Dear Editor, Thank you, thank you, thank you, to the woman who
found my $100 bill (May 20). I was at the self-check station in the
Safeway on Dunne Avenue when the bill must have slipped out of my
back pocket as I reached for my credit card. Some time later you
must have picked it up from the floor and given it to a nearby
employee.
Thank you to the woman at Safeway who returned $100 bill
Dear Editor,
Thank you, thank you, thank you, to the woman who found my $100 bill (May 20).
I was at the self-check station in the Safeway on Dunne Avenue when the bill must have slipped out of my back pocket as I reached for my credit card. Some time later you must have picked it up from the floor and given it to a nearby employee.
Your honesty was not only felt and appreciated by me, but by Safeway employees as well. I talked to two clerks about an hour later. If the smiles on their faces were any indication of goodwill and gratitude, I know that a lot of it was passed on that day.
Thanks from all of us.
Ellen Sorenson, Morgan Hill
Thanks to everyone for helping make Morgan Hill beautiful
Dear Editor,
The city would like to thank the dozens of volunteers who came out to support their community on City Beautification Day. Due to their efforts, our city is cleaner and sharper! It is community events like these that keep Morgan Hill a great place to live.
In addition to those who actively trimmed, mulched and picked up trash, the event could not be successful without the support of the Morgan Hill Kiwanis. For the umpteenth year in a row, the Kiwanis prepared a wonderful barbecue to celebrate the end of the event. We are thankful for their support.
Funding for this event was provided by the Santa Clara Valley Water District as a component of the city’s grant to keep trash and debris out of local waterways. The district’s partnership is appreciated and is a key component of the city’s strategy to involve the public in maintaining healthy creeks.
Anthony Eulo, program administrator
Students should be ready for careers in goat herding, mud brick making
Dear Editor,
With California’s financial situation growing worse, there is talk of cutting the school year by perhaps 20 days. As everyone in the world who can read a newspaper knows, our students are falling further and further behind students in other developed countries. With 20 less school days, we’ll be lucky if our kids can read pulp novels, do simple arithmetic and are educated well enough to work in a fast food restaurant.
Our elected leaders, the folks who got us to this point, have a solution. They will contract with emerging nations to send our 13-year-olds into indentured servitude for a period of five years. The state will get a couple thousand per student from the host country, while the student gets on-the-job training.
When our kids return at 18, they will have marketable skills, such as mud brick making, sweet potato cultivation or goat herding. As an added plus, California will return to the golden age of the agrarian life, with blissfully uneducated people toiling in the warm California sun.
Meade Fischer, Watsonville
The creation of a religious state would be a huge mistake
Dear Editor,
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama are both wrong on the solution for peace in Israel. The idea of a two state solution is just plain wrong. All nations, including Israel, should be secular.
The creation of Israel as a Jewish state was a mistake. Once you create a Jewish state then every other religion is going to want their own country. If we now create a Palestinian state then what? Do we start creating states for Buddhists, Mormons, Baptists, Catholics, Muslims, or even Atheists?
We have a secular nation here where Jews and Palestinians live in peace along with members of every other religion. Unlike what many think, a secular nation is the ultimate in religious freedom. As a secular nation Americans can worship or not worship anything they want because we are equal and the government is mandated by the Constitution to not pick sides.
Every modern first world advanced nation on this planet is secular and that’s because secular works. Nations, like Israel, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, are dominated by religion and they are in a constant state of war. In a secular nation you are expected to get along with people who are not like you. It works here and it would work in Israel.
Israel should become secular and merge with the non Jews living in the region into a singular secular nation where Jews, Christians and Muslims all share Jerusalem the same way that they all share San Francisco or New York. If they became secular then they can tear down the walls and the problem with where to put the borders goes away. The entire Earth becomes the Jewish homeland.
When South Africa ended Apartheid it could have separated, but it took the high road and put its differences aside and became a single nation. Israel can do that and should because Israel will never see peace as long as it takes the position that one group of people should be a superior class over another group.
Marc Perkel, Gilroy
