【時報訊】2010年翩然來到，新年新希望。聖路易地區由資深記者組成，在網路上發表之聖路易燈塔報(The St. Louis Beacon)日前發佈“新年新希望”專訪，訪問本地區9位人士，分別表達他們在2010年之新希望。其中包括聖路易大學高中中文教師戴慶齡博士，戴老師祝願社區每位朋友在新的2010年健康、快樂及祥和，同時拉近彼此間居家生活、物質擁有等之距離。聖路易燈塔報英文原文請見時報本期英文版。
Wishes for the year ahead
By Kristen Hare, Beacon staff
Holidays are usually about celebrating family and friends, sharing gifts, honoring a time that to many is filled with significance, both spiritual and personal. It isn't until after Christmas that we usually start looking ahead, and by then the new year has begun.
The St. Louis Beacon asked people around the St. Louis Metro two questions about the New Year.
1. What are you looking forward to in 2010?
2. Please share one wish for the new year, world peace not allowed.
Not that we don't love world peace here at the Beacon, but c'mon, it's kind of like the "save the dolphins" pageant answer, right?
The answers we got back were both personal and societal. You'll find them below, and we hope you will add your wishes, too.
Happy New Year!
Denny Coleman
President and CEO, St. Louis County Economic Council
1. In 2010 I'm looking forward to a better economy for everyone.
2. My one wish for next year is a job for everyone who is willing and able to work.
Armien C. Fehr
Realtor, RE/MAX Best Choice, South County, Festus and Farmington, Mo.
1. 2010 -- I plan on helping a lot of people keep their homes, which will also help in retaining home values in the area. My personal goal is to close between 35 and 50 home sales, (the market is not that bad.) Pray for reduction in need for our food pantry that I assist with through Faith Church of St. Louis. Personally get 100 percent debt free.
2. Anyone who believes in world peace does not have a clear handle on what that really means. My wish would be that the leaders of the United States would get back to what made this country great. Really put the Constitution back in the everyday lives of our government. Get the lawyers out and put real people in office who are truly interested in what so many Americans have died for. Put the values that made this country back in play.
Denise Thimes
Jazz vocalist
1. For 2010 I am looking forward to more travels in and out of the country. I'm also looking forward to working on my next album, which will be nationally distributed.
2. I think one wish for the new year for me personally would be for more financial stability. On a national or world level, my wish would be for people all over the world to start loving themselves more, then we can truly know what it is to love one another.
Francisco Linan
Retired, Kirkwood
1. I'm looking forward to see my sons go to college and study for a career. They are twins, but very different.
2. One wish for new year - I wish the economy would get better.
Note: The photo is an old, childhood picture.
Jen Amunategui
Retail manager, Florissant
1. I am looking forward to traveling to Italy in the spring and summer vacation with my kids in Florida.
2. I wish for more time ... for reading, volunteering and even sleeping.
Ingrid Casillo
International Scope in Education Inc., St. Charles Community College
1. I am looking forward to see the results of the health-care reform effort
2. I wish for the unemployment rate to decrease dramatically in our state and in the country.
Ching-ling Tai
Chinese language teacher, St. Louis University High School
1. A year of good health, peace and happiness.
2. Everyone can make a contented living, free of worry. Life today is in general very comfortable. I wish someone can propose a formula to bridge the have and have-not, the happiness and suffering, the luxury and substandard.
Davide Weaver
executive director, St. Louis Artists' Guild
1. Economic Recovery
2. St. Louis City and County merge ... (right up there with world peace in the feasibility category - but you gotta dream!)
D. Palmer
senior vice president of government relations, Peabody Energy
1. I'm looking forward to the creation of a legal and regulatory framework that will advance carbon capture and storage technology. We know that through greater use of clean coal technology we can achieve what I call the three Es: energy security, economic growth, and environmental solutions.
2. My wish for the coming year is that we see energy legislation from the U.S. Congress that protects American families, workers and consumers by advancing technology first.
(This article contains information gathered with the help of our Public Insight Network. The St. Louis Beacon, in partnership with KETC/Channel 9, is using this journalism tool to help us solicit knowledge and insight from people who become sources through the Network.) |
