Enough from Duke; get reactions of residents

Sunday’s Salisbury Post piece “Two sources, two standards” worked hard to be balanced but still repeated too many Duke talking points outside of quotation marks. We need the voices of residents in articles like this, not just the talking points of a company that has already pled guilty to federal criminal charges over its handling of coal ash across the state.

To be clear, there is no federal standard for hexavalent chromium. The state standard has been applied so far only to wells around ash ponds. That will have to change, but for now there is only one standard. It is up to EPA to set a level for public drinking water reservoirs and when it does there’s no reason the state can’t or shouldn’t set a stricter standard if, as here, that’s what our state laws require to protect the public’s health.

— Will Scott

Winston-Salem

Editor’s note: Scott is the Yadkin Riverkeeper.

Valuable service

I’d like to thank the Kannapolis Fire Department for the wonderful help they have given me recently. I have fallen three times, and been unable to get up. They came to my home each time, got me up, checked me to make sure I had nothing broken, and took me to the hospital for tests. I think it is important for everyone to know that they provide this service, which has really helped me and may help others.

They will put a Knox Box on your outside door to hold a key to your house, and they have the key to the Knox Box, so that they can get in.

— Rachel K. Edmiston

Kannapolis

Think your luck is bad?

If it were not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all! I told someone that I was waiting for my ship to come in and was then asked, “Have you sent it out yet?” Well, no, so then I did! Got word yesterday my ship was last seen in the Bermuda Triangle.

My Fortune cookie read “Your life sucks, deal with it!”

As a kid, my parents didn’t want me around so they kept me in summer camps every year. Church camp, Boy Scout camps, 4-H, YMCA camps. Some summers I didn’t have enough time to go to all of them. .

We played spin the bottle at parties when I was a teen. My luck, every time it pointed to me, they confessed to going out of turn and then someone else would spin it.

As a kid, I had no friends. Even my imaginary identical twin wouldn’t have anything to do with me. If it were not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all.

— Arthur Liles

China Grove