In the election coming on May 7, the city of Harlingen has three propositions up for your vote. Please vote against all three.
Proposition A: to change how the members of the airport board are selected. Why change this when ValleyInternationalAirport is one of South Texas’ best airports?
Proposition B: to restrict our elected officials to four terms for reelection. If the candidates are good, capable people, then our city needs them for as long as they are willing to serve.
Proposition C: changing our city election to November instead of the traditional May election. November is such a national election date that would overshadow our city election.
Please vote against all three propositions. It is your right.
Lorraine Woolam
Harlingen
Just
a Girl
She’s all of seventeen, she’s only three or four
Her shoes are worn, escaping gangs and war
She brings no guns or drugs, nothing much at all
Build more walls, militarize the border
A human being like us, she’s just a girl
Her home is somewhere south, taken over by fear
Armed only with hope, to find someone to help her here
No money or possessions, just the sack on her back
Met by armed troops, DPS, drones, concertina wire
Trying to escape violence and heartache, she’s just a girl
Some food in a bag, a plastic bottle of water
She’s her brother’s sister, she’s her mother’s daughter
Can’t go back, trying to get somewhere safe
She’s the invasion, the object of fear and hate
Looking for humanity, she’s just a girl
Some tattered clothes, dirt in her hair
More despised than welcomed, poverty laid bare
Gangs got her brother, desperation her mother
We turn her away, we forget where we came from
Here among the least of ye is where you find me. Just a girl
Jim Chapman
Weslaco
Race winner
deserved more
The recent All-AmericanCity 10K in Edinburg was a great success — until the race organizers refused to pay the top American, Lawi Lalang, his earned prize money.
Lawi won the race and also was the first American, thereby entitled to both the “open” prize money and the “American” prize money. Nowhere on the race’s website did it sate that both prizes cannot be earned.
Further, Lawi is a U.S. military veteran, and he also was the first veteran and should have also received that prize money.
I was at the awards ceremony, having driven over from Houston, and I was thoroughly disgusted at the treatment Lawi received from the race organizers. This unfortunate situation has caught the running community’s attention and it is trending on social media and running websites, all in support of Lawi and all condemning the race for cheating Lawi out of his fairly won prize money.
The race director and his staff should be ashamed of themselves. As for the race volunteers, all excellent. Those who cheated Lawi, shame on you.
Dennis Castner
Katy
Faithful known
by their actions
A Christian is not defined by a title but by his actions, so no so-called educated “Christian” is not a Christian, nor is anyone calling themselves Christian who do not have Jesus Christ as their model (1 Peter: 2:21) It is one thing to claim to be Christian yet quite another to be a true Christian.
Gilberto Valle
Gatesville
