A Rossmoorian replies
Ms. Joyce Bloom inquires as to what the RPMT really wants (“Frightening Our Rossmoorians,”) Sun Newspapers Thursday, March 10). We want what most of the residents of Rossmoor want. To be safe. To protect our children and our pets.
However, to protect themselves and their pets, they need to know from what they need to protect themselves, do they not? Enter the RMPT. Ms. Bloom also states that coyotes eat the rats. So do possums, and they do not go after small dogs and cats. For your information, since the coyote problem has increased, I have seen fewer possums … and if Ms. Bloom has never seen a coyote, she must not be paying attention. I saw one running down Montecito Road at 3:30 p.m. one Sunday afternoon. So… what, exactly, does Ms. Bloom want? (besides getting her picture in the Sun)?
Ellen Odell
Rossmoor
Don’t force Sunset Beach annexation
As a longtime resident of Sunset Beach, I dispute Phyllis Maywort’s “facts” in last week’s Sun article. I’ve heard similar “facts” offered up by members of the Huntington Beach City Council and LAFCO, which are nothing more than opinions supporting the position that the annexation of Sunset Beach to Huntington Beach is in everyone’s
best interest.
In reality, this forced annexation has served the special interests of its most vocal proponents from the beginning, and does not serve the Sunset Beach community at large.
The purpose of the CASB lawsuit is to ensure that the constitutional right of every Sunset Beach resident is protected on the illegal taxation issue, regardless of their opinion on the annexation.
A favorable court decision would most likely result in a vote for or against the taxation (and therefore annexation) by the whole Sunset Beach community.
In a democracy, a vote by the people is how we sort out issues like this illegal taxation and forced annexation.
What we don’t need is having our constitutional rights undermined by those who would take away our vote and “save us from ourselves.”
Lawrence Crandall
Sunset Beach
Burglary at car wash stopped in Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach resident Addie Adkins witnessed an attempted burglary in progress while she was walking her dog along the green belt at about 5:30 on Tuesday, March 1.
She said, “I saw a guy pounding on the coin machines, obviously trying to open them up. I shouted at him, and he shouted back at me, telling me to “mind my own business.”
“I decided that protecting Sunset Beach from (crooked people) was my business, and I told him to stop,” she said. “I shouted back at him, just as he was shouting at me.”
This aroused the attention of two more local residents who intervened.
One of them took his video camera and taped the car license plates and the guy still pounding on the coin machines.
The would-be thief ran off before he could be apprehended.
Ms. Adkins, who would soon be 89 years old, seemed to be undaunted by this episode. She pointed out that she and other dog walkers do pay attention to what is going on in Sunset Beach and serve as daily “Neighborhood Watch” keepers of safety in the neighborhood along the green belt.
Janet Johnson
Sunset Beach
