Dear Editor,
I read with great concern the letter to the editor signed "Shoppers in Olive." My concern is twofold in that I first was extremely disappointed The Phoenicia Times would publish a letter without a signature attached to it. Fictitious names and unsubstantiated groups claiming to represent people only add to the potential for confusion and hysteria surrounding an issue. The means to solving problems and avoiding these things can only be accomplished by opening a dialogue between people - real people. Isn't it better to search for a solution rather than to stay in the problem?
My other concern as a Shandaken resident and business owner is being the target of a boycott. The residents of Olive have traveled a bumpy road lately, and my sympathy goes out to them. I hope the people of Olive understand that many of us in Shandaken have absolutely no desire to make the large parcel issue an "us and them" problem.
I will continue to buy my groceries, dog food, wine, flowers and gas in the Town of Olive. I value the relationships I've developed with Olive's merchants and I'm happy to help them make a living here in the Catskills. I invite my neighbors in Olive to do the same here in Shandaken, and yes, in Woodstock too.
I sign my name proudly,
Dave Pillard
Tender Land Home
Phoenicia, NY

Dear Editor,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Olive Matters Committee, the Olive Town Board and all the citizens of the Town of Olive for putting their faith in me as a new Onteora Board Trustee.
I promise the district my total commitment, dedication, and ethical outlook on all decisions that will be fair and equitable for the entire district. You have entrusted me with a position on a Board that I am confident I can work for in a very positive way.
At this time, I would like to also offer my personal endorsement for a Yes at the next budget voting.
Thanks, again, all of you who believe in my ability... I will be open and honest in all my representations of the Onteora School District.
Rita Vanacore
Shokan, NY

Dear Editor,
I was so proud to hear of our Olive neighbors gathering of forces to rectify the great wrong Olive has been dealt. While not yet a full time resident (at the rate the taxes have been going up, my husband and I were having second thoughts about that becoming a reality), we have not been fully engaged in attending meetings and voting locally. We had been, along with some of our city friends (who have lots of money to spend on the weekends) no longer giving our business, whether it be to restaurants, stores, etc. to any Woodstock establishment as a protest against the theft of our tax base from the resevoir. We were very interested to learn that others have been doing the same. We will continue to spread the word! On another note, do we really want the city to straighten 28A, one of the counties most beautiful drives. Treelined, winding roads add great value to our real estate and community. Check out the counties east of here in Dutchess or over in Connecticut, roads are intended to be narrow, winding,
slow and lovely.... A straightened 28A will cause hundreds of mature trees to be cut down, harm the environment, harm the animals, encourage speeding thereby causing more serious accidents, invite trucks and cars looking for alternate routes as 28 becomes more crowded with increasing developement. I know we will all be sorry. Has the city conducted an environmental study on the effects of such a massive project? How about a couple of speed bumps to slow down those who miss the 15 MPH signs.
J. Douglas
Olivebridge, NY

Dear Editor,
Lev Flournoy needs to learn to get his facts straight.
The re-evaluation in the Town of Olive has barely begun. Since that is the case, how can school taxes have gone up 60% town-wide when the re-evaluation
hasn't even been completed yet? The *potential* 26% tax increase for the Town was a ball-park figure given by Town Supervisor Berndt Leifeld at an OSC school
board meeting I attended c. two years ago. So, yes, the entire blame for the huge tax hike *can* be laid at the door of the Board members who voted for this outrageous mis-use of the well-intended Large Parcel Bill.
Mr. Flournoy also perpetuates the myth that the Bill was intended to 'equalize taxes between the towns in a school district'. Nothing could be further from the truth. As has been pointed out many, many times, the stated intention of the Large Parcel Bill is to average out the annual tax bill for residents of a town containing a large commercial or manufacturing entity whose tax contributions to the town vary widely from year to year. This gives the residents a chance to budget roughly the same amount of expected tax each year, instead of paying high taxes one year and low taxes the next. What part of this does Mr. Flournoy not understand? Since the reservoir is a stable entity, and the money from New York City is roughly the same each year, there are no wide swings to 'equalize', and the Bill should never have been considered in Onteora in the first place. NB: the money we get from New York City replaces what we would have gotten had we still had a commercial center. That commercial center was taken away from us when the reservoir was created.
For 90 years, the Town of Olive has borne the brunt of the fight with New York City for a fair assessment of the reservoir property. This was won in 2001, and the City promptly sued us “again” to lower the assessment. Olive has not received one cent's worth of help in this fight from any of the other towns in the school district. Not one minute of time was spent by any other town supervisor or board member to assist us.
The people of Woodstock seem to have forgotten that their school system was deeply in debt when the Onteora School District was created. The Town of Olive paid off that debt for them. Was that debt ever repaid? Through all the wrangling about fair evaluations and all, I never heard one word of thanks to the people of Olive for helping Woodstock out of the hole they had dug for themselves.
Mr. Flournoy is one of the Board members who voted to mis-use the Large Parcel Bill. In doing so, he betrayed the trust of his friends and neighbors, and now he's trying to get out from under the mess he helped create. And we will remember that.
Patricia G. Gerresheim
West Shokan, NY

Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to Louis Tolchin’s letter in the last issue of the paper. Our senators do NOT need to support Mr. Bush’s nominees to the federal courts – especially those who are right wing idealogues.
Sadly, it now appears that Priscilla Owen will be nominated to the Federal Court in order to save the filibuster. Priscilla Owen is, by most accounts, an arch-conservative. She is anti-abortion, anti-worker, anti-consumer and anti-environment — probably, G.W. Bush’s most corporately-compromised judicial nominee. I applaud any senator who refuses support for nominees such as this – they are truly doing their job, supplying checks and balances to a president who increasingly seems to want complete and utter control of ALL branches of government. Now that is truly a scary thought given G.W. Bush’s record so far. He has taken us to war on a pack of lies (thanks to the recently released British memo, we now know the depth of those lies). Thoudsnds upon thousands of innocent people have lost their lives because of these lies. The rest of the world is coming to the realization that our government is fast coming to resemble the terrorists they are so seemingly obsessed with hunting down. Our economy is teetering on the edge of collapse and Mr. Bush is trying hard to dismantle any social safety nets that might help us little people when that scenario comes to pass. His energy policy does NOTHING to help us become more independent of large corporate energy interests. His environmental policy is literally poisoning each and every one of us and generations to come.
Kudos to any senator or congressperson who stands up to this president – especially when it comes to who will interpret the laws of this once great country. I pray someone has the guts to stand up and say NO to the nomination of Priscilla Owen and her like and to hell with the filibuster!
Astrid Nordness
West Shokan, NY

Dear Editor,
So Rumsfeld accuses China of unsettling Asia with military spending and expansion. What hyprocrisy what about the Bush administration unsettling the entire world with its out of control military spending and expansion. I really think most people in this country and certainly through out the world are disgusted with the hypocrisy, arrogance, and out right lying of the Bush administration. There is still a lot of unanswered questions concerning 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, voter fraud in the last two presidential elections, the torturing of prisoners and those are just the major unanswered questions. How much longer can this all continue before something is done about it? If congress or our judicial system does do its job of really addressing these issues then eventually we the people will have to do it our selves. This is not wishful thinking as this has happen many times before in recent history such as in Latin American and the former Soviet Union, it also happen here in 1776.
Thomas Husted
Berkeley, CA

Dear Editor,
The report by the Treasurer’s Office of Monday the 23rd showed that if the County continues as is, it would be short over $23 Million by the end of 2006. In the short term, the County may need to borrow to pay for day-to-day operations. It is being spun that it isn’t a budget problem, but only a cash flow problem. On a personal level, the short-term problem would be equivalent to borrowing to pay for groceries. The long-term problem is much worse. The “cash flow” problem lies in the process and the policies that the Republicans follow now and in the past.
Ten years ago the Legislature faced a similar “cash flow” problem due to the mismanagement of the decade before. Rather than do anything with spending, the Republicans opted for a “temporary” increase in sales tax that “would bail the County out of its financial problems for the short haul”. The “temporary tax” came with an agreement that there would be a hiring freeze and property taxes would be held to under 4%. The hiring freeze never happened while the 4% cap fell by the wayside after the first year. Ten years later the ‘temporary tax” continues, property taxes rise at double digit figures and hiring freezes are implemented during cold days in hell.
If the taxpayer is to survive drastic changes are needed. A case in point is last year’s budget process. The Republicans chose to overstate revenues; refused spending reductions we offered and implemented a tax in the last hour to an unsuspecting industry. They also added revenue from a $5 per night bed tax that was never passed by the Legislature and if passed still needed special legislation from the State. That alone put the County $1.5 Million short. It was clear to us the hole they were digging for the past decade was getting deeper.
After much research we offered budget reform legislation that the Republicans balked at. Once in committee and after compromise on our part, both Republicans and Democrats supported the final product. When the vote came to the floor the Republicans voted against the legislation. The Majority Leader, Mike Stock, never said a word to me prior to the meeting despite his constant overtures claiming we need to talk if problems arise over legislation. So much for trust and credibility! When I asked Republicans immediately after the meeting why they would vote against badly needed budget reform the response was, “because we can and wanted to prove a point”. The County is bleeding and they would prefer to use their majority to play a game rather than seek solutions. It was ironic that after the Treasure’s dooms day report on Monday, Majority Leader Stock said both sides need to work together to solve the budget problem.
Although the press has covered the mismanagement of the Jail Project, that is only the sour icing on a spoiled cake. There has been reckless mismanagement all around. To name a few, millions was spent on the Person House with no plan to use it, a massive renovation at the Court House was carried out only to go back after the renovation to replace the roof, the fund balance was eliminated which may cause the county to borrow for the day to day operations, hiring freezes have been claimed while friends and family continue to fatten the work force. They blame the state, the economy, the flat sales tax, the cold winter and anything that seems handy at the time. So, what really is the problem? It’s the management stupid!
David Donaldson
Minority Leader
Ulster County Legislature

Dear Editor,
Should you shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:
57 Asians; 21 Europeans; 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south; 8 Africans;
52 would be female; 48 would be male;
70 would be nonwhite; 30 would be white;
70 would be non-Christian; 30 would be Christian;
89 would be heterosexual; 11 would be homosexual;
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States;
80 would live in substandard housing ; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth; 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education ; 1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 70% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish some place, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than more than two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
Rick Fortgang
Springfield, MA

Dear Editor,
I never thought I would ever have to take a position against something Native Americans want to do - even if only a few stand to benefit while the majority continue on in poverty. But what is environmentally and socially disastrous is a disaster just the same whether the perpetrator is Native American or is the likes of Gitter with his giant mountain-eating golf resort boondoggle planned for the heart of the Catskill Park.
The New York State Constitution says a clear No! to commercial casino gambling. However a heady brew cooked up by politicians, big money developers and wealthy tribal leaders has blinded the NY State Court of Appeals to the Constitutions' words and intent. So we face the possibility of casinos in the Catskills with one as close as the beautiful open space of the Winston Farm in Saugerties.
The same grisly list of environmental problems that follow in the footsteps of all large-scale development lies in wait for Saugerties: Traffic and increased air pollution, serious erosion from massive bulldozing, flooding due to runoff from acres of parking lots and buildings, drain on the local water supply, creation of countless tons of wastewater and garbage, visual blight and urban sprawl, the witches' brew of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers spewed on lawns and golf courses. There's more!
Casino gambling seems to have its own special way of exacerbating social problems. Along with the expected tax increases and the severe drains on the local infrastructure and services, comes lovely things like increased crime and the bleeding out of the local economy. Some minimum wage jobs and inadequate payments to the county or municipalities are all we get.
The thing is a giant financial sinkhole. What goes in a one-armed bandit does not come out until it's far from Ulster County. Along with understanding all these somewhat quantifiable objections to casino gambling, I have a deep personal dislike of this activity. In a horrified quick trip through Vegas and on a short cruise to the Bahamas, I have seen enough of the slack jawed automatons at the slot machines to last a lifetime. And the same for the tension, grief and anger behind the sounds of so many trying so hard to have a good time. Yes, let's certainly bring another source of ruinous addiction into our communities!
Casinos and Gitter's Belleayre Resort are not the way to a balanced and sustainable economy that would be in step with the way the natural economy (the ecology) works. And guess what has absolutely the last say in the matter of human expansion! I've said so many times slow and thoughtful development with expansion being in the form of quality rather than quantity is the way to go. If we use the natural gifts our region has in abundance with care, they will provide jobs and a good life for many people forever. You can't wear out a beautiful view of uncluttered mountains and the price city dwellers will pay to have a look can do nothing but go up. No point in gambling with the life of the goose who lays the golden eggs.
I would like to thank the Woodstock Town Board for coming out so strongly against casinos in our region. Perhaps this is one of the few things that most Woodstockers can actually agree upon!
Peter Koch
Woodstock, NY

Dear Editor,
This is a no-win situation in Ulster County. To forever change the climate of life in an area, one should at least consult the people who live in that area. To shoehorn outside elements into this Cinderella story is so blatantly political and so outside the realm of any mandate this public has issued, is to beg the question: Whom do you represent? Who elected whom to protect them in the "higher" levels of government? And who gets left holding the bag?
Please think this through; ask yourselves some hard questions and get the right answers!
Lynn Berman
Woodstock, NY

Dear Editor,
As the new Systems Advocate for the Resource Center for Accessible Living Inc. located at 592 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, New York 12401 I would like to bring to the public's attention that the legislature is scheduled to end in three weeks.
It is vitally important to pass into law Assembly Bill 2912 and Senate Bill 1672 known as Timothy's Law. Timothy O'Clair took his own life at the age of 12. This was after Timothy's family had spent years trying to access mental health services for their son. The limitations on health insurance coverage for people with mental challenges are restricted to what the insurance company deems as "necessary treatment."
The O'Clair's private insurance covered a few visits to the doctor and a brief hospitalization but high-co-payments and eventually forced to pay full cost of doctor visits which they could not afford. After Timothy's passing, the O'Clair's are still paying for hospitalizations that Timothy required.
Timothy's Law passed the NYS Assembly and has overwhelming support in the New York State Senate. The bill must be brought to the Senate floor for a vote as soon as poosible.
The great majority of New Yorkers overwhelmingly support Timothy's Law. A recent Zogby poll indicates that 81% of New Yorkers said they were willing to pay the estimated $1.26 more per month for full insurance coverage for mental and chemical dependency health care needs.
The proposed law requires that mental illness and chemical dependency disorders are covered under health insurance the same as other physical illnesses.
I am asking all concern citizens to please contact the NYS Senate Switchboard at 518-455-2800 and ask to speak with your Senator. You can obtain the specific name of your Senator by the web at http://map01.elections.state.ny.us/boe/main.asp .
You can obtain for specific information on Timothy’s Law by visiting the Timothy’s Law Campaign website located at http://www.timothyslaw.org/index.htm . I am available to answer any of your questions by calling RCAL 845-331-0541 during regular business hours.
Sincerely,
Thomas R. Siblo-Landsman
System Advocate, RCAL
Kingston, NY

Dear Editor,
Does the young American, who is shallow, devoid of character and moral integrity when he is sent to a foreign country as an American soldier by the president, then automatically become heroic and must be praised no matter what he does? Sartre said, "There is no such thing as born heroes; we make ourselves heroes by doing heroic acts and we make ourselves cowards by performing cowardly acts." Shooting at an approaching car out of fear for your own life and a lack of combat experience is one thing; beating an unarmed man, who is bound, to death, is another, completely different thing. Justified because they are untrained in interrogation techniques? Sure! Of course, the interrogators (in-terror-gators) are usually white, while the interrogatees are dark skinned and often do not speak English.
Everyone who wants to know the truth and can face it knows that President Bush lied on October 16, 2002, when he came before the members of his cabinet and congress gathered in the East Room of the White House and addressed the American people. Among other things the President said: Iraq still had the power to prevent war by "declaring and destroying all its weapons of mass destruction...hopefully this can be done peacefully. Hopefully we can do this without military action."
By mid-July, 2002, eight months before the war began and three months before this speech, President Bush had decided to invade Iraq. Bush had decided to "justify" the war "by the conjunction of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism," What you have is a lie, on top of a lie, on top of a lie and on and on.
But it is extremely difficult to call a president a liar when in office, especially whe he is always talking about God. Over 1,600 Americans killed, over 10,000 injured, devastated the lives of the wives, parents, children of the dead and multiply that by thousands when facing what it has done to the Iraqis, and a cost of hundreds of billions of dollards to the American taxpayers for a totally unnecessary war.
Bush should be impeached. Clinton was impeached because he had sex with a White House intern in the oval office and lied about it, but did not cause any deaths or cost any dollars. Yes, sex is a terrible thing.
Robert Jacobson
Mount Tremper, NY

Dear Editor,
Will prisoners housed in the proposed new Kingston prison be charged six times the long distance phone call rate to contact their children and other family members? This is, outrageously, a common practice faced by our incarcerated population, unbeknownst to the general public. While kickbacks to government agencies awarding the contracts result, the family, so touted as a value in the USA, is mocked! Contact, between jailed fathers and mothers and their children is stopped because it is too expensive. Does someone want to break the spirit of these people who are often in jail for want of money to pay a good lawyer?
Roberta Gould
West Hurley, NY

Dear Editor,
For those of us who share a passion for the Hudson River School of painting, the loss of Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits from its New York Public Library home seems almost as devastating as the altered New York skyline. This work is one of America's iconic treasures. It depicts poet William Cullen Bryant and his good friend Thomas Cole (father of the School) standing on a ledge in Kaaterskill Clove. (Intrepid hikers beware: you might get hurt trying to locate the scene down in the clove as it doesn't exist- the background is a composite of several Catskill views). Painted in honor of Cole who died untimely, Bryant is standing respectfully, hat in hand, while a lone bird symbolic of the deceased artists' soul rises in the distance. Could there ever be another work so uniquely identified with our corner of the world? I would have hoped to see this one day hanging in a Hudson River School Museum located in Palenville, back then the artists' main stomping grounds, or in Catskill (next to Cole's still standing house, now a small museum) or near Olana, the house of Cole's star pupil Frederic Church (it too a museum). But no such all encompassing museum exists here yet. So on to Bentonville.
And yet we should not be too sad. The thirty-five millions, a record, is certainly a respectable sum for which New York has agreed to part with this 'priceless' work. We can be grateful that this was purchased by an American possessed of the means to house it in an American museum thus preserving it in some measure as a public trust. But more than this, we should bear in mind that the Hudson River artists shared a nearly singular purpose which was to introduce and extol in images the sublimity of the American 'wilderness' to a people who had little idea of what their vast country looked like. By faithfully recreating their beloved Catskills, and in time the mountains of Vermont, Massachussetts, New Hampshire and the rugged west, those painters gave an early generation of Americans both pride and an emerging ecological awareness. That many of us live in the uniquely protected Catskill Park is testament to their powerful influence on later generations.
I would like to imagine that Cole, Durand and their colleagues would have been pleased to learn that our nation has been settled all the way to the Pacific and that Americans living in faraway Arkansas (the native American name would have pleased them) will now get to see their work and how beautiful are our mountains, lakes and cloves. Perhaps these Americans will be inspired to visit the Catskills as did their eastern forbears and contribute to preserving as a perpetual trust what these noble artists managed to preserve in colors on canvass.
H. Lee Wind
Zena, NY

Dear Editor,
(This letter was addressed to Judge Babcock)
I must write you this letter. Have the courage to read it and reply to me.
The people I hate are those that abuse children, animals, and judges like Judge Babcock, that let these people off. The Town of Rochester is famous for this. It took three years before Patty’s Angels came to court. In your court, Judge Babcock, they were convicted.
The DA, SPCA and Rochester dog warden wanted animals left at Patty’s Angel removed. The SPCA was ready to remove them. You have the power to see that this is done, however you lack the common sense for this. Ag & Markets law Article 26 374 C: Any person or persons that fail to supply animals without proper shelter, food or water is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, $1,000, imprisonment up to one year or both. This fits Pattys Angel. I believe you lack the common sense to hand out a punishment. Please remove yourself, the animals would like this. If you don’t understand Ag & Market Article 26 we will get someone to explain it to you. If you don’t want to handle animal abuse cases, call on me I would be happy to replace you.
Simon Ennis
Shokan, NY

Dear Editor,
People who claim to be presenting the "facts" about Patty's Angels and owner Patty Abezis, allege the abysmal conditions in which the animals were found occurred because of a weekend lapse of care, due to the arrest of the previous caretaker. It is obvious they disregarded the true facts presented in court via photographs, video tape and the sworn testimony of two respected Kingston veterinarians.
Dr. Avery Smith, with 40 years of veterinary experience, said his examinations revealed the following: Gracie, a dog, was dehydrated, emaciated and 80 percent covered with fecal matter. Tina, a cat, was emaciated, had upper respiratory disease, and was so severely dehydrated that her empty bladder could not be palpated. Several puppies were emaciated, dehydrated and covered with fecal waste; one had eye conjunctivitis, dermatitis and diarrhea. Dr. Lorraine Caliri continued the sad litany. She said that Rocky, a dog, had audible abnormal breathing indicating an upper respiratory infection of pneumonia. Big Boy, a dog, was emaciated, dirty, had interdigital dermatitis, with severely infected tumor growths on his feet. Semilla, a dog, was emaciated (an airline document recording her weight a year prior indicated she had lost 30 pounds), had blood on the back of legs from bloody bowel movements, and severe tartar. George, a cat, was so severely dehydrated that his eyes were sunken and his mucous membranes, normally moist to the touch, were dry. Several dogs were in cages so small they could not turn around. This is just a sampling of the veterinarians' testimony.
With regard to the conditions, the veterinarians testified the dog kennel was deplorably wet and inadequate in any rain storm, resulting in a water and excrement mix. There were no pallets, no dry place for dogs to lay down. There was unwholesome air, rat feces all over and very little food in evidence. Two cat pens were on the second floor of an unheated barn (in November) with no water at all in one of them. The cats were extremely thirsty.
These are the verifiable facts that convinced a jury the evidence did not support a weekend lapse. It is unfathomable to me that anyone who cares about animals would continue to support Ms. Abezis. These animals should be forfeited to the SPCA immediately and not remain in the possession of Ms. Abezis, who was convicted of 38 counts of cruelty to them.
Vera Sancomb
Port Ewen, NY

Dear Readers,
Our Editor Paul Smart has written the last several editorials we’ve run. That’s a departure for us as it’s usually the only privilege of publishing this newspaper I save for myself. To Paul and I it doesn’t matter which of us writes them; they stand as intended as the paper’s view. But last issue’s editorial raised a point I felt needed elaboration. We’d said we’re entitled to our opinions and yeah, in America everyone still is, so far at least.
We see it as our job to be totally straight and forthright with you in our editorials just as we are in reporting the news. We have no expectation people will always agree with us. But we do have an obligation to share in the one place reserved for this purpose, our views, unvarnished, on major issues facing the community. We’re not running for office and we accept that obligation regardless of whether what we say reinforces or doesn’t the prevailing majority view.
For us to do less, to try and craft what we say to make it as acceptable as possible to as many as possible, that’s not who Paul and I are and it’s not something this newspaper will ever do. We respect everyone’s intelligence far too much to try and manipulate people and we’ve no intention of towing anyone’s line. If that’s what you want in a newspaper you’ll have to look elsewhere. Because the way we see it, that truthfulness is a big part of why we’ve earned the respect most people have for what we do here, regardless of how often they might or might not share our editorial views.
Brian Powers
Publisher, The Olive Press