Totem Ocean Express assisted the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank with transportation of a freezer/cooler unit from Tacoma to Anchorage recently. Weaver Brothers delivered the equipment from Anchorage to Soldotna. The new unit allows expanded freezer and refrigeration storage at the Food Bank’s facility located off Kalifornsky Beach Road near Soldotna. The facility is undergoing extensive expansion and improvements as more families are asking for food assistance each month.

Recently, a nurse friend told me how she was never going to retire because of the money she lost in the stock market. I am constantly receiving e-mails from investment groups, telling me how to make money in these volatile economic times. It is always about money and our love of it.

Alaskans follow this general love of money. We have $44 Billion invested in our permanent fund. The primary focus is about making money. Do we care about what companies we invest in?

Greg Brush should be congratulated for putting his, and many many others, concerns so distinctly in his August 4th article. My belief and experience echos his concern. I fear that any action maybe too late. Too late for the recreational sports angler and too late for the commercial interests and future growth of Soldotna and Kenai. The bost of "world class fishing"on the Kenai river is no longer true and outfitters who continue to portray this misnomer may well be taken to task. The $300 that recreational anglers bring to the peninsula will quickly be a thing of the past.

I expect Greg is sincere in his concern for the survival of Kenai kings, but, in my opinion, he needs to reconsider a couple of things.

1-  Let's stop pretending that over-escapement is a myth; there's too much credible biology to the contrary. Alaska salmon biology recognizes the consequences of putting too many salmon in a system with a limited nutrient source. This is science...not opinion.