Letters to the Editor 4-3-14

Relay for Life ‘round up’
Editor:   
Attention former Relay For Life participants and those that would like to get involved in the fight against cancer.  The committee for the 2014 Relay For Life event in Cloverdale on June 21, 2014, is in dire need of committee members and Event Chairpersons. If you have two hours a month for the next three months, please come and help organize the upcoming Relay For Life. If you don’t know what this is, or would like to volunteer, please contact Racheal Harmon, at the ACS office in Santa Rosa, ra************@ca****.org, or 707-888-3844, 1-800-227-2345.  Come help plan the Relay for 2014 in Cloverdale.  
If you would like to “Round Up” a team to participate and fundraise for the event, get your team together, sign up online at ACS.org, or come to the monthly meeting.
If you are a survivor of cancer, please come and let us celebrate your survivorship. Survivors walk the first lap on the track at the high school football field at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 21, 2014. Let’s fill the track this year. Check in at the Survivorship tent and receive your t-shirt and goodie bag. Refreshments will be available, too.
This year’s theme is “Round Up For A Cure”. The western theme is in conjunction with the Citrus Fair theme this year.  Wear your cowboy attire, decorate your campsite, and enjoy the multitude of activities throughout the day.
We meet the third Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. for Team Captains and at 7:00 p.m. for Committee Members at Ruth McGowan’s Pub at the corner of First and Main Street in the back room.
Come participate, have fun, raise funds for research and services for cancer patients. We would like to have a chili cookoff if enough teams participate. Dinner Saturday will be a taco bar with teams bringing condiments to fill your taco. It is fun and it all goes for a great cause. Let’s finish the fight!
Evelyn Sue Dickens,
Cloverdale
Outpouring of love
Editor:   
This is in response to the outpouring of love and kindness expressed towards our little sister Judy Warren from the Valentine’s Day story.
How blessed we are to live in Cloverdale, I have resided in Cloverdale for eight years, falling in love with our, “Mayberry.” However, having lived in various places over the years, I have never seen such an outpouring of love and kindness from a community as I have for my sister Judy Warren.
So many sent cards and gifts that it has become difficult to thank each one. Judy is truly a princess though I am not sure she realizes it. She is just beaming with delight that others come to her for hugs, where ever we go.
Thank you so much Cloverdale!
The Sisters (Victoria & Naomi)
Cloverdale
Supporting Foppiano
Editor:   
In voting for a Supervisor candidate to replace Mike McGuire I believe experience and temperament are critical. First I looked at those who supported the community’s efforts to keep our hospital open. Both Fudge and Foppiano were there. Secondly, I looked at their postures on pension reform which is vital to the county’s fiscal sustainability and probably the key issue. Here, Foppiano is ahead and Fudge probably too owing to union bosses. Third, the environment. Foppiano is ahead and Fudge is sometimes two-faced with such issues as community separators where she opted to try to relocate Sanderson Ford from Healdsburg to Windsor for Windsor revenues into a community separator previously negotiated with the Healdsburg City Council. Lastly, on the issue of transportation, under Fudge we may or may not ever see SMART rail reach north.
Most importantly, Pete Foppiano has the blend of knowledge and temperament to do a good job. Like Mike McGuire, he is a good listener. Like Mike he is available and often out and about in the community involved when it counts. His experience is broad and  his positions on key issues solid. He has my full support as a candidate for Supervisor.
Kurt Hahn,
Healdsburg
‘The Sound of Commerce’
Editor:   
Don’t you think it’s about enough on the Airport noise issue?  Please no more rhetoric, no more headlines. On one page it’s all about saving Cloverdale business and bringing in new business and on the front page you give the airport issue a headline. The airport is part of Cloverdale commerce and has been for 52 years.  So if you moved here since 1962, it’s your fault that the airport noise bothers you not Nor-Cal. I flew one of the first military jets with afterburner out of El-Toro and many objected to the very loud noise at takeoff. We coined a phrase and called it the “Sound of Freedom.” Perhaps we should call the Cloverdale airport noise “The Sound of Commerce.”
Lowell (Andy) Anderson,
Cloverdale