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Yes on A
EDITOR: On June 5 I hope your readers will vote yes on Measure A, which authorizes the West Sonoma County Union High School District (El Molino, Analy, Laguna, and West County Charter) to raise $91 million through bond sales to pay for badly needed repairs and maintenance.
We can’t pay for this work with money our students need in the classroom. Bonds are our only option. I’m convinced the school board won’t spend the entire $91 million if they find they don’t need it. Thank you.
Mary Fricker
Sebastopol
No need for more radiation
EDITOR: The heading of your May 10 front page article reads: “Verizon ‘microcell’ tower application halted,” which is misleading. Sebastopol has yet to approve, deny or even hold a public hearing on the still pending application. It has not been halted.
On Feb. 16 Verizon submitted a major use permit application and it’s now been more than three months without being put on the planning commission agenda. If Sebastopol takes no action on this application, it automatically becomes approved on July 31 without any public hearing.
This application is for the 5G (fifth generation) wireless radiation technology and is also known as CPMRA (Close Proximity Microwave Radiation Emitting Antennas). Thousands of peer reviewed studies now link these new radiation technologies with cancers like glioblastomas, headaches, strokes, confusion, insomnia, tinnitus and anxiety, just to name a few.
Sebastopol has received at least two dozen letters from the public in opposition to this major use permit application from Verizon. It has also received a petition signed by about 150 residents of Sebastopol urging the Planning Commission to deny the application.
There is massive worldwide opposition to the deployment of this lethal technology. In Sebastopol on Sundays the EMF Safety Network is handing out flyers and information at the Sebastopol Farmers’ Market and SCREAM (Sonoma County Radiation Education And Mitigation) is picketing the Verizon store at 2 p.m. in the Redwood Marketplace. In addition, at every city council and planning commission meeting, residents regularly express their concerns about wireless radiation technology.
We don’t need a new layer of radiation over the existing layers that we are already being bathed in.
Alan Horn
Sebastopol
Food drive
EDITOR: On behalf of the Sebastopol Inter-Church Food Pantry and the clients we serve, I want to thank the postal carriers and our local community for their support of postal carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. The pantry is full to bursting with a wonderful variety of good, healthy food. The success of this event depends on the community and the hard work of the postal carriers. Your generous response allows us to respond in kind to those in need. Thank you.
Mary McAulay
Sebastopol Inter-Church Food Pantry board member
Thanks for public service
EDITOR: Kenyon Webster is retiring after many years of faithful service to Sebastopol and I believe that our community owes him much more than most of us will ever know. As planning director, Kenyon has guided Sebastopol’s development and helped maintain and enhance the quality of life we enjoy.
Without his resourcefulness and persistence, we would not have our Laguna Wetlands Preserve or the Skategarden; we would not have the numerous pedestrian safety features that make our streets more walkable; we would not have our visionary general plan; and we would have far fewer affordable housing units. We might look a lot like Anywhere, USA.
During the 12 years that I served on the city council, it was my privilege to work with him and learn from him. He patiently and gently corrected my many foolish ideas and improved my few good ones. Sebastopol has had its share of heated arguments over land use and development decisions and Kenyon, because of his position, was often in the line of fire.
But, to his great credit, he always behaved courteously and professionally, even to the angriest members of the public. His knowledge and experience will be hard to replace. Sebastopol is a better place because of his service. Thank you, Kenyon.
Larry Robinson
Sebastopol
