Fed up with fruit:
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Hi Red Phone! I’m complaining about vendors who sell fruit on
street corners in a residential area, at Sixth and Miller. … I’ve
contacted the police but this has gone on for over a year now.
Fed up with fruit: “Hi Red Phone! I’m complaining about vendors who sell fruit on street corners in a residential area, at Sixth and Miller. … I’ve contacted the police but this has gone on for over a year now. You know, it’s just not right to have vendors selling on street corners in residential areas. We don’t live in a third world country.”
The Red Phone contacted the city first, who then got Gilroy Police Community Services Officer Gary Muraoka on the trail. The following information is provided by Muraoka via e-mail:
“All street vendors must have a business license by the city and must have a transient vendor permit from the city. Street vendors can only stay in one location for a maximum of 10 minutes to conduct a sale, then they must move on. Street vendors are checked by the community service officers to ensure they have the proper licenses and permits. Street vendors that do not have the proper license or permits are documented and forwarded to city hall for their license application. Repeat offenders may be issued a citation for a municipal code infraction.”
So caller, looks like your best bet is to continue contacting GPD at 846-0350 and let the community service officers check on licenses and issue citations if necessary.
Need glasses: “Page 3 on Tuesday’s paper (Pride section, March 22), the above half is bright and clear about the spoiled dogs, and the bottom part is clear and bright, but the name in the middle, the strange requests story, which was very good is not. The Coldwell Banker ad … it’s miserable. How come on the same page, even with strong glasses, you can hardly read the Coldwell Banker ad and the strange requests. And it’s a different shape, it isn’t straight up and down, it’s even at angles. Please poke a needle in somebody and make them pay better attention. This has been going on too long. Thank you.”
OK, caller, your Red Phone’s ready, needle in hand, but doesn’t know who to poke. It wants to, it really does, and it has a few people in mind, but unfortunately it can’t because it’s not exactly clear what your complaint is.
It thinks you’re saying the ‘Spoiled and Loving It’ article is readable, as are the advertisements on the bottom of the page. However, you say the ‘Strange Requests’ article and the Coldwell Banker ad are not. The Strange Requests article is indeed a different font, what is called a ‘sans serif,’ which is a font without the small lines at the end of the characters. Though it is a little more difficult for the eye to read, a sans serif font is occasionally used to differentiate between articles, as it was in this case. However, note that it is not a common practice for the Dispatch.
As far as the Coldwell Banker ad, it was exactly that – an ad. Ads are created, approved by the company and published the way that company wants them to look. And, good caller, you really lost the Red Phone when you mentioned different shapes and angles. Looking at the Pride page in question, the Red Phone sees nothing but square ads and generally modular design.
However, the Dispatch staff does its best to make sure articles and design are readable and pleasing to the eye and regularly takes into consideration suggestions, criticism and compliments.
Photo opportunity: “I really have to compliment you about your article about the different stores and how they’re changing the front of Gilroy, Monterey Street. Why haven’t you taken a picture of the Gilroy travel agency that’s over there at First and Church? I don’t know what the address is, but they have a wonderful, wonderful decoration in the store for Easter. I think it would really be nice if the Dispatch would go and take a picture of it and show what people do even on the side streets to improve Gilroy. Thank you.”
Thanks for the suggestion, caller. Unfortunately, when the Red Phone got to your call, it was the Friday before Easter and no photographer was available – otherwise, the Dispatch editors would have been more than happy to publish a photo in the paper.
For future reference, anyone who has a photograph idea, call into the Red Phone early if it is a timely matter, and it will pass the suggestion along and perhaps run the photo in a future column.
Hey Readers: Know of a streetlight that sticks on red? Want to complain about bad driving? Or maybe offer up a compliment? The Red Phone is here to listen to your troubles and woes (but encourages happy thoughts) and do its best to find answers to your burning questions, so give it a call at 842-9070 or send e-mail to
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