SpeakOut 9/17

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If anyone lost a Nissan (car or truck) key and remote control on Illinois Avenue, I found it and gave it to the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. Contact DPS to get your property.

I have noticed in the court records for the last couple of weeks that on the noise ordinance, everybody has paid $100 or more. That means they had to have at least two tickets and their vehicle was towed. Is this true? Were their vehicles towed and had they paid their fines? It seems like the same ones are getting arrested over and over. Maybe the fines need to be increased because we are still having the same noise and same problems as before.

We called the Sikeston Municipal Court with your question. The fines for noise ordinance violations are not always related to vehicles. Fines were formerly $50 plus court costs, but were increased to $100 May 19, 2003. The first violation is $100, plus court costs; the second time is $200 fine plus court costs; and when there is a third noise violation in a vehicle, the car is towed.

We have a problem on William Street with our mail. A bunch of different people deliver our mail and sometimes we don't get our mail until after dark. They leave people's mail in other people's mailboxes and when people get the wrong mail, they don't return it to the post office or to the mail carrier. They open other people's mail and if there's anything in it of any value they keep it. My daughter sent me a $50 gift certificate to Lowe's and someone else got it because it was left at the wrong address. Whoever got it saw that it was from Lowe's and took the $50 gift certificate to Lowe's and bought a vacuum cleaner with it. You've got to watch the mail on our street especially. Some of these people don't even look like mail carriers.

SpeakOut can't help. Call the Sikeston Post Office at 471-5231 and ask to speak with the postmaster.

To the person from Morehouse who called SpeakOut needing clothes for a family, please put your number back in SpeakOut. I have a lot of clothes for you.

The number is 667-9036.

In response to "Feed the cats too" SpeakOut. Although there was nearly a ton of dog food collected, kitty litter and cat food was also collected for the Sikeston Bootheel Humane Society but this information was not brought out in the article. During the collection campaign, donations of food for all animals was stressed, not just for dogs. This event was also for cats; it just wasn't mentioned in the picture.

The news media is ruining the United States' reputation by showing over and over things our people do to the enemy prisoners. Were some of those prisoners maybe the ones who dragged our boys through the streets? They didn't show that over and over.