Leters to the Editor
Opinion
Published: December 24, 1999
A great season
To the Editor:
To all Varsity football coaches and Varsity football players at SPUHS: after having our football banquet this evening 12/18 I’d like to congratulate the team on such a great season this year! “99” was your time! You’ve given us some wonderful memories to cherish for years to come. Mr. Robb would have been very proud of all of you I’m sure.
Thank you again this year to Pat Untiedt and Cecil Preciado for all the great football photos they gave us through the season.
Thank you to all those that run such a successful snack bar. The burritos are delicious!!
And a very special thank you to all of you for your thoughts and prayers to Morgan after his severe knee injury. He’s doing quite well healing his torn ligaments and hopes to be back to track and weight training within two months!
Happy Holidays!
Mrs. Susan S. Montoya
Santa Paula
A solution...
To the Editor:
Solution for Santa Paula and Ventura County
Before any step is taken in order to stop the bleeding of the bottomless money pit called the Reserve Fund!
The one and only step is that we should insist and demand that the Attorney General supervise a detailed audit of every department of the city and county.
Nothing less should we accept.
Orange County, the flagship of Southern California, was sunk by the administrators, not the taxpayer.
Let’s invite the Attorney General!
Jess Victoria, President
Citizens for Accountable Government (C.A.G.)
Santa Paula
Seasonal verse
To the Editor:
Christmas Day
Long ago and far away
A tiny child was born
To Joseph and Mary
In stable, so forlorn.
A king He was, without a throne
Or castle, rising high.
In truth, He was the son of God,
Born so He could die.
In raiment made of swaddling clothes
He slept upon the hay,
Purer than fresh-fallen snow,
God’s Son in beauty lay.
The shepherds were the first to come
To see and then believe
The words that had been told to them
That first Christmas Eve.
Through the centuries, come and gone,
His love shines ever true.
We change as we draw near to Him,
For He makes all things new.
By M. Peterson
The First Christmas Eve
Smoke is billowing from the chimneys;
The lamplights cast a rosy glow.
Church lights glimmer in welcome,
Folks are strolling in downy, white snow.
Wreaths of holly are hung everywhere;
There’s a purple tint in the evening sky.
Cedars are laden with tinsel and lights;
Carols ring out from a chorus nearby.
The world is different in so many ways
Than it was on that first Christmas Eve
When, in a stable warmed by heavenly fire,
Many waited, God’s child to receive.
Let us remember each Christmas season
On the night of our dear Savior’s birth -
Heaven gave up the Holy Christ Child
And, through many, sent Jesus to earth.
B. C. Ray
When you finish reading these two verses, stop and remember what Christmas is all about.
In your prayer on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, just say “Thank you Jesus for this wonderful holiday.”
Happy Birthday Jesus.
Merry Christmas,
Lynda Lloyd
Santa Paula
Merry Christmas to All!
To the Editor:
Merry Christmas to all from Santa Paula Times, “your paper and mine.”
Here we are gathered together to celebrate the yule season in our little peaceful town.
When we look around, we see our fellow citizens, small children playing, grade school and high school young people, and all the moms and dads who work to pay the bills!
How can we know all the happenings of daily life around us, as we live amongst our friends in our community?
It’s not easy, but we do have “our good Scout,” who runs our newspaper; that’s correct, I did say OUR newspaper. He does the work, gets the local news, accidents, holdups, if any, makes up obituaries about our departed friends, and news of local events!
In addition to all of the above, “our good Scout” goes back to school to pick up on all the scholastic happenings, and then over to the athletic department to see how our boys and girls are doing in sports, so their parents can brag about their kids to their friends and neighbors!
You know this “good Scout” also prepares the write-ups and editorials, any and all classified advertising, then rushes the prepared copy over to the press department to get the copy on the paper so you and I can read it later after it has been home-delivered or placed in machines for casual newspaper buyers.
While “the good Scout” is doing all the above, he is also paying the rent, and payroll of the Santa Paula Times, along with various and sundry overhead expenses.
By now you must know this good Scout is Mr. Don Johnson, OUR employee at the S.P. Times. Yes, he is working for you and I; let’s try to keep him happy so he does not quit this good job we are letting him do for us.
Friends, my daughter in Santa Monica gets phone calls from me, and when I ask here what is going on around town she answers, “I just don’t know, the Evening Outlook newspaper has gone out of business - ‘started in 1872, folded up April 1998’.” As she says, “I have to talk to my neighbors to find out if they know what’s happening around Santa Monica!”
Don’t let this happen here in Santa Paula. Remember the “good Scout,” who is working for us, needs lots of classified income to pay our bills. That’s right, they are “OUR bills,” it’s our newspaper - we just let him keep his name on the door to make him think we really do appreciate his efforts.
Let’s keep those ads coming in and keep the door open, so Don Johnson can have a Merry Christmas.
Harold R. Crawford
Santa Paula
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