In reference to Community Waste Solutions making a proposal to the Haines Borough for “consolidated service with mandatory pickup” (CVN, Sept. 12), I recall sitting in a meeting 14 or 15 years ago where Linda Walker (then owner of Haines Sanitation) declared that she found it necessary to increase the garbage rate to 50 cents per pound. Paul Nelson, also in attendance at that meeting, did some quick calculations. Paul then said he could pick…