Quite a pretty picture

Quite a pretty picture
EDITOR:
Whoever said a "picture is worth a thousand words," obviously didn't see the pictures of the three mail carriers with their beautiful dogs on the front page of the June 9 Vindicator.
If they had, I think the number of words might have been changed from a thousand words to a million.
If anything could make an animal lover's day, those pictures really made my day, for one.
The love and care the mail carriers give their dogs reminds me of what my third- grade nun (Sister Mary Lambert) said: "God smiles when His children love and are good to one another."
I believe God smiles when His children love and are good to everything He has created. May those who love and care, be showered with an abundance of God's blessings.
MARY LOU JURINA
Youngstown
Something is missing atJackson-Milton: soccer
EDITOR:
I am a 14-year old freshman at Jackson-Milton High School. At Jackson-Milton, we do not have funding for our soccer program. I have tried to get a soccer team in the school for about two years. The first year I tried to get the team in, they told me that they were getting a new school, and it would have a team and would have to have funding.
If they had gotten a new school, we still would not have a team or even fields because of funding. To put the fields in, they would have to be privately funded, because the school will not pay for the construction of the fields. The people who want to play now would be long gone by then. You would be denying the talent of those students at Jackson-Milton to achieve their goals.
Many kids have left our school district to play at other schools, which takes money and talent away from our own school district. Half the kids in our school do not even play sports. It is not that they do no wish to play; it is because they do not have very many options in sports.
Some of the people in the school and in the district believe that it will take away from football. But, like I said before, half the kids in our school don't even play sports. Our school is small enough to have soccer as a co-ed sport if necessary. There are a lot of soccer scholarships out there for girls especially.
I have been playing soccer since I was five. The passion I feel for it fills my soul. I play on several teams outside the school. I want to bring home my talent and those of other Jackson-Milton students, to show we have pride in our school and we can excel in soccer -- if we just have the chance.
I have passed a sign-up sheet around the band homeroom and I have gotten great feedback on it. I had enough people to start a team right there. So I ask you, is it fair for the kids of Jackson-Milton High School to have the talent and the interest to play and be denied the opportunity to achieve their goals because of a lack of funding?
JOSHUA AUDEN
Lake Milton
Try making the tower pretty
EDITOR:
This is a letter regarding the new water tower on Kirk Road, which some people may or may not find visually offensive. I have a possible remedy. Perhaps something visually stimulating (a rainbow design, multi-colored abstract muralor a patriotic mural) should be painted on it. Simply painting it any neutral color will not hide it, so why not make it attractive?
WESLIE DETWILER, Age 14
Canfield