THANKS FOR SUPPORT Dear Editor: To family, friends, and acquaintances of the Methow Valley: Thank you for your cards, flowers, phone calls, visits and kind words. They have all been an inspiration to get well and come home soon from my hospitalization at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. I feel grateful and […]
Letters
June 5, 2013
PATCHING AND PAVING Dear Editor: Thanks are probably due to the city for repairing East Second Avenue on the low-income apartments block. Instead of a complete repaving like we had hoped for, it was patched again like it has been for the past 10 years I’ve had to drive it. But, hey, you missed a […]
May 29, 2013
AN APOLOGY Dear Editor: I would like to apologize to the person I did not stop for as they were crossing Glover Street on Wednesday, May 22. After not stopping for them, I parked to drop off my wife, and as this person walked by on the sidewalk, we had an unpleasant exchange of energy […]
May 22, 2013
TOWARD A CURE Dear Editor: On behalf of the Chavey family I would like to thank all of the generous people of the Methow Valley who made this year’s Cystic Fibrosis Bike-a-Thon a huge success. On hundred people participated and we raised over $10,000 for critical research. This wonderful event would not be possible without […]
May 15, 2013
SEE OUR STUDENTS Dear Editor: Hats off to Room One for pulling together Methow Voices, a powerful play based on interviews with local teens. Sharing community voices through events like this helps build understanding and awareness. More events are worth the community’s participation. Today (Wednesday, May 15) at 6 p.m., Liberty Bell seniors will present […]
May 8, 2013
FOCUS ON FACTS Dear Editor: In an April 24 letter to the editor Betty Wagoner reports that “a friend who lives in Arlie, Mont. … states that the wolves have completely destroyed the elk herds in his area.” That sounded quite untrue, so I checked the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks website and read their […]
April 24, 2013
SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION Dear Editor: The competing statistics on public school performance are a bit overwhelming (Solveig Torvik, “Hello?” column, March 27, and “Consider the conditions,” letter to the editor, Ed Parker, April 10). I agree with Mr. Parker that underlying poverty in the United States is a serious, contributing factor in poor school performance. […]
April 17, 2013
CONSIDER THE CONDITIONS Dear Editor, I appreciate the main the thrust of Ms. Torvik’s article about Finland’s educational system (March 27), but I want to take issue with the cursory treatment of the United States scores in the 2009 PISA test that elevated Finland to a top position and relegated the United States to a […]
