Letters to the Editor 6-25-15

Compost compromise
EDITOR: Last week’s editorial “Failing their budget exam” was right on point. There is another dimension to the Supervisors’ failure that I would like to mention. That would be their failure to negotiate a compromise so that Sonoma Compost can continue to operate until a permanent solution is reached. Reasonable options were offered. The Supervisors failed completely to take a leadership role in making a reasonable compromise happen.  
I have worked in the legal arena as a paralegal on and off since 1988. Negotiation and compromise is how that game is played. It’s customary. It’s Basic Law 101. Why do our Supervisors not know this? Did something go on behind closed doors that we don’t know about?
Look at what the entire community lost!   What the environment lost. I have no idea about what it will cost to truck all our garbage out of county, and how many tons of vehicle pollution will occur. Any intelligent person can guess that these figures will be astronomical.    
What a colossal failure of leadership!   
Not one of these Supervisors will have my vote. We must have leaders with moral courage. Obviously we don’t. We have to do better. The state of the world requires us to do better.  
Paula Downing
Sebastopol
Boycott Civil War Days
EDITOR: What if they held a war and nobody came? That’s our plea for the Civil War Days. What is being celebrated? Racism? A desire to return to slavery? White supremacy? Does the bloody slaughter between the north and south need to be re-enacted?
 The confederate flag is being banned in challenges throughout the country.
 Nine people were killed in a black church this week allegedly by a white supremacist.
 To the kind, intelligent, free thinking residents who see the banners for Civil War Days, please consider how it would feel to be black.
The Civil War was a shameful time for our country and we are ashamed to live in an area that celebrates it. Perhaps if nobody came, it would end.
 
Glenys Konze,
Tony Bryhan
Sebastopol
Check your coverage
EDITOR: I am greatly dismayed by what you choose to cover in your newspaper.
I for one am sick of hearing of Dan Smith’s feeding his ego with all the money he is pouring into an ill conceived idea of a “regional medical center” (really????) in Sebastopol. Get real! AND look at the disease care in the country!!
Also, there was a fire on Blank Road Sunday evening … absolutely NOT a word about it in your paper. Gold Ridge Fire Department needs recognition for its stellar job protecting our properties!
Furthermore, there is a huge solar array on Stony Point Rd.  — also nada about that venture either in your paper. Your rates have more than doubled since we began subscribing to your paper. With the next notice of payment I tell you I will look closely at the value. Right now to me it doesn’t look to be of much value to me. Thank you for listening.
Cathie Haynes
Sebastopol