Vintage Hills representative chosen
In early August, over 30 of my Vintage Hills neighbors met and unanimously selected Jeff Leasure to represent us on the proposed Town of Windsor (TOW) Jensen Lane Ad Hoc Committee. The Vintage Hills neighborhood, which includes the residents of the 51 houses on Vancouver Lane, Prince George Way and Victoria Lane, is located north of the controversial planned development.
Jeff’s competencies and qualifications make him the obvious choice. He is a long standing resident (over 17 years) of our neighborhood; spent four years as a Windsor planning commissioner and actively participated on the recent general plan process.
Jeff communicates clearly on a range of technical and environmental topics, from the intricacies of zoning to lessons learned about emergency access from the recent fires. He is open minded and willing to collaborate in good faith. Most importantly, he is widely supported and trusted by his neighbors.
The ad hoc committee’s charge is to draft a development agreement between the Town of Windsor and the Windsor Jensen Lane Co., LLC. The committee’s composition is reported to include councilmember Debora Fudge, mayor Bruce Okrepkie, planning commissioner Clay Fritz and two representatives from the affected adjacent neighborhoods to the north and east.
We support Jeff Leasure as a neighborhood representative from the Vintage Hills Neighborhood and encourage his selection on the ad hoc committee.
Jean R. Setzer
Windsor
Informed decision needed
I was pleasantly surprised and slightly shocked at 10 candidates running to fill three seats on the Windsor Town Council. As I attend most of the bi-monthly town council meetings, I fully expected all three incumbents to run. It also makes sense to me that Rosa Reynoza would run, as she attends and participates in almost all of the town council meetings.
I am familiar with Esther Lemus due to her participation on the school board, although I rarely see her at town council meetings. I was shocked that I have never heard of, seen or met the other five people running for town council.
None of their names were even familiar to me and when I tried to look up their local community involvement, nothing was available. If any of them have attended town council meetings, I do not recall them sharing any thoughts at public comment.
I think the council is good, but I know it can be better. Since change is a constant, how do we know who to vote for? How do we know who we want to entrust to guide and shape Windsor? What are these candidates’ platforms on the current issues? How do we know that they will represent our views?
I hope that during the next five council meetings (there are only five scheduled between now and the election), that all of the candidates show up, speak out and let us know who they are and why they deserve our votes.
I am also hoping for a forum to enable all of us to hear all about all of them. If you love Windsor (and I guess even if you don’t love Windsor) but want to have your opinions represented, let’s all make an informed decision when we vote in November.
Betsy Mallace
Windsor
Giving thanks
Thank you for a great story on a subject that affected our lives. The picture in the Aug. 16 edition of the Windsor Times is of our house, the one we have lived in for 40 years.
We also know Alex and Keith as we have watched them play basketball across the street and watched them grow into quality young people. Things were quite hectic here the day of the fire.
Windsor Police escorted our family off the property, but we didn’t go far and then I returned to fight the fire. We had placed sprinklers on the fence between our house and the fire and I’m sure they helped, but the fire then turned east and tried to go around our property towards other homes.
People we didn’t know came to help. James, Andrew and Alex showed up with shovels, along with other neighbors and friends to help us. From the rear of the property I saw a man in our back yard using our garden hose to spray water on the roof, but I was too busy fighting the fire to help.
A man was driving by with an excavator on his trailer, stopped, unloaded and drove the excavator into the fire to help. I can’t tell you how many people just showed up to help. Two men in a large dump truck drove in with a water tank and pump and drove to the fire and sprayed it.
There were no fire engines, just people. Our fire department was already deployed to the larger fires to the south. The main reason I’m writing to you is because we never got the chance to thank all the people who came to our house that day to help. Friends, neighbors and total strangers just came to help. We were overwhelmed with the good people of our community and we never got to say thank you. We’re hoping you could do it for us.
The Hunt family
Windsor
