Lincoln Library Shortens Sundays
Beginning March 2, the Lincoln Library at 326 S. Seventh will shorten its hours
of operation on Sundays. The library will now open at 12:30 p.m. and close at
4 p.m. The new Sunday hours are a cost-cutting measure. Starting May 11, the
library will be closed on Sundays for the summer. Sunday hours resume in the
fall on September 14.
Weapons are mostly a guy thing
Dear editor,
This is in response to Jace Aaron’s letter to the Times about her concerns
for the traditional nuclear family breaking down and how feminism has brought
chaos to America [“Divorce is still bad,” February 20]. Right now, every single
person in the world literally has a gun shoved into their face in the form of
a nuclear bomb. I do not think feminism has anything to do with this
since every one of those holding the nuclear trigger are male. I don’t know
about you, but I am pretty pissed off about it. I never voted for the development
of weaponry, and aren’t weapons mostly a guy thing anyway? What were they thinking,
developing this crap! They are about to get us all killed. On the other hand,
many of our Springfield people working for peace are men. That is admirable.
I would agree with Jace that children need lots of love, attention, and stability to grow up strong and mentally healthy. I do not think it has to be a man and a woman, but every child deserves to have parents who see parenting as the most important job they will ever have. Because it is the most important job anyone can have.
A.E. Logue
Springfield
Poll watcher
To the editor,
It will be interesting to see if Springfield elects someone who wanted to run
for mayor or someone who was told to!
Donald E. Palmer
Springfield
Suffer the Children
If we go to war against Iraq, our plan is to shoot 800 cruise missiles into Baghdad over the first two days of the war. It takes one cruise missile to kill Saddam Hussein, so who will be killed by the other 799 missiles? Hint: Civilian men, women, and children. The last time we fought Iraq, we killed 13,000 civilians. This number does not count the additional tens of thousands (one estimate is 70,000) who died from lack of safe water, food, medical care, etc.
I understand that many conservative Republicans don’t like “Wise Up!” nearly
as much as they did when Bill Clinton was president. I blame George Bush.
David Bruce
Canton
This article appears in May 8-14, 2003.
