Tri-Cities to celebrate National Night Out, and other Herald letters | Opinion
National Night Out events set Aug. 1
National Night Out is a free annual campaign that promotes partnerships between the community and law enforcement. National Night Out enhances the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement, heightens crime and drug prevention awareness and brings back a true sense of community. Furthermore, it provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances. It takes place on a Tuesday in August every year, in over 16,500 communities from all 50 states, U.S territories, Canadian cities and military bases around the world (Kennewick, Richland and Pasco all are holding separate events on Aug. 1).
For more information on how your neighborhood can get involved, please visit your city police department’s Facebook page or website. Also, be sure to visit the Support, Advocacy & Resource Center’s (SARC) website, Facebook and Instagram pages for more information about crime prevention and advocacy services available in our community.
Marisol Cervantes, Kennewick
Let’s build canals to be fish-friendly
I am responding to a July 13 Letter to the Editor from Stan Kuick.
Mr. Kuick is in favor of removing the lower Snake dams.
I strongly disagree with Mr. Kuick for the following reasons:
1. Dams generate clean power, not contributing to climate change.
2. Dams store water, some of which is used to irrigate thousands of acres of farmland.
3. Dams allow for barge traffic taking numerous trucks off the roads, thus reducing congestion and pollution.
4. Dams allow for recreational boating. I have a houseboat moored at Charboneau Park. Who will compensate me when my boat is sitting on dry land?
This removal, all for a fish? Why do we have hatcheries? Oh. that’s right. They’re not wild fish. So?
Why is there no discussion to build fish-friendly canals that go around the dams?
This proposal to remove these dams is ridiculous and should be dismissed.
Tony Schouviller, Pasco
China needs to clean up up itself
Next time you put on a shirt or any clothing look to see where it’s made. Next time you look at your computer, TV, car, solar panels wind turbines. They all have something made in China. The biggest polluter of the world is China. Yet they do not have to do anything to create “Clean Energy.” China is already the world’s largest user of fossil fuels. China last year built more new coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined.
The present administration intends to spend more than half a trillion dollars in the next decade for clean energy and climate change, mainly solar panels and wind turbines. The problem is these policies are all gifts to China.
The EPA clean energy policies reduce our ability to compete internationally. Giving China even more room to grow its economy and gain an even greater edge over the U.S.
According to John Kerry, the Biden administration’s “climate envoy,” whatever the U.S. does unilaterally, without similar action by China, is utterly pointless. Kerry admitted in January 2021 that even if the U.S. were to have zero carbon emissions, almost 90 percent of all the planet’s global emissions come from outside our borders.
Ira Johnson, Kennewick
Writer will miss retiring editor
This is a ‘letter to the editor’ about the editor. Cecilia Rexus retired July 28.
All of her readers owe a sincere debt of gratitude for the excellent job she has done.
Her local candidate interviews were even handed, concise and asked the tough questions that voters needed answered.
She balanced the diverse opinions sent to her without personal bias (Does anybody know her own personal beliefs or political leanings?)
Inquiries sent to Cecilia were answered quickly, politely and honestly.
And on a personal note, Cecilia has kept me out of trouble by refusing to publish my more alienating and potentially offensive comments.
Under her watch, the Tri-City Herald’s “Letters to the Editor” grew and gave us all an opportunity to share our diverse personal concerns, opinions and beliefs. This forum is a terrific asset to both the Herald and our community.
Let’s all join together and give her a heartfelt round of applause.
Great job Cecilia!
Michael Harrington, Pasco
