RE: 'True cost of annexation' (Opinion, 3/6/08)

Public relations personnel are vigilantly aggrandizing the wonderful asset this industrial complex will be to our communities, as suggested in the letter in the Village News on March 6 by Gary W. Johnson.

An example of their distorted statements is, “Liberty Quarry will provide a significant benefit to the region through traffic reduction.”

It has been stated by the quarry personnel themselves that there will be 1,600 trucks entering and leaving the quarry each working day, using Rainbow entrances and exits off of and onto Interstate 15. This is an astronomical increase in traffic, not a reduc...