Published: April 08, 2008 05:07 pm            

In Your View — 04/09/08

Social workers help to build strengths

Who do you consider to have strength? Every individual, family and community has strengths that help them face life’s difficulties.

Everyone can use help overcoming challenges, and that’s why many turn to a social worker. Social workers help identify, harness and build upon strengths and abilities to overcome challenges.

Kentucky Christian University’s Social Work Program commends our area social workers who support American families and communities by providing connections between the areas from which people draw their strength — home, health, family, friends, and community.

Social workers provide assistance with mental health issues, disaster relief, cancer care and much more. Each challenge brings the opportunity for social workers to help families and communities to understand their strengths and to use them to overcome obstacles.

Throughout the year and during the just completed month of March — National Social Work Month — social workers encourage individuals, families and communities to focus on the strengths and resources they have to solve problems and to achieve their goals.

This year’s Social Work Month theme — “Building on Strengths: Help Starts Here” — highlights the unique education and training of the nation’s 600,000 social workers to work with individuals, families and communities to assist them during challenging times.

Margaret McLaughlin, dean, School of Social Work & Human Services, Social Work Program Director, Kentucky Christian University



Brown and Kelley have their support

We ask the citizens of Ashland to consider voting for Larry Brown as city commissioner. He has worked tirelessly for the city and deserves re-election.

Larry has always been available to the citizens to help solve their problems and has worked with Mayor Gilmore and other commissioners to move Ashland forward. He wants to continue his ideas and plans for Ashland and is a very wise choice.

Larry and his lovely wife are dear friends and we are proud to support him in his re-election bid.

Tom Kelley has served Ashland as a police officer and chief of police for over 40 years. He has the knowledge and administrative ability to serve as our next mayor. We think he will work well with the commissioners in moving Ashland forward.

Get out and vote. Let your will be heard.

Ken and Carol Conn, Ashland



AHS mid-40s classes to meet

The Ashland High School class of 1945 is inviting AHS Grads of classes of 1943,1944,1946,1947 and 1948 — the classes that made up the “Mid-40s Reunion” group plus one — to join the class at a brunch at the Ponderosa in the Midtown Shopping Center Mall on Saturday, April 26. Arriving, socializing and viewing memorabilia will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. with a dutch treat lunch from 11 a.m. to noon. The program will begin at noon with farewells at 1 p.m.

The ‘45ers will need a “head count” for planning. Please contact a class representative by April 24. They are Jack Nuckols, class of 1943; Tom Wuerdeman, class of 1944; Mary Carr Smith, class of 1945; Nancy Payne, class of 1946; Jenny Noonan, class of 1947, and Carl Sparks, class of 1948.

Roger “Podge” Noonan, Class of 1945, Ashland High School



Hillary Clinton is most experienced

Senator Hillary Clinton is the most experienced, informed and compassionate candidate this country is fortunate to have.

From day one, her 35 years of public service for the people will enable her to tackle the numerous issues this nation faces and get it back on track. From her universal health care plan that will cover everyone, to her economic plan that has been touted as the best one by leading economists, to her carefully detailed plan to withdraw our soldiers and equipment out of Iraq safely and methodically, Senator Clinton will preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution to the best of her abilities.

I am asking that you vote for this awesome woman so we can shine once again here and all over the world.

Susan Lorinsky, Norwich, Conn.

        

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