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Today's Opinions

  • May is mental health awareness month

    By RITA HANEY
    for NAMI Wakulla

    NAMI Wakulla and the National Alliance of Mental Illness offer hope to many who live their lives with a mental health disability.  
    The greatest obstacle for the mentally ill is the stigma attached to the illness. The stigma attached with a mental health disability often delays receiving help.  
    The way to reduce stigma is through education and outreach.

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  • Thanks for help with free sports physicals

    Editor, The News:
     
    I would like to thank our local health care providers for their collaboration – and for the compassion and commitment they showed for the health of our community – on Saturday, May 12.
     Five clinicians and dozens of other volunteers each donated 5 hours of their time on a Saturday to provide free sports physicals for 155 student athletes.  Their goal was to keep local students from being denied an opportunity to play sports because they lack a family doctor, health insurance, or the ability to pay.

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  • Defending recreational fishermen

    Editor, The News:

    Thank you U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland for taking the unpopular stance of defending the “Fishing Rights” of Florida’s Recreational Fishermen.

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  • Republican fundraiser was a success

    Editor, The News:

    The Wakulla County Republican Executive Committee hosted a sell out crowd at its Annual Ronald Reagan Black Tie & Blue Jeans Fund Raising Event at The Bistro at Wildwood on May 3.
    Filling the Bistro to capacity, the 150-plus Republican faithful included local Republican candidates: (Sheriff) Major Maurice Langston, county commission candidates Ralph Thomas Jr. (District 1), Mike Stewart (District 3), Richard Harden (District 5), and Melisa Taylor, candidate for School Board District 2.  

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  • Wakulla Gardens residents need to attend

    Editor, The News:

    Wakulla Gardens residents have recently begun a unified push to ask the county commissioners to do something about the dust in Wakulla Gardens.
    This is now an Agenda item for this next meeting on Monday, May 21. The commissioners will be considering the paving of the Gardens and we are urged to have as many people as possible show at the meeting.  
    The meeting begins at 5 pm, and if you want to speak, Citizens to be Heard is at 6:30 pm.

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  • Don Curtis is a candidate for the House

    Editor, The News:

    Don Curtis announced his candidacy for the Florida Legislature, House of Representatives, District 7, Republican.
    Don and his family are long-time residents of Taylor County. He and his wife of 32 years, Michele, live on a farm at Lake Bird where they’ve raised their two sons, Ray and Clayton. Now they’ve been blessed with a grandson and there’s another one on the way!

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  • Library News: May 17, 2012

    By SCOTT JOYNER
    WCPL Director

    Summer Program Information

    By the time you’re reading this hopefully your child has bought home our brochure about our Summer Program of Events at the library. Sponsored annually by the Friends of the Library, this program is probably the most popular thing that we do at the library.

    This summer, we’ll have reading programs from birth through eighth grades, performers weekly, field trips.

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  • Thanks for help after accident

    Editor, The News:

    A special thanks to all who stopped to assist Jessica with her accident on Sunday, April 29. She was truly blessed not to be seriously injured.
    Jessica felt very special to have so many kind and caring friends at her side until family could arrive.
    Thanks again for making her accident less traumatizing.

    Joe and Leanne Moody
    Wanda Rodgers
    Crawfordville

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