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After visiting old Santa Claus at the department store, the

Dear Editor:

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Childhood obesity rates have tripled in California over the past

Eva speaks

On behalf of the Measure E Committee I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for all the voters that helped pass Measure E. We feel you did a great service for your City. We appreciate your commitment and investment for our hometown Hollister.  We acknowledge the nay votes and hope that in the near future you will come to realize the importance of this measure meant to ensure our sustainability until better days. Thanks to the many endorsers but most notably the “first ten” signers of the ballot measure. It was you who put you name on the line in the very early days of our campaign. We are most grateful for your support and with your help we were able to proceed with our campaign with you as individual leaders that believed in their community.  We are most appreciative of your early efforts. We also give thanks to the huge neighborhood watch program and the animal shelter volunteers that assisted us in spreading the word throughout the community of our need to maintain public safety. You probably don't realize your importance in the Measure E campaign so we just want to say thank you to all of you. To our Latino community; we tried diligently to bring the message to you and felt that we were successful in providing you with information in both English and Spanish literature, radio and most importantly bilingual canvassers. We felt a pressing need to communicate to all citizens in Hollister realizing the importance of all factions that makeup our community.

With all the letters I have been writing in the Free Lance for