Coach Livengood a true inspiration

I just was forwarded your recent article, “True to His School,” written on Feb. 4 about Coach Livengood.

Your article was well written and truly touched my heart, as Mr. Livengood was also my coach, teacher and mentor.

I graduated from West Yadkin in 1990 and then went on to Starmount High. I have since traveled all over the world meeting all different kinds of people, but “Coach”sticks out in my mind as a one of the very best people I’ve ever had the privilege to know.

He is all the things your article described and so much more. Most of my teachers are but a small memory in the back of my head, barely hanging on, soon to be replaced by new exciting memories, but Coach Livengood will always have a piece of my heart and I know that many of my peers from my time in Yadkin County feel the exact same way.

Thank you for your article and allowing me to remember my dear friend and how much his great influence helped make me into the person I am today.

Melissa “Davis” Slater

Laguna, California

A bad experience from a "Christian"

Editor’s note: The letter writer refers to an experience he had with an auto dealer in Yadkin County.

In 2009, you would think people looked at each other as brothers. Being Christ-like, it‘s the way it should be, so if you meet a fellow saint, you can count on them.

Sorry, that’s not the case.

My wife found a car at a good price and said to me this car is $2,000. I looked at it, then said to her, go get it. She replied, “They will let you have it for the same price they told me.”

I live in this town and know people still see something else other than brotherhood.

Anyway, I took her word and went to get the deal and it wasn’t there. It cost me $1,000 more to buy “the good deal.”

But that’s white and black, not “We love the same God.”

Cyphus France

Elkin

Our missing dog

I want to thank the Yadkin Ripple, the Winston-Salem Journal, the Elkin Tribune, Wilkes Journal Patriot, Davie County Enterprise & Record, and the Clemmons Courier we advertised our lost German Shepherd Yeti in all these papers and they were very helpful in placing our ads.

We lost our German Shepherd Yeti on June 29th of 2008 sometime during the night between 12 am and 8 am. We live on a farm and had never had a problem with losing dogs before unless they were sick and died or a neighbor shot one for stealing chickens or such. We did not have our dogs micro chipped this is lesson number one. The pounds and vets all have chip readers and if your dog is chipped they can read the chip information and find the owner. The chip is inserted via a needle and is about $45 per dog and an $18 activation fee. You can have this done at the veterinarian. We now have all our dogs chipped.

We searched the woods and surrounding area the first week day and night for our dog and we lost a lot of time doing this. If there is a possibility that your dog was stolen act fast the first 3 days are critical.

I want to thank the pounds in Yadkin, Forsyth, Wilkes, Iredell, Davie and Stokes, I called them on a regular basis to see if Yeti was there.

Post posters of your lost dog everywhere and offer a reward if possible. There are several internet sites to post your lost animal Lassie Come Home NC is a great internet site and works off of donations. The lady who runs it started this when she lost her beloved dog and mans this site and she does a good job we had found a German Shepherd and had posted it found on her site and the owner found his dog when he looked on this site. So there are happy endings.

There is so much more I could share with you but these lessons I listed were the main ones I hope this helps anyone who has affection for their dog. Yeti will always be a part of our family I am still hoping he will be in the future of our family not just in the past.

My one regret is that I cannot go back in time and change what has transpired whether someone killed Yeti and destroyed the evidence or stole Yeti from our home. I may never know. Yeti looked after our house and area barking only when it was someone, he was always with me when I was out farming and I always felt safe and secure with him with me. I did not protect him and I will live with that and the regret. I hope this gets printed and will help someone else not make the mistakes I made. Someone or something that you love never take it for granted they will be there. Protect what is yours, keep it safe.

I want to thank everyone who called me and reported German Shepherds that they saw I found a lot of other people’s dogs in my search and reunited them with their owners that has been one good thing out of all of this.

We will still look for Yeti even though it has been 8 months and I guess we always will look for him. He was a big part of our family, he was special. So I sit on our front porch swing each night look up the drive and wish I would see Yeti come down it. There is one phrase I want to say and that is “Yeti, come let’s go home”. I can only hope this article helps someone not lose that special family member.

Bettina Carrington

Yadkin County