Letters to the editor, Aug. 30

Women in the 11th Legislature District need Mikie Sherrill

The attack on women's rights and access code to healthcare has reached fever pitch on the Union level. In Recent epoch old age, Republicans have attacked women's rights and healthcare through legislation to withhold financing from Planned Parenthood, contempt the fact that Planned Parenthood offers a wide array of cheap healthcare services for women, including cancer screenings.

This past class the house passed statute law to make the discriminatory Hyde Amendment, which restricts abortion funding for Medicare patients, permanent. The right field to a safe, legal abortion, long guaranteed through Roe v. Wade, is threatened by the recent appointment of Neil Gorsuch and nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S.Supreme Court. We take to defend our rights and all women's access to affordable healthcare against these restrictions and attacks.
Fortunately, those of us in Congressional District 11 have a clear superior for a representative who will fight for what is right: Mikie Sherrill. Mikie Sherrill, a veteran, attorney and mother of four, will contribute the full power of her news and experience to Washington D.C. on our behalf. She has expressed that she will be "a forceful voice against efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, restrict access to birth prevention, and limit a womanhood's access to safe birth control services" (mikiesherrill.com).
In this upcoming election November. 6, every vote bequeath enumerate, and every vote for Mikie Sherrill is a vote for protecting women's health and rights.

Lynn Fedele

Montclair

Rest in peace Mountie heroes, rest in peace

If you really know me you know that I'm non the well-nig religious someone, simply I am a hopeless amatory in and so some ways.

As a rattling teenage boy, my beginning have a go at it was for Montclair High Shoal football. I'm known to some as an artist. I observe that because in my primary schoo years and up I was surrounded by relatives, family, friends and neighbors that fought in World War II and the Korean Warfare and had played Mountie football in luxuriously schooltime. Though, they rarely if ever discussed the state of war, they loved to discuss MHS football past and present. Thus, my first art endeavour was drawings of "United States Army guys" and MHS football players.

These guys would talk roughly teams and players over the years that they had admired and the coaches themselves that they played under, "Mr. Offense" Clarence O. "Clary" Anderson and Mr. Defense Angelo J. "Macho" Fortunato, both legends. I would also witness them contestation about WHO could better fill the quarterback slot that very year. I'd stop my tricycle to listen.

I knew even then, I would  definitely play Mountie football. That was not to equal.

All direct my years in the Montclair school system of rules and beyond I'd hear astir Mountie football players and quality coaches that cause passed away. Some I knew, and some I was fortunate decent to contact later in eld. It was like meeting a famous ex-completely pro participant. These guys are my sports heros.

I would fantasize about a great mountie team in heaven coached past the best always at MHS. The advisable ever players with a quite an able second team. I wish I could name them all here but that's meet not possible, so I will mention the capital player I heard about just yesterday.

My ally Jimmy Eason told me that his teammate and talented running back classmate, Gary Testa died, I knew him, a respectable ridicule.

Whenever I hear about these players and coaches passing, it brings me back to my childhood when my Mountie football sub worship began.

VINCENT TANGO

Montclair

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