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Memo
to the Fire Chief
By SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
To: Peachtree City
Fire Department Chief Stony Lohr
Malpractice
costs run off another Georgia doctor
By JUSTIN BEVERLY
M.D., Pediatrics
Peachtree City, Ga.
I read with interest
a recent news release to The Citizen newspaper concerning medical malpractice
insurance. I would like to respond with a real life example of the current
malpractice crisis and how it personally affects local citizens.
Destruction
of marriage precedes death of a culture, history shows
By the Rev. LOUIS P. SHELDON
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
In his 1979 book,
“Our Dance Has Turned To Death,” Christian sociologist Carl
W. Wilson outlined the dangers facing traditional marriage and the family
in America’s increasingly sexualized culture. Wilson could clearly
see what was going to happen to the American family if our society continued
to be sex-saturated.
- LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
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- Ignorance,
prejudice joined in vile column
I thought your
editorial, which tried to juxtapose discriminating “good taste”
with the immoral ugliness of discriminating against human beings who
discover they are homosexual, was one of the vilest pieces I have
ever read. Trying to use the Bible to justify your own prejudice was
most un-Christian.
Constitutional
change rooted in fear and hate
Senate Resolution
595 should outrage everyone, gay or straight. Hate derives itself from
fear, and politicians feed on that fear. That is exactly what is happening
in Georgia and around the nation at this very moment.
Crumpton’s
sign battle recalls Fayette preacher
This was so bizarre
when my wife called me this morning to tell me of the Fayetteville City
Council attempting to ban the “God Bless America” banner at
Crumpton’s. She heard the story on Fox News Network.
Sign
controversy shows city’s anti-business bias
I agree with Robert
Horgan in response to Fayetteville’s sign ordinance. I am a disabled
person who grew tired of not having enough money to pay my bills because
of the amount of disability money I receive each month.
Get
a life, F’ville officials
Haven’t the
people in your town and the city council better things to do? I would
like to see some idiot come to my private property in California and
tell me to take my “for sale” sign down, or my manger display
on Christmas, or my “God Bless America” sign.
We
need a bigger banner
The city needs to
find another issue to focus on. How about helping these good and generous
people get a bigger banner to fly? Or we could pay for the right size
to get the city off their backs; put up the smaller one on the store
and put the big one inside a school or church where it doesn’t
have to meet ordinance requirements.
Make
banner into 3 signs . . .
I saw the Crumpton
brothers on TV. God bless them. We need more people like them in this
country. When I was growing up (in the 1950s), there WERE more people
like them.
.
. . Or just cut it into 50 pieces ...
Well, this is just
too much. So tell Crumptons to cut it into 50 square foot pieces, and
hang them all together. That goofy ordinance doesn’t say how MANY
signs you can have, right?
.
. . Or paint it onto building
It seems to me that
a simple solution would be for for the Crumptons to paint the “God
Bless America” message on the store itself. Unless this is a physical
impossibility for some reason, I can’t see any problems with it.
OK
for breast but not sign?
I think your mayor
and city manager are the height of stupidity and are insulting our troops
in Iraq and most decent, patriotic Americans. Isn’t it wonderful
that it’s OK to expose your breast on national TV, but it is not
OK to mention God or patriotism.
Store
should follow the rules
To me this should
not be an issue. It doesn’t matter what the banner says. The fact
is that Crumpton’s Furniture is in violation of city ordinance
Chapter 6 Section 6-8.
Great
to be taking a stand
Thank God, someone
is listening and getting behind this furniture store to take a stand
for Americans. I hope in some small measure the e-mails received did
their part too.
God
bless the Crumptons
For a sign to be
up 28 months, now the city wants it down, wow, the whole country is
watching. The city council has the power to make an exception.
Leave
the sign alone, F’ville
Leave the sign alone.
God needs to bless America and America needs blessing. Thank you very
much.
Can’t
believe happening here
I was so upset when
I watched the news about your banner, and the thought of a court fine
made me angry. I told a cousin what was happening here in her old home
state of Georgia. She was also angry enough to find the article on the
Internet and write you.
Aren’t
there bigger issues?
Both my husband
I think the idea of taking down the sign is ridiculous. Ordinance smordinance!
Paper
wrong about sponsors
This correspondence
is in reference to your article of Jan. 30, 2004, entitled “Two
sponsors cut ties with amphitheater,” which contains at least two
false statements and is generally misleading in its inference.
What
was that strange noise in PTC?
I live on the north
side of Peachtree City. At 4 a.m. [Sunday] morning, what sounded like
a tornado siren went off for about 10 minutes.
Careful
about slinging racist label about
I am writing in
response to the letter from Larry Foster to the editor [“Reader:
Lynch-ed by column about schools,” The Citizen, Jan. 28, 2004].
Coach
change sends bad message
I am a former Fayette
County student (from Brooks to Whitewater to Fayette High) who graduated
in 1998. I was reading The Citizen this morning (2/11/04) via the web
and came across an article about Coach Jill Collins being fired from
her coaching position. I played basketball and softball at Fayette High
and basketball at WMS. I have also known Coach Collins since the second
grade (she was the P.E. teacher at Brooks for many years).
PTC’s
Field of Hope deserves city funds
Just when I think
my Peachtree City officials cannot embarrass me more, bless their pointy
little heads, they come up with something new. I cannot believe the
controversy over the $15,000 for fencing for the Field of Hope.
Space
money will benefit earthlings
After years of neglect
and ill-defined objectives, the Bush administration has finally announced
a new NASA initiative for human exploration of the moon and Mars. Mr.
Watkins of the The Simple Society Alliance for Human Empowerment stated
his objections to this program in a letter to the editor.
Sandy
Creek teacher: Ga.’s new history curriculum far from best
The Atlanta Journal
& Constitution recently reported, “During an hourlong discussion,
the state board [of education] put together a public statement that
calls for all areas of the state’s new curriculum to be world-class,
beginning with the full inclusion of the recognized national standards
in each curriculum area.”
McIntosh
H.S. senior: Children won’t understand, teens will miss out
It has often been
said that those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it. The
generation of children that would be subject to this new, proposed state
curriculum will be tomorrow’s leaders. How will they be adequately
prepared to fulfill their positions as leaders if they do not have a
firm grasp on the history of the United States and the world?
Good
Black History program at WMS
Last week I had
the occasion to attend a motivational assembly at Whitewater Middle
School. This event was a kick-off for Black History Month and the presenter,
Mr. R. V. Brown, was excellent.
So,
a red light district in Fayetteville ...
What has happened
to the Fayetteville I had come to know and love? When I moved here 38
years ago, everyone knew everyone, knew their mother’s maiden name,
and which uncle not to mention because he was an alcoholic. Deals were
made with handshakes and you could enjoy going to church without the
latest board of deacons greeting you with their hands out. You could
stand in the middle of Main Street on a Saturday morning and not worry
about being run over.
Stop
using Bible to defend creationism
I read with amusement
as well as alarm the comments on my letter, “An Uneducated Educator
Dooms Students.” Here are a few responses to these comments.
‘Freedom
of ideas’ must guide teachers
My heart goes out
to Kathy Cox. Our prayers are with her to make the most beneficial decisions
for our children. It seems as if there are three issues with which she
is publicly contending at the time: the “evolution” issue,
the “bug” issue and the “history curriculum” issue.
Iraq
invasion defenders are ‘pompous twits’; Israel should have invaded
Pompous Twits
‘Military
brat’ deplores Iraq war, questions stories about Saddam’s lions
I recently read
a very propagandistic letter sent in by a soldier at Fort Bragg and
was shocked by certain statements. First, I would like to say that this
man’s tone implied that only people supporting the President and
his foolish actions are patriots (notice: I said imply).
Unhealthy
air from planes, trains, buses: Killing Fayette’s sacred cows
Recently Peachtree
City was included in a survey of the most livable cities in the United
States. Positive characteristics mentioned were decent schools, affordable
housing, a low crime rate and access to various cultural attractions.
Columnist
Epps lacks sensitivity, perspective
Father David Epps,
I have from time to time read your columns in [Friday’s] The Peachtree
Citizen, and generally just shook my head at your occasional display
of insensitivity. But after your attack on the content of the Super
Bowl half-time show, I felt the need to speak out.
Why
no outcry over county marshals?
I have been surprised
at how slow the outcry has been from the taxpayers over the latest attempt
by three of the county commissioners to turn the marshals into a county
police department, which could potentially cost the citizens millions
of dollars.
Why
not let out-of-county students attend?
Has anyone given
any thought as to whether the future of America is at stake? These are
children who are seeking an education, and there would seem to me that
there must be some sort of compromise that could be worked out.
Lots
of nonresidents at FCHS
My daughter is a
student at Fayette County High School and has told me many times how
many cars are in the parking lot with Clayton County tags.
Clayton
tags seen at local elementary
I read your recent
article on out-of-county students attending Fayette County schools with
great interest, as I have noticed a couple of cars with Clayton tags
dropping and picking kids up at Sara Minter Elementary. Who in the school
board would I notify?
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