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Letters

  • letters 02/24/16

    Home Tour loses a friend

        It is with great sadness that we and other members of the Smith Mountain Lake Charity Home Tour management board learned about the recent passing of local resident David Lowry, a dear friend and supporter of the Home Tour.

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  • Letters 02/03/16

    Christians
    and guns

        Recently Mr. Rick Howell wrote  about Christians and guns that deserves a thoughtful response.

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  • Letter 01/27/16

    Straight Outa Bedford?

        Straight Outa Bedford? Are we that dangerous a place?
        I guess the newly elected Supervisor Tommy Scott is trying to make a name for himself, calling for the county to allow permitted county workers to carry concealed handguns at work. Not a good idea.

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  • Letters 01/13/16

    A return to
    Southern Civility

        When Robin and I chose Bedford as our final home, she was returning to her hereditary roots and we both were getting a small town like where we grew up. 

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  • Letters 12/30/15

    Thanks for Charity
    Chug support

        Thanks to the Community for Support of the “Charity Chug”
        On Wednesday, December 9, the Smith Mountain Lake Railroad Group presented to Lake Christian Ministries checks totaling $3100., the contributions generously made by members of  our community and visitors from impressive distances who came to our model train open houses.

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  • Letters 12/23/15

    Holiday
    concert thank you

        Bower Center for the Arts would like to thank the Town of Bedford with a Virginia Commission for the Arts’ Grant for co-sponsoring a free holiday concert at Bedford Middle School on December 11. 

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  • Letters 12/16/15

    True religious fanaticism

        I’m compelled to highlight the counter-factuals and self-contradicting irony in Rick Howell’s November 25 column “The Bloody Results of Religious Fanaticism.”
        Howell conjectured that the “instigator” of the recent attack on innocents in Paris “violated the real teachings” of Islam. Evidently, only Grand-Imam Howell’s interpretation of the Qur’an and Hadith understands the attacks thus.

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  • Letters 12/09/15

    Source of
    comfort

        As a new resident in Bedford County, I have taken note of the significant number of young people that have lost their lives in auto accidents. As a parent that has lost a child, I would like to share a source of comfort, especially during this time of year. (My youngest son was an Iraq War veteran - a victim of PTSD)
        Compassionate Friends is an international support group for parents and families after a child dies.

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  • Letter 12/02/15

    More info needed

        I just read in my free Thanksgiving edition of the Bedford Bulletin that Liberty High School has hired a new varsity basketball coach. The seven paragraph article relates the new coach’s experience, his intuitive reaction after meeting with the Principal and another coach, and his outlook for the upcoming season.

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  • Letters 11/18/15

    A Letter of Thanks

        The board members of Bedford Habitat for Humanity would like to thank the many people who bought tickets for our raffle at Centerfest on October 10, 2015. The Winner of the 12’ x 8’ shed was Kathleen Mitchell.

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