Letters

With no surprise to me, I saw in The Pinnacle two pictures of a

It is a shame we could lose 12 firefighters. We need our fire fighters, we need more at that. We cannot afford this kind of thing to happen. It’s very unfortunate. I believe the grant was put into place when Mike O’Conner was fire chief. It, of course ,was not going to last forever. We have to be on things like this, make sure everything goes through properly and correctly. We should have had some kind of backup plan. Just like we need more police officers; I hope they don’t say we will be losing police officers as well. Let’s make sure this does not happen.

Having been a firefighter for over 40 years and a chief officer

Dear Editor:

Dog Days of Hollister Committee and Hollister Dog Owners Group would like to thank the following individuals, businesses, and groups for helping to make Dog Days of Hollister event another big success!

I recall attending city budget hearings back in June of 2003 when former City Manager Dale Shaddox had to find a way to scale back department requests that exceeded $1.8 million dollars above projected revenues.

Dear Editor,

The article in the Oct. 15 issue of the Free Lance regarding