<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Bev Bafus informs us:</div><div><br></div><div>"We smelled something weird. North side of town near fire station."</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div>Which was in response to Kit Craine's statement:</div><div><br></div><div>"I live on Kenneth between Lynn and Logan (just north of the Troy Highway). I had to shut my windows as it was getting dark because of chemical smells."</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div>And then there's this from the "Public Records" section of today's (September 8, 2012) Moscow-Pullman Daily News:</div><div><br></div><div>"<strong style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Moscow Police</strong></div><div><br></div><div>Thursday</div><div><br></div>9:00 p.m. - Report taken for controlled substance problem, officers responded to a complaint of marijuana odor at 1500 block of Northwood Drive."</div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div>Coincidence? I wonder.</div><div><br></div><div>Well . . . </div><div><br></div><div>Being a "child from the 60s", and having had experience and familiarity with such aroma (jus' ask the Ventura County [Calif.] Sheriff's Department), I am willing to avail my services, strictly for the purposes of community awareness, in determining if this "noxious odor" is indeed that of the wily weed.</div><div><br></div><div>Heck! I'll even set up a tent downwind, invite some friends over, and we can play "Guess that Smell", jus' like we did in Topanga Canyon (again, California) in years looooooong gone.</div><div><br></div><div>Whatcha say, V-Peeps?<br><br>Seeya on Sunday, Moscow.<div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Wallace, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div></div><div><br><br></div></body></html>