Letters to the editor: Feb. 4

Special thanks to Sandbaggers

My wife Fern and I wish to thank all those who participated in the cleanup and sandbagging of our home recently. We are most grateful.

A special thanks to our very good neighbor, Cyndy Powell, who organized the event.

I am gratified to see that this will be a continuing project which might be called Sandbaggers, A Helping Hands Project, and at some point might expand into a group of community projects. It is inspired and much needed.

One example could be helping shut-ins with shopping and other things they are not able to do themselves.

Those students and teachers who helped were cheerful and made short work of the project. Being disabled, it is something neither my wife not I could have accomplished on our own.

We appreciated their efforts and want to again thank them for their assistance.

Stan Smith Jr.

Ramona

Better to give….

They say it’s better to give than receive, and believe me my recent experience proves that it’s true!

For quite some time I have been getting reports that the girls’ bathrooms at Ramona High often do not have toilet paper. Apparently there are some difficult roadblocks preventing resolution of this issue, as my friends and I have been complaining about it for quite some time. So I took it upon myself to hand deliver a large Costco pack of TP to the high school, hoping that I could help.

Well, I have to say that doing so made me feel wonderful. So I write this letter recommending that others in Ramona do as I have done, drop off a pack of TP at the high school, thus ensuring that our girls won’t do without — and we’ll all be happy!

Dave Patterson

Ramona