Causer, Pierce give help to residents and other letters to the editors

Causer, Pierce give help to residents

For decades, we have owned and operated businesses, paid taxes, banked, cultivated friendships and worshipped at church in Red Bank/White Oak. We are dismayed at the vitriolic voices tainting current commission races and lately landing on the printed page. Adding our opinion to this parade of words might bring some gentility to the conversation about Commissioners Floy Pierce and Rick Causer. We have long known Floy as a woman of character, conviction and candor. With uncommon foresight, she and Commissioner Causer consistently consider repercussions of commission decisions affecting the city as a whole. Rick examines issues up for vote, researches points of debate and builds upon principled ideas for the good of Red Bank. In addition to their broader concerns for the community at large, these two have taken our plights and rights to heart. Recently, three times we appeared before the commission and asked for a bit of logic plus mercy on a zoning issue involving residential property our family has owned for almost 100 years. Our position was rebuffed by "the powers that be." Causer and Pierce were the only two commissioners who stood up for us. This should speak volumes to voters.

LAWRENCE AND JANET REEVE


Firing range needs to be relocated

I don't think any of our elected leaders believe a firing range in the middle of a national park is the best combination of uses, so I was surprised to find the relocation of the Moccasin Bend firing range has been delayed. It seems with the National Park Service's commitment to develop this national archeological district, after so many years of work by the city's leaders to encourage the park, we should aggressively seek to relocate the firing range. Moccasin Bend offers a rare window to the past, as far back as 8000 B.C., through the various Native American occupants, early European contact, and was significant in the Trail of Tears. It was strategically important in the Civil War, which was just yesterday when you consider a time line of the bend's human occupation. It is especially unique that one site, only 1 1/2 miles from the downtown center of a major city, would have such a rich history. Clearly the bend is something all Chattanoogans expect to be preserved, and fortunately this important parcel of land containing the range is already held by the public. Please make relocating the range a priority, and the sooner, the better.

FRED K. ROBINSON


Couple praises TFP commitment

We feel so fortunate to live in Chattanooga, Tenn., where we still have a daily newspaper. We have always enjoyed reading the paper and working the puzzles while having our morning coffee. Now you have made it even better with the recent changes that have made the newsprint so sharp. We look forward to the Wednesday grocery ads, the community events, Billy Graham article, cartoons, editorials, regional and world news. Thank you for your investment in the future of Chattanooga.

GAIL and JOHN ALVIS, Hixson


It was important to listen to Luther

Back in the 1970s, there was a bad weather report where snow and ice were expected. I was in a grocery store where people were unloading the shelves, not expecting to get out again. While I was standing behind two elderly ladies in the checkout line who were discussing the weather, one of them said, "Let's be sure and listen to Luther." What better compliment could a radio man get?

JOHN COLE East Ridge

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