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Flushed with pride after its athletes' spectacular showing at the costliest Olympics ever, Russia celebrated Sunday night with a visually stunning finale that handed off a smooth but politically charged Winter Games to their next host, Pyeongchang in South Korea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, these Olympics' political architect and booster-in-chief, watched and smiled as Sochi gave itself a giant pat on the back for a Winter Games that IOC President Thomas Bach declared an "extraordinary success."
The crowd that partied in Fisht Olympic Stadium, in high spirits after the high-security games passed safely without feared terror attacks, hooted with delight when Bach said Russia delivered on promises of "excellent" venues, "outstanding" accommodation for the 2,856 athletes and "impeccable organization." The spectators let out an audibly sad moan when Bach declared the 17-day Winter Games closed.
"We leave as friends of the Russian people," Bach said.
The nation's $51 billion investment topping even Beijing's estimated $40 billion layout for the 2008 Summer Games transformed a decaying resort town on the Black Sea into a household name. All-new facilities, unthinkable in the Soviet era of drab shoddiness, showcased how far Russia has come in the two decades since it turned its back on communism. But the Olympic show didn't win over critics of Russia's backsliding on democracy and human rights under Putin and its institutionalized intolerance of gays.
Despite the bumps along the way, Bach was unrelentingly upbeat about his first games as IOC president and the nation that hosted it. One of Sochi's big successes was security. Feared attacks by Islamic militants who threatened to target the games didn't materialize.
"It's amazing what has happened here," Bach said a few hours before the ceremony. He recalled that Sochi was an "old, Stalinist-style sanatorium city" when he visited for the IOC in the 1990s.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, head of the Sochi organizing committee, called the games "a moment to cherish and pass on to the next generations."
"This," he said, "is the new face of Russia our Russia."
One of the Sochi Olympic mascots sheds a tear after extinguishing the Olympic flame during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
SOCHI, Russia (AP) With a nod to Russia's Olympic past and 900 children carrying small flames, a giant bear huffed and puffed and blew out the Olympic flame of the Sochi Games.
The 26-foot (8-meter) bear blew his frosty breath on a flame sitting right in front of him. Moments later, the giant cauldron outside Fisht Olympic Stadium was extinguished, marking the end of the 17-day games. Then a single tear rolled down the bear's left cheek, one of the most touching moments of the closing ceremony.
It was a relatively quiet moment considering the circumstances a packed arena and three giant animatronic mascots, with hundreds of children. Soft music was the same that played during the closing ceremony of the 1980 Moscow Games.
For a moment, the crowd treated it as a bittersweet gesture, after showing sadness when International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach declared the games closed.
But the sentiments were brief.
Soon, fireworks exploded over the stadium and athletes poured onto the arena floor to dance in front of a DJ, with screens showing an animated Olympic leopard mascot on the decks.
The message was clear: Competition's over, time to celebrate.
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Cowlitz County issued a septic pumpers license to Joanne Caldwell last week, just a month after it revoked the pumpers license of her husband, All-Out Sewer & Drain owner Ray Caldwell, following his conviction of 33 federal felonies.
I cant bar her from having a license since there is no evidence that she participated in any crime, county Environmental Health Manager Chris Bischoff said Thursday.
Ray Caldwell was convicted Dec. 16 in U.S. District Court of illegally dumping into the city of Longviews sewer system the septage waste All-Out Sewer collected from customers. A federal judge found Caldwell guilty on all 33 counts: 25 felony counts of violating the federal Clean Water Act, six counts of mail fraud and two counts of making false statements.
In addition to the illegal dumping, Caldwell had been accused of grossly underreporting the amount of septage he collected from customers and pocketing the 6-cent-per-gallon disposal surcharge instead of giving it to the county.
The county notified Caldwell in January that it was pulling his license. He has appealed the decision.
Meanwhile, county officials want to take a more active role in regulating septic business and enforcing the rules to prevent a similar situation from occurring, Bischoff said.
When the county first wrote its septic business regulations, we never conceived of a situation like that surrounding All-Out, Bischoff said. So we were sort of hamstrung by the way the rules were written.
The county is looking at other jurisdictions that have more active enforcement practices and meeting with local septic professionals about adopting additional oversight, he said.
Some of them really want a lot (of oversight) and others dont want much, Bischoff said, adding that he didnt want to be oppressive.
However, he said, Were not even inspecting their sites or really auditing their records, and maybe those are some things we want to do.
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Kimogener Point on the Bay off New Suffolk Avenue earlier this year. (Barbaraellen Koch file photo)
Protecting our surface and ground water is Long Islands public issue number one. The Long Island Clean Water Partnership has done a great job in increasing public and political awareness. But we must avoid the trap of oversimplifying both the problem and the solutions.
Any campaign has three elements: awareness, education and action. Awareness has been raised. Now the hard work, education, has to begin. Education involves inclusive public discussion, scientific debate and a broad coalition on how best to move forward.
Today, everythings a 10-second sound bite. However, using sound bites to explain proposed solutions can be harmful to long-term success. For example, in County Executive Steve Bellones recent public talks on the water issue, he and others read from the same script weve heard over and over again. We deserve more than that. We need more than that.
We need full information to make informed decisions.
Take Mr. Bellones main proposal to solve our water problems: prioritize areas with failing septic systems, identify those near existing sewer systems and extend the sewers to those properties. Interesting concept until you look a little deeper.
Now putting priority properties, especially waterfront lots, onto a municipal sewer system will remove nitrogen from septic systems and from leeching into our waters. This is good. But think about this a little more. In Long Islands history, when you extend sewer systems, high-density residential and commercial development follows. Always has. Always will. So what problems do extended sewer systems and more development add to our current water problems?
Many.
First problem is the sewers themselves. Septic systems work by seeping wastewater back into the ground. As the water moves through the soil, it filters out and reduces the concentration of nitrogen and other elements. In areas of high density too many homes and people on too little land the ground becomes over-saturated with septic output, thus the filtering of nitrogen and other elements is impaired. Sewers solve that problem, to some degree.
Most of Long Islands municipal sewage treatment plants, and the smaller community systems which feed into them, take wastewater from the sewers, treat it and pump the resulting effluent into the Sound, bays or the ocean. While this prevents nitrogen from entering the ground, it also means all of that sewered water is removed from the recharge cycle. In other words, instead of returning a large portion of the water we use back to the water table and deeper aquifers, its diverted to our surrounding bodies of salt water.
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Voting on the Town Meeting warrant will be by Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 11, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the community room of the Silsby Library/Municipal Bu ilding
Charlestown Security, convenience, space and improved accessibility are why resident Albert St. Pierre is urging voters to approve a petition article at Town Meeting for a $450,000 bond to build an addition off the Bakery building, which houses the Selectboards office, and connect it to the nearby Silsby Library building.
The addition, which the Selectboard opposes right now, would allow all of the town offices, including the town administrator, to be moved into one location on the same floor.
Having the town clerks office in the same location as other town offices provides convenience to residents, St. Pierre, the town moderator who gathered signatures for the petition, said.
All public services would be in one place. One-stop shopping.
The addition would provide an entrance on Main Street and include bathrooms and an elevator in the hall connecting the buildings. Once inside, residents would go to the right inside for the town offices, left to the library or take the elevator downstairs to the community room beneath the library.
The most important improvement would be in the area of security. The main thing is (addressing) security, St. Pierre said.
The departure of the police department two years ago from below the library to a new building on North Main Street has created increased security concerns for both the town clerks office and library upstairs, he said.
Librarian Sandy Perron said when the library is open at night there often is no one downstairs, which is where the entrance is, as well as the handicap access ramp and elevator, and the bathrooms.
It is only my staff here and it is difficult to safely monitor downstairs, Perron said.
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