Letters

To the editor: In these days and times it is rare to have a stranger utter a simple greeting to you. Recently, I had an encounter with a stranger that has given me hope.

On July 16, I started having chest pains and I began driving myself to the hospital. Along the way I stopped at a gas station. One of the employees, Sue Rhodes, noticed that something was wrong and asked if I needed an ambulance. I declined her offer and returned to my car.

To the editor: I witnessed one of the most disgraceful and disrespectful shows of a person out of control last Tuesday night at the Brunswick County school board meeting when a woman named Tracy Danka became upset in the meeting.

She went outside the meeting where, before a group of people, she became very loud and abusive. When [principal] Patricia Rourk and her mother started to leave the meeting, she turned her abusive behavior toward them so much so she followed them to their cars with loud profanity.

To the editor: It has been reported, at a recent meeting, the Brunswick County Board of Education discussed and advocated the teaching of creationism.

Board member Jimmy Hobbs is quoted in an article as saying evolution (which is currently taught in the schools) is “of the atheists.”

Mr. Hobbs and the other school board members who advocate teaching creationism need to understand that a great number of Catholic Christians live in Brunswick County.

To the editor: This country’s big oil corporations have been ripping off the American people in the past months and getting away with it. This is due to lobbyists in Washington paying off our elected politicians not to do anything.

This is a terrible thing for us and for our country as a whole. This has now trickled down to the local oil companies and our local gas stations.

We are still under the emergency management of Tropical Storm Hanna and the prices of commodities are not supposed to go any higher than they were 60 days before this was put in affect.