permaculture

[seaseal <seaseal@got.net>]

Love the post about the girls' produce stand being considered illegal  
by the mayor.

I sent this letter to the Mayor:

Dear Mayor Manning,

You have a wonderful opportunity here to champion locally owned small  
business. Instead of a Wal-Mart or other box store taking money away  
from your local community, you have two entrepreneurs who will keep  
their dollars in the community, spending it at local businesses,  
making your area richer in many ways.

You can make a new zoning law that permits small (under $1000 of  
business or whatever limit you decide) temporary (that excess produce  
won't last forever) businesses to encourage youth to do business in a  
legal way.

Think of the repercussions if you were to be positive about this  
instead of negative--you might even make National TV.

Buy local!

Cecile Mills from rural California.

--> I added this to the post on the Back 40 website:

To the people who live nearby the girls' stand...go talk to someone  
on the Planning Commission. Hit the City Council with a proposal for  
Produce Stands. Research the Buy Local Food movement. Go buy some  
squash!

And consider the economic health of communities who sell out to box  
stores. We have a proposal for a 200,000 square foot store that would  
take up 19 acres of prime ag land just for parking. It would put 27  
local merchants out of business. We are fighting this.

When you support local businesses, even those run by children, you  
are saving your community from the economic drain that occurs when  
big box stores come in. Unfortunately, our local officials all are in  
favor of the big box store and against local businesses--perhaps they  
have been paid off! We don't know but we suspect so.

Here's the mayor's address--tell him what you think:

cityinfo@ci.clayton.ca.us


Cecile

seaseal@got.net

During the recently completed primary season, roughly 35 million  
people voted for somebody who was not a white man. Clinton and  
Obama's overall vote total far exceeded that of all the white men for  
both parties in the political race, combined. Think of what this means!