The Willow Glen Resident

Letters

Pedestrians not even safe in crosswalks

I wish to express my alarm at the speeding automobiles traveling on Lincoln Avenue between Willow and Minnesota.

I have worked at 1176 Lincoln Ave. for the past five years and have observed the increasing traffic flow along the Avenue. A few months ago a pedestrian was struck while crossing in a crosswalk on Lincoln near Minnesota. Recently, my 14-year-old daughter was crossing Lincoln Avenue between Minnesota and Willow in a crosswalk and was nearly hit by a car.

Action needs to be taken now to slow down traffic on this stretch of road. Speed-limit signs are not enough. We need enforcement and awareness of this serious situation to occur immediately.

Barbara Harris
Georgetta Drive

Avenue businesses should keep their frontages clean

I certainly concur with June Cooley's letter, "The Avenue could do with just a little bit of elbow grease," (Aug. 19). The Avenue is a disgrace in appearance: dirty benches, sidewalks and gutters, and trash all around. The responsibility of clean and neat appearance should be placed on each place of business. What is wrong with arriving 10 or 15 minutes early each day to clean and sweep the frontage of their place? Some people are very irresponsible as to where they dispose of trash, but businesses should check every so often during the day to clean up the mess.

Althea Dooley
Fairview Avenue

'Donations' differ from 'raffles'

For the information of your readers, I volunteer with a nonprofit, and we have had "donation drawings" for the past 10 years, which I believe are a perfectly legal way for a nonprofit to raise funds.

The key word is "donation" as opposed to "raffle." What this means is that the tickets must say "suggested donation," and must be given and not sold if someone requested it, although most people supporting the nonprofit will make the donation. I would suggest that organizations wanting to raise funds this way check with the federal and state offices of taxes/revenue to get the scoop, not the obviously self-important and incompetent Santa Clara County DA's office.

If the DA does not make this information available, then they either don't know what they are doing, or as Joe Guerra suggested, "the DA's office is overstaffed" and is picking at little things to justify its own existence.

Sandra Skolnik
Sunnyvale

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