CONNELLSVILLE DAILY COURIER: 'In spite of all the dire warnings of the computer kooks and the religious kooks.' and 'big business opportunity in Connellsville ':)

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Letters to the editor

January 3, 2000

The same as before

Dear Editor:

In spite of all the dire warnings of the computer kooks and the religious kooks. All those folks selling tickets to a computer calamity or a heavenly collapse had some explaining to do come Monday morning. The convergence of Y2K and the end of the millennium will find the world about the same as before with some notable exceptions in the news.

Not to mention that the best Christian scholars disagree on the year of Christ's birth with estimates ranging between 3 B.C. and A.D. 3. So we don't even really know exactly when it is or was a thousand years after Christ's birth.

While we may believe in Christ's return it apparently has little to do with the fascination about year 2000 and little even to do with all those symbols and numbers in the book of Revelation which has been used incorrectly to predict the end of the world since it was written.

I'm not sure God follows our calendars anyway. Historians tell us that on New Year's Eve in the year 1000, a crowd gathered in Rome, waiting for the world to end. Midnight came and went. Finally, Pope Sylvester II blessed the crowd and sent them home.

We do not know what lies ahead in this year, century or millennia. And so all we can do is to do what the prophet Jeremiah told Israel to do...sing with gladness, rejoice in the days that are coming.

Only God will bring it to pass. The God of history who guides the stars in their courses and our steps day by day is the God of all time, whether measured by binary computers or Roman calendars it is God who enters the program and God who turns the pages.

The millennium with which Christians are concerned is to be a happy condition, not a catastrophe. Like the prophet Jeremiah, we approach the new millennium saying: Sing with gladness, rejoice in the days that are coming.

Dr. George Hickok
Pastor of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Connellsville

Dear Editor:

I am wondering how many people in this town are sick of parking lots, pizza shops and banks, oh, and doctor offices. I can just about tell you how many of those places exist. It is such a waste.

There is another spot in the city that our businessmen are arguing over. That would be the Troutman lot. Myself and about 1,000 other citizens in this little city would have loved to make something with the Troutman Building, but as fate would have it, it was torn down and sold to the highest money. Now what I would like to see, and so would a lot of other people in this town, would like to see something that would bring people into our city and make it a town to be proud of.

Here is my idea, and I know it would work. Instead of the lot being sold to someone who will put in a parking lot, pizza shop, bank or doctor's office. In that space, a little city of its own, could be built a small replica of our heritage. A coal mining theme. You would have about six small buildings. There would be shops, a restaurant serving food of that era and an antique shop that specializes in coal miners equipment. There could be, in the summertime, someone with the knowledge of that era giving lectures. It would bring all kings of people into our little city when there was nothing here, but we could make it something.

So, if there is any body out there with some cash that wants to undergo such a project, let me know and we will go to the city and try to persuade them to let the people of Connellsville have what is rightfully theirs. We need to revive this little town of ours.

It can be done. The only thing that is lacking in this town is a vision. As you can see, that is why we died, because, we the people of Connellsville lost the vision we need to survive.

Goldie Brown Connellsville

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), January 09, 2000


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