Show ‘Crockett’ some support
EDITOR: The Healdsburg Police Department in town has my .50 Kentucky long rifle flintlock at the police station. They took it away. It is a reproduction. It is broken, messed up, doesn’t work. I didn’t have all the stuff to actually load and fire it.
It takes me over four minutes to load anyway. You have to have a powder horn to pour the powder down the barrel, patch and then the lead ball on the patch. Then, ram it down to the end of the barrel by ramrod. A flintlock has a pan, put the powder in and a flint up to the jaws. Then after all that, cock, trigger and fire it. It is a long process to load a black powder rifle.
Please, people. This month, please, I need your support. Have a rally for me! For Davey Crockett at the Plaza. Show me this town cares about me. And I care about this town a lot, too, and my friends.
Help! Help! Please.
The people in this town know me as Davey Crockett or Daniel Boone because I dress in a buckskin leather shirt and pants, moccasin boots, Bowie knife, powder horn, Tomahawk, rifle and coonskin hat and a choker necklace. I have done it as Davey Crockett for over 40 years. I was born and grew up here in Healdsburg on Dry Creek Road.
People knew me back more than 40 years ago and their kids know me now as Davey Crockett, king of the wild frontier. Now the DA wants to nail me for carrying the reproduction Kentucky rifle they consider a firearm.
It is broken, doesn’t work. I want my stuff back, all of it! A rifle and powder horn, a bag of flints and a leather bag.
I need this town’s support. Help Davey Crockett or Daniel Boone out. People from Healdsburg that can show up as character witnesses or something. Please.
My next court date is in Santa Rosa Room 7 on April 15. I start at 8:30 a.m., lasting two or three hours. Then, as I see a judge in court, I have a public defender. Please help. I go to a doctor.
They think I’m crazy because I dress up as Davey Crockett. Support me.
People tell me I am famous. I am trying to teach them about history. How this county was founded on the frontier, by people dressed up in buckskins.
Mike “Davey Crockett” Peterson
Healdsburg
CACs work and are needed
EDITOR: I am writing in response to the letter from William Fumich opposing the creation of a Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) for Westside Road. While this subject may seem arcane, it actually has tremendous importance to all of us.
As a board member of the Dry Creek Valley Association (DCVA – an organization made up of the residents of Dry Creek Valley), I was actively involved in the discussions leading to the creation of the Dry Creek Valley Citizen Advisory Council (DCVCAC). Led by then-Supervisor Mike McGuire, the objective was to provide county planners with input on proposed development in the Dry Creek Valley. To ensure that all sides are heard, the DCVCAC is composed of two representatives each from the DCVA and the Winegrowers of Dry Creek (made up of local growers and wineries). A fifth representative is appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
Objectively, this structure has worked quite well: the county refers all substantive applications to the DCVCAC, which meets publicly and submits its non-binding recommendations. Since the meetings are public, everyone is welcome to provide input during the CAC’s deliberations. A similar CAC has been proposed for the Westside Road area, which runs from Healdsburg all the way to River Road. As someone who has lived, farmed and operated a winery (DaVero) on Westside Road for 37 years, I wholeheartedly support this initiative. It creates a formal, consistent structure to ensure that the county receives thoughtful, balanced, local input.
The CAC structure makes sense, and works. It arose in response to the consistent failure of exactly the type of ad hoc process that Mr. Fumich proposes on behalf of the Westside Community Association, of which I am a member.
Let’s go with what works.
To that end, a group of us have formed the Winegrowers of Westside Road, an organization dedicated to sustaining the agricultural heritage of the Westside Road region, ensuring its continued viability through growing, making and marketing its grapes, wine and other agricultural products.
We strive to protect that heritage for future generations by working closely with fellow residents, elected officials and one another. Membership is open to all in the Westside corridor.
We look forward to working together with representatives of the WCA, along with Supervisors Gore and Hopkins, to form an effective, inclusive CAC.
Ridgely Evers
Healdsburg
