Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:43:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: deloispopp
Subject: Thanks to Gene
I have been reading the Chatlist for approximately 2 months and have found good information that I might not have known about otherwise. It serves as a good what’s happening “daily newsletter”….
However, with that being said, when I first started reading the chatlist – it was the on-going bickering back and forth about the cat shelter and a woman’s efforts to help the stray and unwanted cats. Then some of the ridiculous chit-chat about the “meters” — information that is good and important, but it seemed that there was always someone who wanted to impress us (i.e., had actually done more Internet research to become so-called – self proclaimed experts) that they knew more than the persons who posted the day before! And then, the dogs !! Oh my, the dogs… aren’t we all tired of that one??
Thank you Gene for putting an end to the dog tethering daily commentary. Thanks for referring those people obsessed with this subject to other web sites. This is not say that these are not all important issues that need to be addressed and passed along, but enough is enough… I personally was getting pretty sick and tired of the boring commentary. Again thank you Gene !!
I do have a great idea/cause we can all hook our wagon onto next, and I really don’t think Gene would put a stop to it!!.. I don’t think there would be a time that too much can be said, too many suggestions offered, or too much good information can be addressed to help what I, and am sure others, consider to be as important, if not more so, than the tethered dogs’, or the unfortunate cats’ fate, or what the “meters” are doing to us.
Let’s see how many good ideas can be thrown out there from anyone/everyone who can suggest ways that the members of the Chatlist can help in a more important issue that faces us… What can we do as individuals do to help those 1 out of 5 children in our county who go to bed each night hungry???? or the 1 out of 6 people in this country that go to bed hungry each night??? (maybe one fight at a time, but there are also a lot of neglected and abused children in our county also.)
It is sad that the only food some of our defenseless children (right here in Chatham County) have is what they get at school, and what a group of caring teachers and parents do to send food home with some children so they have something to eat at nights and during the weekends.
With school soon coming to a close for the summer.? What are these children going to do? I ask this question because I do not know the answer. I am sure there are some readers – teachers, parents, social workers on the chatlist – that are affiliated with organizations, programs, etc. that can pass along information on how we can all help. Just think what a membership such as the chatlist with over 4,000 readers, could do to help right here in Chatham County, right now… Even if each one of us only made one small effort to improve this situation in our own community — what a difference it would make to so many innocent lives. Look at your child, grandchild and picture them in that same situation — it will break your heart, as it should – and I am sure if you were unable to do anything about it, you would be grateful for the help of others.
I would love to see some good ideas/information put forth on the chatlist, because I would like to help in some way but don’t exactly know where to start. I am sure there are others of you who would like to help also and some good information/input/leads from our more knowledgeable readers would be helpful.
Thanks.
Phreddie DeLois Popp