Dear Editor,
I have never written to the Dispatch before, but I felt inclined
to share this news with you.
The Gilroy Foundation Youth Board put our very first Christmas
Tree of Giving up at the First Street Coffee House. Owners, Konni
and Kassie were more than gracious in allowing us to do so. The
Youth Group adopted six families from the Salvation Army in hopes
of supplying them with Christmas gifts. The gifts ranged anywhere
from blankets, Barbie dolls, tricycles to pots and pans. Konni
assured me that her customers were GREAT and that the tree would be
brimming with presents well before the deadline date. Was she ever
RIGHT.
Giving Tree project a great success for Gilroy Foundation Youth Board
Dear Editor,
I have never written to the Dispatch before, but I felt inclined to share this news with you.
The Gilroy Foundation Youth Board put our very first Christmas Tree of Giving up at the First Street Coffee House. Owners, Konni and Kassie were more than gracious in allowing us to do so. The Youth Group adopted six families from the Salvation Army in hopes of supplying them with Christmas gifts. The gifts ranged anywhere from blankets, Barbie dolls, tricycles to pots and pans. Konni assured me that her customers were GREAT and that the tree would be brimming with presents well before the deadline date. Was she ever RIGHT.
Every family will receive gifts plus some extras! This is one reason my family and I are proud to call Gilroy our home. It was inspirational to me and my my children to be able to see what great people live in our community and know how good it feels to give back. Each person who gave a gift will not even get a thank you unless they read this. So, thank you very much to each of you. Even in these grim economic times, consideration and kindness are still alive and well.
Many people made a huge difference to the less fortunate. Kudos to Konni and her staff for supporting such a great cause and a big thank you to all of Gilroy who supported it.
Merry Christmas to this wonderful community.
Shawn K. Moen, Gilroy
Massive taxpayer fraud and waste in public transportation agencies
Dear Editor,
The Las Vegas monorail is facing bankruptcy – a likely sign of things to come for the California Bullet Train? It was going to be “profitable.” Yep. “Profitable” for the promoters, builders, and operators. But a blood-sucking bankruptcy for taxpayers.
And as for the Valley Transportation Authority, if we put the VTA into bankruptcy now, then we could avoid the bankruptcy experience of City of Vallejo for our city, and Santa Clara County. Cut the malignant tumor out now, and save the core government from insolvency.
Legislation carried in the state Senate by then State Sen. Bruce McPherson permits bankruptcy separately by transit agencies rather than the whole county seeking bankruptcy protection.
We ought to take advantage of the legislation and protect the taxpayers from the VTA’s mass lunacy with mass transit boondoggles.
By the way, the nation’s third largest trucker is “on the verge of bankruptcy.” So, if private-sector carriers cannot make a profit, bankruptcy is the outcome. But if VTA or some other joint authority cannot make a profit, it’s “stick it to the taxpayers a little deeper” time. Why the double standard?
“What should government do, and what should it leave to others?” said former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta. Good question.
Joe Thompson, Gilroy
Republicans committing treason
Dear Editor,
People like to describe what the Republicans are doing as politics but that’s not the word I would use. I call it treason.
All they are proving is that it’s easier to destroy America than it is to fix it. All one has to do is look around at the way the country is today and know that it was the Republicans that did it to us. I think it’s time to call it like I see it. When you are out to make America fail, it’s treason.
Marc Perkel, Gilroy
Obamacare bill full of ‘prostitution’
Dear Editor,
Ashley Dupre is an amateur. She only charges $4,000 per visit. Prostitution has moved from dingy streets in bad neighborhoods and escort services to Congress.
Sen. Mary Landrieu proudly boasts of receiving $300,000,000 for a single vote. Not to be outdone Sen. Ben Nelson secured an even better deal. Written into the Obamacare bill the state of Nebraska will not fund the additional Medicare costs incurred by this bill. We taxpayers will pay those costs. In fact, the bill is full of such deals to special interest groups. It is hard to show the light of day on a bill when it is voted on at one in the morning. Prostitution is alive and thriving in the highest offices of the nation.
Keith C. De Filippis, San Jose
