February 17, 2010
Letter to the Editor:
We are truly blessed in this area to have scores of volunteers who share their time and resources to enhance the quality of life in our community.
Every year for the past thirty-seven years, since the selection of Agnes Blazier in 1974, the Zonta Club of Marietta has recognized one of those community champions by presenting the Woman of the Year Award to a Washington County, Ohio, resident who has dedicated years of outstanding volunteer service to the community.
Past winners of the Woman of the Year Award have been businesswomen, homemakers, and retirees. They have worked tirelessly to promote educational access and opportunities, protect children from abuse, provide medical services for those most in need, alleviate hunger, provide shelter for the homeless, increase literacy, and much, much more.
This year’s award will be presented at the Marietta Area Chamber Annual Dinner on March 8th. We encourage everyone in the community who knows of an exceptional woman volunteer to nominate her for this award. Send a cover letter with general biographical information, specific details of her volunteer activities and contributions to the community, and support letters from others who have worked with, observed, or learned from her. The committee is interested in understanding all aspects of her volunteer efforts. Please remember to include her full name and address. If a nomination was sent in the past, just update the information and resubmit it.
Please send nominations by February 25th in a sealed envelope to: Zonta Club of Marietta
Woman of the Year
P.O. Box 634
Marietta, OH 45750
Zonta is an international organization dedicated to the improvement of the legal, political, social, economic, and professional status of women around the world.
Gail Reynolds, Marietta, OH
Letter to the Editor:
I have been there,and "done this" and can say life would be better for all concerned.
You would have to be older than 50 to understand the "real way to live" and be better for it. There were no such things such as "Snow days-Hot days Etc". If you lived less than a mile from school, you walked or a parent or buddy with a car drove you". We were in better shape. We had chores, usually morning and evening. Mom or Dad provided a car for us that we "worked for". We had no "free-bees". We became better youngsters and better adults because of it. We were polite and cared for others. I wish there was a way a way i could thank my family again for teaching me how to live the "Good Life". My first job was at a "five & ten" cent store after school for 60 cents an hour. I bought my first car there for $200.00 from my Dad in 1953. How proud I was. My own "Wheels,all mine and i paid for them myself". Lucky me!
Rich Goubeaud, Marietta, OH
Letter to the Editor:
Like other Mariettians, I was thrown "off my game" a bit last week by the sudden, unexplained closing of the First Settlement Restaurant on Putnam Street ...
As a "regular" for breakfast at that establishment since the 1990s (when it was operated by Will Dimit) I came to know many of its employees and considered them "family". Oh yeah! The food wasn't so bad either! My main concern at the present time is that employees like Michelle, Eddie, Ada, Brittany, and the others find other employment quickly ...
It's a bad deal for other reasons. Unlike most of the "generic" eaterys in Marietta, the First Settlement had a certain "personality". Where else could one get blueberry hotcakes on a Friday morning and listen to a talented little guy named "Joe" play 1940s standards on piano and accordion? Where else could one pick up the latest local gossip and varied opinions about everything from the weather to the hushed up antics of local politicos? Where else could one grab a quick cup of coffee and a dash of nostalgia as well? And who can forget the days when "Mildred" waited tables at the First Settlement? If one wasn't careful, one received a "piece of her mind" along with a piece of toast!
Most importantly, the First Settlement was about history. Only after-the-fact will residents begin to miss what they've lost. Minus its more "colorful" establishments, Marietta will cease to be Marietta and will degenerate into one more example of what greed-driven "progress" has left in its wake throughout this region (i.e. Parkersburg) ...
The First Settlement closing is only one of several recent business failures in Marietta caused by overhead costs and tight cash.
Banks are useful in their way, but people are important too!
Fred O'Neill, Marietta, OH
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