Opinion
19th Amendment turns 90
Today marks the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the amendment that allows women to vote.
The whole idea that women had to prove they had enough brains to vote, seems pretty lame.
The days of equality are far from arriving in our neighborhoods.
I know as women it's so easy to point out all the ways that life isn't equal for us.
A voice from the past, August 24, 1913
I love history.
The more personal the history the better.
The other day I stumbled across this letter to an editor dated on this day back in 1913.
"Good Grandma Heath, Pen, pricks the 'New Woman.' "
The following from the pen of Mrs. J.F. Heath, 76 years old, is a most pointed and forceful arraignment of the silly fashions of the day.
August health risk: Beware of allergy sufferers like me
Public Health Departments all over the U.S. should be, right now, issuing the following public health warning:
“Beware: This is the time for seasonal allergies. You should be aware that many of your fellow citizens – normally sane, logical, safe neighbors – may be acting in ways that threaten their health, and yours.
Human Descrepancies
There’s one thing you can rely on. You can be certain of it even when everything else is questionable. People are unpredictable! That you can be sure of! Count on it! They don’t fit into proper categories like a straight line of grocery items typed up and printed off of your handy dandy desktop. They jump from stereo-type to stereo-type, basically out of line is what they are.
Hey, is that...it is!
This last weekend I had an unexpected visit with an old friend.
It was one of those things when you look across the room and say, "Hey, that's.....! I haven't seen him in...." then you start adding frantically to see how long it's been, then you figure it out again and say, it can't POSSIBLE have been that long ago! But it was.
Not everyone who opposes '9/11 Mosque' does so out of fear or prejudice
Sometimes it’s hard to take sides on an issue because many of the people most loudly involved are so terribly wrong.
The proposed Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero – dubbed the 9/11 Mosque – is such an issue. Many of the people who say the center should not be built are wrong.
But many of the people who criticize those who oppose the center are just as wrong.
Thanks for a job well done
Dear Editor,
Just a note from a grateful reader for the job you are doing on "Vinton Today".
Your paper has become a highlight of my day in keeping me current on the things going on in my favorite home town. You are fulfilling a great service to many of us who no longer can be there in person0
. You are giving your readers a personal look which is lacking in most or all printed papers today.
Halfway There
Well, we are halfway there.
3 of our kids are officially on their own now and we still have 3 at home.
Yesterday while driving the latest graduate off to college, I realized that everything was changing, and as a mom, I didn't like it!
I told myself, "I should be used to it." "We've done this before." "It's no big deal.
Praise for Vinton Today Entertainment Column
Dear Editor,
I really enjoy reading Dean's entertainment column, View From the Front Row of the Balcony. It is always fun and informative.
Janet Roemig
No Virginia, there isn't a tax on your tux...
While researching to find out what EXACTLY was exempt under the tax holiday I was both amused and irritated.
You can buy a tuxedo and not pay tax on it, you may where it once or twice around town here, but you CAN'T buy sports shoes for your kids if they have cleats or spikes, something that will get worn until they wear out.
You can also buy some new shoulder pads for your dresses, in case you want to go back to that "vintage" 80's look, but you CAN'T buy protective shoulder pads to keep your kids safe during the football games.