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4A - RED ROCK NEWS, Sedona, Arizona Wednesday, November 3, 2010
OPINION
Visit our website
for election results
on Tuesday night
Another election season has finally come to an
end, and for some, it couldn't have come quick
enough.
Arizonans were bombarded with nega-
tive campaigning as candidates seemed more
concerned with pointing out all the bad attri-
butes of their opponents than telling voters what
they planned to do for us.
I, for one, am more interested in learning
candidates' positions on issues facing our state
and communities than learning about their
personal lives from their opponent.
Waging war against an opponent rather than
reaching out to voters seems to be the chosen
mode of campaigning, however.
The hardest part for voters is determining who
or what to believe.
Each camp claims to be tellin the truth about
budgets, laws and spending but how does a
voter know who's right ,when everyone will
swear their facts are accurate?
Oftentimes two candidates are both technically
right, but they are looking at the same facts and
figures in different contexts.
The good news is we've made it through
another round of mudslinging as election day,
Tuesday, Nov. 2, comes and goes.
Due to our printing schedule, we will be unable
to bring you results from Tuesday's election in
our Wednesday, Nov. 3, paper.
Luckily, thanks to technology and an award-
winning website, our readers can access prelim-
inary numbers moments after they are released
by Yavapai County.
All our readers have to do is visit our website,
redrocknews.com, Tuesday night for a break-
down of polling numbers on state propositions
and races, as well as local elections.
Trista Steers
Managing Editor
LETI S POLICY
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Letters to the Editor
Sedona is a place of
spiritual ge
Lakota Sioux Chief David Swallow
recently visited Sedona, and spoke to us
about the Lakota Inipi, or purification
ceremony, often called a "sweat lodge."
He pointed out that as a priest or minister
should be qualified to preach in a church.
so should someone be trained in the way
of an indigenous sacred ceremony, and
not have people die as three did last
year because of greed, ignorance or
disregard of participants' needs by the
facilitator.
Of Lakota heritage myself. I have great
respect for Chief Swallow. He was a
wounded warrior of the 1973 Wounded
Knee conflict with the forces of the U.S.
government, protesting their oppressive
policies on Native American reservations.
But I was saddened by his view of the
future: He seemed to think there is little
hope for our civilization at the time of 2012.
"Only those who follow the Red Road will
survive," he said.
My vision is more hopeful: the prophe-
cies I have learned from my Hopi friends
Grandfather David Monongye and "Granpa
Martin," whose ancient teachings main-
tained 'that we are now nearing the end of
the Fourth World [civilization], and that
this is a time of purification. When there is
too much negativity on Mother Earth, she
cleanses herself, thus the earthquakes, fires
and floods. But in the Fifth World. there
will be harmony: Everyone will get along
fine, and we'll all speak the same language.
I'm looking forward to it.
Hopefully Sedona will soon be known
once again not for an unfortunate inci-
dent, but as a place that is holy, sacred to
all tribes, a place of spiritual pilgrimage
where the ways of all people are honored.
Blessings.
Sakina Blue-Star
Sedona
Evolution & sewer
tax aren't in stride
Our little planet, recently named Earth.
has been orbiting our minor star, the sun,
for almost 4.5 billion years. Our ances-
tors, the Homo sapiens, recently achieved
dominance about 500,000 years ago. Now
here we are today almost at the top of the
evolutionary ladder.
It has been an amazing journey and we
have accomplished incredible feats. We
have explored the lands and seas of our
world. We have walked on our moon and
launched explorations into outer space
looking for new planets to colonize. Our
inventions and discoveries are spectacular.
Yet here in our little pocket of the planet we
have yet to discover that a fiat sewer tax is
inequitable.
Can't a species as technologically
advanced as ours grasp the simple concept
that you should only pay for what you use?
We buy the water, we use it and then we
send it to the sewer treatment plant for
proper disposal. The bill the city sends us
for treating that wastewater should be based
only on the amount of water we buy. The
current one-size-fits-all fee is archaic.
We have created incredibly complex
systems to take us into outer space. Why
can't we create a simple system of equitable
billing for sewage treatment?
Bryon McKeown
Sedona
Yankee enthusiasm
for life is so lovely
May I, through the columns of your
newspaper, convey some thoughts about
Sedona:
I had never visited [or even heard of
for that matter] the small town known as
Sedona until I took a vacation there this
year between Oct. 10 and Oct. 24. However,
I found it to be. a very beautiful part of the
world, steeped in history with a people as
engaging as the scenery with a pleasing
climate and plenty of warm sunshine. I
was made to feel very welcome wherever I
went and the hospitality that I received was
second to none.
I am now safely back in England but hope
to retum to the area next autumn [I believe
you refer to it as "fail"] when, no doubt, I
shall encounter that traditional American
enthusiasm for life once again.
Thank you.
F. J. Simpson
Shropshire, England
Fourth Indian artists
market successful
Thanks to volunteers and the support
of sponsors, the fourth autumnal Sedona
Indian Artists Market was a huge success.
Over 45 Native American artists from
15 tribes showed their wares and explained
to an excited public the spiritual motiva-
tion behind their art. Tony Duncan and
Estun-Bah dazzled spectators with hoop
dances and music. Locals and visitors alike
gathered for a terrific weekend. A special
thanks goes out to the small staff of parking
attendants who worked tirelessly to keep
the flow of traffic smooth. We're already
looking forward to next year.
Thom Stanley
Sedona
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