All Posts Tagged With: "YMCA"
Spiritual Responsibility
To think that any particular faith, such as Christian or Muslim, is more favorable to God than another is an astoundingly arrogant notion – and it is irresponsible.
10Feb2010 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Spiritual Responsibility | Continued
United Way – Mission Lost
I have written before on the United Way. The continued degradation of their mission by participating agencies continues. This is just wrong. The United Way folks should look at their original intent – their original mission. Clearly the purpose was to Unite. Not only to unite social service agencies in their individual missions, but to […]
6Dec2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on United Way – Mission Lost | Continued
Old people exercising
A couple of months ago this writer decided that we needed to get our body into shape, one more time. We were once an active member of the local YMCA for about thirty years. A few years ago we stopped exercising and began to really enjoy evening ice cream and a movie. We are paying […]
5Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 6 comments | Continued
United Way – agency corruption
This writer is a big supporter of the concept of United Way – with skepticism for the actual practice. The concept is simple – there are many social service agencies in all communities that compete for the limited local dollars available. The idea of the United Way was to eliminate all of the individual fund […]
25Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 14 comments | Continued
The Red Cross – Darn Community Organizers
Community Organizer – what the heck is that? The Republicans of today’s world suggest there is something demeaning or degrading about the role of community organizer. There are two videos in this post to support that position. But our local Community Chamber of Commerce might take exception to the degrading comments. And those darn Red […]
9Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
Sacred Cows
Son, Look out. We are challenging Sacred Cows. Challenges to Sacred Cows are often met with personal attacks in an effort to discredit the challenger. We have a right to our opinion – and they have a right to disagree. But some folks can be really nasty. Our magazine of social commentary has put choice […]
19Dec2007 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Sacred Cows | Continued
Local YMCA’s lose perspective
Son, Our local YMCA Board has lost touch once again, or perhaps I should say have never gained perspective. They had some sort of unexpected financial problem, I think with building maintenance, so they have decided to just charge all members double their normal monthly rate in January. That should raise about $60,000. They are […]
19Dec2007 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Local YMCA’s lose perspective | Continued
United Way – uniting community?
Son, There are many social service agencies in all communities that compete for the limited local dollars available. The imperative of local communities is that they respect the dollars donated and use these dollars wisely. The United Way was formulated, I think in the 1960’s, to offer the synergy of cooperation among social service agencies. […]
16Oct2007 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued