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Show Community Comments This week we are devoting de-voting the entire space on our editorial page (Page A2) to .statements from candidates in the Municipal Muni-cipal Election next week. It is traditionally our pleasure to offer candidates candi-dates the opportunity, just before election, to state their views free of charge in our editorial columns. This year, for the first time, we batted 1000. All ten of the city candidates for office have responded with platform statements, and for that we commend them. In addition, we are impressed im-pressed with the content of the .statements. There are a lot of new names on the ballot, and mere are a lot of new names on the registration rolls. Voters have little reason not to know w hat and whom they are voting for next Tuesday. Read the statements. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact the individual candidate or candidates involved. They will be happv to talk to you. --sjt-- Notes on the big deer hunt: We've gone through a lot of tough hunts in our family, but few as tough as the one just passed. I walked one hundred and seventy-three miles and wore 1.73 centime ters of Vibram soles off my waffle-stompers before be-fore finally getting the object of the hunt at the end of a fifteen mile jeep road, but I guess it was worth it. Deer are scarce, which - brings up a number of interesting points. First, there is little question that last winter was tough on the wild animals. Second, Se-cond, we saw more coyote and bobcat tracks this year than deer tracks. We don't hold any strong brief one way or the other for predator control, but think it's interesting that we didn't see any fawns running with the does this year. Personally, I don't like coyotes, but that's ; just because I've never become enough of a pioneer pio-neer to sleep comfortably out in the boonies with the critters howling out- ; side the tent. I am sure, also, that the advocates of buck- only hunting are going ' to have a lot of hunter ' support after this year of ' venison shortage. The most disappointing aspect of this year's hunt was the sight of a beau- tiful big buck lying dead near the Loop Road at ' Miner's Basin Junction, f with only his antlers re- moved. This sort of wan-5 wan-5 ton waste makes me wish . that Conservation Offi-f Offi-f cers were as thick as 1 Californians during the deer hunt. I --sjt-- |