Letters to the Editor March 17, 2010

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March 16, 2010

Anonymous The Hendricks County Flyer Tue Mar 16, 2010, 04:23 PM EDT

To the Editor:

Can you imagine if everyone in the state of Indiana walked around with a disease called “the silent killer” — and didn’t know it? Or if every single resident in New York and California were at high risk for developing this “silent killer?”

Nearly six million Americans are unaware they have diabetes. Look around you. One in five Americans is at risk for type 2 diabetes. Could one of them be someone you love?

For many people with type 2 diabetes, diagnosis may come years after onset. Yet, early diagnosis is critical to delay or prevent the debilitating complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney disease, stroke, and amputation.

What can you do to stop diabetes? Know your risk.

Tuesday, March 23, is American Diabetes Association Alert Day. Discover your risk for type 2 diabetes — and join the movement to stop this terrible disease — by visiting stopdiabetes.com or 800-DIABETES.

It’s time to stop this silent killer once and for all.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Cleveland

Brownsburg

To the Editor:

Mr. Hesson and Mr. Kirchoff make a good argument for expanded bus and rail routes through the various agencies such as CIRTA, MPO, IndyGo, and others. It is possible this is needed.

However, if it is needed badly enough and would be profitable, then I expect there are numerous business people who would gladly do the job. Let private enterprise do the job and government step aside.

If not profitable, then it should not be done. Taxpayers should not be made to pay for something the powers-that-be want to waste tax money on just to line someone’s pocket.

In other words, another government boondoggle that wastes vast amount of tax dollars.

Sincerely,

Verna Dickerson

Stilesville

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