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Ainsleigh responds to editorial in ‘other paper’
Dear Editor,
First, I had to endure my wife dragging me off to Mexico to lie on beaches and then returned only to find that the Auburn Journal had published yet another in its series of “what’s wrong with Gordon Ainsleigh” editorials on the day I left. Inexplicably, the Journal had a problem with my announcing at the last Auburn Recreation District Board meeting that “for the remainder of the meeting, I will be snacking on food that is more nutritious than what we feed the kids in ARD summer program” and proceeded to dig into a bag of cat food.
My hero, Jesse Ventura, said it best. “So you’re telling me that when I got elected governor of Minnesota I was supposed to quit having a sense of humor?” Like Jesse, I believe that humor is a vital part of health, happiness and living to a ripe old age. Judging from current performance, the Journal editors don’t have a prayer of living as long as Bob Hope, George Burns and Jack Benny, but I do.
Humor can also be a vehicle for social change. For example, most doctors know that walking for about an hour each day cuts senior death rates almost in half, and greatly extends the good years of living. But we doctors have a problem trying to persuade senior citizens to become streetwalkers. That why I’m pushing so hard for exercise pathways and scenic trails in all the ARD parks. Government should provide something better for us seniors than the life of a streetwalker.
Gordon Ainsleigh
Meadow Vista
Thanks for bringing back memories
Dear Editor,
It was interesting to read Don Chaddock’s “Biscuits & Gravy” column about Lime Rock and Clark’s Hole. When my brother and I were young kids living in the old Highway 40 area about four miles north of Auburn, we clambered down the mountainside to that area many times braving poison oak, snakes, etc.
Lime Rock was a beacon. Going down was a job, but coming back up was murder. Clark’s Hole was the reward – cold wonderful water to frolic in.
I’m still a resident of Auburn and enjoy Don’s articles, his column and the Sentinel.
Dorothy Wall
Auburn
Rodeo is animal abuse
Dear Editor,
The annual Auburn rodeo spectacle that inflicts terror, torture, and abuse on innocent sentient beings is back. It is well documented that small hand-held electric prods are repeatedly thrust into trapped horses and cattle, delivering painful shocks. Undetectable metal “wires” are poked into animals’ hides. Straps are cinched as tightly as possible around tender flanks while spurs pound into animals’ ribs.
A confined innocent calf, unable to escape, receives multiple shocks. When the gate opens he flees in terror only to have his neck violently jerked at the end of a rope. While still stunned and partially strangulated, he is picked up and slammed again to the ground to be tied. If the lasso doesn’t tighten around the neck, it may wrap around the baby’s legs or stomach to cause even worse agony or injury. No legitimate rancher would ever treat stock this way.
These are just a few of the cruel events that the City of Auburn condones by allowing barbaric rodeos to take place within its limits. Promoters claim rodeo is traditional; however, there is no shred of evidence showing that livestock was ever treated so sadistically. Even if there were, our culture does not condone such barbaric treatment of animals.
Auburn must follow other enlightened cities and ban rodeo’s mayhem and atrocious exploitation of animals.
Mike Finch
Loomis
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