At the MLK Park ceremony Saturday, two undeniable benchmark indicators revealed by the crowd. 1. Overall it was a very small crowd for such a great American. Hardly any families, airmen, students and young adults. 2. Even more alarming, so very few in the crowd were white. Do these two benchmark indicators mean blacks and whites have little respect for Martin Luther King, his sacrifice, his achievements and his dream for all Americans, his slaying? Or little respect for themselves?
It's already hard enough to get parents and buses to pick children up by 4 p.m. Now that the day is extended, there's no telling when the students will get picked up from school.
Utilities: Manage your budgets. Drive your vehicles longer before replacement. Tighten your belts instead of going up on our taxes. Get off our backs. Elections are coming.
VPD officers do their jobs to the best of their ability, and that includes ticketing cars parked illegally. Perhaps before you get mad, read up on the laws. People are such hypocrites when it comes to officers, they want them to do only what they want them to do when it is convenient for them.
The picture from the Valentine’s Day Dance appearing in the Saturday edition of U.S. Air Force Major Steven Simone swinging his daughter Ava is a masterpiece — hope it gets some sort of award for your photographer Paul Leavy — he really captured the moment.
While I have empathy for those who have lost family in the current wars, I think families in search of truth fail to remember that soldiers die during wars. They are soldiers, not diplomats. They are trained to kill and be killed. It is the harsh reality regardless of the cause of death.
I have used roundabouts all over the United States. The problem with the one at Country Club is not that people can’t drive or that it is in the wrong place, the problem is the city engineers did not build it big enough. It needs to be about five times bigger than it is. You cannot build a dot and expect people to get around it. If they will get some more property over there and make it a little bit bigger, it will work just fine.
Consolidating the Valdosta and Lowndes school systems would be the worst mistake this county has ever made. We need to consider community schools. Less crime, each person would know each other from grades K-12, the football teams will play each other, less expense and less travel. It doesn’t matter if it is a 5A team or 1A team you can still have a good football team and accomplish a lot.
