Why are we getting school calendars?
To the Editor:
I may be uninformed about the school budget. I thought schools were in a bind. I was surprised to receive a school calendar in my mail box. I have no children going to school. I have no need for a calendar.
I live in an apartment with three other renters who do not have children going to school. In my block are only two families with school-aged children. In the entire block, there are 11 different addresses where the calendars are received.
I have mentioned the mailing of the calendars to other friends who don't have school-aged children. They say they just recycle them. They have no need for them either.
I'm quite sure that the post office does not process and deliver these calendars as a free service to the schools. What does it cost the district to mail them?
The school requires that students have backpacks. Is there any good reason that the calendars can't be passed out for the students to take home in their backpacks? Can't extras be available at the schools for interested people who don't have children in school?
Joanne Walling
Goldendale
What next for Condit Dam?
To the Editor:
Thanks for your coverage of the Hemlock Dam removal and the restoration of Trout Creek. I had a chance to visit the site recently and was impressed by the excellent work done by the crew from James Dean Construction. Trout Creek is once again a free-flowing stream, and the project went even better and faster than anyone anticipated.
It was also wonderful to see millions of dollars flowing to local jobs. If only Skamania County Commissioners had not wasted so much money on Seattle attorneys in their unsuccessful attempt to block this project, that money too could have been spent in the local community.
Dam removal projects such as Hemlock have proven to be a positive thing for both fish and the local economy. And smaller projects such as Hemlock have provided valuable experience for bigger projects such as the removal of Condit Dam on the White Salmon River, scheduled for next year.
Unfortunately, our Klickitat County Commissioners have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to delay the removal of Condit, led by the very same attorneys who failed to stop the Hemlock project. I hope the commissioners will not waste another taxpayer dollar on this futile battle. I would much rather see money going to local contractors than to lawyers in Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Dawn Stover
Snowden
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