• Female athletes work just as hard

I will say it is a privilege to live in TitleTown. It’s awesome to be associated with winners. The history of great athletic teams in this community is amazing.  

However, what concerns me is some of the winners in this town are being overlooked and underappreciated. Everyday I enjoy reading The Times to see what is happening in our wonderful city and about our area sports teams. However. I am usually disappointed when I rarely see any articles about the Lady Blazers, Lady Vikings or Lady Wildcats or any other female teams. Young ladies are an asset in so many areas. They are the future. They are our future mothers, teachers, doctors. They have been taught “anything a boy can do, a girl can do better.” Female athletes work just as hard if not harder to be in shape and ready to perform for their teams. Female athletes have been proven to have higher GPA’s and are overall better students than their male counterparts.  

Let’s show our young ladies we appreciate them and want to see them succeed. If you have never attended a women’s basketball game, you should give it a try. Girls will give 100 percent effort every night. It’s their nature. Girls truly play as a team. There is no “one woman show” or slam dunks. It’s a group of athletes who have been brought together to bring out the best in each other. In a time when we are calling for equal rights for all, let’s remember our girls. Their efforts and accomplishments should be valued and celebrated too. If you have a daughter and you are trying to find a way to help build her self-esteem, get her involved in sports. Let us all enjoy being TitleTown together.

Molly Hill

Valdosta

• Another man's prosperity

Mark Twain said, “Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s I mean.” It appears that these words remain true over a century later. Our government pushes harder and harder to redistribute wealth and to hit the middle class where it hurts. All in all, we may be a selfish society — according to some — but we are the example to the world of a model nation that attracts so many (legal and illegal) to our shores. Each individual in this country owes more and more with each passing budget request or program, yet elected officials and those who control Congress and the White House want to pile on more debt. Have you heard it said, “If you are in debt, someone owns part of you?” America, we are rapidly becoming parts of something that does not resemble the United States so many of us have supported and admired. Those who envy things of others have already lost their identity to someone else. Free enterprise and less government control may not be the answer but they are better than control of the majority by the minority. Let others know how you feel.

Rolla B. Hendrickson Jr.

Lake Park

• Support single payer amendments

My dear members of Congress:

Please support the single payer amendments (Weiner, Kucinich, Sanders) that are being considered in the House and the Senate.