Jan. 17, 2017: Our readers write

Speaks up for Weaver's VA idea

Like Mayor Mike Weaver, I live in Radcliff. On Dec. 23, all veterans in this area read in our local paper, with hope, that giving 50 acres for a new VA hospital would be considered. In the Dec. 25 newspaper, we all read that no other areas are being looked at. This is not only unjust, but confirms that the VA is closed-minded when it comes to new ideas.

Like Weaver, all of us must leave our homes two hours before our appointments at the Louisville VA facility. Then, we spend another 15 to 30 minutes looking for a parking space. The shuttle bus is not viable help.

We hear nothing but negative comments from Louisville residents about the proposed VA location, even from the mayor of Louisville himself. We also hear about helping veterans of this once-great nation anyway possible, but this is no help to veterans in this area.

Since the proposed site was talked about years ago, I wondered about building a new facility somewhere along Gene Snyder Freeway. There are a lot of exits and open spaces along the Snyder, which would accommodate this hospital.

Our new veterans home, which already is overdue, is scheduled to open shortly. Not to be morbid, but the new veterans cemetery is just over the hill from the veterans home and the new VA hospital would be easily accessible to both entities.

We have a large variety of religious denominations in this area.

Holiday Inn has a hotel just about two miles from the location here in Radcliff, another hotel next to it and a new hotel is scheduled for construction starting next year. A gas station, Walmart Neighborhood Market, McDonald's, Colton's Steak House and other restaurants are within two miles of the Radcliff location.

A big plus for putting the hospital in Radcliff: Fort Knox is just five minutes away with an exchange, commissary and other military-specific programs and facilities.

I speak for myself, but I am sure other veterans in this area feel the same way I do.

Pinky Bilz

Radcliff

Customer seeks evening hours

I have run into this problem on numerous times trying to pay my household bills. You leave work early, losing wages, making an extra trip in your vehicle to withdraw money and finally make it there to find it closed at an earlier hour than you thought.

So now, instead of owing this amount, you have lost all that other money as well. So if the bill was for $50, but with all the extra you did, you now have lost out of your pocket another $50.

I'd like to see this change. Maybe make it where a bill-collection place makes Tuesday, Thursday and Friday as days they stay open until 7 p.m. so people who work in Louisville can make it back to Hardin County to pay their bills.

This way the people don't lose wages, waste travel time, make extra trips to the bank, etc.

Glen E. Basham Jr.

Elizabethtown