Worried about my medicine
EDITOR: As a medical cannabis patient for the last several years, I am concerned about these new zoning laws. It seems that they are hurting all of the patients in the area. Because Proposition 64 passed, there are already new laws that regulate and prohibit a lot of the cultivation that supplies patients like me. I am worried that a lot of the local farmers I know from whom I get high-quality medicine will be shut out. If many of them are also prevented from cultivating because of the minimum space between properties, there won’t be enough medicine to go around, and patients like me will be forced to drive to other cities. Please preserve my safe access.
Breanna Bealer
Santa Rosa
Positive note
EDITOR: On behalf of the Sebastopol Inter-Church Food Pantry I would like to do a shout out and big thank you to our local realtors and Brookhaven Middle School for their generous donations of time, energy, food and cash. The realtors collected donations of food and money outside the local grocery stores on the day before Thanksgiving. They delivered the food to the pantry and shelved it for us. In a two-week food drive, Brookhaven collected enough food to fill a pick up truck and the trunk of a car as well as a substantial amount of cash. Wow and double wow!! Our shelves are full to bursting and in addition we now have cash to purchase meat, eggs, milk and fresh produce. Sharing and caring is very much alive and well in Sebastopol.
Mary McAulay
Food Pantry Board Member
Sebastopol
Fine fellows?
EDITOR: I am addressing the caption over the picture of John Eder’s and Robert Jacobs’ end of their terms as city council members. I did not find the caption, “fine fellows” appropriate.
These “representatives” have shown a preference of promoting personal agendas rather than those of our community at large. During their tenure they engaged in the following:
Voted for and promoted a frivolous lawsuit against CVS’ re-location to the Pellini property. This action needlessly cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars of much needed revenue.
They supported and promoted a questionable “emergency” measure to deny CVS of a drive-up window for the express purpose of picking up prescription medications. This action denied our community of a valuable convenience, especially for the elderly and infirm.
They have continually promoted a campaign to boycott CVS, a significant source of city revenues. They have even suggested that we take our business to another town, further denying Sebastopol of tax revenues.
Mr. Eder has recently promoted an effort to redesign an intersection near Ives Pool, at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars to city coffers. Evidently he alone is incapable of knowing how to cross the street at said intersection. City police records show there has not been a pedestrian or traffic incident at that intersection in the last 10 years.
Simply stated, both of these “fine fellows” have continually promoted their own personal agendas rather than the general best interests of our community.
I suggest a more appropriate caption for the photo would have been, “good riddance.”
Bob Aita
Sebastopol
