Opinion

Give Conway a chance in November

To the editor:

I’m taking this opportunity to thank the many kind people who have opened doors for us during this campaign for the Nov. 2 general election.

Now I’d like to ask a question: If computers, Facebook, YouTube and Topix could be weighed on the left hand, and experience, common sense, honesty and integrity could be weighed on the right, which hand would get your vote?

The right hand will get my vote every time. I consider [judge-executive candidate] John Wayne Conway to be that right hand.

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of meeting Maralyn Lewis and her mother, Ammiegail Simpson.

Maralyn is 8 years old with curly red hair, pale skin and a beautiful smile.

While we talked, I discovered that Maralyn loves watching shows on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. She also loves to sing and wants to be a singer when grows up so she can buy a house with chandeliers and get her mother a maid.

Column as I see ’em …

It’s good to know that in these days of state employees being forced to endure pay cuts couched as furloughs that the governor’s office has the wherewithal to import a nurse from Anderson County to give Steve Beshear his annual flu shot.

Reports are that last Friday the county’s health director and one of its nurses traveled to Beshear’s office to make sure the flu bug doesn’t bite him.

How about those sunsets?

It’s like having our own personal drive-in screen, with a different show every night.

Fall officially arrives tomorrow and I hope we have some leaves left on the trees. Rain would help.

I was doing a little math the other day, adding up the recorded rain we’ve had, as recorded by the National Weather Service. They say we’ve had over 23 inches, since the beginning of May. My Oregon Weather Station tells me I’ve had just under 16 inches here on the farm, in the same time period. It’s dry.

Voters need to choose better judge-executive

To the editor:

Where is our county’s government?

I am curious to know where our governing body has been during the alleged inappropriate conduct that has occurred in the county judge-executive’s office and the county road department office.

What the heck is it with you dot-edu types who keep bashing me over the head for a short blurb about the local library’s finances in my editorial a few weeks ago?

The Sept. 1 letters to the editor featured a scathing rebuke of the blurb from a local grade school teacher who doubles as the library board’s secretary.

This week’s featured letter from Russell Barnett — he of a dot-edu e-mail address, too — does more of the same, including a demand that I suspend myself as editor.

Forty-eight days.

Not counting today, that is the exact number of days left until the general election Nov. 2.

Voters have 48 days to make up their minds about who to vote for, and those running for office have 48 days to get their messages to the masses.

Here at The Anderson News, we’ve come up with a way to kill both of these birds with one stone — our website.

Debate its merits all you like, you left- and right-fielders, but all you need to know about the local effects of the federal government’s stimulus handouts can be reduced to a ham sandwich.

Well, a ham sandwich and chocolate shake, actually.

Here’s an allegorical tale of a man who became too used to a good thing, and how he dropped dead the moment that good thing was taken away.

The weekend of Aug. 27-29, the Lawrenceburg Pack 38 Scouts held their annual campout at the Anderson County Community Park.

The Lion’s Pavilion became the center with families putting up their tents around and down the street toward the baseball field. Everyone was looking forward to an active and fun weekend and no one was disappointed.