Category Archives: Opinions
Courier Letters to the Editor 12-6-23
Nursing — don’t forget Nightingale
Dear Editor,
Being a nurse myself for 40-plus years, I truly enjoyed and appreciated Lynda Abegg’s recent column “Nurses have super powers.”
Surprisingly, the iconic “Lady with the Lamp” and founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), was not
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Does the sin we commit in secret only hurt us?
The sin of Achan found in Joshua 6:17-19 is a powerful example of how one person committing evil in private can 
negatively affect their family, church congregation or place of employment.
“Now brother, what people do is their own business and it has nothing to do with me. If people want to cheat others, or lie, curse and steal, or watch porn, what’s that to me?”
I can tell you what God’s word says about it. Being dedicated to others
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Check for expired items in the house
Remember that bottle of antibacterial hand soap you tucked into the back of the cabinet when the COVID pandemic first started? People were in a panic and shelves were running low on so many things … including that hand soap.
Perhaps you grabbed two — one to use and one to keep for a spare,
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How’s it going? No, really. How are you?
Here we are in the middle of winter with the shorter days, the lower temps and depending where we are, snow and ice on 
the sidewalk and roads, holiday stresses …
Some of us aren’t doing well. We’ve been faking it through the holidays, smiling and greeting people, but deep down inside we
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Loving God is knowing His will and doing it
Most of us have heard the 1969 song, “More Today than Yesterday” by the band Spiral Staircase. The chorus says, “I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.” I had not heard it for a while, but I’m sensitive to music and often a song will trigger my emotions and then I start asking the Lord about what is the hidden message within the music. It’s a catchy tune that has a happy
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Courier Letters to the Editor 11-29-23
Need for EMS stations
Dear Editor,
There are 9 EMS stations in Pickens County – 3 in Easley, 1 in Dacusville, Pickens, Holly Springs, Liberty, Central and Six Mile. Easley by far has the highest call volume. Often times when Easley’s 3 ambulances are out on calls or stuck in Greenville waiting for a bed to open up at the hospital, the Dacusville unit has to run down to Easley as back-up. Or the Pickens ambulance has to shift over toward Easley, and in turn Holly Springs’ unit has to come down to Pickens to plug that hole.
Lo and behold there is a call on Highway 11, then the Holly Springs unit has to back track up to Highway 11 or the Vineyards or River Bluff. This shifting that often
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Wild turkey or bald eagle?
The first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 when 50 Pilgrims celebrated their first harvest in the New World with 90 Wampanoag natives. The celebration lasted three 
days. According to historical records, the feast consisted of deer, turkey, fish, and corn. Pumpkin pie is not listed but I feel sure they had some kind or pumpkin or, at least, a squash casserole.
This is a true and historic account that explains why we eat turkey on Thanksgiving and why the bald eagle was chosen
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Be more like the bonobos
We could all learn a lesson from the bonobos.
“The who?” you say.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember ever hearing of such a thing as a bonobo until last week, when I read about a study published in the journal Science describing their remarkable behavior.
They’re similar to chimpanzees, except that chimps, who seem so playful and adorable when we befriend them, become violent, bloodthirsty warriors when they come across another tribe of their species in the wild.
Bonobos, who must be the most morally advanced primates on the planet, are kind to members of other tribes. The
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The tooth of the matter
During the Revolutionary War, the only dental requirement was that a soldier had to have teeth strong enough to bite the end off a bullet casing in order to properly load his gun.
Our nation’s first forensic dentist was Paul Revere. He took part in the Boston Tea Party and was made famous for his
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The oneness of mankind
The oneness of mankind means that all of humanity, with all our amazing diversity and variety, are all fundamentally many parts of a unified and complete whole. 
Why is this a challenging and difficult concept? Because we are trained and conditioned to think of our differences as a cause of division and separateness. But what does God teach us?
As people of Faith, we look to God, who is our guide and educator, as to what is true and right. We happily let go of the
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