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 […]
Letters
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 […]
