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Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:00 AM
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Group offers help with Alzheimer's
I would like to commend Katie Scarvey for her excellent coverage of the recent workshop that Lutheran Services for the Aging (LSA) conducted featuring Teepa Snow. Teepa is a highly sought after educator in longterm care. Her wealth of knowledge and dynamic presentation make her seminars and workshops unforgettable.
LSA continues to be a leader in caring for the dementia patient. Not only has new space been totally devoted to these special needs, but ongoing educational opportunities for staff are continually presented. Combining prime elements from a variety of state-of-the-art approaches to elder care has allowed all of LSA's ministries to offer a hybrid of top quality care.
To meet the growing needs of families on the Trinity Oaks Campus, an Alzheimer's Support Group was been established. Meetings are now open to the general public. The meetings are held at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month. Educational materials are provided, roundtable discussions are mediated by professionals working in the field, and caregivers have an opportunity to share concerns.
The next meeting will be June 8, in the chapel at Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks. The featured speaker will be Sylvia Fiano. Sylvia was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's at the age of 49. She is now 55 and living on her own in Matthews, with support from friends and the Alzheimer's Association. She is an active volunteer with the Western Carolina Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and intends to speak out for as long as she is able to be the voice of those with Alzheimer's who can no longer speak for themselves to say that "we must find a cure and we must find better ways to help."
Please join us for this special presentation. It is free of charge and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you.
— Brenda M. Zimmerman
Salisbury
Zimmerman is the activity director for the Lutheran Home at Trinity Oaks.
Abolish paddling
I read with great interest the fact that the well-being of children is the topic of the Rowan County Department of Social Services' sixth community round table. The group is scheduled to meet this Friday.
I would like to challenge this group to unite and ask for Rowan County Schools to abolish corporal punishment in its district. As long as the educated sector in a community is modeling violence as a solution, the children in that area really have no safe place. Rowan County is one of 66 districts that still allow their educators to pick up wooden boards and strike children.
In examining the overall health of a community and taking an honest inventory of the well-being of children, I hope that this group will agree that banning corporal punishment in this school district would be a positive goal, and one that this group will support. It is past time for this practice to end, and who better to take a stance on this than this group of individuals who clearly care enough to meet and discuss the future and health of children in this county? I challenge you to be a voice for the children in your district, and move forward from your round table to take up this discussion with your board of education.
— Peggy Dean
Waxhaw
Dean, a registered nurse, is a member of the board of directors for Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education.
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Larry Wright
Discipline is not violence : Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:11 PM
If you can not tell the difference between discipline with a paddle or a "switch" and violence, then you are simply not properly educated. You should also not give advise schools and parents about about maintaining order and discipline.
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Janet Dennis
Landis Parks and Reacreation gone nuts : Friday, May 30, 2008 8:34 AM
Landis showed common sense in refusing to spend outrageous amounts of money during these hard times for recreation. I have a simple solution. Let the city managers office be the sign up center for teams needing to use the ball fields, costs a sheet of paper. Do not pay people to keep score. The teams playing can decide on an offical nonpaid score keeper. If the city makes money off of concession stand , hire a person to operate it, under the supervision of the City Manager. Hire the necessary people to operate the pool, one being in charge of daily operation, also supervised by the city manager. There is no reason for these high cost, and in a town this size, it could be supervised by employees aleady in place.Schedules for ball teams can easily be established, and if a meeting is required to explain rules of use, all team heads must be at one meeting with the town manager for the explanations. So hard? No one needs to lose any activities. I am sure there ae people already on the payroll who could do scheduling, hiring of needed pool and concession stand people.If not something is wrong. Janet Dennis
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Joel Johnson
Where are the Parents? : Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:18 AM
If parents would discipline their children, the teachers would not have such a difficult time keeping the students in line. This generation of parents can be summed up with one word: slackers. Teach your kids to act right at a young age.
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Rebecca
Not violence but discipline. : Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:34 AM
There is a difference between violence and DISCIPLINE! My mother could count with her own fingers how many times I deserved a switch for my behavior and I can count on one hand for each of my children's needed discipline. There are too many people raising their children in the "oh don't resort to spanking" mentality. Reasoning is a great tool, however it is not the only tool. Sometimes a swat on the rear is in order! I see a lot of spoiled rotten, disrespectful and just plain mean kids who might have turned out better if mom and dad weren't scared to be the parent! Schools had paddles when we grew up, and the few who recieved this carefully controlled discipline deserved it. Why does the school have to deal with the discipline problems and character building in the schools in addition to teaching academics.....because the kids are'nt learning at home how to behave and to be responsible for their actions, use their manners when speaking and interacting etc. Please start raising your kids so the principals and teachers can do their job!
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Todd Sides
Paddling worked for my parents and teachers (and I thank them) : Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:49 AM
I would hate to think of the trouble that I would have ended up in if it had not been for the paddlings/spankings that I received from, not only my parents, but from my teachers to. I respected them for the fact that I knew if I did something wrong there would be serious repercussions other than sitting at a silent lunch or "time out". I understand that paddling doesn't work with every child but for some children it is the only way to get through to them, I was one of those children. I think that Mrs. Dean provides excellent points about school being a safe haven but at the same time I feel that our educators should have the option on how to punish the children. Our school system has its hands tied as it is and taking away a viable option for punishment will only hinder them more.
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