The following organizations and individuals deserve either
CHEERS or JEERS this week:
CHEERS: For a safe graduation season. No news on alcohol-related
teen accidents is indeed good news.
The following organizations and individuals deserve either CHEERS or JEERS this week:
CHEERS: For a safe graduation season. No news on alcohol-related teen accidents is indeed good news. Maybe we were just lucky this time … it certainly is not an issue that this community can be complacent about. Allowing teens to drink before the legal age is the same as encouraging it. That is not just a message, it’s a reality that can be wrapped in a mangled vehicle and ruined lives.
CHEERS: For the news that the forever-and-a-day road improvement project on Santa Teresa Boulevard will be done shortly. No cones, no back-ups, no winking traffic lights, no construction noise … and “10,000 new trees” … ain’t life grand, and all for an extra $150,000.
JEERS: For Santa Clara County Supervisors Blanca Alvarado, Liz Kniss and Jim Beall, who voted against a county-funded study of the draconian land-use initiative that will be before voters in November. The public will now be slaughtered with disinformation from anti- and pro- camps. An independent study would have been a valuable addition to the information pool available to the public and to supervisors. Perhaps Assessor Larry Stone will want to know how much money will be lost to property tax if this initiative passes.
JEERS: To summer’s hot start. Day one breaks the 100-degree barrier and a wildfire starts west of Christmas Hill Park. Hopefully, those are not signs of things to come. Let’s get back to our wonderful 83-degree days with the fog rolling over and back the western foothills each morning and night.
CHEERS: For the slowly dropping prices of gasoline. Alas, the “good, old days” of $1.39 per gallon are likely gone forever.
CHEERS: To Patti Littlejohn and Roberta Bertero, who spent their entire teaching careers – 39 years – at El Roble Elementary School. For the past 21 years they team-taught kindergarten, and together they’ve outlasted five principals. Congratulations to both for a wonderful career educating generations of Gilroyans. Enjoy your retirements.
CHEERS: To the San Benito County Sheriff deputies who searched tirelessly and successfully found a San Juan Bautista woman who was missing for four days. Although she disappeared because she got a little “stressed” out, she was apologetic for the way she reacted.
