["Thank You!" for the space/read, and
SASS says "Thank You!" I am in kahoots with
Sherman/SASS. I don't know how the RCSE so messed over my last
post--it came out fine in the SAL & Allegro-lite groups.]
CONTINUED support in posts and letters is needed until this has been seen
through. Sherman is working this case like he was going to The
Supreme Court with it--and it is taking THIS kind of effort to make the
difference. Below is an update, but also a glimpse of what SASS is
up against in keeping park, park, and PARTICULARLY for RC
SOARING!
"Sportfans, .. all those letters I
asked you to write to the Redmond City Council and the Mayor? ...
The City of Redmond is sponsoring a letter Tuesday night to __ :-) __ Ron
Sims. ... Sims is really set in his ways. An appearance
at this meeting may be more important than we all realize. ... If you
appear, make sure that you sign in and take a copy of your letter with
you and submit it if possible. [This clip helps you
understand the issues faced and to help with your letters.] The group
needs a speaker to state, there must be other better sites, We have been
there for 30 years, We are good stewards of the site but will be
forced to leave if the air space restrictions of the turd plant occur,
there are no other places to fly in King County, Sailplanes and
power planes do not mix and that we are there to protect the freeflight
and rocket guys also. This is a 36 million demonstration facility
and Duval is a better solution." --Sherman Knight
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Subject: This is a summary of the Boondoggle over the King
County Department of Natural Resources attempt to put a human sewage
treatment plant at 60 Acres Park, The Flying Field. The bottom line is
that Paul Allen's golf course wants taxpayer subsidized water. King
County Executive Ron Sims is in Paul Allen's pocket, and is cooperating
in corrupt, Enron style, power games.
"Billionaire Paul Allen and his brother-in-law are co-owners of the
Willows Run Golf Course, next to 60 Acres South Park. They want our
flying site park turned into a human sewage water reclamation plant to
water his golf course, so their golf course won't have to keep fighting
the State Ecology Dept. over their efforts to stop it from pumping water
out of the Samammish Slough. (The golf course uses 50 million gallons of
water per year, water salmon need to spawn.)
The golf course is the only customer in sight for the recycled water. But
it doesn't want to pay for the plant. It only wants to buy less than half
its water, at about half the rate for fresh water. It would pay about
$60,000 per year (according to the February 22 Seattle Times
article by Nick Perry.). That wouldn't even cover maintenance
costs. It wouldn't touch the $2.2 million interest (at 6%) on the $37
million price tag for the plant."
"Metropolitan King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, whose district
includes the golf course, said that the project is 'a very unnecessary
boondoggle.' A test facility, to train workers ahead of the county's much
larger $1.3 billion Brightwater sewage treatment plant, due to open in
2010, could be built elsewhere for much less,' she said, 'Paul Allen can
afford to buy his water from anywhere he wants to, including Saudi Arabia
if he chose,' Lambert said. 'We will never recoup the money.
Never.'"
[posts by SASS member Philip R Patten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to Redmond City Council.]
Another SASS member Vaughn Entwistle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted: "
If this project is ever built, it will be an obvious candidate for
a 'Golden Fleece
Award.'"
Again from Sherman,"Fellow soaring
enthusiasts, Seattle is in danger of loosing its soaring site. The
current field is approximately 15 acres of mowed grass, surrounded by a
golf course, soccer fields and open field. It is about as perfect
as it can get [and it is as crucial to keep this site as it was to hold
out for Eagle Butte & Torrey Pines]. The Seattle Area Soaring
Society has been flying on this site since 1971."
Ron Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (vigorously
resisting--vested interests showing--post a PROTEST!!)
Kathy Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (working
vigorously to move or cancel the project--post a "Thank
You!")
Paul Clark, SKY PILOT, Osaka, Japan (AMA # 53 777
1)
http://www.kcat.zaq.ne.jp/skypilot/
(dated)
SKY PILOT'S HANGAR--RCHLG-DHL AFICIONADO
