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To the editor: Mayor John Borrow, I am appalled at the most disappointing lack of support in a real time of need for my wife who is a Nationally Certified Emergency Registered Nurse. My wife is currently working under contract at the women’s prison in Alto. She spends three days a week renting a hotel room and eating at local merchants’ businesses in your town.
On Monday after 9 p.m., Lois was getting ready to leave the hotel and head back to our home in Cleveland, Tenn. She found that her battery was dead. She called AAA who advised that they were over three hours away from helping her. I recommended that she contact the local police and see if they could take 5-10 minutes and jump her car. She was advised by dispatch that the police in Cornelia will not help a woman in distress.
I have to ask what part of serving the people does that fall under? I ended up driving 3 ½ hours to come and help my wife. I am disabled, so having to make a 7 hour round trip drive was not easy for me. I did notice when I got to town that a police officer and a deputy sheriff were sitting in a parking lot hanging out together.
My wife during the first year of the COVID pandemic was working with Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals testing their treatment for the virus. This nurse of over 40 years would go into the houses of the sick and dying day after day putting her life on the line to help find a cure for COVID. Your town and the police should be ashamed of this kind of treatment not just to visitors but also to first responders to Cornelia. I assure you if one of your officers was down on the street with an injury or emergency of some kind, my wife would take the time to care for them.
Rev. Scotti G. Cunningham
Cleveland, Tenn.