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Published on Wed, Oct 7, 2009
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Re-elect

Virginia O'Neil

This November we have the opportunity to vote for a member of our community who has been serving us well as a Sequim school board director.

Virginia O'Neil is knowledgeable about our schools and understands our community's children and their needs as students because she has volunteered for years while raising her own children. She listens to constituents and brings their concerns to the administration and the school board.

She works hard to learn as much as she can on the important issues brought to the school board and asks important questions like "Why couldn't we ...?" and "What if ...?"

Please join me in voting to re-elect Virginia O'Neil to the Sequim school board.

John Bridge

Sequim

What'd

they do?

I am new to Sequim, having lived here only two-plus weeks. The Sequim Gazette has been describing the Stoner saga and, more recently, the two new finalists for city manager.

The Gazette has described an employment history for Mssrs. Gervasi and Burkett and their applications for other jobs in other cities, but there seems to be nothing describing either new finalist's previous job accomplishments, i.e., what makes either of them particularly desirable to manage Sequim's business affairs?

I would hope the Sequim City Council would know more about these candidates than what has been overtly published before they make a selection.

Richard Hahn

Sequim

Fill your tank with peace of mind

Recently the clips on the fuel hoses at the Shell gas station at the Co-op Farm and Garden store were removed. Thus you must stand there and squeeze the lever to fill your tank.

I was annoyed that these were removed because of colder weather coming and I like to sit in the car while the tank is filling.

Recently I learned the reason why the clips were removed. Someone entered a pump station, put the nozzle in their car tank opening, pressed the lever to start pumping, secured the clip on the nozzle and walked away to answer a cell phone, with their back to the pump.

After a few minutes, the children in the car got the person's attention because the nozzle still pumping had fallen to the ground. Approximately 20 gallons had spilled. This could have been a deadly tragedy if a lighted cigarette had been tossed.

Now I understand the inconvenience of no clips on the pump nozzles. I will continue to buy fuel at the Co-op because it is safer.

Janice Smith

Sequim

Keep it clean

We need to protect communities from toxic coal ash.

Help build our clean future.

Vladimir Ushakoff

Sequim

Cut him

some slack

A correspondent wrote, "53 patriots ... assembled to demonstrate their dismay" at the Obama administration. Then he repeated a litany of fears promoted by a gaggle of "conservative" commentators who've found a profitable shtick in fostering division, fear and hate.

The correspondent pleaded for "return to a constitutional government," but we have that now. President Obama was duly elected, and governs, under our Constitution.

Republicans were in charge 20 of the past 28 years; Obama's bee n in office just since January, inheriting two wars and an economic disaster generated by Republican irresponsibility in fiscal and foreign affairs. No one could undo the quarter-century Republican disaster in just nine months. Let's cut Obama some slack.

Republican disaster? Starting in 1981, they cut taxes, increased spending and borrowed to pay the government's bills. In 28 years they increased our national debt tenfold and raised it from 35 percent of national income to 75 percent.

They spent the borrowed money on foreign military adventures while neglecting national infrastructure and other domestic needs. Following the government's example, a lot of individual Americans spent more than they earned and at last the house of cards built on greed and borrowed money collapsed.

Whether Obama's programs will restore our nation remains to be seen but he's doing his best to counter the forces that brought America down. Those who succumb to the fearmongers support those destructive forces.

I have faith in America. Too bad the propagandists and their dupes don't share that faith.

Roy F. Wilson

Sequim

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