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Salvation Army strives to meet human needs

EDITOR: The Salvation Army Bread of Life Center is a Salvation Army Service Extension Unit of the Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Division. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. The Salvation Army vision, as a leader in Christian faith-based human services, is to serve the whole person, body, mind and spirit with integrity and respect, using creative solutions to positively transform lives. Adult Rehabilitation Centers, located throughout the country, are a means the Salvation Army uses to help men and women who ...

Having local hospital essential

Over the past few years, Dickinson County Healthcare System has weathered a lot of controversy, and its future is still up in the air today. I want to apologize to Dickinson County Memorial Hospital for taking so long to tell my story. In December of last year, I fell 23 feet off my two-story roof. Luckily I am in fairly good shape for my age and I remained conscious after the fall and apparently had no broken bones. My wife, realizing what had happened, began calling neighbors for help. Bt the time I had gotten myself upright and limped into the house, my friend, Jeff, was already ...

Most men would love to have had Gronkowski’s job

EDITOR: You’ve got to be kidding me. Rob Gronkowski, former tight end for the New England Patriots, recently retired from football because, he stated, “I want to be clear to my fans. I needed to recover. Football was bringing me down and I didn’t like it. And I was losing that joy in life.” Then, of course, hosts and analysts on ESPN sympathized with him, saying how the rigors of off-season training and practice takes its toll. Gronkowski made $8 million a season with approximately $21 million guaranteed. It would take four average Americans 40 years to make what he made in ...

Paying fair share of taxes

EDITOR: My momma told me that fair is a place where pigs are judged. Apparently, they were not fat enough this year — “Appeals settled in tax tribunal filings,” Sept. 14 issue of The Daily News. Property taxes pay for roads and services that are used by all contributors to the local economy. More importantly, they pay for the education of the people these businesses employ. Basing taxable values on comparable sales is a lame excuse for not contributing. One can always find a fire sale as basis for justification of a handout. Who, then, pays? It falls on the homeowners, ...

Trump given too much power

EDITOR: Is the executive branch all that matters in the time of Trump? I understand that our Constitutional democracy has been eroded by the use of executive power by both main political parties, but it is hard to have imagined the extent it is now happening and the complicity of the Department of Justice in covering the abuses of power by President Trump. How is this possible? It seems to me that you need a leader obsessed with his own ego and infallibility; a leader obsessed with the desire for power and wealth; a political party willing to forward the leader’s wants and needs ...

Need more here to ‘shop local’

I am addressing the advertising in regard to shopping local. When I moved here in 2000, coming from Racine, Wis., I was more than thrilled with the people, the low crime rate and, at the time, where we could shop. There was JCPenney, Shopko, Walmart, Payless Shoe Source and Kmart. Besides that, there were some great places to eat, even though some were fast food. In my 19 years here, it is saddening to see the downslide of businesses that have closed their doors. No more JCPenney, no more Shopko no more Payless Shoe Source and no more Kmart. The only source is now only Walmart. After ...