To the taxpayers of Delphos area:
As several of us sit here discussing what books we want to read, we decided to go to the computer and see if the Delphos Public Library had any of them. Up came the following: We need your help.
The library wants us to donate money so they can buy books, DVDs, newspaper subscriptions, etc. Seems they haven’t had any money for some time.
Where has all the hard-earned tax money we supply them go? That is supposed to be used at the library.
The Library Board of Trustees spent $150,000-plus on the First Street property and repairs. What good is that property to the library patrons?
The library board gave an 18-cent-per-hour raise to the staff.
By the way, the library board is chosen by the staff.
The Dienstberger Foundation gave the library a very nice sum of money. Where is that?
We want to know just what is going on. Maybe a major cleaning from basement to attic is needed as one of our grandpas used to say.
Also, at least two library staff members retired and were then rehired by the board, getting a retirement check and also a salary check. Two checks taking away jobs from our young ones who need a job.
We are just sitting here shaking our heads. One of the readers commented: “It’s a little Washington, D.C.”

Margene Freund

DEAR EDITOR:
There still are good kids around.
I started to clean off my walks when some young Boy Scouts came over from Waterworks Park and said they would do it for me. They were waiting to go on a weekend camping trip.
Thanks boys. I hope you all had a good and safe weekend.
Thanks again,

Betty Osting

DEAR EDITOR:
Regarding the accusations Ms. Maag has leveled at Elida football coach Jason Carpenter and superintendent Don Diglia:
The Allen County prosecutor’s office has cleared both Mr. Diglia and Mr. Carpenter.
Ms. Maag’s son, Brandon, helped rob a pizza delivery employee and was sentenced to Allen County JDC. Elida school policy said the players could not play football. Case closed.
Mom and friend brought up things at two Elida School Board meetings that had been decided   previously and whined about how her son was persecuted. Instead of blaming her son, she blames the superintendent and the coach for her son’s troubles.
Maybe if mom would have disciplined her son, he wouldn’t have thought it would be fun to rob someone. Why doesn’t mom accept the punishment her son got and the results of the investigation by the prosecutor’s office? No moral compass by either mom, her friend or her son.
I know that if I had robbed a pizza delivery employee when I was his age, my parents would have taken me to the Delphos Police station, let me be sentenced in juvenile court and imprisoned in the JDC. There would have been further punishment awaiting me at home when I was released from the JDC. My parents wouldn’t have blamed everyone else – I would have had to accept the blame myself and take my medicine.
Get over it, Ms. Maag. Why don’t you, your friend and your son look in the mirror as the source of your problems?
Michael Wrasman,
Delphos

DEAR EDITOR:
The selection of Kay Ahten as the Tri-County Woman of the Year was a very deserving choice. I wish to give this additional recognition to her as being the best of art teachers in Ottoville Local Schools for many years. Her teaching knowledge, style and methods have had a very positive effect on the lives of many Ottoville students that were in her art class
Robert A. Bruns,
retired Ottoville superintendent

DEAR EDITOR:
On behalf of the members of the Delphos community involved with efforts to keep the Delphos Municipal Swimming Pool in operation, I would like to take this time to personally say thank you to the Dienstberger Foundation. This month, the city received a generous donation from the Dienstberger Foundation that will be specifically used to help assist to keep the pool open.
This selfless act of kindness is appreciated and admired by all those who enjoy their summer with friends and family at the pool.
Bob Thitoff