Café 54 delivers more than good food
Re: the April 19 article “Café 54, at risk of shutting down after insurance cuts, seeks help.”
I urge our entire community to dig deep and help Café 54 with much needed financial support to ensure the survival of this incredibly worthwhile cause. I personally have been a patron of Café 54 since its inception. Not only does the restaurant serve gourmet-quality food, but the quality of professionalism offered by management as well as the staff they train is second to none!
I can’t express enough that the loss of Café 54 would be a devastating loss to our community, both as a tremendous source of “great eats” for the downtown community and as a tremendous resource for offering much needed rehabilitation services for many of our brethren in our community. Thank you Café 54, for all you have done and I hope and pray will be able to continue to do.
Joy Williams
Foothills
Mandatory sentencing should be abolished
Re: the April 17 article “Mandatory terms serve few, parents of jailed woman say.”
The Colleen Johnson story is a perfect example of the injustice of the mandatory sentencing laws. I know Colleen. I know that she had turned her life around; she had a job, an apartment, friends, and she was sober. Then a two-year-old lab test was finally processed and the county attorney’s office was forced to prosecute, and the judge was forced to sentence her to the minimum 4ƒ years in prison.
How is society served by this? We taxpayers are stuck with the huge expense of incarcerating her, Colleen’s life is destroyed because as a felon she won’t be able to rent an apartment or find a decent job. Her parents are heartbroken.
The Legislature needs to revisit this legislation.
Lea Heckman
Northwest side
Voters, do check your registration card
Your April 16 article titled “Good time to check voter registration Card” is important for all Arizona voters. Voters should ensure that they are registered, know their precinct, and the voting location for their precinct if they don’t vote by mail. I found that my voter registration card was accurate, but that the publication sent to voters by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on the upcoming referendum on Proposition 123 did not show the correct precinct number.
Thomas Hestwood
Oro Valley
