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A10 THE SONOMA INDEX-TRIBUNE • FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019
discuss the city’s current policies with regard to discriminatory practices at a future city council meeting. The request will be discussed at the May 6 council meeting.
Meanwhile, Springs resident Dmitra Smith, vice-chair of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights, designed a poster to offer Valley businesses with a “We Welcome All” message.
Smith said that two dozen local businesses have already ordered the posters, which will be distributed on April 25.
“Portland originally made these and they are long overdue in Sonoma Valley,” said Smith.
Community activist Jen-nifer Gray Thompson has met numerous times with Ken Mattson to discuss his development projects in the Springs. While she said she disagrees whole-heart-edly with Stacy Mattson’s posts, she does not support boycotting of businesses they own, or those who rent from them – measures which had initially been called for by some critics of the posts.
In a lengthy Facebook comment this week, Gray Thompson described herself as having “outrage fatigue.”
“And have come to the conclusion that, for me, the best road is the tough-est one: I choose humanity, listening and compassion,” she wrote before speaking with the Index-Tribune on Tuesday. She said she will continue to meet with Ken Mattson and have “tough conversations,” but, she continued, “I will not dehumanize them in an effort to get them to see the humanity in others. The more fundamental the disagreement, the more
talking we need to do.”Meanwhile, Smith is
happy that she will need more than the 25 English and 25 Spanish posters she initially ordered.
“When they go low, we go high,” she said.
Email Lorna at [email protected].
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These posters, designed and printed by Dmitra Smith, are available to Valley businesses - in English and in Spanish.
BUSINESSES WHO WERE AMONG THE FIRST TO REQUEST THE ‘WELCOME’ SIGN (TO DATE)Barking Dog RoastersBoys and Girls ClubEarth Dance CenterFrame FactoryGlobal HeartKeri Halasz CMTLa LuzNH Beauty StudioRamekinsRepublic of ThriftReyes Legal Document Service Sonoma Charter SchoolSonoma Ecology CenterSonoma Garden ParkSonoma Valley Historical Society
Sonoma Valley Museum of ArtSprings Community HallSugarloaf State ParkSweet ScoopsTarot Art and Tattoo GalleryTLM ConsultingThe ReelThe Stinging NettleValley of the Moon Nursery School Yoga Community
Email [email protected] to request a poster.
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