Dear Editor,
It is disappointing, but no surprise, that the city’s
”
finest,
”
Police Chief Gregg Giusiana and some new joker at Community
Services, want to ban alcohol in the two remaining free parks.
I live right by the eastern, long-neglected half of Las Animas
Veterans Park and have been fed up with the situation for 20
years.
Dear Editor,
It is disappointing, but no surprise, that the city’s “finest,” Police Chief Gregg Giusiana and some new joker at Community Services, want to ban alcohol in the two remaining free parks.
I live right by the eastern, long-neglected half of Las Animas Veterans Park and have been fed up with the situation for 20 years.
The inhabitants thereof have used our yard and those of our neighbors as both trash cans and toilets, and only when I told the city, “Someone’s gonna get hurt if this keeps up” did they begin to do something about it.
I don’t picnic at LAVP and an alcohol ban won’t affect me, however, even with the vagrant problem, I don’t want alcohol banned at any park.
(What’s next, targeting smokers? Talk about too much time on the police department’s hands!)
I detest the entire concept of public property (which definitely includes parks), but if we’re going to have them, they better be taken care of.
At LAVP, simply filling in the mudhole and keeping it well lit will solve most of the problem. Killing freedom, on the other hand, only gives the fascists more power to harass.
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
