Opinion
Time is running out to file your protest to protect yourself from Lakeport’s proposed 100-percent water and sewer rate increase.
It must be filed by Sept. 18, 2012.
The proposed rate increase will change Lakeport as you know it. Gone will be green lawns and backyard gardens. More businesses will have to fold up. We will become a brown and dying city with a huge debt.
Tell the City Council we cannot afford their big plans in these tough times.
File your protest now. Tell the city, “I protest the proposed water and sewer rate increase.” Don’t let the city’s misleading notice trick you into thinking you can’t protest both.
Thank you to everyone who has already protested. Together we can do this!
Bob Bridges lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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It was when we started Clover Creek Family Farm that I learned firsthand the unifying effect of food.
Through our Community Supported Agriculture program we delivered farm fresh produce to over 90 households in Lake County for 10 years. These included people from all walks of life, the very religious to the not at all, the political right to the political left, the well to do and the barely making it, even to the communards and the survivalists.
The commonality was food, in this case, locally grown organic fruits and vegetables.
Prop 37, which will be on the ballot this November, is about food and labeling. It is not about good or bad, but just about transparency in labeling.
It is about you and me, our neighbors, our co-workers and our children all having the right to know what we are eating.
The opposition to Prop 37 has already collected more than $25 million in an attempt to keep us in the dark.
Let’s come together, and remember that we, the people, not the corporations, eat the food, and that we have the right to know if it is genetically engineered.
Vote yes on proposition 37 for the labeling of genetically engineered foods.
Annelle Durham lives in Upper Lake, Calif.
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