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Dear Petaluma,
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kindness during the evacuation from the Kinkaid fire. As we all felt the shock of having to leave our homes and wondering if we would have anything to come back to, being given such
a warm welcome in such difficult circumstances, helped ease the shock of it all. We thank the pub owners who allowed us to bring our dog
in and the people who took time to show interest in our situation. To the custodians who took care of Walnut Park and leaving the bathroom open (we stayed in our car next to the park) and the person who offered a bath to the evacuees. We didn’t take them
up on it, but I was so touched by their very gracious offer. In a world with so much unrest, I feel truly grateful
to the amazing residents of Petaluma who gave us a sense of normalcy during this difficult time.
Val Larson, Camp Meeker
Do you remember...
different plans than following in their parent’s mop bucket tracks such be the dates of such SoCo icons like Gary Chu’s or that fabulous G&G Market so it’s not just fires that can devastate the plans of hard working parents, hard working immigrant parents the kind that gave their labors, that gave their very lives most proudly and in times of real wars not us just bullying much smaller countries as we are known to be doing today and sadly our young who lose their lives behind these intollerably one sided battles
are given the name of hero, heroes we knew well from the Great War and the even greater war we fought to stop a madman that soon followed to stop a racist hate mongerer who just as one is doing now...blamed 100% of his country’s problems on less than 3% of it’s population, a visibly different appearing group of citizenry...much like as is being done, tolerated and even happily supported by equally easily led fools.
Do you remember....limber? Tan, another business owner that was doing just fine with the nail salon he and his wife own but then something happened they hadn’t planned upon, the Tubbs Fire. Tan and his wife
Perhaps it is in the hearts of our newly declared enemies does to
again for themselves and their underdeveloped countries stop the Madman that now occupies that big house at 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue for surely his madness must be countered both here and abroad. Immigrants founded this country, immigrant’s built this country and it’s said that the taxation upon those hardworking families will be the base from which Social Security dividends will be so derived.
had just taken a second mortgage out on their three bedroom home to upgrade their shop to better serve his neighbors, many of which had children that attended school and even played outside in the street in their culdesac’d street in the clean, comfy even friendly...Coffee Park neighborhood. Tan didn’t lose his home as did so so many but at this point he tells me... he’d be much better off if he had. The three or four customers they have daily barely cover the shop rent let alone support his family...and that pesky second mortgage which as do his children... let him know in no uncertain terms that they will not be ignored.
May God bless all dreamers titled so or no, known or unknown, visibly different thus easier to blame for
the results of poorly controlled BIG BUSINESS and it’s profits over people cornerstones of tradition.
How many a small business owner have suffered the same fate? Some as it’s told have lost the businesses they took over from their parents planning fully perhaps that their children would wish to do the same. Children being children oft have
Lying here with my busted
knee cap. Happened Thursday night. Didn’t even see it coming. Self employed hairstylist, just getting back on my feet after cancer treatment now this. Parking curb in the middle of nowhere!
LETTERS cont’d on page 4
Marcos Zapatero
Wheelstops...AGAIN
Diane Howard
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