Los Gatos Weekly-Times

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Ruth Barati serves as a yoga mentor

Thank you for your touching article and photos of Ruth Barati which ran in the Jan. 21 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times. I would like to say that Ruth has been a mentor to me in my yoga teaching. We both started out in Hawaii (occasionally at the same workshops with Indra Devi) without knowing each other.

When I relocated back to California, I was lucky enough to take classes from her for several years, and now in my own teaching, I pattern my classes after hers.

George Barati was also a wonderful caring being, and at a party honoring his wife, he stated that she had followed his career for the first 25 years of their marriage and she had led the past 25.

It is to the credit of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Department of Community Education and Recreation that they have had such a talented teacher for so many years. I know that she is an inspiration to all who know her.

Again, thank you for the positive article for a very dynamic and inspirational lady.

Dina "DJ" Cotton
Los Gatos

The concerns are different on the other side of hill

I am writing in response to Ray Elam's letter in the Feb. 11 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times concerning SummerHills' proposed development on Blossom Hill Road.

Maybe some of the 1,024 people who signed the petition [opposing development] last June would also be unconcerned about the proposed development if they also lived on the back side of the hill totally unaffected by the increases in traffic, pollution and noise.

They might be pro- SummerHill development if they had developable acreage too. After all, looking out for one's own interest is only natural. But there are hundreds and hundreds of people on the Blossom Hill side of the hill who are only concerned about the welfare and the quality of life of those who already reside in Los Gatos.

There are concerns about crowded classrooms and roadways, overtaxed public utilities and sewers. There are concerns about the level of pollution and noise. I guess none of these things would be of any importance to Mr. Elam.

I can understand why people who own acreage, or real estate agents and other self-serving interest groups might be a little overzealous about development. But those living close enough to be negatively impacted have a right to be worried. The people who signed the petition, including myself, are not motivated by financial self-interest, only sincerely interested in preserving what is left of Los Gatos. [Trimming the proposed 47 homes to] 20 to 23 homes will cut the negative impact on the community by 50 percent and preserve the upper part for all to enjoy. That is what we are working toward.

Sandy Anderson
Los Gatos

DeCinzo for whipping boy

Back in the good old days, a polite cartoonist would simply mimic the safest of public positions and not challenge or belittle the wise mandates of our local salons.

Cartoonists never considered having their own opinions and would never mirror unpleasantries. Like a faithful lapdog, the town cartoonist's oath was to express only the accepted and noncontroversial, aspiring neither to commentary nor to analysis. Satire was out, for it might offend! Cartooning was by consensus alone--as unobtrusive as a piano player in a bar!

Our wise elders passed down the edict that every town needs a whipping boy! So I'm inviting one and all to join me in nominating DeCinzo to that much-needed post.

Indeed, what better person to blame for all the world's ills?

Greg Hall
Los Gatos

Town needs better food, not pool hall

Who needs a pool hall in downtown or on Los Gatos Boulevard? Is there a group of people who want to change Los Gatos into a town like Mountain View or something similar?

I have been a resident of Los Gatos for 25 years. All we have here are small restaurants that do not serve high-quality food.

Why don't we make an effort to have a Spago's or Piatti's locate here? This is a classy town; we need a classy restaurant.

Why do we have to drive to Palo Alto or out of town to get some high- class food?

Evelyn M. Lecznar
Los Gatos

We apologize

An item in the Main Street column in the Feb. 18 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times unintentionally presented a member of the community in a bad light. In publishing an item that said Catherine Trobbe was taping an appearance on the Gayle King show in connection with Joan Perry's book A Girl Needs Cash , the newspaper accepted at face value that Trobbe had "been left up a financial creek" by her former husband. That was just plain sloppy journalism, and we apologize for it. We are sorry for any pain or embarrassment we caused Scott Trobbe.--Editor

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