A few weeks back, the Mojave Desert News had an editrol about the number of
OLD ( I.E.not full cut off croba heads ) street lights that where out in
Mojave and Boron ( which is 1/4th the size of Rosamond ). I fired off a
e-mail to the editor ( Signed with name & address ) about how they could :
1. replace the old ones with full cut off croba heads.
2. check the areas and do away with ones that where close to another light
and there by remove some of the cost of the light bill to the city and make
the sky over Mojave just a tiny bit darker, instead of becomeing another
watesfull Los Angeles cess pool of light.

This am I picked up this weeks paper ( it only comes out once a week ) and
in it they have another deal about the lights the S.C.Edison hasn't fixed
yet and that they got an email afrom someone against street lights who is an
astronomer, and in their own way they kind of say screw that yahoo, go out
into the desert someplace else.

When I come back from Lancaster today, I'm going to write and postal mail
them another letter and I'll spell out some facts of life too.

I'll put it this way, Lancaster has almost 200,000 people, Mojave has maybe
2 to 3,000, yet it has almost the same light dome as Lancaster.

www.desertnews.com



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