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In memory of
Jean Glausi
1937-2015
The Tony Glausi Sextet
Friday February 17
“As Mark Twain once wrote, referring
to humble, heroic, and historical: ‘Correct
writers of the American language do not
put an before those words' … Nearly a century
later, the linguist Dwight Bolinger harshly
condemned those who write an historical as
being guilty of 'a Cockneyed, cockeyed, and
half-cocked ignorance and self-importance,
that knoweth not where it aspirateth.’"
Sam Taylor
Eugene
Editor’s Note: When you start buying ink by the barrel,
you can have fun with grammar too.
CLEARCUTTING HARMS
RURAL COMMUNITIES
Our names are Justice (15), Maggie
(16), Hazel (16), Mia (17) and Maia (18).
We are students at the Academy of Arts
and Academics in Springfield. We are all
currently taking a course called Agents of
Change, an activist class focusing on envi-
ronmentalism.
We wanted to say a word about clear-
cutting in Oregon. Intense clear-cutting on
the Oregon Coast Range is hurting com-
munities, polluting clean stream water, and
destroying wildlife habitat. The coastal
communities are forced to suffer the im-
pact of the clear-cut logging and aerial
spray, while corporate clear cutters export
raw logs, costing local mill jobs and hurt-
ing local economies.
Families who live in the Walton, Or-
egon, area rely solely on the stream water
running through the woods. When the trees
in the area get clear-cut, especially over
streams, there are many negative results,
one of them being water pollution. Log-
ging near and over streams makes them
excessively muddy. Herbicides, pesticides
and oil run off from machinery also leak-
ing into the water not only harms the en-
vironment, but it harms the families in the
area. The people who rely on this water for
drinking and cooking are left with com-
pletely unusable water.
Oregonians, if you pride yourself on
our pure, clean water, then take a stand
against clear cutting and aerial spraying.
For those of us concerned about the eco-
nomic backfire of potentially outlawing
clear cutting, worry not. Forrest thinning is
when a crew takes down specific trees, in-
stead of clear-cutting the entire wood area.
Forrest thinning is better for the environ-
ment, and provides more jobs and revenue
than a two-man clear cut crew.
The problem is not logging or local
family businesses. The problem is clear-
cutting and Wall Street greed: just some
food for thought.
The A3 Environmental-
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