[GPSCC-chat] Local Environmental Story well told

[Wes Rolley]

I received this in my email yesterday.  Kate Woods was a writer for the 
Hollister based Pinnacle.  I became acquainted during the effort to 
unseat Richard Pombo where she, and her writing, were a valuable ally.  
She was also a sharp pain to the "in the pockets of the developers" 
members of the San Benito County Board of Supervisors.  The book that 
Kate is announcing is based, at least in part, on her columns in the 
Pinnacle.

The current new is that the EPA has finally put the New Idria mine on 
its project list and allocated funding to start the cleanup of the New 
Idria mercury mine... or at least to plan the cleanup.  At the same 
time, Republicans (note the references to Cheney in the announcement 
from Kate) are working to block all regulations and to defund the EPA.  
This is local and important to CA.

Background: Kate and her family (especially her brother) had claimed and 
were working to recover the official California gemstone, Benitoite 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benitoite>, from the area.  However, they 
were working in a much more environmentally concerned manner.

I pass this on a locally newsworthy.
> My Dear Friends,
> Please buy my book, Quicksilver Chronicles.As of Oct. 3, 2011, it is 
> finally available in a paperback edition.It is a semi-true story about 
> life in New Idria, CA, during the Cheney Administration.
> Though I worked long and hard on it, you will find a few errors -- 
> typos, punctuation omissions and maybe even a syntax flub or two, but 
> then, I can't hire a professional editor.I am it. (A certain former 
> community newspaper publisher knows, sadly, what that means).If I 
> scrap together enough income from selling this book, then I can go 
> back in and revise it, but at this point it is too expensive to even 
> order another proof copy.Consider this current first edition a 
> collectors' item!
> It is available at Lulu Books (Lulu.com <http://lulu.com/>) and within 
> two weeks will also be available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, some 
> "brick and mortar" outlets, and many other major book sellers, 
> *however, /please/* buy it at Lulu.com <http://lulu.com/> because I 
> make more money per book that way... OK?
> Here is the 
> link:http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/quicksilver-chronicles/17283242
> Let me know if you like it.Don't bother telling me how much you 
> dislike it.Many thanks, you guys.
> Much Luv,
> Kate (Frances Katherine) Woods
> rockturner8 at yahoo.com
> P.S.It is also available in ebook download, from Lulu.com, as a PDF 
> edition.I am still working on the Kindle and Nook editions.To my 
> generous patient pals who ordered that first e-version I put out a few 
> months ago... my apologies for the hideous botched formatting.I owe 
> you.This paperback is much more readable, and I will get it to you as 
> soon as possible.  Hardback version to follow as well.

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