Pinewood Derby
It was with great joy that I saw the front page of the Sun Newspapers on April 19, 2012 with “Scouts Prepare for Pinewood Derby.” In 1985 Frank Corbin and I picked up an unwanted Pinewood Derby track in Westminster for Pack 116. Frank stored it for many years.
I am sure the track has been redone but the Scout Spirit lives on. Great job!
Vic Peterson
Pack 116 Scoutmaster
1985-1991
Pet Story, BabaLoo
Thanks to Dennis and Nancy Tripp for the wonderful story about BabaLoo, how they rescued him and turned him into an inside cat, and for the message regarding the importance of spaying and neutering.
As a cat volunteer and Board Member for the Seal Beach Animal Care Center, this is particularly relevant for me. Every year the Care Center must take in hundreds of unwanted stray cats and kittens because someone didn’t bother to get them altered. The Care Center will loan humane traps and offer resources to get cats spayed or neutered at low, or even no, cost.
As Seal Beach residents for more than 27 years, my husband and I have also brought cats into our home that were left to fend for themselves outdoors.
Two of them had “families,” but they were not allowed in the house.
After having two neighbor cats killed by coyotes and two others in the area poisoned by a cruel, uncaring person, it became clear that outside is no place for a domestic cat, especially at night.
Dee Carey
Seal Beach
McGaugh school not a toilet
Why do the neighboring residents believe that McGaugh Elementary School is their dog’s toilet?
Every morning and every evening, several residents frequently allow their dogs to run free and poop on the school grass fields. Most of them do not pick it up afterwards.
Everyday during school recesses, the teachers are forced to clean dog poop off of children’s shoes and clothes.
Every afternoon and all day Saturday during baseball games, parents are forced to clean dog poop off of their shoes and the shoes of their children.
Allowing your dog on school grounds is against the law and is posted at every entrance to the school. And no one ever enforces it.
The city of Seal Beach makes a lot of noise about dogs barking, and does nothing about the health risks and just plain stupidity of these dog owners. Don’t they realize that 5-year-old children roll in the grass? Seriously, why doesn’t the animal control get rich from writing these morons citations? One particular couple, an older one with no school age children, that live in the coves, drive their white van onto the school grounds and read the newspaper while their dogs crap everywhere. Then call them back and drive home.
The other morning a man was walking three dogs at 5:30 a.m. in the dark, allowing them free reign to dig and poop. He scuttled off immediately when the custodian pulled up next to him. Guilty as sin and knowing it, he ran. His dogs had crapped and dug huge holes in the field.
My friend has worked there 20 years and says it has never changed and no one seems to care.
He constantly asks the neighbors not to walk their dogs on school grounds but says they ignore him.
So I would like to know how the Seal Beach Police, the Los Alamitos School District and the animal control officers feel about this.
Does anyone care that our small children play in Seal Beach’s biggest dog toilet?
Let these dog owners know. Several of us will now be carrying cameras so we can take their photo.
Tina Marie Coates
The Coves, Seal Beach
Thanks for chess game
First of all, it is good to meet you and to have had a pleasure to play with you in a short, friendly game of chess. I hope we can complete another game if that is possible.
Thanks,
Andres (Andy) Secuban
Seal Beach
Seniors need assisted living
Suzi G Smith for her letter in the March 2012 Sun urging consideration for establishing assisted living facilities for those Leisure World shareholders who no longer can care for themselves.
According to a previous report from the Orange County Grand Jury, the older population in OC is estimated to increase by 64 percent by the year 2020—“a tidal wave of older OC citizens that some call an ‘Age Tsunami.’”
The long-term care federal and state mandated ombudsman program is managed by the Council on Aging-OC, which provides a critical service to the older and dependent adults in OC. Currently OC has 932 assisted living facilities and 78 skilled nursing facilities-covering a total of 26,988 beds. The Grand Jury Report concluded that the 60 plus population would increase by almost two-thirds in OC over the next 15 years. This definitely will be a compelling reason for more long term care facilities that include assisted living facilities.
Les H. Cohen
Leisure World
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