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Published: July 01, 2008 12:01 am
Readers' Forum: July 1, 2008
A very bad place to discover porn
I am a lifelong resident of Terre Haute, and take pride in our city. While there are limitations to what our area offers, it is home and I do love living here. With this in mind, I have discovered a disturbing trend in one of my favorite weekend activities, attending yard sales.
This past weekend, with my 13- and 11-year-old daughters in tow, I began my weekly Saturday trek to the various yards hoping to find the items I didn’t know I couldn’t live without. Unfortunately, what I found at one sale was pornography.
This is the third such occasion this season that I have come across pornographic magazines or items set out among the Tupperware, old clothes, and well-read books. Keep in mind, at a few of these sales it is often children “manning” the money for their parents, or they are close at hand. Is this not disturbing? Does it not make parents uncomfortable to have their pre-teen daughters/sons collecting 50 cents from a person with a pornographic magazine in his/her hand?
I implore all yard sale enthusiasts to refrain from setting out such materials. Our children are exposed to adult situations enough as it is. Can’t we keep the yard sales clean? I’m sure you can find a more appropriate manner in which to dispose of your unwanted materials.
— Gina L. Goetz
Terre Haute
Flood response was well-handled
I would like to personally thank all the emergency responders who responded to the recent flooding in Vigo County. I think it’s time that someone gives all a job well done. Every thing that was accomplished took some time and effort to organize and implement.
EMA personnel were on the street at 11:30 p.m. June 6, a fully staffed Emergency Operations Center was established at the EMA Office at 5 a.m. on June 7, and a state of emergency was declared. The Emergency Operations Center ran 24 hours a day until Friday, June 13, at midnight.
Emergency calls for service started coming in at around 6 a.m. All local fire departments and Sugar Creek Boats 41, 41A, and 42, were dispatched and responded appropriately.
Our local resources were soon overwhelmed, and due to the call volume calls had to be prioritized. If it was a true emergency such as a medical emergency, help was dispatched immediately. If not, calls were listed and help was sent as soon as it was available.
The new State Mutual Aid system was activated, with some units traveling over 100 miles to get here. The following units responded from the system.
Boats: Terre Haute Boat, Fishers Boat 96, Fishers Boat 91A and 91B, Pike Township Boat, Mares Township Boat, Cicero Boat 21, Westfield Boat 81, Pendleton Boat 80, DNR Boats 1 and 2, ISP boat, private boat owners; Joe’s Air Boats Freedom and Independence from Terre Haute.
Engine Companies: Vincennes City E-1, Vincennes Township E-10, Harrison Township E-19, Washington Township E-91, Washington Fire Department E-8, Oaktown E-13, Daviess County E-14-1, Greencastle E-2, Crawfordsville E-3, Crawfordsville Chief 2, and Waynetown E-101.
The main thing to focus on here is that with the magnitude of this event, there was no loss of civilian or responder life. The only thing lost was property.
— James M. Holbert
Chief of Department
Sugar Creek Fire Department
West Terre Haute
Able assistance when flood hit
With fast approaching waters to our apartments on Saturday afternoon, June 7, four of us opted to leave, with the able assistance of many volunteers.
The volunteers, of all ages, could not have been more helpful, moving us into the boats and trucks — especially one of the truck drivers, Pat Moore from east of Terre Haute. Using his wife’s big truck, he drove us carefully through town to North Vigo High School (he had been doing that all day).
At Terre Haute North, dinner was served to a whole scope of different survivors.
Sad and heartbreaking stories permeated the place. The group included residents of nursing homes and families with babies.
For the night everyone seemed to be bedded down with a clean pillow, cot and blanket.
Thank you, American Red Cross, at North Vigo High School. You were indeed filling the immediate needs and services to many at a time of disaster.
— F. Cornett, P. Engelland,
I. Tuttle, R. Waldren
Terre Haute
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