Letters

To the editor:

The Calabash Lions Club wishes to thank you for the coverage of our Nov. 8 event with Dr. Mary Sedgwick and her testing of the eSight electronic glasses.

Dr. Sedgwick, who has regained her vision after some 13 years of near blindness (she baked her own turkey for Thanksgiving), tested 17 visually impaired persons with 10 qualifying for the glasses. Reporter Laura Lewis did a wonderful job in capturing these candidates taking the vision tests and describing the emotions of these individuals.

To the editor:

Nov. 22 will be the 55th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Let us all reflect on the words of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in a speech to the nation on the day after JFK’s funeral:

“Let us put an end to the teaching and preaching of hate and evil and violence. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law and those who pour venom into our nation’s bloodstream.”

To the editor:

We are writing in response to the letter to the editor in the Oct. 25 edition, “County shouldn’t pick up gated communities’ storm debris.”

We take exception to this letter. We live in a gated community and pay county taxes, just like any resident who does not live in a gated community. We don’t pay less tax than you, possibly more depending on the assessments of the individual house/property.

To the editor:

Regarding the letter in last week’s edition from Susan Bridges: I am one of those she categorizes as supporting “racism, sexism, environmental devastation, the devaluation of standards and lowering our status in the world.” I can tell you I am none of those things. I am a free thinker.