Supporting efforts to
heal region’s raptors
I read the article in Monday’s The Dominion Post about the red shouldered hawk that was shot near Krepps Park. It was so badly injured that the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia (the Fallons at Cheat Lake Veterinary Hospital) could not save it, and had to euthanize it. Truly heartbreaking, and a senseless crime by the individual who shot it.
By pure coincidence, I saw a red shouldered hawk perched in a tree behind our home this afternoon (Monday) in Cheat Lake (near Sunset Beach). I snapped a quick picture before it flew off.
We are making a donation to the Avian Center to support its ongoing efforts to heal these magnificent raptors, despite the cruelty of those who so thoughtlessly injure them.
Patricia Schaeffer
Morgantown
Some good advice for
all of this new year
Years ago a man gave us a new commandment: “That we love one another as I love you!” Very simple words but very difficult for many to understand.
Don’t call folks names, speak ill of them or treat them like garbage. You never know when you may be in their shoes.
Start the year by mending a quarrel, dismissing a suspicion and replacing it with trust while forgetting an old grudge. Examine your demands on others and vow to reduce them. Express your gratitude. Old wounds can heal, if you want them to.
Appreciate the many blessings you have. You say you don’t have any. A bed, food and a roof over your head is more than a lot of folks have.
Understand there is a difference between being nice and taking advantage of someone. Take responsibility for your actions. Don’t blame others for your problems. That flag gives each of us the ability to begin again.
Remember the person on the edge of the road asking for money in the same spot everyday, (he needs to get a job) is a slave to his addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.
Remember those who won’t be with us next year from sickness or old age. Let’s not forget those tragic accidents to the young and our military in harm’w way serving overseas.
I have often said that each American needs to spend 30 days in a Third World country to understand how blessed we all are.
The best advice for a new year: Lead by example, be slow to judge, forgive, patience, integrity, understanding, empathy and love.
Dan Carnegie
Morgantown
Some things go wrong
is due to our own fault
Everyday, people of all walks of life worry about many things. They worry about climate change, pollution, do we heat with coal, wood, oil, gas, or solar panels and wind turbines. What will be done with the lithium batteries in the cell phones and the electric vehicles that will pollute the earth worse than any fossil fuel. And still yet, they complain about the cost of all the aforementioned and a lot more.
We blame John and Mary’s marriage on love and their divorce on the neighbors. We understand that everything that goes wrong is due to someone else’s blunders and not ours.
Ignorance is to blame for the teachers not teaching the right things at the wrong time and because incompetent parents are eager to get rid of the kids for the day and would like for the schools to become a seven day a week, 24 hour a day law. The teachers should be eager to teach, nurse, be lawyers, and all other walks for life because they love the kids not because they are underpaid. None of this is to blame because education has become a business at the local, state and national level. We don’t want our children to have to master any important skills. They may then be able to think for themselves.
How dare we blame the 12-year-old or the 19-year-old that points a gun at an officer or someone else when they know weapons are dangerous. Unless, they were born back in a cave in no man’s land and thought real guns are toys or a knife won’t cut. It is, of course, the cop’s fault who didn’t want to die that night and shot in self-defense.
Maybe, we can blame all our worries on President Trump. We know he’s the antagonizer of all antagonizers and has brought all these worries onto our shoulders. Heaven knows when the Democrats were in office, everything was wonderful.
Linda Newcome
Masontown
