Protect our children

April is National Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month. And for a dozen years, we have placed pinwheels on our front pages in April to add focus to efforts to protect our most vulnerable residents. Abuse takes many forms, including physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and neglect.

A proud, honorable young man shows us the way

Mornings should ramp up with prayer, coffee, bacon, eggs and biscuits before one starts their day. Just as a baseball game should ramp up with a team prayer, stretching, warming up and the players and coaches taking their hats off while the National Anthem is played.

Cheers and jeers

THUMBS UP to having our community fully back. It has taken more than three years after the original “two weeks to flatten the curve,” but 2023 is shaping up to be the first full year since 2019 where everything is totally back to normal.

I’m not sure if more collecting is in the cards

When I was a kid, baseball cards were everything. Getting a new pack was like Christmas all summer long. I remember getting $5 in allowance as a child when packs of Topps cards were 50 cents each with that awful rock-hard gum inside.

Loss of our values

To the editor: More than 25 years ago my then-pastor Georgia Deadwyler preached a sermon “What is Truth,” with God’s word The Bible as true, correct and not erroneous or inaccurate. I thought of that sermon as I read Pastor James Lyons’ article in The Northeast Georgian on Feb. 24, 2023.

No need for hate

To the editor: I’ve read no small number of letters to this paper that make me angry, but the letter from Curtis Stinespring of Hoschton may be a contender for the most hate-filled, godless piece of writing yet.

Wisdom comes with age

To the editor: I am writing this article today to give you something to think about – goals, dreams and aging. Some of the greatest things are accomplished and appreciated in life when you are older, as well as some of the greatest memories. Something amazing can happen if we don’t give up.

Response to Mr. Crytzer

To the editor: Regarding Fritz Crytzer’s rant in the last issue – suck it up Fritz. Gov. Kemp had nothing to do with the Nashville church school shootings. It occurred because your Democratic Party is promoting the sexually confused and mentally ill as normal instead of perverted and unstable.

We must do better

The mass school shooting in Nashville Monday still weighs heavy on us today. Why did this have to happen, again? Why as of Thursday morning has this horrific tragedy still not been declared a hate crime? Why is there a polarizing, double standard now on everything?

Curiouser and curiouser

Curious is a word I’ve learned a new meaning for since moving to North Georgia. Growing up in South Georgia, I always associated being curious to someone being very interested in something. For example: That NeSmith boy sure is curious about how to catch more catfish.