Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

An Open Letter to Mr. Kenneth Lucas

Dear Sir,

Dear Editor,

Arbor Woods Health & Rehab would like to say, “Thank you!” to the family and friends of Pastor Cecil Junkin for the donations made to the Activity Department. We have purchased a Karaoke machine, CD player and Cassette AM/FM boom box, table games, and much more. Again thank you!

We also celebrated Resident’s Rights month during the week of Oct. 17-19. A special event took place each day. Along with Resident Rights Bingo & Gifts, we ended with a pizza party for the residents.

Arbor Woods

Reform, Ala.

Dear Editor,

Boss Hogg would like to thank each of the Volunteer Fire Departments and individuals in the area for taking the time out of their day and working so hard to put out the fire at Boss Hogg Bar-B-Que on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. May God bless each of you is my prayer.

Thank you,

Boss Hogg Bar-B-Que

Wilmer L. Davis, Co-Owner

Tarra L. Davis, Co-Owner

Dear Editor,

This Thanksgiving Day, as we gather with family and friends to count our blessings, let's give thanks for the bounty we enjoy not just on this holiday, but every day. The safe, plentiful food that is available to us, and the products used to produce the clothing, housing, medicines, fuel and other products we use on a daily basis, didn't just appear in a store. They got there thanks to a tremendous partnership of farmers and ranchers, processors, brokers, truckers, shippers, advertisers, wholesalers and retailers.

Dear Editor,

I would like to give a SHOUT OUT/THANK YOU to Ms. Lakitha Bell, director of Pickens County Emergency Management Agency (EMA). September 5, 2018, Hurricane Gordon shared with me a bit of a “watery” experience. Water covered half my carport!

Dear Editor,

This letter is intended to be informational and perhaps educational.  Do you know the actual impact that agriculture, forestry, and other related industries have on Pickens County:  In 2010, $195.6 million was generated through our country’s agricultural and forestry production.  Poultry and egg production was the largest agricultural commodity, contributing 70% of Pickens County’s total agriculture and forestry production, according to USDA National Agriculture Statistics.

Dear Editor,

Thank you to the individuals and community organizations that made themselves available to welcome students back to school on “the first day of school” for the 2018-2019 academic year at Aliceville Elementary School.  Their presence portrayed a positive mental attitude for the students to emulate.  Great schools are known by the communities that support them.  School - community relations is vital to the success of a school and school district.

Dear Editor,

Teachers are the largest group of school employees.  The second largest group is the school staff classed as auxiliary.  The auxiliary staff is also called school support staff, school support personnel, and education support personnel (ESP).  They are bus drivers, custodians, food service workers, secretaries, bookkeepers, maintenance technicians, etc.  It is estimated that almost 3 million school support personnel are working in our nation’s public schools.  During the 2017-2018 school year, 36,057 support personnel were employed in Alabama’s 1,473 public schools.

Dear Editor,

In Birmingham, Monday July 2, I was very disappointed in a comment Superintendent Jamie Chapman made about the city of Aliceville. It was wrong. It was slander towards us. And it made our city look like we aren’t doing anything.

He attacked our city council, in an open meeting in Birmingham. He attacked it on the issue of the one-cent tax. He said, to the judge, that we didn’t support the resolution. Sure enough, we didn’t. But it was two sides to that story. He didn’t tell the other side.

Dear Editor,

The Tuscaloosa Veterans Medical Center has erected four cottages (nursing homes) to our veterans.

I sat in on a meeting with the directors of these facilities along with patient veterans. The patients made a suggestion that maybe some organization could donate some umbrellas for our picnic tables and some bird feeders. They like to watch the birds feed.