Move the beavers, solve two problems at once

Move the beavers, solve two problems at once
EDITOR:
I read with interest about the beaver problem at the airport and dilemma as to where to relocate the beaver family. I apologize for being so bold by suggesting a solution that may help the airport and the city of Girard.
Simply relocate the beavers to Girard Lake. The Girard Dam is in desperate need of rebuilding, and I simply offer reasons as to why the beaver would be the obvious choice to rebuild the dam.
Beaver Resume:
10. Excellent Engineers. Beaver dams are over-designed to withstand even the worst weather.
9. Have good references. Well known for the saying, "Busy as a beaver."
8. Experienced. Comes from a family of dam builders. Father was a dam builder, grandfather was a dam builder, great-grandfather, etc., etc.
7. Willing to work hard in any weather until the job gets done.
6. Entire family genuinely pulls together to help. (A rare quality in the world today).
5. No Union, no complaints, just happy to be working.
4. No cost overruns. The beaver is a true expert and professional and knows what the job will "entail" down to the smallest branch.
3. Not necessary to pay into unemployment compensation. The beaver will always find work.
2. Native American -- they literally put down roots in any community they are forced to relocate in.
And the No. 1 reason to relocate the beavers to Girard Lake is ...
1. No Workers Comp. Yes! Beavers take care of their own.
RANDY WEAN
Brookfield
What does it hurt?
EDITOR:
Tuesday evening my children, who attend Mineral Ridge Middle School, told me they would no longer be saying the Lord's Prayer during morning announcements. Let me say, a little prayer never hurt anyone.
Weathersfield School District is not the problem here, unfortunately. They are just small fish swimming in an immoral pond.
So before they take my freedom of speech away, here's what I think. I no longer want my tax dollars spent on the study of cricket mating habits! I want them to reprint all paper money and mold new coins. Remove that "In God we trust" phrase immediately. Also, please create a new agency whose employees will interact with the general public. Even if my neighbor hits the lottery, I shouldn't hear the phrase, & quot;Oh, my God. & quot;
I understand the message: God is offensive -- remove his words, his thoughts, his name from this country.Remember, though, in the future when you take a look at this country, don't you dare have the nerve to say the words, & quot;God, help us. & quot;
CHRISSY FLESCH
Mineral Ridge
There are still too many hospitals in Youngstown
EDITOR:
Now that Forum Health is under new leadership, as a former eight year member of the board of trustees and a physician who has been associated with that hospital system since 1961, I would offer this advice. Look at the consulting firm's recommendations from approximately 20 years ago.
We, as a board, were informed during a retreat to plan the future that the then current 1,600 hospital beds in Youngstown, comprising four hospitals (North and South WRCS -- the erstwhile YHA and soon to be Forum; St. Elizabeth, soon to be Humility of Mary; and Cafaro or Youngstown Osteopathic, soon to become extinct), would be far too many by the year 2000. That consulting firm said that the demographics in Youngstown would support only one hospital with a total of 500 beds.
We now have two hospitals (North Side and HM) that total 250 a piece; that is terribly inefficient. It is time to merge those two institutions and combine the best of each of their respective facilities (I.E. Tod's Children and the new Women's center at Beeghly) into one viable hospital system that does not duplicate ancillary services and operations.
The competition for market share has to stop since neither can afford much more in the way of capital expenditures. With their national backing, HM (a national organization) can afford more that Forum, but not much more. The demographic study was based on a shrinking and aging population with very little new blood being infused into the valley. Young folks raised here sought career opportunities elsewhere and the older folks who stayed on were eventually going to die off.
Physicians at the two local hospitals have never had a problem getting along with each other. The competition was engendered by the administrations of those two hospital systems and administrations have turned over many times since that study 20 years ago. I have long encouraged a joining of forces with HM, but that has heretofore fallen of deaf ears. Hopefully it is an option that will be seriously considered before Forum undergoes an inevitable demise.
CHARLES H. McGOWEN, MD
Howland
A home better than others
EDITOR:
I was deeply saddened and shocked to hear that nine elderly people, some in their 90s, were removed from the home of Tony and Joanie Wroblesky in Greene, Ohio. My mother was a resident of this home for over four years until her death Dec. 7, 2002.
This house of love was home in the truest sense of the word. Joanie Wroblesky is an angel sent from heaven. She adores the elderly and gives them love, care, tenderness and the time that most family members or nursing homes could never give. My mother had one major seizure and was never the same. Joan pureed her food from then on and fed her like a baby. She bathed her, dressed her and brushed her hair every day. My mother received care far beyond what I could have given her and far beyond my expectations. I will be eternally grateful to the Wroblesky family for providing my mother with the absolute best care that I could have ever hoped for her to receive in her final years.
I heard that the conditions in the Wroblesky home were called "deplorable." That is a bold-faced lie. The only thing deplorable about this situation is that nine residents of the Wroblesky home have been removed against their will from the most caring home that any child would hope to find for their ailing parent. This matter needs to be rectified and these residents returned to their home.
CECILIA EASTON
Orwell