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Postal service lacking

Is the Postal Service still working to give “service” to the public or are they just there to fill their time card? Why is it open only about two hours on Saturday? I can remember when the postal employees really performed service; now it is all for their benefit. At one time a person went to work there for job security; now it seems they are there to find ways to inconvenience the public. The higher the stamp goes the less service is given. Some act like they are doing us a big favor by being there.

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Remove Kern River from no-stock list

We need your help, the local biologist for California Department of Fish and Game has informed me that, DFG is getting ready to negotiate with the Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers council about removal of certain bodies of water from the no-stocking list. That would be good news but, she indicated that the Kern would not be included in those negotiations. She also indicated that she did not understand why not but the decision came from the head of Fishery Department.

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Community Voices: Lake Isabella: Recreation Opportunities Knock

Tina Terrell, Forest Supervisor
Sequoia National Forest

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Still fighting for civil rights

The first gut punch was the introduction of Proposition 8. How dare anyone have the audacity to put something as personal as my marriage on the ballot? The second blow was its passage: the first of its kind to deny rights to a law abiding group, contradicting the U.S. Constitution. The third kick was when the California Supreme Court, sworn to uphold the State Constitution and protect the minority from the majority, failed and upheld the discriminatory amendment.

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First responders to the rescue

I would like to send a big thank you to all of Station 71 (Southlake) Fire Department for coming so quickly to my aid on May 15. My husband had fallen and broke his hip. The firemen quickly evaluated the situation and got Care Ambulance there. One of the EMT’s name was Kevin. They took us to KMC, stayed until they knew he was going to be admitted. Naturally, I was upset, the driver kept talking to me and got me settled down by the time we got to KMC.

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Brian's Song

An article appeared in The Sun several weeks ago which left many of us appalled and bewildered. It was a sad story about a local man who had been murdered. Included in the paper’s account of the circumstances surrounding the tragic stabbing death of Brian Sarver was his prior criminal history. This was inexcusably insensitive, and a grave disservice to a man who lost his life while protecting two female friends.

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Keep Camp KEEP

Hello, I am Marissa Witten. I am currently a seventh grader. Last year I went to Camp KEEP. I learned so much in a week, like what type of flowers there are, reptiles, amphibians, and how the wildlife lives. I think you guys should keep Camp KEEP because we have been doing it for a long time and it wouldn’t be fair to the fifth graders now not to be able to go. It is also an educational camp too, so it would be good for them to get out of the house for a week and learn about nature.

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Always wear a life vest

Never hesitate to wear your life jacket whenever you are on the water.  Because I hesitated, I came close to losing my life.

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Great story, good people

Outstanding story in the June 24th issue regarding Judy and Lou Hinkle and staff. These folks have provided excellent service for every need I have had. I’m restoring a 1973 GMC motorhome and have been able to get everything I have needed from their auto parts store for it from these people. If they didn’t have it there it would arrive the next day.

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Warranties and customer service

I have had to deal with a lot of product warranties lately. I bought a chair for my mom with a lifetime warranty from a store right here in Lake Isabella. After eight months of use by a 120-pound female, it looks like it is worn out. I called the store and talked to the owner and was told that I was out of luck as the manufacturer had gone out of business the previous month. The owner said there was nothing he would or could do about it, even though his business sold me the chair, they would not stand behind it. I ask you what good is a lifetime warranty if the manufacturer goes out of business? I am out $399 for a piece of junk! You can guess that I will never shop at that store again.

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The kindness of strangers

Late Sunday evening, June 7, in Lake Isabella, I had taken my daughter and her twin babies home. I had just taken one of the babies out of the car and started into the house with her in my arms. As I was walking around the back of the car, I stepped on some loose asphalt and twisted my ankle. Then down I went, baby and all. I hit my head on the ground when I fell and, of course, I dropped the baby from my arms. I was in so much pain I was unable to move. But as soon as I fell, a young man was at my side trying to console me and keep me as comfortable as possible until paramedics arrived.

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Keep Camp KEEP

Camp KEEP has been in our school tradition for over 30 years. If you ended that, then that is like wearing shoes without socks, a very sticky situation.

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Reality of Postal Service plight
Re: Postal service lacking, Letters, 6/10/09

Maybe Mr. Yearwood should really take a look at what is going on in the USA today and hope that the Postal Service can maintain the prices and service we have now and not have to pay as much as the rest of the world, especially European countries.

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Beware of information from Sequoia ForestKeepers
Re: Beware false, anonymous information, Letters 6/3/09

The aforementioned letter stated the following opinions:

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Protect California’s social services

California revenues have declined, the state owes about $23 billion, and social services for citizens could be cut unless additional revenues are established. Coca Cola, Nestle, and other companies profit from California’s resources. Chevron’s 2008 4th Quarter profit was $7.89 billion. California legislators should establish a Resource Extraction Tax on businesses that benefit from the sale of California’s resources (like oil, minerals, water, energy, and timber, etc.) to pay for social services (like libraries, education, police, fire fighters, health care, elder care, transportation, etc.). Call your California lawmakers and let them know you want social services protected.

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Better accounting needed

I have never written to a newspaper before, but I am sick of all the bad news I hear about California being is such trouble.  Instead of laying off people, cutting health care, and forcing people to take days off without pay, why don’t we,as taxpayers, ask out lawmakers in Sacramento, who by the way got us into this mess, to cut their pay, and give up some of their perks, like free cars that we pay for.  I know it won’t solve all of our problems, but it might help.  I would like a better accounting of what they get paid,  including all the perks.  How about the rest of you?

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If you don’t like it, make it better

I was telling a friend recently about my hometown, and she reminded me that we never remember the negative, but dwell on our happy memories. So true in my case. I had many happy memories there, and was not a part of the bickering and gossip. Unfortunately when a kid graduates KVHS there is little hope of a future there unless your family owned a big business you could join. The ones left there often have too much time on their hands, which can turn to depression and substance abuse. I would like to salute those who volunteer in some way or another to make the valley better. That said, I would like to suggest a community garden where people have to put time in a large garden with fruit trees, and rows of vegetables, possibly working with animals for meat, as opposed to just handing out all the food they want for nothing. Let them feel proud of what they do. Let those who know teach those who don’t. Make a compost heap, and learn organic gardening. Someday this might come in handy, and the intergenerational involvement can help us understand each other better and become more tolerant. Start a clothing bank with nice clothes you can go to church in, or get a good job. I want to come home someday, but not to the negative bitterness I read about in every comment. If you don’t like it...make it better!

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Forest just as flammable
Re: Beware of information from Sequoia ForestKeepers

In reply to Mr. Perry’s letter of June 16, in which he defends the Forest Service practice of allowing loggers to “thin” the forest:

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Road signs cry wolf

The story of the little boy that kept crying wolf so often that when it really happened no one believed him. Well how about Cal Trans putting out signs and not doing the work they advertise? There have been such signs out east of the freeway for over three weeks. Now would be a good time to either produce or get off the pot. We,as drivers, are expected to drive with special caution when the signs are placed but if they are seen and no one is working it could become a wolf situation.

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Campground overly protected

 I read with interest that the Forest service had closed the campground at French Meadows in the Piutes. The reason given was that tailings from mining operations in the early 1900’s and before had contaminated the ground with arsenic.

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