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Please Put the Dar Williams Geothermal Study Benefit Concert on Your Calendar
Dear Editor:
As advertised in this paper, my wife, Dar Williams, is going to be playing a benefit concert this Friday, April 11 at the Haldane auditorium with the Veltz Family and the Cold Spring Music Collecive. It's going to be a great evening of music for not much money and I hope everyone puts it on their calendars.
As many already know, Haldane is at a crossroads where the heating system needs to be replaced, and many of us believe that a geothermal system would be a more cost effective alternative to the oil-fired boiler that was planned. The Board of Education had the equanimity to delay the vote on this issue to give us time to raise money for, then conduct a study which will show the true costs and viability of this alternative system so that when we vote on the budget in the fall we have all the facts.
This benefit concert, and all the work that the group supporting the geothermal option has been doing, is born not just out of a sense of environmentalism, but much more out of our desire to see the school take the more conservative financial choice for the taxpayer.
I urge everyone to visit www.haldanegeo.org , go to the March 21st post "Total Cost of Ownership", and take five minutes and see how this "much more expensive" system actually isn't so expensive after all and how it will most likely have a very quick payback while at the same time shielding the taxpayer from the insanity of current and projected oil markets.
We believe the geothermal engineering study will prove its am economic wisdom to Cold Spring voters- but the study's expense is overwhelming to a school budget whose resources have already been allocated, which is why we, as private citizens, are doing all we can to get it done. Please help by coming this Friday and bringing your entire family, and if you get along with them, your neighbors.
Michael Robinson
Philipstown
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