May 23, 2013
Opinion - Letters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: CLERGY URGES PERRY TO THINK ABOUT WOMEN
Dear WRLW: Fifty-seven clergy members from across the state, representing a variety of faiths and denominations, sent an open letter to Governor Perry today calling on him to make the health and welfare of Texas’ most vulnerable women a priority over politics. Following the Governor’s move to eliminate the 90 percent federally-funded Women’s Health Program, over 130,000 low-income, uninsured women are at-risk of losing access to health care, i...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESPONDS
Dear Editor: It’s disappointing that a program originally passed by the Texas legislature with bi-partisan support and put into effect by the administration of President George W. Bush, is now coming to an end because of the political gamesmanship of Governor Rick Perry. More than 130,000 of the most vulnerable women in Texas are now being cut off from important reproductive health care, cancer screenings, and well women check-ups just so th...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: SHARING GARDENS
Dear WRLW: Recently, the Zale Foundation awarded us a small grant to pilot a backyard vegetable garden program for low income households. Board member Adrienne Cortez is leading our efforts to solicit applications from qualified neighbors throughout East Dallas and Dallas County (Shared FUEL's service area). We have extended our application deadline until April 15 and applications can be downloaded from Shared FUEL's website at: sharedfuel.or...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
Dear Nancy, I enjoyed very much reading your take on the bikers in our community (Vol. 3, No. 39 - Can't we all just get along?). I am a biker in our immediate area of the lake, as well as a resident. I have several times been perplexed and frustrated with bikers who seem to group up and take over the road, even against lone bikers. Not to mention, some race by you on the walking trail, and leave you to feel like you just lost your right or le...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: HELP END HUNGER
To the Editor: There are seniors living alone and going hungry in our own neighborhoods. Many elderly lack sufficient resources for nutritious daily meals. Illness, disability and the frailties of old age also prevent many from shopping for food and preparing their own meals. Texas ranks as one of the top five states at highest risk for hunger among the elderly according the Meals On Wheels Association of America. Senior hunger is a proble...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: STAR OF HOPE FOR OM ROBERTS
Dear WRLW: As you know, council approved DISD's request to rebuild O.M. Roberts Elementary, even though the Dallas ISD board voted to close it. But there is good news to report. As our battle against DISD progressed, two and 1/2 years later and after losing our newly renovated historical O.M. Roberts and many hours of demonstrating, reaching out to elected officials and suffering the injustice of disrespect, destruction and encroachment into ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: WHITE ROCK ART PROJECT
Dear WRLW: I attended a meeting at The Bath House Cultural Center about the proposed White Rock Lake Spillway sculpture, and I need to comment on the piece presented there. I was pleased that Brower Hatcher, a sculptor of international renown, was selected. His other public artworks compliment each city project he represented, and I was surprised, as was much of the audience, about the piece that was selected for White Rock Lake. The static v...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: SAD REVIEW
Dear Editor: I was saddened by the review of "A Separation" by Dr. Cedric Wood. It fails to look at the worldview displayed in the movie. We are risking war with Iran; we have just removed ourselves from a costly and damaging war in its neighbor, Iraq, and are about to give up on a war in its neighbor, Afghanistan. Just as the couples in the movie engage in destructive behavior, so do many people in Iran, as well as many of us in America. I...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: BOYCOTT BACKLASH
To: Chief of Staff, Mayor of the City of Dallas, Ms. Blackmon cc: White Rock Lake Weekly I appreciate your return call last Friday. I hope the Mayor and staff understand the issues, which have faced the residents and the park system during the last 20 plus years on the eastern shore of White Rock Lake. The occurrence of the boycott announcement was not a one-time utterance; that it happened multiple times before I heard it is even more concer...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: BOYCOTT BACKLASH
To: Chief of Staff, Mayor of the City of Dallas, Ms. Blackmon cc: White Rock Lake Weekly I appreciate your return call last Friday. I hope the Mayor and staff understand the issues, which have faced the residents and the park system during the last 20 plus years on the eastern shore of White Rock Lake. The occurrence of the boycott announcement was not a one-time utterance; that it happened multiple times before I heard it is even more concer...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: IRISH DANCING
Dear WRLW: How nice it is to see articles that applaud local White Rock Lake neighbors. I loved the article about "Riverdance." It is such a wonderful show, and lets the audience drink in several different forms of performing arts. The major draw of "Riverdance" is obviously the Irish Dancing, in which the entire White Rock Lake community can participate. Maguire Academy of Irish Dance (maguireacademy.com) is located in the heart of White ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: TAX HELP FOR THE ELDERLY!
Dear WRLW: I wanted to let your reader who wrote in about help for the elderly with tax returns (Vol. 3, N. 33, "Tax help for the elderly?") know that Lakeside Baptist Church does free tax preps for the elderly on Tuesdays in the family center starting at 9 a.m. The church is located at 9150 Garland Road. Please call 214-324-1425 for more information. Sincerely, Jo Editor's Note: Another reader suggested Mr. Franco contact the nearest Public L...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: TAX HELP FOR THE ELDERLY?
Dear WRLW: I would like to see if there is any community service that offers tax help for the elderly. Thank for your help. Sincerely, E. Franco We love to hear from our readers. Please write to us at P. O. Box 180457 Dallas, TX, 75218 Or call us at 214-373-2111.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: NO POLITICS, PLEASE
Dear WRLW: I enjoy your paper and believe it's good for our community. However, last night as I was reading the Meet Your Neighbor story, I was surprised and a bit angered to see politics inserted into the middle of it. If I want to read a political slant, I can go to the letters section at the DMN or any number of sites online. I read your paper for news and events in our neighborhood; I read your paper for relief! Someone missed the boat on ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: RUN TO THE TRASH
Dear Nancy: Having recently moved to Dallas from Kaua'i, I immediately joined For the Love of the Lake and began doing their regular clean ups as well as my own unscheduled ones. This January "clean up," my partner and I gathered three blue bags of recyclables and two black bags of trash while enjoying the beauty of the lake, the ducks, geese, cormorants, pelicans, etc. and of course the runners in a race taking place while we were cleaning. U...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: GARLAND ROAD BOYCOTT?
To WRLW: This morning, Sat., Jan, 28, at approximately 8:30 a.m., the announcer at the Mellew Productions/Run On The Texas Half at Winfrey Point at White Rock Lake in Dallas clearly called for a boycott of Garland Road businesses. Apparently, the businesses along Garland Road have asked that commercial operations at White Rock Lake not park on their premises, and race promoters are clearly angry enough to ask for a public boycott. The anno...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: KUDOS TO SHARI
To the editor, owner, and anyone else who might read this or be interested: Shari Stern did an article with two pictures that ran on the front page about my new company, Silver Star Fitness, and some of the people I've been fortunate to help. It ran the last week of December. Shari was very thorough in all her research and most professional in her dealings with me and my clients she interviewed. The article was wonderfully done; I had many com...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: PLAYGROUND FENCE NEEDED
Dear WRLW: The Lake Park Estates community and others in the surrounding area appreciate the near completion of the new playground at Lake Highlands Park at the corner of Buckner and Lake Highlands Roads. The site awaits a permanent fence between the soccer field and the playground and upgrades to the portable toilets. Just one other feature is missing: a fence between the play area and a steep ravine. Prevention is always the prudent course...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Praying for Parkland
Dear Friends in the Dallas Faith Community: I’m writing today to invite your participation in a simple gesture to strengthen our community in a way that unites us across lines of faith, race, gender, politics and ZIP codes. This is an idea that requires no expenditure of money and no organization of committees or study groups. Would you and your congregants join us in a Day of Prayer for Parkland Hospital? This may be an audacious goal, but ...
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Letter from the Editor: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
First published in The New York Sun on September 21, 1897 Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared wi...
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