Example Letter #2
HOOD RIVER COUNTY CITIZENS IN ACTION
100 West Cherry Tree Drive
Hood River, Oregon 97031
503/ 541-3210
February 30, 2001
Dear Senator Burlap:
As you know from having met with us on several occasions over the years (we particularly appreciated your serving as keynote speaker at our awards banquet last August), Hood River County Citizens In Action is a group that assists individuals in this county faced with problems are too large for the individuals to solve themselves.
We are writing you to request your support of House Bill 97-22, both when it comes before you in the Agriculture Committee and later on the Senate floor.
This bill expands the scope of the Migrant Labor Camp Law to include small migrant camps under minimal health, sanitation and safety standards to be enforced by county health departments. It is a good bill; one which neither places undue burdens on the farmers who run the camps nor on the health departments who will enforce the new standards. Indeed, our local health department has advised us that enforcing the new law would probably cost them less money and time than caring for the children in the camps who become ill because of lack of proper sanitation facilities.
This bill has widespread support throughout Hood River County, the 33rd District and all of Oregon. Without its protection, we have been informed that it is just a matter of time before the State’s inattention to this problem rewards us with an outbreak of cholera.
Please do not let this happen! Do let us know how we can be of assistance to you in securing passage of this most necessary legislation.
Sincerely yours,
Frederick Cares
Frederick Cares
800 Pear Tree Lane
Hood River, Oregon 97031