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Turning a blind eye to world’s problems

Some 500,000 people in Gaza are facing imminent death from starvation. We are financing this. Their blood is on our hands. Starvation is a very slow, painful death. Elon Musk’s Tesla company paid no taxes last year. That is why we are broke. We are living in a time when there is enough food for everyone. We have the technology and resources for everyone to have food and clean water. Water is life. With water you can grow your own food. But we are choosing to invest in weapons instead of life. We have inherited a world of amazing complexity. We are recording its breakdown with ...

Fly U.S. flag while remembering sacrifices

On Monday, the city of Dunkirk and a number of other area communities will honor its local veterans who had served or paid the ultimate price to protect and defend our country. Our country lists five official wars along with two police actions in Korea and Vietnam and the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Growing up it was called Decoration day. It was a day to honor all the Civil War soldiers who had paid the ultimate price. May 30 was the official date picked because it was at that time the flowers in Washington were at full bloom. As time passed, some states had issues with ...

The forgotten founding father

For most of us when we think of the founding fathers of our nation we think of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin or John and Samuel Adams. However, Dr. Joseph Warren, who played a major role in events leading to the rebellion, remains our forgotten “founding father.” Who was Warren? Brought up on a farm yet superbly educated he has been called a combination of a working class farmer and a gentleman scholar allowing him to move in all levels of Boston society. Historians believe that in the years leading up to the Revolution his leadership role was equal if not ...

Rounding Third: Big dream of exercise machines

Dream was the word I associated with exercise machines in the old days. Not the dream of ownership, but the dream of possibility. The machine promised the ultimate transformation. I was going to become the new me. Now, at my advanced age with dashed dreams, I am giving up. I decided that this old me will not be owning a new-me machine. Ever again. Although I can’t say I didn’t try. In my late 40s, I decided that I was starting to slip. A few pounds a year had crept on and I wasn’t liking the side view in the full-length mirror. What to do? I went to Weight Watchers – for ...

Hanover Center company in limbo

In 1959, Hanover Center firemen were part of Silver Creek Fire Department. A group of members who lived in and around Hanover Center became Station 2 setting up a Fire Hall in the old one-room school building in Hanover Center. Later, we became Hanover Hose Company 1 and was formed as an individual Fire Company. In 1969 a new fire hall was built on land donated by Bill and Tessie Miller on Hanover Road. We held Tractor Pulls, Mud Bogs, Chicken BBQ’s and donations from the residents to fund the fire dept. Hanover Hose has always supported the other four fire departments in the ...

Welcoming a new pope

In the midst of the daily swirl of bad news from across the world, last week brought some good news—the election of a new Pope. I am not a Roman Catholic, but it is always exhilarating to experience the spiritual uplift that comes when a new pontiff is selected. It is good to have a world leader who brings spiritual perspective and continuity and who is not caught up in the day-to-day political battles that are always occurring between nations around the globe. The Pope, as leader of his church, stands for something more. There was elation in this country that the new Pope was ...