A special event
The Kelseyville Pear Festival team thanks all of the sponsors, vendors, volunteers and visitors who came together to make the 23rd annual Pear Festival a special hometown event. We are grateful for the long time sponsors and welcome the new ones who contributed to the Festival. It takes the commitment of many willing hands and muscles to create the unique celebration. Thank you all!
We appreciate all who spent the day at the Festival. We say, ‘stroll Main Street and catch the small town magic.’ It was a Pearfect Day. Thank you,
Marilyn Holdenried and Sharron Zoller, Festival Co-chairs
Schooling and knowledge
The more I see and hear about current schooling, tests and such, the more thankful I am that I am old enough to have completed K-12 when the ultimate educational technology was pencil and paper, fountain pens, typewriters, and slide rules. Pupils were able to participate in the learning process and, while it was embarrassing, it was a feather in your bonnet if your essay was thought good enough to be read to the class. We had team projects and learned to work with other students — even communicate with them without electronic help.
We also had no trouble with the fact that all students are not equal. We weren’t concerned with why, we just knew that some kids got better grades and it was accepted. We also realized that skills were different between students and that, while you may be a A student in one subject, you might have trouble in others. We also assumed that all of us students had an equal opportunity to learn. I guess 80 years makes a difference both in subject matter and attitude. When you attained a passing GPA you graduated. At that time no one really worried if you dropped out of high school and a lot of boys did so to enlist.
When I read that Governor Brown’s decision to do away with the final graduation test allowed some 33,000 to get diplomas held up by their not passing, I worry — particularly when the overwhelming portion of the failures were failed for a “presumed lack of English proficiency.” I, personally, have no problem that English proficiency should be a graduation requirement, but I think that is more an educational responsibility, than a student responsibility. I feel there is far too much emphasis placed on “knowledge.” Knowledge is fine, but it is worthless without the imagination, visualization, and the ability to communicate that knowledge.
Closing, I think that the public should recognize that all students neither want to, or need a college education. Their abilities as people (personality, nature, communication ability, and such) are what is important. If they find they need, or want further education it is not only is available, but reflects a decision they should be proud to make.
Guff Worth, Lakeport
My letters
To the lady that wants me to lighten up, when Harry Ried gets up on the Senate floor and says Mitt Romney didn’t pay any taxes is an assault on the American people and the Constitution and if you can’t see that we might as well throw the Constitution out the window, along with the next generation. No self respecting person does that. Do you like being lied to? How about Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, how about those lies. When are you going to stop being played for a fool?
And I am tired of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner lying to me and that’s what really brings out the venom! Of the people, by the people and for the people has been flushed down the toilet! Politicians who have the lowest ratings of anyone yet you keep re-electing them. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried are the bane of politicians yet you liberals keep re-electing them, and for why I will never know. ‘You have to pass this law to find out what’s in it’ — but don’t read it is the lowest we have ever stooped to in our political history.
If President Obama made the promises he made on ObamaCare in the private sector he would be prosecuted for fraud as pointed out by numerous attorneys, including former US Attorneys.
Kate’s Law was attached to another bill that the reps knew wouldn’t pass the Senate! Lack of good judgement is like saying this also a bad joke gone really wrong. Newspapers should show an open casket of people killed by illegal aliens with the caption “Liberal Policies Killed Me” and let’s see how long sanctuary cities laws last. But that does not fit the lame stream media agenda. There is a defined line between right and wrong and sanctuary cities are dead wrong, especially when illegal aliens are robbing and killing our innocent citizens.
You go ahead and break federal law as a private citizen and let’s see how long a sentence you receive. Liberals like Harry Ried think illegal aliens who break the US Laws should walk. How is that justice?
Politicians put illegal felons before the American people and the council woman in SF who was on TV supporting sanctuary cities should be arrested and indicted for failing to adhere to Federal Law, but won’t be because she is black! Justice for all again flushed down the toilet! Thank you President Obama for the double standards!
Remember when I said that a left wing web site of journalist was exposed for deciding what the next days news was supposed to be, (a fact proven to be true) and that billionaire George Soros funded millions of dollars to people to listen to right wing radio to find mistakes (a fact proven to be true). Then who dislikes my letters? And attacks me with distortions, along with right wing commentators like Limbaugh, Hannity and Dobbs, that they would like to destroy. Limbaugh hires an independent fact checking firm that proves him right 99.8 percent of the time.
And to those who dislike my letters, thank God for First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. I would hate to see my letters printed in the obituary section — tsk, tsk, tsk — like the liberal lame stream progressives would.
Mac McKay, Lakeport
