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Letters to the Editor Coach Prim would say save CCHS Dear Editor, I just wanted to say thank you to Jake Paul for his wonderful letter in the paper last week concerning the demolition of the Senior High Building. It does my heart good to see young people voice their concerns and opinions about something that means so much to them and others. I am a 1976 graduate of the Clarke County High school and I can honestly say I had the time of my life there. My son is also a graduate with many fond memories. My grandmother, Virgie Lawlis and my mother, Pat Presnall were also students at the Senior High Building. As a parent of children there I spent many days in and out of the building working on first one project then another and I feel it would be a horrible mistake to destroy it. Why not do as Mr. Paul suggested? Why not equip the rooms in the building to accommodate the classes that are being taught in less than nice buildings out back. I think if you tear the Senior High building down the view will not be a very good one. Why would you want to have a brand new school and a nice parking lot only to have everyone see the bad looking buildings in the back? I'm sorry but I just don't see the logic. I would like to challenge every one to contact either the town council members or the Clarke County Board of Education by phone or via the newspaper to let them know how you feel. I know there has to be more people besides Jake and myself who feel this way. If the school system can't use the building why then couldn't the town? I realize the next question would be how to pay for upkeep? Couldn't it be rented to different organizations for their various meeting and gatherings or rented for office spaces? Let the rent possibly help take care of the upkeep. I'm not going to claim for one minute to have the answers to this but I do know that we have some very well educated people both on the Board of Education and on the Town Council and while I may not know each of them personally, I do know them through their actions on other projects and they have done a great job so far. After all I thought the town and its' people were all about saving our pieces of history and this school is a part of our town and its history. I bet if Coach Hannis Prim were here today he would tell you to save it. I'm sure there are some areas we don't understand about this and there may be reasons for not keeping the building, but what are they? In closing I am asking the Board of Education to please reconsider this drastic step and I challenge the town to help figure out how to keep this building that means so much to so many. Donna P. Gates Thomasville Clarke County Junior Miss parents thankful Dear Editor: Our family would like to thank all of the wonderful people of Grove Hill and Clarke County for their paryers, cosniderations and expressions of support for Ellie as she participated in the Alabama Junior Miss Program. We are truly blessed to live in a community that is so encouraging and nuturing of its young citizens. We would like to especially thank Amy Clarke-Davis for sharing her time, talents and love with Ellie, and the Clarke County Junior Miss Committee for all of their help and support and The Clarke County Democrat for its recognition and covrage of Elli's participation in the program. We are proud to live in Clarke County and we are so proud of Ellie for the way she represented our county. God bless you all. Bruce and Rhonda Wilson Grove Hill Apple gets blamed as Eden's forbidden fruit Dear Editor: Since Uncle Wilbur (Calhoun) is dead, somebody's gotta do it. In the January 10 issue of The Democrat you ran a Bible Trivia quiz. One question asked was, "What fruit was mentioned in the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve were not to eat?" The multiple choices were: 1) Not mentioned, 2) pear, 3) apple. The answer given was "apple." None of my Bibles names the fruit, and not even apple. The forbidden fruit is called the fruit "in the center of the Garden ." Bill Whatley Atlanta, Ga.
Editor's note: The Bible Triva series is provided through King Features. We miss Rev. W. O. Calhoun but we are glad he isn't here to straighten us out on this one.
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