Only a few days left to enjoy view from Dunn’s Mountain
If you have never been to the new county park at Dunn’s Mountain, you are missing a real treat, especially right now. It will be open for one more weekend (and possibly the following, depending on the weather).
The times are as follows: Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. Then it will not reopen until March.
There are hiking trails, but there is also a van with a lift for those who can’t climb the mountain on the trails.
All my life, I was told that on a clear day one could see The Plaza (Wallace Building) from the top of the mountain. Now the mountain has a beautiful covered wooden porch and binoculars to view a vast array of places. You can see downtown Salisbury’s church steeples, the Bell Tower and The Plaza. If you have your own binoculars, take them along.
On a clear day, you can see Young’s Mountain in Cleveland, the roof of the Transportation Museum in Spencer and the Uwharrie Mountain range.
The color was so vivid this past Saturday. It is a lot closer and cheaper than the N.C. mountains, and right now I think it is probably just as beautiful. It is free! No charge! It would be a great place for a picnic.
If you are disabled or elderly, do not let that keep you away; it is handicapped accessible!
And if you live in Rowan County and have not visited our other county parks, I urge you to go. Enjoy a piece of heaven right here in Rowan County.
ó Linda Beck
Woodleaf
Religion and politics
Regarding all the fuss about religion and the elections:
Vote for a “godly” candidate, some say, because this country was founded on Biblical principles, and we have been turning away from those principles.
Actually, this country has been doing that for 200 years and more. In 1790, King Solomon would have been arrested for having two wives, let alone 900. Of course, he would not have been king in this country then. Americans did not even tolerate a character like King George, let alone Solomon, Moses or David.
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” the Bible says. A mob in Philadelphia in 1787 acted on that advice and stoned a woman to death, believing that she was a witch. It was illegal, but it’s in the Bible. Of course, the Bible endorses slavery, which secular law prohibited in 1863.
I’ve heard that General Washington prayed at Valley Forge. What did he pray for? “Oh, God, help us kill these 12-year-old school boys and preachers who were dragged out of their pulpits by the press gangs and told to put on a red jacket and given a drum and musket?”
All the flap about Kay Hagan and her alleged ties to “Godless Americans” … Trust in God. How much so? What did Jesus Christ and Alexander the Great have in common? Both died at 33. What if they had lived a few years longer? Before he died, Alexander was planning to conquer Arabia. Had he spread Western civilization to that then-barbaric country, all Mohammed might have been was a mule driver who got rich by marrying a well-to-do widow.
In which case, we would never have set foot in Iraq, and 100,000 people there would now be alive, along with 4,100 Americans. Not to mention the great numbers killed in centuries of warfare between Christians and Muslims.
ó R. Howard Andrews
Kannapolis
Enough is enough
Halloween night. Fun for all? Not always. I’d like to thank the hoodlums who violated my property for the third time for giving my head a shake and causing me to refocus on reality. It appears that “freedom” applies only if your voice is of the left.
As a person who leans to the right, I like to think of myself as someone who can look at things from different points of view and be swayed if the opposition has a better argument. However, I now realize that only the political left have rights to express themselves. I know this because I couldn’t keep a McCain sign in my yard. Yet people on my block have no trouble keeping their Obama signs. At 1 a.m. on Nov. 1, my McCain sign was stolen again from my yard. This time the anonymous freedom fighters threw candy that we had passed out as treats at my house. At 1:20 a.m., my dog started barking, and I went to the front door to find someone getting ready to deface my vehicle by trying to remove a McCain sticker. The “trickster” took off when I came out the front door, apparently remembering the non-combative role of his party, but not before showering me with profanities, calling me a terrorist and questioning my sexuality. What fun!
There will no longer be any sway whatsoever in my vote. I’ll die a conservative Republican with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other. No Democrat will ever score another vote from me.
I am aware that Obama signs have also been taken down. To the McCain supporters who did this horrific act, you are a disgrace to the Republican Party. Stay out of politics so you don’t make the rest of us look bad.
ó Perry Harris
Spencer