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Random act of kindness
I live in Antioch Township and my two grandchildren came to visit me from Chicago for Mother’s Day. I spent the day with them while they golfed and I rode in the carts at Fox Lake Country Club. On the way home, the driver’s side tire blew. It was after 5 p.m. My grandsons are in their 20’s and both of them tried to get the lug nuts off with the generic lug wrench that came with the car. They couldn’t loosen them. They had AAA and tried to get someone to come. Not very helpful. Many people drove by us. The driver of a truck going by stopped and asked if we needed help. He was a big man and tried our lug wrench, but no dice. He said he didn’t live far, so went to his house and brought back an industrial size lug wrench This wonderful man came back and parked behind us with his blinkers on, told my grandson to move the car off the road another foot, changed the tire and followed us part of the way to my house to make sure everything was OK. Thank you, Mr. Good Samaritan.
Feel-good-activity
This is probably not a popular opinion, but why not pay, through a job, those who stand on street corners looking for handouts. They could clean up the garbage along area roadways. It would be easy work improving the community, and be a positive, feel-good activity.
Name change?
I think you should seriously consider changing this section of your newspaper from Talk of the County to Talk of the Country. Why? Because the opinions posted have little or nothing to do with Lake County. It is basically a place to voice political opinions.
Extreme actions
These are extreme actions: Calling more than 74 million voters extreme or deplorable. A proxy war that could lead to nuclear armageddon. Abruptly leaving Afghanistan before all U.S. citizens, allies, U.S. weapons and systems, etc., are out. Skyrocketing inflation. Open borders. Defunding the police. Ambush attacks on police officers. Mob rule. Organized retail theft and burglary. Immigrants entering the country illegally and getting rights of U.S. citizens. Opposition to voter IDs, valid voter rolls and ballot integrity. Publishing home addresses of Supreme Court justices. Calling anti-CRT parents “domestic terrorists.” Attacks on parental rights. Use of taxpayer dollars to fund Planned Parenthood. Allowing dismemberment abortions and infanticide. Illegal sanctuary policies and cities. Killing the filibuster.