Sammamish Forum Dec. 16
December 15, 2009
By Administrator
New Council is
a new chance
In response to Donna Martin’s letter regarding a YMCA facility as opposed to beaches and the related parking issues. Ms. Martin asks “what happened to common sense in Sammamish?” There are plenty of residents who have been asking this same question for a number of years because of ill-thought out projects causing checks to be written that citizens can’t afford.
Now that we have elected a few new members to the City Council, perhaps it’s time the council takes the bull by the horns and replace the City Manager with someone who doesn’t have a personal agenda.
Nancy Sinclair
Sammamish
Animal control fix
A simple solution to funding animal control: Tax pet food.
Joyce Kormanyos
Sammamish
New Council is a new chance
In response to Donna Martin’s letter regarding a YMCA facility as opposed to beaches and the related parking issues. Ms. Martin asks “what happened to common sense in Sammamish?” There are plenty of residents who have been asking this same question for a number of years because of ill-thought out projects causing checks to be written that citizens can’t afford.
Now that we have elected a few new members to the City Council, perhaps it’s time the council takes the bull by the horns and replace the City Manager with someone who doesn’t have a personal agenda.
Nancy Sinclair
Sammamish
Animal control fix
A simple solution to funding animal control: Tax pet food.
Joyce Kormanyos
Sammamish
Thanks to officers
Coming from three generations of law enforcement in the Boston area, I want to thank the police and all the people who serve our communities.
Imagine if we all got off our cell phones to have a free hand to wave thanks to our police, firefighters and EMT personnel.
We are not a better society if we can’t take a minute to show proper respect to those who wake up each day “To Protect and Serve” citizens like us.
Now is the time for us to show our strength as a community and a country.
The Dougherty Family
Issaquah
Thanks to all
As the region grapples with some truly horrible events these past few weeks, I would like to take a moment to share some of the good that has taken place in our community this season.
This year, as in many years past, a dedicated team of volunteers provided more than 2,000 volunteer hours to the community, teaching visitors about Pacific salmon and watershed stewardship.
Because of the commitment of these trained guides, FISH (Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery) has been able to tell the salmon’s story to more than 8,000 visitors this fall.
It is truly an honor to work alongside people who give so much of themselves, but ask for nothing in return. I cannot thank them enough for all that they do for this community.
I would also like to thank the individuals, organizations, businesses and agencies that also supported FISH this year,
Thank you all for your invaluable service and contributions this past year.
We are so fortunate to have so many remarkable individuals and organizations making Issaquah the exceptional community that it is.
Gestin Suttle, executive director
Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery
An ode to a soccer field
The (Costco) soccer field is my favorite place to be with all the activity going on around me.
For example, when I step on the field, I can feel the rush of the crowd cheering for me. While I am playing, I feel everything around me, as if I just came alive.
As soon as I arrive at the field, there is something that makes me believe. For instance, the smell of the wet grass, the sound of my cleats and the fresh mud are perfect reasons to love the field.
Once all I hear is the beautiful sounds of my cleats running on the lush grass. As all of that is happening, I take in my surroundings and breathe — this is my life on the field.
Caitlin Looney, age 12
Issaquah
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Hi, This is a letter from my son, Ian Cooper, age 13, a student at IJH, who needed to write and submit a letter as an assignment for LASS. Thank you.
Dear Editor,
Throughout the years, large companies have gained money and power, and with power comes responsibility. However, some have abused this power and produced terrible quality, and in the case of meat-packing industries caused sickness to the public. This corruption is still alive today in Washington. It seems that terrible working conditions and rock-bottom wages in some companies have caused despair to workers, and it actually has. One example is that companies nowadays, just like in the 1800’s, are still giving bribes to allow terrible conditions. This is even going on in Washington, with a few companies giving bribes to inspectors.
One account of the corruption in the 1800’s comes from Upton Sinclair, an investigatory journalist who went into the meatpacking industries and wrote that they have terrible conditions and are giving bribes to inspectors to allow sales to continue. Nowadays, one company with bad conditions is Wal-Mart, a company that gives terrible wages and conditions to the workers, but has not been noticed by officials. This shows that bad conditions in companies has continued, from meatpacking in the 1800’s to stores like Wal-Mart today, and has not been stopped, no matter how hard the government tries.
Sincerely,
Ian Cooper