Letters to the Editor
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Rotary Club helps special needs kidsNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - I'm writing this letter on Oct. 31, 2008. This Halloween season our nation is spending billions of dollars on parties, candy and costumes. All the kids are going trick o...
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Fly the U.S. flag as a salute to veteransNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - "We don't want to be heroes, but it's nice to know people appreciate what we did," said Vietnam veteran Fred Wilhelm. As I drove through my neighborhood to work on Vete...
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What Obama victory says about AmericaNov 17, 2008 10:00 pm - I was 15 and a sophomore at Zion Benton High School when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Shortly thereafter, race riots broke out in our cafeteria during lunch...
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What do they hope to change?Nov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - As of this date the United States is still the greatest country in the world, bar none. We have the strongest military in the world with the best technology. Our manufac...
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Hasn't been sanitary district for 10 yearsNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Regarding your headline of Wednesday, Nov. 5, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago enthusiastically welcomes it incumbents Frank Avila, Kathleen Th...
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Senior center asking city to revisit cutsNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Recently the Des Plaines City Council deleted support to the Des Plaines senior center for the $40,000 which had been in the 2009 budget. There is no question that budge...
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An anonymous act of great kindnessNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the kind and anonymous woman who not only retrieved my purse from the cart I left it in, in the parking lot; but also, ...
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Happy to be with Buddy FoundationNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - After retiring from 40 years of nursing, I decided to volunteer some time for animals. I first went to that shelter in Bloomingdale, which I am so relieved to read has f...
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McCain simply was not acceptableNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - The losers of this election just can't seem to accept the fact that the people have voted and John McCain was not acceptable. The people didn't want another four years ...
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Recycling good for planet, and you, tooNov 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Do you want to help save the world? Well, one way is to recycle. I think everyone should recycle, young or old, man or woman, boy or girl. There are no excuses why you s...