Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Two beautiful posts from 1000 Friends of Oregon

The group that the Sprawl Lobby likes to call "1000 Fiends" has two fantastic pieces on their website -- one about the bogus growth projections that are being used to sell a gigantic "Bridgeasaurus Boondogglus" for Salem (top), and then another great piece on the underlying issue, how sprawl costs everybody money and demands a constant feeding of new money, depriving us in every other area of life (bottom).

Take a gander at these great pieces, and then think about joining Friends of Marion County (see below -- FOMC is not very websavvy -- could you help with that?) and making gifts to support 1000 Friends.

Remember, all that is needed for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.  Don't sit idly by and let the Sprawl Lobby rob you and your family of hundreds of millions that you'd rather spend on yourself or on providing a better community.

Click on each picture to take you to the actual page, both of which have good links from there:







Friends of Marion County generally meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month in the Salem Public Library Anderson Room. Board meetings are held the first Wednesday of the month. If you are interested in helping the Friends of Marion County, please E-mail: rkaye@OregonVOS.net. The Friends of Marion County does not share its mailing list with other organizations or individuals.

Our mailing address is:

Friends of Marion County
P.O. Box 3274
Salem, OR 97302

The annual dues are:

Friend $35
Family Friend $50
Hall of Fame Friend $100
Corporate Friend $250
Other Friend $________

Board of Directors
Roger Kaye, President
mailto: rkaye@oregonVOS.net

Joe Kuehn, Vice-President
mailto: kuehn20@comcast.net

Richard van Pelt, Secretary
Susan Watkins, Treasurer
mailto: susanwat@open.org

Board Members are the above officers plus:
Linda Peterson
mailto: joylin@open.org

JoAn Power

Kasia Quillinan
mailto: qe2@open.org
Carla Mikkelson
mailto: carlamikke@yahoo.com

Laurel Hines
mailto: laurelhines@att.net