Random Letters: 6/23/22

Responding to Children in Need

Can we help kids in need? Sometimes when we look at the landscape of children living in the LA Harbor Area, it can seem overwhelming to try to improve the lives of the kids. It may seem like we’re not able to meet their needs. However, this is not true and to quote a common phrase: We can make a difference!

Before COVID-19, the statistics of youth dealing with depression and anxiety and struggling to progress was high. Since the season of COVID, our children and youth are even more weighed down by the isolation and lack of connection they have gone through. Many kids are struggling to connect with other people as well as trying to catch up academically after a lost year or more with no in-person school attendance. The nonprofit youth organizations, Freedom4U and Hearts Respond aim to improve the lives of children and youth in the South Bay and specifically the LA Harbor Area. We do this through programs in creative arts, life skills, leadership and service learning. I’m writing this letter to inform the community about an opportunity to help children at Point Fermin Elementary School, a local marine science magnet school, with 67% of students who are economically disadvantaged. The plan is to improve the campus environment through educational and artistic activities that are physically applied to the playground areas and overall campus. The benefits of these activities will lead to self-confidence, character development, leadership and teamwork. We are starting with Point Fermin Elementary as an example of the impact we could make at many schools. Thus, we are hosting Point Fermin Day featuring live music, family activities for kids and an opportunity to benefit these children. 

Again, our goal is to improve the school campus environment and then adopt another elementary school to do the same thing in the LA Harbor Area. We’re hoping businesses, individuals and families would join us as supporters of this exciting day.

Please visit our website for details and we hope to see you on July 23 at Point Fermin Day! www.heartsrespond.com and www.freedomcommunity.com

Dr. Greg Allen, Hearts Respond, San Pedro

Ivanka Takes Revenge Against Donald

Her foolish fascist father is a fraudulent liar, or so said Ivanka Trump in her testimony.  Donald Trump knew damn well that he lost!  Diabolical Donald is a dishonest, total phony.

Who in the Hell actually believes Trump won? You’d have to be brain dead to buy that stuff.  All the polls all along said it’s President Biden, and Joe Biden won in a landslide sure enough.  Trump is a loser!  

Deranged Don is just a con, and his violent lunatic goons just can’t go on. They weep all over their evil assault weapons, not for the dead in Uvalde, but for their guns.  

Kiss those machine guns goodbye, neo-Nazis! The fat lady Trump has sung, the GOP is done! Racist Republicans will choke on all their hate, while we the people all vote on Nov.  8.

 Jake Pickering, Arcata