To the Messenger:
With Thanksgiving Day coming up, on behalf of the more than 4 million citizens of Kentucky, I want to extend my wholehearted thanks for the hard work of the commonwealth’s tens of thousands of farm families. I also want to thank those whose combined efforts have developed the safest, most abundant and most affordable food supply in the world.
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Richie Farmer
Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture
To the Messenger:
As a college student at the University of Louisville, I rarely make it home to see what Meade County is doing and how my beloved home is taking shape without me. On Nov. 10, 2006, I returned home to attend and support my high school football team with my mother at John Hardin. As I was visiting, I picked up the new “newspaper” for Meade County, The News Standard, and began reading it. I was appalled by the article in there about Meade County Democrats and the “message they are sending our children.” As a resident of Meade County and a “youth” I want you to know the image I have received of Meade County Democrats.
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Timi LaTondress
National Executive Committee
Students Against Destructive Decisions
To the Messenger:
I attended the VFW-sponsored Veterans Day commemoration last Saturday at the Meade County Courthouse and I was impressed with the turnout. It was gratifying to see so many of our older veterans brave an unseasonably cold November morning to participate. I felt there was one thing left unsaid there, that needed saying, referring to the purpose of Veterans Day: it isn’t for veterans! Veterans Day isn’t celebrated for the benefit of our fallen friends and comrades; they have already moved on to a better place. It isn’t celebrated so we, the veterans, can take a day off from work. No – we commemorate the sacrifice of so many, past and present, who offer the last full measure of sacrifice to our nation’s posterity for one group of persons – our youth. It’s for posterity that we hold such commemorations! It gives us an opportunity, at least twice a year (Memorial Day included) to discuss our history with a 16-year-old and tell of the ideals which founded and perpetuated this nation. And of the men and women willing to fight to make it so.
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Joseph Redmon
Brandenburg
To the Messenger:
As a resident of a formerly dusty, Meade County road, I was upset when it was brought to my attention by my neighbors, that phone calls were made by Theresa Padgett and her political cronies stating that they actually had my road chipped and sealed. I was upset because some of my neighbors and I were in contact and working with 5th District Magistrate Harold Davidson and Judge Haynes to ensure that our roads were taken care of and chipped and sealed. In all of the communication and dealings with county government the credit takers were no where to be found.
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David A. Reese
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK
Follow your tax dollars
Monday, Nov. 27
• Soil Conservation, 8 a.m.
Friday, Dec. 1
• Farm Services Agency board meeting, 8:30 a.m.
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