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Youth should remain our goal

By JAMES E. FOUNTAIN Brookeland

Recently, my faith in mankind was restored, when before the 2007 youth ball season got underway, some individuals from our area approached me with an apology for the false accusations, and misrepresentations made about our Softball league a couple of years back. Afew of our so-called upstanding citizens took it upon themselves to attempt a shut down of our league.

It was a classic case of, if my finger ain't in it, then the pie can't be good for you.

Since then, a lot of things have come to light, that has made a lot of people realize what was done, was wrong, and what was said was just bold faced lies on some people's part.

It did my heart good to know that even in this day and time, some people can still admit when they were wrong. They then approached us with a problem they were having.

Their ball organization was having some difficulty in the purchase of uniforms for the upcoming season, and asked if we could help out. Not being ones to ever turn our back on our youth, our board approved unanimously to assist their little ball group with the purchase of their entire quantity of uniforms for this season. We are not patting ourselves on the back, not by any means.

We just wanted to let people know that we can forgive past wrongs, even though, the main culprit never has apologized. We want everyone to realize that when a need arises that concerns our youth, no matter where, that everything else can be put aside, and two organizations can work together to achieve a common goal.

To reach out to each other, and promote the best concerning our youth so they may learn, and lead in the future should be that goal.

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