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Letter to Editor---Relax Bandon and Let there be light...

2/8/2013

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Hey Folks,

I really enjoy reading the Letters to the Editor and if you would send me your letters I will post them on the Blog. The following letter is from Jaye and Ronnie and it is rip roaring hilarious...... Thank you Ladies from Fairfview.....Rob T. 
Dear Editor --
 
    We're darkening Bandon skies to protect  What?  The Bandon Marsh has been singled out for special attention.   Prior to the Bandon Marsh being "protected," it was naturally home to a very  large, diverse
wildlife population, night lights and all.  And it still is.   So, the Marsh isn't in any danger.
 
    Bandon has been around way over a hundred  years.  In that time it has had both gas light and electric light,  street lights, traffic lights, head lights, emergency vehicle lights (and  sirens), flag spotlights, porch lights, shop lights, whatever.  Still,  Bandon today sports a wildlife population within its city limits that includes  myriad birds (including night owls), rodents, possums, raccoons, deer, and  elk none of which seems bothered by the light at night.  The only local  animals notably missing seem to be the lions, bears, and bobcats, likely  because Bandon is lit at night.  This is bad?
 
    In the lighting above, almost all of it - save  for the flag-honor lights - had a basis in safety.  The  lighting evolved because it was needed and worked.  The City of Bandon  faces stiff liability fines should some
of their pseudo-science be brought  in front of real judicial courts over consequences that should have been   foreseeable.
 
    As for conserving energy, cut me some  slack!  Bandon is in the business of  SELLING energy!
 
    And about the rocks...  Some years back in  the SF Bay Area I heard of a Rockologist who was apparently at that time  confronted with some of  the same "Rock Sympathy" we're witnessing here,  and how the rocks
should be protected.  If  I recall, he stated that  the surface rocks are the sturdiest of all rocks, precisely because of   their exposure to the elements which specifically included all of the  light spectrum exposures.  It was the
rocks below, the ones protected from  most of the maturing elements, that were the weakest.
 
    So, Bandon, relax.  Turn on your lights,  enjoy your BBQs, honor your flags, light your paths and drives.  Just  be considerate.
 
Ronnie Herne
 62650 Fairview Road
Coquille, Oregon  97423
541-396-4200
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City of Bandon---Outdoor Lighting Ordinance Measure 6-148
Keep the Lights ON in Bandon
The Bandon Lighting Ordinance
“Coos County Today”
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation

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