February 18, 2011 - Colebrook Chronicle

made a good point after the Pittsburg and
Someone
meetings this week where PSNH revealed
Clarksville
preferred and alternate routes for the Northern
the
Transmission line. She said, in essence, that the
Pass
this is all coming down would appear that PSNH
way
attempting to pit neighbor against neighbor in de-
is
where the route should go.
ciding
is why the best route for New Hampshire is no
That
Once we start arguing an argument that Northern
route.
Pass has framed, all of us who live here lose and
are no winners among us. Remember that in the
there
Northern Pass still wins, just as long as the line
end
through our area somewhere.
goes
this “neighbor against neighbor” idea got us to
But
that already this harebrained proposal has
thinking
a detrimental effect on how we feel about folks
had
been close to for generations, our neighbors to
we’ve
north—our Canadian friends. We had occasion
the
this past week to go above the border. Last Saturday
twice
we attended a concert by Jorane, a Francophone
artist, in the tiny village of Saint-Camille,
recording
The folks there were so hospitable in welcoming a
Que.
of New Hampshire journalists who found their
couple
center and the people running it delightful.
music
hours later we were again heading north,
Forty-eight
time to see Hydro-Quebec’s plans as being pre-
this
to the citizens of East Hereford. We found what
sented
already detected—our Canadian friends are no
we
welcoming of this intrusion on their beautiful
more
than we are.
landscape
also found, in talking to Hydro-Quebec officials,
We
this whole idea would seem to be driven by folks
that
this side of the border. Maybe the real story is yet
on
come out, but we wonder just who is driving all this
to
Northern Pass, which is a name for this project
craziness.
only on this side of the border, appears to be call-
the shots—and the folks at Hydro-Quebec clearly
ing
to Northern Pass as “the client” in answer to
referred
question as to why the line isn’t going through an
our
right of way in Vermont. They said, simply,
existing
“the client asked us to deliver energy to New
because
Check out the quote for yourself in our
Hampshire.”
News of the Week at www.colebrookchronicle.com.
Video
It will leave you asking some new ques-
just as it did us.
tions,
the meantime, let’s not let this Northern Pass
In
come between us and our neighbors to the
business
Our fight is also their fight.
north.
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The
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North Country has never been afraid to stand up and speak its mind. This photo from 25 years
The
shows a meeting held in the Colebrook gym early in 1986. The purpose was to allow residents to
ago
their concerns about plans to increase flowage down the Connecticut River. Standing is Frank
air
of Colebrook. To his left are Harold Davis and Bob Shaw.
Owen
Charles and Donna,
Dear
want to give you a very
I
overdue thank you for the
long
article and photo of my
great
jump from an airplane
exciting
in the warmer weather. I
back
it took awhile to get my
guess
planted back on the
feet
I am still amazed at
ground.
amount of your readers who
the
come up to me and ask me
still
the jump and want to
about
what it was like. It was
know
amazing ride!
an
was planning on going
I
skydiving again this sum-
but I must say to you and
mer,
readers that I have in-
your
decided to donate the
stead
to the Concerned Citi-
money
Against the NSTAR
zens
Pass (www.livefree-
Northern
If some of your readerorfry.org).
are still interested in jump-
visit, www.skydivenewengland.coming,
you don't mind, I want to
If
about my feelings on the
write
Pass. I lived and
Northern
in southern New Hamp-
worked
brought my children up
shire,
and through the years
there
the North Country
visited
times to want to
enough
back and live here. Well,
come
years ago I planned to
eight
up for the summer. As
come
can see, I fell in love with
you
place and never left. Not
this
I did not love southern
that
Hampshire, but up here
New
is pure, unspoiled beauty.
there
road, every turn, every
Every
has its own unique
season
The people are friendly
beauty.
hardworking, the water
and
and the air is full of peace
pure,
tranquility.
and
saw the bald eagle on your
I
page the other day. What
front
symbol of America! What a
a
of the North Country!
symbol
sad it will be to see that
How
that symbol, perched on a
bird,
powerline.
my eight years of living
In
I have met many that
here,
born and raised here, as
were
their grandparents. It was
were
that carved the beauty of
them
place. By planting, cutting,
this
and building, they
harvesting
this place with hard, back
built
work. One can
breaking
these people by their walk,
tell
talk, their skin like
their
but most importantly
leather,
twinkle in their eye from
the
pride that comes from
the
something meaning-
building
ful.
makes my heart grieve,
It
this Northern Pass is going
that
do away with much of this
to
work.
hard
just can not believe that
I
governor and our representatives
our
that look over our fine
would let such a horrid
state
to happen. What are they
thing
thinking?
sure many years ago
I'm
from the North Country
people
about giving up and
thought
the cold weather. But
escaping
didn't. They fought on and
they
out what we call home
carved
today.
I am asking all your readers
So
to stand like the forefathers
the North Country and fight
of
this piece of land we call
for
Wear orange. Write your
home.
and be heard. We will
letters
go quietly into the night.
not
eagle is the symbol of
The
freedom and pride.
our
once said this
Someone
the Northland, “It’s made
about
tall trees and tough men.”
of
show them how tough we
Lets
be. can
Doyle
Joanne
Stewartstown
West
to the Editor,
Letter
am writing to express my
I
toward the Northern
concerns
and the Swift Diamond
Pass
Club.
cannot say we are neu-
One
on this issue. Either you
tral
for the project or you are
are
Being neutral reminds me
not.
German citizens claiming to
of
neutral and denying the
be
at the very least
Holocaust—or
club is prostituting itself by
the
financial backing, “a
accepting
solution to a permanent
temporary
problem.”
yes, I am a transplanted
And,
flatlander and lived
Hampton when the Seabrook
near
Nuclear Power Plant was
the planning stages. The
in
promises were made: jobs,
same
taxes, electric costs would
lower
down. There were temporary
go
until construction was completed,
jobs
then the job holders
on, out of state in search
moved
employment elsewhere. Oops!
of
electric also went south
The
with the other promises.
along
began attending the
I
in the late 1990s while
SnoDeo
at the Polaris dealership
employed
in Pittsburg and have at-
the event nearly every
tended
However, never again.
year.
Swift Diamond Club’s decisions
The
leave me no choice but to
myself and my money
take
else and urge others
somewhere
Robert Parry
C.
Pittsburg
Friday, February 18, 2011
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