Unborn Child

We were driving to school earlier this week when my 7-year-old daughter asked one of those difficult questions. She was gazing out the window and noticed the construction workers who were building a new home in our neighborhood. "Mommy, those men don't have any shirts on. " I nodded and said they probably took their shirts off because they were hot. "Yeah, Daddy sometimes does that when he's working around our house. " I gave her another nod. "Yes, boys and men do that sometimes.

shappell@herald-mail.com Two residents of a Center Square apartment building were injured in a fire early Friday that ravaged the nearly two-centuries-old structure. The injured residents were a man who was burned before jumping to the ground from his second-floor apartment and a woman who suffered smoke inhalation before being rescued from her third-floor apartment by two firefighters on a ladder. The fire, which gutted the inside of the 16-apartment building and destroyed much of its roof, erupted at approximately 6:10 a.m. Friday at the Carriage House Hotel, 5 South Main Street.

More than drugs needed to help ADD children To the editor: I have been following the recent concerns of the ADD/ADHD children in the the paper and wanted to respond. I have two sons who are diagnosed with this "disorder. " One of them is quite severe and has been hospitalized twice because of it. Getting support has been one of my biggest concerns; teachers and doctors all seem to want to look toward drug therapy as the solution. As there is no certain regime, it seems like the child becomes a guinea pig. Behavior modification and counseling are two other ways that ADD/ADHD is supposed to be treated, but none of that was suggested in my son's case until I brought them up. Even when I requested information on support groups from a facility in Washington County I was handed a pamphlet which turned out to be for a group located in Frederick.

"Regarding the person who has blossom end rot on their tomatoes, try working some garden lime into the soil around the plants. Any tomatoes that already have the rot, pick and toss. Good luck. " - Smithsburg "I would like to comment how well Allegheny Power responded to all the trouble out around Breathedsville in this morning's storm. And I cannot say any good for another phone company. ... I have a friend that's phones all went out and they told her she wouldn't get it in until the 18th of August.

It's reassuring to know the Washington County Commissioners feel "very sad" and that it was "inappropriate" for a Smithsburg ambulance chief to all but cheer from the sidelines, on tape, as a member of the Smithsburg fire company and her unborn baby lay dying. Very reassuring indeed. Now what do they plan to do about it? And were the commissioners "very sad" before the press wrestled the tape into the public's eye, a tape the county wanted to keep secret? Or would they have been content to keep on looking the other way, pretending the whole, awful affair hadn't happened at all?

Vicki Sadehvandi, director of CASA (Citizens Assisting and Sheltering the Abused), and Carol Bannon, director of the Washington County Family Violence Council. Their topic will be activities planned for October, which is Family Violence Awareness Month. Vickie and Carol will be our Live Chat guests today starting at 1:00 pm and ending at 2:00 pm. Questions or comments can be submitted by clicking here before and during the chat. Or send an email to: onlinechat@herald-mail.com . Moderator: How many cases of domestic violence were reported last year in Washington County and is the number of cases going up or down?

Bible is right, there is hell To the editor: "Opinion is no excuse to leave facts in the dust" By G. F. Miller in the Herald-Mail March 10 edition ignores context of his fixated perceived opinion. Miller takes a statement of truth about no more sorrow, crying and pain and applies that verse to eternal damnation. That verse is not associated with judgment. It is associated with those that enter into everlasting fellowship with Jesus, the Lord of Lord?s and King of King?