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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS
PAGE 5A
Letters to the Editor
No respect shown for couple’s
Disappointed by our
legal profession
Dear Editor:
We live on Hwy. 105 South and
we have a lot of drivers that
fly up and down this road every
day, especially pick-up trucks.
We have called the Banks County
Sheriff’s Department and reported
this before. They did come out and
have been good about patrolling
the area but you can’t get all the
speeders.
There is a church right next door
to my house in a curve. There are
no “Church” signs or “Slow” or
“Children Playing” or anything.
The county needs to get some
signs or maybe the Department of
Transportation has to do that.
A child is going to get hit there
one of these days. Just a couple
of weeks ago, a young man in a
pick-up truck was going so fast
coming past the church, he lost
control of his truck and only by
the Grace of God, he didn’t go off
in the ravine.
When he tried to get back on
the road, he was going so fast he
came right down my yard, tearing
up the grass and spinning rocks
and dirt, all the way past my house
and finally stopped at the edge of
my yard in the ditch. If anyone
or anything had been in my front
yard, he would have hit them and
possibly killed them or at least hurt
them.
On Friday, June 13th, our pet
dog Teddy Bear was hit and killed
about 5:30 p.m. It was still plenty
daylight. We had him in the back
yard playing with him and letting
him run. He ran up the hill and
evidently went through the trees
down to the road. My husband
came in the house and when Teddy
Bear didn’t come back, he went
to look for him. He found him all
right — dead — laying in a ditch
just south of our yard, apparently a
broken neck as there were no other
marks on him. This happened in
less than 10 minutes!
Some will say we should have
had him contained, but if you have
animals, you know sometimes they
will run out of the yard. Where he
was laying, and by the blood on
his face, you could see the person
that hit him was coming south and
Teddy Bear was on the side of the
road at the edge of the road com
ing home.
My point is, when the driver
came by the church, you can see
a long way down the road. It is
very obvious the driver would have
seen Teddy Bear for quite a ways,
especially it being broad daylight.
There were no skid marks or any
thing so the driver didn’t even try to
miss him. And they were not even
compassionate enough to come up
to our house and tell us they killed
our dog. We have found that a lot
of folks here only consider a dog
“just a dog.” In fact, we have heard
it said. We see them dead laying
on side of the road, and the owners
just leave them, don’t even care
enough about their animal to bring
it home and bury it.
Teddy Bear is dead and buried.
There’s nothing we can do to bring
him back, as much as we wish we
could. I want whoever did this
to know how heartbroken we are,
the tears we have shed since it
happened, and how much we miss
Teddy Bear. Ironically, he was a
rescue puppy we found several
years ago, dumped by someone.
We raised him, he was a big part
of our family, and to end up getting
hit and killed by a vehicle driven
by some uncaring person is really
unfair to him.
Another thing, we have a cat
that never leaves our yard, he was
another rescue we found last year
as a kitten almost dead, in the
middle of the road in the country,
cardboard box laying where some
body threw him out. I imagine
there were other kittens, but we
didn’t find them. Three weeks
ago, we were gone from home
two or three hours, came back,
couldn’t find Kitty.
He always comes to meet us
when we get home. He finally
came out from behind a shrub,
limping, his left leg was just hang
ing.
When we took him to the vet, the
X-ray showed his leg was broken
in three places. The vet said that
it looked like he had suffered a
very hard blow, looked like maybe
by a baseball bat or something or
maybe a very hard kick with a hard
shoe or boot, didn’t think he was
hit by a car, although it might be
possible.
He never leaves the yard, so we
don’t know what happened. We
either had to put him to sleep or
have his leg amputated. We had
his leg amputated, and he is doing
great.
We love our animals, and who
would hurt and kill our pets, I can’t
pets
imagine how cold-hearted a person
would have to be. A mighty sorry
human being, in my opinion.
I am writing this to make people
aware of the speeders on this road
and what can happen. There are
children on this road. What if a
child had been on side of the road
instead of Teddy Bear? The child
would either be dead or very hurt.
Would the driver have left a child
on side of the road and the parents
would have to go looking for them
and find them?
I hope the driver who killed our
dog reads this, they know who
they are. I hope every time they
drive by my house, they will see
the cross of flowers we put up for
him and that they will remember
everyday for the rest of their life
that they killed someone we loved
very much.
Thank you for taking the time to
read this.
Sincerely,
Bob and Pat Gillespie
Baldwin
Dear Editor:
After my child’s father began pay
ing child support, he decided to get
a lawyer and come after me saying
I committed fraud by not informing
him of our child. He did know of
her and I have proof. He wanted me
to have an abortion but I couldn’t.
At the time, I was 29 and not so
wise.
This man lied to me about his wife
and four kids, birth date, birthplace,
etc. The only thing I knew at the
time was that his job was legitimate.
He is a professional and makes great
money. Me on the other hand, love
my job but don’t make much at all.
Well, my point is this, I can’t get
a lawyer to represent me because
I don’t have $3,000-4,000. Sad,
huh? I am innocent and only need to
prove it but not even Georgia Legal
Aid will help me.
However, If I wanted to go out and
hurt someone, smoke some dope
or sell it, steal or something to
that nature I would have lawyers
all around me like flies. What is
going on with our justice system?
It is even hard for women to find
lawyers to get out of abusive mar
riages. I am now a single parent
with two kids and have zero help. I
am very disappointed with the legal
profession.
Sincerely,
Kathi Strickland
Commerce
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POLITICS
An open meeting will be held on June 27, 2008 for
selected contested races on the Banks County, Georgia
Primary election ballot. These races will include the
following:
U. S. House of Representatives
10th District
District Attorney
for Piedmont Judicial District
Banks County Commission Chairman
Banks County Sheriff
Banks County Board of Education
The meeting will be held at the Banks County
Recreation Department on Thompson Street in Homer,
Georgia. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting
will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m. Each candidate will
give an opening statement and attendees will then be
able to meet and question the candidates.
The Primary Election will be held on
Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
Advance voting will be conducted the week of
July 7 to July 11, 2008.
Sponsored by the Banks County Republican Party
Ad paid for by Clyde A. McArthur, 132 Lakeview Drive, Baldwin, Georgia
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