Licensing cats  would be a start

8:42 PM Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Company handled problems well

I recently hired a small local contractor to seal coat my store’s asphalt parking lot, my home driveway and my mother’s driveway. When the crew showed up on Saturday, May 30, there was a 30 percent chance of rain.

After doing the two home driveways and half of the business parking lot, the crew stopped because of the rain. Thirty minutes later and throughout the evening it rained, at times quite hard.

Sunday morning, I found that most of the sealer had washed off and, worse yet, black, tarry sealer had splashed all over one side wall of each house, the front of my garage, and on the yellow wall and posts of my store lot.

When the crew returned Sunday after church, they cleaned the siding on both homes and my garage, painted my garage door and painted the block foundation all the way around both homes (porches and all) so that everything would be uniform. They painted the yellow posts and wall at my store and reseal coated both driveways and the parking lot.

Top-quality work means great things about a business, but how the company handles adversity or problems concerning the work tells all about whether the company can be trusted to do a great job.

Thanks, L.A.D. Enterprises, for an exceptional job. Please support your local small businesses.

Tom Gill

Springfield

Customers welcome  at other Kirlin’s

As you may already know, Kirlin’s Hallmark closed its location in Springfield on June 21. We would like to sincerely thank our loyal customers for their support. As we continually evaluate changing market conditions, including business performance and the costs associated with each of our stores, tough decisions sometimes must be made. We would like to encourage our customers to visit our stores at the Mall at Fairfield Commons, 2727 Fairfield Commons, Beavercreek, and 2700 Miamisburg-Centerville Road, Centerville.

All of your Hallmark Crown Rewards points and rewards coupons will be honored at all of our locations, as well as any store-specific coupons. We also invite our Springfield customers to our Ornament Premier celebration, July 11 and 12, at our Beavercreek or Centerville locations.

Laura Sievert

Marketing Director 

Kirlin’s Hallmark

Licensing cats  would be a start

The Humane Society on North 72/old 68 is a misnomer. It is neither humane nor societal. It looks to me as if it is an overstaffed group who neither care about their job or know what it is.

We are overrun by cats in this county, yet they insist on trying to find homes for them to the point they are so crowded they are overwhelmed. They say they don’t have enough money to take care of the ones they have, and are refusing to take cats at this time. They didn’t even have on hand a secondary place to put them.

This is due to the people of this county just dumping anything they don’t want to care for anymore, no matter what pet it may be. We have owned dogs for more than 50 years, and we have always had ours licensed and vet-checked at least yearly for shots. This is our responsibility.

I never complain without offering suggestions for improvement:

1. License cats.

2. Charge everyone who wants to put their pet in the pound a fee. This fee should include food, care and euthanasia cost.

3. Euthanize all pets 72 hours after their introduction to the pound. That gives people time to find a pet which accidently got out.

4. Have officers on patrol all day and on call at night.

The job should be run like a business. So many animals captured, so many given homes, and so many euthanized. This report should run each month in the Springfield paper.

Then the people might think first before turning defensive kittens and puppies out to fend for themselves.

The “do gooders” would have a chance to see where they could do good.

Robert Weidner

Springfield

How do Obama  voters feel now?

Well, all of you who voted last November for Barack Obama, have you finally realized that there is no “free housing” (for anyone that actually works, or wants to work). There is no “free gas” (back up to almost $3 a gallon).

We are still in a war, with no signs of getting out. People are still losing their jobs, Detroit is shutting down, and our Second Amendment rights are about to be taken away from us. Judge Sonia Sotomayor is just the start.

The only thing he’s doing is reaching out to the Muslims. So far, so many lies in such a short time. I am impressed.

Craig Kieffer

Springfield

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