LEE NEWS SAD

I often search your Web page for news articles pertaining to my hometown of
Stickleyville. As I started reading the article "Two jailed in Lee County
after raid on methamphetamine lab," I became mortified. I realized that the
people listed in the article were my first cousins. The property that is
mentioned has been in the family for over 100 years. I have fond memories
of my great aunt and aunt in that house. Never would I have dreamed that
there would be a methamphetamine lab in Stickleyville, let alone in that house.

We hear so much in today's news about teens being addicted to drugs. CBS
News just did a story regarding the teens in Pennington Gap, Va., using and
abusing OxyContin. When I watched that newscast, I wondered how they
obtained these drugs. This is an area that was so quiet and reserved with
folks living a wholesome life, God-fearing people, neighbors knowing
everything about their neighbors.

Evidently the area has changed so much that I feel lucky to have left the
area to raise my children.

My great aunt and aunt worked hard to keep that property going in the early
1900's and later during the rains and droughts.

They were hardworking women and for them to lose the control of their
property because they could not stay there because of being afraid of their
own children would be a shame in this society.

Sheryl J. (Young) Barnes

Newark, Ohio