Letters to the Editor 4-24-14

Mother’s Day breakfast
Editor:   
It’s been 13 years since the first Cloverdale Kiwanis sponsored Mother’s Day Breakfast, and what a tradition! Speaking of traditions, if you’ve got one for Mother’s Day that doesn’t include the Kiwanis Breakfast, then maybe it’s time to re-visit what you are doing!  The menu includes: pancakes, sliced ham, scrambled eggs, fresh strawberries, and several choices of beverage. Every mother who walks in the door is given a small gift of appreciation. The price is right – just $9 for adults and $4 for children. But, maybe even more importantly, ALL the proceeds from this event will be used to reward deserving students at Cloverdale High School with academic scholarships. So, reward yourself with a fantastic breakfast, and in the process know that you are doing a VERY good deed!
Here are the details of the event. It’s being held on Sunday, May 11th at the Cloverdale High School Cafeteria from 8 to 11:30 a.m. We hope you many of you in Cloverdale start a new Mother’s Day tradition and that we see you all there!
Sue Cummins,
Kiwanis Club of Cloverdale
A wonderful community
Editor:   
I think the wonderful collaboration shown by both Marge Gray, a noted artist, and Robin Wilkerson, from our Chamber of Commerce, in decorating the chamber walls with Mrs. Gray’s beautiful watercolors is just another example of how Cloverdalians constantly come together to make our city the wonderful community it is. I invite everyone to stop by the Chamber offices and see these wonderful pieces.
Thanks Marge and Robin!
Robert Redner,
Cloverdale
In response to Kurt Hahn
Editor:   
With all due respect for Healdsburg resident Kurt Hahn’s community service, I am writing today as a concerned voter and faithful Reveille reader, not as Mayor of Cloverdale, to address some misperceptions that could result from his recent “Letter to the Editor.”
As my fellow readers may recall, long-time Windsor Councilwomen and candidate for supervisor Deb Fudge and I serve as Directors of SMART, having been honored with reappointment to that twelve member board by the Sonoma County Mayors and Councilmembers Association.
Please be assured that both of us work hard each day to help create a well-managed, efficient, rider-friendly rail line that utilizes its precious tax dollars funding judiciously. We are both doing all we can to ensure this history making, economy boosting, commuter/visitor/tourist transportation project continues to move forward. In the last six months alone nine critical miles have been added that include bringing the line further north.
Among the many reasons I support Deb Fudge is my confidence, developed from years of personal experience as her colleague, that she will continue to do whatever it takes to bring that train into our hometown depot.
As will I.
Above all, I have seen first-hand that Deb truly cares about Cloverdale and I trust she will work with equal commitment and skill for our future as she does for SMART’s.    
Carol Russell,
Cloverdale
Wasted water
Editor:   
As a citizen of Cloverdale, I too received the vaguely threatening letter in my mailbox a few months back declaring the water shortage and the penalties for not cutting back on water usage. Given the gravity of the situation and the common “that doesn’t apply to me” mentality so prevalent nowadays I had no issue with the letter.
My issue at this point is with the corner of Franklin and Healdsburg where there has been a twenty four hour a day seven days a week sheet of water running out of a city water box for many many months.
My wife has left multiple letters in the City of Cloverdale box with no result, so I am asking now, yet again, PLEASE, help the citizens of Cloverdale do what you asked them to do and save water.
There should be a penalty for the city wasting water just as there is for th e citizenry, but there is not, so I merely ask that the city does its civic duty and fix that leak before more of our limited resources are run down the drain and the townsfolk have to pay the price.          
Adam Johnson,
Cloverdale
Editor’s note:
In a recent report, City Manager Paul Cayler issued the following information about the water and the corner of Franklin and Healdsburg Avenue:
“There is water flowing across the sidewalk and into the gutter near a PG&E utility vault at the southwest corner of Healdsburg Ave. and Franklin Street. It is my understanding that this is a seasonally wet location that is observed annually during the wet season. PG&E has been notified. The location will be continued to be monitored.”