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Moving On
interacting with - and getting to know - individuals.
I met a man last night who was packing up his stuff and moving
out of his home here and moving to Ukiah where he just bought his wife the home she really wanted. Here (corner of Morgan and 6th streets)
his front yard is littered with bottles and human feces not to mention the drinkers who sit for 12 hours each day not 16 feet from his home...and his mortgage was $2,400- a month but in Ukiah his new home is only $900- per...and it’s bigger...and it’s newer in much better shape and there are no bums shitting on his lawn.
Throughout history, there have been too many recurrences of categorizing and dehumanizing groups of people that lead to catastrophic results. It’s especially important at such moments, to highlight stories such as these.
Now it appears City Hall has
heard some stuff from several of
their employees. It seems this guy who walks with a cane goes out each morning to pick up the all the litter in the sizeable parking lot in front of his morning haunt, Holy Roast Coffee. One very nice guy from the city crew is on limited duty due to an injury and it was his job to once a week come and clean this once a dump up...now he gets himself a cup of coffee, strolls about the place picking up the few cigarette butts the other guy missed... he loves this part of his job...although he can no longer justify the time he once was required to spend here.
I agree with you about the need to constantly counter the misinformation about immigrants and immigration. The false narratives on this subject
Thanks again,
Irene Barnard, Santa Rosa
Vesta forwarded me your very nice email on the subject of my column.
I want to thank you for your kind words. It really means a lot to me.
are so widespread, including now emanating from our federal government.
I plan to continue playing my little role writing for the Gazette on this subject, inspired by readers like you who appreciate this.
Marcos Zapatero
One last thing: perhaps you’d
be interested in seeing some of the videos produced by a local non-profit called My American Dreams that I’m involved in. The videos tell inspiring stories of immigrant youth from our own County, making a difference in their community.
LOCAL vs. Chain
These videos have been on
PBS stations across the country.
You can find them all at www. MyAmericanDreams.org. If you have a chance to watch them, let me know what you think.
(Chain Pharmacy Pricing is a Tough Pill to Swallow - JUNE 2018 Gazette)
I cannot thank Robert Pellegrini at Tuttles on Sonoma Avenue and his staff enough. They watch out for me and check and double check. They call me on Sunday to let me know clarify if needed... Huge fan of Tuttles and Pharmacist Robert and his team!!!
Thanks again for your support, Christopher Kerosky
Time to Speak Up
Shawna Westly Nielsen
We’re all well aware of the accepted political protocol that says, former presidents don’t comment on or criticize sitting presidents. I suppose that’s ordinarily a sound idea and a civil way to go about our democracy, but we are not in ordinary times, and we have a president that has taken
LETTERS cont’d on page 4
Inspiring Immigrant Stories
Every month I again want to
thank you for printing Christopher Kerosky’s inspiring Immigrant Stories. They are a crucial counter- narrative to the hateful and dangerous mood circulating in the world today. As with other forms of prejudice, it seems like this type of bigotry springs from the typically human fear of “the other,” receiving a constant stream
of misinformation from social media and certain news outlets, and a lack of
us to extraordinary limits in both his character and policies. This comes as news to no one who has watched the man’s actions and is alarmed by the directions he wants to take this country.
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