Cam Parry definitely exudes energy and enthusiasm and offers lots of interesting ideas. Hopefully we can all work together to implement some of those ideas and build a foundation that embraces input from a diverse group as recommended by the SDAT final report.
More importantly, before Parry asks China to fund a container port on the North Spit, he has some serious and immediate public safety issues to resolve. Andy Jackson, before he even took his oath of office, drove the county roads with a former employee of the road department to assess their condition. Anyone who drives them everyday knows the result, they are a catastrophe and Jackson, liaison to the Coos County Road Department, advised the board that road master, John Rowe, admitted he did not have the staff levels to maintain the 600 miles of roads in the county maintenance system.
During the tenure of the previous liaison, Kevin Stufflebean, Rowe continually told the board his department was keeping up with maintenance and spent liberally on new equipment that has sat idle for lack of staff. Roads are a critical public safety issue and infrastructure critical for business and commerce. The department’s restructured budget is said to be close to indecipherable and many of the funds have been dedicated to LID (local improvement districts) projects.
Den don’t be silly. We don’t have to worry about OUR gold in OUR sands, because Nikki Witty said and I do quote: “well if there is gold, they’ll put it back on the trucks and put it back in the ground.”
There you go, I’m sure they will do what they say they will do, right?
Right…………….
They will steal it right in front of us. Just my opinion of course.
Natural Resources and a new Coos County Commissioner. My assumption is that the business community will now, again increase the pressure upon the County to give away their Forest and Sands properties, with out first knowing their value, for pennies on the dollar, for a bottom line benefit.
There is a gold mining company working in Peru. They will be using the wet process to extract gold from sands. The only similarity may be “wet” and “sand” to the Oregon Resourses Corp. ,ORC, operation, which is not seeking gold, but other minerals in sand, which some have said may contain gold.
http://www.constitutionmining.com/
http://www.constitutionmining.com/newsReleases.asp
http://www.constitutionmining.com/PR.asp?pid=95
Spending just a little time reading through the information on the Constitution Mining Corp. web site, it might invite the question, if we did have gold in our sand, that ORC is processing, what would be the value of that gold, in the ground now, and what should we sell our gold sand for? And, should we first, know the content and value from an indepented source.
A comment post at The World is questioning Parry’s publishing background. I am certainly hoping he is everything he says he is.