Spare Pace’s home

After reading Kathryn Pace’s Feb. 13 guest column in the Trib [“Stop demolition of my home”], I believe that her McGregor house should not be destroyed.

Look at all she has done for McGregor by working as a teacher for 38 years. So she loved cats and went overboard. The problem with the cats apparently has been resolved, and she’s made many improvements to her home.

If 414th District Court Judge Vicki Menard gave the order to demolish her home and has not been out there to see the improvements that have been made, then she needs to go.

This would be taking away Pace’s home, which as a U.S. citizen she is entitled to.

With all the talk about rising homeless rates, I can’t believe they want to add another homeless person by destroying a home that now is better than many other homes in the area.

As long as she is not allowed to keep any cats on her property, there should not be any problems in the future. So give her a break. She is 72 years old and has paid taxes on a home worth $49,660. How can they tear it down and not compensate her for it?

My husband and I lived in a one-bedroom home for many years that was cold in the winters and hot in the summers until we were able to build another house. But, like Pace, I would have laid down in front of a bulldozer before letting someone take my home from me. Let this woman keep her home!

Linda Kroll

Riesel

Care for unborn

Thanks to Jerry Willett for his Feb. 6 letter on abortion.

He asked why many people don’t get upset when unborn babies are being killed, yet show so much compassion for abused animals.

If those people would have the courage to see the image of an aborted unborn baby, I believe that many of them would start doing something to end abortion. Every human is made in the image and likeness of God. That is why humans are the most important of God’s creation.

Silveria Cuevas

Bellmead

Waste not, want not

My wife and I eat at Golden Corral several times a week, and it just burns us up to see so many wasteful people. They not only pile their plates sky-high, but they pile on their children’s plates, and most of the time the kids only eat half of this food.

Then they go back and get another plate full and leave it all on the table when they walk out the door.

This is disgraceful and wasteful. What is this teaching their children? In this economic time, we need to be teaching all to conserve.

Bill Bates Sr.

Waco

Good Samaritan

Recently, a young man named “Charles” came to my rescue in a retail parking lot in Hewitt. My car door had closed with the motor running, and my keys and personal items were locked inside. On this cold and blustery day, he called Pop-A-Lock and let me sit inside his truck while we waited for them to arrive.

He told me this had happened to his wife once, and their baby had been locked inside but no one helped her.

I want to publicly thank this young man and pray that God bestows his utmost blessings on his family.

Dorothy Tate

Woodway