NOT FAIR: How is it that this country – which has bailed out
corporation after corporation over the past few months – is willing
to deny our senior citizens Social Security increases next year and
the following year?

In case you didn’t see the story, the normal cost-of-living
adjustment for Social Security recipients supposedly isn’t
justified because living expenses have decreased … Where and when
did that happen? Every time we get gas or groceries or pay our
bills, the price of everything is increasing.

What’s really sad in this great country of ours is that the
average Social Security check is $1,153 a month. Just try living on
that. We can’t help see how that sum stacks up against the millions
of dollars in bonuses alone went to all those fat cats.

We hope the Gray Panthers are on alert.

GOOD THING: On the plus side of life in America, we can tell you
about a Bradford man who gets around town in one of those
“Hoverounds.” Steve Thompson was going to one of the local
convenience stores when his chair got stuck on a pile of gravel
left over from a recent waterline break. He even had an assistant
but he was unable to get the chair off the gravel.

An unidentified man stopped his car, got out, helped move the
machine off the gravel and onto the pavement. The motorist got back
in his car and left without really saying a word.

Mr. Thompson wanted to thank this man but the only thing he
knows about him is he had a couple of kids in the car.

“I just wanted to pass along that there are still good people in
Bradford that are willing to help out,” he said.

CLAY PITS: Hal Harmon of Bradford phoned the other day to
pinpoint those clay pits we had mentioned in a recent RTS. He had
lived at 273 High St., right in front of the pits. While a previous
reader had called them shale pits, Hal tells us these clay pits
were similar to the ones at Lewis Run.

Part of the pits were filled in when building lots were
constructed. The other end was filled in when they built a
recycling center, he said.

Those Lewis Run pits must have been clay since they (presumably)
fed the old brick plant in that borough.