Published: March 20, 2008 12:08 am            

Letters to the editor - Thursday, Mar. 20, 2008

Book of Memory a fitting tribute

I have learned that there are a lot of folks in our community that do not know about a service that the Community Foundation has been offering for several years. It is called the Book of Memory. For years folks in Howard County have been using the Book of Memory to make gifts that honor the memory of a loved one, or to honor the name of a very special person who is still alive and involved in the community. Many people make a charitable gift each year to honor the memory of their mother, father, spouse or child.

The Book of Memory is published on the Internet and can be found in several ways. The simplest is to go to www.cfhoward.org, look in a green box on the lower left of your screen where you will be invited to click and visit the Book of Memory. There are already several listings for 2008 and the listings go back to 1993. Under each year, you will see the names of people in our community who have been honored by gifts. When you click on their names you will see the persons who have made gifts in that year and in previous years. As you will see, several folks have had gifts made in their memory each year for 10 years or more. The gifts are generally made to support an organization that was or is important to the person being honored, or to support the community grants program that supports a variety of non-profit organizations in our community.

You may honor the memory of anyone you like, even if they have been gone for several years. A gift like that is always appropriate and a very fitting way to pay tribute to a loved one. If you are interested, first go visit the Book of Memory pages to see what I am talking about, then call us at (765) 454-7298 or e-mail us at info@cfhoward.org, and we’ll be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Ron Harper

Community Foundation

Officials care less about taxpayers

I read Mr. Rice’s letter in the Tribune March 17, and couldn’t agree more. I contacted the Auditor’s Office in February and asked about the property tax rebate and got no real answer. So I contacted them on March 17 and got the same answer.

We don’t know when they will be sent out.

This is my money sitting in an account somewhere drawing interest that won’t be sent to me. I consider this fraud. Most surrounding counties have had these out as long as two months.

This is what happens when you have an elected official that cares less about the taxpayer.

Chris Dunlap

Kokomo

Read the labels, ask questions

Having no prescription insurance, I felt fortunate to be able to get some of my medicine under Wal-Mart’s $4 plan. I have been getting these since it began, as I’m sure many others are also.

However, last month when I went for a refill, one was different – so I questioned it after reading it was manufactured in India for Wal-Mart. Our government doesn’t want seniors to go to Canada, etc., for meds – yet Wal-Mart is having theirs made in India?

How many of you citizens are consuming foreign made medicines and don’t know it? Better start reading labels and asking questions. I have changed pharmacies.

Norma Taber

Kokomo

‘Experience Easter as never before’

Baskets. Bunnies. Eggs. Chocolates. All the things that make Easter palatable and marketable to secularists. The original intent of the Easter celebration had nothing to do with such things. Over the years, Christians formalized their informal celebrations of the resurrection of Jesus into many inspiring expressions of worship. Easter is about Jesus’ victory over sin and death. It is about the redemption of God’s beloved creation. This is the life-changing meaning of Easter, not some Peter Rabbit leaving colorful eggs around the living room.

If you have not seriously considered the meaning of Jesus Christ in your own life, then you have not celebrated Easter. God loves you and has made all the provisions necessary for the reclamation of the relationship with him that has been broken. Through the death, burial and resurrection of his only son, Jesus, our sins have been forgiven. It’s as easy as ABC.

Admit you have disobeyed God’s perfect will. Believe that Jesus is God’s son and accept God’s gift of forgiveness from sin. Confess your faith in Jesus Christ as savior and lord. Do these ABC’s, and you will experience Easter as never before.

Charles A. Layne

Bunker Hill

        

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