I too must disagree with Bill London, and am frankly offended that he would suggest something so disrespectful to the cultural and religious beliefs of many people in our community. I think many of those people buried in the Moscow Cemetery are more deserving of the water then many of the people alive in Moscow today. I for one probably have as many relatives beneath the ground in the Moscow Cemetery as I do walking around in the city. <br> <br> I say if Bill London is so into preserving the water in Moscow he may not take any. But please, do not suggest cutting the water off to my family and their resting place. May the spirits of my relatives haunt you for such suggestions.<br> : ) <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Bill London <london@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq"
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Water--<br>This community has a couple of mutually-exclusive ideas about our water<br>(meaning the aquifer beneath us).<br>One --the aquifer water is a resource we can use, and use up.<br>Two -- the aquifer water is irreplaceable and we should maintain it as is.<br><br>That leads us to chase the Naylor Farms proposal out of town, but embrace<br>the WSU golf course and the green lawn at the Moscow Cemetery.<br><br>I am conservative by nature, and want to support the maintenance of the<br>existing level of water in the aquifer. It's like money in the bank. In an<br>era of major climate change, maybe our children will need it. So, I say<br>leave it there and adjust our lives to preserve it.<br><br>And therefore, I see no need to water the lawn at the Moscow Cemetery. I<br>have been to all the public cemeteries in Latah County. Only a few are<br>irrigated. I do not think the beauty or
reverence of the cemeteries are<br>determined by irrigation. I think this Council's special deal on cheap<br>water for the cemetery is foolish. The cemetery district officials should<br>not have made that request.<br>BL<br><br><br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Nils Peterson" <nils_peterson @wsu.edu=""><br>To: <vision2020 @moscow.com=""><br>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:38 AM<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Re: Name of this list & re: Water<br><br><br>> I also would like to see the list take a fresh direction.<br>><br>> I believe it has a pretty wide readership, and think its both a way of<br>> getting community information shared, but also the readership has a pretty<br>> wide set of perspectives and can offer a variety of constructively<br>critical<br>> eyes.<br>><br>> Tom Ivey raised an interesting topic: water. He jumped ahead a step in the<br>> discussion, by implying that we have a water shortage problem that we<br>>
actually need to do something about.<br>><br>> Can we develop a bit of consensus that we have a problem, and what it is,<br>> and we wish to address it?<br>><br>> _____________________________________________________<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> http://www.fsr.net<br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br>><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<br></vision2020></nils_peterson></blockquote><br><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam?
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