TO THE EDITOR
the airshow,” although the airport is just a
few miles away, and the airshow is being
held there.
Once again, we get to foot the bill and
suffer the costs, in time, stress and money,
while a “businessman” gets his advertising
and sound bites on the evening news and in
the newspaper, while our emergency serv-
ices personnel are tied up with private mat-
ters, even though the claim is that there is
no money for those same services.
I urge you all to write your commission-
ers and representatives and loudly voice
your opinion about this misuse of public
funds for the good of a single business
owner.
Jim Godwin II
Monroe
PLEA FOR THE TREES
The other day I went with the Sierra
Club on an outing to the Cougar Monster
timber sale in the Tillamook Forest. It is a
beautiful, mixed species, old growth struc-
ture forest, tragically about to be cut. This
and other state forests are threatened by a
new bill, which would emphasize logging
at the expense of other uses of our forests.
I am writing to oppose HB 3632. HB
3632 would double the amount of cut in the
Tillamook and Clatsop forests, endanger-
ing our local water supply, destroying these
wonderful havens of recreation and rejuve-
nation, and turning our state forests into
tree farms.
This would be a huge mistake. Many
people come to Oregon because of its
beauty and its outdoor opportunities,
whether recreational or spiritual. To destroy
our wild places would adversely affect us
economically, and in the balance of our in-
terconnectedness to the rest of life on the
planet.
Erica Bolliger
Portland
HOODIE REDUX
With regard to Laci Stevens’ letter, “Just
Want a Hoodie” (EW 6/26), she says she is
sick of being followed by store employees
at retail outlets because of her being a
teenager and her appearance. She then
states, “I have many more adult friends
who steal than teenage friends who steal.”
Since she knowingly has many criminal
friends and by remaining friends condones
those who steal, I feel the store employees
are showing good judgment in regarding
her to be socially deviant and a threat to the
security of their merchandise.
Neil Carpenter
Eugene
KEEP THE PROMISE
I am pleased to see growing awareness
about the problems facing Oregon’s water-
ways. Ms. Alexandre (EW 6/26) is pre-
cisely correct: We’re quickly running out of
rivers to swim in.
When will we be able to fish the
Willamette without having to throw back
the toxic, deformed ones? When will we be
able to let children play in a stream without
worrying if it’s one of the thousand in
Oregon too polluted to meet Clean Water
Act standards? When will we finally say
“no” to the polluters we’re permitting to
dump millions of pounds of toxins into our
rivers without consequence?
When we have someone to take the lead.
Gov. Kulongoski pledged in his campaign
to be that leader who will finally clean our
rivers.
Now it is up to each of us to be leaders in
pushing Kulongoski to keep his crucial
promise. Every child, every voter, every fu-
ture voter — everyone who cares about
Oregon’s future can make this change hap-
pen. Let’s write letters and e-mails and
make phone calls to our governor, to our
friends, and to polluters themselves: These
are our rivers. And we want to go for a
swim.
Summer Battson
Eugene
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O R E G O N B A C H F E S T I VA L
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SAY NO TO WTO
Last week at the WTO “ministerial con-
ference” on Agriculture and Technology in
Sacramento, protesters were faced with
overwhelming police action (73 arrests,
four helicopters, use of tasers, hundreds of
riot police). What is it that these cops were
so determined to enforce? Corporate con-
Working in a
bar isn’t a crime.
...pulls into the
Eugene Public Library
Tykeson Room - 100 West 10th Avenue
on
Tuesday, July 15!
6:00 to 7:30 pm
Join Peace Corps recruiter Michael Kim at an evening information
session to learn what Peace Corps is doing around the world
and find out how you may qualify for one of the many volunteer
assignments just waiting to be filled. Life is calling.
What will your answer be?
www.peacecorps.gov
(800) 424-8580 - Option 1
It shouldn’t carry the death penalty.
Work in a bar? Or a restaurant with a bar? How about a bowling alley, or a Bingo
hall? Then you are probably a smoker. Even if you’ve never lit up a cigarette.
Oregon has a smokefree workplace law. But it doesn’t cover over 33,000 workers
in Oregon. It’s not fair, and it could kill you.
• Working an 8 hour shift in a smoky environment is the equivalent of a
pack of cigarettes’ worth of dangerous chemicals.
[Siegel, M, M.D., M.P.H Smoking & Bars, a guide for policy makers. 1998]
• Restaurant and bar workers are 50% more likely to get lung cancer from
secondhand smoke than other workers.
[Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993]
•
Waitresses have almost 4 times more deaths from lung cancer and
2.5 times more deaths from heart disease than other women because of
their exposure to secondhand smoke.
[Environmental Protection Agency]
Think everyone has a right to work smokefree?
Log onto www.worksmokefree.com
or call 1-888-846-5437 and learn what you can do to protect all workers.
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