Letters to the Editor

Kudos to Linton

Family Pharmacy

To the Editor:

I couldn't help but notice the Linton Family Pharmacy ad on the front page of Thursday's paper (Aug. 5): "Cigarettes and Pharmacies -- what does not belong here?"

It raises an interesting question that can be taken even further -- cigarettes and hospitals, cigarettes and schools, cigarettes and restaurants, cigarettes and work places. Who likes to walk through all that smoke to get to their health care provider? A school event? The courthouse? A place of business? A daycare? I know I don't.

What type of message are our pharmacies, health care providers, schools, sending when they sell the products or don't have a comprehensive policy (not just in the buildings, but even on the property)?

The facts are in: Everyone knows the health and financial consequences of tobacco use, everyone knows there is no safe level of secondhand smoke.

Kudos to Linton Family Pharmacy for saying our health is more important than the profit tobacco sales brings in.

Nancy Cummings

Greene County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coordinator

Bloomfield

Family appreciates

recent help

To the Editor:

We would like to thank all of the volunteer firemen from Richland and Center townships who came to our rescue on July 13 when our garage and contents burned.

Thank you for saving our house.

You are great firemen and we appreciate you very much for all you do for your community. Thank you also to the volunteer fireman that stopped on his way home to help us before the fire trucks got there. We know you didn't have to stop and appreciate the help you gave us. Good bless you all.

Kenneth and Betty Edwards

Bloomfield

Can someone please

help with large cat

To the Editor:

Recently tracks from a large cat has been sighted in Ore Branch Creek in Bloomfield about two miles from the center of town. Also in the same area of Ore Branch Road a mountain lion has been sighted on several occasions.

Would it not be possible to capture the animal and relocate it to a less-populated area? Perhaps Crane might accept the animal and add it to the wildlife on the base? This mountain lion has my wife spooked. And when my little grandkids visit, I have to keep an ever watchful eye on them.

James A. Marusek

Bloomfield