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HomeMy WebLinkAboutA013 - Tribune reports and letters to editor IOU CF 7 .3 Cd ._ .Cy ^L'1 p C3 -.. C a v G c v el (`�„�•�,y ,.- L'+ 'cT -_ ate.-i�+ ,M.?3. } -di s+ i ,ir�7'3.Fri .C3 Ln in. ran s �. ,., .O v bA.�]i '� a� 'r. ^✓."p:�'>-• 4-+ �cep.'w �� � � � J,_, O . cL un Ow oV•,y�� rt� f o.0 o c o w v ,n `oG,. 1 N 4 a y �,.L:t� v tts >• _y O ci. tv 1114 tt; R U �s U. E 12 ol 9r- -1t6 979 C.0 tj a c: aim av,. j•T7 .� � ��� � -� Vim•^ � �`� U � d �.SC p �� '''�� o v p O sp•, R -� � o� � � + ' . lu 4 . '4 1 .xa ate, ` ° Wl tj � � � �. ib �., � -�.���.L�♦:� � O :+"'"''•{': 'm � ��" tom? �.� 2' y, :.r � � `a. ;�.� � � �. s o-+ .c G1 u c ,: * atI yr C3 v r+ t17•'us _ ,i3. . O y d,c .rd;3 '.w Q! �..s y~ rrs._: +.�"r�..,«,?e�„"'-�. ' � 4"y �... yp t!Q. +,•w^`,r.',�?`, �. �:'�+ �� jr+! n }� �+ �„�. �...--� � '�^ ��t5 ••ice 6� te•, - CL � �� � �•^✓ ��'"' a 13 h YOUR LETTZUS . deaf burners arein h . polluters­,4� f : HE EDITOR I`l t R I, bQn mon I fvnres ._: i.e. foothills create. So noxv the city has k� autonrotsilesi l ide etc. Do you banned fireplw=being built in new , � o t]e''90s:are what I call the 0Ut- .think for one moment that homes. Open burning is still legal`' of tizxW generation.Big dell. Gaunc lwotrtan Sharon_Wuttb w-alks here Have we banned fireplaces 7 he ' w was the hippies, '70s to work eve da r ..beams � �h srness m Wasuas information age. ct'ncc , � -.1--­ at Ames?-How will'the a �lln plani � y but I don't"have to awe with all:the abotrac�' t y impact our air quality? It won't help political catfec mess going on,right from minor rt slsgratory it}that's a.fact What about the prnver now. and I don't. And I certainly Does she; 'lk .5n that" plant, or:the City of Ames? How 1 won t go out without a fight. breathe better or-.live li4 Lto: much do they pollute' Is anyone For,the last three years,Ames either o . #rVo.pe.*Ple tom_i6 complaining about them. pertntti pen burning of leaves much fax k! y#hat tltey� Sa I musi speak out and tell ..'*,,'November and April. Gp installed erg tde Ott ..• Wirth t ardless of how trgx ;. until'then,it was OK to burn all year in theirh� �iousto6M ittie�shehasformeandtny 1 t Iona. Why? Political cor ectness. 2 Fi i xrrdtiy of the- fellctur leaf laurners, t understand Has our thinking changed all that pwple e6j, .leaf I orri-° wheto sl c orb itg from,bt t I riran't ing use a ireplTai�� Stt>p and think agree with the directi�she,is headed ' eep-down issue Is but it. ?hat burp lgnger,lives or . frn , d 4otliing wrong about 1 used to life tti Boulder Colo: - £ � 11t j wally think akrout _� , s clean-art pmbiems due Jim 14tme t�r'ttHo douepol tsgenlcs ieallocation OW the wind 322 Crane Am w really care ctimnts and =inversi6rts t .the `Ames en : e - _ :fir a eedo:: - TO THE EDITOR �b lit, to burn my leaves I1:to the Some of the council at least easiest. and most efficient +way rrf thought maybe they ought to come e have lost another free disposing t3fiht;irr.'1 can have them ='gip with a way to help with removal. f dom to Ames'. .All' burned in about six hours. I=; of the leaves, butr4nn Campbell gegrettably, I was 'rot know a rather baud minority has with her,tet them eat cake mind set t the C nail Shed a co :ban 6f I burn-, said "we dot t point,their houses, Ted lidocstt' r thai �pto- why should We help with their e lay leaves ga �'12 1 left City Hall unhappy with the t .lnut try anti'do zrs+@f mcinths fit' tee months a outcome while 20 zealots left at the 4 lot size is about hal ezr y Pt'c rt'so*. ttieanf to tie bttia- same time knowtng that their small t�.Because,my yard has so tnar#y ken numb had taken atidther freedom 1.trees, my property'tars The witlt�e exception, away ft(M the trnt x tyre higltex. I don't mind'ihat Aiti r gave into"an organized group that r ails itsetfa city of tretas and I think tY -Showed up tc'jell their fates ofwiSe. 'loom Scott am sure doing my part All I have .: 00"ance by anecdote heck 415 Westwood Drive , ever asked from the esty.,was the of a wayto run a city. tries _ •� c. x 7t = rrOliII� TR ' M � ' u�r�. n ban eel. to be ��o Le.,af , d ., . . B LAtrax Dr RE LS I really don't knmv what t's'going keep them inside when the weather is to take to get people to we the impact nice and they want to go out and play, � m a mother of two children ages this toxic smoke has. [-really hope it and someone is burning leaves? My 4 and.6.Both of the► baverespi- isn't a Aeath-related incident. And heart literally aches and I fight back ratory/breathing problems' no,I'm loot being dramatic,I m-very the teals of frustration and.hate.Do my 6-year-old son since birth and my ` serious!.Do you realize that some you have kids`!Does your neighbor - I since she turned people have to.stay indoors during: hood have kids`Do you know a per- 3. l also have asthma;.allergies and „the4nin,gattd fall;rnonths dueto leaf son, {your mother, your father, your have had,respiratory/breathin piob-� burning? blot just sister,your broth- lems since birth, and I now m 34, tray'"kids and 01c er), a relative or My hukbanct lucky him has no such but a.ti*e with friend in your life history, heart 4ficasc, "AIM OWtDT APAZO,SOTNW who can't go out bronchitis.to us is MOi~tEit tDl�A 'it'WOifint-Mn because of their l ortor ;rrIannted. In Viers and other emphysema c s- reaction to leaf Breathing Y Y � �'J�.R?Ul�'!'��t'x'QV�'ltlnE es of medication l elp us through tic fibrosis:,and burning smoke? spring, stunnaer, fall and wix ter asthma? Do you AND A AUz`WY TSC When the weather u :tenths. folds'can easily turn into also realize that ..C+QMMIIM'!'Y!< ltONNY CAWT is tripe gym:. the btutts or pneumonia 13reat �, ° v af" the ' CK ' t45 wooand: full, # y WE i�i M#1It�O�ltMl�"'`� ' :-'sta R tde, the people want to redu r closes the passage ways smoke .. austn heeting xnci caugl7ing, of earning into the Aim Ulkl"k T6'TA XZ,'!I doves to >e some gasptng*'p4tr and a terriW burning house so It seems :SAOS TO Tilt LA11rDr>Rt,L so fresh air, or drive setasation'in doe chest. She people like the burning.is TM COMl1�{tIInTY C1W fUA1TS through- the :city i hetfi the em room, going on right in with their win- ate may use their iirlrs and '.their livirrg room? !�[O>pl 'O]Ci«i TO doves rolled down, people suffer terrible asthma And do your real- or gq. for a .bike mks and have to use~thew, 11 ize that some peo- - � ICY catch nebulizers to get '.." ple have to live withi not one,not twd in the back yard,or sit out under the relief to their lungs, but even three clean-air machines shade tree,or hgve a picnic.I'd like to So why is it that the city of Ames just to get through those,times? think that, th `year we ALL would can't seem to get their act together`l Supposedly if''a persW and could bea*'to do so without the How many times has this been leaves gets a good hot fire goingtftt' smell and toxic smoke of burning brought before the council? Flow the smoke won't occur I haveyet to' leaves? many people have tried to tell you the see someone burning leavok,do just lust because there may not be as co0iettces of toxic leaf smoke? that!There are billows of v�'toxic many -showing rip o speak for citica and states have atreaciy smoke-filliog-the air all avir`he City. the`ban leaf'Wining doesn't bt' d leaf burntn , How many And'asfar.as the fire bettrg l + meant that%the probes isn't a big people have b3,' daft,r an adult anti-1'it is out rate. The city s leaden"are dealing ift or may even start ;'M rit'due to break During the day'and way a��: nth human lives!If its just their air polluttt in this town brought dusk; when a`fire is to be exttttiwn,steal? But its tu}Z It.is the lives lbY toxic leall`'smokti?Tell me this, guishcd, there`arc smoldering leaf of everyone irvzng in the city of nilao all nvnr'.E c+�M .rat ion] l•nn,zr to Ampe1 "'✓: {> � fj9 4. a �,.�a �.,�� � �+s§F1s���'r Jt% �''� � c.�z. .EkMI ,� to t r•.... �,: :ra� n as � � G � �; Wk r. n 5 21 •• is w : w1T iCy iCtrpp 17 4a t' CL Ir •pt - �+. y jo i1C p x _ 6 i ,� �- MA Z, ..,coun tal; U ss�. � 0ts go , colt inuc fritwia fiut Bz . .1 think we would do well to set: ulcd to Begin in 1999-2I100} aside our money a little,fastcr;r although W5,000 would be set said Quirmbach, suggesting that aside rrext:yearon land acquisition the city imntmitate-ly, start l�u!" ," ari`d engineering work, chasing Iand for parks. "Bv look- `I tltiuk this p`roj t is critical tct' ing at the sites early on` wc'lt kse. the laind-use'. _ pJan," said better off than if we waited ante Quirmbach, who,maintained lac,;'. Picked over the 1ci13-over ': would atip 4he prpjec cl +itc Among; the major.`prctleots -its extra costs.'If.we want our, scheduled for next year, .art southwest�row�h�riarit�>:'area to_'. improvements to the.: 6tand develop, we need this inter -AN c ruelLiaicoIn Way intersect'ion chanee'' :.fie widen ng'of a four-block-se�e- The city is also plaaaiiing tti tion of Duff Avenue north of 20tlt: reshuffle the costs of its S75b,WO Street and changes to Main Strect's new dispatch and record-keepzng str tSGape. system for.the ,police and fire Schainker briefed the council departments. About $230,000 on.same cast e ttimates. in nest would be spent next ye ar.frcazp the year's proposed plan.Por example, citY's operational funds to upf;rade strectscape improvements rrn the police department's computer, Main Street „are budgeted at, 'software,The reroa tr.ing$526,0 $1.525 million,6W the.ac tual cWt jor.109.2000l which)k9ult fsur ccttaltf OtI be at least S ,{lUQ mt chase on-beard laptop computers cause this ye is fifth_ Stty for squad cars Saul fire tracks, ProjerA wil l cast Inca than ex�= 'tauld come from raising the coin=�` . ed. And the Oly will probttl#1 tt 's rnonthly E-91 l fee �a charge wind up"riding_$800,000 more:: 1t3Gluded on all Story County resi i #laan what it had;prigitaiilly ecpect, phone mills) tit $1 frcmt 25 =' to Verid foz;the;L S. 30 ant -' t&'T,he question-wexpeocrl to change at South Dakota Avei6 ` ow, she November gen r4l elec-. y .Full-scale crrnstr ctio'n.is scheti. tali i is ltiat. . � W rz ��•.. ��9 'i'... ;�,�� �r �JCS L_.� __y.:. 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'•�r� .. ek i«r'�y��} � p^$�i�� *�,&�,�• �"-.1,•'1$�t.�.�s'"�,u.} � ,� s, ���� ,rJ�� � •� �,+y+r ..n' � 4`k.P y+}" S ^�'�l•H1'o�$i tn' [..,.rJL.,,, .eTa..�.p Syr. F� Jx} . ���3 •r3 � Po4 J< .kW'{�+' 'Kh>t""� J�Yy.'A 43��k� •'F,�y, t'�� �q n n 'K .t J. ,+ 3'b •� -E � Y'R ,SFf K 6 .[. '�i'n•:� �• tv�. it �}{•jg «t } kk y �Jy ��'"'�si~i»`,•� ..,...ei.::4 yn..,,,.�. .�:_..,.ce*an"��":�a."._� 'L1�«& r>• _ .:�.. - "� ... ^�;� '*.�,;F- .r .:`k`..:. a^ EDITORIAL — Determine just hr��4 clean or trfy t "e air here is.This would i3c uaSily--it would cast up to 544,400 to put an a i7eaa- _ntonng-By'Eein like the 40 or so the state has art the more Indus- BANLE,M T.� G trial zed arias Of 10W'a—but wouldn't that be money well �T�' (� l>ent' At thu least,the city could ask the state to run a comput- C HO tJ LD CHECK rn"? togve�s about Amps air (Ion itself has no state ataaacliird for air quality.The Legislature has embraced the fed- SOME "FACTS FIRST <traI standard and hari�d the state from setting;tougher lnea- urs s.l Dctertttine just how damaging leafburning-caa be. Is it worst for a p0rsorl s lungs than,say,.the fallout.fronz fireplace are the facts? And wood stov fir ,' Is it worse than the exhaust from a bans leaf-burning jus#a nice and'nek hborly Sr a try k lea! r zhan the szsaako lx�az t}t' 's pkc- -, Hie of autumn? Or is it hazardous to your c $s it ar+- th n the-,4m e rim a iarfi ciie'?€rt"r h health--and your neighbor's? tiarctsr tttybtsut to ban the wrong actitty? Is the sit in Ames clear and crisp? Or is it Det ne what types of days a parson can burn leaves polluted w-ath microorganisms that are so small you can't see aid cause relatively little harry.Could.the city announce;a fetal` therm--`but that work their way into your lungs`,' hour: in adv-ajacaw;that tomorrow is a"leaf-burning day:'just as Thor:axe some---just some--of the questions the Ames iron,,;announces snow-emergency days?How nimb leaf- City Council should be asking before:it rushes off to ban the �tarui 7c:tz�o much? Could the city determine-that a3vtd Cher, burning of leaves in tent n.Yet the majority of the council does - °err€trtge sit 104f-burning is allowed in some parts of town on at't seem interested to facts.ti'lrith nothing but some ancc do dame dfly trtpther pmu on other days? Or is just one fire c nee 1 evideztce,the co " voted last wt ek to draw yap an ordi- ;400 tttahr -, fH�atlush Pollution does otle.bo�re cause? ice to'ban leaf buCtg. 4eih Your"leuv ,`bttrn therm,then'weigh the ashes.The differ That seems a little""Th; `46ce is the am6unt of:poilution you sent-into the air.) Leaf-`burning can, to a persons respiratory wet s,el * Determitir hat _people should do with their,leaves if cially if the leaves.are burned on a still and oppressive day. ,burning i%bAnried.,.' dmie towti have huge vacuums that roam 13xtriting leaves Henri ofi Wiles as 1 as2.,5 ti6cronsin �taraaagh neig laborh ds aatd pick tip leaves that It+�tt e-owincrs, side d In c�tt is Date-th t YA 3tlLttneter long, e Die take into tine str�eefs:Others,like Des Moines;make residents riaillionth crfa meter_ .an '. can gd least the fit- _ buy special,mostly bags and stuff them full of leaves and haul ters in your:nose,work their way into y tr lungs,and cause you therm to the eutb:for the*city's garbage trucks.Others allowresi- to cough or wheeze.if ycit '.re asthmatic''ihev'll add"ttr your dis- r dents to tales hrir gear+es to special dumps- Armes now allows :comfort.On a bright ankfirs cozy day, (lie wind carries them off, th.tt fa?r re#u4e: and everyone in touit"be having fires without polluting Enyirownentalists will tell you that even if your neighbor >�he air:-Or,at least,without violatitag the federal CleahAkAc;t .doesn't grave a cougl2 you shouldn't,bum your leaves.-Mulch Inch allows trp to'150 rnicrc rams�f 1{l-tmierO partiCitta#c Chem,they saj air throw them.in a compostheap."1Yzat's zaature's otter per cubic meter 6f air in a 24-hour period or 65 micro way of recycling. grams of 2.5-microat particulate matter. But not"cv tyvtne is an environmentalist,and a lot of people' Thti problem-is.'nobody beeps track of good 4s and W, 900y get pleasure ont of raking the lawn,standing around in days.Hard as it is to believe in this government towrt no one the driveway and.feedizngthe fire and chatting with a neighbor .*ularlymeasures the air quality.The federal;Dmironmental tmd"d rag thiatg_=_.s with'the kids. lt's another nice thingz abotat . tection Aggency doesn't do it,the state Departmt nt,rrf "smz ll-tc svn living,they say,and they five a point. 141atural Rmurces doesn't do it,the city doesn}t dad it except for .Saietbre uv,all have to go buy mulching mowers or Iv ad u m66toring the emissions from the smokes ck at.the muaicipai: - c0itly bags of dig`itew compost heaps,it sure would be nice electric plant.We could-be turning everyone's Lungs l black, - ftlae City Council to ld rake to some fact,,. and nobat3y ltroa7ltl know it or tell us to atop. It iuiitt give cis scrinething to talk about with octrteighEx4x So.wouldn't it be a good idea, as `star around d tend the fine ==or�Vitia of r doc" lx Bare we rush into banning,leaf-burn- VV&Meet her,breathless,in the emergency room ir,g,to find out if,indeed,it poses ai - .... .. .a„�.. .,...:-. �- 'lIM PROHL.EM IS,' peril'Of the five council members ihtO88DY KEEP s who voted in favor of it--John Parks ' 'MCK OF GOOD %N'as Opposed----only Herman Quirmbach wondered;-ifperhaps the AND IiAD council shouldn't first haVee some facts. �Ymw =f$Y „ Of course it should.Indeed,before the ,. council goes any further,it shratld: —- - V7- YOUR LETTER isaregthi��thll To "I`Hl✓ ITT t(11Z jurisdiction ley ieatiing up nu. r This is a place to start cleaning up ' lakes and rivers,water sources.ft id `our air.The city government Nvas set.1' nccdote: Short-account:of supplies. Sso wb 'can't go ern=tept 'up to serve the citizens of Ames aonzc interesting incideWt yr step in to clean dr --oor air? Be e Please:set a leaf-disposal pro-N vt tit. someone tltinks he has lost a free gram that will meet the needs of all' This is' the Nvord used in a re 6 t dote to burn his le<ivt s? Acc6rdiitg citizens. As a start have three' latter to the editor printed in The to the county freasurer's office, months of free days-at the yard Tribune trying to 44inimize the there are 11,449 tax notices sent out waste disposal site instead of three importance of bat#t�i leaf': eft:hurn- every yeas, do th are potentially 'months of burning.Then all citizens ing. 1,449-plus pc,.5�Nc fires burning will- have ample time to remove Clean air is ,m t Y yeas in our city. We are not their leaves, if this doesn't work k one in Am�;�a v* � Rhin.jusI dhis tine person's leaf then try other alternative methods already rll,, ; t all fires tlindughout.the city. Let's get serious arld clears up our, dotes from a atild �I' .,t;ae populatton grows prob e This is a life,hea}fi ii .possible American Ltm cam; 6OW V, lettl3t ilcrease '�ic'nti�itletl in anofh ath hazard for alt o6"�ii Ames pro the dara ;±� �tng er.lct#er vere the pmver plant an , for al ,peoplcROOMW At all etnis5ions.There are laWs.regu- Mariam*to levels have rsd satin-'these thin rs bait there are no 38Q, 12utp. , f b lard to},rciteet the i ple of tlse it laws to regulate burning Ica}yes. Ames '��� �� is £ . The .editorial pW of The ir 4bliind booster Tit'4i'a cot'ti- i scald:In a-wyvn MW wit91 R � 1 'dt is VWW=in ks Sti`Lit�Y�'8t1d.Yt�brMlS lR tt5.8; � '�t13>_ 111,E>'t1h$S Open decisionsrti !at d izi p+ u .k+i§tr► d trpct#t1eS -lt is fi7 in att'dCs t}e5#st all,.ii3p{ ri#a6. ,help *,r the nelic Y,Pwt�ect wo of the ernrir+ rxrt ens t3geRserrt csf s ttt�s+e �rship;'and,ex lty,dg►ity for*�•lh A.fsxtIM bunk ott der"CrIt: r k is for egiffiI rights stets 26d:hurr�ii Hjts.►n a vkr(d corn hY s#issensian�is�rsstit>dng In its; asp n or-internatiomllsm a A s gin its desire in hope'for*e best , s and prepam for the worst x 1 JIN 1 Here is a r ]t3 t1tS't3tter fl �iTTflR ;fig PAY All yc�urnei�fibrtxs catt:go house and 11e1p each other fiat are.the facux"Leaf try, car ftirr►es.,and ,f :: .r I giAoke- is harm ,il t� g ves plant affect o r .0. 1:, I understand, Mx._Gartner;_that vervone's heal#tt, froe let ztt di't etien live rrt Ames. Hav those u hsveprobletns as minor �chvvul iced that Ames is imt a small a ]o�c4ered immune ystetxi� prefer to to°v�rr? Small towns have banned headachesand allies to those v S ortatttm! " bu tg tp:-protect their,:t itizehs' stavevery, sous pupbltns aucTi�s " 4�Itt :.:health,.�hcttzldn�tAziesdatficsame? sthm ,: yse f� s��' icertied. 1 i ers.i am man viron- stud heat t.prbblet ,J# face that r q I'd be intcrest�in mend aria ist eitlt .AIt. _ Soi-i;K: :burnttig I2t+ves 8 it has the fall that we :. hurvrktc :xr�,tuyritizctotl�crs - }rs�ven tivetj r ,es i is Atmospheric inversitt d; n .#li tra;trnatty,feel I`m stir:; hazaatti tiattpr to those oftts zt eastx fort rztttt ale appmta# t Irealih. >: i itueatc crtoim have ' y 1 alth prvEilems a isance p -r d w tl t pptt~�41 3 SW Z' e .:ivhD y not be .€clIc tea . mute .i especially c1u �tprectat laizth dttru C ff the w th then# rt 1iali br�nus Iiendaehea ttid veryc d on t It is mmh ri gid than a ttuiny.nos sat t��eople AIsQ . . ��'t cx>mf�irt"It is a ea `t Xh r Clotlies,'0 an the vefy real and dan f ts� .�f i#� g�artrus tat# that If simeane t-if the days all occur p . tics have a1' asthma aitaci :eriticai 'The c-hy Council the facts vae Ic Ida. day :Y third this+maid e to&tc�the et�iec�neY Vim; 5 7'ttey hax�e l �n inunsia with facts eke the 1c I n#ee ro2t"fk t t y.wcw ld The treaCiz that nazi . a l} 3 ' have t Ppl L the doctor They vy tt> 1thy; tc fir alI:ttrs tt ve aspect ?urmtigf w�ruldn't be able 'to bectzse try TautpratirdofoirrCrtyC emcil.They btirtie s a ' easiez`� the.: couldn't bte$the - nci `oxvg a. da Ifnow the facts a�:..have t3sen . lnmt able arttvt People do die fxcsm asthma Iris is a b .the.. eaf burtiers''�t e$ to frl'W$W f fact :As the Aiftncati . Lung tx zitliep Ices #v arxlea b tri aocl As tation so aptly'`p,rts it if p�au iti: ie his it.that?9se �irr � ma's 'i bMtlte nothing else matt,rs. t 't to xmilatstandfi Yvs it. #rlcsck: ►u v ;fit pets 1f TfteCburie wrattld Irlct �gh.� f cot I vvuld fre happy:to s 1 gc fyCnt�e ii sf� sttiri��d T1r zit get.in touch wiffi enct mound abonfitt. I a*o a It f bag= mcs I YOUR LETTERS Lea. burners are HMO ffieprobl 'em CDP To a-HE EDTTOR for others"NViq it's-t om too late.to walk,eva'yu'heretltatitisfeasible,with Iaatn;arid it Haigh br beneficial,since mytwo babies in the stroller,in all kinds he reaction of 1.Mel lherne and , they live in'a cctittn'Unity, not on an of weather dolor, grocery, post T. Scott to the proposed leaf island, office, librat�, etc. M husband isurnin i orylinatwe is mart:rem- R r. caait y iniscent of a year-year tantrtzr t k rt in U'`n0tacur bikes � ses tc�'u r�k Our lone 444npg. that burning rs ci ua .It t leaves the garage rar ly We Cori- Mate ztslcl that kicking'sand to a pltt} is te�tcit , Mate's face is lacceptable ti�zt it it,an lY tt"t,thatit's much gittck Post rec5vle,bang-dry clothe&use flt)- adult be h�tvitx As a tui€,I try to be Bert_ . er tcs raj,e leases trio a at the curb r ceseent bulbs,cloth diapm and latex and tt a leak titeizr lor k 'to atelc paInt,iCeeP the thermostat suet low in eresus. When nw neighbors ertga tr UP,iban it st [ce#lz, sac > ,ia+ wiztter,use AC r€trely i 'sttrnn�erlant some ctisa ably acxivity I �fartt io a pile and thm; d for six, x W.je w that it is ic*t3cstanec,n©t�lfLsla- �, i� �s where the Canopy has hales(a b t- irt a stick zotti hem If hts.3te .iti ter indztator©f`doing cum*s part;' ? Hess, that trttrtivat s th a urcly,they itt t s 'v l Scott. 'theft siJnply lnry-ing a-`hcyme wrxtid txRO ifthey uocsdd lxv ritu�ti so t air - '4 4X atT&ts the lives o€thc� arotmdt�n�. � :: already su wtaww by trees someone t#te atrrttYal $iit inaylial�T aiti naive.it-ati r�;.that ;� ical use is li CI~arla>i eke 3rtted Cl years al it l a i Cl em_ i� mited to.,Roenorte anti tl r _3e Men,rKA infortned that,4mre3of lie. e is d aid csfje Itmattc children{and marry cxia�`s�-' g-. :izn e re:id4n#s) t attf ttled to their -� ,_-�;mwly b ;leaf tht o%m and sumlarziotSN� Itotrie5 duang tl mast atttifttl d�ys of No Otte is>�t and the year as a tlt ofthis l r 3 act- s a t � ,but.c rtvirctnmenW ity, tie still,tsnly rxmccned ith.tltr p - e utter what "rights,"it's:ar0ft;r-good trick the ittalcG ° et"tts; l le ti4 to GatS txal era`:ft too i4ydllC ChotCe5. have ttx terA csfseccirtg only their mzt atilt Cif e qur-,e I azrt concertm4 i� The.c 'd d � desired gi 'arid ft�eecl©ms u°Rile tint-t elly air PQ lution as initeh to dw C' y t PIA71 { �prOltbly caught to7 n� vvil�- �.: ryr� , £� fSr d.Vrc"tllC t)I3,F3. `g ..- �E" �i1�� � �- �� them�a# ate.tmt by tht�i ing eq anight be ,dtfr day. t doubtless cantos One hands tip in despw and giving,uptttailt4yuatc exposure l �r we can't solve ten at simulta-- Celeste Roberti children its fli~lessons thus IY I`xo mv Ixaw lets no fit place, Cil Raddg> dAx : d ucctrtsiderdfitm acid flits is nc>t c a n s df burn ' ith • s is d r ,. is �. Whc"tlse aim so 3illed with smoke ark} , , C?THE LlITOIt ul? �,ei over your attitude,People s that) is are rtat safe- yow-Mn home fired in to breathe cleanair should take"'havebeertn with interest the and_tnust leave t3�Si�er the cctt - ccmcems listed by the l cvrijcrs precedence over buming.`F"uld.not s�tnt iY # PC,trust-:get want to wish ill will exit anyone,but just .> who are for bunting leaves and irtvcalv�' rights, but once,so such.It is pretty c utcru5 tome that they %,him the ` k E" � you would know svl,at it's l� ncsc r i> "mind a person 60 a � b � afr �tal�ett, an ast}�uta at#ack might do it! And .; has an asthalattc reactian to smoke = ht Yam,we do have two carbon moitc de This is zittst Iona.ever,to the e{i ' b a' a�' in our home.I atn�to be '. `� ]ifc-t3u'ea an Ames ident,.but nmi to fur,but I fc�l that tnaSse i need to be Let ztte; more involved � ecing resa?ce ibis tsrtgoiug health involved with the health of my saatieone You lowest ti e fora breath hushattd who has astluna and also the . ofairintolungstf&t losiiz d�e'satrtelanplrlezn. gbecaww Ruth Lmeprd health and%tifare-ofotlter lisle with of ouright to btbumIitrsertt Chia just as !! [I Jvhnsvn St . invest Ames r11UGlt ash !¢tt r(�f'IIi t1Dt 13t3tTttia g.