Beginning this week in the Willow Glen Resident, Andrea Dorey will begin writing a monthly column about issues affecting older adults.

Dorey, 65, brings to the task more than 20 years of experience as a medical writer for such companies as Syntex Research and Matrix Pharmaceutical Inc.

She has a degree in creative writing with an emphasis in technical writing from San José State University and two lifetime teaching credentials. She is a licensed vocational nurse.

She has taught a number of adult education classes in nonfiction and fiction writing as well as writing television and film scripts.

She honed her special interest in senior issues through her involvement with AARP, serving for two years as a chapter president. Her column will appear in the first issue of every month.

—Editor's note

Cart vendors belong at farmers markets

Lately I have been seeing more street corner selling and now even the grocery store at Lincoln and Coe avenues has a cart selling items in front of it. I have seen this in other parts of San Jose, and it looks like a city flea market when you drive through those sections of town. They even go through neighborhoods selling foods and other items.

It seems that the farmers market is the perfect place for these vendors to be selling their wares, but not on our street corners or in front of the grocery stores.

We need to keep this under control or we may start to see street corner flea markets here, too. And I hope that will not get to be the case here in Willow Glen.

—Jeanie Lee, Willow Glen