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What real East County property owners and people need is not another property tax, but a new hospital district. A true East County Medical Care District. Not a larger, crowded complex of medical palaces surrounded by exclusive shopping malls and million-dollar homes.

We need basic medical and emergency services throughout East County. Don't vote for more of the same. Let's create a new East County Medical Care District. Let's get some real basic medical and emergency care for the true East County residents.

Vote No on G.

JIM MELVIN
El Cajon

The trustees of Sharp Grossmont Hospital are asking area residents to approve a bond issue, which would result in an additional tax burden on the property owners. As a resident of the area before the hospital was built in 1955, I well remember my parents keeping a hospital bed in their garage attic for the needy.

This hospital was built for, and was paid for, by area residents. The Sharp conglomeration has now gained control of this facility, and pays $1 per year for the use of the facility. Its role as a nonprofit health care organization, and the focus and purpose of this bond issue, is to provide emergency care for stroke and heart attack victims.

After making a telephone call to Sharp Grossmont Hospital and learning of the financial contributions to be made from monies on hand, I am now persuaded that this is truly a needed project. The area has lost the two hospitals we once had in El Cajon, and now the future for Alvarado Medical Center is, at best, uncertain. We can ill afford any further loss of medical capacity. Therefore, I have now become an advocate for the passage of this bond.

DON L. BUCKEL
Lakeside