To the editor:I enjoyed reading the column, “Are You Certified?” (“From the Editor,” MSW, November 2009). What was being urged (certification of sewer workers) is an essential element of professional development in this day and age.However, I must object to the use of the name “Ed Norton” to imply that such people are anything other than hard workers, essential, and well trained for the work they are asked to do. Quite to the contrary, without the “Ed Nortons” of the world, past and present, in today’s or yesterday’s sewer maintenance field, we would indeed be in a world of trouble.
