Greetings!
For those of you who feel really good about giving your hard earned cash to pandhandlers in downtown Sebastopol: Please know that they not only use the money to buy booze for themselves (which I don't care about), but to share it with minors.
A few weeks ago, a few of us saw 3 old guys drinking out of bottles of booze and passing it to kids not older than about 15 - 16 in the downtown area at night. They may not have been your kids, but they were children none the less.
May I suggest:
1) Giving food, instead of cash.
2) Giving money to a restaurant, letting the person choose whatever they would like to eat or drink, w/ the difference being left as a tip for the server.
Thank you!
Larysa