Field burning hurts area's quality of life

Quality of life is what a number of us came to this area for, not to make a fortune, but just a dollar or two to pay the rent and buy shoes and groceries for the kids. Maybe not as high faluting an ambition as some, but you must look at the values beneath such beliefs.

Some of us came here to give our asthmatic kids some clean air, only to find that when Rathdrum burns its Kentucky bluegrass, we are inundated with something more deadly to the sparrow than to the rest of us.

When I say quality of life, I mean the purity of water, the cleanliness of air without all the traffic or smoke. We wonder why the exponential rise in (taxes, too) cancer, breast and prostate and all the other kinds, yet we fail to recognize that which sustains us and is among our preventive measures for dying an untimely death due to cancer.

I care about this issue, but I cannot attend the commissioner's meeting because of the poorly chosen time. Some of us less greedy ones need to work for a living, doing hopefully other good works. Some of us need to get off the heady drug of power and money and consider more valuable ideas.

PAULA McMINN

Hope