Uriah community comes together for great cause
While credit for the original idea to construct a veterans memorial in the Uriah community should be given to the members of the Uriah Area Development Association (UADA), those members will agree that without the support of the community it would not have been possible.
An impressionable flag ceremony was held last Thursday night with about 200 people in attendance including 23 World War II veterans. The memorial is a concrete pentagon with a large star engraved in it with a flagpole at each point of the star stand.
Eventually, the memorial will contain several monuments with names of persons who served and serve in all five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Members of the UADA and the Uriah community are to be commended for supporting this project and seeing the first stage through to completion.
Monroeville taking steps to clean up problems
The Monroeville City Council reinforced its efforts to clean up the city last week when it declared six privately –owned pieces of property as public nuisances. Several of the properties are overgrown with weeds and grass while others have dilapidated structures on them.
Some of the properties are owned by people who no longer live in the city, which is also the case in many of these similar situations all over our county. Property owners should be held responsible whether they live here or not and we applaud the council and mayor for taking this action.
Our hope is that eventually the county government will adopt a similar nuisance ordinance to force property owners to take better care of their properties, too.
Break-ins calm down in residential areas
We must tip our hats to the Monroeville Police Department as well as the concerned citizens in the Neighborhood Watch Programs for what appears to be a decrease in residential break-ins in the last few weeks.
Police Chief Rudolph Munnerlyn and his staff have increased patrols in problem areas and to step up citywide patrols.
A police presence in a community is always a strong deterrent for criminals, but when law enforcement resources are limited, it’s important to have those extra eyes and ears of the people involved the Neighborhood Watch Programs. Their efforts are appreciated.
Seat belts on school buses is a no-brainer
Gov. Bob Riley is looking at the possibility of requiring all school buses to have seat belts. This should be an easy decision.
If the governor has ever ridden on a school bus he would already know the answer to the question. Seat belts are needed. In the event a bus is involved in a head-on collision or a rollover, children are going to be ejected from their seats and more than likely some will suffer injuries.
We realize it would be expensive to add the seat belts to the seats and it will be hard for the bus drivers to make sure everyone is buckled up. But, if the effort can save one child from serious injury, wouldn’t it be worth trying?
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