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innnma Wert Times News A8 April 24, 2008 Editorial Letters to the Editor OPINION Very taxing times These are very taxing times for all of us. In Healdsburg, the school district wants voters to support an $88 annual parcel tax and the City of Healdsburg will be raising electric rates 16-20 percent. Windsor residents will soon get their first tax bills for the $50 million school facilities and program bond they passed last month. Sebastopol residents are being polled by their City Council to see if they will support a new four percent utility users surtax and the Russian River Fire Protection District is holding a special election on May 6 to ask Guerneville area residents to support a hefty increase to their annual dis- Why ShOUld We trict parcel tax. Consider Or There is also a June 3 ballot Support choice for Graven- increased taxes stein Union Scho1 District property or government owners t0 renew a Spending? $45 per year parcel tax to support Because we can ongoing artS( P0t "save" music and technol- ogy instruction.

ourselves back -TW seemS to Washington, D.C. California's state and local governments receive only 76 cents in return. This year's "federal take" will grow because President Bush wants to "freeze" Medicare reimbursements while cutting almost all other federal social and welfare programs. The "Bush tax cuts" implemented when he took office in 2000 has led to a loss of $342 billion in tax revenues. Most of these income tax cuts favor wealthier individuals and larger corporations.

If the Bush tax cuts were made permanent, the lost revenues and incurred debt would surpass the total of the annual federal budget by year 2015, according to a Brookings Institute study. Fear not, because we can simply keep voting to add new parcel taxes, school bonds and utility rate hikes to cover this massive amount of federal theft. We encourage our readers and local voters to write letters to the U.S. Congress and The White House. Just remember that you will have to add an extra penny on your stamps next month when the federal government increases all U.S.

postage rates. Gov. Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature will never "fix" California's $14.5 billion budget deficit without supporting new revenue sources yes more taxes. These are times of record-high fuel and energy prices. The cost of bread, milk and other staples of life, not to mention the cost of a basic shelter, is getting out of reach for many of us.

Why should we consider or support increased taxes or government spending? Because we can not "save" ourselves back to a balanced budget or prosperity. It takes investment; that's what taxes are supposed to do. As we trim our household budgets and reduce our car trips, grocery bills and other expenses, we must also continue to support essential education, health, welfare and infrastructure programs. All we can rely on from our federal and state governments is more takeaways and deeper debt. How did we come to deserve such a taxing mess in the first place? Oh, that's right, we voted for it.

Rollie Atkinson the dark, I saw one goon. We commence pummelling each other when, to my surprise, another goon comes up from behind me and tackles me to the ground. Now two goons are pummelling me while I try to get in as many licks as I can. At this point I'd like to spare you the gory details, but want to say that I remember one saying to the other "choke him, choke him, knock him out." (He wasn't able to choke me unconscious, but it was close.) Fast foward to the Sheriffs deputies being asked about the frequency of calls on the trail, and the response was yeah, we get calls on the trails just about every day This is why I'm writing to the paper. I was not aware of the frequency of policesheriff calls on the trail, and while I was spreading the word to others of the bicycling community, I experienced others who had been mugged on the trail who didn't report it to the policesheriff.

This letter is a "head's up." There are some goons out there lying in wait for those of us attempting to use our alternative transportation system. Be safe, be diligent, be aware and be prepared. Try to vary your route. Don't let the goons ruin your life. I was injured, my bike was injured, my ego was bruised, but I'm not going to stop riding.

IH just have to be better prepared. And for all their effort, all they got was some clothes they can't wear. Half the people in this county know how I dress at work. No one else can get away with wearing those clothes. Vail remember the flamingo scrub top! Larry Fallau Sebastopol Learn more about EDITOR: The Russian River Chamber of Commerce recommends that all Chamber members make themselves aware of the contents and possible implications of Measure G.

The Fire District is proposing an increase in special fire tax. There have been various informational meetings held in the community regarding Measure G. The Fire Department recommends that everyone makes themselves aware of the proposed increases and adjustments. Currently, there are just a few categories defining the revenue from the special tax. Under Measure there will be a multitude of categories which may entail many corrections and adjustments for those paying the Special Tax.

It would appear that the categories may need some clarification. The Fire District expects and encourages everyone to contact them and ask questions. You may contact the Fire District at 869-9089. Russian River Chamber of Commerce Guerneville Rue for Fifth EDITOR: The election for Fifth District Supervisor is an extremely important one. WTe have many complicated and difficult issues facing us in the coming years concerning our environment, and it is critical to select the person who will be most effective in promoting consideration of environmental values in County decision-making.

This has been a key consideration in my deliberations about which candidate to support. My desire for a healthy Russian River and tributaries, healthy forests, protected fragile hillsides, and much more have motivated me to devote my life to the work of protecting this incredible place. Our lives and our economy ultimately depend on a healthy environment and I want a Supervisor who will be most effective at accomplishing those goals. All candidates have presented themselves as caring about the environment and I have no reason to doubt their sincerity. Yet as someone who has worked on these issues for almost 30 years, I know that there is a huge gap between wanting to do something and actually effecting its accomplishment.

The environment is highly complex. There are many contradictions; often you help one part and at the same time, harm another. Everyone says they support the environment, until they have to give something up, and then the picture often changes. It is highly complex and difficult to navigate the minefields of competing interests in environmental concerns. I believe that Rue Furch is the most able and the most experienced in fighting for the environment.

I know from working with her for many years that she does her homework, she is dogged in her perseverance, and she is very good at persuading people to consider public and environmental concerns. Almost no one studies the issues as thoroughly as she does. I've been to hundreds of meetings where officials vote on lengthy and complex projects and programs with only a staff review to base their decision on. Most do not read the material and Rue does. I highly respect her dedication in these matters.

For these reasons, I urge you to vote for Rue for Fifth District Supervisor. Brenda Adelman Guerneville Need for trail vigilance EDITOR: On Friday April 11 at 9:15 p.m. while. riding my bike to work on the Joe Rodota trail I had the unfortunate experience of running into two goons with a big tree branch. I was approaching what looked like debris when suddenly the trunk end of the tree branch lifted up to meet me and take me off my bike.

That's when out of the corner of my eye, and in to a balanced budget or prosperity. be no shortage of new and increased taxes. Or is there? California Gov. Arnold Schwarz- enegger continues his pledge of "no new taxes" even as the state faces a growing budget deficit of $14.5 billion. President George Bush has his heels dug in to protect his tax cuts while we all await receipt of our $600 tax rebates as part of the $168 billion Economic Stimulus Package passed by the U.S.

Congress in February. What's wrong with this picture? Our federal and state governments continue to take us deeper and deeper into long-term debt without providing enough support for our schools, healthcare services and other essential public programs. California taxpayers continue to contribute the most money of any state to the Federal Treasury and get the least return. For every dollar we send to Got Words? Send your Word Box submissions to: 'Word Box 521, Sebastopol, CA. 95473 or email: newssonomawest.com Word Box "Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right." -HL Mencken (1880-1956) Open Space contenders has become increasingly Republican in tone and content. We are promised tax cuts and are pandered to at every turn. Rather than hearing a call to sacrifice or a challenge to rededicate ourselves to the moral principles on which our national mythology is based that we are a peace-loving nation and a hard-working, tolerant people we are getting carefully calculated messages designed to responsibility for the bloodbath that has followed'. We should be told to face the facts: that we are a nation of frontrunners. We should be confronted with the fact that our unhappiness with the situation in Iraq stems not from any insight into the inherent futility of using war as an instrument of constructive change, and not from any feelings of guilt, but from our belated and rather cowardly Dreaming of hard truths in politics by Guy Wilson i i rest of the world discovered long ago the benefits of mass transportation.

i As we observe the 40th anniversary of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, we hear the candidates speak in support of private gun ownership. In a nation supposedly founded on separation of church and state, we hear the candidates reassure us of their religiosity. At a time when alcoholism ravages the working class and exacerbates the national health care crisis that the candidates promise to address, one of the candidates conspicuously' stages a photo-op drinking session, presumably to demonstrate that she is worthy of the working class vote. And so it goes. This dispiriting and dissimulating campaign can't end soon enough.

John Kennedy once challenged the American people to "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." That challenge came in an inauguration speech rather than on the campaign trail, but wouldn't it be great if one of the candidates would finally cut the crap and tell the voters to grow up, take responsibility, demand change and look within for answers? Guy Wilson is a Sonoma West Times News columnist. appeal to the worst aspects of our culture of aggression, piety, greed, and entitlement. We are encouraged by the candidates to feel outrage over paying four dollars for a realization that, after killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and suffering over four thousand losses of our own, we cannot "win" the war. We should be rebuked for not All of us must accept the blame and shame we richly deserve for marching in lockstep behind the Bush Administration's charge into Iraq and that we should all take personal responsibility for the bloodbath that has followed. The Democratic primary election season has become an extended exercise in negative symbiosis.

The candidates and the country are bringing out the worst in each other. This is a time when the American people need leadership from Obama and Clinton in the form of hearing the blunt truth. We should be told that all of us must pay the price for the excesses of the past eight years, which have produced economically crippling deficits. Rather than expecting tax cuts, we should be told to look forward to paying more taxes, and lots of them. We should be told that if we are to regain our moral stature in the eyes of the world, all of us must accept the blame and shame we richly deserve for marching in lockstep behind the Bush Administration's charge into Iraq, and that we should all take personal being sorry for what we have done to Iraq, and for being sorry only because it has not worked.

Well, of course, when it comes to hearing the cold, hard truth from the candidates, we should all dream on. What we have heard from the Democratic gallon of gas, when the rest of the world pays far more. We are promised that there will be investigations into possible price-fixing by the suppliers of oil, when the real inquiry should be into the demand side of the equation why as a people we have to get around in single-occupant vehicles when the. SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 1010 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AMENDING SEBASTOPOL MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTERS 17.04, 17.08, 17.40, 17.44, 17.48, 17.52, 17.56, 17.60, 17.64, 17.68, 17.72, 17.74, 17.76, 17.80, 17.88, 17.96, 17.100, 17.110, 17.120, 17.210, 17.220, 17.230, 17.245, 17.270, 17.275, 17.310, 17.320, AND 8.12.

The Ordinance, introduced for first reading on March 18, 2008 and amended at their Council Meeting of March 18, 2008; therefore, introduced for first reading at the City Council meeting of April 1, 2008 nd adopted at the April 15, 2008 City Council meeting amends Sebastopol Municipal Code Chapters 17.04, 17.08, 17.40, 17.44, 17.48, 17.52, 17.56, 17.60, 17.64, 17.68, 17.72, 17.74, 17.76, 17.80, 17.88, 17.96, 17.100, 17.110, 17.120, 17.210, 17.220, 17.230, 17.245, 17.270, 17.275, 17.310, 17.320, and 8.12. will be amended to enact various modifications to zoning and development regulations. The modifications consist of Zoning Ordinance and other development provisions which will be revised, added, simplified, or clarified in the Zoning Ordinance, including but not limited to revisions to development standards, use allowances, parking, planned community, small-lot subdivision, fence height, and sign ordinances. Copies of the complete ordinance are available at the office of the City Clerk, Sebastopol City Hall, 7120 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, Ca. This Ordinance Amendment will take effect 30 days after its passage.

Approved for introduction and first reading on March 18, 2008 (amended); approved for introduction and first reading on April 1 2008. Approved for second reading and adoption at the April 15, 2008 City Council meeting by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmembers Kelley, Pierce, Gurney and Mayor Lltwin Noes: None Absent: Councilmember Robinson Abstain: None Mary Gourley, City Clerk 10789-SWTAN-PUB. APR 24, 2008. the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Place of Sale: At the south (front) entrance to the Administration Building, 575 Administration Santa Rosa, CA Legal Description: As more fully described in said Deed of Trust Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $452,616.70 (estimated) Street address and other common designation of the real property: 360 Bonnie Ave, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 APN 143-223-001-00 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The property heretofore described is being sold "as Date: 4232008 California Reconveyance Company, as Trustee (714) 259-7850 or www.fidelityasap.com (714) 573-1965 or www.priorityposting.com Deborah Brignac California Reconveyance Company is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Deborah Brignac, Vice President 9200 Oakdale Avenue Mail Stop N1 10612 Chatsworth, CA 91311 P393113 424,51,05082008. APR 24 MAY 1, 8, 2008.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. 07-3360 Loan No. 0325959336 Title Order No. E800206 APN 143-712-012-000 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12132006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE.

IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 5142008 at 1 1 Old Republic Default Management Services, a Division of Old Republic National Title Insurance Company as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 12182006 Instrument No. 2006156211 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Sonoma California, executed by: Luis Rodolfo Sanchez, a single man as Trustor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee, as Beneficiary, Will Sell At Public Auction To The Highest Bidder For Cash (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). At: At the south (front) entrance to the Administration Building, 575 Administration Santa Rosa, CA, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California describing the land therein: Lot 278, as numbered and designated upon the map entitled Llano Subdivision, Unit No.

2, filed in the office of the County Recorder of Sonoma County of July 15, 1995 in Book 220 of maps, Pages 50, 51, and 52, Sonoma County Records. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is'. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 7376 Circle Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to wit: $477,715.08 (Estimated) Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The Undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Date: 4152008 Old Republic Default Management Services, a Division of Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, as Trustee Leslie Marsh, Assistant Vice President Old Republic Default Management Services P.O. Box 250 Orange, CA 92856-6250 For Sale Information Contact: Priority Posting and Publishing (714) 573-1965 P396204 424, 51, 05A)82008. 1 0788-SWT4N-PUB.

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