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National Cancer Survivor Day

To the Editor, Today, Sunday, June 1st, has been declared National Cancer Survivor Day. Today is a day to recognize and honor cancer survivors. Today is a day to celebrate life! To celebrate National Cancer Survivor Day, Trinity Health System and Tony Teramana Cancer Center will be hosting "Savor the Sweet Life" event on Thursday, June 5th, from 10am to to 2pm. This event will be in the parking lot across from the cancer center. On Saturday, June 7th, the Brooke Hancock chapter of the American Cancer Society will be celebrating life with a Relay For Life event. The Relay for ...

Weirton Lions extend thanks

To the Editor, The Weirton Lions Club recently held their “Dancing Thru the Decades” fundraiser at T. Kosciusko Hall in Weirton. What a success! The community members who attended were treated to great music from DJ Keith Shreve; a Chinese Auction; 50/50 raffle; and a wine wagon raffle. It was great to have community members, including some of our local City of Weirton council members and officials, in attendance. The purpose of this fundraiser was to raise money to purchase hand-held eye screening equipment that Lions can use at local schools, health fairs and other events ...

How was your Mother’s Day?

To the Editor, Like a lot of folks my age, Mother’s Day is a complicated time. It marks the loss of the person who was always in your corner. No matter how tough the opponent was or how badly beaten emotionally or physically, she had always been there to apply ointments or prepare a bowl of chicken soup. In my case, it was the anniversary of her 2007 surgery, which her strong will carried through all almost dying in the operating room, the way my father had in 2004, three years earlier. Only to lose her two months later to cancer. I traveled to Walmart on Sunday Morning, witnessing ...

Not a modern art fan

To the Editor, Does anyone remember the National Endowment for the Arts uproar in the 1980s? “Artist” Andres Serrano took money from the National Endowment for the Arts — taxpayer funds — urinated into a small jar, suspended a plastic crucifix inside, and sealed it. Behold! Art! No talent required. No effort. Catholics were rightly offended, as were most common sensical Americans. The questions were roundly asked, “Is this art?” and “should we be paying for this?” As an addendum to my January 11th letter, titled “What is Art?,” which detailed the ridiculous ...

Think before you use that word

To the Editor, Personally, I do not belong to any political party. Nonetheless, I was forced to sit through the election rhetoric in 2024 where one party demanded that the other party was cursing far more than they. The “air was blue” to use my grandmother’s phrase. She would use negatively. Today, the election is over and still, in 2025, “F-bombs” and age-old cuss words seem to be in every politician’s speech and even side-comments. Seems you can’t write a memo without what we used to call “four-letter words.” I can remember in sixth grade, the first time I ever ...

USAID helps less fortunate

To the Editor, Some time ago I met a woman whose son had died in the Vietnam War. I met her at a Gold Star Family Weekend, an annual event at Camp Dawson in West Virginia. I am a Gold Star father and a Vietnam veteran. Her son was a member of a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol when he was killed. She had visited Vietnam in the 1990s in honor him, to see the nation he had died defending. She toured the country, spoke at an event, was interviewed by local media (she walked out of the interview after she, and America, were repeatedly blamed for the war.) At the end of her visit she was ...