Pals of the Legacy Path come by way of
After I crashed my bike on the Legacy Path lately, it was in the very best place: proper in entrance of the Pals of the Legacy Path tent in Osprey. The volunteers there should not simply pals of the path; they’re pals of the riders, too – even the inept ones.
Seconds after I hit the pavement, I used to be surrounded by pals who picked me up, bandaged my scrapes, shaded me from the solar and drove me, my husband and each our bikes dwelling.
Theresa, a nurse, cleaned and bandaged me. Mike saved me shaded. Janine lent my husband her automotive to get me dwelling shortly. When he returned, Rita drove him and our bikes to our home. Others, whose names I didn’t catch, made certain I used to be hydrated, checked my pupils for indicators of concussion and did all the things they may to make me comfy.
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All of us want to look at what we’re doing on bikes, however it’s good to know that if an accident does occur, now we have pals who’re prepared, prepared and in a position to assist.
Due to the Pals of the Legacy Path for all you do to maintain the path protected and enjoyable.
Ann Hankinson, Osprey
Good causes we should always reuse plastic
Think about you stroll exterior and uncover a hen attempting to get free from a plastic bag tangled round it. That is what occurs when plastic doesn’t get disposed of correctly. We must always reuse plastic, akin to plastic baggage, in order that we will shield wild animals in our lovely county.
One cause we should always reuse plastic is as a result of it’s harming animals akin to sea animals and land animals.
First, turtles can choke on plastic. Additionally, turtles can starve to dying as a result of they really feel full after consuming an excessive amount of plastic. Lastly, plastic has poison in it and that might kill turtles.
To us, these are three good causes to reuse plastic and preserve it out of our oceans.
One more reason we should always reuse plastic is due to air pollution. Air pollution lasts for years. There are enormous rubbish patches within the ocean, and a few of that plastic will nonetheless be round in 450 years, if we don’t do one thing.
This isn’t only a downside that’s method out within the ocean. Whether it is unhealthy for the animals, it’s most probably unhealthy for individuals, too.
Please assist us save our ocean and our world.
Addisyn Harper, Marisa Mays and Maria Leon-DeJesus
(The three letter writers are fourth-grade college students at Palmetto Elementary College.)
Politicians allow antisemitic conduct
When does sufficient grow to be sufficient? Jew-baiting and overt antisemitic conduct have been ignored by each political events for years.
The votes obligatory to stay in energy or to return to energy take priority over any type of moral conduct. Each are chargeable for this abhorrent return of millennia-old antisemitism.
As a full-time resident of Sarasota, I maintain my statewide and federally elected officers accountable, they usually fail miserably. Sure, they’ve assisted Jewish establishments with beneficiant funding to guard our spiritual and social establishments. However they then coddle these very antisemites/arsonists who’ve threatened us.
How tough is it to sentence Nazis, or white supremacists, or to sentence those that use incendiary language implying that Jews management the world, banking, Huge Pharma and the media?
How tough is it to sentence those that actually imagine that the COVID pandemic is in some way a Jewish conspiracy? Good individuals on “all sides?” Really sickening.
Disgrace on U.S. Reps. Vern Buchanan and Greg Steube, on Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, on Florida GOP Chairman Joe Gruters and on Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Maintain them accountable for enabling the arsonists/antisemites by merely trying the opposite method to keep their base of help. Both they communicate up and state in no unsure phrases, “Sufficient is sufficient,” or present them the door!
Howard Tevlowitz, Sarasota
Hateful flyers may result in violence
It begins with hate speech. Antisemitism has been rising dramatically over the previous few years, even in Sarasota (“Sarasota police examine distribution of anti-Semitic flyers positioned in a number of neighborhoods,” Feb. 14).
In the case of discovering scapegoats for any ills in society, Jews are among the many first to be blamed. Divisiveness in our society begins with flyers and hate speech and results in violence, as we’ve seen in recent times, together with lethal assaults.
We are able to’t be silent and take these latest incidents evenly.
Norman Olshansky, Sarasota
Democrats may play “Huge Lie” recreation, too
“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” If Republicans persist in attempting to discredit the electoral system each time they lose, Democrats can do the identical.
Then the whole electoral system will lose credibility, collapse and be ripe for takeover by a dictator.
Juliette Muscat, Sarasota