Help kids in Shoe Fund
As we approach the end of 2021, the economic climate and job market continues to make it difficult for families in our community to make ends meet.
In addition to the unprecedented impact COVID-19 has had on all of us, parents struggle to take care of their kids’ school needs, and at times, come up short fulfilling all of them. We receive calls daily from parents requesting help.
We are requesting your assistance with the annual Cherokee County Shoe Fund drive to help provide the means for proper footwear for our community’s youth. Children are our future, and helping to provide basic necessities – such as shoes – is a rewarding way to support them.
Please make checks payable to: Cherokee County Shoe Fund, P.O. Box 279, Murphy, NC 28906.
On behalf of the children of Cherokee County, thank you in advance for your donation.
Steven Aft, Murphy
Thankful for your support
I want to thank my wife Barbara “Buggsy” Foxx’s wonderful family and friends for their support and comforting to her children and myself through this time of our sorrow and celebration.
Even though I love her with all my being and will do so forever, I know she is now in the embrace of the greatest love of all – our Father and Savior in heaven.
Doug Foxx, Connelly Springs
Don’t force upon others
Hillbilly Ranger, let’s revisit this Covid-19 vaccine debate again in a few years. Time will tell about the vaccine’s lasting health aftereffects.
If we’re aware and can put two and two together, the results should be recognizable in family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and, maybe, even yourself. Hopefully, by then it isn’t too late for some.
Truth should always be revealed, not suppressed. But often getting to it takes research, time and courage.
Your Nov. 3 column only proves your derogatory mindset against people who use their God-given right of choice. Since you brought Jesus into the scenario, you should know He doesn’t force anything. Communists do. God gave us free will. Communists take it away.
Plagues are expected in end times. Even then, we the people have the right to make our own decisions without being bullied or ridiculed into doing what someone else wants us to, as you’re doing. Among a long list of sad, vaccine-related health issues some people we know are enduring, one in particular makes me cringe.
A 40-year old otherwise healthy woman didn’t want the vaccine. She finally succumbed to her husband’s pressuring to have it. Soon after receiving the “God-given” vaccine, she had a stroke and is in a permanent vegetative state, leaving her without a viable life and with a guilt-ridden husband who has a wife he no longer recognizes as the woman he married.
Does he regret pressuring her? Yes, he does. Was taking the vaccine worth the consequences? I doubt if either would think so.
You would be wise to stop forcing your opinions on others. Keep them to yourself. All your columns accomplish is to show who you really are – divisive and egotistical with your name-calling and better-than-thou attitude. You’re not being helpful.
Now, take a bow.
Mike Frazier, Murphy
Signs of Fentanyl
If you have heard of Fentanyl, you might already know how deadly it can be.
Fentanyl has many pharmaceutical names such as Actiq, Duragesic or Sublimaze. Fentanyl can be up to 50 times more potent than morphine. It is used to increase the potency and profit of heroin and can also used in making Fentanyl-pressed fake Oxycodone or Fentanyl-laced Xanax.
Because of the potency of Fentanyl, as little as 0.25 mg has been found to cause a fatal overdose.
Perhaps the best tool when dealing with an addict of any kind is knowing the signs of drug use. Since Fentanyl users are playing Russian roulette with their lives, it is essential to observe the symptoms and act quickly. Early intervention can avoid the heartache of legal issues, medical problems, and in the worst cases, death.
Signs of Fentanyl use include include:
- Drowsiness.
- Confusion.
- Constipation.
- Weakness.
- Dry mouth.
- Constricted pupils.
- Unconsciousness.
- Slowed respiration.
- Decreased heart rate.
- Nausea.
- Sweating.
- Flushing.
- Stiff or rigid muscles.
- Tight feeling in the throat.
- Difficulty concentrating.
In the event, you know someone using Xanax, heroin or illegally sold pain pills, you should take the needed steps to get them into drug and alcohol treatment.
Many street drugs have been found to contain Fentanyl, including fake prescriptions pills. Educate your loved ones about the dangers and talk to them about getting help.
Even one dose of Fentanyl can cause a fatal overdose.
If you have a loved one struggling with addiction, it is vitally important they get help before there is a tragedy. Contact us for assistance in getting treatment for your loved one.
To read more on the subject, visit: https://www.narcononnewliferetreat.org/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-fentanyl.html.
Aaron Olson, Denham Springs, La.
The writer is community relations director with Narconon, a national drug education and rehabilitation corporation.
Fall of the U.S. empire
Read the history of the Roman Empire – its rise, decline and fall – and you will understand what is happening in
the United States today and why.
Read about the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party and the Bolsheviks – how they fomented chaos, sowed fear, made the people desperate for stability, promised order and delivered on that promise big time – and you will understand the methodology and the goals of progressive Democrats.
Larry Parker, Murphy
Biden is a disgrace
To all who voted for President Joe Biden, I wanted to thank you for putting this loser in office. I hope you’re enjoying all he’s done in less than a year as much as I am.
Don’t think for one minute that he wouldn’t sell you down the river if he could enrich himself or his family. He’s a disgrace to that American lapel pin he wears so proudly.
Hold on because he’s just getting started.
George Sedlacek, Murphy
Be thankful for God’s gift
What was your favorite part of Thanksgiving last week?
Being with family and friends is always precious. Help serving meals at your local church is always rewarding. Sitting down at a full course meal loaded with turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing with gravy, of course, is a joy indeed.
Saying thanks in prayer to God for all the provisions He has given us to partake of is essential, for all things do come from Him.
Don’t think we can boast of anything we have done on our own. All things come from God’s gracious hands of love.
We sing a song in church that goes something like this: “Thank you Lord for giving
to me salvation so rich and so free.”
Salvation for humanity was paid at a heavy cost of Jesus Christ’s life on an old rugged cross that Christians sing often to remind us that we have been blest greatly of God for sending His Son, Jesus, to die for our sins, thus bringing us salvation so rich and so free. What we do afterward depends on our allegiance to Christ, and what He expects from us who have chosen Him as our Savior.
Nothing comes free in this sinful life. There are always consequences to our actions and how we serve the Lord depends on how much we love Him.
Thank you, Jesus, for giving
to us the gift of eternal life and the blessed assurance when we close this final chapter of our life and die, we are immediately ushered into glory by an angel of God, and there we shall live in harmony and peace forevermore.
Frank Combs, Blairsville, Ga.