Letters to the Editor 4-2-15

Relay for Life coming to Cloverdale
Editor:
 I would like to take this opportunity to invite all residents of Cloverdale to this year’s annual Relay For Life of Cloverdale. The event will take place on Saturday, May 30, 2015, in downtown Cloverdale.
We are having a luncheon to celebrate survivors at this event. At around noon on Saturday, May 30, 2015, we will serve pasta salad and French bread to all survivors that register to walk, and one caregiver. Others must pay $5, presale only.
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the Relay for Life will begin at 10 a.m. There will be events throughout the day. There will be entertainment and a DJ will play music during the day. There will be luminaria bags to decorate in memoriam or in honor of a loved one. This year, the event is only 12 hours long – there will be no overnight camping.
Please go online to www.relayforlife.org/cloverdaleca to register. Form a team and raise funds that will go towards finding a cure for cancer. Remember, survivors register for free. Come have some fun and help fight the fight.
Sue Dickens
Cloverdale
“Missing” classmates sought for reunion
Editor:
Cloverdale High School’s class of 1965 will be hosting their 50th class reunion on June 27 at downtown Cloverdale’s La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant.
The following classmates have successfully eluded our efforts to locate them: Bill Brooks, Cheryl Davies, Nancy Dugger, Aaron Hanson, Larry Herrell, C. Hines, R. Jack, L. Keeney, S. Kent, Robert Knowles, J. Lusty, Folke Mayer, Gloria Monoglo, Patricia Moore, George Moore, Carl Murphy, Janice Newton, M. Norvella, Bill Pace, Verna Peckham, David Roland, Audrey Roussan, Mike Rosenberger, Larry Sanders, Patricia Schaffer, Ken Sharp, Keith Standard, Gail Sweek, Terry Williams, Carlos Chance and Ellen Engles.
If you know the whereabouts of any of these people, please contact Ron Bandiera at

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or 707-480-0637 or “Merle, the dinosaur” at 707-538-8841. Yes, it’s a landline, the most primitive form of communication used today.
Merle Reuser
Cloverdale
Support needed for 2015 Project Graduation
Editor:
The 2015 CHS/JEH project graduation needs support. A fundraising effort is currently underway for Project Graduation, an all-night, alcohol-free and drug-free party for graduation seniors. The goal of Project Graduation is simple: keep kids sober, straight and off of the roads on graduation night.
For more information, please contact Julie at

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. Please make checks payable to: Cloverdale Project Graduation, P.O. Box 141, Cloverdale, CA 95425. We are hoping for your support to help make this year’s Project Graduation the best ever! Thank you for your support!
Julie Calzontzi
Cloverdale
An inclusive perspective needed
Editor:
I was surprised about the one sided view of religion expressed by your editor in the March 26 issue, which expressed that Christianity is the only way to believe. I find that rather bigoted and not respectful of your readers who are not Christian. I enjoy the inclusive views of the column by Bob Jones, an actual Christian minister. I have my own faith. I urge you to show more respect for it.
Linda Robinett
Sebastopol
Remembering who we are at Easter
Editor:
I appreciated Rollie Atkinson’s editorial on the sacredness of life very much (“At Easter: Our sacred life”). It was bold and timely.
Humanity has a moral problem that separates us from the Holy God. Easter is an invitation to remember who we are, created but finite, and our need for rescue from our sin and ourselves, and that God has provided a way out of this “paradise lost” through Christ’s sacrifice.
The editing of the human genome makes me think of Mary Shelley’s, “Frankenstein” and how it illustrated that human attempts to create life or overcome death ended tragically because we are not smart enough, as last week’s editorial stated. “Pride goeth before a fall” is still and always will be true.
Rosanne Prandini
Sebastopol