Thank vets for success
of Fix-A-Feral program
The Monongalia County Humane Society sponsored a Fix-a-Feral or Stray in honor of the Oct. 16 Feral Cat Day. This program runs to Oct. 31. All cats must be fixed by then. This time frame is due to the onset of cold and freezing temperatures.
Our plan was to issue 100 vouchers and we did that in the first 10 days. The Dominion Post wrote such a wonderful article, titled Fix-A-Feral, that ran in the Sept. 8 newspaper, people started calling that same day for vouchers. There are no more vouchers available for this program, but it was such a good reception that we hope to make it an annual event.
We would like to thank the participating vets: Paw Prints Veterinary Clinic, Alpha Veterinary Services (AVS), Morgantown Veterinary Care and Fairmont Veterinary Hospital. This program would not have been possible without their participation. We are greatly indebted to them for their support.
I would like to mention that the Monongalia County Humane Society provides free spay and neuter services to owned pets of Monongalia County citizens. It is an income-based program, but runs all year.
Our goal is to reduce the number of unwanted pets being euthanized due to a lack of homes. Help us reduce the pet overpopulation in our county.
Please spay or neuter your pets.
Ruth Ann Shinn
Morgantown
Stand up for state and
stop ‘Cancer Alley II”
I applaud West Virginian citizens like Jim Kotcon and others who have challenged Rebecca McPhail (West Virginia Manufacturers Association) and out-of-state industrialists who push the development of a new center for the petrochemical industry in West Virginia and the region.
Residents of the tri-state area must educate themselves on the prerequisites and dangers of the proposed Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub. The hub would require a large underground natural gas liquids storage facility, a web of interconnected pipeline infrastructure, and 1,000 newly fracked shale gas wells every three to five years.
West Virginians, of course, have already experienced many of the dangers of the fracking industry. Landowners have had their land taken through eminent domain for pipelines and had royalties ripped off by unscrupulous gas companies. Gas pipelines, furthermore, are unsafe, revealed by studies, recent damage to local waterways and two serious explosions in our region since 2018.
A major reason this industry seeks to build a second “Petrochemical Corridor” is their actions have seriously damaged the first in Louisiana. There, the industry’s pipelines caused coastal erosion and its products exacerbated global warming, leaving infrastructure at serious risk from hurricanes and flooding.
What the industry calls “Petrochemical Corridor” in Louisiana, residents call “Cancer Alley” and “Death Alley.” Impoverished, sick and marginalized Louisiana communities have begun to fight back against the industry that poisoned their air and water, and West Virginia needs to learn from their heroic actions.
Of course, out-of-state industrialists and their cheerleaders like McPhail will tout construction jobs, but they always inflate the numbers and neglect to tell you that most of the labor comes from out of state. They also ignore the damage the petrochemical industry has already done to the state; remember Dupont’s pollution of the Ohio with C-8, which causes cancer and reduced immune function.
We need to stand up for West Virginia and prevent the creation of “Cancer and Death Alley II.”
Katherine Aaslestad
Morgantown
Bricks look to surely be a gold mine for WVU
Lew McDaniel (DP Oct. 2) has a point. For a “continually begging for support institution” like WVU, bricks from the old field house (Stansbury Hall) are surely a gold mine not to be ignored.
I’m sure my 1959 classmate Jerry West would be glad to sign a few of them for auction. We got a $150 donation to the Three Little Pigs Scholarship fund for a single brick from the old Agricultural Sciences Building signed by three not-nearly-so-well-known animal science professors.
Keith Inskeep
Morgantown
