Letters to the Editor 5-8-14

Supporting Deb Fudge
Editor:   
The election of our 4th District County Supervisor is getting close, especially if you vote by mail. I am supporting Deb Fudge for this office for several reasons. She has demonstrated a strong commitment to good land use planning and has been an advocate for environmental issues while balancing the needs of commerce in Windsor. Deb has served seventeen years on the Windsor Town Council, and five terms as the city’s Mayor. Through her years of public service, Deb has gained the experience needed to help shape Sonoma County’s future. I encourage you to join me in voting for Deb Fudge for County Supervisor.
Virginia Greenwald,
Cloverdale
Desecrating our town’s history
Editor:   
I am a writer by trade. I have been working on a series of modern fantasy novels using my hometown of Cloverdale and its local residents as reference material in regards to the tales that I have been telling in my books for some time now. But unlike other novelists who always seem to enjoy writing such stories while being cooped up in their own personal tiny little rooms on their computers, I prefer a more open atmosphere while I write. In my hometown my preferred office for writing such things for you to read at a future date, when they get published, is either sitting at Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub watching and listening to you all do your thing around me or sitting at the top of the Cloverdale Cemetery in the early afternoon by myself.
Having said this, I have stumbled across a bit of an issue regarding our local cemetery that I am not too pleased with whatsoever and I wish to share this with you because I care.  Either one individual or a group of individuals in our community has/have been stomping about up here lately destroying quite a few of our town’s historical headstones during the night and this as you all must well know (assuming you have a soul of your own of course) is not a good thing.  Quite a bit of this vandalism has occurred as recently as last week.  I wouldn’t bother writing this down for you to read if I didn’t think that some of you cared because I know for a fact that many of you in our community do.  There is plenty of evidence to show that you have already stepped up in the past to repair other headstones in our cemetery that had been ruined by such uncaring idiots.  Come and see this all for yourselves if you doubt me.  Unfortunately we now have a lot more work to do up here.  
In ending I ask you this, when you have moved on to that next wonderful life of yours, should some random human happen to pass by that headstone of yours that marks your own time here on our earth and they discover that some idiot has decided to destroy it, would you prefer that this next generation that is to take your place in our world, A: stop to take a brief moment out of their lives to repair said damage or would you rather, B: they pass you buy and be indifferent and uncaring.  Think about that.  As always, thank you for listening to me while I speak my piece in our local newspaper’s editorial section.
Michael Seelau,
Cloverdale