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Letters To The Editor

Give yourself:
Dear Editor:

If you are still looking for the perfect present this holiday season for an adult friend or family member, consider gifting yourself as a designated driver.

What better way to tell others you care about them than helping them get home safely from a holiday celebration or night on the town.

If you do, you won’t be alone.

More than 141 million American adults have been a designated driver or been driven home by one, according to a projection based upon a 2011 survey conducted by GfK Custom Research North America®.

Now that’s a reason to celebrate.

If you are planning on hosting a holiday party for adults, remember these tips to help have a safe celebration:

Serve food with your alcohol beverages and encourage your guests to space drinks throughout the night;

Offer non-alcohol beverages for the designated drivers;

Don’t refresh drinks as people can easily lose track of how much they’ve had; and

Stop serving alcohol one hour before the party ends.

A&B Distributing Company and Anheuser-Busch encourage adults who choose to drink to do so responsibly and to use a designated driver or alternate transportation if they may have had too much to drink.

Thanks to efforts like these and increased law enforcement, our nation is making progress in the fight against drunk driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drunk-driving fatalities have declined to a record-low level, down 49 percent since 1982.

We hope you have a great holiday and remember, it’s our collective responsibility to keep our roads safe.

Sincerely,
Joan Lunsford
Consumer Awareness & Education
A&B Distributing Company
Olive Branch

Ride on the wild side: 1996
To the Editor,

I wrote the this letter to The South Reporter in February 1996. There was some work done on the road after that but now almost 16 years later, there needs to be some more.

This concerns the section of North Red Banks Road between Hwy 78 and Taska Road.

I cannot believe the builder that built the houses at the corner of Moore Rd. southward was allowed to do so without leveling the lots so that the mailboxes would not have to be so close to the road. I hope that the excuse would not be the expense. I know these home owners have to be tired of replacing their boxes.

My family goes the opposite direction when it is raining, foggy or dark because it is so dangerous.

Please get some lines on this road.

Faye Grady

Ride on the wild side: 2011
Dear Editor:

Want to take a ride on the wild side? Come on down to North Red Banks Road. We finally got part of the road paved, but so help me, the old road with all its pot holes was safer than what we have now.

It is not wide enough and much too hilly. There is no shoulder and no lines.

At night on this jet black road, you can see nothing. God help you if you meet a car over a hill taking up more of his side than he is supposed to. You can’t get over; there is no place to go.

If you go off the road, you are going to lose control because the road is much higher than the little bit of shoulder you might have.

The road needs shoulders and lines. There is going to be a serious accident if something isn’t done.

Faye Grady

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