Recycling

Adele is right, it’s just too much work

Adele Ferguson is absolutely right in her criticism of Waste Management recycling. Recycling is such a chore!

Adele mentions the risk of cutting yourself on the lid of a can. That’s not the only danger. While rinsing out a bottle of French’s yellow, I almost squirted myself in the eye with mustard. Boy that would have stung!

Then there is the additional walking. I used to be able to take my garbage out in one trip. Now, I have to make a second to get rid of my recyclables. Everyone knows that you only have so many heartbeats in a lifetime. Now I have to work my heart harder, essentially shortening my lifespan, for the sake of a few used magazines and old egg cartons? Has Waste Management considered the health implications of their policy?

I also have two different receptacles that I now have to drag out to the edge of my driveway. That’s valuable time wasted! Now I miss the first 20 seconds of the wit and wisdom of Rush Limbaugh every other Thursday. Is Waste Management going to compensate me for my time?

Unlikely.

I was equally astounded to read that WM is using fiber optics to sort the recyclables. Now we’re outsourcing our work to robots? I’m beginning to question the patriotism of Waste Management. Perhaps a call to Homeland Security is in order?

I was going to call WM to register my complaints but I didn’t want to spend the time figuring how to get my phone to work. Writing a letter would have been even worse. Instead, I’m going to go back to throwing my garbage and recyclables into the corners of my house and let nature take its course.

To Adele Ferguson I say, keep fighting the good fight!

Cameron Peters

Suquamish

Thank You

Election support was appreciated

I am writing to thank all the fine people who supported my campaign with their names, energy, commiseration, and work. I also wish to commend Reneé Arcement for “stepping up to the plate” and putting herself under public scrutiny for months.

I know how daunting it is.

I pledge to repay the community’s confidence in me with renewed commitment to the welfare of all our students and dedicated staff. Most of all I thank all the voters who cared enough about our community to participate in this election. I look forward to working with the rest of the North Kitsap School Board over the next four years as we continue to strive for improvement.

Sincerely,

Dan Delaney

Poulsbo

Speed Tables

Additions were truly unjustified for safety

I will never agree with the installation of these tables nor the justification that residents had for installing them but what’s done is now done.

Maybe someday the tables will be removed, after all this is a pilot program correct? But until then we’ll all unfortunately have to live with them.

Unfortunately, we’ll all have to choke down money that was spent to build theses tables, and then modify them from our tax dollars. Nobody can deny that these tables have formed a rift between neighbors and neighbors.

The Greater Hansville Traffic Safety Committee and the residents who pushed this issue will never accept fault for any of this.

Let’s all just hope that nobody, especially motorcyclists will be injured on the portion of Hood Canal Drive to Little Boston that really needs repair or that there are no future fatalities by motorists anxious to get to the casino.

Donna Steidle

Hansville

Global warming is not caused by humans, get the facts straight

It’s high time people get educated about the real cause of global warming.

In the last 30 to 50 years there has been an increase in solar activity which in turn deflects cosmic radiation away from the earth. The result is a reduction in cloud cover and an increase in global temperatures.

As a result of the warming, carbon dioxide levels also increase. Al Gore conveniently forgot to mention in his “documentary” that the increase in carbon dioxide levels occurred years after the warming began, and is a consequence of global warming, not its cause. Spending trillions of dollars and creating thousands of government programs to reduce carbon dioxide levels will have absolutely no effect on global warming.

Warming and cooling cycles caused by fluctuations in solar activity have been going on since the beginning of time, and human beings can do absolutely nothing to change them.

Greenland which is currently covered with a thick layer of snow and ice, got its name from the lush vegetation that covered it at a much warmer time in history.

Oh, and the polar bears survived, too! For more details of the scientific research behind this, look on the Internet for a video documentary by the BBC called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.

Sincerely,

Don Wiens

Kingston