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Dear Editor:

Thank you for running a recent article about the Labor of Love and the work we do. You have, over the years, printed periodically news items about us, and for that we are truly grateful. Time and again we heard anecdotal evidence that people in need see the articles in your newspaper and called on us for assistance.

One neat story: Last month I accepted a project for a lady who needed an outside ramp and two grab bars installed in her bathtub. The week prior to doing the actual work, I went to the home to size the effort, count materials and crew needed, etc. I walked into the lady's kitchen to introduce myself and she looked up and said "I know you." I was taken aback. Seems she saw an article in your newspaper two years ago, April 2006, when I presented the LOL story to a Kiwanis Club. She cut out and saved the article with picture all that time.

Thank you again from the Labor of Love and our 85 volunteers.
God's peace,
Roy H. Talbot,
LOL project mgr.

Dear Editor:

"One Riot, One Ranger." A statement has been made that Henderson County needs a sheriff with more administrative experience than law enforcement. Now, I don't know whose brillant mind came up with that cockamania bunch of bull, but I don't agree with it.

I pose this question to voters: If you were on trial for a major felony and facing life or long-term confinement, would you want to be defended by a CPA attorney or a criminal attorney? The same goes for sheriff. I can just see an administrative sheriff showing up at a major crime scene in your home. He would be standing there with that deer-in-the-headlight look and say, "Well, I've never done an ivestigation, but the good news is I just saved a thousand dollars on our car insurance from GEICO."

I'm for a sheriff with law enforcement experience; he can hire an administator. That's the way it's being done now. When the current sheriff needs to know about finances or budget, he goes and asks his administrative deputy who in turn calls the county auditor to find out how much money is on a particular item. That's the extent of the administrative knowledge in the office today.

For the third time in a row we have a retired Texas Ranger running for sheriff. No other county in the state has been that lucky.

At a luncheon in Dallas one day I sat across the table from two retired Rangers. One of them asked me where I was from and when I said Henderson County the other one said, "Henderson County, I think that must be God's chosen land for retired Rangers `cause it's got its share of them."

That was the moment I realized how fortunate we were to have the Rangers in our county.

Ray Nutt is not just a man I call an elite law enforcement investigator. He is a man I call my friend. And it's an honor when he calls me his.

You won't find an electronic controlled security gate or unlisted phone at his house. What you will find is a very humble man living in a quiet little conservative home where you'd be invited in and welcomed.

Mac Davis said in a song, "It's hard to be humble when you're at the top of the Hilton." When you've been a Texas Ranger, you've been at the top of the Hilton. The Texas Rangers have been the elite law officers in this state for 184 years.

I started this letter with the quote: "One Riot, One Ranger." I'll end it with this one: "One Election, One Ranger."
Glen Vest,
Brownsboro