Letters to the Editor

Survivor/caregiver fundraiser thank you

On behalf of the American Cancer Society Pahrump Relay for Life Survivor/Caregiver Committee, we want to thank all of the businesses for supplying their logo’d items (aka trinkets) for the community caregiver/survivor gift bags. Any business wanting more information on this program for Relay 2016, please contact me at 702-527-9829 or at pahrump904@gmail.com.

A special thank you to the Moose Lodge for providing the fried chicken and allowing the over 200 cupcakes to be baked at the lodge; the Elks for the baked beans; the VFW for the potato salad; and Helen for the rolls.

You made a difference for many survivors, caregivers and guests by providing an awesome meal at the annual American Cancer Society Pahrump Relay (Walk) for Life fundraiser.

Kathy Butkovich

Pahrump Relay for Life

It’s Budgetgate time in Nye County again

Well, it’s that time of year again in Nye County. Budget time, or as some of us refer to it as “who are the commissioners going to shaft this year.”

After all the dealings about cuts, the county is still 1.491 MILLION DOLLARS in the toilet. As usual they have screwed the seniors up north by eliminating senior nutrition. What the heck, it’s all right for the seniors to go hungry but we all know as long as Commissioner Wichman won’t be going hungry, why would she care about the seniors going hungry.

The next to go was the animal shelter. Again, if they don’t care what happens to our cuddly pets and animals.

And last but not least, what I think is the most outrageous, is the plan to eliminate the Veteran Services. We know the commissioners don’t care about the men and women who gave their lives, limbs and safety to fight for our freedom, who if it were not for them, you commissioners would not be sitting where you are today.

Now you want to go and give the Veterans of Nye County the shaft as if they don’t matter and what they did doesn’t matter. The money, $65,000, which was donated by the hard-working women of our legal brothels, was solely for the use by Nye County to help our Veterans. It was not donated by these women for Nye County to use this money wherever they happened to be short at that moment.

They need to remember that the 9000-plus Veterans in Nye County, whom they are not wanting to help any longer are some of the people that have helped put them where they are today, but don’t think that you can’t be removed by the same people who helped put you there.

I urge all Veterans to attend the last budget meeting on Friday, May 29th at 9 a.m. It will be held at the Commission Chambers, located at 2100 East Walt Williams Drive to demand that they leave our Veterans Services alone. Let them work for free for six months to make up the difference needed instead of taking it from the people who deserve more than any of them do.

The town board was never paid for time and services and yet they managed to balance the town’s budget just fine and also budget it to where there was a surplus at the end.

So what makes the commissioners so special that they should be paid for their services? When all they want to do is steal from our Veterans, why should they be paid for it? The commissioners need to quit spending what they don’t have.

So please attend this last budget meeting and inform them how you feel about what they are trying to do to the men and women who had once put their lives on the line to fight for our freedom, which if it wasn’t for them, these commissioners wouldn’t be commissioners. Thank you.

Richard Goldstein

A Pahrump Veteran