Council Should Not Delay Arts Center to Purchase Theme Park
Council Should Not Delay Arts Center to Purchase Theme Park
Dear Editor,
We are looking forward with great anticipation to the day the Gilroy Center for the Arts is built and the doors open. The arts center will be a wonderful addition to our community and downtown; it will be a place for the people of Gilroy to experience music, drama, art and many other events. Classrooms will offer children and adults the opportunity to develop their artistic, dance and musical abilities. The Gilroy art scene will certainly be encouraged and enhanced with a building that will showcase the talents of local music and drama groups, children’s productions and touring musicians and artists.
The newspaper has reported that the possible purchase of Gilroy (Bonfante) Gardens could delay the construction of the Center for the Arts. We certainly hope not. The arts groups and the downtown merchants have waited a long time for this important building that will contribute so much to our community. The abundance or lack of cultural arts in a town can determine whether it is just a grouping of buildings or a vibrant, interconnected and creative community.
Creativity is at the heart of the cultural arts, and the arts foster creativity in all of life’s arenas. We trust that the city council and city administrator will draw on their own creativity so that, if the decision is made to purchase Gilroy Gardens, it does not delay the construction of the Center for the Arts.
On behalf of today’s and future generations of Gilroy residents,
Arlene Silva, Theater Angels Art League and the Gilroy Arts Alliance
Iraq War Result: We’re No Safer and U.S. is Hated the World Over
Dear Editor,
War in Iraq is a very constant reminder that no matter what is said, we are no safer now than we were before the start of this meaningless fiasco in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In fact we are now breeding a new kind of terrorism terror from within, and you see it every day. To say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are working is a joke, and yes our kids and our neighbor’s kids are dying in vain.
And yes it is getting easy to say the war is lost because the people behind it are lost – McCain, Bush, Cheney and anyone else who believes we are making progress is wrong. The new plan is futile if no one cares, and believe me this whole mess needs to end, now!
Look at Iraq roads and bridges destroyed, schools not built, no electricity, our small army can’t do the job, all out war was never achieved. The oil that was supposed to pay for the war never happened and no hope is in sight.
But there is one plan that might work – get the hell out! Yes, leave, go regroup and rebuild our army and national defense. Iraq and Afghanistan are finished, our army broken.
We made the mistake Bush made. The mistake of being advised by fools like Rove, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. Now he is paying for that mistake and the rest of our country as well.
We are hated all over the world, terrorism is already here, so much for they will follow us home that’s a myth a story and more will happen.
But the country is waking up. It’s time to help our own sick and our own country before it’s too late, save America and save the planet for the future.
Daniel Garcia, Gilroy
‘Lend Me a Tenor’ at Gavilan a Wonderful and Funny Hit Show
Dear Editor,
We highly recommend “Lend Me a Tenor”, the hilarious play now being staged by Gavilan College Theater Department. through May 12. This farce had us laughing from beginning to end.
All the cast was terrific, especially Genevieve Carlino as the very Italian wife of the guest tenor. The beautiful set with all its doors was perfect.
If this is any indication, the rejuvenated Gavilan Theater Arts Department under new full time faculty member John Lawton Haehl, will have many more memorable performances. Kudos to all involved.
Jim and Connie Rogers, Gilroy
