Editor:

Years ago, I worked at a community college that was trying to meet the needs of disabled students. Accessibility was just becoming mandatory, and whether the students were capable or not, the college had to accept them. Our task was to make sure they were able to get through their courses.

All these students knew they had to work three times as hard to get half as far, and they all knew by the time they graduated that they would have a difficult time getting jobs. The interviewer would see the white cane, the hearing aids, the walker, or the wheelchair before he would see the person’s capabilities.

One profoundly deaf student was enrolled in Automotive Technology, and his teachers had misgivings that he would be able to get through because he couldn’t diagnose engine noises. One day a car came in with an engine tick. All the students took turns using an automotive stethoscope in the attempt to figure out, unsuccessfully, which lifter was bad.

As a joke, the last one handed the deaf student the ‘scope.’ He waved it aside and placed his fingers on the exposed rocker arms. Within 30 seconds, he had pinpointed the problem. Nobody else even considered tactile sense as an option.

Because accessibility is not 100 percent anywhere, disabled people have to think outside of the box. This is Mr. Bower’s trademark. Mr. Drennan has a tag line of “Experience Matters,” meaning on-the-road, behind-the-badge experience. Both he and Mr. Organisciak have insisted that physical experience is most important, because Mr. Bower can never achieve that. This is why, whether he anticipated or it was in response to this, Mr. Bower has had an undersheriff from the very start. It was never really about the undersheriff. It was about having an answer to his opponents’ claims.

It is also not about “having the undersheriff do all the work for the sheriff.” The sheriff’s job is to coordinate the different aspects of his office (jail, animal control, etc.) and to keep everything moving smoothly. It is the undersheriff’s job to do the daily assignments and to manage the road patrol. So while it is not necessary to pick an undersheriff before an election, it has been a bonus for the public to know exactly with whom they will be dealing directly.

As for me, I would like to have a sheriff who can anticipate and be pro-active, rather than reactive. I would like a sheriff who can postulate all the contingencies and be prepared, with a solid plan in place.

Before this race, I never imagined any county could have a sheriff who happens to have his own personal wheels, but after having watched and having talked to many people, I can’t imagine anyone better than Randy Bower to meet the needs of the people of this county.

Judith Larkin
Ridgeway

Editor:

As we approach Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3, I would like to take this opportunity to ask the people of Orleans County to join me in supporting Randy Bower for sheriff.

My name is Christopher M. Bourke and Randy Bower has asked me to serve as his Undersheriff, should he be so privileged to win this election.

I began my career at the Orleans County Sheriff’s Office in 1984. I was hired as a part-time correction officer in the Orleans County Jail. In 1985 I was promoted to corporal.

In January 1986 I was appointed to be a deputy sheriff in the criminal division of the Sheriff’s Office. I was then an acting sergeant in the late 1980’s due to the absence of a shift supervisor on the midnight shift.

In 1997 I was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. I successfully completed Police Supervision and Command School, FBI Hostage and Crisis Negotiators Certification and Criminal Investigator School. In 1997 I researched and created the first full-time K-9 unit in the Orleans County Sheriff’s Office.

More recently I was appointed by Sheriff Hess as the commander of the sheriff’s marine division and supervisor to the Stone Garden grant project. This grant consists of hundreds of thousands of dollars in Homeland Security money secured to protect the citizens of Orleans County and its infrastructure.

It has been an amazing experience working with Randy Bower for the last 30 years. I have witnessed the knowledge, passion and kindness Randy demonstrates in his job on a daily basis. Everyday, Randy Bower brings his leadership skills and problem solving abilities to work to keep the citizens and first responders of Orleans County safe.

I can say, with absolute certainty, that Randy Bower is a leader and person that can bring people together to get the job done. Randy and I have traveled across Orleans County for the last several months meeting people and listening to their concerns.

We reached out to people without regard of their political affiliation or social economic status. We had a message that I believe resonated with people. We want to make the Office of Sheriff as “The People’s Sheriff,” which is unique in Orleans County.

Our message isn’t about serving a political party, special interest group, or a few powerbrokers. It is about the people of Orleans County.

Together Randy and I will train and equip our men and women so they can serve the public in the best way possible. We will treat all employees with respect and dignity and demand professionalism every day. We will move the Sheriff’s Office forward, always keeping the citizens and taxpayers’ best interest in mind.

I ask you to join me in voting for Randy Bower, your sheriff, on Tuesday Nov. 3rd.

Thank you and God bless the people of Orleans County and the United States of America.

Christopher M. Bourke
Waterport

Editor:

The results are in on The Batavia News Survey on Wind Energy Support, as included in the Oct. 27 article (Vote Now: Lighthouse Wind: Supporters growing, feel underestimated).

Interestingly, the News Survey results (72% Opposed, 28% Support), closely correlate to the SOS survey results as performed in Yates (77.9% Opposed, 19.5% Support, 2.6% No Opinion).

By design, the survey respondent pool was not limited to only Somerset/Yates Town Residents, but was open to anyone to voice their opinion.

It is gratifying to see that the general population is, in fact, opposed to the specter of APEX’s Lighthouse Wind Industrial Wind Turbine Emplacement Project.

The positive survey result is welcome news. They serve to increase SOS’ resolve to defeat the APEX Lighthouse Wind Industrial Wind Turbine Emplacement Project.

Thank You,

John Riggi
Endorsed Republican candidate for Yates Town Board
President, Save Ontario Shores, Inc.

Editor:

As I made clear in a recent article in the Lake Country Pennysaver, industrial wind turbine zones like the one Apex is proposing in Yates and Somerset, would have a negative impact on flight operations.

As a former U.S. Air Force helicopter pilot, I can assure you that aviators – from C-130 military pilots from Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station to Mercy Flight and State Police helicopter pilots – will have their flight operations restricted in and around wind turbine zones.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not require wind turbine zones to depict each and every wind turbine. Therefore, pilots will not know exactly where each wind turbine is actually located in their mission planning phase.

Also, each turbine does not operate its own anti-collision strobe light. In most cases, every third or fourth turbine operates a strobe light. Also, the strobe lights are on the nacelle (hub) of the turbine, while the tips of the spinning blades could be 150-feet above that height.

So what does this matter? In daytime and good weather, it is not difficult to see and avoid wind turbines. However, in marginal weather – especially at night – these wind farms are very difficult to navigate around (or land near in the case of a helicopter) in order to accomplish the aviation mission.

If Apex builds 70 of these massive 570-foot turbines in Yates and Somerset, there will be a negative impact on aviation. I don’t know about you, but I love the roar of the C-130s flying low-level in the unrestricted airspace above our town. That would be eliminated if the Apex turbines are built.

What impact would that airspace loss have on the viability of the air base in the next round of Congressional base closure proceedings? Additionally, these wind turbine zones would make it more difficult for medivac or police helicopter pilots to accomplish their important work.

Respectfully,
Jim Simon (Lt Col, USAF-Retired)

(Editor’s Note: Simon is a write-in candidate for Yates town supervisor.)

Editor:

Plenty has been said about two of the three highly qualified candidates for Orleans County Sheriff.

Little has been said about Don Organisciak, the candidate with the most experience. If experience matters, Don’s law enforcement tenure of 30 years exceeds that of both Tom Drennan and Randy Bower. Furthermore, Don’s Medina Police Department service was gained outside the Sheriff’s Department. It includes 13 years as an investigator.

But his experience extends even beyond those 30 years. Don was a school resource officer at Lyndonville High School for two years. In that capacity, he interacted regularly with teens as counselor, mentor and disciplinarian. LC.S. personnel (plural) have praised him for the respect he demonstrated toward all students. My sister-in-law, Lisa, was just one of them.

A few years ago, Arizona was embroiled in a controversy over the so-called “Papers, Please” law. It was Constitutionally-flawed, to say the least, if it permitted law enforcement to ask for documentation with no more “probable cause” than someone’s appearance. Nonetheless, while such a law is on the books, law enforcement is obligated to enforce it, as determinations of Constitutionality belong to the courts.

As professionals, sheriffs certainly should understand such things. Picking and choosing what laws to enforce in not an option. For a sheriff, publicly defying the law is not an option.

Don Organisciak knows that, of all people, a sheriff must operate within the law. How can the general public be expected to respect the law if their sheriff doesn’t?

For these reasons, I urge the voters of Orleans County to support Don Organisciak for Orleans County Sheriff.

Sincerely yours,

Gary F. Kent
Albion

Editor:

After speaking with the fire chief of Lyndonville Fire Department, who has spoken with Mercy Flight crew members and flight directors, I am writing this letter in response to the concerned citizens of the Village of Lyndonville and the Town of Yates concerning the Letter to the Editor on the Orleans Hub.

The article topic was windmills and Mercy Flight. The person who wrote the article stated that if the windmills come into our area that our community’s safety is at risk because Mercy Flight will not come into the area. That statement is false.

The fire chief has spoken to Mercy Flight personally and they stated that they have actually landed in between windmills in other areas. The biggest concern they have with any upright structures is lighting. The biggest problem they run up against is cell towers not being lit up, not windmills.

When Mercy Flight is called in to transport patients, the fire company and ambulance crews are in contact with the aircraft to establish landing zones. The pilot prefers they land on a hard surface such as a road or parking lot.

Rest assured, Mercy Flight will always be here when the weather and availability allows them to whether or not the windmills or any other towering structures come into our area.

Linda Fisk
Lyndonville

Editor:

I’d like to say one last thing on the race for Orleans County Sheriff. There has been much said, over and over and over again, about the fact that Randy Bower has not spent any time behind a badge.

If you think it is all that is needed to become the Orleans County Sheriff, maybe people should know a few things about some former sheriffs. First of all, our former Sheriff David Green was not an officer and spent no time behind a badge or in the Sheriff’s Department whatsoever prior to being elected.

Secondly, our neighboring county, Monroe, had a sheriff (Andrew Meloni) that served over two decades as probably the most successful elected official in Monroe County (a quote from the Democrat & Chronicle). He started at the Sheriff’s Department as a part-time clerk.

So, just because you have a badge doesn’t mean you’re automatically qualified or entitled to the job. Just a little food for thought.

I support Randy Bower for sheriff whole-heartedly and will be proud to call him our next sheriff.

Margo Passarell
Holley

Editor:

Back in September, I wrote a letter to the editor explaining the importance of the process of electing our next sheriff. The election of a sheriff in each county is the equivalent of allowing each voter the opportunity to check the qualifications and experience of each candidate and select your next “Chief Law Enforcement Officer.”

I compared this process to a government body, like a city council or village board, interviewing and selecting their next police chief. In both cases, you are choosing someone to lead, in most cases, the largest law enforcement agency in the county. That is certainly the case in Orleans County.

Much has been said over the past couple of months about experience. Experience matters. In fact, experience is the most importance aspect of choosing our next sheriff. The problem is, that experience needs to relevant! We are choosing our next chief law enforcement executive.

In order to demonstrate what relevant law enforcement experience for a sheriff is, I decided to embark on a research project for all of the voters in the county. What qualifies you to be sheriff? What experience do other sheriffs in New York State have?

In New York State, there are no formal, legislated qualifications for sheriff. The New York State Sheriff’s Association, which is the professional organization of sheriffs across the state, supports standards that include background checks and relevant law enforcement, public safety, legal, or military experience. You can learn more about the association’s support of these standards by clicking here.

Across New York State, there is a very clear pattern of what qualifies you to be sheriff. Being a police officer is a start! There are 57 sheriffs outside New York City. I reviewed their experience and career path and found they fell into distinct categories.

Thirty-four sheriffs worked their way up through the ranks of the Sheriff’s Office. The average number of years of experience the sheriffs in this category have was about 33 years.

The second category I found was former New York State Troopers. Eleven sheriffs fall into this category, and all of them worked their way up through the ranks of the State Police at some level. The average experience in this category is 37 years.

A third category were former municipal police chiefs. Five sheriffs in New York State have served as the chief of a local agency before becoming sheriff. Another five sheriffs were municipal police officers who worked up through the ranks of their agency. These two categories average 33 years of experience.

Lastly, there were are a couple of sheriffs who don’t fall into these categories – and yet they are still have real experience – one with 20 years’ experience as a judge and another who retired from United States Army as a brigadier general! Now that’s leadership experience!

The point of all of this is simple. Voters across New York State expect their sheriffs to be experienced law enforcement officers. Not only do they expect them to be law enforcement officers, they expect them to have “been there, done that,” working their way through the ranks during their career in whatever agency that may have been with. During their career, they learn to supervise. They learn to manage. They learn to lead. Without that professional growth, they would not be capable of performing the duties of the Office of the Sheriff.

In the Sheriff’s race in Orleans County, there are three candidates. The candidate who won the Republican endorsement has absolutely no relevant experience. He is not, and never has been a police officer. He isn’t even qualified to be a recruit officer at a local police agency. Why would we elect him sheriff?

The Democratic Party candidate was a police officer, but has no command or management experience, and has been retired for over seven years! Think about how much things change in seven years and about how relevant any experience he has remains so today.

Only one candidate for sheriff has committed his entire life and career to the citizens of Orleans County, and has taken the necessary career steps to establish himself as the most qualified candidate. Tom Drennan has worked hard to improve himself and work his way through the ranks of the Sheriff’s Office – gaining the real world experience you need to lead a modern day law enforcement agency.

Not only is Tom the most qualified to be our next sheriff from his law enforcement experience, he has dedicated his entire adult life to public service through his over 33 years of service to the Kendall Fire Department. He is the ONLY candidate that adds that experience to his resume.

The choice is simple and clear. Tom Drennan is the best choice for sheriff. He has the best qualifications. He has the most relevant experience. He is the most dedicated to our public safety. He has made public safety his life’s work. He is MY choice for sheriff and he should be yours, too!

Joseph Grube
Gaines

Editor:

On October 17, the Orleans County Republicans held a “Fall Rally.” This was a very nice event put on by the Ridgeway Republicans.

A wonderful meal was furnished by the Ridgeway Fire Company’s Ladies Auxillary. Former State Sen. George Maziarz, current State Sen. Rob Ortt and State Assemblyman Steve Hawley were in attendance, as well as local officials endorsed by the Republican Party.

However, a dark cloud was cast over the evening. A night of unity among Republicans was overshadowed by a few (supposedly) Republicans. These few supposed Republicans made it very obvious that they were supporting a man endorsed by another party! Blatant disloyalty!

They apparently feel that the Republican choice for sheriff is not theirs. They feel that they don’t need to follow their party’s choice! What happened to party loyalty!?!

These same people will come up for re-election and will want an endorsement! Well, guess what, vote for who you want! Don’t publicly display signs for the opposition candidate while you are an enrolled Republican!

The NYS Sheriffs Association and NYS Corrections Union have both endorsed Randy Bower for sheriff. These two state-wide law enforcement organizations evaluated all of the candidates for sheriff and selected Randy Bower to endorse.

Republicans, stay loyal to your party! Vote Republican! Vote Randy Bower! Your Sheriff!

David Wells Sr.
Medina
“Enrolled Republican for 57 years”

Editor:

Just because something is legal does not mean it is right.

As long as you have had “residency” in this town for 1 month (and I believe that all you have to do to establish residency is to have a Post Office box) you can legally register and vote here.

Save Ontario Shores (SOS) was circulating a paper that had the headline:
“You can stop industrial wind turbine! In local ballots YOUR VOTE CAN WIN THE ELECTION”

In this flyer they are encouraging people to list a lake residence as their “voting residence” and their other residence as a mailing address. They give the date that the registrations have to be postmarked by and a link through their website for voters registration. The flyer then proceeds to give them the instructions for where they can apply for their absentee ballot.

Now, most of us have seen the campaign stuff where Riggi and Simon have said that their only agenda is not about the wind turbines. That is what they are putting out publicly but things like this flyer lead me to believe that what they and SOS are putting out privately for the anti-turbine crowd is their true agenda. I have a copy of the flyer they were circulating if anyone is interested in seeing it.

Technically, there could be people voting in our town election who have never been to our town as the law reads: “There does need to be some significant ongoing connection” but the only way to challenge their “significant ongoing connection” would be through a long, costly court battle.

I don’t know about you but I take offense at SOS once more initiating a behind the bushes attempt to undermine the wishes of the majority of the full-time residents of our town.

Spread the word! Get out and vote!

John Belson and Wes Bradley will represent the WHOLE town! Don’t let a special interest group hijack our town!

Thank you,

Susan Campbell
Lyndonville

Editor:

Throughout my adult life, I’ve mostly worked for non-profit organizations. As a teacher, hospital and college administrator, health center and animal shelter fundraiser and the like, the mission was to improve lives in the communities I served.

Almost 20 years ago, I stumbled upon many teachers and guides who encouraged me to work on my own issues, physical, emotional and spiritual. So began the path of my own healing work and eventually the founding of a healing center in Albion, Paradise Healing Arts.

My weekly column, Making Choices, some may recall, was published continuously for over 15 years across the northeast in many Free Community Papers like our own Lake Country Pennysaver. Over the years, thousands wrote to share how this column had helped them in some way. It was also a way I helped myself heal.

And next I embarked on becoming a licensed massage therapist. For 17 years now, the skills I have developed in this field through continuous training and practice have helped people of all ages in my community and far beyond to heal and become more vital in their lives.

Last, but certainly not least, I was challenged with a very difficult job as a single parent of a child who didn’t fit into any mold. Now a very intelligent and creative 32-year-old, he told me about 6 months ago, “Mom, thanks for staying in my life. If you hadn’t believed in me, always been there for me, when no one else was, I wouldn’t be so happy now.”

So what does any of this matter for a candidate running for town office? If I had not learned how to take care of my own physical, emotional and family matters, I could not devote creativity, time and energy to my community like it deserves and is in dire need of.

Albion deserves better. As a child, I remember a thriving, safe, enjoyable community; the smell of Hunt Foods processing tomatoes in the autumn, Lipton’s making soup for the whole country, Santa Claus School and Park where people came from around the world to learn and enjoy the magic, Bird’s Eye foods growing and shipping vegetables nationwide.

Main Street was full of retail shops, grocery stores, a movie theater, soda shops, shoe repair and newsstands, etc. Shopping on my bike for a three-dollar Mother’s Day gift was an adventure for a 7-year-old to be remembered forever.

If our neighboring town of Medina can be reborn, we can do it too! We can’t just imagine a thriving Main Street but more importantly, economic development and shared services that encourage sustainable growth; a place for our youth to come back to with their higher education or skills to make a difference.

Let’s work together, not complain together at local coffee venues, to make Albion better. Let’s clean up the landfill problem, the apathy, nepotism and misuse of our tax dollars and get to work. I have hundreds of people, young and old, across all political lines, who are on board with this way of thinking. Together we can do it!

Just as I have recreated my life and helped the lives of my clients and son, I can help recreate Albion to be economically, environmentally and socially vital once again. We can do it if you vote on Nov. 3 for Darlene Benton, Albion Town Board. Please vote. Your voice matters to Albion and the future of our children and community.

Respectfully,
Darlene Benton
Albion

Editor:

I am one of those despised “Lake People,” who pays the highest tax rate to support a “town with no potential.”

Unlike a current Yates Town Board member, who voiced this sentiment to a boardroom full of residents, I was born, raised, worked and raised my own family a few miles down the road in Medina.

I had some great Lyndonville friends, and my grandfather, aunts, uncles and friends owned tiny seasonal cottages on the lakeshore. I didn’t inherit any of them, but I always thought of Lake Ontario as our lake too.

I never realized, until we purchased a small cottage here 11 years ago, that the “Lake People” were so resented. Most lakefront communities capitalize on their asset, even if it is seasonal. They “make hay when the sun shines.”

In the eight years I have lived here year-round, I have not found Lyndonville to be the friendly, welcoming community I had hoped for. There are exceptions, of course, but there are enough individuals who degrade those who live on the lake shore, labeling them the “rich people” or “outsiders” because they are not 4th generation Lyndonville people, that it seems they have become the attitude of the community.

I, personally, am thankful for all that the Amish and Mennonite communities have brought to the area, and I am constantly taken back when I hear the resentment voiced by so many. I feel they are a huge asset, and I find kindness within their community that I do not feel elsewhere in Lyndonville.

I have met some new friends, recently, and I am beginning to see a ray of hope. Kind, intelligent, generous, hardworking people have come forward in the past months as we have seen Apex weasel its way in, threatening to destroy what little remains of the fabric of this town. They don’t toot their own horns. They do nice things for the village, such as donate new flags for Main Street, and they support every remaining local business.

The upcoming election may also bring hope of a brighter tomorrow for Lyndonville and the entire Town of Yates, by replacing what I view as complacency, cronyism, and lack of foresight; men who won’t state their position or vision for tomorrow, who look only for a quick fix of a dying town, by inviting sleazy, money hungry, carpet baggers with only one valid promise: to spend your tax dollars to pad their pockets, before they sell out and leave.

I will vote for men with intelligence, integrity and foresight. These candidates would never suggest voting for less than a full town board, as the planning board member, with questionable personal interest, recently did in a scathing letter to the editor of Orleans Hub.

Write-in campaigns are challenging, but certainly not impossible. Medina did it last year! I urge you to write-in your vote for Jim Simon, Supervisor, who, by the way, is not one of us “lake people.” He is a college dean, history teacher, family man with children in the Lyndonville School District, one having graduated as valedictorian and one salutatorian.

Vote for John Riggi, the Republican-endorsed candidate for town council and Conservative candidate, Glenn Maid. These men have already shown us they are willing to fight for this town. They will be on the ballot and require a simple X or a check mark. All of us deserve the very best leaders to strengthen this community.

Cynthia Hellert
Town of Yates

Editor:

We want to thank the Albion, Carlton, Barre and Medina fire departments for their quick and diligent responses to the fire at the Harding House at the 5 Corners Sunday afternoon.

It took quite an effort to contain and control the fire and they were excellent at doing both.

Karen and Chris Watt
Gaines

Editor:

This letter is in response to a few that have posted here the last few days, bashing the local government of the Town of Yates.

First of all, blaming the local government for businesses closing in downtown Lyndonville is not only wrong, it’s moronic. To name a couple, the Pennysaver closed because the owner’s husband was ill and, in her best efforts, kept the doors open long after she should have. Explain to me how that’s John Belson’s and the Town Board’s fault?

Another example is Crosby-Whipple, which closed due to the owner’s retirement. Again, explain to me how that is the fault of the above mentioned?

If you haven’t noticed we live in a very depressed and poor town and county. With one-stop shop box stores invading, our quaint and charming downtowns are in trouble.

I’m sure it doesn’t seem that way sipping coffee overlooking the lake every morning, but that’s the reality of it. This just goes to show you how uninformed some of the residents are in this town.

This board and its members are all dedicated to what is best for this town. These people have dedicated their lives to bettering the community. They have grown up in, and raised their families here.

I’m also still waiting to receive my SOS survey. Maybe it was lost in the mail?

One other note: I took a drive around town today and saw many, many signs in support of John Belson, NOT accompanied by a “Fear Not The Wind” sign. Funny, I even saw a re-elect John Belson sign next to an SOS sign.

Make sure to do your research next time you post an attack ad. I, like other people in this community, am more than proud of our current representatives!

Patrick McKenna
Lyndonville

Editor:

Election Day is drawing near. I have read the many articles and letters to the editor in support of each candidate for Orleans County Sheriff and I have listened to each of these candidates speak.

I’ve been paying close attention to this race and what I keep coming back to in my mind is only one candidate truly has a plan for what he would like to accomplish when he gets into office, and that candidate is Randy Bower.

Besides providing the public with a detailed plan – a plan he has been straight forward about since day one, and is not piecing it together as he goes – Randy is detailed, organized and appears to have already gained the respect of those who would be his subordinates.

I have heard ad-nauseam that Randy Bower has no police experience – besides the fact that he has 29 years work experience in the Sheriff’s Department and is keenly aware of our public safety needs. I am surprised that many people are unaware of the fact that the County Sheriff’s position is an administrative position.

Many of these same naysayers are the first to speak very highly of our former Sheriff Dave Green and tell us what a great job he did serving the people of the county. I’d like to ask these same people, how this can be possible, when Mr. Green had no police experience before being elected as sheriff? The answer is simply this: You do not need to be a police officer to lead the Sheriff’s Department.

Our sheriff needs to an administrator with an open door to the public because the public is who he serves and works for. He needs to be someone who understands public safety.

With 29 years as dispatcher for the county, Randy is more than qualified. Our Sheriff needs to be a leader that all employees can look up to, someone who motivates, inspires and encourages his workers. That person is without a doubt, Randy Bower.

Other candidates may claim to be more qualified, but no candidate seems to be as serious about being the next Orleans County Sheriff as Randy Bower does. If you have just one conversation with Randy, you walk away knowing that he truly cares about serving the people of Orleans County. There is no one that is more passionate and prepared to lead the Sheriff’s Department.

For all of these reasons and more, on Nov. 3, I am voting for the Republican candidate, Randy Bower, to be our next sheriff, and I urge you to do the same.

Cindy Oliver
Holley