Poverty summit comes cheap
As chairman of the Fayette County Human Service Council, I feel it is my duty to respond to a recent letter by Mr. Paul Blatt. Mr. Blatt criticized the upcoming Human Service Council conference regarding poverty issues scheduled for Seven Springs Resort. To set the record straight, the reason the conference is being held at Seven Springs is due to the fact Seven Springs is giving all rooms and meeting areas to the Human Service Council free of charge. Since our council is a collaborative, non-profit organization that receives no public funding, it is extremely helpful to have meeting space given to us free of charge.
Also any food provided for attendees will be at a discounted rate and paid for by membership registration and membership dues. The Human Service Council out of its own meager resources is sponsoring student scholarships (reduced registration) for any local student that wishes to learn of the problems affecting a great majority of our fellow residents. All conference facilitators and speakers are donating their time and skills free of charge.
Members of the Human Service Council have volunteered hundreds of hours of their own time to make this conference and other Fayette County events possible.
The members of the Fayette County Human Service Council are caring, sympathetic individuals and organizations that are continually involved not just in supporting and assisting services such as soup kitchen operations, but other giving efforts benefiting our county. The council’s efforts and community involvement are too numerous to mention in this space, but I feel I need to mention the annual Family Fun Fest held each summer free of charge to all county residents, which is sponsored by the Human Service Council and county human service agencies.
I am glad Mr. Blatt shares our concern regarding the poverty issues plaguing our area and we would like to invite him to attend our poverty conference today at Seven Springs. Registration is 8:30 a.m.
In the future, I would hope those concerned would get the facts straight before making incorrect assumptions regarding the Fayette County Human Service Council and its community efforts.
John J. DeCarlo
chairman
Fayette County Human
Service Council
Uniontown
Democrat switching to GOP
I have never written a letter to the editor before. However, after reading the letter from Ms. Emily Sipula in your Sept. 18th edition, I had to reply.
I never realized that President Bush was such a bad fellow until I read all the terrible things he has done, according to Ms. Sipula. I guess space prevented her from telling us how he was responsible for the Great Depression and the Civil War.
I could go through this letter item by item and explain the true facts, but space is limited and it would probably be a fruitless task.
The letter was written by a true Fayette County Democrat. When leaving the polls they can’t tell you who they voted for, but they know he was the Democrat.
Thank God for the Electoral College. Could you think of what shape we would be in today if Al Gore had won the election? Face it Ms. Sipula, your man lost.
You may think this is being written by a Republican, but I have been a registered Democrat all my life. However, I will soon be changing my registration to Republican because of people like Emily Sipula and Al Gore.
Larry Fell
Masontown