Ag plates support FFA students
To the editor:
We, the officer team for the Caribou FFA, the Student Organization for Agriculture Education (formerly Future Farmers of America) want to thank all Maine citizens who have purchased the agriculture license plate. We want to let you know what your support for this program has meant to our local FFA Chapter.
Over the last three years, the Caribou FFA has sought and received $3,000 in grants from the Maine Ag in the Classroom program to help us improve leadership in this high school organization. Maine Ag in the Classroom is the administrator of the agriculture license plate funds.
Caribou FFA members have taught over 450 third-grade students the basics of where their food comes from through our immensely popular Food For America Day. Elementary students from around the Caribou area come to the Ag Education Department at Caribou Tech Center where they learn about plants, animals and food production.
In addition, FFA members have been able to travel to Washington, D.C. to the Washington Leadership Conference, attend regional leadership workshops as well as participate in the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. The National Convention draws over 54,000 FFA members from all across the United States.
Caribou FFA members would like you to consider choosing the “ag plates” when it comes time to renew your car or truck registration. You are investing in people like us. Thank you.
Sara Huston, president
Jeremy Miller, vice president
Tyler Raymond, secretary
Dylan Greenier, treasurer
Tim Shaw, reporter
Cindy Ketch, PR director
Thomas Hale, FFA adviser
To the editor:
The holy innocents of Newtown, Connecticut will help God bring salvation to this nation.
We also remember the “heroic” teachers who tried to protect their “precious lambs.”
There is no greater love than to lay down your life for another. This is “perfect love” and perfect love is the key that opens the gates of heaven.
Theresa Cummings
Caribou
Keep Sunday a day of rest
To the editor:
I think it’s time the sports planners and athletic administrators at area schools and recreation centers take Sunday as a family-go-to-church day. There are six other days of the week to travel the roads and get the job done.
It’s horrible to see the number of people not in church with family on Sunday. It should be a day of rest.
Louise Davis
Caribou
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde revisited
To the editor:
In 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson published ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Since then, debates have raged as to whether Stevenson was speaking to the decay of society as a whole or to the duality of man’s soul. Life in today’s America has rendered such debates moot. We are frightened country with nerves frayed to the point of shooting teenagers for loud music. We feel helpless to protect our loved ones and immediately fall into the Cold War trap of weapons escalation.
It is being suggested that practically everyone should be armed because all those we deem “normal” will never succumb to the fear and human frailties that drive the “bad” people. This, I believe is what Stevenson was trying to say: Anyone of us all can be Mr. Hyde on any given day and as such are all just a moment away from doing the unthinkable. Mr. gun dealer, you might sell that “Bushmaster” to the good doctor and find out on CNN that after a couple drinks, he became Mr. Hyde.
I do not want to take away the gun from Dr. Jekyll, I just want Mr. Hyde to have time to listen to the better half of his angels before we hear those words again — “He was such a good boy; kept to himself and did not seem to have a mean bone in his body.”
David Daniel Beckom
Mars Hill
