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July 3, 2007 Submitted by: Mark Merritt

China finds problems with kids' snacks

We need to shut down food imports from China til they get their act together... if the United States won't do it at the federal level, then we need to consider doing it at a local and STATE level. The time has come to ban all Chinese goods. They have manipulated banking markets, poisoned everything from toys, pet food, toothpaste, wheat gluten, seafood, now making fake blood, and kids snacks!

Shut them down! The resellers of their products(like Walmart) won't do it on their own. The Chinese government and factory bosses are out of control and above the law. American companies like Walmart are profiting from reselling Chinese products so they have a motive cover up these problems or at the least stay status quo and avoid doing anything about it which is just as deadly and irresponsible.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_re_as/china_tainted_products

July 2, 2007 Submitted by: Tammy Walls

Dear Sirs,
I was in your town of Pendleton, Indiana this past week-end, 6-30 & 7-1 for a softball tournament. The tourney was great and the facility was very nice. While I was there I had noticed there was this little girl sitting in this stroller from 8:00 am to well after 2:30 pm, with no shade on her nothing to eat or drink, never got out of the stroller, never said a word the whole time, never went to the bathroom, and I was very upset with it. I went up to the lady who was supposed to be watching her and asked if she could have some water, the lady said yes. So I handed the bottled water to the girl and told her it was for her, the lady says to me I don't think she knows how to drink from that so I lifted it up to her mouth and gave her a drink. The lady then poured out some coke out of a cup and gave it to her with a straw. As I am watching this girl the whole time she is just sitting there doing nothing and the lady grabs her by the shoulder and shook her and the little girl started crying. I was then out raged, I went up to one of the people in charge out there and told him what was going on and he said he would check it out. I asked if he knew her or not and he said yes. I later found out that CPS has been called on her twice from others seeing the same thing. They were told the girl doesn't look malnourished or anything so there was nothing they could do. I am contacting my prosecutors office and CPS here to see if something can be done, evidently either the parents of this child is just like this lady or these parents don't know whats going on and someone needs to step in and see exactly what is going on with this baby. My family and I came home sat. night we all prayed for this little girl and I think you all need to say some prayers also. Would you please put this in your paper or gazette or whatever to get something done about this. I have cried my eyes out for 3 days now over this and I can't get it off my mind, until I know someone is going to step in and do some type of an investigation or something. Please, I am begging you print this take it to the Police station or something, don't let this sit there and be ignored. By the way isn't leaving a baby out in the sun no food, no drink, no attention for 7 hours child abuse?

March 23, 2007 Submitted by: Beth King, APR
Communications Manager, Society of Professional Journalists

John Krull

Woodlan Jr-Sr High School

Two months ago, a sophomore student journalist at Woodlan Jr.-Sr. High School just outside Ft. Wayne advanced a disturbing message in an opinion piece in the Tomahawk, the student newspaper. More

18 December, 2006 Letter From Michelle Hurst

Here Here BJ! I agree- I cannot believe in our community that we have heartless people causing pain to one in such need close to the holidays or not! I just read another article about the new “ Simple Village ” that is being built between Pendleton & Anderson by Sarah Brown and her husband. What people don’t seem to understand is that you can call a development “Simple Village” or Huntsinger “FARMS” but the bottom line is with growth comes city attitudes and this is what you witnessed behind Marsh. I feel pretty sure that this would not have happened at “Macy’s” or even when it changed to “Lo Bills” because it was close to the town & its people/attitudes. Someone would have stepped in and helped him carry his food home instead of taking it from him! I’ve lived in Pendleton for over 10 years now and I moved to get away from the city. In the last few years, I see the city creeping closer- moving in and moving over our small town in several ways. The main downtown of Pendleton is slowly dying- First it was Macy’s, then the Seed Shop now True Value- always going to bigger- supposedly better venues. It makes me sad when I look out my front porch and see- not the tree line I used to see but instead the three spotlights that now shine brightly towards my home from the new True Value monstrosity of a building and the lights from the new “just add water” homes of Huntsinger “FARMS” – I hope I never end up on a “farm” like that!!!

Michelle Hurst

"Care is the glue that keeps relationships together once the novelty has worn off. This is as true in organizational life as in the personal domain."
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence

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