Letters to the Publisher - January 2009
January 29, 2009
Thurmont Times:
Love the change in the paper. Your honesty and concern for the citizen’s opinions of the town are appreciated. I think you also realize that more people than just the ones that live in the town boundaries are affected by things in Thurmont. Keep up the good work!
Kim Beavan
Thank you Times for Christmas tips and recipes. Tina’s appetizers were new additions for our family get together’s. A new twist to our old traditions! Keep them coming.
Pamela Hahn
Letters to the Publisher - December 2008
December 19, 2008
I read your article about school age children getting too much homework. I really agree with you. I have 3 small children in Thurmont Primary School in grades Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade. I find it hard to find time to sit down and help my Kindergartener and 1st grader with their homework 4 nights a week. I never have time to help both of them Mon- Thurs b/c my husband isn’t home to help b/c he works afternoon-nights. When I was in Kindergarten, I went 3 hours a day and had no homework. My son is gone from home for almost 7 1/2 hrs 5 days a week for Kindergarten. I think that is enough and that there should not be homework in primary school. Thanks so much for finally saying something about this!
Lisa Snyder, Thurmont
Will not spend another cent at Thurmont Liberty!!!! Monday evening needed some kerosene to get the chill out, so a friend and I went to Thurmont Liberty to get some. Pulled up at the pump to fill the can, pulled the nozzle to turn the pump on and heard a loud pounding noise. I looked to see the man in the station pounding on the window, waving me to come inside (I guess pay before you pump) for I am not sure what he said to me. When I was going to fill the can I had seen the pump price was $4.009, so I handed him $20.00 (I only have a 5 gallon can.) I was pumping and talking, looked at the gallons pumped and it was at 4.2 gallons. I looked at the sale amount, it was at $20.21. I let go of the handle, the pump stopped at 4.254 gallons. I am not sure he understood me because I think all he kept saying was I owed him more money! I told him to go look at the pump and he kept pointing a box that read $20.44. I said I know what that reads but the pump reads $4.009 a gallon. Simple math? No. He did get out a calculator but in the end I still had to pay $20.44 which equals $4.81 a gallon. He did hand me a piece of paper and told me I was very smart and something about the manager. I wrote my name, number and asked him to have his manager call me; he nodded his head yes. I have yet to hear from anyone, probably won’t. I wonder how many people have been getting kerosene from there. Twenty-five minutes for 4.25 gallons of K-1 at $4.81 a gallon-very frustrating. Save your time and MONEY go anywhere else but to Thurmont Liberty, I would now go to Frederick before going there. That Tuesday when my experience occurred was Veteran’s day, so thank a vet it could be a lot worse!
Kirk Simmel, Thurmont
Happy Holidays to all! If you are like me and would rather shop for gifts online instead of making the trek to the stores, I wanted to remind you that there is a way to shop online while helping The Kate Fund at the same time. It is easy!! Hopefully you already know about using Goodsearch as your search engine - every time you search The Kate Fund gets a penny - every penny counts and last year we made $88.00 that way!! You can use www.goodsearch as your default search engine and every time you search for anything a penny goes to our cause when you designate The Kate Fund as the charity of your choice. It is easy - even I could figure it out and it did not take any time at all.But a way to shop and helps also exists and you just use GOODSHOP to do your shopping. The good news is that more than 700 of the top Internet retailers and travel sites including Amazon, PetSmart, WalMart, itunes, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble, Apple, Expedia and tons more have joined forces with GoodShop.com to donate part of every purchase to the charity of your choice at no additional cost to you. It takes just a few seconds to go to www.goodshop.com, select The Kate Fund as your charity, and then click through to your favorite store and shop as usual. Again - so easy even I could do it. Wishing all a happy and healthy holiday season - thanks for all you do to help the animals! Oh, and www.katefund.org has been updated with this year’s pictures and thank you’s. Check it out when you get a chance and stay tuned for info about next year’s events.
Thanks!
Dr. Teresa Koogler
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