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Home My WebLink About01/04/2011 05 Audience ParticipationAr T .E A1�1VIV R T E Y. H °�SAR ... • �: IVCO de MAYO'FIESTA _Dowritown - Yakima'', 201I ,C . 'MAY.6 T& 8,(Fridd :'Saiturdai &Sunda ), s, ` Lar o,'de'Mayp Fiesta -ii ' WA.State!, Enjoy'' diverse entertairiment;for'the'entire: family _ ANLY Live `music, festival: ': „ , 4.Charro; ,Parade' _ •'Talent Show. r.Sh'ow' ` :o Beer &'Wine :Garden z. •"Aiid' much' `much more. - For more. info:+' Hi'' spari_ic'Gha'mber,pf-Cyom`m -erce o.f .Y;akima:County: 509.'453= `20`50. www. yaki ~mahispariiccha'inti;`er- roms7„ . � >•, . . . . � ... .. -'. _ ., �., -- ,.' `tip "' , .. .. � Ste► (D�'I'�� /� /�, To: Yakima City Council Members and The Representative to the City's Attorney Office RE: Rebecca Markert's letter In a democracy that has such a profound Constitution over it, we are all guaranteed personal freedoms of choice. We don't choose to be an American, an Indian, a Hispanic, or any other nationality. We do choose to be an American! This nation has been called the melting pot of the world, and our strength was in our individualism of expression, ideals, and talents that the world was in awe of! I am fully prepared to discuss with anyone, constitutional law, American history, and American traditional values as compared to alternative value systems! We seem to be forgetting the value of respecting the rights of our fellow human beings, without condemnation! The Constitution proclaims that.`We the people' have defined and inalienable rights! The following page is an example of a message you could put where people come in. It is in agreement of the above facts and will satisfy the law, and will satisfy the particular needs of all. people entering and by valuing them! Working for a better Yakima, Dennis Hawkins 910 -7757 BE IT KNOWN TO ALL THAT ENTER IN TO THIS YAKIMA CITY COUNCIL MEETING YOU ARE WELCOME AND YOUR IDEAS ARE IMPORTANT TO US. IN SEHALF OF OUR CITY! BE IT KNOWN ALSO THAT THERE MAY BE SOME THAT DISAGREE WITH SOME PROCEEDINGS THIS DOES NOT DIMINISH YOUR VALUE AS AN EXAMPLE, DURING THE INVOCATION BY YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS JOIN WITH US, SAY YOUR OWN, OR IGNORE THE SPOKEN INVOCATION BASED UPON YOUR BELIEFS. THIS IS YOUR RIGHT AS AN INDIVIDUAL AGENT OR REPRESENTATIVE AGENT. MAY YOUR STAY WITH US BENEFIT US ALL AND OUR CITY! �b t's-trib iJ4i?-,�k )/ I-V 0 Kloster, Debbie From: Price, Cally on behalf of City Council Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:24 PM To: Kloster, Debbie; Watkins, Linda Subject: FW: Prayer at Council Meetings Importance: High Cally Price Executive Assistant City of Yakima - City Manager's Office - - - -- Original Message---- - From: turbohicks @charter.net [mailto:turbohicks @charter.net] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 7:57 PM To: City Council Subject: Prayer at Council Meetings Importance: High Thank you for praying at the City Council Meetings. Please don't let the media and the Freedom From Religion Group intimidate you and stop you from praying. Our City needs Jesus and God and the protection and guidance that only He can give. Read Luke 18:1 -8. Also, Luke 18:27; The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. You have an impossible task ahead, balance the budget, keep crime down, provide for the safety of our city. Keep praying! Thank you, Tanya Hicks Tanya Hicks 617 S 19th Ave. Yakima, WA 98902 Kloster, Debbie From: Price, Cally, Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:46 AM To: Kloster, Debbie Subject: FW: prayer For the record... Cally Price Executive Assistant City of Yakima - City Manager's Office - - - -- Original Message---- - From: Beehler, Randy Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:57 AM To: Price, Cally Subject: FW: prayer Cally, I received the e-mail below via the Yak Back feature on the City's website. Please process accordingly. Randy Beehler Community Relations Manager City of Yakima, Wa. - - - -- Original Message---- - From: Margaret and Aaron Wetterling [mailto:aarmar @eotnet.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:33 AM To: Beehler, Randy Subject: prayer I live in Oregon but the Yakima TV stations are our local stations. I just heard on the news brief that someone complained about prayer at the city council meetings. What about all the people who don't mind having the meeting opened with a prayer? Is it always the same person who prays? Different ministers in the city? I think that one person should NOT be able to shut something down that many other people don't mind happening. Too many religious freedoms are being lost in the USA because ONE person complains. I don't live in Yakima, but if I did I would say .... keep the prayer opening at city council meetings. Margaret Wetterling Hermiston, OR Kloster, Debbie From: Price, Cally on behalf of City Council Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:24 PM To: Kloster, Debbie; Watkins, Linda Subject: FW: prayer prior to meeting Importance: High Cally Price Executive Assistant City of Yakima - City Manager's Office - - - -- Original Message---- - From: kathyandrich @charter.net [ mailto:kathyandrich @charter.net] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 2:21 PM To: City Council Subject: prayer prior to meeting Importance: High I am not a resident of Yakama but would like to put in my two cents. Keep up the good work (prayer) If someone does not care to pray or stand quietly, then you could invite them to go out into the hall for a few minutes. am sick and tired of the loud few people running my life. Richard Lensink 2877 Sawgrass Loop, Richland, WA Kloster, Debbie From: Price, Cally Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 20114:21 PM To: Kloster, Debbie; Watkins, Linda Subject: FW: Prayer before Council Meetings Importance: High One more... Cally Price Executive Assistant City of Yakima - City Manager's Office - - - -- Original Message---- - From: Beehler, Randy Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:29 PM To: Price, Cally Subject: FW: Prayer before Council Meetings Importance: High Cally, received the e-mail below via the Yak Back feature on the City's website. Please process accordingly. Randy Beehler Community Relations Manager City of Yakima, Wa. - - - -- Original Message---- - From: mmurphy @coleindust.com [mailto:mmurphy @ coleindust.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:03 AM To: Beehler, Randy Subject: Prayer before Council Meetings Importance: High thought the following was very appropriate for the upcoming meeting: The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession: 1 am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key. intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self- esteem ( Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay.. Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Mary Murphy - 218 S 47th Ave Yakima WA 98908