Letters to the editor

What About War? We just returned from Cuba where we had gone to present a paper on Vermont Township history to a geomatics conference. The conference was cancelled the day after we got there, so we decided to look around. We saw how the US blockade on Cuba has been affecting Cuban people. Our government says that the blockade is to damage the Cuban government. But it deprives the Cuban people of food, medicines, technologies, and tourism income. The blockade is a form of war against Cuba. It may not involve dropping explosives on the population but it causes the Cuban people great suffering. There must be a better way of reaching out to that country.   In addition, we could create a better way for our people to benefit from Cuban achievements in medicine, education, culture and technological innovations. We here in Wisconsin may not have many contacts with Cubans, but we can ask our politicians to stop the insanity of blockade-wars against Cuba and all of the other US blockade/wars, including the ones declared against Iran, Yemen and Venezuela. Then stop the trade wars our politicians have declared against China, Europe, and threatened against Canada and Mexico.  All of these US initiated wars create enemies, damage the lives of people trying to survive in those countries and hurt our own people without any moral justification.    David and Sandra Stanfield Town of Vermont   Dear Editor, The communities of the Sauk Prairie area have been recipients of generous donations by the Culver family. Knowing Ruth and George Culver, I can’t think of two better ambassadors from our community then them for the naming rights to our libraries.  The Sauk City Library Board has done a phenomenal job over the years of providing excellent library services along with being very fiscally responsible with taxpayer’s money. When this unexpected gift came along the library board was working on a new addition to the existing library.   I’ve been in contact with Ben Miller, chairman of the library board and discussed some of the suggested improvements to the new facility from the environmental aspect. There is a lot of talent on the library board and a good deal of thought has gone into the improvements.   It is obvious to me that the library board has done its due diligence on what is the most affordable, reliable and practical application for energy needs for the George Culver Library.  Living in a northern climate solar and geothermal are very expensive and have a much longer payback of 10 to 15 years.   Budgets are tight and the extreme cost of solar and geothermal makes them a difficult choice when given the fact that the building already has a number of energy saving applications installed already. Somewhere down the line when the facility needs to have improvements that would be the time to weigh in on what to replace the existing heating/cooling system with. To remove a system that is currently in good working condition and replace it is only adding to the landfill.   James R. Anderson Sauk City