Editor:
I am writing in response to the Pershing County Commissioners, Judge Richard Wagner, District Attorney Jim Shirley and the sheriff's department's recent amendment to the Burning Man festival organization codes.
I, for one, am for any organization that brings benefits to our county and all the Northern Nevada small communities. We need to work with these other counties not against them.
Burning Man brings many tourists through town both coming to and leaving the event. If you haven't noticed vehicles with bikes on the top packed to the rafters coming through Lovelock and Pershing County, start looking.
We need to offer what things they need for their week on the Black Rock Desert. Stock up our local stores with these items and invite the burners to enjoy a great meal in our eating establishments prior to the event. After the event, offer rooms with showers to clean up and supply places to wash their vehicles and again a great meal as they begin their trips back east. Lovelock needs to advertise that we are Burning Man friendly. Burning Man folks have money.
Instead, our county has become the morality police and has decided to cause more problems than necessary. The Burning Man organization gives gifts and benefits to our community in both monetary and such things as the solar panels for the hospital and gifts to our high school art department, among others.
I realize that costs do go up yearly, but be reasonable about charging every possible expense in every county office. We will be the laughingstock of all of Northern Nevada. We should utilize this event to boost our small town and make some money and new friends along the way.
This event is known worldwide. Folks come from not only the 50 states, but just about every country in the world. We want them to take home good memories and stories about us. Let's not let Pershing County kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Judy Osmun
Lovelock
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