Letters
With the persistent spectra of continuing funding cuts to California’s public schools, the community may be wondering what they can do to help.
L.E.E.F. has good news for our community. As an organization, we are currently in the final preparations for our only fundraising event of the year.
This is our 20th consecutive year of infusing funds into the Lakeport Unified School District. Last year alone, we provided over $26,000 to upgrade and provide consistently good programs for our students.
Since 1992, we have provided more than a quarter of a million dollars to support quality education in Lakeport.
None of this would be possible without the commitment of local businesses and concerned parents. Our business communities know very well that a town that doesn’t take care of its kids is not a good place to raise families and create a vibrant, local economy.
L.E.E.F. is truly grateful to all of the people and businesses that support us in our mission to ensure that our public schools are providing state of the art opportunities for our children.
Please visit www.LakeportLEEF.com to see what we are accomplishing.
Support our local businesses and attend our Big Band Event March 3!
Jeannie Markham is a member of the L.E.E.F. Board of Directors. She lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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I was called for jury duty on a Thursday along with about 50 other Lake County residents.
We were ensconced in a smallish court room designed for less than 50 and they had to bring in extra chairs for the overflow.
I had the extreme displeasure of seating myself in the old-style, fold down, straight back, narrow, less-than-comfortable 1920s theater seats.
My first thought was that they didn't want folks to just hang out for long periods of time in the audience section. This also would have the benefit of eliminating folks from falling asleep and snoring during the trial. This same seating is provided for the jurors at the front of the courtroom, perhaps to the same end.
After about two hours in one of these diabolical torture devices I began to experience pain in my posterior, back and leg. I had managed to make it through six hours of this discomfort when we were dismissed until the following Friday.
As my pain carried through to that night and the next day I was forced to call in damaged and missed the final jury selection process.
I would think that if enough of us retired antiques are eliminated from the juror pool in this manner, this county will lose folks who are willing and have the time to stay the course – folks who have life experience, patience and understand human behavior often clearer than younger crowd.
So it has occurred to me that we will have a large population of baby boomers retiring in this county soon. Most of these folks will in all probability have the same age-related pains that many over age 60 experience.
My thoughts are that perhaps that this county could set aside a few extra funds for truly comfortable seating.
Frank Hodges lives in Lucerne, Calif.
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