Letters to the Editor
Be a responsible pet owner please
Editor:
About a month ago a friend called me and said someone had dumped two female pups at her place and could I take them? Well, I have a hard time knowing there are pups out there in the cold without shelter.
I wish people would realize that when they get a puppy it will have more puppies. If people would have their pups fixed it would make my life easier and other people who feel responsible enough to take these homeless pups home. I will need help to have these two puppies fixed.
I would also like to mention my friend Priscilla Para who, with her big heart, has taken many animals that have been homeless. It would be nice if people who think puppies and kittens are cute would also take the responsibility to have them fixed.
These two pups that Priscilla found and that I have are really cute. They are white with light brown spots. If you lost them, I have them.
If you dumped them … shame on you.
Maryrose Pino
Magdalena
Relay for Life kicks off Jan. 26
Editor:
It’s a new year and the work of the American Cancer Society is renewed too. On the local level, teams are forming for the Socorro County Relay for Life. Watch for more news about the 2011 Relay’s Jan. 26 kick-off!
On the national level, among other things, the American Cancer Society is dedicated to improving the cancer outlook for minorities and the medically underserved. Eliminating disparities in the cancer burden is a special theme of the society’s 2015 challenge goals.
Cultural and genetic factors may also play a role in the cancer incidence and mortality experienced by racial and ethnic populations. As the largest private, nonprofit source of research funding, ACS is committed to making discoveries that could save your life or the life of a loved one.
And they don’t stop there. With the help of public health colleagues and volunteer advocates — people like you — they work with our elected leaders to ensure:
1. Greater government investments in cancer research application;
2. Policies that allow every American, regardless of income level, access to lifesaving treatments;
3. More access to innovative clinical trials that save lives as they advance our understanding of cancer.
Remember, www.cancer.org is a wealth of information and answers to your many questions. They can help you find the power to take the next step to what is available to you and your loved ones.
Thank you for allowing me to inform our community with vital information each month.
Sandra Noll
and the Socorro County Relay for Life
New year calls for new ways
Editor:
What’s next?
For the past three years, we the member/owners of Socorro Electric Cooperative, have fought to get our co-op to work on transparency and to give us a voice. Instead, we have been shouted down by the very board we elected.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but we are the owners. Yet we cannot get a straight answer from nine of the 10 board members. To this date I am still being denied the right to attend the monthly meetings due to the fact they still hold a restraining order against me. I wish everyone in the county could see how these meetings are handled and now, thanks to a wonderful thing called the Internet, you can by logging on to www.informedcynic.com.
Back in April we did everything by the book — the bylaw book — the one the board helped write. When I attended the board meetings, I was ridiculed by the board and bullied and told repeatedly that if I wanted change it could only be done at the annual meeting in April, according to the bylaws.
Well, it took three years to get it done, but we did. The turnout for the annual meeting was the biggest ever. And that night every bylaw we passed was legal and according to the bylaws. The co-op attorney stated it was “democracy in action.” But in another breath, he stated that the newly passed bylaws would not go in to effect immediately. He later had to admit that they should.
Then, the attorney and the board turned around and filed a lawsuit against all 10,000 member/owners. To date the board and their attorneys are fighting everything that we the member/owners are asking for. Mr. Wolberg, a newly elected District 3 trustee, has made himself the spokesman for the group, and he seems to think he can fix everything. Well, that would be fine except he isn’t doing it according to the bylaws or the wishes of the member/owners.
I now am telling the board to follow the bylaws. We recently did a recall for co-op President Paul Bustamante in District 2. We followed the bylaws and presented it to the board in November. We’ve yet to have the report to validate signatures — more of the same stalling. But we do persist. We now started the recall in District 3 Socorro.
What is next? They have sued all of us, have harassed District 5 trustee Charlie Wagner to no end and hauled me into court twice.
Well, it is a new year. Maybe they will come to their senses.
Charlene West
Lemitar
Editor’s Note: Charlene West is chairwoman of the Socorro Electric Cooperative Reform Committee.