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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 2000
Page
2
Ottawa Herald announces Citizen Scholars an annual honor spotlighting five Franklin County high school seniors from five schools for academic excellence and community service. The Class of 2000 is praised for hard work, sacrifices, and wide extracurriculars while crediting parents and teachers.
Citizens debate funding for a new recreation center police station and sewer upgrades, warning against tax and fee increases for “wants.” They urge fixing current infrastructure, improving airport maintenance, storm drainage, streets, and employee pay before annexations or large projects, calling for citizen votes on proposed changes.
Readers are invited to send hand signed letters with address and phone, or email to letters otawaherald.com. Submissions must not exceed 500 words and may be edited for space.
A reflective essay traces Memorial Day’s origins in Columbus Georgia with a Confederate widow’s grave decorations and notes how it grew into a national remembrance. It contrasts lofty leadership motives with soldiers’ courage, recalls Normandy and Korea, and honors over a million Americans who died in conflicts. It urges prayer and memory for the fallen.
Robert W. Tracinski argues that Social Security should not be saved but privatized urging a voluntary system where individuals plan their own retirement with money they earn. He likens Social Security to a Ponzi scheme and calls for rejecting self sacrifice in favor of self interest and personal responsibility.
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