Shout out to Interact
EDITOR: Thank you for the nice article about the Spring Tea & Fashion Show. I want to give a huge shout out to the boys and girls from Rotary Interact Club of Cloverdale. They were the servers and we’re so professional. Without their tireless help the event would not have been so successful. Great group of kids and I hope to see them again next year.
Christine Flaherty, Chairperson
Cloverdale
Comments on marketing plan
EDITOR: Marcia (my aide, she’s typing this) told me there’s a new idea in Cloverdale (my hometown, great-grandfather started the first brewery) to get tourists into town to shop and eat and go to the hardware store. I think going to Healdsburg in gorilla costumes is a bad idea, especially telling the tourists they have to come to Cloverdale and jump out of a plane. People would be scared. It reminds me of when I had to go to the manor after my operation and four clowns rushed into the room. It turned out they were there to sing hymns, but it scared me to death. One clown is fine, but four is too many. I don’t think the gorilla suits are the way to go. What happened to good old “Genuinely Cloverdale” or my idea about everybody in town wearing artist hats? I have plenty more ideas. Call me anytime. Marcia will bring me the phone
Charlotte K. Heston
Boonville
Indivisible Cloverdale
EDITOR: I read with interest and hope the commentary by Vicky Groom promoting Indivisible Cloverdale. However, I sense it is a quite selective and exclusive group. While the concepts of respectful dialogue promoting inclusion and fairness are espoused they are shared only within a very clear framework of resistance and rejection of President Trump and his administration. It is a context in which values are shared only in a setting of very clear divisions between church and state. How does this build an “Indivisible Cloverdale” if those who voted for Trump or have more conservative, even faith-based values are clearly not welcome? Please understand I did not vote for or agree with Trump (or Clinton for that matter). For too long this country has been pursing a path of inclusion and respect but only with those with whom one agrees. I would love to see a movement in which people were willing to lay aside their obsession with labels and divisions and simply realize there are indeed values we share, even if the direction to reaching them may differ. What if we were to work as hard at listening and understanding instead of resisting and rejecting? Perhaps then we could return to an Indivisible Cloverdale and country. It just seems bridges are best built from both sides.
Harry Martin
Cloverdale
