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Opinion Letters and comments for July 15, 2008
Letters and comments for July 15, 2008
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Hawkins, Cimon A few weeks ago I had an interesting experience which renewed my faith in people’s honesty and taught me a lesson to use more care in handling money. We were planning a trip to visit relatives and I went to Wells Fargo Bank in La Grande and withdrew $300 in cash. They put the money in a letter-sized envelope and included a statement of the transaction. I put it in my purse and used some of it on the trip. After returning home I caught up on paying bills and put the payment envelopes in my purse, of course, forgetting, I also had the envelope with over $200 there as well. I put all envelopes in the letter slot at the La Grande post office. The next day I received a phone call from Wells Fargo bank asking if I was missing $300. “Not that I know of,” I said and then light dawned! No money envelope in my purse! The bank told me to go to the post office and ask for Claire and she would return my money. Wow! I did just that and tried to reward Claire but she would not take it. I asked how she knew it was mine. She said that there was a record from the bank in the envelope which she took to the bank and they figured out who the withdrawal had been made to. The bank then called me. My many, many thanks go to our public servants who deal so honestly with their clients. Camille Hawkins La Grande A while back Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., voted against the bill containing energy tax credits. The following is a letter we sent to Congressman Walden: “It’s increasingly difficult to fathom your reasoning on these important energy votes. The job and income creation all across your district by the renewable energy industry should be obvious to you at this point. But there is also the issue of economic equity. “We have an epidemic of asthma all across the country that the coal industry treats as external to its cost of doing business. The dirty air, the acid rain in the Columbia River Gorge, the changing vegetation under the stress of acidified soils, none of this bothers them a whit. The only thing that will change this is if they are forced to compete on the basis of their real costs. That’s what the credits represent to green power. “We are deeply disappointed in your actions and we can only hope that this does not signal a permanent opposition to renewable energy.’’ Norm and Shelley Cimon La Grande |
