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• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor

  Take care of yourself

  The Nov. 23 New York Times editorial on Medicare ignores two salient facts:

  1). The government cannot give a profit-driven health care industry ready access to the public purse. Medicare recipients should have access to basic care, at very low cost, through an HMO (and this should include dental and vision care). But anyone who wants state-of-the-art (i.e., very expensive) care, should be paying for an expensive supplemental. A truly ethical fix to this problem would require something like the French approach, and that will not happen here.

• San Miguel Scene: Sagebrush Days parade April 21

  San Miguel Scene: Sagebrush Days parade April 21

  The San Miguel Sagebrush Days Committee announced that this year’s parade will take place Saturday, April 21. The theme is The Old West, and committee members are hard at work planning a day full of events and fun.

  Plans include a peddlers’ fair, an apple pie contest, rib cook-off and quickdraw shootout.

  Entry forms for the parade and the fair are available online at Discover San Miguel, the community service district office, San Miguel Mercantile and Mission Antiques. The entry deadline is April 16. For parade information, call Miki Landseadel at 975-6996. Fair spaces are $10; vendors may call Mike Sanders at 712-9120. Put on your best bib and tucker, and join the San Miguel folks to celebrate Sagebrush Days 2012. Yee-haw!

• Come and help plan San Miguel Sagebrush Days

  Come and help plan San Miguel Sagebrush Days

  The first meeting to plan this year’s Sagebrush Days and Parade is slated for Feb. 9 at 6 p.m. at the San Miguel Mercantile downtown.

  Mike Sanders and Miki Landseadel are heading the committee, and everyone who enjoys getting together to put on a town event is welcome to attend the meeting, newcomers and old-timers alike.

  The agenda includes setting the date and event calendar for the day, sending invitations, coordinating tasks and putting out the publicity.

• Letters to the Editor 12/21

  Letters to the Editor 12/21

  Comments clarified

  I need to correct The Tribune’s characterization of my comments at the Nov. 22 meeting of the Board of Supervisors on the county’s Energy-Wise climate action plan (“Climate change a hot topic in county,” Nov. 24).

  I did say that when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to renewable energy, “the time is over for half measures and plucking low-hanging fruit,” but I did so in the context of commending measures in the climate action plan that are neither of those things: the evaluation of a competitive Community Choice Aggregation energy program and a feed-in tariff to pay anyone generating renewable energy when they feed surplus power into the grid.

• Culinary Corner: Late for pi day, early for Easter - still, whale of a pie recipe

  Culinary Corner: Late for pi day, early for Easter - still, whale of a pie recipe

  When deciding which recipes to run in any given column, I always look to events around me for inspiration. I had observed the 7:14 p.m. sunset on the vernal equinox, March 19, followed by the brilliant appearance of mighty Jupiter and lovely Venus with mighty Mars trailing them, and spectacular Saturn rising. That did present a theme, but no ideas for recipes other than my previous “Farmers Market Grilled Vegetables.”

  Then I found a note from John Brannon that I had missed “pi day,” as mathematicians are wont to remind us—being observed or celebrated on 3.14 (March 14) with everything related to pi.

  He set out a huge pan of Linn’s Ollalieberry Pie for The Cambrian staff, “… all of whom would fit inside a telephone booth,” as he humorously claims.