Nov 24

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11/24/2011 1:01 PM 

Celina Yarkin asks that question more nicely in her editor letter of Nov 16, ”Let’s Consider a More Humane Way…”  as follows: “Is a no sitting, no vegetation, policy really what we want in our town center? Is it effective in the case of the people who depend on someplace sheltered to be?  She’s referring to how VARSA, the eucalyptus loggers, plan to keep adult vagrants on the run. As to that question, some may recall my advice to the drugstore post-parkum regarding vagrants. I said let them have a club for which to be a member you have to write down your name and place of birth. The owners have not asked me why these rules, but I got the idea from a book by animal trainer Vickie Hearne in which she explored the significance of giving an animal a name. So when Celina says, “I don’t think stripping our town center of vegetation, history, sitting places and beauty is the answer. What have other communities done around the world? What works? What’s humane?”, Let Vickie Hearne speak.

Give the “vagrants” some turf, a club, and a job. My oh my, where might that lead?

Thank you in memorim, Vickie.