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Letters
to the Editor
Critter
Crater Pet Adoption Center says thank you and goodbye
The Critter
Crater Pet Adoption Center board of directors wishes to thank the
Flagstaff community for its support.
Since opening its no-kill adoption center in February 2000,
support of individuals, businesses and foundations enabled Critter
Crater Pet Adoption Center to:
·
Find loving homes for more
than 700 dogs and cats;
·
Ensure that all pets
adopted were current on their vaccinations;
·
Prevent the birth of
thousands of unwanted pets by spaying or neutering more than 400
cats and dogs, and
·
Help more than 100 children
learn respect for animals and the responsibilities of lifetime
commitment as pet guardians.
Through these
efforts, Critter Crater has contributed to building a caring
community where there are no more homeless pets.
Unfortunately
in the economic climate of the aftermath of 9-11, sufficient funds
are no longer available for Critter Crater to continue providing its
quality programs. Therefore
the board of directors has made the difficult decision to close the
Critter Crater Pet Adoption Center as of August 10, 2002.
Last but not
least, thank you to those individuals and families who now are proud
guardians of Critter Crater dogs and cats. May you have many years
of love and happiness together!
With gratitude
and on behalf of the animals, we are sincerely,
The Critter
Crater Pet Adoption Center Board of Directors
Flagstaff
Reader
repeatedly disappointed
I
was waiting at my doctor’s office, and noticed a stack of your
papers sitting there. I picked up one, and glanced at the front page
(June
2002) and under the newspaper’s name, it reads, "A community
forum for the discussion of progressive ideas." Yet, as I
glanced down to the article about "City throws bone to
Purina," I thought your publication was anything but
"progressive." Stagnant, bingo!
You’re
against Nestlé-Purina, which does mean a lot of jobs, so badly
needed in this town. Maybe they are laying off other employees in
other parts of the country, but this plant has been here for years,
and is only beginning to expand. A lot of food, on a lot of tables
in this
town,
is because of Nestle-Purina.
You’re
against the YMCA, which would again create jobs, and give kids and
adults, who can't afford a private health club, an opportunity to
work out, swim, join classes and get involved in other activities.
Plus a positive and healthy environment in which to go after school
and on weekends. I belong to Flagstaff Athletic Club, and in the
summer, it is taken over by kids. It's no different than a YMCA,
just a lot more expensive. Has anyone on your staff ever been to the
Wildcat Wastewater Treatment Facility here? I have, several times.
And I have seen, and smelled the effluent water (reclaimed), and it
is crystal clear and has no odor. It goes through extensive
purification before it is pumped to golf courses and schools to
water grass. Some of it goes into the canal, where animals drink,
and people who live nearby it, pump from it to water their crops and
yards. I have even seen kids swimming in it. I am a skier, and would
love to be able to ski every winter, all winter, at the Snowbowl,
and thousands of others feel the same. It in no way desecrates the
Sacred Mountain. And anyone who feels that way doesn't really know
the facts about effluent water.
Barnes
& Noble ... This town has a lot more than a couple of markets,
bars, hotels, restaurants, clothing stores, etc. Why? We, the
consumer, want more. Period.
I
don't think it was Barnes & Noble's main intent to set out and
destroy the other bookstores in this town. And, last, but certainly
not least, I just couldn't think of anything more horrible and
devastating than a Wal-Mart SuperStore.
Why
don't you focus your energy on higher wages for workers, and abolish
"the right to work state"? Or focus on all the animal
rights issues? Or more work training programs?
Get
real. Wake Up!
Terrie
Fisher
Flagstaff
The
politics of disaster
Signs of an unnatural disaster in
the making have been evident here in central Arizona long before
government officials began blaming environmentalists for our current
fire hazard condition. Unusually wet years during the 90s created an
overgrowth of vegetation. This extra fuel has now been dried by
unseasonably high temperatures, extremely, low humidity and powerful
spring winds that have lasted freakishly long. If anyone shares in
the burden of responsibility, it must surely be the major
contributors to global warming and those that have blocked efforts
to curtail it.
The
full truth is not being fairly presented when major causes of
current problems, such as our new man-made weather patterns, are
receiving almost no attention in the public spotlight.
Anti-environmentalists are exploiting the tragic impact of man-made
disaster in order to blame the results of their own destructive ways
on those that disagree.
The
only expert non-government TV spokesman that I had heard on the
subject while closely following the local fire situation, pointed
out that the severity of recent wildfires was more likely the result
of forestry mismanagement by the timber industry and government
agencies. I know of no so called environmentalists that promote
forest floor growth with failed practices such as cutting the
protective old growth canopy, or not allowing smaller, naturally
occurring fires to clear the undergrowth during favorable
conditions.
With
the control of traditionally open and free public lands becoming a
national debate, a false spin on these shocking fires builds a great
case for increased control our common public lands.
In
light of past and present forest fire revelations, as well as forest
seizures, one critical question is becoming unavoidable: Do we
really need a self-serving federal government and its meddling
agents operating in our fragile public forests?
Not
to diminish the valiant efforts of folks that put themselves in
harm’s way to help others, but these noble acts occur in spite of
federal control, not because of it.
Article
10 of The Bill Of Rights tells us, "The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people."
Reviewing
the rest of the Constitution, you would also find that it says
nothing about giving a corporate federal government the authority to
seize and exploit public lands.
Acknowledging
and respecting an individual's unalienable rights was once our
nation's most patriotic tradition. Today it has become lost in
twisted half-truths, reckless finger pointing, and the corporate
party line.
Michael
Burry
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