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You saved my life

My family and I would like to extend a huge thanks to all who stopped to help pull me and my dog, Moose, out of my burning vehicle on Saturday, April 26.

With great courage and selflessness, several people stopped or ran from a nearby restaurant to help me. It was clear that my life was in jeopardy. Without the timely assistance of these good people, there is a good chance that I would have lost my life.

My family and I send our sincerest thanks to you all. You have touched our lives in the most profound and wonderful way!

Wanda Prewitt and family: Larry Teeter, Audrey Gammie, Kim Tankersley, Scott Prewitt, Ben Howe, Michaela Campo, Jette, Dru and Sayler Tankersley, Austin and Blake Prewitt

Walk to stop poverty

On Sunday, Trinity United Methodist Church in Los Osos is sponsoring a CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Hunger Walk.

Hunger and poverty are rampant in our world, and we often feel powerless to help. On Sunday, we can bring our friends and neighbors together to raise awareness and money. Money raised will help change our world in tangible ways, such as building wells for clean water, providing seeds and tools for people to grow their own food, and helping communities and families rebuild after disaster.

It is important to know that 25 percent of funds raised stay in San Luis Obispo to help our own neighbors in need.

CROP Hunger Walks are making a difference and benefitting the overall mission and ministry of Church World Service, which works in about 80 countries to help those in need through refugee assistance, self-help development programs, advocacy and disaster relief.

Together, we can walk to change the world. If you can’t walk on that day, you can walk on the Web with us. Visit www.cropwalkonline.org to find out how.

For more information or to obtain a walker envelope, call Trinity United Methodist Church at 528-1649.

Registration begins at 1 p. m., and the walk begins at 2 p. m.

Cynthia McCabe

Trinity United Methodist Church

Cut out ‘beep-beeps’

Ear plugs or abandoning our homes are the only defenses against the incessant, gut-piercing, mind-shattering “beep-beep-beep” of heavy equipment operating in our neighborhood. Why are we attacked by this noise pollution that invades our homes?

My guess is that someone a couple of decades ago was injured in an accident caused by their carelessness or that of a heavy equipment operator. Millions of people pay the price for that inattentive moment day-after-day-after-day. Automobiles have silent backup lights. Why not something similar, even flashing, for heavy equipment?

If “the greatest good for the greatest number” is still an important equation in our democracy, we are balancing the slight chance of injury to a few inattentive people against the obvious annoyance of millions of others. Even a first-grader could figure out the answer to that simple problem.

Carroll McKibbin

San Luis Obispo

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