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LETTERS cont’d from page 6
to align yourself and your paper with the Koenigshofer, Carrillo, Bosco, PD crowd that is your right, but you must be prepared to accept the resulting disaffection from those of us who are paying attention.
Dear Lynda Hopkins,
Thank you for publishing the
Well, the national election was a landslide all right. Unfortunately the country itself is at the bottom of the ravine.
Market, Forestville United Methodist Church, its members plus individual Forestvillian donors and our faithful & indispensable volunteers who make this all come together for a nutritious and life-affirming twice-monthly food give-out to up to 72 Forestville families all year long. As Tiny Tim famously said in “A Christmas Carol”, “God bless us everyone!”
Barbara St. Louis
It Matters Where You Bank
Thank you for including this article about banking locally (April 2012). I am working within a local group that supports the Standing Rock Sioux, and our focus right now is to help build public awareness of the power we have to affect our local, regional and national politics through taking local actions and making sure we keep our money in local institutions. There is a growing movement for divestment of funds from the “Too Big To Fail” banks, and there have been a lot of successes. I am following this movement very closely, and your information is one more source that will help people become more aware of how we can affect change.
Sincerely, Linda Swartz
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Sincerely, Pieter S Myers, Occidental
I was already convinced that Lynda will make a very good Supervisor, but after reading her comments, I am dead certain we elected the right candidate.
A huge THANK YOU from Forestville United methodist’s FOOD CLOSET to all the 2016 grantors and business contributors, including, but not limited to: The Forestville Chamber of Commerce, Forestville Planning Association, Russian River Rotary, D & G Properties, Glover’s Easy Score, Inc., Nightingale Bakery, Ritchie Vineyards, Russian River Pub, Karol Schneider, D.D.S., Shear Pleasure Salon, The Service Station and Twist Eatery.
Those ads were Eric Koenigshoffer’s IEC - which if you followed me on Facebook you would know that I tried to talk him out of running them before they ran. But he was undeterred. And when he ran them I told him he was slinging mud on Lynda”s clean campaign - and still he was undeterred because he felt people needed to know what he had in those ads. As I have said so many times - BY LAW Lynda could not communicate with an IEC during a campaign. So - do you understand that those ads AND mailers were NOT approved by the candidate? - which they stated in print - BY LAW - and on the radio ads I believe Eric and his group ran. NOT approved by the Candidate.
Charlene Stone, Santa Rosa
Communicate with Lynda directly on this matter. She is very open to communication. It’s one of the many reasons I endorsed Lynda. She is intelligent, open, I like her attention to detail and commitment to two- way-street communication.
Something you and I agreed on was supporting Lynda Hopkins for 5th District Supervisor and she has certainly struck a wonderful note in her own comments this month. How refreshing to find a “politician” who realizes she represents the whole district, not just her supporters. Would that it were true with our new President and Congress. Paul Ryan has talked about a “mandate” and one far-right columnist recently described Trump’s election as a “landslide.” They “won” with less than a majority vote. Hopkins (like Obama) is light years beyond such ideologues.
There’s also a special place in our hearts for those that placed Christmas Collection Containers on priceless counter space in these establishments: Forestville Family Dentistry, Forestville Pharmacy, Ideal Hardware, Nightingale Breads, Shear Pleasure Salon, Speers Market and Tiny Town-—plus the many individuals who placed their hard-earned cash in those Containers.
wonderfully lucid letter to District 5 Citizens about the outcome of the recent election and her thought on our future.
Arthur Hills
NOTE: They talked extensively
The FOOD CLOSET also recognizes with deep gratitude the in-kind donors including Redwood Empire Food Bank, St. Vincent de Paul, Speers
Dear Vesta,
You do all the heavy lifting with
the Gazette. You’ve earned the right a thousand times over to express any opinion you want about anything— including ballot measures and candidates.
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