Vo-tech skills can help build better future
I would have to agree with Michael Cobb’s opinion (April 28 column) about the vocational schools.
I grew up in Virginia Beach, Va., and they had vocational schools there. It may seem like simple trades that they might offer, but I wish that I had taken advantage of these programs.
I now live here in Rowan County and am unemployed, but all I ever see in the classified ads are trade jobs with experience preferred.
I am a student at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and was recently laid-off from Freightliner. I seem to be having a hard time finding a job. I think that if we offer the students something hands on to learn, whether they use it or not, at least they could have something to fall back on.
And remember that it is the blue-collar worker that is building the future of our county.
ó Jessie Hills
Spencer
What acts are treasonous?
Rebel forces tried to overthrow the American government.
Treason, right? Then why are Rebel flags displayed openly and defended openly in America?
Defenders of the Confederate flag claim pride of heritage.
Pride in treason. Pride in forefathers who killed out of some strange aversion to doing their own work.
Conversely, there is an inference that any black person who ever heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright speak is anti-American. Yet it’s somehow “cute” that a treasonous flag is on the “Dukes of Hazzard” car. Any opposition is seen as just black people complaining.
It can’t be treason if it’s just against black people?
ó Lutrell Hancock
Salisbury
Pondering weighty matters
Some time ago we saw a program on TV about Salisbury. A reporter was making a film at random of people on the street, at schools, businesses. There was also a parade in Salisbury that was really great. These pictures were taken back in the 1940s or ’50s. We noticed something very unusual in that film. I will get back to that at the end.
I know that everyone has been watching the news about the police taking the children from the polygamists’ compound in Texas. We have seen the children and the adults. Once again we noticed something unusual. There were no obese people or children taken from that compound.
Back to the top: What brought our attention to that program was one overweight girl walked across in front of the camera; the only one we saw.
ó J.C. Medlin
Salisbury