Dear Santa,
I am writing to say thanks for my experience this past Saturday at MANA Foods. They hosted your look-alike elf, Roop, for pictures.
Everyone brought their own cameras. MANA Foods had a Santa room decorated with lights, wrapped presents, golden reindeer and candy canes hanging from the lights. The backdrop picture was in front of your workshop.
The people who showed up were celebrating. Christmas is a time of family, and these wonderful people, some with three generations present and others with children meeting Santa for the first time, came for pictures. This experience brought a warm, fuzzy experience to me, being the center of attention and fulfilling people’s quest for family holiday pictures with Santa.
Christmas is a time of magic, and I believe we all have some magic in each and every one of us. Gifts come when we share, and that was the gift I received: sharing.
Merry Christmas,
Roop, Santa’s elf
RE: Crystal Theatre
It’s crystal clear, Bob and Kathy Ezra seem to have a handle on the movie theater industry. Through their promised additional guidance, a new owner or owners of the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale will have a better chance of sailing through the tempest engulfing show business from top to bottom.
I am certain whoever wants to own the Crystal Theatre, a single-screen movie house, will appreciate the Ezras’ stewardship so the motion picture palace will continue to be a special Hollywood film oasis in Carbondale and Colorado.
Perhaps the Colorado Film and Video Association, the premier Colorado-Hollywood group, will do more business and activities with the Crystal Theatre. Its membership could surely use more Hollywood magic and publicity in Colorado.
Do think like Paramount Global, Warner Brothers, Discovery, NBCUniversal and Walt Disney Company chief executives and board members, whoever buys this Hollywood entertainment dream depository, the Crystal Theatre.
Emzy Veazy III
Aspen
Re: Venezuelans
I’m writing regarding the article in The Sopris Sun last week highlighting the struggles facing the Venezuelan refugees being hosted at the Third Street Center in Carbondale. I was happy to see the article focus on what is being done to help this group and to shed a light on those that are helping.
I would like to point out however that it’s definitely not only “sympathetic churches” that have been supplying meals. Many local individuals have been cooking, delivering and supplying the needed meals from the beginning on their own.
There have been donations from local restaurants to help lighten the burden of cost and that has been appreciated.
If anyone would like to help, I suggest reaching out to Voces Unidas.
April Crow Spaulding
Carbondale
Impact
As you know, at least 60 Venezuelan refugees have been housed in the Third Street Center Community Hall for nearly six weeks now in an emergency shelter. The impact of this unexpected use of the building, infrastructure and staff support has, and continues to, have significant costs. As an office tenant in the building, I have been witnessing the impacts firsthand. In addition to writing and calling town, county and state elected officials to request real, immediate, practical support, I also encourage you to support the Third Street Center nonprofit with a financial donation to cover these unexpected costs by visiting www.ThirdStreetCenter.net
In community,
Sarah R Johnson
Carbondale
Double standard
I live in Arizona and travel through Carbondale every summer in my RV. It’s a great little town! Everywhere I go, there are “NO OVERNIGHT PARKING”, and “NO OVERNIGHT CAMPING” signs. I usually have to drive five miles out of town just to sleep for eight hours.
Now, illegal immigrants show up in town, about 125 immigrants were mentioned in the latest news article, and they are allowed to park in their cars and sleep wherever they want with no police knocking on their doors.
And, I’m assuming the illegals have no driver’s licenses, car registration or car insurance. One would think that non-English speaking people in this country illegally would have less rights than a U.S. citizen of 67 years.
But it’s not that way.
Terry Ballard,
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Editor’s note: Many of the migrants who arrived in Carbondale, mostly from Venezuela, qualify for Temporary Protected Status.
Russ for CD-3
I’ve spoken with a myriad of disheartened, frustrated CD-3 voters. They don’t feel that an uneducated, self-aggrandizing woman in skintight jeans, with stiletto heels, packing a glock represents their mostly conservative, hard-working, middle class family values.
Their dilemma is that their other option is an elitist New York multimillionaire, who is backed by out-of-state PACs and funded by Hollywood and East Coast far left ideologues.
If you want to lose your pick-up truck, gas powered cars, gas range, freedom of speech and religion and your Second Amendment rights, then Adam Frisch is your man!
In cold weather, your electric vehicle won’t even make it to Denver without a charge, let alone a round trip! If you want your tax dollars to support unvetted, illegal migrant encampments in our towns and cities, then Adam Frisch is your man.
Fortunately, CD-3 has a clear alternative choice, Russ Andrews is a middle class conservative with common sense ideas and solutions which represent the values of our Western Slope citizens. He is an engineer and problem solver, not an attorney or politician. Russ is an active hunter and proud supporter of our First and Second Amendments, our law enforcement and military and our forests and environment.
He supports a secure border and swift punishment of criminals in order to provide a safe environment for our children and families.
Russ will fight for our valuable water resources, and will prosecute those trafficking fentanyl and sex to the fullest! He has proactive plans to achieve these goals and will solicit like-minded congressmen from both sides to pass legislation.
If you agree that we need to change the dysfunction in Washington, then vote for Russ Andrews. You can also contribute to his campaign by donating at www.russ4cd3.com
Dr. Lee E. Krauth
New Castle