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Response to ‘Manufactured Fight’ 

My name is Sharon Posa. I was interviewed by Mr. Matt Cortina on July 7, 2015 over the telephone for his article “The Manufactured Fight.” I believe that some of my words were corrupted in the article. Specifically, I refer to the paragraph in the article that reads: “Posa says Allen told her not to tell management that she was interested in Allen’s home…” I believe that I made it abundantly clear to Mr. Cortina that I was unclear whether Mr. Allen told me not to tell management that I was interested in Mr. Allen’s home. In fact, I told Mr. Cortina that even if Mr. Allen had told me not to tell management on Sunday, April 26th when I first viewed the home and put down the earnest money, Mr. Allen had decided on Monday morning April 27th to tell the management that he had a buyer for his home and did so. I had already been in to see the management and picked up the residency application, and I did not mention that I had put down earnest money on Mr. Allen’s home about 30 minutes prior to Mr. Allen’s disclosure to the management.

Another point of contention that occurred when I read Mr. Cortina’s article is with the paragraph which begins: “This is all beside the point that in the lease signed by Allen and all other Vista Village owners…” Mr. Cortina never asked me about my lease. My lease reads: “A mobile home already located in vista village (sic) must meet all of the following requirements, with the exception of size and age, in order to be able to be sold on space. it (sic) must be inspectseeed and approved in writing by management prior to being placed on the market. management (sic) reserves the absolute and unqualified right to approve or reject the request to sell any mobile home in a manner that would allow it to remain located in vista village (sic). the (sic) resident acknowledges that the sale of the mobile home does not include a sublet, assignment or transfer of right to lease the space. a (sic) new and separate lease agreement must be entered into with vista village (sic) by the proposed buyer.” Perhaps my lease is missing the page that states: “Lessee agrees that if he should sell a mobile home located on the leased premises, the sales agreement will provide for delivery of the mobile home to the buyer at some location outside of and not within the Vista Village boundary?” I will speak with the management as this is no where in my copy of my lease given to me by the management on May 11, 2015.

Finally, Mr. Cortina was incorrect when he wrote “Miller called Posa again after the sale was complete and asked her to write another letter.” Mr. Miller asked me to write another letter on May 4, 2015 after the application for residency to Vista Village for my husband and I was approved. We did not close on the sale of the mobile home until May 11, 2015.

The rest of my quotes in Mr. Cortina’s article are accurate. I respectfully request that you print the part of this letter regarding the corruption of my words in reference to Mr. Cortina’s incorrect statement: “Posa says Allen told her not to tell management that she was interested in Allen’s home.” Thank you for your time.

Sharon Posa/Boulder

Editor’s note: As to the article’s statement; “Posa says Allen told her not to tell management that she was interested in Allen’s home,” Posa’s actual quote, as written in the article, ends, “because he and his wife had poor relations with the park management, and he thought that it may hinder the passing of our application, but that was just my impression” As a point of clarity, the article’s sentence, “This is all beside the point that in the lease signed by Allen and all other Vista Village owners,” was clearly attributed to the retelling of Allen’s lease, as Posa was not introduced into the story yet, nor was her presence implied. It appears that this policy was changed for Posa’s lease, which was not relevant to the reporting regarding the sale from Allen to Posa.

Correction: BW reported that “Miller called Posa again after the sale was complete and asked her to write another letter.” It should have read “after the application for residency to Vista Village was complete” not after the sale, which occurred seven days later.

Someone with a different opinion 

In a recent column by Michael Casey, he claims that because Badlands was recently shown at a Denver theatre that “America has an obsession with angry white men.” In order to prove his point, he quotes from another decadesold film, Goodfellas. Absurdity aside, Mr. Casey should probably recant and recognize that the obsession might be his own.

Kathleen Kryczka/Boulder

Bird Flu devastating U.S. egg industry 

The U.S. egg industry is reeling from a colossal outbreak of avian flu, mostly among egg-laying chickens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 48 million birds, accounting for 11 percent of the nation’s egglaying hens, have been slaughtered for fear of infection during the past few months.

The effects are far-reaching, from how to dispose of millions of potentially infected bird carcasses to job losses and rapidly rising egg prices. More than 40 countries have restricted U.S. poultry imports.

Although the precise cause of the outbreak remains uncertain, the horrendous conditions in today’s factory farms make egg and chicken production extremely vulnerable to disease outbreaks, and therefore, not sustainable.

A number of innovative companies have stepped in to offer plant-based alternatives that mimic closely the taste, texture, and cooking properties of eggs and chicken. They are available in the frozen-food section of every supermarket.

Many of us favor replacing polluting fossil energy sources with clean renewable ones. That takes concerted national action. But every one of us has the power to effect that same transition for our food sources every time we shop for food.

Rudolph Helman/Boulder