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Letter to the Editor,
Several years ago while my husband, then in his 80’s, was
cutting a tree, he fell. We had a covering over a wood pile and
it was attached to three posts, plus the tree. Noticing that the
tree was leaning toward the driveway, he decided to cut it at
roof level. When the tree fell the corner let go and the saw and
my husband went down. Our neighbor across the field heard
the saw idling far too long and came down to check. He found
my husband sitting at the base of the tree. He took him to the
local health center but was unable to get help so the neighbor
brought him home, then he went home to get ready for work.
On his way out he decided to check on my husband. He then
took him to the VA hospital where he left him.
Article in last week’s WORLD on CANNABIS
The Article by Will Roberts inside the WORLD last week
regarding Cannabis and all of us being fooled by the $’s was
no more than. TRUTH SPOKEN. just a little too late. This
article should have been sent to the Times Argus, Burlington
Free Press, and every other newspaper in the state, and before
the people in Barre voted in March of this year to allow a
cannabis store to open here in Barre. All they were looking
at was how much money it would bring in to curb some of our
expenses. It isn’t enough that we have a big drug problem in
this city as well as nearly every other city in the state of only
400,000 people but that Barre City is known throughout the
state and other states in our near area, as the place for Drug
buys which ends up costing money right now and will in the
State Sanctioned Cruelty to Animals
The Governor and Senior Management at The VT Fish &
Wildlife Department Are Complicit in Extreme Institutional
Bias
With each passing year, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife
Department (FWD) becomes more entrenched in its support
of archaic laws regarding wildlife. The problems start at the
top.
When FWD Commissioner Porter resigned last year, I
hoped for a new Commissioner with modern values that takes
animal ethics into consideration. Instead, Governor Scott
appointed yet another Commissioner who lacks any credentials
in environmental sciences or wildlife management.
Ethics don’t seem to be too high on his list either. In the
Commissioner’s lackluster debut in front of the legislature
earlier this year, he testified stating that wildlife could be
killed solely to be used as ‘fertilizer’ to meet the criteria under
the new wanton waste ban efforts under bill H.411.
Fortunately, the Commissioner’s idea was rejected.
FWD’s opposition to three Senate wildlife bills that seek to
modernize Vermont’s wildlife governance with an eye towards
better wildlife protections, demonstrates their allegiance to an
entrenched, biased agenda. Given that FWD’s prior
Commissioner wouldn’t even support a bill to ban coyote killing
contests a few years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised when
the new Commissioner didn’t support efforts to ban coyote
hounding (bill S.281), which is legalized dog fighting. When
the FWD’s “biologist” engages in theatrics while testifying in
opposition to bill S.201, a ban on leghold traps, by quickly
placing her thickly gloved hand in a leghold trap to try and
convince legislators that traps aren’t inhumane, you know
they’ve reached an all-time low. On the House side of the
Statehouse, the Commissioner insisted on excluding coyotes
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22
every year. The day aims to raise awareness,
inspire more mindfulness, protect the
environment, and focus on the need for
conservation.
The earth provides us with everything
we need to grow food and live healthy
lives. We have our natural resources like;
land, water, animals and plant’s. This day
should be spent celebrating the planet’s
natural resources.
From space, earth looks like a big blue
marble with all it’s blues and greens
wrapped in swirls of white. From our vantage
point, the Earth still has beauty, but it
is often marred by smoke in the skies,
ruined waterways, or trash stuck to the side
of the streets. It sometimes seems that
humans have treated the earth not so much
as a garden but as a dump. We only get one
Earth, and we should be helping the environment not hurting
it.
Our plant is referred to as “Mother Earth”; it gives us food,
water, and shelter. Earth Day is a reminder to keep our eye on
the big blue marble, a reminder that Earth is neither a garden
nor a dump, it is our home, and it is our life-support system.
Earth Day began on April 22, 1970, as a time for all people
to celebrate planet Earth and renew our dedication to making
the world safer, healthier and cleaner for all of us and for
generations yet to come. If we keep treating it the way we do
now, there may not be an Earth for other generations to experience.
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Make Earth Day Everyday
I was out of town with my ill sister expecting to stay overnight,
when I got a call that my husband was at Dartmouth.
Long story short, he is okay today but did stay a few days
at the hospital with injuries.
We are so grateful for concerned and caring neighbors and
all they do for others.
Since this happened April 19, I’d like to have this acknowledged
as Neighbor Appreciation Day.
With grateful thanks,
Ginny Campbell
Chelsea
long future unless something stops the use and abuse of this
drug problem, especially among our young people. Crime of
stealing packages off home porches to score a sell-and-buy
opportunity for a drug user, breaking and entering and festering
other crimes is keeping our police force busier than ever.
It has become a huge problem for all residents. To say nothing
of the local hospital having everyday drug problems to deal
with and the ages are so young. If anyone thinks that opening
a cannabis store is going to curb the problem of drug use in
this city is having a Pipe Dream and now it is time to wake
up. Colorado should have been proof enough but apparently,
MONEY once again is the ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
Val Giroux
from bill, H.411, that seeks to address the wasteful killing of
wildlife—this comment was in addition to his fertilizer comment.
Speaking of the legislature, an ongoing concern is that
FWD doesn’t disclose their biases. For example, FWD staff
testified in opposition to the ban on leghold traps using their
“biologist” credentials without disclosing their inherent biases
towards trapping as a recreational opportunity. FWD is
given too much deference by legislators and other decisionmakers
who view them as unbiased experts and not as lobbyists
for their customers: hunters and trappers.
The Governor, his Commissioner, and FWD senior management,
seem determined to keep Vermont’s wildlife policies
stuck in the 1950s despite opposition from the public as
evidenced in the 2017 Center for Rural Studies’ Vermonter
Poll here: https://www.protectourwildlifevt.org/_files/
ugd/5073cd_c349fbfa0bfb4458b46919436a9afa8e.pdf As
evidenced in this poll, very few Vermonters support the use of
leghold traps, for example, but FWD ignores public sentiment
and animal welfare concerns and plows ahead with their
agenda.
“If state Fish and Wildlife Agencies fail to adapt, their ability
to manage fish and wildlife will be hindered and their
public and political support compromised.” – Association of
Fish & Wildlife Agencies (https://www.fishwildlife.org/application/files/8215/1382/2408/Blue_Ribbon_Panel_Report2.
pdf) I agree.
Sincerely,
Jane Fitzwilliam
Putney, VT
Vermont Coyote Coexistence Coalition Lead
https://www.vermontcoyote.org
There are a few simple tips on improving
environmental conditions. You can do these
every day and contribute to positive effect on
the planet; Sort the trash, and follow the
“R’s” reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose, and
repair, unnecessary things to have usefulness.
Take part in the improvement in your town
and home, by reducing expenditure of gasoline,
reduce energy usage, pick up and clean
roadsides, and think satiability taking a piece
of your lawn and letting it be a garden. Every
little bit helps.
When looking at the water, the amount of
fresh clean water becomes less and less.
Scientists ask everyone on the planet to take
care of the resources and to spend water only
reasonably, lowering usage. By doing this
you will not only save the water resources.
We have to make efforts about care of the
planet not only once a year, but also every
day. You can easily take part in this operation. Our future, and
the future of our descendants, depends on it.
These acts may be the solution to save the life-support
system for our children and their children and all future generations
to come.
We should do all that we can to be good stewards of our
planet.
Long journeys are comprised of small steps, one after
another.
Enough small steps, by each one of us, may save the Earth
... yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Deb Paul