SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
Letters
from 4A
S TOP DISSING THE
EDITOR
I am getting tired of those on
the “Right” who keep dissing
our newspaper editor, Ned
Hickson.
They never send a letter to
the editor expressing their
views about the world but just
focus on what he writes in his
editorials, which they always
think are bad.
They also complain about
him not publishing more letters
from the “Right.”
Over the years, I have sent
many Letters to the Editor.
Some have been in jest and
some serious, and about 50 per-
cent of the time my letters have
not been printed — possibly
due to content.
If you want to have your
opinions printed you must be
concise, lucid and have a valid
point of concern.
I was out of town for the past
week and when I received the
paper today it was like I had
never left. Is there not some-
thing more important to our
community or nation right now
than the Humane Society?
—Win Jolley
Florence
M ARIJUANA GROW
CONCERNS
Much has been written
regarding Dunes City over the
last few weeks. There was a
Guest Viewpoint (Aug. 19)
from
Jamie
Mills,
Administrator of Dunes City,
printed by the newspaper and
more recently an article written
about a council meeting. I wish
to address both the article and
the letter.
Dunes City Oregon is a pris-
tine environment with low
crime and is just a lovely place
to live. Residents wish to keep
it that way. Dunes City fails to
recognize how this will
change by allowing residential
marijuana grows that claim our
residential areas are agricultur-
al zones.
There are three commercial
grow canopies of 40,000 feet
each that have been licensed.
Since the federal department
of agriculture does not recog-
nize the growing or producing
of marijuana as agriculture, I
feel the city is misinterpreting
the intention of our city zoning
— thus allowing the grows to
begin.
It appears Dunes City has
suppressed the information
regarding the allowance of
marijuana grows to our com-
munity while printing what I
feel
is
propaganda-style
“Theres nothing that can be
done” notices in our local
newspaper. In fact, there is
something that can be done and
Dunes City is remiss in pursu-
ing the action known as the
OPT-out option.
More than 200 cities and
counties have chosen this
avenue while Dunes City
essentially sat on its hands and
did nothing. The concern from
citizens received a tepid
response from the council dur-
ing the Aug. 24 meeting, during
which an emergency ordinance
was bumped to a future meet-
ing.
Really?
As citizens, I feel we should
express our outrage and force
an additional emergency hear-
ing by calling councilors and
the mayor. Failing to act now
could result in the some of the
following issues in Dunes City:
Industrial use of our residen-
tial zone, increased water needs
for the marijuana grows, the
need for water tanks and result-
ing issues that accompany
them, potential contamination
of local wells, increased electri-
cal needs from marijuana
grows and potential for brown-
outs, large cash-on-hand and
potential increase in crime,
odor and smell during marijua-
na trimming, increased traffic
due to transport of marijuana
product, drop in real estate val-
ues.
In addition, Dunes City is
not able to receive tax funds
from marijuana wholesalers —
only retailers. Dunes City does-
n’t have a retailer, which means
the applicants are wholesalers.
Dunes City has received a
fee of only $35 to complete the
land use form (LUCS) form,
which doesn’t come close to
the expense our administration
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about Houston’s hurricane
Harvey and climate change:
Dr. Roy Spencer, a former
NASA scientist and climatolo-
gist, writes, “The U.S. has had
only four Category 4 (or
stronger) hurricane strikes
since 1970, but in about the
same number of years preced-
ing 1970, there were 14 strikes.
So we can’t say that we are
experiencing more intense hur-
ricanes in recent decades.
Going back even earlier, a
Category 4 hurricane struck
Galveston in 1900, killing
between 6,000 and 12,000 peo-
ple.
“That was the greatest natu-
ral disaster in U.S. history. And
don’t forget, we just went
through an unprecedented
length of time — almost 12
years — without a major hurri-
cane (Cat 3 or stronger) making
landfall in the U.S.”
has already spent addressing
the allowance of marijuana in
our city.
Please attend the upcoming
Dunes City Council meeting,
set for Sept. 13 at 6 p.m., to
sign up and address your con-
cerns.
Please write your concerns
to council members and deliver
them to the council at the meet-
ing. Town hall meetings will be
necessary following this meet-
ing.
And please be willing to
come to those town hall meet-
ings by sending this message to
our council members stating
we wish to begin having town
hall meetings at Dunes City
hall.
Do something and act now.
—Catherine Caudle
Dunes City Resident
S TATISTICS DON ’ T
—Ian Eales
Florence
SUPPORT CLIMATE
CHANGE
In response to Rand
Dawson’s letter disparaging
“science-deniers” (“Fabricated
Pretense of Civility,” Aug. 23)
and to preclude hand-wringing
(Editor’s note: Interested par-
ties can do their own analysis of
those statistics by visiting the
NOAA Hurricane Data website
at www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq
/E23.html.)
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