In Your Opinion: Everyone Benefits From Stray Dog Rescue

By Wm. David Burns.

Last year, the Franklin Reporter & Advocate chose Katie Nordhaus, the extraordinary director of our Township’s animal shelter, as its “Woman of the Year.”  It was a wise and well-deserved celebration of her distinguished service.

Last week, we had an experience in our little corner of Franklin that reassured me—against lots of evidence to the contrary—that the essential goodness of people who are otherwise strangers to one another can sometimes prevail in a world that too often is more marked by hostility and vulgarity than kindness and charity.