Alumni Sandstorm ~ 08/11/15
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Rex HUNT ('53), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Linda REINING ('64), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: George STEPHENS ('58)

BOMBER LUNCH Today: '55 Ladies, 11:30, Sterling's on GWWay

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: David Rivers' ('65) married names!

Had Tuesday Welds married Hal March, Jr. she would be known 
as Tuesday March the second

-Rex HUNT (wb-53) ~ that was a strange tale on TV the other 
      evening regarding Manhattan project.
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60) 

Re: DOE Hanford plans

I don't intend for the following to be political, but important
to the future of where we grew up.

2 articles in the Tacoma News Tribune this last couple of days.

First... a Federal Judge appears disinclined to allow any
further delays in the clean-up of the tanks. Basically the judge
said to DOE you have had plenty of time and many delays. The
problem is serious, stick to the schedule. Cheers for the Judge!

I cannot help but wonder if anybody but those who live downriver
from Hanford fully realize the huge consequences of tank leakage
reaching the Columbia. Not to mention fish and shellfish in the
Pacific Ocean. Having some small understanding of the amounts
and types of contamination in those tanks, I cannot help but
wonder What will they do with them after they pump them out? I
suspect it may be beyond my lifetime. 

As an aside..... those of you who follow Alaska may be aware of
the proposed copper mine that they want to build a large leach
pit using a cocktail of deadly chemicals to extract the copper.
Alaskans are pointing out if anything happened to that pit it
would forever contaminate the richest fishing and crabbing bay
in the world, forever. "Oh that would never happen as a special
dam would hold back the chemicals". HOWEVER... if you follow the
news you have seen the results of an old closed mine from back
in the '30s where the EPA itself accidently caused a breach in
that dam and hundreds of tons of deadly chemicals are now in the
river system that flows through several states and could end up
in Lake Mead. 

I have traveled extensively in Alaska both coastal and interior,
including 22 trips to Dutch Harbor over a 16 year period and it
is easy to see the harvest from the seas, lakes and rivers, as
well as the land, are more then vital to Alaska. It is life
itself. I hope the people of Alaska stand their ground.

As to the second article in the TNT Re: Hanford

The National Park Service is seeking comments on the new
Manhattan Project National Park. Along with other sites around
the US the Hanford Park would include the B Reactor and several
sites of Old Hanford and White Bluffs, Hanford High School,
construction camps and other sites at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos..

You can read about it and make comments at: 
  parkplanning.nps.gov/MPNHP

"Happiness is the sky in bloom" 
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

To: Earl BENNETT ("widgie" '63),

thanks for the advice on hip replacement recovery... am sure it
would have been a lot easier, if I hadn't been almost 70, but I
am "getting there" and can't wait to get the right one, done, 
so that I can resume enjoying things, again. being confined to
walking with two canes and using a "scooter" to get around,
isn't a lot of fun. limits your fun activities, let alone, 
day-to-day activities. *grin*
 
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ am loving the weather here in Kuna, ID.
      we have been having thunder storms, lightning, plus rain 
      and temps in the 80s - such a wonderful change from 
      Bakersfield, CA
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)

Re: Parker's Hardware

I even bought some handsome ceramic elves there, so many years
ago. I still have them - in a box, somewhere (I've moved too
many times). That is the kind of store I miss. But you can find
that sort in places like Dayton and Hood River.

-Patti McLAUGHLIN Cleavenger ('65)
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