Re: Make some noise about those cursed cannons, June 27

I cannot help but wonder as to who this new “babe in the woods” Andrew Holota thinks he is to call a hardworking segment in our fair city as “the sacred cows in agriculture,’ and identify other people’s opinion like ,”... simplistic, arrogant bunk.”

Such brazen, degrading, hard-nosed language will not winnow our new editor any favour in the hearts of Abbotsford citizens.

Holota’s remarks about the “cursed cannons” issue truly outstretches the height of self-centered interest, to say the least.

I ask complainers, simply because we hear police, ambulance and fire truck sirens regularly, are we gonna shut them down?

Just because we are subject to listen to noisy cars, trucks, trains and buses, construction noises each new day, are we now demanding all be put out of business?

Just because smelly farm manure is spread on the land occasionally do we now demand all farming cease?

Get real! Face the facts.

If you don’t like the noise of the blueberry cannons then move into the city where you may enjoy the everlasting noises of cars, trucks, police, ambulance, fire truck sirens and the noise of revved-up motorcycles galore.

If you do want the joys of country living, then bear the noise two months of the year or move out into the forest somewhere.

Yes, we want the fresh fruits and farm products, but will not accept the occasional inconveniences, right?

I prefer the attitude of Mayor George Peary, in the same news issue, as he tries to find ways to cut down on the noise legally and save the $40-million dollar blueberry business at the same time.

Holota, that’s the way us common folks do things around here.

Our new editor tells us he tries not to buy blueberries from farms who use cannons. That seems to fit right in with the starling birds idea because they don’t eat the berries from farmers who use cannons either.

Why does the ancient saying, “Birds of a feather flock together” come to mind?

Gertie Pool