Ministry aids relief effort
On Aug. 13, a local music ministry known as Miss Mollie’s Music Ministry, along with One Voice Second Chance Ministry out of Niota, Tenn., took a trip to a hard-hit area in Kentucky known as Pine Top to deliver relief items.
The music ministry trailer was loaded down thanks to those in our community who donated items throughout a two-week period prior to leaving for Kentucky.
The Hull family placed word on social media pages that they were going to be taking this relief aid trip and the community of Murphy went into action. The Hull’s 15-year-old daughter, Miss Mollie, who sings within our community as well as other areas, was led to help as well as go to the location and lift a voice of hope through song .
After two weeks of collecting items and loading the trailer, the Hull family met up with the Welch family of One Voice Ministry in Niota and headed to Kentucky. The trailer was loaded with everything from personal hygiene items, nonperishable foods, clothes, box fans and more.
Miss Mollie’s Music Ministry would like to thank the community of Murphy for coming together during this time to help those who were in need.
During the time spent in Kentucky, the need was not only heard about but seen. So many homes were destroyed and many families still stuck at their home with no exit due to flood damage. We ask that everyone please keep this state in your prayers.
Miss Mollie’s Music Ministry is available to sing locally for anyone interested who has a community event, a benefit or a church. You can find us on Facebook or sazack123@gmail.com. You may also leave a voicemail at 828-436-0237 and we will call you back.
Cynthia Hull, Murphy
The writer is the mother of Miss Mollie.
Clean planet not Marxism
The burning of coal is filthy. It emits sulfur dioxide, mercury, arsenic and other toxins.
Sulfur dioxide causes acid rain, which kills trees.
Mercury contaminates fish.
It also releases small particulate matter, which settles in human’s lungs, causing tens of thousands of premature deaths per year.
This process also causes coal ash, which has all kinds of toxins like arsenic, which seeps into ground water poisoning it.
Natural gas is not entirely clean, as it is a fossil fuel. During drilling, a lot of methane escapes harming the environment. No fossil fuel is clean.
Solar power is the least expense way to produce electricity. China does use their solar equipment. In fact, they produce the most solar power in the world.
Almost every day, there are weather calamities caused by climate change. Excess carbon in the air is indeed dangerous.
Cutting carbon emissions would help many species from dying. Lower carbon does not kill anything.
Trying to improve the health of the planet has nothing to do with Marxism. Trying to link the two is nonsense.
Jack Montgomery, Ogreeta
West needs our rainfall
Shame on you droughters; you’re making us feel bad about the aquarium we’re living in. Cloudy, rain, rain cloudy. North Carolina mountain rain; dumping from 3 to 30 minutes.
There’s bright yellow mushrooms the size of wheelbarrows sitting near creeks, after two weeks of chanterelles everywhere.
Harry Holdorf, Brasstown
Remove all of the negatives
The following letter was also sent to Cherokee County government officials.
I am a resident living in the upper section of the Bourne community, which is directly impacted by the excessive noise from the Harshaw Road crypto mining facility.
The peaceful life we’d made here is eroded daily by its “machines” droning on at any hour and duration. Even a mile up the mountain from the site, we have unofficially registered decibels that exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency limits at our home (unfortunately, the EPA’s noise pollution enforcement has not been funded).
I have no expertise in noise abatement or electric power, but I do believe this crypto mining enterprise does little to benefit our community and, in fact, diminishes it. The excessive and intrusive noise it creates is a public nuisance, harms our quality of life, and potentially reduces the values of our homes.
I urge that all measures be taken to remove crypto mining’s negative effects here.
See article linked below, or (if not comfortable clicking on links) search House Committee on Energy and Commerce for recent federal inquiries into adverse effects of crypto mining: https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-demand-answers-from-cryptomining-companies-on-their-environmental.
Sue Heinbuch, Murphy