Volunteers, Community Support Are Essential for School Success
Dear Editor,
It was with great interest and excitement that I read and then re-read Dina Campeau’s Dec. 22 Morgan Hill Times column detailing a variety of her concerns about South County school districts. I am always glad to see any sort of community involvement in our schools and she is certainly an influential voice.
As the district librarian for the Gilroy Unified School District, I have started with “something smaller and doable” as she suggests and was featured on the front page of the Gilroy Dispatch on Dec. 15. With the much appreciated help of the Gilroy High School Parent Club, we are reaching out to all South County residents to help us fill those empty shelves with quality standards-based materials which can be quite costly and are primarily available directly from a variety of publishers.
This usually precludes sending community members a “list of books to donate” which would involve considerable time and effort on their part and would not reflect the 30 percent discount which can be negotiated with the vendors. However, I am not aware to date of Campeau’s attempt to donate to our district and would welcome her direct contact and financial support.
She also raised the issue of using volunteers at the school sites and we are already doing that in our libraries. In fact, we have community volunteers at all of our sites and some of our elementary libraries would be hard pressed to operate with them! However, we can always use more and welcome everyone’s involvement, even on a limited basis. A simple phone call to anyone’s school of interest and it will be returned promptly.
Finally many readers may want to make a tax-deductible donation which doesn’t raise their property taxes and where no “administrative fee” is taken off the top. One hundred percent of every donation for books for the Gilroy High School Library goes to service 2,400 deserving students. Please send your donation to:
Gilroy High School Parent Club
c/o Gilroy High School
750 West 10th St.
Gilroy, CA 95020
Patricia Ann Kelly, Morgan Hill
Sex Pills and Islamo Fascists Can Sink the Country One Small Step at a Time
Dear Editor,
It is so difficult these days to tune into a TV station and not be bombarded with many commercials dealing with sexual enhancements pills or even contraceptive pills.
As we sit there wondering what’s going on in our world and how we got to this point, the answer is that all of this happened one commercial at a time, one pill at a time, one proposition at a time. We now live in a culture crazed with sex, abortion and self-gratification galore.
If we are supposed to learn from our mistakes and try and improve our future (the one that belongs to our children), we need to worry about and keep our eyes on some new developments in our country’s capital. A newly elected congressman refuses to be sworn in by the Bible and we are now accepting Quran as a holy book for our Congressional members to be sworn in on. What’s going to come up next?
Although the election of Keith Ellison the first American Moslem to Congress doesn’t worry me much because of his ties with the Nation of Islam which actually believes Islam is a black man’s religion only, I do worry about the hole he created in our constitution for the rats (Islamo fascists) to get in. The objective of Islamo fascists is to the take over and or destruction of our country.
Dave Kaeini, Gilroy
Missing ‘Sweet Edna’ From Target in Morgan Hill
Dear Editor,
Shopping at Target for the last few years has been made more pleasurable because of a very sweet cashier, Edna. I would have stood in line an hour if that’s what it took for Edna to ring up my purchases. She always had a smile on her face, and always asked me “how are the kids, how is the hubby?” She never complained. I knew she was a widow and had children and grandkids.
I had noticed on my last few visits to Target, that Edna was missing, thinking maybe she had taken some time off for the holidays. I asked where is Edna? Much to my sadness, sweet, sweet Edna has passed away. She had cancer and still never complained. I didn’t even know she was ill. My trips to Target will not be the same without this sweet little lady. I know I am not the only customer who will miss her, because I was not the only one waiting in a longest line at Target.
Cindy Peterson, Morgan Hill
