EDITOR’S NOTE: Each Friday, The Gazette salutes those who make Emporia and the surrounding area a better place to live and work. The following folks deserve a pat on the back ...
The Emporia Arts Council, which presented their annual awards. Roy Gallup won Star Volunteer of the Year, Emporia High School was Star Business of the Year, and Dan Ferrell was Star Artist of the Year.
- The Loretto Langley Charitable Trust, which gave money to purchase new bleachers for Olpe High School.
- Naomi Nichols, who is retiring from the Salvation Army as office manager. She served the organization 40 years.
- Emporia law enforcement and emergency personnel who took part in Battle of the Badges. The Emporia Police Department won the challenge by earning more votes from people donating blood to the American Red Cross.
- The Humane Society of the Flint Hills, which will give away 10 to 14 dog houses. The organization is wanting people to apply for the houses.
- Emporia High Cheerleaders who received awards at the National Cheerleaders Association summer camp. More than 200 cheerleaders took part in the camp.
- Chad Buchholz, who won the Emporia Country Club’s men’s golf championship. Buchholz shot a 138 beating Chris Vahsholtz and Fletcher Harder by two strokes. Bonnie Marten won the women’s championship with a 192.
- Megan Hilbish and Danny Anderson, who finished well at the 4-H National Shooting Sports Invitational.
- Antonia Felix, who will have book signing of her new biography on Sonia Sotomayor.
Chris Walker
Editor & Publisher
empgazfan (anonymous) says...
I would like to nominate Planned Parenthood for a Pat on the Back. They have provided critical birth control information to many women, taught many about the numerous options to avoid unwanted children and provided abortions and abortion referrals to many women who were pregnant at the wrong time in their lives. They have gone a long way to ensure that every child is a wanted child, and unlike some, have never sought to encourage a young girl to become a mother against her better interests. God Bless Planned Parenthood.
July 24, 2010 at 9:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
"have never sought to encourage a young girl to become a mother against her better interests"
Are you talking about young boys? That is the only people I can think of that are encouraging young girls to have sex which as we all should know by now is the leading cause of pregnancy(I'm pretty sure it's the only one). Is there another group encouraging young girls to get pregnant? Huh, that is strange if there is. Oh you must be talking about rapists. I'm pretty sure we are all against them. So we see eye to eye on being against rapists then, definitely. I'm still not sure who the group is that encourages young women to get pregnant before they are ready though. Doesn't sound like a very good group to me. I always encourage people to fully think through there decisions before they act because ther are consequences to our action, whether we like it or not. I can't really imagine a group encouraging young women to get pregnant. Wow, I guess there are all kinds out there.
July 24, 2010 at 9:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
Actually, the best way to avoid unwanted children is to quit thinking that it's okay to label any human being as unwanted until that human has been in a court of law to determine that their existence is detrimental to society. If a female wants to avoid becoming pregnant, there is a sure-fire way to do that and Planned Parenthood doesn't address that. Planned Parenthood has not now, or ever, ensured that any child is wanted. They do not facilitate or even hint at promoting adoption which ensures that every child is placed with the person who does want them even though the pregnant female doesn't. It isn't the place of Planned Parenthood nor of the pregnant female to say if that child isn't wanted. They would have to ask every single person in the world first to know if that was really true.
Do not invoke the name of the Most High to bless those who have chosen they can judge in His place!!
July 24, 2010 at 10:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
empgazfan (anonymous) says...
Young boys do not encourage young girls to become mothers. They only half-enable the possibility. Church-going god-fearing anti-abortion people encourage young girls, once pregnant, to become mothers. You are correct, they are not a very good group. Again, god bless Planned Parenthood.
July 25, 2010 at 5:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
That isn't the group I was talking about. That group encourages young people to not get in that situation (pregnancy) to begin with. If a person doesn't find them self in a situation where they have to make extreme choices then they don't have to make them. If some choices are made on the road ahead of pregnancy it can be easily avoided. The sad thing is the only choice a lot of people care about anymore is the choice that terminates a pregnancy. As if there weren't a huge number of choices made before the pregnancy. Why not concentrate our efforts there? Pro-abortion people say they want to lower the number of abortion but all they ever talk about is how it's ok and good to get abortions. Why would you really want to lower the number of abortions if there is nothing wrong with it. That makes no sense. That is why when I hear pro-abortion people, like President Obama, say they want to lower the number of abortions I don't believe it. This is why I also believe that pro-abortion people aren't concerned about preventing the pregnancies in the first place. If they were concerned about preventing the pregnancies from happening in the first place maybe the two sides could work together for that common goal. But since pro-abortion people don't see anything wrong with abortion they aren't really interested in lower the number of them. Seriously, why would you want to lower the number of something that is good? That makes absolutely no sense.
July 25, 2010 at 7:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
empgazfan (anonymous) says...
"This was not an accident. There are no accidents. It was an avoidable tragedy. Many newspapers have stopped calling automobile crashes "accidents" and have started calling them what they are: crashes. Few if any are accidents; all are fully preventable."
August 9, 2010 at 7:33 p.m.
It's funny what you believe is "fully preventable" and what you believe isn't. LOL
August 10, 2010 at 9:34 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )