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Wind Turbines

Would Ruin

Landscape

To the editor:

My husband and I consider Potter County to be very special with the vast forested land, the rolling farmland and the many ambitious people who are devoted to making the county a better place economically through self-sufficiency.

I am writing because we are concerned about the proposed wind turbines in Potter County. We feel that the Potter County Planning Commission and the Potter County Commissioners should do all that they can to prevent this.

We agree that wind energy has certain advantages over other forms of energy and it may be worth developing in certain parts of the country. However, corporate wind farm development is wrong for Potter County.

Installation of wind turbines in other, more-populated regions or in places where the natural landscape has already been scarred by coal mining, for example, would be more appropriate. However, in Potter County the environmental impact that these turbines would have on the landscape would counteract any environmental advantages of wind energy.

Wind will not provide electricity to Potter County, nor a sustainable economy, and it will arguably harm the county by intruding on the one thing we do have here -- nature.

The natural beauty of the Pennsylvania Wilds is a huge draw to this region. Who would want to own a camp next to a wind plant?

Perhaps in other places where wind turbines have gone up, people are willing to sacrifice their environment. However, if wind farms would go up in our township, we would seriously begin searching for another place to live and certainly would have a very hard time selling our property.

Unfortunately, the Planning Commission has been very hesitant to make any restrictions on wind farm development in Potter County and the chairwoman is clearly in support of this development.

Despite this bias, we hope that our elected officials will not allow wind development to ruin the unique natural beauty of Potter County.

Denise E. Fedele

Coudersport

Good job,

PennDOT!

Dear Editor

Coming home from Southern Pa. last Sunday, I was to find the roads in such good condition when I crossed into Cameron County.

Up to that point all the roads had been terrible. Thank you to our local PennDOT crews.

Tami Slyder,

Emporium

'Tag Day' Money

Used Locally

To the Editor

February is heart month, and the Cameron County Cardiac Committee will be holding its annual Tag Day Drive, Feb. 22, for the benefit of Cameron County citizens.

The past year we made a decision to try and do more for our citizens by giving a donation to the Cameron County Ambulance Association which is raising money to provide better ambulance services to the county. Since everyone usually sometime in their lives need the ambulance services and almost always need the cardiac equipment they provide we felt this would be a big service for cardiac patients in Cameron County.

The new year is here, and the Guy and Mary Felt Manor's new addition is ready and being used. They are in need of a few cardiac items for that part of their facility and we felt this was a very appropriate place to further aid Cameron County residents. The Manor provides a lot of services that they weren't able to before and we may all someday be in need of these cardiac services. We are fortunate to have this facility in our community and feel that a donation by our Committee (on behalf of all the Cameron County residents who have generously supported our drives through the years) is a plus for everyone.

Years ago we used to donate $2,000 each year to the Geisinger and Robert Packer Medical Centers with the understanding that the money would be used entirely for cardiac research. After quite a few years, the Cardiac Committee

decided that we really couldn't confirm that our donations were being used just for that, and we decided to stop. Since then, we have been looking to find something really worthwhile to donate some money where we had control over what the money was being used for.

Last year we got the chance to do just that, and again this year. What better place than in our own county with volunteer people we all know?

We still help individuals with cardiac problems, but in the past few years after the PACE program became available to Pennsylvania residents, we have not had as many requests from Cameron County residents for aid, and so we wanted to be putting your donations each year from your drive and also from memorials to good use for everyone.

Sincerely,

Cardiac Committee

LEPC elects 2008 officers

Cameron County Local Emergency Planning Committee reelected its officers during a reorganizational meeting held at the Aroma Café. Returned for another year were Adam Johnson, chairman; Kevin Johnson, treasurer, and Laura Narby, secretary.

In other business, the committee was notified that the Citizen Corps grant has been extended to June 2009. This will allow emergency management officials to continue public education activities. Committee members have been asked to submit training and outreach ideas that would benefit the community.

Members were also advised that the Pa. Emergency Management Agency has approved Cameron County's HazMat report, resulting in additional state funding of $1,945.

ICS 300 training is taking place this weekend at Bradford; Feb. 29 and March 1-2 in Johnsonburg, and March 14-16 in Falls Creek. ICS 400 training is scheduled April 26-27 in Ridgway.

Attending in addition to the three officers were Tonya Aversa, Steve Bajor, Fred Burne, Hope Dunkle, Kris Fapore, Jan Hampton, Terri Housler, Brad Hutzell, Butch Kehl, Greg Kunselman, Misty Lupro, Bill Malia, Fred Manginell, Harry Mansfield, Brenda Munz, Al Neyman, Bill Pennington, Merry Stokes and Bruce Whitman.