As a parent of a child who started in the boys' lacrosse club this year, I would like to thank everyone who has helped us in our first season.

Ferrum College, Lacrosse Coach Mark Frey and the four college students who gave up time to coach our boys (Mike, Thomas, Patrick and Damian) have all been an asset to our team. They conducted clinics to get boys interested in joining and have been there to support us all the way.

Mike, Thomas, Patrick and Damian were all students at Ferrum College and played on the lacrosse team. They came to Waid Park every week to teach our boys the fundamentals of lacrosse. Most of the team had not even held a lacrosse stick before, but by the end of the season, they were making us all proud. Ferrum College should be very happy with the example these young men have set for our boys. We can't wait to work with them again next season. We also had a great parent coach Justin, who taught the boys a lot of things and was so willing to donate his time.

The United States Postal Service would like to thank the community for their support in our annual food drive.

We worked long hours and even recruited extra help to insure that all the food was picked up and secured at the post office to be picked up on May 14 by the local food bank.

You have to see it to believe it! It warmed my heart to see the record amount of food.

We don't even know how we are going to get the mail in there in the morning!

It is truly disturbing to see things that I have read in our headlines these past days. The fear of being sued by the ACLU because the board of supervisors chooses to pray for direction and wisdom in running our county is absolutely amazing to me. To speak against such practices only reveals the lack of historical understanding when it comes to our Great Republic! However, the platform that the ACLU supports and opposes of late ought to make every American angry. Our founders were deeply religious people, committed to the propagation of the Bible and the beliefs that rest therein.

Is this not a time to pray and ask for the hand of providence? Our job market is down nationally; we have ever an increasing national debt with some of our leaders who pretend that it's not there; we are still in a recession; gas prices are extremely high; we have a loss of revenue in our state and local governments, and we have financial strains that we as citizens stare hard at every spring when it comes to our own local budget. I applaud the six who would say with their vote, we will continue to pray.