Enjoyed memory lane
What a refreshing change of pace your paper had this Oct. 6! You
certainly hit the nail on the head when you wrote that Brothers
Market touched many families, including my own.
Many kudos to Melissa Flores for such a wonderful story and an
A+ for having it in the front page! That was so nice to read the
headlines about our town way back in time instead of shootings, war
stories and gang bangers for a change. Thank you so much.
Like Mary Paxton, I too grew up near Borelli’s (as people called
it that then). Also, Rose Ortiz’ home belonged to the Hubbers and
in 1936, Mrs. Hubber, also a school teacher, gave me my first
perm
– the kind you put electric cords all over your head (very
scary). You didn’t dare move! She also had a pet monkey outside
that took the scare out of me fast.
What nice memories were brought back.
Barbara Bailey Valdez
Hollister
Enjoyed memory lane
What a refreshing change of pace your paper had this Oct. 6! You certainly hit the nail on the head when you wrote that Brothers Market touched many families, including my own.
Many kudos to Melissa Flores for such a wonderful story and an A+ for having it in the front page! That was so nice to read the headlines about our town way back in time instead of shootings, war stories and gang bangers for a change. Thank you so much.
Like Mary Paxton, I too grew up near Borelli’s (as people called it that then). Also, Rose Ortiz’ home belonged to the Hubbers and in 1936, Mrs. Hubber, also a school teacher, gave me my first perm – the kind you put electric cords all over your head (very scary). You didn’t dare move! She also had a pet monkey outside that took the scare out of me fast.
What nice memories were brought back.
Barbara Bailey Valdez
Hollister
Democrats are a disaster
A vote to put the Democrats back in control of Congress is a vote for disaster. It’s a vote to reaise your taxes; a vote to eliminate wire-taping of Al Qaeda suspects making calls to or from tis country (not calls within the country), thereby putting us all at greater risk of being killed; a vote for more radical environmental regulations that strangle the economy making it more difficult for everybody to earn a living; a vote for continuing the death tax making it very difficult and many times impossible for family ranchers, family farms and family small businesses to continuie to exist; a vote ofr the hate America defeatist attitude that caused us to pull out of Vietnam at a time when even the Vietnamese generals conceded we were winning and would create the same result in Iraq.
It’s a vote to strengthen the ACLU, the organization that seeks to destroy the Boy Scouts and defends the North American Man-Boy Love Association, the worst pedophile group in the country.
A vote for the Democrats is a vote to destroy the principles upon which the country was founded, enabling free people to create and produce way ahead of the rest of the world, and form a society based on liberty the likes of which the world had never known, especially in a nation as large as ours. The Republicans have their shortcomings, but the far left Democrats are a disaster!
Bill Hawkins
Hollister
Good to hear from Bob
May I just say what a joyful surprise it was to see Bob Valenzuela’s letter in last week’s issue. I can’t explain why, but I had a smile on my face for some time after reading it. Aye chee wah wah! What a character he is! And how we miss him in Hollister. Hope Hollywood is everything and more that he hoped for! Maybe he could be our “columnist to the Stars” from afield?
Paula M. Jean
Hollister
Wrong way economics
The Oct. 16 edition of the Wall Street Journal had an article describing how the demand of electricity in the US is growing faster than the supply. By 2015, the expected increase in resources to come on line is about 50 percent of the expected increase in demand.
It requires about 10 years from the time a decision is made to construct a power plant to bring it on line. We can expect the number ‘brown-outs’ to increase in the coming years.
The Oct. 17 issue of the Free Lance had an article how California and New York will trade “carbon credits” to help California industry meet the recently signed law requiring a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. This additional layer of bureaucratic regulations can be expected to increase the time and cost to bring an electrical power plant on line. Higher demand and less supply means higher electric bills.
The Free Lance article failed to mention than Massachusetts and Rhode Island have withdrawn from the Northeast Greenhouse Reduction Agreement (Reuters, Sept. 12). Their conclusion was the negative impact on economic development in their states would be too great.
The media seem to have concluded green house gasses are causing global warming. They have convinced the California legislature and Governor Schwarzenegger. The scientific community is still divided on the issue.
There is solid evidence the polar ice caps are receding. Is this the first time or have they receded before? The closest thing to a reference point is the observation that the snow pack in the Alps has receded to the same level it was 3500 years ago. There were no industrial green house gases then. For a time reference, that is about the time of the Biblical Exodus of the Israelis from Egypt.
In my opinion, California is going in the wrong direction when it comes to future economic growth.
Marvin L. Jones
Hollister
Who’s working for who?
Recent articles in each of our local papers have caused concern about planning the course for San Benito County’s future.
One pointed out that an elected council person from the city of Lincoln, who has appeared in Hollister to praise Pulte Del Webb’s Sun City development, is also moonlighting on the developer’s payroll.
The other article stated that our incumbent supervisor Reb Monaco’s “friendly donations” of a considerable amount, are from those in direct line to profit handsomely if the Pulte Del Webb development goes through here. The development is not conforming to our current general plan and has been widely acknowledged to be counter to the interests of agriculture and light industry expansion around the airport site.
Supervisor Monaco’s responses to questions about Sun City have been so vague and evasive that it only further reinforces our need to vote in a more dynamic supervisor. We need to support a long-range planner with ideas that have not been paid for.
It should be a high priority that when we elect/hire someone to sit on our board of supervisors, they are in fact working for us, for the best interests of the community, and not for the benefit of an out-of-town corporate developer.
Sara Steiner
Hollister
