{"id":91801,"date":"2026-01-22T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:30:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central peninsula community generous and always there to help<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the board of directors and staff of The LeeShore Center, I would like to extend thanks and appreciation to the many community members, businesses and service agencies who generously donated time and assistance to our agency during 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Your continued support and caring makes a difference in the lives of victims experiencing domestic violence and sexual assault. During the last year, 800 volunteer hours were provided to our agency to assist with projects, events, prevention efforts, maintenance and repair issues and staff support. With your help, The LeeShore Center provided emergency shelter and transitional housing to 128 victim survivors for a total of 10,929 bednights, answered 272 crisis calls and assisted 162 individuals with walk-in advocacy services.<\/p>\n<p>We also want to thank those who contributed in-kind and\/or financial donations. Your donations and support help us ensure victim needs are met and program services are available.<\/p>\n<p>To all, thank you for helping make our community a safer place to live. We wish each of you many blessings throughout the coming year!<\/p>\n<p>Cheri Smith, Executive Director<\/p>\n<p>Kenai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central peninsula community generous and always there to help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":91802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[480,69],"class_list":["post-91801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-letter-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letters to the editor - Peninsula Clarion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letters to the editor - Peninsula Clarion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Central peninsula community generous and always there to help\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Peninsula Clarion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-23T07:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/01\/41387989_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1365\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wire Service\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wire Service\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/\",\"name\":\"Letters to the editor - Peninsula Clarion\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/01\/41387989_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-23T07:30:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a55308a565b50b2e68081f4b0ef3c2ef\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2026\/01\/22\/letters-to-the-editor-16\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/01\/41387989_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/01\/41387989_web1_P-bw-typewriter-HOM-220224.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1365,\"caption\":\"A vintage Underwood typewriter sits on a table on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Homer News in Homer, Alaska. 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