Source Weekly

Efforts to stop plans to “frack” (i.e. hydraulically fracture) the Newberry Volcano have hit a critical juncture. The help of every concerned citizen is needed now. An Appeal of the BLM’s decision to permit AltaRock Energy, LLC to proceed with a “demonstration” of “new” technology in an “exploratory” project has been filed, but we are not lawyers, so it may not work. There are two remaining permits needed before their plans can be implemented: one to allow the use of the water for this reason, and one to allow the use of the water in this location. The persons responsible for the decisions to issue these permits, or not, welcome public comment at this time.

On August 13 , KTVZ asked viewers
”What do you think about Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as running mate”?
49 percent responded: “like it”
17 percent responded: “don’t like it” and
35 percent responded: “don’t really care.”
To the 35 percent who “don’t really care,”  I hope that this  condensed summary of one of the important issues, Medicare reform,  that Republican VP candidate, Paul Ryan  has addressed will capture your interest.

Erin Foote  Marlowe,
Just what do you know about symbols of senior citizens? Your article on  “Seniors Want Their Money Back” displays “people” with walkers, with canes, with wheelchairs but no name attached:  Is the man with the cane Neil Bryant? Is the man with the walker Mr. Buchanan? Surely they are not senior citizens. Most Elders walk with both feet and without assists.

Ethan Maffey (“Listen Outside the Box,” August 23) overlooked an independent radio jewel: classical station KWAX-FM (Redmond 88.5, Bend 98.9, Sunriver 90.9, and heard worldwide at kwax.com). In an unpretentious, no-fuss format, KWAX DJs like Catriona Bolster and Rocky Lamanna serve up the riches of classical music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  The University of Oregon holds KWAX’s license, but music-loving listeners and Oregon business underwriters completely fund the station.

Since reading the news of Portland considering adding fluoride to their water, the local editorial in the other paper in town again sounded the call for that to happen in Bend. If you look up fluoride info from Dr. Hardy Limebeck of Toronto, Canada you would find a dentist, biologist, and head of the school for preventative dentistry at the University of Toronto tell you the latest science. If you look up Cathy Justice, you would find out what happened to her horses and dogs after just a few years drinking the fluoridated water from the city of Pagosa Springs, Colorado a city that no longer flouridates [its] water.