As we approach the Fourth of July, in what the governor has declared drought conditions, don\u2019t you think it is the perfect time for the Kent City Council to get off the dime and do the responsible thing and make fireworks illegal in the city of Kent?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Every year I write to this paper and I send a message to the City Council, pleading for them to ban fireworks in the city limits. I have used every argument I could think of from the obvious continual noise, the disastrous effect it has on our pets, on our war-weary vets \u2013 the mess that never gets swept up and thrown away. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n And this year there is a new angle to add to the growing pleas, the drought.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure my neighborhood isn\u2019t the only one that looks like a desert landscape. Everything is brown and dry \u2013 the grass, the trees, the plants. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n What will it take to finally convince the City Council that Kent needs to ban fireworks? Neighborhood fires? A lot of neighborhood fires? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I can see that happening this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n And frankly if we are using up revenue to support our firefighters going from neighborhood to neighborhood this Fourth of July putting out fires, how will the mayor and <\/span>the City Council be able to get their raises?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Just saying ….<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2013 Phyllis Conley<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we approach the Fourth of July, in what the governor has declared drought conditions, don\u2019t you think it is the perfect time for the Kent City Council to get off the dime and do the responsible thing and make fireworks illegal in the city of Kent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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