Letters: Animals at San Martin shelter long for fun and attention from volunteers

Dear Editor, It may not seem like much to you, but it means the
world to us. When you give us some free time to stretch our legs
and be out of our cages, a pat or a cuddle or a small treat, it’s
the highlight of our day!
Animals at San Martin shelter long for fun and attention from volunteers

Dear Editor,

It may not seem like much to you, but it means the world to us. When you give us some free time to stretch our legs and be out of our cages, a pat or a cuddle or a small treat, it’s the highlight of our day! 

There are currently about 175 of us: puppies, dogs, kittens and cats at the Santa Clara County Animal Shelter in San Martin. With so many of us here, the needs are great. The three most helpful ways are by adopting, fostering or volunteering. Our lives would be most improved, of course, if you could take us home with you! We promise to love, entertain and enrich your life in exchange for your care.

Fostering some of us kittens and puppies by giving us a temporary home for a month or so can help us through our very earliest weeks. When we are ready for spaying or neutering , all you have to do is return us to the shelter so we can be adopted out from there. If adoption or fostering isn’t possible, won’t you consider spending two hours a week at the shelter playing with us? 

Keeping ourselves fit and amused is an uphill battle when you’re stuck in a cage all day! We love it when people visit and spend time petting and playing with us. If you are interested in volunteering or adopting, please visit the shelter at 12370 Murphy Ave., San Martin, or our website to see photos: www.southcountypets.com. 

Our 45-minute volunteer training sessions occur every second Saturday of the month at the shelter. Just show up! Thank you, dear people friends. It would mean the world to us!

Your furry friends at the shelter, (and volunteer, Laura Tindall)

Supervisor’s office, roads department manager help solve traffic problem

Dear Editor,

I was asked by our Assembly Member Bill Monning to help investigate the fatal accident at 18225 Hale Ave. that occurred last April.

Psynergy, the company that runs the Adult Care Center there, had contacted Monning’s office to see what could be done to make this section of Hale Avenue safer after several accidents occurred at the site in a short amount of time. I made an appointment to see the site and to talk to Lynda Kaufmann, the government and public affairs officer of the corporation.

After researching the records I found that this section of Hale is maintained by Santa Clara County Roads and Airport Division. I contacted Santa Clara County Supervisor Mike Wasserman’s office and sent the information about this accident (it was a Psynergy employee that was killed in the accident) to Colleen Valles, a very capable aide to Wasserman. I wish to thank Colleen and Supervisor Wasserman for treating this as the serious matter that it is.

Two weeks ago we met with the County Roads and Airport Manager Masoud Akbarzadeh at the site. Ms. Kaufmann and I spent a half hour with the Akbarzadeh and were told that a safety study had been initiated for that segment of Hale Avenue. The results of that study should be available in about six weeks. We also discussed some mitigation ideas for Hale Avenue at this address. Thank you Mr. Akbarzadeh.

At the bottom of Psynergy’s business cards is a quote: “Together Achieving More.” This is exactly what has happened here! I hope that we all can find a solution to this accident prone section of Hale Avenue and with Wasserman’s help, I feel that goal will and can be achieved! Thank you!

Swanee Edwards, Morgan Hill

More baseball, softball fields are needed in Morgan Hill

Dear Editor,

I fully support the purchase of land for softball, soccer, field hockey, etc. I’ve owned the travel club softball team San Jose Sting for the past 13 years and have seen softball tournaments bring a lot of revenue to the local community.

Club teams need to eat, sleep and entertain their kids when they are done playing for the day. I currently run a very successful softball showcase called the Bay Area Showcase (www.bayareashowcase.com) and have over 50 college coaches from all over the nation attending the tournament and looking for players to play softball at the college level.

We need more fields to get local kids seen in front if these college coaches and I’d be interested in talking to whoever is running this project to assist wherever needed to make this happen!

Bob Perales, San Jose

Tea Party mantra is clear: U.S.government must live within its means

Dear Editor, 

Howard Dean, David Axelrod and Sen. John Kerry are all saying that our economic problems are all the fault of the Tea Party. Sen. Kerry goes one step further and says that the media shouldn’t cover the Tea Party. This sounds like censorship to me. Whatever happened to the First Amendment? Has this country gotten to the place where 22 Congress people control the government? Does any sane person believe that?

Whether you like them or not the Tea Party is saying live within your means America. We must stop spending more than we make. Blaming others and censorship will not solve the problem.

Keith C. De Filippis, San Jose