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Your View - letters to the editor
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Vatamin D guidelines have changed over time |
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
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Holly Wadeson
Valley City Getting enough vitamin D is a key to good health, as a recent Your Health column in the Times-Record, “Vitamin D may increase heart health,” pointed out on Feb. 17.
Vitamin D is best synthesized in the skin from exposure to the sun. The concern for us in North Dakota (and for anyone north of Oklahoma City) is that we are unable to get adequate sunshine for many months out of the year. This is when fortified foods or a supplement may be necessary.
Many researchers believe an intake of 400 international units a day is too low. They now recommend 800 to 1,000 IU of vitamin D for those older than age 60, whereas 400 IU is still an adequate amount for birth to age 59.
If you are not obtaining adequate vitamin D from the sun or food, choose supplements containing “cholecalciferol,” or D3, because it’s the same kind of vitamin D our bodies produce naturally from sunlight. (D2 is made by plants.)
Holly Wadeson |
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Sports teaches values of life |
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
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Bob Wieland
Dazey I am writing this letter as a concerned parent.
I was raised on a farm north of Valley City. I grew up with some strict guidelines, with respect being at the top.
I feel it is essential to raise our children in this kind of environment. Respect, character and strong ethics are very important.
I would like to ask a question: “Why are we involved in sports?” The simple answer to the question is to teach life. What I mean by this is allow coaches, teachers and administrators to pass these core values on to our children.
I have been involved with basketball for many years, and would like to raise a concern of mine.
The 2009-10 basketball season has been filled with controversy. Valley City played in Class B this year; many communities had a problem with this.
Some communities took the initiative to get a radio announcer off the air if their school was playing. Many seniors in Valley City aren’t playing basketball. Are we as parents, coaches and administrators teaching the values we were taught? No!
I would like to give you a scenario which I feel parallels life:
If I were running a business or a school or in charge of a varsity sport, I would want to do it right. In business, the goal is to be profitable, well-run and well-respected.
In a school, high test scores, high graduation rates, respectful students, honesty, integrity. In a varsity sport, all of these apply. It is a competition. The best team should be placed on the court.
It is OK to tell our children no. Hard work, discipline and the fundamentals of life can all be passed on.
The basketball team should be a way to show other people that we as parents, teachers and coaches are doing a good job teaching these values.
I hope all who read this can see what I am illustrating. Sports are a good teaching tool and I hope they are used to teach the right lessons.
My challenge to all parents, coaches, teachers and administrators is to ask yourself if you truly are instilling these values to our young people.
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Great entertainment and tradition await |
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
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Connie Gullickson
Spiritwood
I am urging people to get out and attend the special activities next week at the North Dakota Winter Show.
The Country Hoedown and Winter Show Luncheon, plus the gospel at the Hi-Liner Activity Center, are first-class entertainment. For $10, you can be entertained at the hoedown from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday. If that isn’t reasonable for a whole day of entertainment, I don’t know what is.
It’s been a long winter, and it’s time to get going. If you think there is nothing to do in Valley City, get out to the Winter Show and support the people who are trying to keep a tradition alive.
As I read the program, both the women’s and men’s divisions have done a very good job of providing something for everyone at the Winter Show.
Last but not least, being an Elvis Presley fan myself, I can tell you that Bill Schott does a super and very tasteful job of doing a tribute to Elvis, which he will do during the hoedown. So all you Elvis fans: You will be disappointed if you miss it.
Let’s get going. It’s been a long winter.
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Privileged to serve and volunteer in community |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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Logan Kinslow
Valley City I wish to thank each and every one of you who has given me the privilege of being able to volunteer and serve the people living in this fine community. This privilege, and honor, have helped me be a better person and make my world better by being able to do something for the community. I would like to think of this as a way of passing it forward to someone else.
Although I will soon leave this community in search of new experiences and opportunities, I will remember all of you warmly in my heart.
Before I leave, I’d like to extend a special thank-you to all the organizations that honored me by allowing me to volunteer: City-County Health District, Barnes County Senior Citizens Center, Valley City Police Department and all the veterans groups.
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Double standards plague decisions |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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Lloyd Nelson
Valley City To Barnes County Assistant States Attorney Lee Grossman:
In Thursday’s Times-Record, there was an article concerning a youngster who used a rude name when addressing an African-American (“Ruling upheld in VC racial epithet case,” Page 1).
You stated that you were very happy with the North Dakota Supreme Court’s decision regarding this incident: “It proves you can’t go around calling people names ... and hiding behind free speech.”However, when I recently spoke with you, Mr. Grossman, concerning the racial incident that was done to three of us Valley City residents by a former city administrator, I was told no damage was done.
To refresh readers’ memory, Dave Johnson, while working as city administrator for a black mayor, created a Web site that stated I was a white supremacist and supported for mayor by the Ku Klux Klan. This Web site was created by a person who had been in Valley City for only five months prior to the election. He claimed he didn’t use city time, equipment or records to create the Web site. Johnson didn’t admit to creating it for eight months, or until the incumbents were firmly seated in office. Only when he knew we were getting close to the truth about who was behind the Web site did he admit it.
During the time following, the city commissioners did nothing to investigate, which might indicate some of them were involved in its creation. The city attorney did nothing, the states attorney did nothing.
Our reputations have been tarnished forever by Valley City’s former city administrator, and we are supposed to accept that it was all right because Mr. Johnson is protected by the free speech amendment?
Mr. Grossman, where are my rights as a Norwegian who has worked all my life, raised a family, paid my bills and taxes?
Are you ready to take this to the Supreme Court?
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Let readers have the facts |
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Wanda Gage
Oriska I was so excited to see an article in your paper about the “Take back Washington” event held in Bismarck on Feb. 12 (“Rally by ND GOP, conservatives draws 900,” Feb. 15).
Upon reading it, I became very dissapointed in the Associated Press writer. I was there and the writer totally missed the point of the rally.
Next time, choose a reporter who will report the goal of the event, not his or her opinion.
Please report facts and let your readers form their own opinions.
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Benefits of abolishing property tax abound |
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
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Keith Colville
Valley City Taxes
Benefits of abolishing property tax abound
Have you ever thought what it would be like if you did not have to pay property taxes?
1) The government couldn’t take your property from you if you couldn’t pay your “rent” (property taxes). Sole ownership of private property is the very essence of freedom.
2) A couple of years ago, the state changed the confiscation law on delinquent taxes from five years to three years. Perhaps they will someday reduce it even further to suit their fiscal convenience.
3) With no property tax, you would not have to worry about the assessor being able to enter your home.
4) You would be able to improve your property or home without being penalized through higher taxes. At present, property tax encouorages community deterioration.
5) What does the economic development group use for incentives to attract new buildings and industry? The answer is they give property tax exemptions to new businesses. If waiving some property taxes for a limited period is beneficial, wouldn’t eliminating all property taxes forever work best of all. If not, why not?
6) Every dollar not spent on property tax could be spent in the community creating a taxable multiplier effect.
7) North Dakota would be the only state with no property tax. In the context of the most radical tax-and-spend Congress in American history and its assault on small business, can you imagine the building boom and industries that would consider starting up or relocating here?
8) North Dakota has more than 20 sources of revenue; property tax is only one. If, for example, you replaced all property tax with a sales tax, it would amount to about a 2.5 percent levy, and it would bring more taxpayers into the system. This difference would not have to be made up by sales tax alone, it could also come from income tax as well as taxes on gas, oil, coal, wind energy, tobacco, lottery revenues and other state resources.
9) Presently, schools receive 70 percent of their revenue from the state, so what would another 30 percent amount to? The same system could be used to fund counties, cities and townships.
10) As of now, 53 percent of the people in Valley City pay 100 percent of property tax!
If you like the idea of no property tax, please come to Pizza Corner at 7 p.m. Friday for free pizza and learn more. Hope to see you there.
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