Opinion
Letter: 'White Cane' campaign raises $1,135
Jun 9, 2016
To the editor:
On Saturday, May 7, Lake City Lions Club members conducted an event known as “White Cane Day.”
This event was held to help create continued public awareness of blindness and diseases, and to collect donations to assist those who are afflicted with such a difficulty. To this day,...
Legion Auxiliary President: It's time to focus on veterans
Jun 9, 2016
Editor’s note: This speech was delivered at the Lake City Memorial Day Ceremony on May 30 in Patton Park.
On this Memorial Day I’m starting the introduction to the ceremony different from years past. For thousands of veterans returning from war, the war isn’t over. They suffer from post traumatic...
Letter: More interested in money than patients
Jun 9, 2016
To the editor:
I would like to express my disappoinment and anger with the mess Mayo Clinic has made of our medical clinic.
I suggest we do whatever we have to to boycott the Lake City Mayo Health System until they bring our doctors back.
Mayo Clinic is obviously more interested in money than the...
Letter: More questions than answers
Jun 8, 2016
To the editor:
While I cannot put this as eloquently as John and Judy Mead did last week, or tell you statistics and numbers about it, I can tell you turning Hwy. 61 into three lanes is a bad idea. I don’t know what three lanes would do for us that four lanes cannot.It is well known to citizens of...
Letter: Save parking for park visitors
Jun 8, 2016
To the editor: As I was driving down Lakeshore Drive by the play park different times I have wondered about who actually is parking there. It is a great place for families to stop and let the kids have some fun or stop for a picnic as they are driving down the highway.Some weekends it appears that...
Letter: Loss of MDs inexcusable
Jun 8, 2016
To the editor: Mother Mayo’s pillage of Lake City is entirely inexcusable. I’m referring to what must be the departure of three extremely well trained, well qualified and experienced well liked MDs as well as a well qualified and liked nurse practitioner.They have abruptly resigned or retired from...
Letter: Slow traffic, reroute trucks
Jun 8, 2016
To the editor: We live on North Lakeshore Drive and witness the daily impact of fast-moving traffic on Highway 61 (also known as Lakeshore Drive). We have been hearing reports of various proposals for the state resurfacing project, which is scheduled for 2019.One such proposal includes the...
Letter: Does Mayo Meet Our Needs?
Jun 2, 2016
To the editor:
It used to be that physicians would settle down in a community and devote their entire lives to caring for their neighbors.
Lake City was like that not to long ago. We appreciated that our doc knew us, knew our families, our medical history, and what drugs worked with our bodies. It...
The Old Curmudgeon - 6-2-16
Jun 2, 2016
The Tour de Pepin is the next big thing! Hundreds of bicyclists will wend their way around the lake (or at least part of it ) on this Saturday. It is a major event that promotes healthy exercise in addition to giving a boost to businesses that are fortunate enough to have locations within throwing...
Letter: 200 summer guests welcomed
Jun 2, 2016
To the editor:We often hear the term “It takes a village…,” and this past weekend was a wonderful time in the ‘village’ of Lake City.It was so much fun to see so many people out enjoying our lovely “city” (since hardly any community calls themselves a “village” anymore, but I digress.) Hundreds,...
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