Letters

On behalf of Lancaster County Partners for Youth board of directors, I would like to extend a huge thank you to the 45 businesses and organizations that sponsored our recent celebration honoring Founders Federal Credit Union and the founding board members of the Lancaster Medical Endowment.

We could not think of two more deserving groups of people to honor for their impact on youth and education in our community.

We all need to help make sure our elderly don’t fall for all the telephone scams. Scammers love to prey on the elderly. If an elderly person withdraws a large sum of money from his or her account, we need to find out why they are doing so.

Some of the older people are losing their entire retirement money because of these scams.

Do not give out your credit card information to these phone scammers. And if you receive any of these calls, get all the information you can from them and call the authorities.

Thank you so much to all of you who helped Gonzie’s Miracle Bikes for Kids continue to provide bicycles to children during the Christmas season.

Some of you donated bikes, while others donated money to help refurbish the bikes.

All of you helped bring joy and happiness to the hearts of many children.

Last year, we were able to provide bicycles for 47 children in 26 families. This year, with your help, we have been able to provide bikes for 63 children and 33 families.

My late father-in-law, Albert Rankin, used only two words to express himself when unbelievable circumstances arose.

Simple and to the point, he just uttered “beats me.”  I figure if Pop was living today, he would be speechless.

I have been sitting silently ’cause I do have Medicare, which costs us more than $200 a month and, of course, we have to cough up a huge co-pay when we go to our doctor to renew our same old prescriptions. I read about folks having to come up with hundreds of dollars for this so-called Obamacare.