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2 DAILY PRESS Who uses text messages? Page have a contest to text APPLE and win $500. You know the average reader of your newspaper use text. think this is good business judgment at all. We need good judgment in newspapers today to keep them going. Editor: Actually, we think pretty darn good judgment.

More than half the adults in the Peninsula area use text messaging. About 80 percent have cell phones, so I suspect texting to increase even more. It might be less than half our our print readers, but the number is still significant. Texts allow us to reach beyond those print readers. We believe we need to reach people with news and information in a variety of ways: print, online, mobile Web and texts.

Some people will choose to receive all the channels. Some will get one or two. delivering information in a variety of forms to build up our business and our audience because the kind of judgment going to keep the news business going. Good coverage Beth, Hampton: I wanted to commend you on the excellent immunization articles you did for the Daily Press recently the one on males receiving HPV vaccine and the back-to-school article. I was very impressed with the way you clearly related information that can be hard to understand at times.

You had the facts straight and conveyed the important messages that those of us in the immunization world want parents and the general public to hear. I really liked how you divided the information under headings that made it very easy for parents to quickly find the information they needed. but no photos please Carol: With the new school year looming, there have been photos showing students getting proper immunizations. Since Iam one of thousands of readers who hates getting shots or viewing someone else getting them, I would like to request that you not actually show the needle in the photo. It gives me the creeps.

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And when thrown into the ponds of our lives, the waves they make ripple out for a long way, and the pond the same for anyone in it. And when gone, their ripples keep on, but we miss them mightily. Strong women. Last week, at a lovely funeral the kind that does everything a funeral should do: give hope and solace, combine the intensely personal with the transcendently divine I was reminded of what they mean. Speaking of Lou Wessells, one of her many friends ended with the words, to strong women.

May we be them, and may we raise Those words have stayed in my mind since then. They speak of Lou, yes indeed. And of two other strong women who have left us Harriet Storm and Patty Gilbertson. They had much in common. They were all strong, all beautiful, all spirited and generous and talented.

And all taken much too soon. They were also, of course, very distinctive, and very different. Who but Lou had her irrepressible spirit, her wonderful smile? The sense that emanated from her that she saw the world clearly, had both feet planted firmly on it, and relished her time and her place here, her family and her friends and her good work with children in local schools And Harriet Storm, who was a force of nature. Harriet was unstoppable, and who would want to stop her, because she was about so much good: advocating for people with mental illness and retardation, working for the William and Mary she loved and Virginia Symphony. Harriet was one of those people on a mission, but you never felt bowled over by her.

Instead, she made you feel like she was launching off on something wonderfully important and gratifying, and grabbed you by the hand because you, too, needed to be a part of it. You were glad to be along on heady ride. And Patty Gilbertson, whose path overlapped with for 26 years, while Harriet was on the board of the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board and Patty was hard at work making it the remarkable agency it is today. She started a detox program for addicted moms, she moved mountains to start Drug Courts and keep them going despite stingy support, she took over planning and marketing. She cut a wide swath across the state.

She made things happen, often before popular opinion had warmed to them, usually with no money. But she made them happen. Cancer is a cruel disease, but these women faced it with courage and grace. And now and I do not mean this sacrilegiouslyat all I can just imagine them encountering one another in Heaven. I can hear infectious laugh.

found something that needs doing, and making sure taken care of. And making a case for some good cause down on Earth that needs a little divine attention. Patty, heard, told her mother that she did not want any tears at her funeral, which will be this Saturday. a big order for those who are missing her but says a lot about the kind of person she was why they miss her. At Lou last weekend, there were tears.

But also tender stories and sweet laughs. At a special event at the Services Board this spring, to celebrate the naming of a building for Harriet Storm, more stories, more laughs, and lots of good memories. The real memorial for these and all strong women, though, lies not in ceremonies but in the men they love, the children they bear, the friends they delight and delight in and the people they touch in their personal and professional lives. Ihave known each of these women for at least two decades. I necessarily in their inner circles, but close enough to hold them all in affection and respect.

Lou, Patty and Harriet are all strong women, and there are so many more. Ican think right off of a professor and two priests. A single professional who takes herself off on bold adventures, to Africa and Thailand. At-home moms who knock my socks off. Several artists and some fearless witnesses for Christ.

A group of women who are making sure children get a better start in life by improving the quality of local preschools. Ican think of women who are always on the front line and women who are only happy on the back row. Women who raise strong daughters and women who raise sons who can love strong women. to strong women. Let us be them.

Let us raise them. And let us love them. is associate editor of the editorial page. Contact her at or 247-2837. to strong women Carol Opinion YOUR PIX Tom Shacochis (HRTownsquare.com screen name photographed this sunflower as it was being visited by a bee.

He says you can tell from the size of this flower that it has been affected by the drought. The bee care. DAMASCUS, Ore. 12-year-old Oregon boy had permission to drive the family pickup truck to the end of the driveway to unload trash, but he kept going until he was stopped nearly 100 miles away in Lewis County, Wash. The Clackamas County Office says it received a call from the mother reporting the boy and the pickup missing from their home in Portland.

An alert went out, and the eager young driver was safely stopped by a Lewis County deputy. Detective Jim Strovink says the case will be referred to juvenile authorities for possible prosecution of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and driving without a license. Strovink says the mother do anything wrong in letting the boy drive in the driveway because private property. Associated Press NEWS OF THE WEIRD Ride may net charge or grounding Today is Tuesday, Aug. 24, the 236th day of 2010.

ON THIS DATE 79: Long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash; an estimated 20,000 people died. 410: Rome was overrun by the Visigoths, a major event in the fall of the Western Roman Empire. 1814: During the War of 1812, British forces invaded Washington, setting fire to the Capitol and the White House, as well as other buildings. 1932: Amelia Earhart embarked on a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., making her the first woman to fly solo, nonstop, from coast to coast. 1954: President Dwight D.

Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party in the United States. 1968: France became the fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific. 1989: Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for betting on baseball while Cincinnati Reds manager. 1992: Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, causing $30 billion in damage; 43 U.S.

deaths were blamed on the storm. 2009: All sales under the for program came to an end, although car dealers were given more time to submit pending claims for reimbursement. ALMANAC The name of Marine Gen. James Mattis, former commander of Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, was misspelled in Tamara Sunday column. An item in News section about a proposed gay studies program at Old Dominion University gave the incorrect date for an upcoming art auction.

The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. CORRECTIONS The Daily Press is eager to correct errors published in the newspaper as soon as possible. If you think incorrect information has been published, call us at 247-4748 147 Criminals So Far Thursdays in the JOIN THE SEARCH for the Warrant active as of May 18, 2010.

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