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Voice of the people
Mission has home for those without
I recently read the letter on the editorial page about the two elderly gentlemen who were seen together in the freezing cold. I do not know these gentlemen's situation, but I can tell you that there is a place to find shelter, a place that has been providing that and much more since 1937, and that place is the Huntington City Mission.
How do I know this so well? Because right at this moment, the mission is providing shelter for my wife, son and myself. Without their help and open doors, my family and I could be outside as well. Remember this holiday season and even more so during these economic times that there are quite a few right now only one paycheck away from being homeless and that the Huntington City Mission's doors, with your prayers and thoughts, will always be open.
Happy holidays! The mission is a real blessing to me and my family right now in our time of need.
Thomas Hood
Huntington
Patients deserve better treatment
Going to the doctor's office is generally a bad experience. You wait anywhere from one to three hours, sometimes even four, before you even get in to see the doctor. Many times I have called for an appointment, an appointment for tests or to inquire about medication, and they don't even bother to call back. I find these things to be very inconsiderate. My time is just as valuable as the doctor's or that of the people who work behind the desks. To add injury to insult, if you are 15 minutes late, they will say you have to reschedule.
I have been to doctors' offices in several states where you are treated like a human being and not like you are a number. I have never waited more than 15 minutes at an out-of-town doctor's office. I have been to Columbus, Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic and California, and they are very friendly in those offices.
We pay the doctors here for a service, and they act like they are doing us a favor. They are getting paid for their services, and very well I might add. We deserve better treatment. If people would complain and walk out and not wait hours and hours, this might change. We need to do something about this.
My doctor's office was to schedule testing for me, and they have not called me back. It has been three weeks. It took two and a half weeks to get me into their office for an appointment, so for six weeks I have suffered, and nothing has been done to help me. How long do I and others have to wait before something is done to correct mine or other's health problems?
Kathy Caldwell
Huntington
Atheists can't run Christian country
I read an article in the Voice of the People, and the writer was right. I, too, am tired of the atheists trying to run everything.
They do this because we don't have anyone to stand up for what's right and wrong and tell the atheists enough is enough. Everything the atheists want, this government lets them have their way. They didn't want prayer in school, the Nativity displayed in some places, the Ten Commandments out so anyone could see them, don't want the word of God in anything. This doesn't seem to be a Christian nation anymore. No wonder this nation has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Between Bush and the atheists, God is getting tired of people denouncing him. Look what shape this nation is in. Do you think that God will help any nation that lets the atheists run everything? I don't think so. There's only one unforgivable sin, and I think that's not believing in God.
So I say if the atheists are so disturbed by the word of God and the Nativity displays, just put them all on an island by themselves because the Christian people are tired of hearing all the garbage the atheists have to say. So keep your mouths shut. I'd rather people think I'm a fool than to open my mouth with all the garbage you atheists say; then people know you are a fool. All you have to do is to listen to an atheist and you can tell they are uneducated.
I'm not judging them. God will do that in due time, but I'm afraid the atheists are in for a rude awakening.
Betty McCoy
Milton
