Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Petards to Plow Shares



alex vaillancourt scanned all the back issues of the st john valley times for the abel j morneault library just before the sjvt was sold to bangor publishing and their archives were deleted


Petards to Plowshares












Dear St. John Valley Times:




Okay, Van Buren isn't the boomtown it was when Loring AFB assembled nukes. But cancer.gov says the US incidence rate for all cancer types rose from 1975 through 1992, the year the US last tested nuclear weapons, and has dropped since from 1993 to 2009.



And now Sunny Side Up Films is planning to use VB as a location in their movie, thanks to LaJoie Growers' Peruvian blue potatoes, which SJVT says they began growing about 11 years ago.



The LaJoies grow some of their potatoes in Cyr Plantation, which received a Federal Empowerment Zone designation in December of 2001. Empowerment Zones were created by the Democrat controlled Congress to stimulate businesses and job creation in distressed communities in 1994, the year Loring closed.



Hud.gov says each rural EZ received $40 million Health and Human Services grants and qualifying businesses received a 20% credit for each EZ resident employee's qualifying wages (up to $15,000), 0% tax on capital gains on property kept for 5 years and increased tax deductions on equipment.



Part of President Obama's deal with Republicans in December, 2010 to extend the Bush tax cuts was to revive the Federal Empowerment Zone designations, which had expired on December 31, 2009. But the Empowerment Zones were only extended to December 31, 2011, while the Bush tax cuts are still in effect.



A potato is a terrible thing to waste.



References at:






think this is a photo by paul cyr of evangeline at the van buren acadian village


Keith Taft

98 Main St.

Apt. 101

Van Buren, ME

04785

Tel: (207) 399-8735



http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/me/me0300/me0311/data/me0311data.pdf - Library of Congress says of Loring Air Force Base's North River Depot:


"The Assembly Area included structures dedicated to the assembly of weapons in preparation for

loading on bombers, or the disassembly of the weapons upon return. The main structures in the

area were Buildings 216, 232, and 233. Other buildings in this area included a fire station and a

power station." (5th paragraph down)







"During 1952, the North River Depot received the Mark-VI nuclear bomb, the first nuclear weapon delivered to the Air Force since the Fat Man bomb of WWII. The new bomb's nuclear material was in a "capsule" that would be inserted by the air crew just prior to dropping."


http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/historicaltrend/joinpoint.noimage.html - Cancer historical trends all sites (sample is incidence rate for all cancer sites from 1975 - 2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing - Underground nuclear test in 1992 was US's last.(4th paragraph).

http://www.sjvalley-times.com/view/full_story/16014560/article-Potato-crops-looking-good-in-the-Valley?instance=homefirstleft - SJVT says LaJoie Growers also grows potatoes in Cyr Plantation, and began growing them "about 10 years ago." (article is 8 months old on June 21, 2012)
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/ezec/01_Exec_Summaries/aroostook.html - USDA says part of Aroostook County was designated as a Champion Zone in 1998, and an Empowerment Zone on December 31, 2001.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm Round III Empowerment Zones(which include parts of Aroostook County including Cyr Plantation) signed into law Dec. 31, 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010 - "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010".

http://sjvalley-times.com/bookmark/18125322-LaJoie-Growers-expands-moves-to-Ferry-Street SJVT says LaJoie Growers expanded to Ferry St. building purchesed in 2000 from EDA (US Economic Development Administration) funds.
http://www.mainepotatoes.com/feed.php?num=1&news_id=93&feed_id=42 - Norman LaJoie patriarch of LaJoie Growers
Page 153 of the Cyr Plantation 1870 -1970 Centennial Book by Frances Levasseur says the LaJoie Family's "homestead" farm is in Cyr Plantation and was owned by Norman LaJoie in 1970, whose father was Gilbert LaJoie, the son of William LaJoie, who came to Van Buren from Edmunston, NB in 1874
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/12/06/133680/obama-tax-deal/?mobile=nc - Obama agrees to extend Bush tax cuts






Dear St. John Valley Times:



Okay, Van Buren isn't the boomtown it was when Loring AFB assembled nukes. But cancer.gov says the US incidence rate for all cancer types rose from 1975 through 1992, the year the US last tested nuclear weapons, and has dropped since from 1993 to 2009.

And now Sunny Side Up Films is planning to use VB as a location in their movie, thanks to LaJoie Growers' Peruvian blue potatoes, which SJVT says they began growing about 11 years ago.
The LaJoies grow some of their potatoes in Cyr Plantation, which received a Federal Empowerment Zone designation in December of 2001. Empowerment Zones were created by the Democrat controlled Congress to stimulate businesses and job creation in distressed communities in 1994, the year Loring closed.
Hud.gov says each rural EZ received $40 million Health and Human Services grants and qualifying businesses received a 20% credit for each EZ resident employee's qualifying wages (up to $15,000), 0% tax on capital gains on property kept for 5 years and increased tax deductions on equipment.
Part of President Obama's deal with Republicans in December, 2010 to extend the Bush tax cuts was to revive the Federal Empowerment Zone designations, which had expired on December 31, 2009. But the Empowerment Zones were only extended to December 31, 2011, while the Bush tax cuts are still in effect.
A potato is a terrible thing to waste.
Googled this photo now I can't find who took it.
It's of a statue of the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline"
in the Acadian Village in Van Buren, ME
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/me/me0300/me0311/data/me0311data.pdf - Library of Congress says of Loring Air Force Base's North River Depot:
"The Assembly Area included structures dedicated to the assembly of weapons in preparation for
loading on bombers, or the disassembly of the weapons upon return. The main structures in the
area were Buildings 216, 232, and 233. Other buildings in this area included a fire station and a
power station." (5th paragraph down)

"During 1952, the North River Depot received the Mark-VI nuclear bomb, the first nuclear weapon delivered to the Air Force since the Fat Man bomb of WWII. The new bomb's nuclear material was in a "capsule" that would be inserted by the air crew just prior to dropping."
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/historicaltrend/joinpoint.noimage.html - Cancer historical trends all sites (sample is incidence rate for all cancer sites from 1975 - 2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing - Underground nuclear test in 1992 was US's last.(4th paragraph).

http://www.sjvalley-times.com/view/full_story/16014560/article-Potato-crops-looking-good-in-the-Valley?instance=homefirstleft - SJVT says LaJoie Growers also grows potatoes in Cyr Plantation, and began growing them "about 10 years ago." (article is 8 months old on June 21, 2012)
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/ezec/01_Exec_Summaries/aroostook.html - USDA says part of Aroostook County was designated as a Champion Zone in 1998, and an Empowerment Zone on December 31, 2001.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm Round III Empowerment Zones(which include parts of Aroostook County including Cyr Plantation) signed into law Dec. 31, 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010 - "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010".

http://sjvalley-times.com/bookmark/18125322-LaJoie-Growers-expands-moves-to-Ferry-Street SJVT says LaJoie Growers expanded to Ferry St. building purchesed in 2000 from EDA (US Economic Development Administration) funds.
http://www.mainepotatoes.com/feed.php?num=1&news_id=93&feed_id=42 - Norman LaJoie patriarch of LaJoie Growers
Page 153 of the Cyr Plantation 1870 -1970 Centennial Book by Frances Levasseur says the LaJoie Family's "homestead" farm is in Cyr Plantation and was owned by Norman LaJoie in 1970, whose father was Gilbert LaJoie, the son of William LaJoie, who came to Van Buren from Edmunston, NB in 1874
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/24/worldwide-cancer-rates-uk-rate-drops - US has 7 highest cancer rate in world 2011, France 6th highest, Australia 3rd
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1064079/figure/F1/ - US and Australia had highest breast cancer incidences in the world in 2004.







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