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to the editor: Plattsburgh City Taxi Inc. has been servicing the public's transportation needs for over a quarter of a century, and has always strived toward excellence in this regard. We handle many calls both timely, professionally, and safely on a daily basis, yet there may be situations as with any business, where a customer is not completely happy or satisfied. When this exception occurs it is our policy to accommodate this customer in the best possible fashion available to us. The customer's needs are always our utmost concern. Any comments or concerns may be addressed to my office.

Plattsburgh City Taxi thanks you for your continued patronage.

Keith Shekrota

Manager

Plattsburgh City Taxi Inc.

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Nurses saluted

TO THE EDITOR: During the week of May 6, I joined other physicians and members of the hospital professional staff, along with medical staffs around the country, in paying special tribute to nurses and the nursing profession.

This commemoration and special recognition is most assuredly well deserved. Nurses enable hospitals to function, physicians to practice medicine, and ultimately, for the ill and the injured to heal. The strength of their caring nature is legendary, going back in time to the beginnings of medical practice, and continues today.

In the military, nurses have extended roles. They can be called onto the battlefields to practice their profession, and have indeed been in attendance on all the battlefields of this nation's history. They are present today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their necessary input to critical medical decision-making is indispensable.

The basic tenets of nursing have not changed much over the years, and I hope they never will. For newborn babies, a nurse's hands are some of the first felt, and provide the child with the first introduction to human warmth and genuine love.

For those in pain, anxiety, distress or despair, a nurse is more valuable than any complex medical machinery.

For the person with long term or terminal illness, a nurse is a savior.

And in the absence or even in the presence of loved ones for those who are dying, a nurse provides a magical comfort and relief as no other professional can.