Stranger shows kindness
I was out shopping with my mother recently (a Thursday) at our local Wal-Mart store. As we were getting into our vehicle to leave, a man came up to my driver-side window (scared the bejeebies out of me at first) and slid a piece of cardboard through the crack of my window. He didn't mention his name or what it was, just handed it and walked away.
Inside the card was a $25 gas card. I thought it was a hoax at first, but it turned out to be valid. I just happened to look at my gas tank gauge and saw that I was very close to empty.
I didn't have the chance to say thank you to the man who bought gas for me get home on. He turned out to be one of the nicest persons I have come in contact with.
It's not every day that a complete stranger will show that sort of kindness to another human. We need more like him. I certainly appreciate his generosity.
Wendy Manville
Kingsley
Safe to cross?
I take my eyesight for granted and I would argue that most of you reading this do as well. This was never more evident to me than one recent spring afternoon when my wife, daughter and I were walking through downtown Traverse City.
As we were approaching an intersection along the eastern end of Front Street, a blind gentleman turned to me and asked, "It is safe to cross?" I told him that it was safe; he thanked me and then crossed.
Although between us only a few words were said, he unknowingly made me realize that the leadership of Traverse City needs to make the decision to purchase accessible pedestrian signals, devices designed to provide audible signals so that the blind or visually impaired know when they may safely cross a street.
With a relatively large elderly population, many visually impaired and blind citizens, Traverse City has an obligation to provide a safe environment within which these individuals can be independent. And what a better place for these signals than downtown Traverse City, one of the most heavily utilized areas in the county and the place where I learned first hand not to take my eyesight for granted.
Jamie Saxton
Kingsley
Concern for LDS kids
I am more than a little concerned after seeing the snatching of 400-plus children from their parents at the LDS ranch in Texas. I have heard the disgusting criticism on O'Reilly and others about the mother's hair and dress, and overall countenance.
More acceptable I suppose is pink, blue, purple and red hair, piercings, tattoos and the showing of butt cracks, multiple plastic surgeries and so on.
Many died for freedom of religion but it all seems absent here.
Oh, my! They may have found a couple of teenagers with babies! Hello! I would bet the percentage is higher in mainstream U.S.A., not counting the ones murdered before birth.
Is history repeating itself here or has everyone forgotten what happened in the not so distant past? Check the sex offender registry; sex crimes are more rampant in our own neighborhoods. Are those who home school next? Wake up people, all is not well and the world is not at peace.
Waco was a practice run and left a bad taste in everyone's mouths. Remember the little Cuban boy in Florida.
I am concerned, very concerned and so should you be.
What horrors await them in homes for wayward youth?
Georgie Ulberg
Thompsonville
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