OP-ED "Wild River" reminds me of my dear Grandmother

   Last night on channel 198 on Comcast the movie "Wild River" played starring Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick.

   It was about the Tennessee Valley Authority forcing people to leave their land and how one elderly woman, whose family had been on their land for 100 years, refused to leave.

  When they took her away by force at the end, she saw behind her, the workers cutting down her large trees.  Then she died, as she said she would if she had to leave her home.

      I could see my grandmothers face whenever she lost a tree on her Hathaway Pines land, where my husband and I now live.

   All the memories came back of the first day I came home to find Mr. Michael Preston, whom I still to this day have never met, cutting down my trees.

   He and the Strohmeyers, Karen and Patrick, have now cut down nearly 100 trees all around my property, trespassing to do so.

   I could feel my grandmothers heart breaking that these "Neighbors From Hell", were destroying what Mrs. Strohmeyer knew I felt I was protecting for my family and especially my grandmother.

   These horrid people, led by Mr. Preston, (who has said he did it to "piss Donna off") because of articles the Sierra Sentinel has written about his racist and hateful behavior, and the Candyrock shooting range, using threats to try to get his way, and questioning his spending of campaign money, he has said were his reasons to con the Strohmeyers into helping him.

   My husband had refused many times to hire Mr. Strohmeyer or to give him money, and both Strohmeyers have been threatening me, actually stalking me, all documented at the Sheriff's Office.  There is some strange relationship, we believe, between Mrs. Strohmeyer and Preston, beginning when Mr. Strohmeyer went to stay with his mother.

   Before we began reporting the illegal behavior to the authorities, we tried contacting a brother, who is a retired prison guard.  Instead of helping, he encouraged them to get more violent and abusive apparently.

     And they did get more violent, threatening me that very day, yelling from their property when I came out.

   When there was $1000 worth of raffle items missing after Mrs. Strohmeyer was in charge at a children's function, she was never allowed to attend another meeting, lying about what had happened to the valuable items, intended to help children.

    She had told several people, including myself, that she had no money to buy presents just prior to the raffle items going missing.

    Mr. Strohmeyer had again been laid off from his job, he told me, this time because he wrote terrible things about his boss in emails to others involved in the company.

     Several people mentioned to us when we investigated later, that they had been given gifts that could have come from that raffle, and a restaurant owner said he had seen a fat couple who repeatedly used coupons he had donated to a raffle.

   Several of these people offered to testify at the time, since it was theft from children, but the Board, minus Mrs. Strohmeyer, was embarrassed that thieves had been in their midst without their knowing (as happens in many nonprofit groups) and did not report it to the authorities.

  (This will be continued)  And why the Sheriff's department and District Attorney do not charge them with conspiracy and stalking!