Congratulations to Monica Draganowski-Davis and the Charles 100 community for coming together and creating positive change for their neighborhood. Planting cherry trees is not only a "... symbol of Sunnyvale's more distant past as an agricultural town full of orchards and fruit stands" but also of good times to come.

In 2006 the hope is a community garden will open at the other end of Charles Street (near Olive).

Between the Charles 100 fruit trees and the fruit and veggies that will spring from the community garden at Charles and Olive, the pair will make marvelous bookends as we write a new history of Sunnyvale as a sustainable community--one that doesn't put neighbors' homes under shadow or intense reflection from behemoth buildings that go unoccupied, but instead one that grows food and flora to encompass the community.

Good job, citizens of Charles Street.

Josh Salans

Sunnyvale

Vector control includes
rats and other pests

There is more to vector control than mosquitoes.

Although West Nile Virus is the most pressing problem at this time and will probably get worse, the vector control people also deal with our problems from skunks, rats and other pests.

It's not safe or legal for homeowners to act on some of their pest control problems.

With our large population of roof rats and tree squirrels, if bubonic plague ever got started in this area we would have a real need for more vector control experts.

Ralph Eddy

Cupertino