VA Says Thank You

June 24, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: This is in reference to a letter recently published from Rolland Kidder on June 20, 2020 in the Jamestown Post-Journal regarding the Jamestown VA clinic. VA Western New York Healthcare System established community-based clinics beginning in March of 1995 with the opening of the first clinic in Jamestown, New York. These community-based clinics allow Veterans to receive their care close to home with the same high-quality standards consistent with all VA sites of care. The clinic has been operated under a contract model since the inception in 1995, within the ...

Time To Change JHS Athletic Team Names

June 23, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: Rickey Armstrong Sr., President of the Seneca Nation of Indians, responded to a petition calling for a change from Jamestown High School’s athletic team names by saying that names like Jamestown’s “degrade, mock, and offend Native traditions, Native culture, and Native people.” It is time we listen to what our Seneca Nation neighbors are telling us — this name is hurtful and offensive. Their voice and opinion on this issue is the only one that matters. It is past time to change the JHS athletic team names. Let’s turn a new page in our town’s ...

Help Me Decide On Another Four Years

June 20, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: I know this guy. He seems to have a lot of friends. Not sure why. This guy seems to lie about almost everything. Even when he doesn’t have to. I have to admit, this guy is very creative. He is good at making up stuff right off the top of his head. Stuff that often has no basis in reality or fact. Well that’s OK I guess. Facts just get in his way. This guy does show respect and support for others; unless you happen to be black, brown, gay, female, an immigrant, handicapped, an environmentalist, the press or anyone else who happens to disagree with him. ...

Readers’ Forum

June 19, 2020

Thank You Mike’s Nursery Of Lakewood To The Reader’s Forum: The Women’s Club of Lakewood would like to thank Mike’s Nursery of Lakewood for growing and donating all the flowers for the Chautauqua Avenue planters! Please take a walk along the Avenue and enjoy Mike’s contribution! Volunteers from the Women’s Club planted the containers, and we are grateful for Mike’s many contributions over the last twenty years. Thank you, Mike! Betsy Shepherd Lakewood for the Women’s Club of Lakewood Garden Group

Town Of Carroll Goes Above And Beyond

June 17, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: Community Helpers has been the final theme in our Kindergarten classrooms for the last few years. This year it appeared that we would not be experiencing anything that we had done before. Our community walking trip was going to have to be canceled. Just one more disappointment in this crazy time. But the town of Carroll, where RHJ Elementary School is located, went above and beyond. At the Myers Memorial Library, they have three librarians who are wonderful! Rachel Roushey made us a video so our students could take a virtual tour of the library. She ...

Racial Justice In America Is Long Overdue

June 13, 2020

To The Reader’s Forum: On Sunday, June 7, 2020, Linda and I attended a Black Lives Matter rally at Dow Park. Many years have passed since we attended a local gathering to promote a social justice cause. Except this time was different, not only because of the potential adverse impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, but because of the cause. We’ve supported anti-hunger efforts, environmental efforts, anti-war efforts and promoted the plight of people abroad, but we hadn’t really done much about the plight of black people in America in spite of how enlightened we consider ourselves. ...