Linda Foster
Age: 63
Occupation: Home-care provider through In-Home Supportive Services, artist, backyard farmer.
Hobbies: Watercolor painting, volunteering at United Cerebral Palsy, being queen of a Red Hat Society, growing fruit trees and roses, collecting antiques and old flower-patterned China, cooking, photography, travel, reading, music, bird watching.
Bee reader since: 1994.
How many letters: 13 since 2005.
Favorite topics: Environmental issues, disability related and home-care issues, attempts at balancing the budget by cutting programs and services to the elderly and the disabled.
Why do you write? To address issues that are important and where maybe not everyone truly understands the implications. To bring a subject to the attention of the general public, government officials and politicians, and to provide a voice for the elderly and disabled in our community who are not always able to speak in their own defense.
Education: associate degree, Los Angeles Valley College. Extensive units from several colleges: Cal State Northridge and Fresno City College. Fine art major at Cal State Northridge.
Family: Three siblings living in a variety of places; many nieces and nephews scattered around the country.
Political philosophy: I am a progressive Democrat with strong leanings toward environmental issues. We have to be in this together and do everything we can to keep the Earth livable for all those who will come after us.
-- Compiled by Pam Rowse
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