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My Dad: Harold Nathan Henry A gentle giant at 6’ 6’’
Has lived life and taught me by example: If you can read, you can do just about anything. Be the best at whatever you can be. Choose your battles wisely. Fear nothing & use caution. Measure thrice, cut once. Be patient beyond reason. Life isn’t always fair, so …
Real love is forever, especially when things are tough. There will always be another bus. Respect yourself & others will, too. Cursing shows lack of control and ignorance. ALL material things can be replaced. Don’t die to prove you’re dead right. Find humor in everything.
Enjoy life, keep learning and accept people for who they are.
My father adopted me 51 years ago, long before Tom & Nicole and Brad & Angelina made it cool to adopt children internationally. He just celebrated his 89th birthday with an incredible variety of friends and loving family. Recently widowed after 57 years of marriage, he still makes new friends, challenges his mind by reading every day and never complains about his aches and pains or even my cooking. Kim Henry Paola, Chandler
Tax rate tied to bonding limits Oh, stop the whining already!
The Mayor and Council are being responsible by correcting road safety issues in Southern Chandler. Perhaps where previous writers reside in Chandler, they are blessed with four- to six-lane arterial roadways. Where I live, and thousands of others, is on Gilbert Road below Ocotillo. This street is a two- lane farm road and it is carrying traffic volumes that make a freeway entrance ramp look mild by comparison.
We generally have to wait five minutes to make often dangerous left turns out of our community. There are no traffic controls at Brooks Farm Road where hundreds of cars per day make unprotected left turns to get to Ryan Elementary School. Do we need a tragic accident on Gilbert Road to make the whiners understand we have a critical safety issue in Southern Chandler?
By the way, we paid impact fees to Chandler for road improvements when we purchased our homes in 2004. I have addressed prior city councils and requested the need to increase the bonding limit to complete the “obligation” made to Southern Chandler residents thru the CIP bond funding. I am glad this current council has responded. My previous recommendation was to raise the rate to 20 cents and build out the key arterials when construction costs and interest rates are very favorable. The secondary taxes paid in 2011 will be 50 percent less than paid in 2008. The Mayor is correct, there is still a tax decrease. The fact that it did not go down to correct safety issues shows a lack of vision from those who complain. Alex Gernert, Brooks Ranch
Veterans among us
They were there with Washington when he crossed the Delaware. They were there when the Star Spangled Banner was conceived. They were at Shiloh and Gettysburg. They charged up a hill in San Juan. They lay in muddy trenches, enduring savage artillery barrages, in France. They stormed the murderous beaches of Normandy and marched down the Champs-Elysee – twice. They were at the abominable, frozen Chosen reservoir in Korea. They sweated out the rice paddies and the heart breaking retreat in Viet Nam. They were in the tanks in the first one and the Humvees in the second one; enduring the intense anxiety of the IED’s and the nerve wracking experience of house to house fighting. In between these events they stood on the walls in faraway places to maintain this country’s integrity and security. Who are these people? They are the men and women of the armed forces! They are veterans. You may see them today
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in the gray haired old men in the corner of McDonald’s or the longhaired hippies sitting on a park bench or the lone figure with a faraway look in his eye. They may speak, in an oscillating and cracked soft voice about times gone past. They may speak of friends who never had a chance to grow old or of children they would like to see. Do not pass these people by as being funny or insignificant.
When the patriot’s call came, they answered it. How many people thought the call for affirmation of citizenship right was a call for deferment. Those deferment people may live to be gray haired old men, but they won’t have the twinkle of pride in the eye that says I was there, either in the battle or on the wall. The veterans are not looking for adulation or praise, but just an acknowledgement that what they did was important. When you see those gray haired old men in the corner of McDonald’s or the longhaired hippies sitting on a park bench or the quiet man in the corner of the room, give them a smile – you just may have thanked a veteran. Gene Gulliver, Sun Lakes
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