35-plus farmers
TO THE EDITOR: Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District would like to thank the more than 35 farmers who donated their hay, time, money and/or trucks to the Hay Drive.
The district, Farm Bureau and Cornell Cooperative Extension's Hay Drive was for the farmers devastated by severe flooding as a result of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in the southern part of New York state. Many farmers lost all their feed, bedding, homes, barns, livestock and crops.
The district would like to thank Choiniere Farms, Allen Miller, Anne Gaggin, Arnold Lobdell, Alan Lobdell, Ben Shader, Bobby Johnston, Bob Gleason, Brock Bartenslager, Dan Meier's Dairy, Daniel Beachy, David Moore, Dennis Eagan, Don and Janet Dana, Eillen May Smith, Elaine Tory, Eric Craig, Gerald Oakes Jr., Gerard Spinner, Greg Patterson, Harry Fefee, Jeff and Connie Geroux, Jim Lobdell, Jim Saddlemire Trucking, Joey St. Mary, Leona Steen, Logue Farms, Mike Flynn, Mr. and Mrs. Kim Richey, Nate Beachy, Papas Dairy, Randy Ooms, Roger Trumble, Scott Robinson, Steve Gokey, Vincent Farm LLC, White's Dairy, William Bontrager, William Miller and Wood's Dairy.
If we have missed anyone, since it was extremely busy and intense coordinating this effort, we would like to thank you too for all you did also.
Chastity Miller
District manager Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation
Preserve recess
TO THE EDITOR: Many of us remember well our years in elementary school.
Our teachers, our friends, our moments of pride and embarrassment constitute our individual recollections of primary education.
For me, playing sports and games with my friends gave me the most joy of that experience. Without my friends, I absolutely would not have finished school.
In my current employment, I have the chance to visit with 20 to 30 children a day. They commonly relate to me that kids in our schools lose recess for various crimes they commit during the school day as a form of punishment. They forget homework, talk out of turn, get out of line, etc., and recess is gone.
Recess for primary-school children represents more than just play and fun. It is not an ice-cream cone. This critically important vacation from the classroom provides education in manners, making and losing friends, social skills, fighting and making up, apologies and all sorts of personnel interactions and experiences not taught or demonstrated anywhere else in school.
Plus, it's exercise. Kids learn from these challenges and gain skills they will need the rest of their lives. They are teaching each other about life.
Taking recess from kids for not "falling in line" is a mistake.
Teachers would be better off partnering with parents and removing the cellphone, the TV, the Playstation and Wii. Take away dessert or designer T-shirts, but don't touch that critical classroom called recess.
We don't remove children from art class, English or math. Why remove the education received on the playground? If we are going to eliminate recess from a child's day at school, we may as well take away vitamins, too. Our children won't grow anyway.
Dr. Clark Knutson
Child advocate
Ethical, professional
TO THE EDITOR: I am writing this letter in support of Steven Dion, who is running for a four-year term as fire commissioner in the Ausable, Chesterfield and Keeseville Fire District.
Steve is a lifelong resident of the district and has participated in fire and rescue as a past member of the Keeseville Fire Department.
Currently, Steve is a construction manager. Steve is the kind of person who will listen to your concerns and act for the greater good of the taxpayer and the wellness of the Fire District. In my personal interactions with Steve, I have found him to possess a strong sense of ethics and professionalism with all people. Please vote on Tuesday, Dec. 13 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Keeseville Fire Station.
Jim King
Keeseville
Voter questions
TO THE EDITOR: What voters were not asked, are now asking:
Why was 911 never fully investigated? Hagiography 101—Lesson 1 Time for Politics http://lnk.ms/J6bvF.
Why did Building 7 fall on 9/11 though it was not hit by a plane, farthest in WTC from Twin Tower collapse thus better condition than buildings 3, 4, 5 or 6, all which did not collapse in "free-fall acceleration?"
Why the final kill shot from Nov. 22, 1963, came from the front of JFK's path and the Zapruder film proves car was slowing down?
Why U.S. military joint chiefs knew "Gulf on Tonkin" was not a "real" attack yet still went ahead and used the False Flag information to begin the Vietnam War?
Why the White House and Department of Defense Joints knew the Japanese Code about the coming attack, yet intentionally withheld that information from the Hawaiian commander for WW II Pearl Harbor so we would fight?
Why are the Elite Exceptional Extremists still ruling when we know their lies? No wonder why people feel something is wrong with America. Why don't we know the money we owe Saudis and Israel spies openly on America through AmDoc and killed soldiers on USS Liberty?
The "old" Military Industrial Complex was a lemonade stand compared to what we have to live under today in a False Flag 911 world.
Until we get MeanStream Media and the Press to "out" 9/11 and JFK's assassination as the "coup d'etat" by the ruling Elite Exceptionalist Extremists (E^3) we shall be stuck in a melding of Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World," and we have lost the 4th Estate Free Press Corps.
Milititary Manipulated Media Industitrialized Imperial Intitelligence Corpwhorational Crapititalistic Contitrol Complex. M^3 I^3 C^4 aka "Mickey. They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something. Then tell you there was nothing, move along.
ROBERT H. WILLIAMS
Mooers
Football league
TO THE EDITOR: The Keeseville/AuSable Junior Football League (AVCS PAL) would like to thank the following for their support and donations for our annual Under the Lights Football Fundraiser:
McLean's Painting & General Contracting, Steven E. Fuller Excavating, Gordon Oil, Northline Utilities LLC., the Law Office of James Martineau, Zaumetzer-Sprague Funeral Home, Industrial Med Testing, Feek Pharmacy, Moore's Flat Work & Foundations, Poppy Rock, Price Chopper, Hannaford Supermarkets, Stewart's, Pray's Quality Builders, Freihoffer Bakery, The Harkness Redemption Center, Sam's Club, Pepsi-Cola Botteling Co., The Hometown Deli, AVCS Superintendent Paul Savage II, Athletic Director Kurt Munson, AVCS Booster Club, Randy Pray and Michelle Martineau.
Many thanks also goes to Ed and Christine Coates and family; George, Gwen and Michael Bussiere; Brian and Tina Pray; the Hall Family; Dinger Durgan; Jamie Douglas; William and Bonnie Hackett; Russell and Robyn Pray and all the families who helped in the concession stand.
Most important are those who give their time and talent to teach the game. This season's coaches: Flag, Chad Garcia and Tim Butler; JV, Javier Perez, John Snow, Jamie Martineau and Dave Zientko; and varsity, Billy McLean, Rob Durgan, Ed Coats, Mike Leclair and Sam Hall. Thank you for an awesome season!
Robyn M. Pray
Keeseville
