Thank you all

Two small words that mean so much.

Thank you, to the Flower Mound EMS for getting me to Denton Regional Medical Cen­ter so quickly.

Thank you, to the nurses at DRMC for your wonderful care: Wanda (ER); Tammy, Lisa, Sarah, Whitney and Mira (ICU), and Renny and Norma (Telemetry).

Thank you, Dr. Kruger, Dr. May, surgeon Acuff and PA Kristi.

Thanks to all of you, my recovery is going well.

Paul (and Madelyn) Wouters,

Flower Mound

The truth is out there 

Response to Don Spaulding of Denton [Letters, April 25]: 

Mr. Spaulding, at the end of your letter to the editor, you asked where you could go to hear the truth from the pulpit. I am happy to respond to you.

I pastor Amazing Love Ministries at 231 W. Hickory St. I personally wanted to invite you to hear the truth. I believe we proclaim the truth: Jesus crucified, resurrected and coming again. He still saves from sin, delivers and heals. 

Luke 4:18-19 — “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” 

Our mission statement and purpose: Showing His amazing love to the poor, to the brokenhearted, to those in bondage, to the sick, to those who are hurting and to preach Jesus. 

Our motto is: “Experiencing the Amazing Love of Christ.” 

We hope you will come and experience what others are experiencing at Amazing Love Ministries. 

Pastor Gary R. Beal Jr.,

Denton

Religious persecution

I am quite angry at what now seems to be nothing more than religious persecution in regards to the forced removal of more than 400 infants and children from the Fun­damentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, especially now that the phone call that started all of this seems to have been nothing more than a hoax.

Although I do not condone plural marriages and being married at a very young age, these are biblical principles to this church.

This church has set itself away from society so that members may raise their children according to their religious beliefs, and as far as I can see they have not harmed anyone.

Whose children will be taken away from their families next just because their parents do not conform to the local society?

Jerry Borchert,

Denton

Bottom-10 list

Ten things I hated about the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival:

1. “The ditch.” Covering the thing and its green, slimy water would give Quakertown     Park several more acres of usable space.

2. The narrow stone bridge. Get in line.

3. The “rock creek” on the far south side of the park. Good luck getting across that thing.

4. In the south park, the food booths, the art booths and the seating areas were all jammed together. Whose idea was it to put that string of booths next to the ditch, taking up 50 seating spots in front of the main stage?

5. The people who brought dogs even when asked not to.

6. The strollers. The baby-buggy kind and the extremely slow-walking human kind.

7. The people who parked their cars where they knew they shouldn’t. And evidently, no one enforced parking rules.

8. The people who came at or after an act was scheduled to begin, elbowed their way toward the front and then stood and obscured the view of the others who came hours earlier for a decent seat.

9. The schedule, which did not indicate what kind of music the bands played. How about a word or two on that schedule to help us with our selections?

10. The festival was only three days long!

Next week: the 100 things I loved about the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival.

David Martin,

Denton

Inaction breeds anger

Ignorance is bliss?

Maybe, except when I and approximately 140 other low-income seniors find ourselves at the tender mercies of such ignorance.

Curious? Drop by a Denton Housing Authority board meeting!

I did on April 22, when three items concerning the fate of Heritage Oaks were listed for discussion and action.

No action took place!

Why?

There were three of the five members present, sufficient for a quorum. Sadly, it seems that board members proceed under the rules of the childhood game, “Mother, May I?” rather than the more standard Robert’s Rules of Order.

When the contract options were explained by DHA Chief Executive Officer Shirley Hensley, two of the members present forgot to say, “Mother, may I?” to the game master before showing a preference for an option he didn’t want.

When he refused to say, “Yes, you may,” by making a motion, the matter was dropped.

I guess only the game master can make a motion?

We need to follow Robert’s Rules of Order, not some childish game.

At least, Mr. Mayor, let us have board members who are not children.

Nancy Van Vlack,

Denton

Seven lanes of noise

TxDOT planned the George Bush Highway as an eight-lane regional highway.

FM2181/Teasley/Swisher was planned as a 4-lane boulevard, but by 2013 will be seven noisy lanes of traffic passing through southwest Denton, Corinth and Hickory Creek.

Much of this traffic, probably including big rigs and semis, given the future size of FM2181, will be non-local traffic bound for D/FW airport and the North Dallas Tollway.

Why is TxDOT presently finalizing plans for this virtual highway without including community-friendly noise abatement devices such as the sound walls proposed for FM2499 and the new DCTA rail line?

Will TxDOT at least use the UT-designed “Superpave” wear surface system employed in San Antonio to cut tire-pavement noise?

If we don’t speak up now to TxDOT to ask for noise abatement, we’ll have to shout to be heard above the din.

Virginia Holt,

Corinth

Risky business 

Voting for Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenagers. Need I say more?

Brock C. Ostrander,

Aubrey