Patterson Irrigator

EDITOR,
The public should be aware of where donations go for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life.
Only 14 percent is going toward research. Twenty percent of that money is going to prevention, 20 percent to patient support, 16 percent to detection and treatment, 8 percent to management and general expenses and 22 percent to fundraising.
The American Cancer Society’s chief executive officer referred me to someone else when I called. Another cancer society official tried to appease me, but I expressed my unhappiness that not enough money was going to research. In my opinion, he wasn’t too happy about why I wanted to know of the cancer society’s allocations and how I got the figures. I believe many assume that most of the donations are going to research. Well, they aren’t.
I personally will no longer donate to Relay For Life or the American Cancer Society until they raise the percentage for research.
— Rosemarie Starcher, Patterson

Sperry construction a fiasco

EDITOR,
I recently retired from the heavy/highway construction business and feel that I must comment on the fiasco going on with the Sperry Avenue construction project. What is the deal? This has been going on now for what seems like years. The road is closed randomly, some days there is no work going on at all, and it seems that the progress is agonizingly slow.
If this is a county-administered project, it is the most mismanaged job that I have ever seen. I have spent many years working in the Middle East, where many projects were done by brand-new contractors who had absolutely no experience in the business, and the jobs went far better than this one. When will this dog-and-pony show be done?
— Ned Popp, Patterson

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