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Everyone's opinion Counts. This letter was dated 30 August 2007 and sent to the Fernley Leader. It was also sent to FernleyNews.com. Since this letter was not printed in the Leader we have posted it here for the writer. We encourage free speech regardless of good or bad. The squeaky wheel in our opinion should not be the only one getting the grease.

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September 9, 2007

Dear (Leader) Editor:

I continue to be amused by the letters to the editor from Dave and Sandra Mathewson.

Their fallacious use of “West Fernley residents” suggests that everyone from the west side of Fernley is staged in the Mathewson’s living room glad handing each other in mutual support of C.R.A.P. and T.E.W.T.P. I do not agree with their exaggerations or many of their premises. They do not speak for me and I am one of the “people.”

They decry the potential of hazardous chemicals, loss of view, privacy, peace and quiet. I live a few blocks west of their property. Perhaps they have selective hearing like my grandfather? I daily hear the rumbling of trains on the Union Pacific tracks, big rigs on I-80 and at Pilot and Loves truck stops, and the sounds of Nevada Cement.

Existing lighting from all commercial facilities along the interstate must not be a “visual pollution?”

Their view includes the railroad and interstate, billboards, fields of weeds, drifting litter from the highway and regular forays of dirt bikes and ATV’s zipping through the area raising dust containing naturally occurring arsenic in our native soils. Did they evaluate all of these factors before purchasing their property? Were they not concerned about the arsenic in their well water? Dust from the native soils was not a concern then? Didn’t they realize that thousands of tons of hazardous materials daily pass their property in Union Pacific tank cars and trucks on I-80?

Their concern about sodium hypochlorite is equally distorted. It is not chlorine gas. The recent spill of this chemical in the roundabout from an over-turned big rig did not require evacuations or special breathing apparatus. It did make the native alkaline soils even whiter. I suspect they don’t use such hazardous materials in doing their laundry and are likely to receive a visit from the fashion police.

As a resident of West Fernley, I have yet to see their petition or be polled for my opinion and am one of numerous neighbors that have not been polled. Perhaps the Mathewson’s are statistically challenged as well as suffering from tunnel vision?

Craig Penner

West Fernley, NV

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Reference Leader Comment Article: We the People

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