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Tuesday July 19, 2005
Op Ed: Letters To The Editor
Extend community's generosity to Ron Walker
Dear Editor:
There is a serious issue in our community that needs to be addressed, and, hopefully, this letter will bring much needed attention to this matter.
During the last several weeks, we have seen and heard of the generosity of our citizens, banks and businesses collecting funds to buy new playground equipment for Coggin Park.
You can open the Brownwood Bulletin and read daily of its progress along with pictures of ones that made large contributions. This has been a worthy project, and I am glad that funds were collected over the goal amount. The park has been a wonderful place for parents, children and families to enjoy for many years, and I am as proud as anyone that Brownwood has such a facility.
It is not my intention to take anything away from this worthy endeavor, but I would like to let the citizens of this area know that there is another need in our community that is of much greater importance than playground equipment.
I am sure that most everyone has seen donation jars setting on counters in businesses asking for donations for Ron Walker. Ron is suffering very seriously from a lung disease and needs to have a lung transplant to save his life. The required amount of $250,000 has not come close to being collected, and this is very sad to me. We as individuals and businesses will give until the cows come home to help our community, but when a member of the same community needs our help so badly, I have to wonder where those banks, businesses and individuals are.
With all the churches in this area, the many large businesses and clubs that we have, and the citizens that give anytime they are asked to, I do not understand why the goal for Ron's life was not met weeks and months ago.
Has the church you attend sent a donation to Ron? Has the club to which you belong sent a donation for Ron?
Do you know that if every church in this community would just give $1,000 each for Ron, almost $100,000 could have been collected from them alone? Did you even ask your church if they have given anything at all? Did your church say a prayer for Ron?
If you have not asked if they have given, would you please do so? If you have not given yourself, would you please do so? He is really worth every effort on our part because he is another human being, just like you and me. He doesn't want to leave his wife, children and grandchildren anymore than we do.
Let us, as a loving community, help to save Ron's life. He would do it for you and that is a promise. He really is a wonderful person.
Tinker Shaw James
Brownwood
source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2005/07/19/op_ed/letters%20to%20the%20editor/letter01.txt
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Note: Oh wait, KXYL's James Williamson was too busy bashing Gays today to even mention his neighbor in need ! Williamson is also good at blaming people for getting into difficult & tragic situations because of "their bad decisions" (listen to the tapes of his show). It's quite an accomplishment to self anoint, moralize, castigate and go around hautely pointing fingers and casting stones at those who may be in need ! And James frequently reminds you that it is he who stops to help a stranger, while the " Liberal " just looks the other way ! To me, this is a fine example of what KXYL's James Williamson is really all about !
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