Thought you folks might like to know this... Carol >X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ >Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:28:27 -0600 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue Apr 23 08:28:15 2002 >From: "Sue Silver" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]> >Old-Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, "William Spurlock" <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, "Yubaco" <[email protected]>, > "Yoloco" <[email protected]>, > "William Spurlock" <[email protected]>, > "Viv" <[email protected]>, "Venturaco" <[email protected]>, > "Tuolumneco" <[email protected]>, > "Tulareco" <[email protected]>, "Trinityco" > <[email protected]>, > "Tehamaco" <[email protected]>, "Sutterco" > <[email protected]>, > "Stanislausco" <[email protected]>, > "Sonomaco" <[email protected]>, "Solanoco" > <[email protected]>, > "Socal" <[email protected]>, "Siskiyouco" <[email protected]>, > "Sierraco" <[email protected]>, "Shastaco" > <[email protected]>, > "Santacruzco" <[email protected]>, > "Santaclaraco" <[email protected]>, > "Santabarbaraco" <[email protected]>, > "Sanmateoco" <[email protected]>, > "Sanluisco" <[email protected]>, > "Sanjoaquinco" <[email protected]>, > "Sanfranco" <[email protected]>, > "Sandiegoco" <[email protected]>, > "Sanbernardinoco" <[email protected]>, > "Sanbenitoco" <[email protected]>, > "Riversideco" <[email protected]>, > "P.J. Reinhardt \(EDCHS\)" <[email protected]>, > "Plumasco" <[email protected]>, "Placerco" > <[email protected]>, > "Orangeco" <[email protected]>, "Norcal" <[email protected]>, > "Nevadaco" <[email protected]>, "Napaco" <[email protected]>, > "Montereyco" <[email protected]>, "Monoco" <[email protected]>, > "Modocco" <[email protected]>, "Mercedco" <[email protected]>, > "Mendocinoco" <[email protected]>, "Marinco" > <[email protected]>, > "Maderaco" <[email protected]>, > "Linda VanGundy" <[email protected]>, > "Lassenco" <[email protected]>, "Lakeco" <[email protected]>, > "LAco" <[email protected]>, "Kingsco" <[email protected]>, > "Kernco" <[email protected]>, "Inyoco" <[email protected]>, > "Imperialco" <[email protected]>, > "Humboldtco" <[email protected]>, "Glennco" > <[email protected]>, > "Fresnoco" <[email protected]>, "Eldoco" <[email protected]>, > "Delnorteco" <[email protected]>, > "Contracostaco" <[email protected]>, > "Colusaco" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > "Calcem" <[email protected]>, > "Calaverasco" <[email protected]>, > "CAGOLD" <[email protected]>, > "CA St Gen Soc" <[email protected]>, > "CA Historic Cem Alliance" <[email protected]>, > "Butteco" <[email protected]>, "Amadorco" <[email protected]>, > "Alpineco" <[email protected]>, "Alamedaco" > <[email protected]>, > "Andi MacDonald" <[email protected]>, > "Michael Kirchhoff" <[email protected]> >Subject: Senate Bill 2039 - OPPOSE the destruction of two historic >cemeteries >Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:23:06 -0700 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/10512 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 >tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,DEAR_SOMEBODY,SUPERLONG_LINE version=2.11 > >Dear Senator Fitzgerald: > >As you know, Senate Bill 2039 for approval to expand O'Hare International >Airport in Chicago, will also approve the destruction of two historic >cemeteries known as St. John' Church Cemetery and the Methodist cemetery >known as Rest Haven. I applaud your efforts to help save these places of >eternal rest from the horrendous task of relocation that will disrupt that >rest. > >I am a resident of California. My family came here in 1850 with the Gold >Rush. They came here from Illinois. California also seems to believe >that eternal rest is not truly eternal for, in the past several years, >many cemeteries have been destroyed or adversely impacted by projects of >modern devise. Much of the nation, as a whole, seems to be experiencing >the same dilemma, as is apparent by emails and postings to the internet. > >In 1961, the California Appellate Court ruled against the Superior Court, >the California Dept. of Transportation and the Federal Highway >Administration in their efforts to approve the eminent domain taking of a >portion of Eden Memorial Park Cemetery for the construction of the Santa >Monica freeway in Los Angeles County. The Court ruled that a highway >served no better public purpose than a cemetery. I would opine the same >should apply to the expansion of the airport. > >On September 11th, 2001, the families of over 2,800 people lost loved ones >in the worst attack the nation has ever known. Those families, Senator >Fitzgerald, will never have a grave to visit to help them through their >loss. In years to come, those families cannot take the next generation of >their family to visit grandparents those children will never >know. September 11th stole more than just their lives. It stole the >tangible evidence of their very existence. > >That, Senator Fitzgerald, is what cemeteries are all about. Cemeteries >are not just for the dead. They are for the living; so that we may always >have a place to visit, to "talk" with our deceased loved ones, to share >our happiness and our sorrows, and to continue the memories of those who >have been lost to us. > >Senate Bill 2039, will not only cause the destruction of St. John's and >Rest Haven, but will cause untold emotional anguish for the many living >descendants of those persons now buried there. I would encourage you to >continue your discourse regarding the adversity this expansion plan will >thrust upon the dead and the living. This nation cannot continue to >thrust aside the last homes of our nation's pioneering citizenry as if >their value is less in death than it was in life. > >Respectfully, > >Sue Silver, President >El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission >a California 501(3)(c) Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation >2551 Deer Trail Lane >Cameron Park, CA 95682 >(530) 676-2889 >Email: [email protected] >Member, California Historic Cemetery Alliance >Sexton, El Dorado Cemetery (est. 1849), El Dorado Co., California > > > > >==== SOCAL Mailing List ==== >Do NOT post virus notices to the list. Carol De Priest <mailto:[email protected]> <http://www.azstarnet.com/~depriest/>