Editor, Times-Union: In the past three months, the animal shelter received 892 animals of which 63 percent were not adoptable. For most of these animals, euthanasia was the only option. The chronic overpopulation of homeless animals is an increasing problem and the AWL no longer has the resources to manage this issue without more support from the county and surrounding communities.
There is an urgent need for every individual to become more involved in supporting the Animal Welfare League and the animal shelter in the way of monetary donations, volunteering for fundraisers and new members. There are vacant board positions that need to be filled immediately and more terms expiring in February.
Please call 574-269-6734 or visit www.awl-warsaw.org for additional contact information, or attend the next general membership meeting Monday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. at the Warsaw Public Library, and let us know what you can do. We will not survive without more help.
Richard Brungardt, DVM President, Board of Directors
Animal Welfare League of Kosciusko County
Warsaw
Halloween Schedule
Editor, Times-Union: What is with the schedule for Halloween? Why can't we have trick-or-treating on the weekend?
Most parents work and cannot make it home in time to dress the kids and get them ready by 6 p.m. This takes all the fun out of it. Not to mention the time - 6 to 7:30 p.m. An hour and a half?
So let's say a parent gets home at 6 p.m. By the time they get the children dressed it's 6:30 (that's assuming there are no costume malfunctions). By the time you get out the door and start trick-or-treating it's almost 7 p.m. Now your child only has an hour to enjoy this holiday. If we had trick-or-treating on the weekend we could have it earlier in the day, and we could extend the hours. This makes much more sense. Why create a day and hours that you know are going to cause havoc for the parents? Is it really necessary that trick-or-treating be on the actual day of Halloween?
Kathy Kinder Eppelmann Leesburg, via e-mail
Fixing Time
Editor, Times-Union: Thank goodness our wise legislature, particularly David Wolkins, Governor Mitch Daniels, and our Kosciusko County officials finally saw fit to fix Indiana's broken, laughable and nonsensical "time problem" and getting (at least most of the state) on daylight-saving in Eastern Time.
Daylight-saving in Eastern time will be good for the everyone's pocketbook by saving energy (more evening daylight), good for families (more evening daylight time for outdoor chores and after school activities), good for Indiana businesses and, therefore, Indiana's economy (no more nightmarish "time jockeying" every fall and spring with out-of-state and international business), and finally good for TV viewers, prime time shows will start at 8 p.m. and the news at 11 all year long.
The only thing better than daylight-saving in Eastern Time would be "Perfect Time" and that would please everyone. However, "Perfect Time" would be in a perfect world with perfect people. On this side of heaven, that is just not going to happen.
Our elected officials did not "mess" with the time. They "fixed" the time, finally. And we thank you.
Mike Ragan Warsaw, via e-mail
Wanted: Vandals
Editor, Times-Union: The Young Tigers football field on East Market Street became the target of vandals last week. The American Legion pictures this property as a tribute to those who gave the supreme sacrifice for our country. The American Legion was a contributor to this memorial, and we will defend Fribley Field to the best of our ability within the parameters of the law. If anyone has any information to whom these thoughtless vandals might be, please contact Bob Morrison at 574-372-2495. If your information turns out to be correct, I will give you $100 no questions asked.
Bob Morrison Vice Commander American Legion Post 49
Warsaw
No Answers For Bush
Editor, Times-Union: Hello, Mr. Mauk, I am so glad to hear from someone that is awake. You hit the nail on the head with your letter.
I wish I knew the answer to your question.
The only thing I can tell you is pray that something will bring him down.
When they were counting the votes in Florida he was sitting there with his lip stuck out like a 3-year-old and said, "My brother promised me I would carry Florida."
At that time all I could say was, "God help us!" That still stands true today. May God help us all.
Nova Wright Warsaw
Historicism
Editor, Times-Union: During the recent onslaught of hurricanes and earthquakes, some have said these disasters are God's judgement on sin. But can we mortals know that for sure? Many times in the Bible, people make that mistake. Bildad and Peleg made that mistake about Job. In the New Testament, some people asked Jesus about some people who had been killed. "Do you suppose that these people were worse sinners because they suffered such things?" (Luke 13:1-15). John, however, told us how to respond when we see people in need (I John 3:16-16). C.S. Lewis commented in his essay "On Historicism" on this belief. "The lowest form of it is ... the doctrine that our calamities (or more often our neighbor's calamities) are 'judgements,' which here means divine condemnation or punishments. This sort of Historicism sometimes endeavors to support itself by the authority of the Old Testament ... But if any man thinks that because God was pleased to reveal certain calamities as 'judgements' to certain chosen people, he is therefore entitled to generalize and read all calamities in the same way, I submit that this is a non sequitur ... If this sort of Historicism survives, it survives in spite of' Christianity (Christian Reflections 101,102)."
