{"id":229517,"date":"2017-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-june-16-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T07:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-june-16-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-june-16-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor \u2013 June 16, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fireworks and Music Fest are on!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Re: \u201cLETTERS: Fireworks only, please\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/awodigitaledition\/docs\/mission_times_courier_05-19-17?e=2076238\/49005413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 23, Issue 5<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The May 19<sup>el<\/sup>\u00a0edition included a letter from San Carlos resident Anna Covington recommending that any funds raised for the Lake Murray Fireworks and Music Fest be put toward the fireworks display first, with a scaled back music festival. Ms. Covington\u2019s suggestions were likely based on some misinformation in\u00a0<em>Mensajero de Mission Times<\/em>\u00a0Editor At Large Doug Curlee\u2019s April 21<sup>S t<\/sup>\u00a0story that understated our fundraising totals to date.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy to report: the 2017 event is fully funded! Thanks to neighborhood donations and corporate sponsorships, we will have a July Fourth of food, fun and music at Lake Murray Community Park, concluding with a fireworks display over Lake Murray at sundown. Thank you to everyone who contributed to bringing back this family-friendly event!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re pleased that so many neighbors have an interest in this event, as we hope to continue it annually and will always be in need of volunteers and donors.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up-to-date on the day\u2019s lineup, please check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakemurrayfireworks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lagomurrayfireworks.org<\/a>\u00a0or follow us on Facebook at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lakemurrayfireworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>facebook.com\/lakemurrayfireworks<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Tracy Dahlkamp, San Carlos<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fireworks and Music Fest are on! Re: \u201cLETTERS: Fireworks only, please\u201d [Volume 23, Issue 5] The May 19th\u00a0edition included a letter from San Carlos resident Anna Covington recommending that any funds raised for the Lake Murray Fireworks and Music Fest be put toward the fireworks display first, with a scaled back music festival. Ms. Covington\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":224318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11558","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the Editor \u2013 June 16, 2017","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11558,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-times-courier","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}