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Have a favorite memory of
have given up on, sweep the parking lots business entities have ignored...I have been around this town, recently to places I hadn’t seen in years...I am completely disgusted!
your Hippie days?
Please share it with us!
The West County Museum is creating a library of oral histories of Hippie days in West Sonoma County.
SFGate does a pretty good job of saying what is going on, the Feds need to step in and tap Vegas for 1,000 times what this paltry sum amounts to!
We’d love to include your story.
So, for an appointment to record your oral history please contact:
Sue Pekarsky Gary (Co-Curator “The Hippies”) at 808-333-1113.
San Francisco residents wonder why the city streets are home to so many lost and forlorn mentally ill drifters. Now there’s a documented reason: Nevada callously shipped its unwanted psychiatric patients here to be rid of them.
Sonoma County Housing, Crisis
and Hope, Part 1
It’s horrible to see studio apartments going for a thousand dollars a month.
In a tentative settlement, Nevada
is agreeing to pay $400,000 to San Francisco to end a lawsuit over what has been called Greyhound therapy, the practice of shipping indigent patients elsewhere. In this case, a state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas allegedly sent 24 homeless former mental patients to this city with one- way bus tickets and little else.
Young families are being driven from the state they grew up in and love.
Our older and disabled are seen more often on the streets pushing carts with what few memories and belongings they’ve been able to
save from much happier days. They become targets of teenage bullies and thugs on the streets.
Marcos Zapatero, Santa Rosa
When they die they end up in potters field. No name no one to care.
If You Build it They Will Come
America shouldn’t treat its people like this.
I jus picked up a copy of the Gazette (issue April 2017) having read all the blurbs from the local communities, I was struck with the fact that only TWO communities are having a homeless issue, Guerneville and Monte Rio. This issue has been discussed for over twenty years, countless meetings, proposals and four county supervisors. The result of all the time and money spent the problem is worse.
Lesa OMara
Sadly ,I think we will see the
time...
...when there will be so many people here (I see 10-20 new people at the library each time I go) that food will be distributed from the back
of a truck...that never slows down.
I love the thought of the tortured finding comfort but there are just so many bums both male and female that have no plans of ever doing anything more than scooping up
free services and getting high...it is perversely pervasive and it shows not a single sign of getting better, quite the opposite as everything anyone is doing only attracts more! This would be the message I would have shared at many a meeting had I attended. Raise the standards to receive any charity, sobriety needs to be the great divider, work-fare needs to be set
into place and yes with entry level manufacturing jobs all but destroyed in this country as I have said before... send them out to pull the weeds cities
Now the county solution is to buy a 10-acre horse farm across from
the Senior Center, blocks from the elementary school and near the entrance to Armstrong Woods State Park.
Have our supervisors looked at locations in Healdsburg (there is a large former lumber yard that would be suitable) and the homeless would have a short walk to the Russian River that being a consideration for the location. How about Sebastopol or Windsor or any other Somoma County location.
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