Dear Editor,

From: Randy Evers
Los Osos

Great job! Love the Journal, am on your mailing list so I know when the new version is online. Great pics, great writers, great fun to read. Best publication in the area! Keep up the good work. One thing - where's the bird legs picture? It disappeared.

[Here you go, Randy. It is used on the Letters page when things go long, so comes and goes like the tide.]

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From: Cathy and Ray Myers
Atascadero

We've never attended or been particularly interested in opera. But with each month of reading your column on the art, we decided it was time to grow up and see what it was all about. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! We are beginning to love it and look forward to embracing this new part of our lives. The Journal is an excellent service.

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From: Frederick Shear
Morro Bay

The local fishing community doesn't really need more regulations, do they? You people toss out nice sounding words like "sanctuary" and "heritage fishing area" without looking into what is really going on already and killing our economy. Yes, fish need to be protected and takes regulated. Isn't that what is already going on around here? Have you looked at the docks lately (or ever)? I'm not in the business but have to say that is a good thing. Twenty years ago things were bustling. People were making money. Every day was great, going to the docks and watching all of the activity. Now there aren't half the boats, no jobs for all of the people who used to work on the docks and boats and some of these guys are even homeless now. I see one guy who used to always be working hard down there. Now he lives at the creek in a camp for people down on their luck. Can Morro Bay take more of this? Think of things you can do that will bring back a living for guys like him.

I read the Marine Sanctuary article every month. There is a lot to go through, but the heart is in the right place. Just not this time.

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