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To the Editor: THUMBS UP to Sergeant Empey (Sergeant Says... 3/5/2008)! I was one of those whiners. I can’t buckle up. They don’t fit me; too uncomfortable, too restrictive, can’t move. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH But you know what happened? On January 31, 2008, out of nowhere, my daughter and I were hit head on. I was waiting at the stop light on North Lamb Blvd to cross Craig Rd. There was a black Dodge Durango, southbound, waiting to turn left. I waited for it to go. When ‘it’ didn’t turn, I proceeded to cross Craig Rd. I went 1,2,3 lanes, when I was in the 4th lane ‘it’ decided to turn right into me! If it had not been for the seat belts we were wearing, my daughter and I could have very easily been killed. My daughter almost went through the windshield, and they had to use the jaws of life to get me out on a back board. After a trip to the hospital, I was pronounced to be okay. OH YEAH, we had bruises and sore places. The air bag burned my daughter’s face. But we are both alive and the bumps and bruises have healed nicely. We still have some sore spots but they will heal. You can heal from bumps and bruises ! You cannot heal from dead ! Buckle up! So, great article. Keep up the good work, Sergeant. Mary Lu Tieman Submitted Mar. 12, 2008 Back |
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To the Editor: My sister, Nelda Messer, gave me a gift subscription and I’ve enjoyed receiving and reading the Progress for the past year. I was born in Overton in 1942 and graduated from MVHS in 1960 and it is a real treat to have this connection to the news of The Valley. I have very fond memories of Moapa Valley. I am very “wired” now that I can read the paper on-line. You have done a terrific job with the website! I have not been in The Valley much since about 1964 except for occasional visits to family and one of the most important sections of the paper is the Obituaries. Those notices seem to say, “Time Marches On”! Thanks very much for having the paper available on-line! John D. Swapp Sammamish, WA Submitted Mar. 12, 2008 Back |
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To the Editor: I am writing today in response to two previous letters written by Chris and Brandy Olive and Tawnia Steffens; the apology letters. I just wanted to say where is the justice? They spent a whole four days in jail for robbing our community of an extreme amount of money. I know people that have spent more time for a traffic ticket. They are only required to pay the court system five thousand dollars, but what about the restitution to the community. All we get is a letter to the editor. What about community service? They were volunteer fire fighters and they abused this right. Give them a proper service to complete that they can be trusted with to repay the community. Or some thing. In my opinion and several others, justice has not been served. I myself spent five days in jail for some thing I was proven one hundred percent innocent for.. They where proven guilty! How much can people take from the Valley, our small community before justice is served? From where I stand, it does not seem that an apology is enough. What have they learned from this, not too much. Their lives go on the same now as they did before all of this. How many of you out there really except this apology? Coriann Stevens Submitted Mar. 12, 2008 Back |
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To the Editor: In the March 5 edition of the Progress Ms. Metz made a statement that this valley needs a paid fire station MVTAB Discusses Riverview 3/5/2008)! I have a few questions regarding this (and this time I cannot be disciplined by station 73 for exercising my right to free speech) and then I would like to state a few facts. First: I wonder why, as the liaison between the Moapa Valley Town Advisory Board (MVTAB) and Moapa Valley Fire District (MVFD), Ms. Metz is not doing more to retain all of the great volunteers we have had in the past? The volunteer program and its members have been the backbone of this country for years and communities larger than ours still rely on volunteers with very few problems. As I have stated in a previous letter to the Progress, MVFD has had hundreds of good volunteers come and go. My wife and I would still be there but were forced to resign for political expediency. Why have so many quit after spending hundreds of hours training? Second: the statement was made that we need a paid station without disclosing the financial burden this would place on the tax payers! In an audit done 6-7 years ago by the Clark County Fire Department (CCFD) it was estimated to cost over one million dollars a year to maintain a single paid station and that does not include the building or the apparatus of said station. Who is going to foot the bill for this? We can not even get a lot of basic needs without great effort in this valley. I want to make something very clear right now, we have a great volunteer core; we are blessed with a community of great people and this letter is not intended to diminish this fact. But the leaders of these stations often have run off many of these good people. Now to become an EMT basic requires more than most people are able to give, scaling down the potential pool of volunteers. In the meantime, no efforts have ben made to make amends with those who could be helping to fill the shortfall of EMT’s. Instead you want to burden our public funds further by paying for something that we are now getting for free! It is an insult to the volunteers who give of their time to tell them that they do not have the ability to do the job. These volunteers are given the same strict training as the paid personnel, under the same rules and regulations, but in your eyes they are not capable to do the job. I am here to say that they are!! In the words of another….Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way! But do not insult us! Scott King Former EMT-I CCFD Submitted Mar. 12, 2008 Back |
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