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EDITORIAL "My Mother is against Nancy Modern communications like Tweets and texts allow Reagan's 'Say No to Drugs' Twitter and cellular telephone only 140 and 160 characters campaign," Jay Leno once messaging encourage reading (including punctuation and quipped, "she thinks that's just and writing among our youth,spaces) respectively per use, rude. It should be 'Say No Thank but they have also mark a new which is, in traditional language, You to Drugs." low in written communications, about 10 words. What has us thinking about a The instantaneous nature of In response to these punctilious joke from the 1980s these vehicles, combined with limitations, tech-society has is a literacy program that gives their self-imposed charactercreated their own abbreviated away bicycles to encourage limits, continue to degrade our language. Even our potential reading in our schools, language but more importantly, presidential candidates sound That would be ironic if it our ability to understand each like children when tweeting. In wasn't so necessary, other, fairness, some of them sound like children when they're talking, but written communication is a higher art and is meant to have permanence. If Shakespeare were texting Hamlet it would read: 2 b r not 2 b. And that is the question: to suffer the slings and arrows of abbreviated communication when we know it dooms our ability to understand each other? There is good and bad in this. Good in that our kids are reading and writing (hooray) and bad in that such communication further exacerbates our attention deficit problem. It literally (pun intended) and necessarily eliminates words like exacerbates and punctilious. It replaces them with upside down smiley faces and ignorance. There is relief out there: buy a book or take pen and paper in hand and write a letter. gift to Letter to editor, Journal I wanted to comment on Larry Hager's letter titled "Industries must be very clean, now." In his support of the proposed Solomon plant Mr. Hager makes the following statement: "As tbr emissions from this kind of a system, there is hardly none; other than steam...." John Cox's letter to you titled "Incinerator would trade our health for profits," which responds to Mr. Hager's letter, refers the reader to the ORCAA website to confirm Mr. Cox's statement "... the proposed 8olomon incinerator would produce many tons of additional pollution..." I went to the ORCAA website where I waded through the Solomon application, paying particular attention to the pollutants that Solomon itself identifies as being a by-product of their proposed plant. In Table 2-2: "Emission Factors and Projected Toxic Air Pollutant Emission Rates" Solomon identifies no less than 64 toxic air pollutants (in this one table) that will be emitted by the proposed Solomon plant. Some of them are familiar, well- known poisons, such as: ammonia, arsenic, cadmium, carbon monoxide, chlorine, chloroform, chromium hexavalent, ibrmaldehyde, lead, mercury, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. I am a contractor, not a scientist, but 64 toxic pollutants are identifed by Solomon in this table. I may not be a scientist like Mr. Cox, but I do have common sense; and my common sense tells me that adding 64 additional toxic pollutants to Shelton's air is a bad idea. It is an especially bad idea when one takes into consideration the benefit to the City and the citizens of Shelton: those maybe three jobs. I think Mr. Hager ought to go to the ORCAA website of to familiarize himself with some of these Solomon- provided science-based facts before calling someone a liar, or suggesting that a concerned citizen has "nefarious purposes." I looked nefarious up in the dictionary and I don't believe Mr. Hager is using it correctly. John Price Shelton leadership Editor, the Journal yQg for the heads- up about the change in scheduling for Board of County Commissioner meetings (Public Meeting, 5-12-11). I am sure it will be difficult for very many people to attend for three days running, eight hours each day, in the hopes that they will be present for any commission meetings. This sort of leadership reminds me of my favorite George Bush quote: '~rhe terrorists never stop looking for ways to hurt our citizens, and neither do we." The county commissioners continue to seek ways to prevent citizens from participating in local government. This is simply their latest tactic. They certainly don't lack for imagination, and they never stop looking for ways to hurt the citizens of Mason County. Katherine Price Shelton nterest. We will ,I don't eat meat orris, so I can't tell much about the specials. Shelton-Mason County She~ton-Mason County Journal is a member of Rick Kennedy, publisher Advertising: Composing room: usPs 492-800 Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association. Dave Piedk, advertising manager William Adams, graphics Newsroom: Harvey Morris, ad representative Gaylene Wisaman, paginator r Mat Taylor, ad representative Koleen Wood classlfiedM als POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Shelton-Mason SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jesse MuUen, edito , ' eg County Journal, Re. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584. $37 per year for Mason County addresses, Kevan Moore, news editor Front ll~IkI¢. " I~IoL Con', typing P'uolisnea ............... weeK,y oy one~vn-MasonCoun"'Joumal Incq~, . $51per year in state of Washington butoutsde.. -- _ ,.... ~ . ._. ~s~S i~, NoS~h Mas?n, DonrB Kin~ltd~ ~~ _p_m: . at 227 West cota Street, She,=, Washir~on Mason ~nty, ~1 per Year om OT s~e. Telephone (360) 426-4412, www.masoncounty.com uwneo anti puDiisrleo Dy Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, Washington Shelton-Mason County Journal, In c Page A-4- Shelton-Mason County Journal- Thursday, May 19, 2011