Watch for falling golf balls
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:42 AM PDT
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Watch for falling golf balls
I live next door to the Mint Valley golf course, and on July 27th my windshield was struck and broken by a golf ball while I was asleep. (I work nights and sleep while the course is open.)
I contacted the golf course and they said that there was nothing they could do, to contact Parks and Recreation, which I did, and the Parks Department said I should contact the golf course. When I spoke to the golf course again, they said there was nothing they could do, that it was the responsibility of the person who hit the golf ball, and that no one had come forward.
So now I am left with a broken windshield and a sense that the golf course has no attachment to the community.
Jeffrey A. McAllister
Longview
A horrible waste
I read your article about Seattle’s new ordinance to require stores to charge extra for the paper or plastic bags that they put groceries and other supplies in. That seems rather insignificant to me. One of my pet gripes is this:
I raise cattle just as my Dad did before me. That means I buy grain for them every week. The only difference is that back when I was a kid, my Dad would gather up all his empty feed sacks and take them back to the feed store. He’d get a few pennies back for every sack he returned. Not anymore, nowadays you can’t pay the feed stores enough to get them to take the empty sacks back. But you can’t really blame the feed stores for that. They can’t take the empty sacks back if their suppliers won’t take them back from them.
But that leaves me with a bunch of empty sacks with nothing to do with them but throw them in the trash. That means that about half my garbage every week is empty feed sacks that are in perfect condition and could easily be reused or at least recycled. It seems like a horrible waste, but what is a guy going to do when nobody will take them back?
John M. Seeborg
Longview
It’s a good cause
I urge voters to approve the tax to expand the bus service. I don’t think a few cents is going to matter much.
I ride the bus all the time. Some people can’t afford to drive, especially the elderly and disabled. I think it is a good cause.
Kent Disney
Longview
Cancer never sleeps
With another successful Relay for Life fresh on our minds, we must not let our guard down in our fight against cancer. This summer, the “Fight Back Express” is traveling the country, rallying cancer patients, survivors and loved ones’ families and friends to encourage elected officials to fulfill their role as critical partners in their fight against cancer.
I encourage you to join the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network on Aug. 24, as the Fight Back Express drives into Longview. It will be here from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Lower Columbia Regional Cancer Center parking lot, 1718 Kessler Blvd.
Find out more about the ACS Fight Back Express at www.ascan.org and/or contact Dorothy Hanson at msn.com or call (360) 423-7144 to learn how you can help volunteer while the bus is in Longview. Let your voice be one of the millions heard across the country this election season in support of making cancer a top priority.
Remember: Cancer never sleeps.
Laura McVicker
Longview
Many helped
Once again I’d like to thank CAP for helping with my house.
Special thanks to Steve Mott who helped me a lot. Another thanks to All Phase Construction for all their work. Lewis Cantrell, thanks for Tom Sullivan and Dan Loughmiller for all the work they did in a timely manner. Thanks again to all of you.
Kathy Moore
Silver Lake
Be thankful for gift of beauty
The death of Ed Davies was recently noted with an obituary, noting the many talents and ways he served the people around him. He was a dynamic individual.
I think of him every time I attend an event in the Columbia Theatre. When the original renovation was carried out in the 1980s, Ed gave many, many hours of work repainting the intricate decor covering the inside — all above our heads. I believe a special scaffold was erected, but it was minimal, and the job required much reaching. The work resulted in injury to his shoulders, but he continued and finished.
The next time you are in the theatre, look up and be thankful for the gift of beauty he left us.
Dolphine VanZanten Mack
Longview
Community needs to help
The method and policies regarding rates are insignificant compared to the amount of assets available to help those who need it. Quite frankly, once that amount is determined, a lending institution or the bank across the way could easily handle the details.
The amount is determined by the efficiency of the equipment, policies and people that make up Cowlitz PUD. Profit is the key to any viable organization. When you are good you have more to be even better. As a community we need to help out as much as we can in this respect, and then customers will also have more options.
Hugh Coleman
Kelso
Bush’s double standard
Two weeks ago, Georgia invaded the two provinces that had declared their independence from them. This invasion was with the full knowledge and support of the Bush administration.
Now Russia has invaded Georgia and President Bush has declared, “Bullying and intimidation are not the way to use diplomacy in the 21st century.”
Wasn’t the invasion, and now occupation, of Iraq in the 21st century?
This administration has to be the biggest bunch of hypocrites ever known. Why is it OK for the United States to invade a country on false information, and it is “bullying and intimidation” for another country to invade in defense of two small countries that have always counted themselves to be Russian?
Oh yes, John McCain has been parroting the same thing as President Bush.
Gloria Sanders
Kalama
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