Briefs, March 4: “Less-Frequent Deliveries”
No Impact to Quantity
The Food Depot remains committed to meeting the needs of seniors who are struggling to make ends meet. Twenty eight percent of the food distributed by The Food Depot supports seniors...(Writer Justin) Horwath chose to single out one adjustment made to a distribution schedule that ultimately made no impact in the amount of food distributed. The Food Depot partners with over 145 nonprofit agencies in nine counties in Northern New Mexico, not only Santa Fe. Our distribution schedule is constantly evolving to maximize efficiency.
The delivery adjustment to the senior centers did not impact the amount of free food that is distributed to seniors, just the frequency.
There are additional opportunities for seniors in need of food assistance, including Bag'n'Hand Food Pantry, ECHO Commodities Food Distribution and others. For seniors with transportation issues, the City of Santa Fe has a transportation service.
Sherry Hooper
Executive Director The Food Depot
Cover Story, Feb. 18: “Mission to Mars”
Aww, Shucks
"Mission to Mars" is an important, must-read story based on a terrific interview by Julie Ann Grimm. It's good to see the editor still honing her reportorial skills, which benefit all the Reporter's readers as well as her news sources.
Kay Lockridge
SFReporter.com
Our Backyard First
It's great that the Los Alamos Labortaory-developed Chemcam can sample and analyze Martian soil. My problem is that LANL wants to "cap and cover" 200,000 cubic yards of dangerous radioactive and hazardous wastes at its dump called Area G, leaving them permanently buried in unlined pits and trenches above groundwater and the Rio Grande. One reason the lab wants to cap and cover is that it simply doesn't know what all is buried. Moreover, cap and cover is cheap, and wouldn't divert money from nuclear weapons programs that caused the mess to begin with...
My modest proposal is that before going to Mars again, the lab should send Chemcam over to its own backyard at Area G. It would be a cheaper trip, and we could characterize the tons and tons of radioactive and hazardous wastes. Then we can begin full and genuine cleanup. That would be a real win-win for New Mexicans, permanently protecting our water and the environment while creating hundreds of high paying jobs.
Jay Coghlan
Nuclear Watch New Mexico
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