Letters to the Editor Archive

These were wise words from my Daddy 52 years ago.

Consider this on recent happenings.

At Navarre Beach, Santa Rosa County’s wastewater treatment plant has a state permit to dump as much as 900,000 gallons of sewage effluent per day into Santa Rosa Sound. For much of the year, it’s much less than that, but during the summer – peak swimming and fishing season – it increases dramatically. The County is now requesting another 5-year permit to continue this primitive and unhealthy method of sewage disposal.

My husband and I have owned property on Navarre Beach for several years, we rent our condo to tourist during a part of the season.  We are very careful to explain to our guest dogs are not allowed on Navarre Beach.  However, while in Navarre for several weeks over the holidays, we saw at least five dogs and owners walking on the beach every day.  Other owners in our complex have discussed the increase, this year especially, and we are posting signs in our building’s common areas and beach walk over.  I’ve seen signs at most of the public walk over areas.

Approximately 230,000 Veterans live in the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System three-state catchment area (south Mississippi, south Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.). Of that amount, 104,000 Veterans are enrolled for care at VA, with about 71,000 actively receiving VA care. Suicide prevention experts claim that of the 20 Veterans a day that are committing suicide each day, 14 of them are not getting their care from VA.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2017, 10,874 people died in drunk driving crashes. It equates to one person every 48 minutes. If it takes your breath away, think about this – that number has decreased from previous years.

Another Christmas has come and gone. Thanks be unto God for Jesus, the reason for the season, making it possible for all who choose to live eternally in Heaven with the Lover of our souls. He loves each one of us more than anyone else ever could. He shed His own blood for us all. He alone deserves the pre-eminence in our lives!

It seems like President Donald J. Trump hasn’t had a day of peace since he was elected. I marvel at his stamina which has to be God–given. The border wall has probably been his worse nemesis.

With the holidays we can say “Happy Thanksgiving” as we all give thanks for all we have in our lives, and not question what is missing in our lives. We are now allowed, and appropriately so, to say “Merry Christmas” again without being attacked in public. Yet there is always someone who hates the evolved idea of Santa Claus, Christmas, and religion.

We just honored our veterans on the 11th, the same date the Mayflower Compact was enacted in my home state, here below quoted.