An Oak Alternative

To the Editor: In last Sunday’s Daily Sun, Shawn Edwards wrote an excellent article about the state of limbo in which the Oak Trail golf course finds itself. It was well researched and well written. He concluded with the sentence, “For now, the future of Oak Trail will remain up in the air, waiting for a buyer as many area golfers are forced to hit the road if they want to hit the links.”

This implies that Corsicana has no other venue in which avid duffers like myself can tee it up. This is simply not true. Corsicana does in fact have a beautiful, well maintained, full size, 18-hole golf course at the Corsicana Country Club. This A.W. Tillinghast designed, PGA recognized golf course offers beauty, challenging shot values and the fellowship of other golf enthusiasts.

Country clubs are often associated with snobby clientele, expensive initiation fees and dues and long waiting lists to get in. None of these is the case with good old Triple C. The membership is friendly, welcoming and anxious for new members. The cost is far less than you’d think too. The one time initiation fee is just $300 and the monthly dues come to right at $200. If that seems high to you, let me break it down for you. If you play golf just twice a week that comes to just $23.25 per round! I think that’s about what Oak Trail was charging and the Country Club offers a full 18 holes.

I am in no way trying to turn this letter into an infomercial for the club. I merely want to point out that for those of you pining away for Oak Trail and its cheap, accessible golf; there is an alternative right here in Corsicana.

Dr. Frank Means



Trash in the ‘Can

To the Editor: Our city council has two options regarding trash service. 1 — Come October citizens pay double the fee and get service once weekly instead of the current twice weekly. 2 — Take a chance on a small business guaranteeing better service to all and they will relocate their main office to Corsicana. We’ve lived here for 24 years and have seen so many businesses close and fewer come to town. We are a risk to larger businesses as growth has been a challenge. One thing this town of ours is well known for is it’s small-town warmth and kind services. How can we overlook the very thing we stand for? Let’s consider taking in a new business that is willing to work with us. Seriously, look at the options. In closing, I hope our city council starts taking this recession seriously, and starts caring for the residents of this town, most who are feeling the crunch.

Bill and Kathi Davison



Thanks for article

To the Editor: I truly hope you will print this, because this is something that needs to stay on everyone’s mind, not just as a featured piece in the paper for one day, because child abuse happens everyday. I have seen the damage it does to a family and we all need to keep our eyes open.

I am so grateful for the story of “Innocence lost.” It’s good to hear a story with a positive outcome. Yes, it affects many families and most of the time it is never told. Usually when it is, the child is looked like they are the criminal and not the victim. The family turns their back on the child and they feel like they can never trust adults again. It changes their lives forever. We must never forget the “lost innocence” no matter what the age. We all assume it happens only to the very small, but what about the teenagers that have put their trust in the adult, and who completely take advantage of that trust? If a child comes to you with “something to tell you” please keep an open heart and mind, because you just might be their only hope. For those that are never prosecuted for their crime, I know that God will one day judge them.

Tammie Barber



These economic times

To the Editor: If some of us had been around in 1846 we would have probably participated in the “original tea party.” Again, in our time, revolution could be on the way. We live in very a dangerous world, and I suspect more domestic problems are on the way. I don’t really expect this recession to go away any time soon, and we know that when times get hard, acts of crime increase. I have thought many times about how our young people have lived throughout their lives, with money, cars, designer cloths, etc. Not only have most of them had everything they needed, but in so many cases, everything they wanted. So much has been provided for them little or no responsibility. I have wondered what kind of behavior they would exhibit if they were deprived of those luxuries; and I have feared the result wouldn’t be pretty.

In my long life on this planet, I have never seen this much unrest in our country. It reminds me of cases we have seen where a very strong wind would blow for days to be followed by a violent storm. I do feel like a storm, the likes of which we have never seen before, is brewing. We have lost our manufacturing base. We have burdened ourselves with astronomical debt. The country has slidden into moral decay. To me, the state of our country could be analogous to that of a little skinny person who might become very ill and have no reserve of fat to combat the illness (a rather silly analogy I know).

To me, our present leadership in Washington is proving to be the most terrible catastrophe our country has faced since the Civil War. But life has been good, and we need to hang on for a rough ride, hope for the best, and wait until the next election.

George Darden