Small Daily Difference Makers Add Up to a Happy Holiday Season
for so Many
Small Daily Difference Makers Add Up to a Happy Holiday Season for so Many
Dear Editor,
The Salvation Army needed extra help this season with toys. We want to thank the communities of Gilroy, San Martin and Morgan Hill for your outpouring of generosity and support during this holiday season.
We sincerely thank you for your personal interest and financial and material involvement. Your acts of kindness made a difference in people’s lives during this season of sharing and caring. You helped:
n Adopt 76 needy families of the 400 Christmas applicants who needed extra TLC
n Give more than 500 food boxes and almost 1,700 toys to needy families
n Collect over $50,000 from the bell ringers sites in South County
n KSBW/Nob Hill Telethon collected $1,300, 1,856 pounds of food, 15 turkeys, 62 pounds of clothing, 14 new blankets and 410 toys with sponsorship with Saint Louise Hospital
n 12 local businesses sponsored toy and food barrels
n A homeless family that will soon have a place to live with furniture, pots and pans, towels, silverware, blankets, dishes and food
n A family of four whose mother is the sole supporter with one son who cannot see at all
n A family whose mother is raising her two children in a Women’s Domestic Shelter and wanted her children to experience a nice Christmas
n Donate gifts to the “Angel Trees” at Nob Hill, Presbyterian Church, St. Stephen’s Church, Wal-Mart, Curves, Bank of America, Black Bear Diner, Denny’s, Bank of the West, Union Bank, Gilroy Bible Church and Morgan Hill Gymnastics Club
We must not – in trying to think about how we can make a big difference – ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Christine Flautt Chairperson Advisory Council
Captains Robert and Melissa Viquez Gilroy
Down the Black Hole of Public Transit We Continue to Pour Incredible Sums
Dear Editor,
Regarding “BART Drain: Pour It Down'” the Dispatch editorial published Dec. 27, any form of transport that is conceived insolvent, born bankrupt, operated with unremunerative fares failed from inception won’t fail.
Like all the other socialist transit modes – Amtrak, Caltrain and Lite Rail conceived in the Marxist-Leninist philosophical model – it was, and is, a Frankenstein that never should have been inflicted upon us. Free enterprise transport has its flaws, but all of them combined never have, and never will, equal the damage inflicted by the Soviet-style systems we inaccurately call “American” public transit.
In my mind, nothing could be more un-American than democratic government imposing the iron fist of Karl Marx in place of the invisible hand of Adam Smith.
Joe Thompson, Gilroy
