Letters

To the editor:

As a business owner and manger I certainly appreciate the media’s role in disseminating news items of national and small town importance. I also appreciate its role in advertising and promoting local businesses.

However, after reading the article on the front page of the Beacon concerning “a Leap of Faith” written about one of the local real estate agents leaving her long-term affiliate company to embark in her own business disturbed my sense of fairness and loyalty.

To the editor:

Where does your food come from?

If you’re like many Americans, the answer is the grocery store. And frankly, that disturbs me.

The grocery store isn’t where food comes from—it’s just from where it’s distributed. In reality, far too many people are unaware of the role of American agriculture in their daily lives...and what it really takes to have food on their dinner table.

Just a few generations ago, most people were a part of, and had friends or

To the editor:

For too long, non-smoking North Carolinians have been getting

sick or have lost their lives from other people’s cigarette smoke.

A bill being considered in the N.C. Legislature would save lives by

prohibiting smoking inside public buildings and workplaces.

The smoke-free workplace legislation (HB2) is about public health

and workplace safety. We have numerous laws designed to protect

employees and the public, such as health codes to ensure restaurant

To the editor:

To start with, I am not for or against skydiving. I moved here from South Jersey, and we had a skydiving operation near my home, like the one being proposed at Ocean Isle Beach Airport.

Every year, some skydivers would miss the landing zone, which by the way, was larger than the one proposed at OIB Airport. Skydivers in the past had landed on the local roads, around houses, in the Home Depot parking lot, in the movie theatre parking lot and in the surrounding woods.