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THURSDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2004
THE CANADIAN RECORD
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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use the money, what with the price of Russian
Thistle getting lower every year."
'"Look on the bright side," says PE. "If
you do go belly up and have to move, you'll be
doing it on one of the safest highways in the
Panhandle."
"Maybe, but I shore am gonna miss them
trees>"says I.
"Oh, don't worry," says Stump. "Them
folks in the Highway Department already
done thought of that." Then he handed me a
calendar.
"Looky there!" says Skeet. "It's pictures
of the Canadian River Breaks, and they're
even in color! There's one for each month of
the year. Why, it's almost like seeing the real
thing."
I felt better already.
Well, Sugar Biscuit is ringing the dinner
bell, so I got's to go. Thanks for solving the
mystery.
THE FINE PRINT-CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3
is ridiculous if the area is an expected habitat
for Northern Shrike, Golden Eagle, and Bell's
Vireo—birds that occur in tiny numbers, where
any adverse impact on even a few birds would be
huge for the state population as a whole.
15. The survey failed to survey bird popula-
tions during the winter, spring, or summer, and
the report doesn't say what the sux-vey dates
actually were. I'm assuming they missed most
of fall migration—not that it matters, since the
survey excluded purely migratory birds any-
way.
16. The survey's description of habitats dis-
plays a scary unfamiliarity with High Plains
ecology. It fails to mention playa lakes by
name—calling them "ponds" that "likely quali-
fy as wetlands." This is like calling the Rockies
"hills" that "likely qualify as mountains."
17. Sunby made several statements that
were outrageous, like "You can't survey mi-
grants" as he tried to justify ignoring perhaps
the most significant part of the bird population
that uses the tree zone. Migrant surveys are so
common in the scientific world that Cape May
(New Jersey), Point Peele (Ontario), and the
Smith Point Hawk Watch in Texas—among
dozens of other places—have been doing it for
years, forming a major part of what we now
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY
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About 'those people"
Dear Laurie,
I'VE BEEN MISSINGyour editorials, butyour November 11 one on
working people was worth waiting for. I do not know anything about
the Rotary Park and am not qualified to comment on it, but I know
something about new people moving into a small town.
Booker, my hometown for over sixty years, has changed signifi-
cantly over time. The 1960s brought oil and gas people, and the His-
panic folks have moved here from 1970s to the present. New residents
are clearly a majority of our population, and our Community is far dif-
ferent than the one of my childhood in the 1940-50 decades.
Our Booker Packing plant could not operate without a good His-
panic working force. As a result, our population is holding its own; it
would be in a significant decline without this influx. We might prefer
high tech, white collar jobs for the area, but that is not going to hap-
pen. Some of the newer residents live within a block of my home, and I
am glad to have them in our community. I'would rather for my town to
be changed and alive than dying. I do not care to personally adopt the
Hispanic culture, but even my law partners spend their leisure time
differently than me. We can be neighbors with new people and choose
our own respective lifestyles.
Your concluding point about not everyone receiving good fortune
is particularly appropriate during this holiday season. Those of us
who are lucky in personal circumstances need to remember that not
everyone is so fortunate.
OTIS C. SHEARER, Booker
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
know about the importance of providing food
and cover throughout the migratory path. Not
only are migratory bird surveys possible, they
are the scientific backbone for any decision that
impacts migratory habitat. What the geologist
meant to say is that "TxDOT ordered the study
done now, so we did it now, regardless of its ac-
curacy or thoroughness."
18. Sunby also said that even if you could sur-
vey migrants, it was impossible to measure the
impact that tree removal would have. Why? If
a bird uses a resource, you assume that it's the
best resource available. Removing the resource
forces the bird to use an inferior resource or one
forwhich the competitionis fiercer. Sunby's idea
that the whole effort is useless and shouldn't
even be tried says everything about his survey
and TxDOT, and nothing at all about the biologi-
cal impacts on the area he was hired to survey.
So there you have it—an environmental
impact study for birds that doesn't even try to
count them or identify migratory species. Make
of it what you will. Me? When it looks like dung,
smells like dung, feels like dung, and tastes like
dung—I make darn sure that someone else is
doing the testing.
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Big fans say thank you
ONCE AGAIN, I feel compelled to write and express my gratis
tude toward the wonderful people of Canadian. During F riday's send
off for the playoff -bound Wildcats, the Senior Football players pre^
sented Michael Ishmael and Ricky Gallardo with their own personal-
ized C-jackets. They said there were no bigger fans to be found and
that they would like to honor them with a jacket.
Michael and Rieky will be graduating this year and I can't think of
a better class to have them graduate with. This group of seniors has
set a good example for their underclassmen. They are hard workers
with big hearts. Perhaps that is why they have such a great sports
program, they play with their heai'ts.
I would like to thank the Lone Star Angel Project for purchasing
the jackets and having their names embroidered on them. They didn't
want any recognition but they are getting it anyway. What a great
concept they have come up with to show true earing by action.
I have said it before and I'll say it again, Canadian is a community
that cares and on behalf of Michael and Rieky, I would like to say
"thank you" for caring enough to make two young men feel like all the
other Wildcat students.
EVA HAMMER, CISD teacher
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