Letters to the Editor 10-03-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Burn Or Compost? - Tribes - Organ Transplant - Source List
Burn Or Compost?
Editor, Times-Union:I am greatly confused and am hoping someone can help me out. I read with interest the article on page 3A of the Sept. 22 edition titled "Landfill Agrees To End Compost Operation."
I consider myself a law-abiding citizen, but I don't know what to do with my leaves. If I burn my leaves in the fall, I am breaking the law. (Yes, even in the county it is against the law to burn). I understand the problems it creates for people with breathing problems, and want to do the right thing. I know, I will bag them and send my leaves to the landfill. No, wait I am not suppose to do that either. I would start a compost bin, but now someone has figured out that composting creates a stench! (Imagine that, rotting leaves and garbage stink!) Now if someone complains of the smell, they will make me sent my compost to the landfill. But I am not supposed to send yard waste to the landfill!
I guess I will cut down all my trees. No, wait. Trees change carbon dioxide into oxygen and are good for the environment. But trees make leaves and leaves are bad.
Can someone help me? I really am confused.
Jeff Schmucker
Warsaw
Tribes
Editor, Times-Union:Re: Jason Spangle
Tribes? They've been around since sun up. Sunni, Shia, Aztec, Cherokee, all native to that or this demographic.
Tropical were the ancient tribes of the Amazon. They had their own pharmacy and an all-natural food store. They began to experience a population explosion.
The tribes then united in a tree-planting campaign to grow more forest. That's how they created a rather impressive piece of wooded real estate.
The conquistadors were funded an expedition to the rain forest, based on information which suggested the natives were hoarding a huge cache of gold.
When they arrived they found the natives planting trees, but no gold. Conquistadors can't go home empty handed, so they started to harvest trees. It wasn't but shortly after that that the natives began harvesting conquistadors. As a result, the resistance was exterminated to allow for future logging operations.
To make a long story short, I don't think I'd care much for living in a rain forest. It's not that shopping, planting and hunting are not wonderful leisure activities. But I'm not going to roll out of my tepee at the crack-o-dawn to do any of that if I can't get my cigarette lit.
Steven R. Frantz
Warsaw
Organ Transplant
Editor, Times-Union:Organ and tissue donation in the United States is a matter of free choice. This option is not working. Even though transplant procedures have improved dramatically, thousands are still waiting for corneas, kidneys, livers and hearts.
Other countries view transplantation in a different light. Singapore's physicians have the right to take organ and tissue from a body when, in their professional judgment, they can be transplanted with success. Those who object may register not to have their organs taken, but they are then the last in line to receive one should they ever need a transplant.
Even though the plight of the thousands in our nation who are waiting for a cornea or organ is compelling, it is not sufficient to move people to take that first step toward making their organs available upon death. That first step is a conversation with one's next of kin of his desire to donate. Physicians are reluctant to remove organs without consent of next of kin for fear of a lawsuit.
Having that conversation with those who will likely be near when that critical time comes makes the gift of sight more likely to happen.
Berniece H. Dwyer
Milford
Source List
Editor, Times-Union:This is the first part of my letter dealing with a Constitutional amendment concerning declarations of war by Congress. I will list the sources of information that I used in developing a Constitutional amendment and a model declaration of war which will follow at a later date in the letters to the editor column. Most of these sources of information are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library if readers of the Times-Union are interested in doing their own research.
1. Americans' Views About War: Examining Pop Culture
2. The Oxford Companion to American Military History
3. The Foundations of American Constitutional Government
4. The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great
5. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present, Second Revised Edition
6. The Political Though of the American Revolution: Part Three of Seedtime of the Republic
7. Basic American Government
8. The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
9. The Federalist Papers
10. The U.S. Constitution
11. The Declaration of Independence
12. American Government: Institutions and Policies
13. Dec. 9, 1941 Edition of Facts on File
14. Dec. 10-16, 1941 Edition of Facts on File
15. June 23-June 29, 1950 Edition of Facts on File
16. August 1964 Edition of Facts on File
17. December 1989 Edition of Facts on File
18. January 1991 Edition of Facts on File
19. March 18, 1999 Edition of Facts on File
20. Sept. 13, 2001 Edition of Facts on File
21. Oct. 17, 2002 Edition of Facts on File
22. www.loc.gov/index.html
23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik:Declaration_of_ war_by_the-United_States
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
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Burn Or Compost?
Editor, Times-Union:I am greatly confused and am hoping someone can help me out. I read with interest the article on page 3A of the Sept. 22 edition titled "Landfill Agrees To End Compost Operation."
I consider myself a law-abiding citizen, but I don't know what to do with my leaves. If I burn my leaves in the fall, I am breaking the law. (Yes, even in the county it is against the law to burn). I understand the problems it creates for people with breathing problems, and want to do the right thing. I know, I will bag them and send my leaves to the landfill. No, wait I am not suppose to do that either. I would start a compost bin, but now someone has figured out that composting creates a stench! (Imagine that, rotting leaves and garbage stink!) Now if someone complains of the smell, they will make me sent my compost to the landfill. But I am not supposed to send yard waste to the landfill!
I guess I will cut down all my trees. No, wait. Trees change carbon dioxide into oxygen and are good for the environment. But trees make leaves and leaves are bad.
Can someone help me? I really am confused.
Jeff Schmucker
Warsaw
Tribes
Editor, Times-Union:Re: Jason Spangle
Tribes? They've been around since sun up. Sunni, Shia, Aztec, Cherokee, all native to that or this demographic.
Tropical were the ancient tribes of the Amazon. They had their own pharmacy and an all-natural food store. They began to experience a population explosion.
The tribes then united in a tree-planting campaign to grow more forest. That's how they created a rather impressive piece of wooded real estate.
The conquistadors were funded an expedition to the rain forest, based on information which suggested the natives were hoarding a huge cache of gold.
When they arrived they found the natives planting trees, but no gold. Conquistadors can't go home empty handed, so they started to harvest trees. It wasn't but shortly after that that the natives began harvesting conquistadors. As a result, the resistance was exterminated to allow for future logging operations.
To make a long story short, I don't think I'd care much for living in a rain forest. It's not that shopping, planting and hunting are not wonderful leisure activities. But I'm not going to roll out of my tepee at the crack-o-dawn to do any of that if I can't get my cigarette lit.
Steven R. Frantz
Warsaw
Organ Transplant
Editor, Times-Union:Organ and tissue donation in the United States is a matter of free choice. This option is not working. Even though transplant procedures have improved dramatically, thousands are still waiting for corneas, kidneys, livers and hearts.
Other countries view transplantation in a different light. Singapore's physicians have the right to take organ and tissue from a body when, in their professional judgment, they can be transplanted with success. Those who object may register not to have their organs taken, but they are then the last in line to receive one should they ever need a transplant.
Even though the plight of the thousands in our nation who are waiting for a cornea or organ is compelling, it is not sufficient to move people to take that first step toward making their organs available upon death. That first step is a conversation with one's next of kin of his desire to donate. Physicians are reluctant to remove organs without consent of next of kin for fear of a lawsuit.
Having that conversation with those who will likely be near when that critical time comes makes the gift of sight more likely to happen.
Berniece H. Dwyer
Milford
Source List
Editor, Times-Union:This is the first part of my letter dealing with a Constitutional amendment concerning declarations of war by Congress. I will list the sources of information that I used in developing a Constitutional amendment and a model declaration of war which will follow at a later date in the letters to the editor column. Most of these sources of information are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library if readers of the Times-Union are interested in doing their own research.
1. Americans' Views About War: Examining Pop Culture
2. The Oxford Companion to American Military History
3. The Foundations of American Constitutional Government
4. The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great
5. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present, Second Revised Edition
6. The Political Though of the American Revolution: Part Three of Seedtime of the Republic
7. Basic American Government
8. The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
9. The Federalist Papers
10. The U.S. Constitution
11. The Declaration of Independence
12. American Government: Institutions and Policies
13. Dec. 9, 1941 Edition of Facts on File
14. Dec. 10-16, 1941 Edition of Facts on File
15. June 23-June 29, 1950 Edition of Facts on File
16. August 1964 Edition of Facts on File
17. December 1989 Edition of Facts on File
18. January 1991 Edition of Facts on File
19. March 18, 1999 Edition of Facts on File
20. Sept. 13, 2001 Edition of Facts on File
21. Oct. 17, 2002 Edition of Facts on File
22. www.loc.gov/index.html
23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik:Declaration_of_ war_by_the-United_States
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
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