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8/31/11
Looking for Military Personnel
To the Editor:
We are trying to put together a list of service men and women from this area and also those have been in Red Creek for several years. Please call or send your name and information to Dennis Hadcock 315-754-6271. This is to update the Memorial at Veterans Park. Thank you.

- Dennis Hadcock, Red Creek

8/17/11
Misses “Old” Paper
To the Editor:
I’ve been meaning to call or write about the “new” paper. I miss our old Post-Herald and the suduko and crossword puzzles and recipe section. Just too much news from others parts of area, I do not care about reading. I still enjoy reading it, but miss the above items. A little input from a long time, loyal customer and senior citizen.

- Elaine Best, Fair Haven

8/17/11
Support for Henry Felker
To the Editor:
I am writing in support of Henry Felker for the Wolcott Town Councilman position.
Henry’s executive experience in the airline industry which included assignments in six cities and also in Japan have provided him with fiscal and management experience and abilities.
He and his wife, Andrea, have resided in the Wadsworth homestead for the past 11 years. He has been active in many town projects at both community and municipal levels. He has served on committees in the town for Municipal Water and Master Planning and town cleanup projects. Henry is honest, down to earth and has no personal agendas. He is ready to work to serve all of our community.
Please support Henry at the Wolcott Republican Caucus, Thursday, Aug. 18, 6 p.m., at the Wolcott Town Highway Barn on Red Creek Road.

- Robert Stell, Wolcott

8/31/11
Wake Up America
To the Editor:
I found this in my email the other day and thought I would share it with everyone.
...Just because they borrowed my money, doesn’t make my benefits some kind of charity or handout. Congressional benefits life free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days: now that’s welfare; and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements.
Someone please tell me what the devil is wrong with all the people that run this country.
We’re broke and can’t help our seniors, veterans, orphans, homeless, etc.?
In recent months, probably years now, we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, Pakistan..home of Bin Laden...literally billions of dollars.
Our retired seniors living on fixed incomes receive no aid, nor do they get any breaks while our government gives hundreds of billions to foreign countries.
They call Social Security and Medicare entitlements, even though most of us have been paying for them all our working lives. And now, when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money, and in recent months they have had the nerve to upset our people by saying they weren’t going to send their Social Security checks. Can you imagine the boom-a-rang effect that would have? Think about it. Why did the government borrow from our Social Security in the first place? If it was us doing that, it would be called embezzlement.
We have many adoptable children in the U.S. who are shoved aside (because they have made the laws of adoption so strict here in the U.S.A.) to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans. The question should be why.
America: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed medications, mentally ill going without treatment, and what about the rest of us that just want a decent living to be able to take care of our own.
Imagine if our government gave us the same support they give the people who hate us? And imagine if our government representatives, including our president and past presidents, unlined their pockets and tried living like most of us: check to check. Bet they couldn’t do it!
People, something needs to be done, but how to go about it?

- Rhonda M. Morgan, Wolcott

8/17/11
Endorsing Agnello
To the Editor:
After almost ten years as serving the Town of Wolcott as a Town Councilman, I will be stepping down and not running for re-election this year. It is with great pleasure that I endorse Tom Agnello as a person who has earned my respect to run for Town Councilman in the Wolcott Republican caucus on Thursday August 18, 6 PM at the Town Highway Barn.
Tom has been a full time resident of the Town of Wolcott for the past seven years and very active in several community organizations. He is the President of the Blind Sodus Bay Improvement Association and an active member of the Community of the Blessed Trinity Catholic Church (St. Mary Magdalene, St. Jude and St. Thomas).
Professionally, Tom is a Relationship Executive for RSM McGladrey, the fifth largest CPA firm in the U.S. where he is involved with corporate and public sector clients across New York State, where he determines their accounting, tax and consulting needs and coordinates the professional services for the firm.  Tom earned a bachelor degree in Business Administration from St. John Fisher College.
In addition to attending several Town Board meetings over the past several years, he is involved with several not for profit charitable organizations and serves as a Treasurer for both the Digital Rochester and Rochester American Marketing Association local chapter.  He is also actively involved with several organizations that work to improve the Upstate NY economy and to attract companies and JOBS to our region.  He is also very active with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America and the Kidney Foundation,  raising research monies for their cause.
Tom and his wife Kay live full time, year round, on Blind Sodus Bay and they have two grown adult children, John and Kim. His son John is a Major in the U.S. Army and is stationed in Ft Mead, MD. He and his wife Stephanie have two children.  Tom’s daughter Kim is a full time housewife in Milton Ga. and lives with her husband and has two children.
Over the past seven years that I have known Tom, I have found him to be a very hard working, ethical and intelligent person. He understands the challenges that we all face as taxpayers in the Town of Wolcott and is committed to holding the line on taxes and driving efficiencies in our Town government.  I am pleased to endorse Tom as a candidate to replace me and I will be nominating him at the Republican caucus for Town Councilman.
 
- Scott Gregg, Wolcott

8/17/11
Support for Loveless
To the Editor:
I have known Chris Loveless for many years, and I will be nominating and endorsing him for the Town of Wolcott Highway Superintendent at the Republican Caucus.
Chris has hands-on skills of equipment operation and maintenance. He also is experienced in snowplowing and general construction. He has the management background and fiscal responsibility to run the department as a business, saving the taxpayer money.
Chris has proven these skills in owning and operating his own successful construction business for the past 15 years. Chris is honest, hardworking, personable, and committed. He is a dedicated family man. He has been active in many town and community projects.
We would be very fortunate to have someone with Chris’s skills and integrity serving our town.
Please join me at the Wolcott Republican Caucus on Aug. 18 at 6 p.m., at the Wolcott Town Highway Barn on Red Creek Road in support of Chris Loveless.

- Carol Graves, Wolcott

8/10/11
Community Service in Action
To the Editor:
On Thursday, July 28, I was at the Cottage Inn Restaurant for lunch. There was a pretty good crowd for a Thursday; suddenly, right in the middle of lunch, a fire alarm went off for Red Creek. Doug, the chef, stopped cooking lunch, rushed out of the kitchen, and answered “the call.” His wife looked around the restaurant with a calm demeanor and announced that lunch would be delayed due to her husband responding to the fire alarm.
To their credit, all the customers remained and about 45 minutes later Doug returned looking a little stressed and returned to his kitchen duties.
For me, several things occurred:
1) I had a great lunch at a reasonable price
2) I saw a small, locally-owned business put the community first before their need at a time that was not at all convenient.
3) All the customers remained loyal
4) A demonstration of public service at a time when the “great men and women” of our government were playing politics with the economy of our country, but someone in my community knew what was important and did it.
It was a great day to be part of the human race! Thank you to all the members of the Red Creek Fire Department.

- Lauren Dates, Victory