Thanks for the info

First of all, I want to thank Sara Kulkin for her hard work in emailing all of us Ron Paul supporters information about the caucus and how it is supposed to work; from my experience at the caucus, very few people had that information.

Second, I want all of you who didn't think the caucus was a fair representation of all the people, to thank your illustrious Sen. Harry Reid. It was his idea in order to promote Nevada as one of the first states to have a say in the presidential election and to use the caucus format.

In fact, the caucus procedure versus a primary election eliminates all of those people who, for whatever reason -- a job or being overseas in the military -- are not able to be present at the caucus. We need to get our voice to the powers-that-be to change this process.

Thirdly, for all of you Ron Paul supporters who say, "He's my man but he doesn't have a chance," think of what all of us who know he is the only hope to bring this country back to being run by the people instead of Washington, D.C., and the very rich -- think of what we can do to get him elected. Please hang in there -- for us and for our children and grandchildren.

LOUISE FELTON

Don't wait -- incorporate

Is anyone seeing a trend here by our county commissioners?

It appears that the commissioners don't give a damn about Pahrump, it's all about filling the county coffers with as much money as they can. What are they doing?

They create a Regional Planning Commission, pay them good money and overturn every recommendation that doesn't suit their needs.

Why do we have such an entity? They should do away with it and let these developers run amok until they have Pahrump so screwed that the only option we will have is to leave.

In the paper today, it shows where the county commissioners relented on a developer's request to put in the highest-density zoning on 120 acres in the rural part of south Pahrump. This was after the RPC proposed rejecting the project, not once but twice.

Nineteen thousand homes are still to be built from the already approved projects. Now they are approving higher-density home building in an area that will have to co-exist with Concordia, Mountain Falls, Artesia, Hafen's new development on Turner and the Focus Group's mega family developments.

Is this a joke?

Why do we need all this high-density zoning in this rural community? It's really not good for us, just the developers, who will be gone as soon as the project is over. I can see all the homes south of all these developments drying up and blowing away from the lack of water in a few years. Good job, Nye County commissioners.

Not ever being "for" incorporation, I now believe if we don't get ahold of our future, there won't be one for this "rural" community. Don't let the Nye County commissioners ruin Pahrump. Because I'm sure that when things start falling apart and our natural resources are gone, that those commissioners will also be long gone, along with their money.

Don't wait, incorporate.

DON WHITE

A blind, don't care community?

For the past year, I have held a monthly information and support group meeting for visually impaired and blind people who reside in Pahrump.

It is held on the third Tuesday a 1 p.m. at the Pahrump Senior Center.

In spite of the fact that every month I post a notice in the Pahrump Valley Times "In Brief" section, send a public service announcement to both TV stations and one radio station, invariably, only one or two people show up at these meetings.

At these meetings, we try to provide information about available support and service organizations that try to help visually blind and impaired individuals lead a more normal and productive lifestyle.

It would seem that Pahrump has more than one or two visually impaired or blinded individuals, but I've concluded that these individuals just don't care and would rather wallow in self-pity and be a recluse in their own homes and have their families do everything for them instead of coming to these meetings and learning how to do these things for themselves.

Statistics show that 55 percent of all senior citizens suffer from some sort of vision impairment and, at present, more than 8,000 baby-boomers are retiring every day.

Some information provided at these meetings include how a visually impaired person can learn to use a microwave and stoves, washers, dryers and dishwashers, use the telephone, use a computer and pay their own bills using available readers and other low-vision equipment.

Some other benefits available to legally blind persons are free telephone directory assistance service, reduction of their personal property tax and services available to any veteran who has ever served active duty but is now considered legally blind, even if the blindness is not a service connected disability.

But I suppose these individuals don't care, don't need it or don't want it.

Over the past nine months, I have visited the Pahrump Library on four occasions to explain that the American Disability Act (ADA) mandates that services be provided for all handicapped individuals, including the visually impaired. I asked the library to consider installing a screen magnification software program on their Internet access computer.

Since I was the only person to ask, the library's answer was they were "researching the program."

This is a shameful answer, considering that a portion of my, and everyone else's taxes, support the library. But I suppose the library service is only for those people who have good eyesight and they don't care about providing a service to visually impaired persons.

Additionally, I wrote to the four major casino managers suggesting they provide a large print menu for sight handicapped customers.

I never received an answer or acknowledgement from any of the casinos so I concluded that as long as customers continue to pump money into the slot machines, they don't care about providing service to the visually impaired. However, at my last visit to Mountain View Casino, they did have their buffet items identified in fairly large black/white typed labels that could be read by a low-vision person.

I'm also quite sure that Pahrump citizens are unaware that the ADA required all government public meeting have meeting agenda and other written matter provided in large print and that these meetings are also supposed to provide hearing-assisted listening devices for the hearing impaired.

But since the meeting attendees don't demand these services be provided, the government agencies don't care.

In conclusion, there are a lot of services and benefits available for visually impaired and blinded persons, if they just want to find out about them, I'm sorry to say, the Pahrump "don't care" attitude is beginning to rub off on me.

JIM KVOOL