Garden Tour a Success
The Rossmoor Woman’s Club Committee celebrated a great success of its ninth annual garden tour.
There were 635 visitors who toured the beautiful front and back yard gardens of seven homes for $10 a ticket. The weather was perfect for a wonderful day of viewing flowers and bushes in beautiful bloom of many colors. The gardens were varied in style and in plants providing visitors with many new ideas for their own yards.
Following the tour, many visitors then stopped to shop at the outdoor store located at Shirley and Jim Lysnsky’s circular driveway.
As a result of the support and help of all of the above, we grossed $10,018, a new record for us. The net proceeds will be distributed to local charities including We Care and Interval House.
Next year the tour will be Sunday, May 19.
If you would like your garden to be considered by the committee, please call (562) 810-7139 and leave your information for a callback.
Margaret Paul
Corresponding Secretary
Rossmoor Woman’s Club
Parking memories
I read with interest Charles M. Kelly’s article about parking spaces replacing the defunct Shorehouse Cafe. This made me remember a parking situation I experienced in Seal Beach on Oct. 30, 2001. We parked on Ocean Boulevard and ate lunch at River’s End. I checked my watch in order for us to be moving the car after one hour.
We arrived at the car about two minutes over the hour and found a $35 parking ticket. I went across the street to talk to Officer Sommers, who was writing another ticket, and explained the situation. She proceeded to tell me I was all wrong and she said it had been over 70 minutes since I had parked. It is hard to argue with an official police officer.
I discussed this at the time with the then-City Manager’s Secretary Jackie A. Guidry. She was sympathetic, but of no real help. This left a rather bad taste with us (no pun intended) and we have never been back to the River’s End
So much for parking in Seal Beach.
Hugh Caille
Dog poop on McGaugh School grounds
There is a woman in Seal Beach who parks her white van on school grounds in the mornings and lets her three dogs take off to run wild, dig, pee and poop all over the school and baseball fields as she sits in her van in her pajamas reading the paper.
She did it during the school year on weekends and now does it daily since school is out for the summer. She thinks our children’s school i sthere solely for her dogs to poop on without having to clean up after them.
She doesn’t seem to care that the school holds a summer day care program and sports camp program. Both which utilize the grass fields. Plus the baseball season is still going on and the kids step in poop and holes that her dogs dig.
Every time I see her I call the police but by the time they arrive she has gone.
The other morning a custodian pulled up in his cart and she quickly called to her dogs to get in the van and drove off as fast as she could. She obviously knows that she is doing wrong.
She has to drive past a large sign posted that says “No Dogs Allowed On School Grounds,” and she shouldn’t be driving on the school property either. Isn’t there a leash law in Seal Beach?
This woman really sets me off. Is she such a mess that she knowingly does wrong as long as she can get away with it? She has a small child who plays on the field as well. How disgusting. At first when I saw her I thought she was an older woman, about 70, but her neighbor told me who she is and I am blown away. How selfish and inconsiderate.
She needs a big fat ticket for three dogs off their leash; never picking up their poop; and endangering the health and safety or all those small children.
I want every person living by the school to know that calling the police about her and others is truly looking out for the children of our dear community.
Tina Marie Coates
Seal Beach
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