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Letters 7-2

July 1, 2009

By Administrator

 

Mount Si needs a
tram or gondola
As a resident of North Bend, I was wondering if a tram or gondola ride could be built on Mount Si. Since Snoqualmie Falls is such a tourist attraction in this area, a tram would benefit all of us. It would make it possible for everyone to enjoy the view and would bring in added revenues to our area.
Francis Hicks,
Snoqualmie
Constantine supports proper stimulus spending
With politicians in D.C. jabbering about when the massive government stimulus will start yielding results, we’re already beginning to see the fruits of their efforts. As the Ballard News-Tribune reported, King County recently received $79 million of federal stimulus. While of course welcome in today’s dire economic straits, the distribution of these funds and the very means of their procurement offer a glimpse at one of the candidates fighting to become our next King County Executive.
The acquisition of these vital funds as well as millions more currently pending are “part of an organized effort to maximize the benefits to King County from federal stimulus funding sponsored by council chair Dow Constantine” as reported by the News-Tribune. In fact, Mr. Constantine has even authored legislation to create a post that will be in charge of “identify[ing] appropriate grant opportunities and communicate timelines…to ensure timely submission of applications” in an effort to maximize the effect of the government stimulus in King County.
In a race muddled with four Democratic candidates and a single closet Republican running largely on name recognition, King County voters should take note of Mr. Constantine’s diligence in acquiring and distributing resources to the benefit of our community.
Evan Turner,
Seattle
The slavery of today
The everlasting conflict between what many deem prudent progress and the struggling, natural world in which each and every one of us lives has reached an all-time high. Men and women in this day and age have forgone any ties that may have held them to the natural world that surrounds them each and every day. People have become enslaved to the frivolous and chiefly unnecessary tasks and objects they hold so dear in their lives, clinging to them in desperate times, but receiving no respite. Their livelihood is spent and utterly wasted commuting on a concrete path with hundreds and thousands of other irate commuters speeding towards awful, hideous, metal buildings containing perhaps the occasional dying ficus plant (a crude and demeaning imitation of the beautiful trees that blanket this wonderful landscape), and then home again, more than often missing the grandeur and celestiality of the landscape flying about them.
This all too familiar act of mechanistic routine has conquered the lives of millions across the nation, and indeed the planet. There is a far richer beauty and air of fulfillment that can be achieved from sitting on a park bench contemplating, than in landing that deal, or in making a huge sales pitch in a darkened room 30 stories above the ground each of us were meant to dwell upon. The people of this nation have forgotten the brilliant power of a breeze through a field of long grass or a sparrow’s erratic flight through a forest or glade. They have sold themselves unconditionally into the horrible curse and burden of bondage to an unfulfilling routine and forgotten the long-cherished beauty of the world about them. People must once again learn to notice and appreciate the simple things of life, or else this era of robotic imitation of true life will continue its vicious and corruptive course and utterly destroy mankind, and everything that we stand for.
Chase Adams,
Snoqualmie

 

Mount Si needs a

tram or gondola

As a resident of North Bend, I was wondering if a tram or gondola ride could be built on Mount Si. Since Snoqualmie Falls is such a tourist attraction in this area, a tram would benefit all of us. It would make it possible for everyone to enjoy the view and would bring in added revenues to our area.

 

Francis Hicks,

Snoqualmie

 

 

Constantine supports proper stimulus spending

 

With politicians in D.C. jabbering about when the massive government stimulus will start yielding results, we’re already beginning to see the fruits of their efforts. As the Ballard News-Tribune reported, King County recently received $79 million of federal stimulus. While of course welcome in today’s dire economic straits, the distribution of these funds and the very means of their procurement offer a glimpse at one of the candidates fighting to become our next King County Executive.

The acquisition of these vital funds as well as millions more currently pending are “part of an organized effort to maximize the benefits to King County from federal stimulus funding sponsored by council chair Dow Constantine” as reported by the News-Tribune. In fact, Mr. Constantine has even authored legislation to create a post that will be in charge of “identify[ing] appropriate grant opportunities and communicate timelines…to ensure timely submission of applications” in an effort to maximize the effect of the government stimulus in King County.

In a race muddled with four Democratic candidates and a single closet Republican running largely on name recognition, King County voters should take note of Mr. Constantine’s diligence in acquiring and distributing resources to the benefit of our community.

 

Evan Turner,

Seattle

 

The slavery of today

The everlasting conflict between what many deem prudent progress and the struggling, natural world in which each and every one of us lives has reached an all-time high. Men and women in this day and age have forgone any ties that may have held them to the natural world that surrounds them each and every day. People have become enslaved to the frivolous and chiefly unnecessary tasks and objects they hold so dear in their lives, clinging to them in desperate times, but receiving no respite. Their livelihood is spent and utterly wasted commuting on a concrete path with hundreds and thousands of other irate commuters speeding towards awful, hideous, metal buildings containing perhaps the occasional dying ficus plant (a crude and demeaning imitation of the beautiful trees that blanket this wonderful landscape), and then home again, more than often missing the grandeur and celestiality of the landscape flying about them.

This all too familiar act of mechanistic routine has conquered the lives of millions across the nation, and indeed the planet. There is a far richer beauty and air of fulfillment that can be achieved from sitting on a park bench contemplating, than in landing that deal, or in making a huge sales pitch in a darkened room 30 stories above the ground each of us were meant to dwell upon. The people of this nation have forgotten the brilliant power of a breeze through a field of long grass or a sparrow’s erratic flight through a forest or glade. They have sold themselves unconditionally into the horrible curse and burden of bondage to an unfulfilling routine and forgotten the long-cherished beauty of the world about them. People must once again learn to notice and appreciate the simple things of life, or else this era of robotic imitation of true life will continue its vicious and corruptive course and utterly destroy mankind, and everything that we stand for.

 

Chase Adams,

Snoqualmie

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One Response to “Letters 7-2”

  1. Bob on July 3rd, 2009 9:04 am

    Mount Si Tram / Gondola

    The very last thing we want in this town is some circus ride installed on the side of Mount Si that not only destroys the pristine scenery, but destroys the spirit this town is known for. North Bend is and always has been one of the last holdouts east of Seattle that has not been destroyed by urban development or commercialism. As a long time resident, I do not enjoy hearing people who have come in from other areas of the country to live in our beautiful town only to trump up new and rediculous ideas that would be harmful to this community and all of it’s residents who are here because we DON’T have some God awful thing built up the side of Mt. Si. To those that want to visit all that the beautiful peak offers…………………go hike it like the rest of us do, the old fashion way. Chief Si would want it that way.

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