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Had I not received encouragement from a friend of mine, I would have kept the thoughts below to myself. Yet he urged me to speak up, concerning the local fire issue so fully reported in The Julian News. First concern of mine is that a $200 fee per parcel for firefighting JULIAN, CALIFORNIA services may in many cases result in higher rents. Landowners will pass the expense on to their tenants. Rent is already high enough here and another increase may even more effectively shove the poor out. Poor? Yes. The line at Feeding America, in the library parking lot, every other Wednesday, gives us an inkling. You might say there's no other choice than the fee, but I think there is, and I'll express my idea in the form of a question: Why should anyone who creates a Join Orchard Hill’s Supper Club "stand alone" environment for their home and property pay so much? and experience fine dining in an Standalone means that if fire personnel are a little late, or can't show exclusive private setting. up, chances are good that the house won't ignite. The The most most dangerous dangerous Orchard Hill is serving its fabulous fourSecond concern: as I've read the articles about the fire issue, I animals animals in in the the forest forest course dinner on Saturday and Sunday smell politics, and it finds me wanting to express a gentle reminder. don’t don’t live live there. there. evenings through the spring of 2018. The reminder originates from my years of reading fire fatality reports. Chef Doris’s fall menu includes tried Inaja Fire. Mann Gulch. Battlement Creek. Dude Fire. Storm King. and true entrées with seasonal sides and Thirty Mile. Cedar Fire. La Jolla Fire. Ad infinitum. Elder fire personnel perfectly grilled Brandt’s beef. will recognize these names. Dinner is $45 per person. Reservations From the above list, Storm King is an example of how interagency are required. Please call us for more bias and politics had a role to play in the deaths of fourteen firefighters. information at 760-765-1700. There were other contributing factors as well, and not a few. To ONLY YOU CAN PR E VE N T W I L D FIRE S. We look forward to seeing you! w w w . s m o k e y b e a r. c o m understand Storm King, first read the official report, which is online, and then read the book or watch the movie, Fire on the Mountain, by John N. Maclean. Getting back to the issues in the Julian area: I hope that they, the real issues, don't lurk around in the background OH203_AD_2018_Julian News_press.indd 1 9/17/17 11:39 AM and provide some sort of foundation for injuries or fatalities when a real cooker flares up. Greg Courson NOTE TO PUB: DO NOT PRINT INFO BELOW, FOR I.D. ONLY. NO ALTERING OF AD COUNCIL PSAS. Wildfire Prevention - Newspaper (2 1/16 x 2) B&W WFPA01-N-03259-C “Animals” 85 screen Whispering Pines Film at Schawk 212-689-8585 Reference #: 127801
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I’ve been reminded recently of the old cowboy song, Home on the Range. You know the line, “Where never is heard a discouraging word”? That is not the United States right now. It feels like pretty much everywhere I turn, all I hear is discouragement. Our institutions of government are paralyzed. We face serious national problems with no effective response in sight — or even, in some cases, an acknowledgement that a problem exists. We’re fighting over racism, identity, security and culture. Our political system appears dysfunctional and occasionally on the verge of breakdown. All of this is serious. But the question we have to confront is not, "What’s going wrong?" It’s, "How do we respond?" Or, at the risk of seeming hopelessly out of step with the national mood, "How do we set about making a great country still greater?" As always, the answer to our problems does not lie in efforts to tinker with the structures we’ve erected or the systems we’ve created. It lies in us — in the American people. Whatever our political beliefs, we share some characteristics that I think give us cause for hope. I’ve always thought that Carl Schurz, a German-born U.S. senator from Missouri, summed up something basic about the American character when he said, on the floor of the Senate in 1872, “My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.” Americans respect the ideals of this country. They’re devoted to those ideals — freedom, liberty, justice for all — and they want the nation to live up to them. They believe in fighting oppression and expanding opportunity, in the rule of law and making progress on Americans’ pursuit of happiness. They believe in the words of the Constitution’s preamble, “To strive for a more perfect union.” We do not give up, and we always hold out hope that the country is fixable. Even when we believe the nation is falling short of its ideals, we’re moved not by malice or hatred, but because we want to make the United States stronger and fairer. Americans in overwhelming numbers believe in and respect what this country stands for, appreciate the differences and the diversity that are our hallmark, and recognize those differences and diversity as a strength. This creates a remarkable degree of unity on broad goals. There is widespread acceptance of the notions that people here should have access to good health care, that we need to be good stewards of the environment, that everyone should have a fair shot at success, that voting should not be burdensome. Americans believe in a strong national defense, that the U.S, ought to play a benign role in the world, that people of all kinds are welcome to engage in the political process, that civil liberties ought to be staunchly defended, and that we all deserve equality before the law. continued on page 12
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