Thanksgiving service
EDITOR: All are invited to share in the Healdsburg Shared Ministries Community Thanksgiving Service on Wednesday evening, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Healdsburg Seventh-day Adventist Church, 429 Terrace Boulevard. Area churches will provide music and a message of Thanksgiving, also an offering will be taken for Healdsburg Shared Ministries, sponsors of the Food Pantry and Christmas Basket program. The traditional Hallelujah Chorus will be sung at the end of the service, followed by refreshments in the multi-purpose room. Rehearsal for the chorus will be at 6:15 p.m. at the church. Call 857-3726 or email [email protected] for further information.
Elaine Privat
Healdsburg
Garbage survey
EDITOR: Dear people of Healdsburg, are you tired of garbage all over your beautiful city? Well don’t worry, that will soon be a thing of the past. But in order to do this, I need your help. Go to my website, www.lorenrauchhhs.orgfree.com and tell me where you see the most garbage and where you want a garbage can to help get rid of that garbage. A week after this paper is published, I will take the results to the city council and get the garbage can installed at the most voted locations. Please help support the community by voting. Thank you.
Loren Rauch
Healdsburg High School student
Let the animals live
EDITOR: Mardi Storm of Trickster Rabbits (‘Heritage’ applies to more than tomatoes, 11/2/17) says “new and modern rabbits don’t like people; they aren’t friendly and not necessarily cuddly.” The millions of house rabbit owners nationwide would strongly disagree. Rabbits are now the third most popular pet, enjoying equal companion status along with dogs and cats; they even have an organization called House Rabbit Society advocating for their protection. I live with two rescued bunnies who know their names, use litter boxes, love to be petted, do binkies (a rabbit dance of joy), cuddle on the couch and hop around the house spreading delight wherever they go.
Whole Foods Market recently recognized that bunnies are considered more valuable as companions than dinner when, after scores of protests, they stopped selling rabbit meat in their entire chain of stores across America. The owner of a popular local grocery store told me that meat sales in general have declined sharply in the past few years, and he theorized that the emergence of more exotic meat is an attempt to rekindle interest. He admitted it hasn’t taken off.
Perhaps in our current culture, people are now becoming more interested than ever in adopting a plant-based diet to reverse heart disease and diabetes, lose weight, lessen their impact on global warming, live longer and healthier and to simply let the animals live.
Diana Rousseau
Forestville
Excellent piece
EDITOR: My father would often say, “It’s impossible to do one thing,” to remind my brother and me to look beyond what we thought was “a good idea at the time” (which he never said). Good examples of why this is an important way to evaluate decisions and their consequences were explained in Amie Windsor’s excellent piece in the Nov. 2 Harvest Edition of the Tribune: ‘Next Gen’ Farming.
Jane St. Claire
Healdsburg
