Letters to the Editor 8-15-13

Zucchini Fest
Editor: We all had a blast on Sunday at the Windsor Farmers Market’s 11th Annual Zucchini Festival and Antique Show. Each year it’s gets bigger and better thanks to so many local folks who come out and help and who set-up shop on the Town Green for all of us to enjoy.
The Antique Show was spectacular, with so many wonderful things purchased at bargain prices. Thank you to dealer, Tanni Cordis and her crew for making it happen. Thank you to Phil Eagle Estate Appraisals for being there all day helping folks value their treasures. The service was free but donations were accepted with $60 being collected for the Windsor Parks & Rec Foundation. The Foundation was this year’s non-profit recipient at the event and will also be receiving $10 of the booth fees from every antique vendor.
The Zucchini Festival was bigger than ever, expanding into the Gym parking lot for the day with Jubilee Jumpys, Lil Kickers Soccer Obstacle Course, Country Games like the Dime Toss, Hawaiian Ice and homemade cupcakes and our famous Zucchini Car Races and Biggest Zucchini Contest. Thank you to my crew Megan, Melina, Rosalba, Andrew, Sarah and Rebecca, for setting up, running the games and helping with the contests. Thank you to Steve, Vic and Marie for bringing the track and running the Car Races and to Marie Gannister, WHS Culinary, for taking charge of the Veggie Art Contest and the Chef Demonstration. We had Exec Chef, Don Nolan from Bacchus Restaurant at the Doubletree Hotel and Lauren Helvajian from SRJC Culinary demonstrating vegetable carving and garnishing techniques in the Center Pavilion, thank you to them for giving of their time.
Big thanks go out to the Windsor Garden Club for their veggie art activity that gave many children the opportunity to enter a piece of veggie art in the contest. Thank you to D and Nicki for helping me during the busiest set-up time getting everyone in their places. But wait there’s more … We would also like to thank all the Market vendors this year who went out of their way to make their booths extra bountiful and for staying until 2 for our shoppers. It was another wonderful day for the community of Windsor and we thank everyone involved.
Tina Castelli
Manager, Windsor Farmers Market
Misinformed
Editor: Either Council Member Fudge or her constituents are terribly misinformed on assault weapons. First, “assault weapon” is not a technical term used by either the firearms industry or the military. It is a political term, bent and twisted to serve political aspirations.  Second, the assault weapons covered by the now expired federal ban are semi-automatic firearms and haven’t been used by any significant military force in over 50 years. They are, in fact, NOT “intended for military use.”
Assault weapons have multiple roles in a civilized society.  An assault weapon can be a work of art, a reliable hunting weapon, provide hours of recreational shooting, protect your home and family, and provide the ultimate check against tyranny. Whatever harm comes from them is worth the price.  Just ask the 200 million civilians killed by their own governments in the last century.
James R. Oglesby
Santa Rosa
Open Letter to the CPUC
Editor: Where you propose to build the new substation is in an area that is residential as well as commercial. If you’re planning to connect up to the Fulton substation, why don’t you build it closer to Fulton rather than on the other side of town, where indubitably it will be much more expensive to connect?
Further, with all due respect, isn’t it about time we turn the corner and get real? If you are not aware, Windsor is a Solar City and we are proud of this. It is time, in fact, way past time that we stop investing and perpetrating these outmoded and outdated energy technologies that are no longer sustainable nor frankly desired by the good folk of Windsor.
Instead of building this new substation, while I realize this may serve well as yet another pork barrel boondoggle for a handful of the ultra wealthy, why don’t you do the right thing and give us locals solar panels? That way not only could we sell the needed energy back to you, but moreover eliminate the need for you to build yet another anachronistic and fat cat fattening dinosaur? Sincerely, on behalf of the children and future generations of Windsorites,
David Randolph
Windsor