Letters

Editor,

Goodbye Mexico, and thank you for the most unimaginable twenty years, for a learning curve of acute angles: the exposure to your cultural ways, values and psychology and your infinitely better manners; the sound of your endless bells of glory, calling you to church or to arms or just to help put out a fire; the smell of your fireworks and gunpowder as you celebrate or send a tiny soul off to be with god; the taste of the cuisine of cariño in your homes, and fondas in your streets; the vistas of your ancient and old architecture and a still older landscape; the taste of loving and being loved by you who know the value of today and yesterday and still have the liberty of not fearing tomorrow enough.

It is time for me to go. It fills me with sadness and excitement, a new time of my life. Goodbye and thank you so.

Jane Anne Evans

Editor,

Thank you to everyone who assisted and supported the Gran Noche Mexicana fundraiser for the Santa Julia girls. We filled the Casa de Sierra Nevada Restaurante Andanza, and they donated a portion of entrance and bar fees. We sold more than 40 silent auction items, and received additional publicity from Radio Imagen and Telecable Channels 3 and 78, as well as learning more about the amazingly varied dances of Mexico, thanks to Myrna from Casa de la Cultura. This grand night of fun celebrating Mexican independence raised US$1,200 toward the independence of the Santa Julia girls—enough to take care of the basic needs of one child for one year. Thank you, and please share our thanks with the community of San Miguel.

Robin Loving Rowland 





Editor,

Big kudos and much thanks to Don Patterson of the Ecology and Environment Department for his work on the entrances to San Miguel and the plazas of the major churches. Such an improvement in the last three years, it’s easy to forget how bad they looked. He also was able to raise most of the money for these improvements by initiating the “Green Fund” which banked income to Ecology from our car emission checks and other fees. Don also worked tirelessly on mapping and doing inventory of the arroyos and canyons, creeks and rivers of the entire municipio in a major effort to get a handle on the state of our watershed. Through his efforts, he was able to spotlight the importance of the health of this system and bring it to the attention of Federal and State authorities. This is his last week on the job and I just want him to know his hard work has not gone un-noticed.

Thanks Don.

Robert Haas