Cumberland Advocate: Letters

To the Editor

Thank you, “Forever Plaid,” for adding technicolor to our days. All who saw your show were filled with joy and awed by your talent.

Everyone who had anything to do with that show should feel very proud of the result. We hope that isn’t the last we hear from “The Plaids.”

Lois Ruppel

Cumberland

To the Editor

We have recently had very thoughtful gestures of goodwill extended to the City of Cumberland.

The Cumberland GAP is near completion of a beautiful shelter in Tourist Park, south of the beach. The shelter is reserved for the GAP for the July 4th celebration, and the annual ice fishing contest. The balance of the year, the shelter can be reserved for family get-togethers by calling City Hall at 822-2752. This shelter went through procedural approval with the Park and Rec Committee, and the City Council after formal posting notices.

TMC of Poskin has also finished our new swimming-beach raft, and it is installed at the beach. The owner of TMC, Mike Stauner, has donated two beautiful ladders to the City of Cumberland to help defray the overall cost.

These generous donations are an indication of many good things that are happening in our city, and a thank you is in order when you see these participating individuals.

Brent Laursen

Director of Public Works

Zoning Administrator

City of Cumberland

To the Editor

Now is the time to drill for more oil. There is plenty of oil in Alaska and off-shore California and in the Gulf of Mexico. We are a “can-do” nation. We solve problems and get things done. America doesn’t sit around whimpering helplessly unless forced to by government regulations. We need oil. We need gasoline for our cars, our trucks, and our tractors to plant the crops.

There is plenty of oil. I was there 40-plus years ago when the so-called experts were saying we would run out of coal and oil in a few years. We have more reserves now than we knew about then.

This reminds me of the slide show my uncle gave back in 1967. He had been in India and showed people laying in the streets, starving, while healthy, sacred cows wandered about. The oil is there. All we have to do is get up and go get it. I just don’t see Americans giving up and whimpering and letting government regulations keep us from our own oil.

I am a Christian, in my Bible it says: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” It doesn’t say, “The Government is my shepherd, I shall always want.”

President Bush proposed an energy plan first thing when he became president. It included drilling in Anwar. It was shot down by Democrats who want to control everything.

Now is the time for America to get up off its duff and get to work and provide oil for our own needs and in so doing, shake off the attitudes and office holders that keep us from prospering.

Nick Ricci

Cumberland

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