A sweet Halloween gesture

I am hopeful for our future.

I left my candy bowl outside on our porch for Halloween. As I was rushing to refill the bowl, I saw a young boy on the porch look at the empty bowl, and then at the group of much younger children coming after him. He reached into his bag and took out some of his candy to refill my bowl, and then ran off.

To that boy, whoever he is, thank you.

JULIE KIM

Hanover

Unequal treatment of women’s sports continues

With the opening of Dartmouth College’s hockey season, I am once again plagued by a perennial question: Why are the Dartmouth women’s home hockey games frequently at 3 p.m. (and often on a Friday), thus limiting who can attend, while the men regularly have the “prime time” slot of 7 or 8 p.m.?

Why can’t the men’s and women’s teams share that coveted slot?

Dartmouth has already been exposed for seriously underpaying the coaches of women’s sports, and the relegating of women’s sporting events to less-desirable time slots only seems to be a continuation of the unequal treatment of women’s sports.

Dartmouth will be celebrating 50 years of coeducation next fall. It’s about time women’s sports be given equal status.

MARTY JACOBS

East Thetford

Thanks for supporting Norwich Lions Club auction

The Norwich Lions Club thanks the 144 sponsors of its 2021 online silent auction, who contributed 200 items of goods and services with a combined retail value of more than $16,000. Thanks to their fine offerings, the auction raised more than $10,000 in support of the Norwich Lions Club Community Grant Program, and of Vermont and International Lions Club initiatives.

The club thanks the Valley News for contributing advertising space to promote this event.

For a list of the sponsors, please see www.NorwichLionsClub.org.

CHERYL BRUSH and STEPHEN FLANDERS

Norwich

The writers are chair and member, respectively, of the Norwich Lions Club auction committee.