Summer noise

In response to the people that complained about the ungodly hour orchardists have to use their blowers/ helicopters  etc.  to try and save the splitting of the cherries and save their livelihood.  When it rains we all know that the cherries will split. If the farmer wants to save his crop he has to be out in the field before the sun gets too hot, and before the cherries will split, and blow the majority of the water off. Even so, he will most likely not be able to save the whole crop but at least he will be able to preserve some of it.
 
My goodness, a few days out of a whole year is not such a hardship, it certainly isn’t for weeks and weeks. In some years there is no need to take those measures and like some of the letters said, suck it up for a few days. We do not want the farmers to lose their whole crop. If the cherries are split, you cannot market them.
 
Also, on a noise level, those that complain about boats on the lake, why did you move that close to the lake? Did you not think that there will be boats, some noisier than others? 

This is a tourist centre and a lake will have boats. Move away from there if you don’t like them. It is like buying a house beside the railroad and complaining that the trains make too much noise!

Shirley Keller