May 21, 2013

Celebrate National Drug Court Month

Dear Editor:

Drug-Free Delta County would like to invite the community to share in our celebration of National Drug Court Month on Thursday, May 16, at 4 p.m. in Judge Sandra Miller's courtroom in the Delta County Courthouse. We hope you'll enjoy seeing adult treatment court in action and stay after to share in refreshments to support our drug court clients, their families, our treatment court team and volunteers.

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You reap what you sow

Dear Editor:

My wife and I moved here to Delta in May 1999 from Buffalo, N.Y. We like it here.

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The rest of the story

Dear Editor:

DMEA members have been getting robocalls that pretend to ask your opinion but are actually telling you:

• That alternative energy will cost rural Colorado $2 billion.

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Trees provided beauty, shade for downtown

Dear Editor:

Help! What is happening to my wonderful city? One of the many reasons I chose Delta to return to in my retirement was the beauty of our Main Street area — a large part of this beauty being the wonderful trees along our sidewalks.

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BLM urged to do it right this time

Dear Editor:

With its ranches, farms, wineries and small towns, the North Fork Valley is an amazing place.

After coming together twice now, the community has rallied to stop irresponsible oil and gas leasing proposals from the local Bureau of Land Management office in Montrose.

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Alternative would protect Crawford’s way of life

Dear Editor:

This letter is a request to the citizens of Crawford to support the North Fork Alternative Plan for the management and development of oil and gas leasing and publicly owned minerals on land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.

It's important for citizens to know that the North Fork Alternative plan addresses oil and gas development only.

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Standards threaten local control

Dear Editor:

Can you buy control? Our federal government seems to think so and has been relatively successful so far.

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Just complaining

Dear Editor:

It's time to complain again, but don't have a clue who to complain to. So I'm just complaining.

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Electric rates and rural Colorado

Dear Editor:

Everyone knows the success of the Rural Electrification Administration and its contribution to making America the industrial power that it is today. Founded in the 1930s, the REA was possibly the most successful of the government sponsored programs that arose out of the New Deal.

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Community urged to unite behind NF alternative

Dear Editor:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) revises its Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan (RMP) only once every 20 or 30 years. It is doing so this year, right now, making this a unique opportunity for the North Fork Valley community to influence future RMP content.

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Don’t wait until it’s too late

Dear Editor:

In years of failed budget talks, Obama has threatened to cut military, Social Security, border control, and disability payments. His "sequester" furloughed air traffic controllers, causing flight delays and reducing safety.

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Solar Energy International thanks you!

Dear Editor:

Starting the week of April 29 through the end of September, over 600 people will be coming to Paonia to participate in Solar Energy International's (SEI) renewable energy training program. The participants and their families come from all 50 states and around the world for intensive hands-on training on solar electric, heating, and water pumping systems.

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Guidelines should be prominently displayed

Dear Editor:

Thanks for printing the recycling guide. It would make sense to have this guide prominently and permanently displayed right where the recycling occurs, if the county wants the recycling service to be "properly utilized."

Lisa Wolf Johnson
Hotchkiss

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Help preserve the North Fork for future generations

Dear Editor:

In 1881, Enos Hotchkiss camped on Rogers Mesa, awestruck by the beauty of the North Fork Valley. But it was Samuel Wade who recognized that the climate was ideal for growing fruit and who planted the first peach and apple trees in the valley.

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