Dog story was nice
Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:36 AM PST
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Dog story was nice
So Harry Gilpin of Cathlamet (Nov. 19 letter) is unhappy that a story about a dog got top billing over a summit meeting or a Life Flight article?
Harry, where have you been? Stories about animals are always going to invoke more public interest and/or sympathy than any other. Folks (most of us) are very passionate about our four legged friends.
And nothing makes you feel better than to see an injured animal make his way back to health and then to a new loving family.
In these times of economic woes, a feel good story like this belongs smack on the front page. I say bravo to the Daily News for putting a smile on quite a few faces.
Roberta Rupe
Kelso
Consider pay cuts
Some years back when I worked for The Long-Bell Lumber Co., I came across some records from the time of the Great Depression.
During that time, the company had cut wages for employees, two different times documented in the records I saw.
Nowadays, I don’t think it occurs to businesses to consider that option before just laying people off. It seems to me a cut in salary would be better than no job at all.
Dorothy Bain Hanson
Longview
Rainier has a water problem
For many months now, the City of Rainier’s wooden water tank on Townsend Road has been leaking water, and not just a small amount. This is treated drinking water. The water is pouring out of the tank above what appears to the input or control panel on the tank.
It is bad enough that a small city that claims to be financially strapped would willingly waste money and resources in this way, but all the extra water on the ground is creating a big problem.
The water now drains into the ditch along Townsend Road, and runs downhill until the ditch ends at the intersection with Fernhill Road. The problem is that the hill already has several natural springs on it which drain into the ditch. So now we have developed year round surface runoff onto Townsend and Fernhill Road that was never a problem until the city “fixed” the drainage around their tank.
When the ice comes, which it will, since the elevation here is about 400 feet, the road turns into a skating rink. This is one of the main roads into Rainier, and out to the Rainier High School. The city, by draining the water onto the road, rather than fixing the leaking tank, has created a seriously dangerous situation.
I have lived near this tank for 20 years now, and have watched numerous accidents happen along this stretch of road already, without this new complication. What is the city of Rainier thinking?
Debbie Wheeler
Rainier
We’re slipping
The current reputation of this town was been tarnished and probably will never be redeemed again.
When you live in a town known for high unemployment rates, gonorrhea and STD, it’s nice to know that we’re at the peak of our game and have a positive reputation, but there is a problem.
I am disappointed that this county cannot keep up the reputation, and now we’re number two in the gonorrhea and STD aspect. What is wrong with this town?
Well, at least we’re still known for high unemployment in all 50 states. Hey, we’re still number one at something.
Can we regain the title of high STD and gonorrhea? The people need to stand behind their community, but, well, the people of this town have failed. What a disgrace.
Jack Jameson
Kelso
How do they know?
I go out sturgeon fishing and mobey sturgeon breaks my pole. Next day solid 7 foot rod the sturgeonator, straightens an s.o. hook. OK, third day and, I know what you’re thinking, OK logs don’t swim upstream at 20 feet per second. Who dumped PCP in the Cowlitz?
I go out with 20-foot rod, 60-pound line, 200-pound leader shark hooks, oh, and bait, heaving smelt black prawns, squid, at $10 a pound, I would eat that raw.
And I have to because now I’m broke. No bites for three days. Thirty years of fishing for these prehistoric wrecking machines, and it’s like, now can they smell determination, because now it’s personal. It’s almost like their golf ball sized brain can size up this gear and find any flaw in equipment.
It’s almost like they know how far I can be frustrated, unlike, humans I’ve worked with. They say that a small portion of our brain is receptive to intuition. You know that last minute thought that something is not natural. That slight feeling of panic. I am convinced their brain is completely devoted to it, or it’s a psychic power. Factor in they’re old and still deal with tides and currents. They may be blind and deaf, but they totally understand their environment.
Jon Carstensen
Kelso
Not a sweet deal
When I, Warren Brenning, age 83, stopped at McDonald’s, I was disappointed.
I have enjoyed McDonald’s through the years: Big Macs, french fries, and all the rest. But last week, I was greatly disappointed when I gave a coupon for the $1 coffee and much to my dismay, found they had charged me 30 cents for a spoonful of sugar.
I resent this. I don’t want McDonald’s to make extra profit over liquid sugar. Shame, shame.
Warren Brenning
Longview
Who is the real Obama?
I’d like to expand on the letter by Sylvia Schumacher (Nov. 17) and say that the letter is right on the money and that, according to Obama’s own mother and his sister, he was indeed born in Kenya then rushed to Hawaii, where his mother managed to get a birth certificate that shows him being born in Hawaii.
If this is true, he entered the country illegally and can’t be president. And his genealogy, which he can’t change, shows him to be 12 1/2 percent Kenyan (African) and 87 1/2 percent Arab and Caucasian which would make him an Arab American and a life long Muslim until his wife talked him into joining a Christian church in order to run for public office.
So, can we please quit calling him African American and realize that he’s managed to fool the majority of Americans into voting for him. Go here if you want to read the unvarnished truth http://www.aim.org/action-center/the-obama-truth-campaign/
Per Johansen
Kelso
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