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Letters
DeCinzo's cartooning is right on the money
DeCinzo, you're terrific. Your satire is always right on the money. Saratogans are truly blessed to enjoy (or not) the benefits of your wit and insight. You keep the city officials' feet to the fire, as they should be.
Good job, and thanks from all of us who really appreciate your outstanding work.
Jim Adams
Quito Road
Deer are driving residents crazy
Thanks for the excellent article "Deerly Beloved." The Tollgate residents have our sympathy, but they are not alone. Farwell Avenue is not in the mountains, and deer are a plague.
The familiar "Green" response, that "Humans have invaded deer habitat," is simply wrong. For most of the last century the Santa Cruz Mountains were full of apple orchards (including Montalvo, too) and prune and apricot orchards were here on the lower ground. None of them were fenced. If a deer was foolish enough to wander into this area it would usually wind up on someone's dinner table.
I never saw a deer in the first 25 years we lived on Farwell; the invasion began about 15 years ago. But the popular sympathy has shifted over to the side of the animals, and I would not dare even throw a rock at them. One has to practice what I call "cage gardening." Guess who is inside the cage?
Can it get worse? Oh, yes. Two years ago in September we were dinner guests at the Monterey Peninsula Golf Club. Rutting season was underway and on the lighted fairway outside the dining room I counted over 50 does which had been rounded up by two large bucks. What followed was not what I would choose to watch at dinner, but the other people in the dining room seemed quite used to it. When we left our hosts' home later that evening I had to drive very slowly down their street, pushing my way through a dozen or so deer which were reluctant to move out of its path.
In answer to the question "Is everybody crazy?" I would have to answer, "Apparently so."
Robert H. Dwyer
Farwell Avenue
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