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We are writing this letter to express the gratitude of the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center to those who made our Halloween Great Pumpkin Carving possible.

I have been reading in the Clarion the continuing diatribe by Mssrs. Norm Olson and Ray Southwell of how the Central Peninsula Hospital is being mismanaged, and of the Kenai Peninsula Borough's advisory Hospital Service Area Board's (SAB) recommended audit of the hospital's operations. It seems that Mssrs. Olson, Southwell, and the pre-election SAB membership (ie, the SAB now has four new members) are involved in some kind of crusade, targeting both the hospital and its CEO, Ryan Smith and his staff. The purposes of this crusade are not clear, except to attempt to cause trouble in any way possible for the hospital, its staff and Mr. Smith.

I am very concerned with the health care reforms being discussed now in Congress as small business owners will be paying for the increase in health care costs through higher taxes and more bureaucracy. How does that make sense? I thought the goal of health care reform was to make health care costs less expensive!