{"id":1313613,"date":"2019-08-15T20:21:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=986111"},"modified":"2019-08-15T20:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:21:16","slug":"letter-composting-isnt-a-higher-priority-than-feeding-orphaned-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-composting-isnt-a-higher-priority-than-feeding-orphaned-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Composting isn\u2019t a higher priority than feeding orphaned animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Castle City Market\u2019s public relations department spin on Nanci Limbach\u2019s letter-to-the-editor about cutting off food donations to the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation left my head spinning.<\/p>\n<p>According to City Market spokesperson Kelli McGannon, composting of spoiled food is a higher priority than giving it to orphaned animals, because \u201cour first priority has to be to humans\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read that again. It makes no sense. If she had said that City Market cut off its food donations for Nanci\u2019s critters because all that food was going to humans instead, that would be one thing. But no. They\u2019re throwing all that spoiled food into a big steaming compost pile.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nanci\u2019s got some hungry bear cubs at her wildlife rehab center. She does a lot with just a little. For no cost, New Castle City Market could join the other local City Markets and do some real good. Instead, they\u2019re blowing smoke while they double down on their inscrutable policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t buy this kind of publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Colby<br \/>New Castle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-composting-isnt-a-higher-priority-than-feeding-orphaned-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Castle City Market\u2019s public relations department spin on Nanci Limbach\u2019s letter-to-the-editor about cutting off food donations to the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation left my head spinning. According to City Market spokesperson Kelli McGannon, composting of spoiled food is a higher priority than giving it to orphaned animals, because \u201cour first priority has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-07 06:40:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}