Suspect in Recent Target Fire Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Suspect in Recent Target Fire Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Editor,
Regarding the recent articles about the fire at Target and the subsequent arrest of a suspect:
Arson, by legal definition, involves intentional burning.
If the 17-year-old who set the Target fire did so by accident, then your depiction of him as an arsonist is unjust.
At best, it is premature if you hold the belief that Americans are innocent until proven guilty.
Christina Salvin
Hollister
This Christmas, Make a Point of Giving Love and Kindness
Editor,
Things change in a society, sometime for the better sometimes for the opposite.
Christmas has changed over the years.
Once confined to a quiet family gathering, it has become laden with commercialism. Colorful advertising inserts put pressures on people to do this, to look like that, to serve this brand and on and on.
I visited a despondent friend recently.
He had allowed the holiday season and the social pressures of our culture to get him down.
He forgot that every one of his worldly problems would one day pass away and be forgotten.
We need to get back to the basics: the importance of family unity and good personal relationships.
Love and kindness in a family makes for the stability and unity that healthy children need for wholesome growth and maturity.
This holiday season be a peacemaker and a role model of forgiveness.
Let your children know that you love them and they are wanted.
Give them a kind word, a loving look, a touch of understanding.
You will be glad you did. And they will never forget it.
Peter Frusetta
Tres Pinos
