Letters to the Editor

French have the right idea

W ith so much hysteria about nuclear spent fuel, why not publish an article about France’s spent fuel recycling system?

The French have discovered a way to recycle plutonium in a very intriguing way. I, for one, would welcome more information about this technique and France’s experience with it.

Mark Eckert

San Luis Obispo

De Vaul is no model neighbor

Your reporter Bob Cuddy and letter writers to The Tribune mistakenly refer to Christine Mulholland as leader of the fight against Sunny Acres.

Mulholland is in no way heading the charge but is merely doing her job as City Council representative for this area, responding to our years-long complaints about Dan De Vaul’s land-use violations, agglomerations of useless junk, noisy motorcycle racetrack, mountains of dirt trucked in from construction sites, dead cow left to rot near neighbors’ backyards and paralyzed cow left in the field for a week next to her rotting dead calf.

It’s possible to care about our view and people — not an either/or proposition. If De Vaul had created a model farm for a small number of legally housed residents, renting only to recovering addicts instead of numerous convicted sex offenders (including 10 child molesters), and cultivated friendly relations with his neighbors, many of us so-called NIMBYs would not only have tolerated but supported a clean and sober facility at Sunny Acres.

Far from helping the residents, De Vaul’s blatant disregard for neighborhood tranquility has alienated the very people who might otherwise have helped him legally expand the facility.

Virginia Bass

San Luis Obispo