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B-10 Opinion Wednesday, May 27, 2020 The Press-Dispatch Don't blame God Letter to the Editor Court Report FELONY Pike County Circuit Court Lori Louise Hobby charged with count I possession of cocaine, less than 5 grams, a level 5 felony, count II bat- tery against a public safety official, a level 6 felony, and count III invasion of privacy, violates a protective order. Jordan L. Like charged with count I causing serious bodily injury when op- erating a motor vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more, a level 5 felony, and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicat- ed, endangering a person. Dillon M. Wiscaver charged with sexual misconduct with a minor, a lev- el 6 felony. Dustin K. Weathers charged with neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony. Heather Beard charged with neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike County Circuit Court Christian Tyler Risley charged with disorderly conduct. Jorge D. Maldonado charged with count I operating a vehicle while intox- icated and count II reckless driving. Nicole Traylor charged with posses- sion of a device or substance used to in- terfere with a drug or alcohol screen- ing. Andrew Vargo charged with oper- ating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in person's body. Danny Thompson charged with two counts of theft. CIVIL Pike County Circuit Court LVNV Funding, LLC sues Rebekah Rice on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike County Circuit Court Christopher L. Coulson charged with no valid driver's license. Michael Boyd charged with driving while suspended. Trevor J. Beck charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Mark A. Hanselman charged with no valid driver's license. Rustin Ward charged with operating a motor vehicle with a fictitious plate. of God's saving message? " An evangelist was asked a few years ago to name the greatest need of to- day's church; the answer was "Another Pentecost! " I think Paul would an- swer "STIR UP THE GIF T THAT IS WITHIN YOU." A "new" Pentecost would be nice – but why pray for a manifestation of the Spir- it when it resides in you al- ready? Tap into the Spir- it and you will experience Pentecost! The winds of change are blowing and we can be swept away, or be guided by the One who controls the winds. You choose. Think about it! Continued from page 9 FRESH Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock Smile behind the mask and 43 percent, respec- tively, scored proficient and above proficient, while their William Floyd coun- terparts scored 23 percent and 6 percent, respectively. Similar high performance can be found in some other Manhattan charter schools such as KIPP Infinity Mid- dle School. Liberals tell us that racial integration is a necessary condition for black academ- ic excellence. Public char- ter schools such as those mentioned above belie that vision. Sowell points out that only 39 percent of stu- dents in all New York state schools who were recently tested scored at the "profi- cient" level in math, but 100 percent of the students at the Crown Heights Success Academy tested proficient where blacks and Hispan- ics constitute 90 percent of the student body. There's little question that many charter schools provide superior educa- tional opportunities for black youngsters. The New York Times wrote, "Over 100,000 students in hundreds of the city's char- ter schools are doing well on state tests, and tens of thousands of children are on waiting lists for spots." But here's New York May- or Bill de Blasio's take on charter schools, express- ing the interests of the edu- cation establishment: "Get away from high-stakes test- ing, get away from charter schools. No federal funding for charter schools." Black people cannot af- ford to buy into any attack on education alternatives. Charter schools across the nation offer a way out of the educational abyss. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 9 ROTTEN erence both of these da- tabases at the same time, which leads to countless mistakes. The most recent exam- ple of such mistakes in- volves the $1,200 checks sent by the Internal Reve- nue Service to individuals as part of the CARES Act, many of which are going to the dead. The IRS has directed families to return checks sent to the deceased by ac- cident, which is both incon- venient and a bit unsettling. This is surely a problem everyone can agree on find- ing a solution for. Part of President Donald Trump's most recent bud- get proposal includes a call for giving the Treasury De- partment full access to the Death Master File as a way to improve the Do Not Pay database, since the Trea- sury is not one of the agen- cies with full access. The Office of Manage- ment and Budget thinks that this reform would save millions of dollars for tax- payers by reducing improp- er payments. The most straightfor- ward and efficient way to accomplish this would be for legislators to fold the Death Master File com- pletely into the Treasury Department. The biparti- san Social Security Advi- sory Board made that rec- ommendation in a report last year, and reiterated it in the wake of the situation involving COVID-19 relief checks. The potential shift would create a number of bene- fits. First, it would mean that federal agencies no longer have to reference two sep- arate databases to prevent improper payments, reduc- ing the likelihood of mis- takes. Second, it would remove the burden of maintaining the database from the So- cial Security Administra- tion, which is not supposed to do support work for oth- er agencies. This simple, common- sense idea would benefit the bereaved and the gen- eral public alike. Congress rarely has an opportunity to enact such a genuinely bipartisan, nonideological reform, and it should do so as soon as possible. David Ditch is a budget and transportation associ- ate in the Grover M. Her- mann Center for the Feder- al Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Continued from page 9 GRAVE Continued from page 9 ELECTIONS round of cash payments to individuals — including payments to undocument- ed workers — billions in housing assistance, etc. We're at the fork in the road, and this fork will de- fine presidential politics in 2020. Has government done the major part of its thing to help us get through the coronavirus crisis, or are we going to keep moving to a new welfare state and socialist America? Sentiments gleaned from the polls show the Republi- cans are ready to start turn- ing things back to individ- uals. Democrats? The Heroes Act says it all. Government or free- dom? This is the question pointing to November. Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renew- al and Education and au- thor of the new book "Nec- essary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This is Good News for America." "Let me see," my 7-year-old said. I smiled at him. "Mama," he said, "your mask is on." "Oh! Right." I lowered my mask. Our local orthodontist's office had just opened up af- ter being shuttered for CO- VID-19. I went in for an ap- pointment that was meant to happen two months ago — to have my new Invisalign re- tainer fitted. It is part of my COVID-chic attire: gray hair and a re- tainer. The perfect addition to the not showering, hairy legs and nine-day- wear pajamas. My son inspected the clear retainer in my mouth. "Why'd you get it? " "Because my front two teeth are crossing each other," I explained. "It's making me self-conscious when I smile." "So you're going to deal with that weird thing in your mouth just to smile? " I was immediately brought back to my childhood — to all of the years of teeth trauma. First there were the brac- es on my front four teeth, which I en- dured long before any other kid in my grade had braces. Then there was the permanent retainer in third grade, or what I lovingly refer to as the "friend annihilator." Or the "spit sprayer." Or the "loser anointer." Or the "no-one- will-talk-to-you-so-you-sit-at-a-table- in-the-cafeteria-alone torture device." That last one didn't really roll off the tongue, but my spit sure did. You get the idea. In third grade, the friend an- nihilator was placed in my mouth, and there it was meant to stay for years. Something about an over- bite or an underbite or biting too many kids in preschool. I can't remember. But the point was, this thing stunk. It made me lisp. It made me shower people with such an extraordinary amount of spittle that it would appear as if anyone within 5 feet of me had just walked through a rainstorm. And it prevent- ed me from eating solid foods — any solid foods. So I, a previously perfect- ly respectable second grader known for her peanut butter and honey sand- wiches, was now a third grader relegat- ed to yogurt, pudding and baby food. You know what's not cool when you're 9? Eating baby food out of baby food jars in the cafeteria. You know what you can't throw when there's an epic food fight in the cafeteria and you want to participate? Baby food. Hurling one of the glass jars at the head of a fellow student surely would have resulted in suspension. A year in, my mom insist- ed that the spit sprayer be removed be- cause I — and I quote my mom here — had "no friends." The permanent re- tainer was chiseled out of my mouth and replaced with a wire retainer and then more braces and then a clear re- tainer that looked an awful lot like the Invisalign in my mouth now. I shiv- er as I recall all the trash cans I dug through after accidentally throwing it away. And still, 20 years later, I'm back. "Yes," I told my son. "I'm gonna en- dure all this just so I can smile." "Why bother? " he asked, pointing to the mask hanging around my neck. "It's not like anyone is going to see your smile anyway." This pandemic is hard on the kids. So hard. Yesterday was my son's last day of first grade. He should have had a cer- emony and a party and cupcakes. In- stead, we were told a specific time to drive by the school so teachers could give us a bag of all the stuff he'd left be- hind in his classroom. The teachers cheered, but my son was somber in the back seat. Teary- eyed. I told him to roll down the win- dow, to put on his mask so he could say goodbye to the teachers. He held up his mask. "Why bother? They can't hear me through this weird thing anyway! " He was outraged. And hurt. And sad. And I finally had an answer to the ques- tion he had asked me when I got my In- visalign. I turned to him and tapped on my plastic retainer. "You want to know why I endure this weird thing even though no one can see my smile? " He looked up at me. "It's because this will end, bud. I promise you that this craziness will end. Peo- ple will be able to see my smile again. And when they can, I want to be ready." On the last day of first grade, my son lifted a weird thing over his mouth just to say goodbye. We endure a lot for the chance to smile at someone. Katiedid Langrock is author of the book "Stop Farting in the Pyramids," available at www.creators.com/books/ stop-farting-in-the-pyramids. Like Ka- tiedid Langrock on Facebook, at www. facebook.com/katiedidhumor. To the Editor: Make no mistake. Don't blame God for what Satan and his demons are do- ing. Almighty God is not the one to blame for the COVID-19 worldwide. God is love. He did not send disease upon ones who are helpless, children, babies, or anybody. Some people may believe it's God. It's Satan, his own evil self. Satan came to kill, steal and destroy. That's what he has been doing. Jesus said I come that they might have life and have it more abundantly ( John 10 :10). The blame belongs on Satan's shoulders. The Gospel must be preached to the world, then the end will come. God wants none to perish. He is love. God is with his people. In time, he will punish with his wrath the ones whose names are not written in the Book of Life. Saints will have eternal life. Jesus Christ is a healer. Billie Ann Grubb Winslow Continued from page 9 MUSICAL ing in our minds. So this lifestyle lasted a year, and then we finally closed the curtain and pursued oth- er journeys, mainly, seri- ous studies. It was just too difficult to mesh the two dreams. • • • I think the music gene runs in my family tree. I have a sister who, since age 16, has been playing church music, and until now in her seventh decade of life, she handles the mu- sic of Mt. Carmel Monas- tery in Niagara Falls, Cana- da. She plays the piano and organ well and conducts the choir. Two of our chil- dren had been given lead roles for our Pike Central High School musicals, di- rected by our prodigy musi- cal director Maestro Vance Hays. Lawrence, our eldest, had the role of the King for the musical The King and I. Our daughter, Mary Rose Clark had the honor of do- ing the lead for the musi- cal Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I play some music, all by ear. I can't read notes no matter how hard I try to learn. I've been dream- ing to play the bass gui- tar since college years, but never could success- fully accomplish it. Now I just play the radio and CD for entertainment. It's a lot easier. So, that's a lit- tle snapshot of my musi- cal venture. What a thrill. Have a blessed and more upbeat week. Things are opening up slowly. • • • A thank you to all the vet- erans who have given their ultimate gift to this coun- try so we can enjoy the freedoms we have. 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