June 19, 2009 07:34 am
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Tri-Towns area
needs full hospital
Dr. Marianne Soden, chief executive
officer for the Tri-Town Regional
Hospital, is uninformed as to why The
Hospital in Sidney was closed.
The Hospital was not closed because
of a lack of community support. It was
closed because of a lack of imagination
and the ineptitude of the members of
the hospital and Sidney town boards.
They tried to cut costs by cutting services,
forcing patients to go elsewhere
and then claimed that community support
was lacking.
Before services were cut, the entire
third floor, except for those parts
dedicated to obstetrics and intensive
care, was filled with surgical patients.
The entire second floor was filled with
medical patients and peds.
After services were cut, surgical,
medical, peds, and intensive care patients
were all on the second floor.
This created a severe shortage of
beds, forcing ER patients to be transferred
to other hospitals.
The Tri-Town community can easily
support a full-service hospital. I
look forward to the day it will become
a full-service hospital again as one is
very much needed in our community.
Tania M. Benkovitz
Guilford
Cemetery vandals
cruel, thoughtless
First, thank you to Police Chief David
Halaquist and Officer Brian Laauser
for investigating the graffiti on the
Munn headstone in Walton Cemetery.
A job well-done.
I would like to know what is wrong
with the teenagers these days! I have
never in my life seen so much disrespect
for the deceased. My husband
and I went to the Walton Cemetery to
visit my sister’s grave, among other
relatives. We drove around and I was
appalled when I pointed out to my husband
what was spray-painted on the
Munn headstone.
Let me ask you two teenagers something.
What if that was a relative of
yours? Did you two think that the Walton
Police Department wouldn’t investigate
or nobody would notice? Perhaps
you two didn’t think everything through.
How would you feel if 666 and a red
heart with black border was spraypainted
on your family’s headstone? Do
you realize these headstones are not
cheap? Do you not have any morals?
I give our Walton Police Department
two big thumbs up for investigating
this matter. I hope these two teenagers
will be paying for a replacement
headstone for the owners. There is
no excuse in the world to be so cruel.
There is enough violence in this world.
Let these people rest in peace.
I also hope these two teenagers get
justice for what has been done. I can’t
imagine how the Munn family must
feel. My deepest sympathy to the Munn
family.
Karen S. Van Valkenburg
Walton
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