Scouring news stories back to 2001, one finds articles detailing the demise of Western Center and the birth of Southpointe II. There was no mention of a Wal-Mart until March of this year. However, there were numerous reports outlining a town center, featuring upscale shops, upscale restaurants and an upscale department store. Lord & Taylor brings to mind an upscale department store, not Wal-Mart.
Now that the economy is in the toilet, waiting to be flushed, it looks like Horizon appears to be downscaling the consumer attractions, looking for low-buck investments with big-buck profits. Will a gentleman's club fit the bill? How about an adult bookstore?
Lou Marra
Canonsburg
Social Security
has to be safe
If Social Security is in trouble, it's because Congress stuck its fingers in it year after year to try to get the country out of debt. Was that money ever paid back? I doubt it very much.
You can kick President Roosevelt around on Social Security, but his idea was right even for these times. If not for Social Security many more people would be sleeping and begging on the streets. Do we want to end up like some foreign countries - full of diseases, beggars, our stomachs big not from food but from lack of food.
It all depends on our government. That's why people must go out and vote for offices from the presidency down to local governments. Putting the wrong people in could cost us our freedom. It's slowly being taken away now.
Do you think a 401(k) or investing Social Security funds into the stock market is safe? I don't think so. I want Social Security to be safe, so it's there for all of us.
We are sending billions overseas when our country needs the money here to help the poor and middle class people get our country back on track again.
Barbara Jordan
Amity
Parker is wrong
about evolution
In regard to Kathleen Parker's column May 21, perhaps she should do a little Bible study before boosting evolution. To choose evolution as a means of creation would be the most cruel and devious way to make man and woman. Helping fundamentalist scientists see the error of their ways would transform them from Christians to non-Christians.
I believe evolution theory completely voids the Book of Genesis. It would be nice if those who criticize fundamentalists would be as devoted to studying the Book as accepting evolution promoted by "science."
I suggest Ms. Parker go to Pastor John MacArthur's Web page and order "The Battle for the Beginning" and listen to his sermon on creation, evolution and the Bible. It is quite informative.
Lloyd Alfred
McDonald
D-Day should
be remembered
On June 6, let us all remember that this was D-Day in World War II, the day our troops invaded Europe. This was the largest invasion in the world and the most costly in the lives of our servicemen, but it was the beginning of the end for Hitler.
We must let our children and grandchildren know that the freedom they have today was not free. My husband received a plaque which reads: "Those of us who've never gone, don't always understand, the sacrifice that you made, protecting our land, we take for granted freedom, from the war to Holocaust." He was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.
Let us all say a special thank you and a prayer on this day.
Freda Bails
Scenery Hill