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THANKS!
Manuel & Alexandrea
Would Like to Say THANK YOU!
to Sheriff's Deputy K. Wolff & the entire Buellton & Solvang Sheriff's Departments
For their quick and diligent capture of the individuals who allegedly burglarized
our car on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007 at 2:30 a.m.
We would also like to extend our thanks to our neighbors who have been vigilant
since our car was burglarized the first time.
Our special thanks goes out to Chuck.
As members of the community, we would like to remind everyone to please lock their cars,
their homes, and keep an eye out for each other.
It is rather sad to know the people who allegedly (I have to put this for legal reasons, even though they were caught with our possessions) burglarized our vehicle, live near me.
People in the community need be extra careful and attentive. |
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Ante Up the Pot
Dear Nancy Crawford Hall:
Though this may be a tad over the top for the Valley Journal, nevertheless I submit my take on the County’s recent marijuana crops and subsequent busts as my letter to the Editor.
If the poppy crop in Afghanistan supposedly supports the Taliban, how about letting the County’s recently harvested marijuana plants pay for our $118 million Zaca Fire, instead of allowing the plants to go up in smoke, with a crop worth $306 million, there’d be lots of money left over for incidentals.
- Ruth Allan Raymond
Solvang
RESPONSE:
Sounds like an interesting idea. Anybody agree with that?
-NCH
With Reference to“ON THE RANCH”
Dear Editor:
You don’t have to give up coffee as the coffee plant absorbs far more carbon dioxide than the beans give off.
Too often half of the facts are presented rather than the total story. With reference to the $20,000 for a solar system you will save a $100 per month on your electric bill (probably a low estimate), which is equivalent to reducing your mortgage by a $100 per month and over 30 years this amounts to $36,000 if electric costs do not rise, which we know won’t happen.
-Mark Sutton
Solvang
RESPONSE:
As I explained, if the house or whatever the structure is, is NOT tied into an electrical company, as is the case in numerous rural areas because the power lines have not extended out there yet, there are NO savings. On the other hand, if electrical power is available but you choose to use another power source, yes, there are savings.
And you are correct in saying that, often, only half the science is given to support environmental theories, and I wish people would realize that. It is my hope that all relevant data would be given so people could make up their own minds. I notice that your information about coffee beans did not include any supporting data.
– NCH
Not a Denunciation
But a Rebuke
Dear Mrs. Hall:
Both sides are guilty!
Calling the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change “simplistic and obscuring the true dangers,” Dr. Allegre especially despairs at “the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man’s role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters.” The world would be better off, Dr. Allegre believes, if these “denouncers” became less political and more practical, by proposing practical solutions to head off the dangers they see, such as developing technologies to sequester C02. His dream, he says, is to see “ecology become the engine of economic development and not an artificial obstacle that creates fear.”
-Lawrence Solomon
RESPONSE:
I certainly agree with your assertion that less politics and more real solutions are the answer. I think we also need more science and less impractical hysterics as well. To try to make seniors use bicycles everywhere they go is simply ignoring reality, both logistically and physically at least for some. Ignoring things like why Greenland is called Greenland (hint: it used to be green during an earlier warming period) is also not useful. Let’s work together to make sure we don’t negatively impact our home, Earth, and quit passing the nonsensical legislation to make some people feel good so they won’t sue. Now that’s dumb!
-NCH |
