Reaffirming commitment to students
EDITOR: Last week the West Side Union School District Board of Trustees passed a resolution to reaffirm our commitment to ensure a safe educational environment for all students, serving as a safe haven school district for students and families threatened by immigration enforcement or discrimination. We felt it was vital for our community to know that we stand with many other districts to ensure our students and families are offered a protected space.
Kristen Brodrick
West Side Union School Board Trustee
Healdsburg
Preserve to be saved from large events
EDITOR: On behalf of the Fitch Mountain Association and, I am sure, many others in Healdsburg and the wider community, I would like to sincerely thank the Healdsburg Recreation and Parks Commission for having listened to what the community truly wants for the Fitch Mountain Park and Preserve and then voting to remove the Park Improvement Area 2 from the Draft Management Plan. They voted unanimously last week to send the plan, shorn of any possibility of large group use, to the city council, which will meet on March 6 to consider the plan for adoption.
If the council agrees, as we trust they will, the preserve will be saved from large events, which have no place in a spot so serene, unique, and delicate as Fitch Mountain. We will now be able to walk there with our dogs, bike, jog and watch the bananas slugs in peace.
Thanks as well to hard working Community Services Director Mark Themig and his staff, who have been so courteous and helpful at every step of the process.
Now we can only hope that the city council will hear the will of their community and approve the plan in the form in which it has been forwarded to them. That will be a gift to Healdsburg and all of us.
Dave Henderson, President, Fitch Mountain Association, Healdsburg
