Dear Editor, The Neighborhood Revitalization Program exists to encourage investment, growth, and longterm stability in communities that need it most. In rural Kansas, where many counties face population decline, the program is essential.

To the Editor: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and across Kansas, pinwheels are spinning as a reminder of what’s possible when communities come together to support children and families. This year’s theme, Pinwheels of Possibility, celebrates the limitless potential of children when families have the support they need to succeed.

Dear Susan: We like the new Sentinel- Times! Congratulations! Lyla Lowry Stockton Sentinel-Times: Enclosed please find our payment/check for a oneyear print subscription to the Sentinel-Times. I lost track of our prior subscription and failed to renew it in a timely manner (much to my husband’s disappointment.

Staff: Love the paper. Keep up the good work.

As the Rooks County Development Director for the Heartland Community Foundation, I see every day how generous our community truly is. That generosity is what makes Match Month such an exciting opportunity for Rooks County.

Hi, Susan: I enjoy the puzzles and am happy to read about the Plainville and Zurich areas. A very special moment that Stockton gives Rooks County news!! Continued success!! Karla Novotny Russell

Dear All: Happy New Year! Enclosed is my check for the paper renewal. I shall miss the Times’ jokes, editorials, and political cartoons.

Dear Editor: Not too many things really bother me enough to write about much, but this latest ongoing theft of tax dollars is just disgusting. The matter of these 'Somali' immigrants in our country stealing from us big time does anger me, and it should anger every taxpayer.

Dear Editor, Every two years, the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the University of Kansas performs a study sponsored by the Kansas Hospital Association, which delves into the importance of the health care sector to the Kansas economy, and then, more specifically, the importance of the health care sector in each county. We received the final Rooks County report, and a press release was in last week's paper detailing some of the headlines of that report (which includes 2023 data) • Hospital direct employment contribution (jobs) – 156 • Physician offices direct employment contribution (jobs) - 26 • Hospital direct labor (wages being paid out into the county) - $10.6 million • Physician offices' direct employment contribution (wages being paid out into the county) - $1.7 million • Combined, 5% of the total jobs in Rooks County, and 12% of the labor income • Multiplier effect of hospital and physician office jobs - 209 • Multiplier effect of direct labor (wages) - $13.2 million • Local sales tax revenue generated by hospital and physician offices - $93,000 This is all economic, numeric data, computed by professors and researchers at KU.

Dear Editor: I would like to acknowledge the respect I have for the unsung heroes, including 911 dispatchers, law enforcement personnel, firefighters, EMS personnel, Emergency Management personnel, and doctors and nurses. All of them are so vital to our health and safety, and they all deserve our respect.