Alternative Cloverdale slogans
EDITOR: Today Marcia took me to the foot doctor in Santa Rosa. On the way home (Boonville: Graham’s Gracious Home for the Aged, not bad, and I’m not just saying this because Marcia Graham is typing this letter), we passed the welcome sign at the Cloverdale city limits: “eXperience Cloverdale, Where If You Visit You’ll Want To Stay.”
Come on! This is Cloverdale! My hometown! (Great Grandpa Bundt: first livery/mortuary. Third Street. Fourth.) We can do better! Marcia and I were just watching an episode of Paladin (boy, could we use him now) and came up with some slogans that might be better:
Cloverdale: You’ll know it when you get here!
Cloverdale: WINE Not Stop By?
Cloverdale: My hometown. Could be yours!
Cloverdale: Try us, You’ll Like Us!
Cloverdale: You can’t beat it with a stick!
Cloverdale: Fun. Food. Friends. No Gangs.
Cloverdale: Where the Past is Always Present.
Cloverdale: A little town with a big (drawing of heart in red ink).
We’re just throwing out these suggestions. No charge. I have plenty more ideas. Call me anytime (before 5:30 p.m.) and Marcia will bring me the phone.
Charlotte Heston
Cloverdale
P.S. Thanks to all you card-senders and well-wishers.
I still have a leg (one) to stand on. Soldier on!
Cloverdale youth rock
EDITOR: On behalf of the Cloverdale Museum and Historical Society, I would like to extend the museum board’s heartfelt thanks to the high school students who showed up both Friday and Saturday to help prepare and paint our surrounding white picket fence. Also, our thanks go out to Will Jopson at Ace Hardware for donating all the supplies.
Friday’s charge was led by Ms. Carolina Pickens, Cloverdale high science teacher, and nine enthusiastic students who painted one whole section and prepared the remaining fence for Saturday’s attack, which was undertaken by the Cloverdale High School Rotary Interact Club. Led by club president Isaih Holoman, he and four other intrepid students finished the project by late Saturday afternoon, just in time to be ready for the May 19 Spring Tea, being held at the museum.
Without these students’ dedication and max effort, this job would not have been accomplished.
It’s students like these that give us all hope for our futures. Thank you so much for your efforts.
Robert G. Redner
President, Cloverdale Historical Society
A good walk
EDITOR: We would like to thank all of you who came out on Earth Day for our Porterfield Creek Walk and music on the Plaza (and thank you Janet and Dan for leading the Walk).
We especially want to thank Dahlia & Sage, Cloverdale Nursery, Low Knob Press, Master Gardeners, Recology and Spoke Folk for contributing to our displays.
We also want to thank our talented local musicians, Richard Green, Steve Johnson, and Jonathan Ungles, who also provided his sound system. Vice Mayor Carol Russell, a champion of Climate Action 2020 and Beyond, spoke about our regional action plan; and Council Member Mary Ann Brigham was available to answer questions. Let’s do it again next year.
The Environmental Committee of Cloverdale Indivisible: Sally Evans, Janet Seaforth, Dan FitzSimmons, Darlene Peck, Wendy Free, Paddy Goodhart, Albert Walker, Melinda Shaw, Gina Wagy, Dawn Lindelof, Pam Browning
Carpetbaggers
EDITOR: In his letter, David Parnall, attorney and consultant for California Wellness, a Bay Area marijuana delivery service, says it was hard for CW to “absorb” why it wasn’t granted a dispensary permit, as it was the clear “frontrunner.”
As councilmember Russell and others noted at the March 13 council meeting, CW’s financial numbers made no sense. A CW spokesman apologized, saying he didn’t know how those numbers got past him. New numbers have since been submitted.
California Wellness claimed to be the only licensed dispensary applicant. According to the California Bureau of Cannabis Control, CW does not have a license.
As an attorney, Mr. Parnall should have advised his friend, school board president and CW reference Preston Addison, that he had a legal obligation to disclose his conflict of interest, whether the interest was financial or not. He didn’t.
It appears that Mr. Parnall tried to use his long friendship with the Addison-Conners to get CW in the door.
It appears that Mr. Addison used his position as school board president to try to hijack Quonset Botanical’s permit for CW.
It appears that Joe Palla used his position as mayor to throw one of QB’s owners off the planning commission, further sabotaging QB and hurting a very good man in the process.
We’ll all miss Joe when he moves on to the state assembly.
I’ve been here for 45 years and have noticed that some people who don’t live in Cloverdale seem to think we’re a bunch of dumb hicks. I may be a local yokel but I know carpetbaggers when I see them.
CD Grant
Cloverdale
Support sought for fireworks
EDITOR: Dear Cloverdale citizens, businesses and clubs: The Cloverdale Lions Club is once again sponsoring Cloverdale’s 43rd annual Fourth of July public fireworks display on the evening of July 4 at the Cloverdale High School Football Field (Allen Memorial Field). We hope that this will provide the focus for a community Fourth of July celebration comparable to last year’s program.
As you might suppose, the cost of providing fireworks has increased beyond the means of any one club or organization. We are, therefore, soliciting financial support from all clubs, organizations, businesses and individual citizens.
If you wish to contribute, please send your contributions to the Cloverdale Lions Club, PO Box 763, Cloverdale, CA 95425. Donations will also be accepted by Lion Chuck Sibert at 1301 South Cloverdale Blvd, Lion Tex Dickens at 132 Furber Lane or any Lions Club member.
Chuck Sibert
Project Chairman, Cloverdale Lions Club
