Giving beyond the holiday season
I have an idea for next Christmas season.
Every year we all get gifts that we just don’t want or can’t use, and they are either so insignificant to us that it’s not worth the trouble of returning, or we just don’t want to hurt the giver’s feelings.
Prior to Christmas there are Toys for Tots and other bins set up around town. How about we set up bins around town for post-holiday gift drops … everyone can donate those unwanted bottles of bath gel and gift cards and they can be donated to women’s shelters or the like.
Or someone could organize a giant post-Christmas yard sale with these items – selling everything for $1 each – and donate the money to the Seal Beach Animal Care Center. It could become a Seal Beach tradition!
As I put my well-intentioned but misdirected gifts into a bag for pick up by the charity truck again this year, I know many more people are doing the same thing, and wish we could harness the power of the masses into donations that benefit our local causes.
Debbie Fawcett
Seal Beach
Leisure Worlders payout
“What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul.”—Holy Bible
Since Dan Schaeffer, administrator at Seal Beach Leisure World is presumably not going to be doing as much “work?” next year and since we have discovered he didn’t even have a ”legitimate” contract for the past several years, shouldn’t his salary be reduced?
And when our employees receive more than city employees why should we have to pay them still more (as though we are all wealthy?)
Is the woman who failed to pay the property taxes getting a raise? I heard she is! And since keeping Schaeffer and giving him a new name and new contract is said to be Barratts and Fuquas idea, I think they should be the ones covering these absurd added costs to shareholders.
Someone recently said this place (Leisure World) is run like an insane asylum. I agree. And the five craziest inmates are running the show!
We can’t put legitimate letters of what’s going on in Leisure World in our own newspaper which is paid for by US.
We pay for empty buses to drive around and around all day long adding huge insurance, gas, up-keep, and driver costs to our monthly fees. We pay for all of our unqualified and incompetent employees including double billing and absurd screw ups (such as the late taxes.)
Is all the above (and more) a scam to bring Leisure World down? It’s working. If we don’t get integrity and truth in here soon, we are doomed.
Thanks for yours and all those in the GRF Board who vote for honesty, intelligence and integrity, those who took a vow of fiduciary duty to the shareholders and are sticking to it.
Shalla Callahan
Leisure World
City needs input on Seal Beach Coastal Plan
Seals on Seal Beach?
Seal Beach Coastal Protection Plan Evolving: Community Input Sought.
What will Seal Beach’s coast look like in 2050? What will the city’s amenities be? Tourism, hospitality, and recreation are all import facets of California‚s coastal economy and life style. They are also all important contributors to Seal Beach’s economy and life style. Local planning has been extended to include protection of the economic and aesthetic values of our part of the coast.
Planners need input from you, the community˜ residents and business owners. Who are the local planners? Each City Council member appointed representatives from his/her district to a Citizens Advisory Committee.
The committee is chaired by Ellery Deaton, 1st District council person, and staffed by Mark Persico, development director.
The committee meets in the City Hall Council Cambers on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Community attendance is encouraged at the next meeting, January 10. Verbal comments are limited to five minutes.
How can residents and others concerned about preserving our local coast help? What are your concerns about local coastal protection?
What are your visionary ideas about Seal Beach‚s coast in 2050? What about the need for open space and protection of our natural resources? What should we have that we don’t have now? What is important to you and generations to follow? Should there be diamond lanes on Ocean?
What needs to be provided to maintain the local economy attributed to tourism?
Some possible examples: walking nature trails that are a continuation of the California coastal trail, a nature center/aquarium, pier signage about fish and bird species, teen community service for nature, etc.
Put your footprints in the sands of time for the future Seal Beach coast. Give us your input. Questions or for more information: contact Mark Persico at 562.433.2527 x1315,
Surf, swim, sun, play, “Clean, green, natural.“
Bruce Monroe
Seal Beach
