Kudos to Steve Lambert, Ray Moore and the Fayetteville Disc Golf Association for the excellent work with making disc golf available for youngsters in the area.
All these outstanding volunteers are providing a fun and healthy sport that is available for all kids, that requires no special equipment, no special uniforms, and importantly, no fee to play.
Getting kids outside in the fresh air and away from the TV and video games for a while is a character-building experience.
With disc courses installed at elementary schools, middle schools and city parks, this is truly a win-win for everyone during school hours and for free time play any time. It may be a new concept, but it’s good old-fashioned exercise to help build strong little bodies.
Bravo, Disc Golf Association, for making a diff erence.
BILLIE JO STARR
Fayetteville
NOBODY GETS
OUT ALIVE
Iappreciate Rev. Lowell Grisham’s articles so much. It is very reassuring that a religious attitude can indeed encompass the capacity to be compassionate, fair, sensible, kind, humane, inclusive, rational and just. Of course, being a woman, as well as a middle-aged woman, makes me especially value attitudes that are fair and non-prejudicial.
How we treat the most helpless among us, including all animals, who are totally dependent on our largesse, says so much about us as a people, and even defi nes us and our values as a nation. I imagine most of us hope God will treat us with more mercy and kindness than we have treated other people and animals. Aren’t these the things religion should be involved with, the demonstration of God’s love and caring? We don’t need to be taught any more about hate and being judgmental.
Like Paul Newman’s character said in that wonderful movie “Hud,” “No one here gets out alive.”
Maybe if we realized we are all here just a while and then we are gone, we could try for the best for everyone.
CAROL HOPKINS
Springdale
From Hero
To Not
When Senator Feinstein stood up to the CIA she became a hero of mine. Now she is saying the CIA will help decide what parts of her 6,300-page report on them to declassify. She is no longer a hero.
We paid for that report to be made and we need the information to hold our politicians accountable.
DORIS DEHNE
Fayetteville
PROGRESSIVES ARE DO-GOODERS
Hiram Cooper (Public Viewpoint, April 3) says he has identifi ed 49 initiatives whereby progressives are attempting to take over America. He boldly asserts progressives “have little or no concern for the health and welfare of Americans.”
He repeats some of the many erroneous claims he has previously made about Common Core. He sees it as a plot to “brainwash” our children and destroy our nation.
One can only wonder how much Mr. Cooper knows about the progressives for whom he has so much fear and contempt. I can help him.
To begin with, we progressives don’t look much different from your other neighbors. We don’t wear red suits, don’t have horns on our heads, and don’t carry pitchforks. And we don’t eat our young.
We progressives are largely known by what we do. The vast majority of us obey the law, pay our taxes, support our religious communities, serve in the military and other avenues of public service, and do many of the other things that patriotic Americans generally do.
There’s one area in which we progressives really shine. A disproportionate number of us are social do-gooders. We are big on volunteering for charities and religion. We raise money for United Way, volunteer at hospitals, lead in Scouting, tutor at literacy centers, work for cleaner environment, and work in dozens of other ways to serve the last, the least, and the lost.
Most of us aren’t really interested in taking over anything, least of all a whole country. We wouldn’t know what to do if we got hold of it. We’re too tired doing everything else we do.
Those who have progressive neighbors should feel glad, not fearful or paranoid. Every street and every community is better because they’re there. And that’s good news.
SANDY WYLIE
Bella Vista