THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 12-13, 2016
A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Trump’s Talents Are What Country Desperately Needs FURNARI/From A4 cess are uneducated, uninformed, hippie-like, under the influence, and lazy. I can say that. I’ve spoken to these people at the rally. Now don’t get me wrong, I like Bernie. He’s not my first choice, but I did send a contribution to his campaign because I appreciate his honesty and the fact that on four major issues, he is aligned with my top choice, Donald Trump: Trade policy, corporate corruption, Israel-Palestinian peace strategy, and campaign financing. I don’t agree with him on social issues or his taxation policy, but the four I mentioned are significant. And after speaking to many Bernie supporters and educating them on the candidates similarities, as well as educating them that Donald Trump is not a racist or a bigot, rather a tremendously successful businessman with incredible foresight, I was pleased to hear that yes, some
would vote for him. Trump’s talents are what this country desperately needs. And I’m not blind to the fact that Donald Trump has been on the other side where his financial ability has given him the opportunity to persuade politicians. I guess at some point there is truth to selecting the lesser of all evils. However, when Donald Trump looked in the past to accomplish something working with politicians, it was to improve a property, it created jobs, and improved the overall prosperity and value of a neighborhood. And the only candidate in this process who has donated land to conservation and forfeited development rights for the preservation of land is Donald Trump. Party people like you, Jim, want the same old stuff: Our money going overseas to countries that despise us. All while children in our own country don’t have gyms to play basketball in.
Politicians eating at $500-a-plate dinners on our tax dollars, while homeless eat out of garbage cans in the cities. Big corporations and Political Action Committees (PACs) supplying money to candidates to buy elections. In exchange, those behind the PACs get the laws passed that benefit their agenda. And on and on and on. I don’t see Bernie getting to the nominee finish line. Donald Trump still has a chance to get to his. And while Donald Trump may never be a great president, I feel we must take that chance anyway. He is saying what I want to hear, which is America first! And at least he has demonstrated extreme competence. Unlike most politicians that have brought this country to the depths it is at today. Never Cruz! Never Hillary! SAL FURNARI Hartwick
Mental Health Challenges Are Not A Life Sentence – And Kate Hewlett Proves It
HEWLETT/From A4 myself when things weren’t going the way I would have liked. I was able to graduate from therapy and went from being on 12 different psychiatric medications to one. I talked to anyone that would listen that there is hope from mental health challenges and that recovery is a possibility. And every time I stumbled, or fell, I kept getting up. I stand before you this morning, sharing that I live in an apartment with my husband, I am off all government benefits, I am a certified recovery coach and a Copeland Center WRAP facilitator, I am the first fulltime peer engagement speattacks and life-threatening cialist for Otsego County, hateful and ignorant expres- working out of the adult sions. behavioral health services We do so in the tradiclinic, I am a trainer for new tion and spirit of Dr. Martin peer leaders through rehaLuther King, Jr. bilitation Support Services, TOM HEITZ I am an advocate, and I am Fly Creek
Region Must Stand With Our Neighbors At Islamberg HEITZ/From A4 children attend local schools and many of the adults are employed in the area. For the past two years, I have had the honor of serving as publicity coordinator and religious affairs chair for Oneonta’s NAACP Chapter under the able direction of Lee Fisher and Regina Betts. In that capacity, after the conclusion of the meeting, I presented a modest gift to Rashid “Carl” Clark, an Islamberg community leader. The gift was intended for the children of Islamberg as a token of support from the Oneonta Chapter of the NAACP and The First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown where I am a member. The item was a vintage comic book, dating back to the early 1960s, depicting the story of Dr. Martin Luther King’s bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in the late 1950s. King’s non-violent protest action became one of the signal events in the history of the mid-20th century civil rights movement. In April, while attending a Presbyterian Church
conference at Stony Point, I came into possession of multiple copies of this comic book printed in three different languages – English, Spanish and Arabic. The Arabic version of this publication is clearly intended for the Muslim faith communities. Thus, I introduced myself and presented it to Mr. Clark. As I was doing so, Jessica Reynolds, The Daily Star’s Reporter, took a photograph which appeared on the front page of that newspaper’s Monday morning edition with the story of the meeting and its outcome. However, the short caption appearing with the photo could not explain fully what was actually occurring at that moment. The accompanying article, a well-written and excellent account of the meeting, did not elaborate further about the photo. Thus, I offer this explanation. This coming Sunday, May 15, a large delegation of people from Oneonta and Cooperstown, representing
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a recovery and motivational speaker spreading the word that there is hope healing and recovery from mental health challenges. I have gone eight years without a hospitalization. I continue to work hard and further my knowledge so I can help others and bring about change in my community. I continue to fight stigma! I don’t think of the past 17 years of my life as a waste. I think of it as an internship. I have the knowledge and the lived experience to be a visionary leader and a role model for others. I am living proof that life with mental health challenges can be rewarding and productive and recovery is not only a possibility but a reality! Being diagnosed with mental illness is not the end of someone’s life; it was actually the beginning of mine!
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illon Joseph Stockdale was born on April 16, 2016, at Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, to Sean and Shannon Stockdale of Otego. He weighed 9 pounds, 6 ounces, and measured 21.5 inches long. His grandparents are Patricia LeVeille of Otego, Bridgette and Rick West of Worcester, and John and Becky Stockdale of New Jersey. His great-grandparents are Mary Ann and Richard Ehrmann of Obernburg.
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