‘Caring people’

help in battle

Editor, OBSERVER:

Thank you to everyone for your prayers and support during my treatments for cancer and for the benefit held for me on June 4. A special thanks to Gary and Beth Dudek and Gene and Jana Tarnowski, chairpersons for the benefit, along with all the committee members, the kitchen and dinner crew, and “team Julie” workers.

Thanks to Michael Hund for providing the live music. I am grateful to the First Ward Falcons Club for hosting the event.

Thank you to all the individuals, family, friends, neighbors, classmates from SCCS and JBC, members of Blessed Mary Angela Parish, former co-workers from the Chautauqua County Home, clubs, organizations, and businesses for the donations, gift baskets and other large prizes, gift cards and all the cards and well wishes. I was truly overwhelmed by the turnout, and it was wonderful to see so many caring people. Many commented that they could feel the love in the room.

Thank you again to all of you and God bless you!

JULIE ANN MROCZKA,

Dunkirk

Prison work already tough enough

Editor, OBSERVER:

Gov. Kathy Hochul and her band of Legislator apostles have struck again. Just when state Department of Correctional Services didn’t already have enough problems, they forced the HALT Act — Humane Alternatives to long term Solitary confinement — down everyone’s throats. This has recently led to inmate deaths and serious assaults on staff. Just within the last week serious assaults have occurred at the Collins Correction facility causing one officer to remain at ECMC for a weeks’ time to recover from these vicious attacks.

The work was already stressful enough and to add a free rein with zero penalties, now gives these vicious criminals a green light to attack at will. If a convicted felon cannot obey the rules of society on the street, he is moved out of society and placed into prisons and jails. When you remove a tool from a criminal who couldn’t obey rules inside the prisons, what is left to protect our public servants? Do they not deserve better?

It is time that this governor focus her attention more on her public servants that protect society and she protect those men and women. She is focused more on rewarding criminal behavior than the lives of our officers. Why cannot she speak up for them?

Vincent Blasio,

West Seneca