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Fare you all well
Are there any more Christmases?
Yes — inside us, all year, every minute of the day long.
Love comes from within us — no one left out. Our mother and the mother
before tried, until she had no more love to give.
The reason: We needs be replenished by each other with our love.
Or our hearts begin to war with our minds and we are divided and can
only destroy each other.
Oh to glide above all the tension and stress to solutions found in the
expressions of our lives. So comes wisdom’s love to everyone. Yes.
We can choose to share, to learn and to help each other. Fair enough;
fare you all well.
Allison Andrus
Hood River
Keep air clean
Christmas Day — the air in the Hood River valley was awful.
Yet two weeks before, the air was very good. How does the air get
clean and stay clean for the children?
Paul Nevin
Hood River
Locating a solution
Mount Hood EPIRBs follow up (to Dec. 27 letter): I am no expert;
however, I just priced out the necessary components to build a
programmable GPS Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon that
can be configured to properly function only within the confines of
the Mount Hood area and can auto-activate or be rendered useless
if taken out of the Mount Hood area.
At one off pricing I can build one of these for under $150 plus
cosmetics and battery. Since most climbers start their ascent of
Mount Hood from Timberline Lodge, if a dedicated computer-kiosk
were to be put into place with appropriate signage, climbing
parties could register their party, route, and duration
information and an EPIRB could be automatically configured and
available for use.
The EPIRB can be activated manually by the user and will
auto-activate if overdue. Optional warnings/activations to the
user for course deviation, excessive time between position change
etc. For the climbers who don’t want to pack a whole extra
half-pound, I question your judgment.
For those who say no mandatory requirement, this solution doesn’t
require you carry one, only that you should. A huge fine, however,
should be assessed for any climber involved in an extraction when
not equipped with an EPIRB. With a little planning this system
could be expanded to encompass all recreational areas on Mount
Hood and can easily be exported for use in other locations.
How to do it? Make the product design a project for the high
school kids; send the assembly to the Mid Columbia Center; labor
from the probation department; maintain it via USFS; funding:
Initial grant of startup funding then sell this system to other
agencies to offset program costs. Just a thought ...
Scott Rowland
Hood River
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