Lowell H. Young
On Sunday, May 2, at 7:30 a.m., a commercial gardener arrived at our absentee neighborâs home and fired up his illegal blower. When I politely asked him to stop because the blower was illegal, he became belligerent and said he knew of many gardeners âusing illegal blowers all over town.â
I was put in a difficult position because of the continued failure of the city of St. Helena to enforce an agreement that was obviously negotiated in very bad faith; that bad faith remains to this day. There is no need to ascribe blame to one individual. What has happened was the result of not a single city official being courageous enough to take a proactive role to correct an obvious miscarriage of justice.