?
The environment.
Why,
in Fayette this year, did observance of Veterans Day just about disappear?
It seems like Veterans
Day disappeared this year.
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