Trying to understand Council Member Shelly Schratz is like unraveling an enigma wrapped up in the desire to do as well as she can for children and the elderly.

Shelly and her family live above their restaurant on Kensington Ave.  She recently brought the house next-door to the restaurant and got a remarkably good deal on it.  The house needs a ton of work but she will get it done.  It’s important to her because she bought the house for her mother live in for the rest of her life. 

Shelly knows there will be times when her mother will need her for various reasons, be it a medical issue, fear of strangers near the house or some other reason.  Shelly believes we should take care of our elderly. They did so much for us, it’s our turn to help them and protect them from being abused by anyone or any group.

 Shelly always had soft spot in her heart for the needs and protection of older people because they too, are GOD’S special people.  Some don’t have the strength to even open a jar because they are so fragile.  You read how older women are targets for gang rapes and robbery. The biggest reason these elderly people are so unmercifully beaten is the attacker doesn’t consider them to be human beings but rather, dried up old useless punching bags.

There was an article in a national magazine recently which described the mass exit of elderly people from their long held homesteads due to conditions beyond their control.  Many ended up in nursing homes waiting to end their time left on this earth there because they couldn’t afford anything else and thought they would be safer and better cared for.  

The article I referred to was actually about a nursing home of terror. Some workers made arrangements with a local punk gang to come into the nursing home and rip the gold from  the teeth from the older gentle people’s mouths. . The money the got would be shared between the punk gang members  and the nursing home attendants.  Many of these fragile elderly patients died of mouth infections because no care was given to them after the rape of the gold from their mouths.  These elderly people were  safer in their own homes where people knew them and watched out for them.

Hitler had the Jews and anyone he deemed different to degrade and murder as the world stood did nothing.  A similar type of disgusting, depraved treatment is happening to our elderly in some neighborhoods and nursing homesaround our country. 

Shelly Schratz has a driving force to help and protect the elderly.  It is a fight she will wage until she dies.  She is working hard to keep the older people in Amherst in their homes; this has been her rallying cry  as an honest politician and decent person.

I believe Council Woman Shelly Schratz should be given a day to honor her for her fight for children and for the protection and safety of our elderly in Amherst.  Shelly, you are doing a great job.

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