Published: April 16, 2008 06:02 pm            

Letters to the editor - Thursday, April 17, 2008

Rethlake family thankful for support

To all our family, friends and the entire community of Kokomo:

We will be forever grateful for all your gifts of prayer, kindness, words, food, flowers, scholarship donations and wonderful stories that you shared with us.

The tribute you shared to our beloved daughter Abby was the greatest gift we could have received as a family.

With all of your support, God has shown His great love and mercy for us and has given us the strength to carry on. The way you have touched our lives and lifted us up with your love and kindness in our time of need will never be forgotten.

Tom, Kathy, T.J. Rethlake

Kokomo

Support cleanup campaign

The Wildcat Guardians and Club Kokomo Roadrunners would like to thank the Kokomo Tribune for its recent editorial in support of the Great American Cleanup campaign.

This is a concept each of us can and should actively support. Last Saturday a few hardy club members braved cold, rain, and wind to clean the western approach to Highland Park. In a quarter mile open and wooded stretch of West Defenbaugh from Kokomo Creek to Park Avenue we filled a full sized pickup truck with assorted debris. Sadly most of the items so carelessly discarded could have easily been recycled.

Studies have shown that clean and pristine areas tend to remain that way while littered and blighted areas only become more so. I want to thank Ken Munro, Greg Townsend, George Devine and Paul Bryant for volunteering to make a visible, cost free, improvement to our community and I pledge that the western approach to my favorite city park will remain litter free as long as God gives me the breath and strength to honor that commitment.

We encourage and invite others to join and partner with municipal workers and civic organizations in similar efforts. Earth Day will be observed Tuesday but groups like the Wildcat Guardians and Club Kokomo Roadrunners support a better quality of life every day of the year. We are making a difference and you can too.

Charlie Skoog

Wildcat Guardians

Adopt-A-River Director

        

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