Way to go Balers
I am writing this letter to publicly express pride and
admiration for the ASB teens of San Benito High. The teens of today
do not get a lot of good press and my husband and I felt this
complimentary letter was well worth taking the time to write.
The pure and perfect hearts of our local teens surely were
surely evident by their recent Benefit Ball for the young Robbie
Cabrera. Our kids were grown up when we bought our home in
Hollister. We still could not be any prouder if our own kids were
involved. Way to go Balers … you make us ALL proud and hopeful
for the future of our community and our country.
Keep up this spirit of giving and sense of community and you
will truly have joyful, proud and productive lives. Your kindness
was felt by all and you should be proud of yourselves and your
generous hearts.
The health of little Robbie will be in many prayers from now on
and your act of giving was truly inspiring.God bless you all and
may Robbie Cabrera be blessed with a return to good health very
soon.
Dan and Christy Howe
Hollister
Way to go Balers
I am writing this letter to publicly express pride and admiration for the ASB teens of San Benito High. The teens of today do not get a lot of good press and my husband and I felt this complimentary letter was well worth taking the time to write.
The pure and perfect hearts of our local teens surely were surely evident by their recent Benefit Ball for the young Robbie Cabrera. Our kids were grown up when we bought our home in Hollister. We still could not be any prouder if our own kids were involved. Way to go Balers … you make us ALL proud and hopeful for the future of our community and our country.
Keep up this spirit of giving and sense of community and you will truly have joyful, proud and productive lives. Your kindness was felt by all and you should be proud of yourselves and your generous hearts.
The health of little Robbie will be in many prayers from now on and your act of giving was truly inspiring.God bless you all and may Robbie Cabrera be blessed with a return to good health very soon.
Dan and Christy Howe
Hollister
Don’t overlook good works
As an active member of this community for over 12 years, and recent
past council member, I have enjoyed every aspect of living in San Benito County including the wonderful community organizations that I have had the opportunity to be a part of.
I can honestly say that when I read the recent articles regarding the Law Firm of Lombardo and Gilles and the editor’s comments over the firms’ political relationships I was somewhat surprised that the editor did not mention the firm’s community involvement.
My first interaction with Lombardo and Gilles was an invitation from their support staff to participate in a mentorship program for local Latina youth. I have also personally witnessed the dedication the firm has had for the newly formed Culinary and
Hospitality Foundation of San Benito County. I also recall, Lombardo and Gilles was the biggest sponsor for the kick-off event last year for one of our newest nonprofits and advocates for our local youth, CASA of San Benito County.
I have become a professional contact for one of their local attorneys who I believe sits on the San Benito County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, is current board member for the local YMCA, and has been on other local boards. I hope the next article that is published by the Free Lance will also pay recognition to this local law firm who has been very generous and involved in our community and continues to do so, having made Hollister its home.
Monica Marshall (formerly Monica Johnson)
Hollister
Thanks to good Samaritans
To the two different people who stopped to help our bunco group on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 5 on Fairview Road-THANK YOU! Members of our bunco group were arriving at the February host’s home off of Fairview Road last Thursday evening.
Due to the slick roads and sprinkles, visibility was very low and one of our members’ silver Bug veered off the road and into a ditch!
Two different vehicles stopped asking if they could help us as the poor Bug was stuck in an odd position. The tail end was sticking up and the front end was caught up in the ditch. The second gentleman who stopped was anxious to help us get her little car out of the ditch safely. Regrettably, we didn’t get this gentleman’s name. So, we the ladies of that bunco group applaud this anonymous hero and thank him for caring, his patience and in our eyes – his heroism!
Laura Moreno
Hollister
We were all immigrants
I wish to comment on the views expressed in the letter by Mark Dickson. Concerning the redevelopment of Hollister, no one person, no matter how wealthy, could or should be responsible for creating an attractive, livable and sustainable city. It takes a whole community sharing that goal to bring Hollister from out of its present decline. We all know the results of one ownership company towns of the past, i.e. the exploitation of the working residents.
As for our Oaxacan residents, I commend all the agencies that are helping these hard working people to integrate into our community. Many of these indigenous farmers have been driven off their land in Mexico because of the dumping of cheap genetically engineered corn into Mexico by the U.S. The small indigenous farmer can no longer feed his family and is forced to immigrate for survival. A study by Dr. Lopez of San Jose Community College indicated that many farm workers in the Salinas Valley who came from Michoacan would choose to go back to their lands in Mexico if they could support their families.
I assume that Mr. Dickson’s ancestors were white European immigrants. Except for the 100 percent Native Americans, we are all children of immigrants who braved poverty and prejudice to make a home in this country. The fact that many of our recent immigrants have brown or black skin triggers the latent racism in our society despite years of struggle for civil rights and equal opportunity and justice for all. We WILL live together as brothers and sisters, or perish together as fools. We have no other choice as Martin Luther King so eloquently pointed out.
Natasha Wist
Hollister
Drop the liberal agenda
Last week’s guest editorial by the Sacramento Bee seemed to say that only Republicans are capable of backroom deals. It’s pretty clear that the California Air Resource Board does the same, and are accountable to essentially no one. Not one budget cut for them is to be heard in the current budget debate. Only the typical schools, police, firefighters. CARB is one agency that should be disbanded immediately along with the coastal commission and a few other dictatorships.
Companies don’t “invest” in new technology; they do so out of fear of being fined. It’s shameful that CARB takes so much out of the economy with their dictatorship using studies that show absolutely no proof of damage by air pollution at existing levels. The studies are self reinforcing in their peer review of each other and only use infant mortality of compromised individuals such as prematurely born infants or those with respiratory problems and should be on a ventilator anyway. If liberals really wanted to solve pollution problems, they would simply limit both legal and illegal immigration.
Absolutely NO DATA is in the “studies” prove what level of pollution is harmful. This allows CARB to arbitrarily set limits to their preference. This preference level is usually meant to be costly to business and provide jobs for government officials to monitor and fine noncompliance. There is NO STUDY that tests subjects at different levels. CARB’s only function is to extract money out of business to pay their salary with lifetime benefits that private industry does not enjoy.
Here’s a link providing information that show CARB is full of air pollution. It states and provides reference material showing that “While the incidence of asthma has more than doubled in California since 1982, air pollutants of all kinds have steadily declined.” Sounds like the same model is used by CARB as the global warming zealots.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st294/st294c.html
Why won’t this newspaper and others print this information on their own? Oh, that would be reporting. The Pinnacle could attain a wider readership if it would provide information and not agendas. Perhaps they could sell more advertising and reach a wider audience. It’s pretty clear talking to many people around San Benito County that people don’t read the Pinnacle because of its bias. It’s simply bad business to keep pushing a liberal agenda and ostracizing potential advertisers and readers. Liberals spout choice until they are blue in the face, but alternative viewpoints other than their own are not tolerated, they are shouted down and legislated out of existence.
Once again, liberals are more concerned about destroying the economy and redistributing wealth to their constituents to provide fictitious solutions for problems that don’t exist because they are incapable of producing a product or service that someone actually wants.
It’s shameful that the Pinnacle that has so much to gain by being inclusive, chooses to do otherwise. At a time when California and San Benito County need them to step up for the state’s interests, they again are fouling the air for a handful of special interests.
Mark Dickson
Hollister
How many kids?
It’s an old saying that it doesn’t matter how long you live there is always something that happens that you never heard before. At my age I never expected to hear that a woman carried and delivered eight babies.
God bless all their souls. I have been an advocate against too many rules. Two babies would be acceptable. What happened here should be forbidden. We were taught that hate is a sin, but in this case hearing this woman talk made me sick.
Nobody with common sense can agree with her attitude. The doctor who performed these implants deserves to lose his license. Fixing him would be a fair penalty.
There is no way this woman would be able to raise all these babies without some of them being neglected. Not being changed on time, fed on time, bathed on time, attention on time, etc. Another responsibility for the government, or should I say the taxpayers?
I am sure someone will have to keep their eye on this woman. Her behavior makes all of us angry. We can take on the kids; it is our obligation to help them if we are in the position to do so. It is not the babies’ fault that the mother is so ignorant. God bless the kids. Protect them so that one day they can be productive.
That one day people will be convinced it was not a waste of time. Their mother’s ignorance will continue in our minds for many years to come. I feel when a thing like this happens it is just like raising our taxes. This is only my opinion.
Amadeu Lima
Hollister
