We need all of you to keep the pressure on! Please attend!

Even if the port of Olympia terminates support for the Logistics Center, the Port of Tacoma as discussed selling to private investors that they can better control to still develop it!

Tell the County Commissioners "no" to the SSLC and "yes" to the rezone.

Weds. March 26th at 6:00 pm at the Expo Center at the Thurston County fairgrounds

THANKS!
Friends of Rocky Prairie

I sure like the open government laws. When citizens dig and request information we truly find out what our elected and appointed officials are doing. Story from the TNT:

The Port of Tacoma finds itself apologizing to the Port of Olympia and others after internal e-mails revealed Tacoma port staff withholding public information, insulting the Olympia port and calling people derogatory names.

The e-mails were discovered this week as the Tacoma port reviewed documents in response to public records requests, including one from Friends of Rocky Prairie, a citizens group opposed to the development of the South Sound Logistics Center in Thurston County. The Tacoma and Olympia ports have partnered in proposing the controversial rail center and industrial park.

The 40-plus binders of documents the port prepared for the group included embarrassing e-mails sent between Port of Tacoma staff and from port staff to port consultants.

www.thenewstribune.com

This coming Thursday, January 31st from 6 - 9PM the Port Commissioners will be having a meeting at St. Martin's Pavilion. This is a huge meeting and a huge step to saving Millersylvania State Park. The more people who are at this meeting the more the Port and the Legislators will know we mean business.

Please, if you can make it show up and show your support. For info on how to help check out this site or email alex.bertolucci -- at -- gmail -- dot -- com.

Don't Let the Port of Tacoma Destroy Thurston County

The Port of Tacoma has bought 745 acres of land just south of Olympia to turn into a huge “logistics center” (South Sound Logistics Center). Preliminary information shows that this would involve a complete transformation of this whole area, with thousands more trucks clogging our freeways and small country roads each day, hundreds of trains blocking access roads, a possible solid waste transfer facility, a possible chemical manufacturing center, and so on. The project represents an assault on what remains of rural Thurston County, and a major threat to the regional treasure that is Millersylvania State Park with its 500,000 annual visitors.

A citizen has filed for a rezone of the involved area to make it more difficult to use this land so inappropriately. Please join our efforts to protect Thurston County’s resources and rural character by adding your name to the list of supporters of the proposed rezone (see attached). The list will be presented to the county as an addendum to the rezone filing.

For more information, please visit our website:

www.FriendsOfRockyPrairie.com

E-mail us at FORPrairie@hotmail.com Call Sharron at (360) 866-7596

Attached is a PDF of the petition. Please print it off get your friends and family to sign and mail back to Sharron. Lets keep Thurston Co. a beautiful place.