Berm to stay up
After the recent high tide/surf flooding, Seal Beach’s Marine Safety department secured an extended surf forecast and projected weather patterns for the next few weeks.
The prediction is a very good likelihood of more surf like Seal Beach experienced last weekend, in addition to projected high tides near 6 feet during the last week of March.
Therefore, the Marine Safety department is recommending that we wait until after April 12 to take the sand berm down, which would be after Easter and spring breaks for local schools and smaller crowds and less public interference.
David Carmany,
Seal Beach City Manager
McGaugh tennis courts
It is regrettable that the tennis aficionados are losing another set of courts. However, they stood idly by and let the city of Seal Beach take their courts.
We remember the sacred promises the city made about preserving the tennis courts at Zoeter. This was promptly forgotten and we have a strip mall to beautify the area.
The city seems to have a track record of eliminating parks and open recreational spaces.
Quimby Act funds were refunded to Leisure World, which could have been used for tennis courts and other parks and open spaces. Now the school, with acres of playgrounds chooses to eliminate the tennis courts. How does that song go? Tear down paradise and put up a parking lot.
Bruce Stark
Seal Beach
Main Street safety
A couple of years ago I wrote a letter to the Sun expressing my concern for safety at the crosswalk on Main Street in the middle of the 300 block.
I had witnessed and experienced close calls due to the fact that large vehicles block the vision of both drivers and pedestrians.
I had approached the city and been told that no one had been injured there.
I made several suggestions as to how it could be made safer, including placing a sign in the middle of the street. I felt discouraged by this response, but at least I had tried.
What a wonderful surprise to discover the appearance of a sign recently.
Several times since it went up I have stopped to watch and cars really do slow down and pay attention to the crosswalk in a way that they never did before.
Although I would like to think I had something to do with this, given the timing I have to wonder if its appearance is due to the fatality at PCH. I certainly was not given any encouragement when I approached the city with my concerns.
However, I am most grateful for the installation of this sign and suggest that they be placed in the other two mid-block crosswalks on Main Street.
Ann McGlone
Seal Beach
