Letters

During the holiday season, I had gone to Walmart with my $40 gift card to get some goodies.

After walking around the store some 20 minuetes, I checked my pocket for my card, just to make sure it was there. But, I found out that I had lost it.

I retraced my tracks, but no card. I was heartbroken and left the store teary-eyed.

In early January, I noticed in The Lancaster News someone had put an ad in the paper, “Gift card found, call to reclaim.”

Raise the gas tax?

Not until we know to the penny what it is funding now.

For many years, that gas tax money built roads. Then we didn’t need so many roads, but the money kept coming in. All that lovely money attracted political causes like garbage attracts flies at the local, state and federal levels. Now we need to use that money to repair roads, which we should have been doing for years.

First, we should take it back from places it doesn’t belong; only then do we add more tax money to the pile.

Lancaster City Council passed first reading for the changes proposed to the current annexation rules at the Jan. 13 council meeting.

What does this mean? Let’s take an example – three years ago the city attempted to annex five new lots in the Arrowood subdivision.

The city was required to post such intensions in the local newspaper, notify 100 percent of the proposed annexed property owners, notify the surrounding property owners and to have a posted public hearing where residents could speak and let their views be heard.

Thousands of former Springs employees visited Springmaid Beach located in the boondocks of an earlier-thriving Myrtle Beach known for its Pavilion and concentration of amusement rides, which lured mostly working folks for a weekend or the entire week during plant shutdown.

Like a coin, Myrtle Beach was on one side and everyone and everything was on the other side. Gosh, it was a place to just let it all hangout and toss cares to the wind.