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October
22, 2007 • VOL. 45, NO. 18 • Oakland,
CA
Pro-active
precautions
I read the article in the Oct. 8 Voice about the fingerprinting
of diocesan volunteers. I think this is a wonderful idea and I applaud
the diocese’s efforts for keeping our kids safe. As a Confirmation
teacher for my parish (St Joan of Arc in San Ramon), I will be going through
the LiveScan process before I am a chaperone on the National
Catholic Youth Conference trip to Columbus, Ohio, with our youth group.
As one of the owners of Children’s Choice, the school lunch program
to approximately 40 percent of the Oakland Diocese (and now serving schools in
the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of San Jose), I would
like to have all of my delivery drivers go through this process as well
so that all of our schools can rest assured that we are pro-actively taking
precautions on behalf of their children’s safety.
Therefore, I am getting in touch with the safe environment coordinator
to discuss how I can set up diocesan fingerprinting for both of my locations
(Danville and San Jose). While my drivers aren’t volunteers at the
schools, they are still on-site and a trusted member of each diocesan
school as they deliver the lunches.
Keith Cosbey
Children’s Choice
Danville
Love and respect
What a shock to find the hate-filled letter regarding gays by Jim Crowley
in the same issue of The Voice (Oct. 8) as the love-filled article about
Immaculee Ilibagiza, a trusting child of God.
How many times is The Voice going to give Mr. Crowley a place to push
his views on gays? This is not the first.
I believe even going to daily Mass is no guarantee that you resemble the
Master who said, “Love one another as I have loved you.”
Mary Gregory
Walnut Creek
Ironic juxtaposition
It was ironic to see the photo of the Berkeley City Hall mural
celebrating the late Father Bill O’Donnell’s decades of activism
on the front page of the Oct. 8 Voice and the photos of the closing of
St. Joseph the Worker School in Berkeley inside the same issue. For
many, there is a direct and painful correlation between the two. The
closing of the school is a real shame.
Thank you to the Presentation Sisters, faculty, staff, generations of
families, and those pastors and parish priests who took such good care
of St. Joseph’s School through its many years of outstanding
Catholic education.
Jeanne Gray Loughman
Berkeley
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