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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
News Alan Ward Memorial
Posted by Irene Messina on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:42 PM
A memorial is being held today for Alan Ward. According to a previous post by Mari Herreras, Ward was manager of the farmers' market that rotated from the Presidio to the library two days a week. He died Sunday, Oct. 18 in hospice care at Tucson Medical Center.
The memorial is being held from 3 to 6 p.m., at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave.
Read more about Alan Ward here:
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2009/10/19/good-bye-alan-ward
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Too bad the Tucson Weekly didn't inform their readers prior to the event that a handfull of sixties hippie burnouts were holding a ceremony for the late Alan Ward yesterday. I would have enjoyed attending.
Alan Ward did not conduct a weekly "Farmer's Market" at the Joel Valdez Library as you report. The several merchants mostly sold hippie jewelry and new age gee-gaws; occassionally someone might have had a hand full of apples (obtained at a local Supermarket) for sale. To call it a "Farmer's Market" is to discredit the dozens of legitimate Farmer's Markets which are a credit to our various communities and serve Tucson well
The Weekly has attempted to portray Ward as some sort of a "Popular Hero" for standing up to the "Notorious Mexican Flag Burner." A review of his court records, however, and the rambling testimony he offered at at his several trials, revealed him to be no more than an intellectual lightweight and drug burn out, more than eager to support the left wing party line and the continued Republican economic exploitation of Mexican Illegals and the death of hundreds of unfortunate souls in our desert every year.
Guess what Weekly? You are pleased to think of yourselves as an "Alternative" or "Counter Culture" publication. However; to the extent you present only left wing establishment opinion you are hopelessly "Mainstream."
Warden, the Notorious Mexican Flag Burner
roywarden1@netzero.net
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