DEAR EDITOR,

For more than 9 years I have had the pleasure of serving the city of Delphos as City Council President and have benefited from the support of local voters and the cooperation of a very professional and committed group of fellow elected officials and administrators. I have found the experience extremely challenging and fulfilling. I have been proud to have played a small part in some major accomplishments and have been impressed on a daily basis by the work our city’s full time, part time and part-paid employees do on behalf of all of us in Delphos. I have been honored to represent Delphos interacting with officials from other communities and agencies at the state and local level and have attempted to be a positive influence in our community’s efforts to grow and prosper since my first election in 2001.
I have decided not to run for a fourth term as Delphos City Council President in this year’s election.
Earlier this week I filed a letter with the Allen County Board of Elections asking that my name be removed from the May Primary Ballot. Interested candidates for the position have until May 2 to file with the Allen County Elections Board as a nonpartisan candidate needing the signatures of at least 50 registered voters to do so. A deadline for potential write-in candidates will not pass until later this summer.
Delphos residents can be sure that I will remain one of our community’s  most ardent advocates following the completion of my current term at the end of this year.
Sincerely, 
Robert J. “Bob” Ulm
Delphos

DEAR EDITOR:
It’s the cats, not the dogs.
I just read the article about barking dogs in Fort Jennings. I would like to give the police chief some suggestions:
1. Tell the council to pass an ordinance that all cats would have to have permits and be confined to the owner’s property.
2. Make it a law that all dog owners would have to have their females spayed and males neutered. The scent a female dog puts out can be smelled for miles by a male dog. If the male dog is not neutered, he would do anything to find this female.
3. Most dogs will bark at other dogs and strangers. That is their job.
4. Urge the newspapers to stop running free ads for those cute, adorable, beautiful cats and kittens. If they don’t want them, have them spayed or taken to the pound.
I get sick and tired of having cats on my property, walking on my cars and causing my dog to bark, which is in my house at all times except for potty calls.
There are so many cats loose now that I will start setting my live traps again and all I catch go to the pound.
If you want your cats, then keep them on your property at all times - day and night.
Oh,  by  the  way,  to  the  Fort  Jennings  police  chief - How  many  of  those  people  making  complaints  against  the dogs  have  cats?  Take  those  complaints  to  the  cat  owners and  then make sure all female dog owners have them spayed.

Paul H. Feathers Sr.
Delphos

DEAR EDITOR:
While in the process of seeking the I-gym Pepsi Grant, the I-gym received quality feedback and questions about what happens in that gym.
As a result of our experience, the I-gym staff decided to provide free play time to our school service groups. WOW. Was that an eye opener. We came up with more than 20 groups of students who go above and beyond the call of expected academia or sports. This was amazing to me.
People  always  ask “What  makes  Delphos  so  special?” Well, here you have it. We are a community of people who do more than is expected and most of it goes without public notice.
Our children have learned from the adults and together we collectively make this a great community. I have lived in several other areas - large and small - but never have seen community support like we have here. What we teach our children does carry with them long after they leave here.
As long as we do it right Delphos will continue to make the world a better place. 

Maggie Wannemacher

DEAR EDITOR,
And when shall we be stronger? It was Patrick Henry who asked this question in reference to the encroachment of British rule over the colonies (i.e.) later to become the States under the Constitution. Mr. Henry went on to give some of the reasons or things that needed to be fixed if we were to be truly free. Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, said that whenever any government becomes destructive and/or abusive concerning rights of the individual that it was the right and the duty of “we the people” to rise up and throw off such government and to establish new government.
To these pleas I will add another; if we wish to be truly free then one of the most critical areas we must address is the arena of debt-free money system. The Constitution specifically places the responsibility to create money, in Art.1 Sec.8 to the Congress. The Congress allowed themselves to be duped into “giving” that responsibility to a bunch of bankers. There are a growing number of Congressmen who are realizing where the biggest problem lies. Some of the more recognizable among them are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich of Texas and Ohio respectively.
I feel it is my sovereign duty as a free citizen to step up and add my voice to the growing worldwide disenchantment to the money monopoly that controls the world.
Representative Dennis Kucinich has introduced a bill into Congress H.R. 6550 designed to do just that - end the money monopoly. The definition of money is a short and concise one (i.e) “a medium of exchange” and as such should not have to be borrowed into existence with interest added on top.
Mr. Kucinich’s bill would eventually abolish the Federal Reserve (read that private reserve). It would establish a Board of Commissioners answerable directly to the Congress for regulating and issuing money into our economy so as not to cause inflation or deflation.
James O’Neil,
Middle Point

DEAR EDITOR:
Being the founder of SAFY in 1984 and after having read the article on SAFY’s 27th anniversary, I would like to sincerely congratulate the present staff on maintaining the high level of services delivery that was the cornerstone of our creation. Quality was our hallmark as we were the first COA accredited treatment foster care agency in America and were instrumental in the first national conference in TFC and were a founding member of the North American Treatment Foster Care Association.
My successor Dru Ann Whitaker also deserves much credit for maintaining this superb treatment agency over the last 11 years.
What the article did not highlight enough were the dedicated and caring professional foster parents that have been the cornerstone of our treatment delivery service and the “glue” that held this agency together. My sincere congratulations to them and to all others who have made SAFY one of the nation’s premier agencies.
Bruce C. Maag__PUBLIC__