Not happy with paper’s new delivery arrangement
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I’ve been in Gilroy for 37 years. I have to tell you I am very
dissatisfied with the paper and the new delivery arrangement. The
best time of the day is reading the paper and I miss it dearly.
That’s just my opinion.
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Not happy with paper’s new delivery arrangement
“I’ve been in Gilroy for 37 years. I have to tell you I am very dissatisfied with the paper and the new delivery arrangement. The best time of the day is reading the paper and I miss it dearly. That’s just my opinion.”
Dear Dissatisfied,
We feel your pain. We know you miss your daily dose of Gilroy news in hard copy – we do, too. And, as journalists in these trying times, we must adapt. Keep in mind that posting on the Web does have advantages over print, including getting breaking news online quickly. With daily e-mails and breaking news e-mail alerts soon to be available, we hope you can re-establish your daily routine with hard copies Tuesday and Thursday and online the rest of the week.
Reader wants to know more
“Calling about the resignation of Mr. Lyons. Why is it we are paying somebody who is no longer working for our district $123,000 when we can use that money for something else concerning our schools? I think we have under estimated what the public needs to know. We need to know why he has to resign. I’m very frustrated, and as a taxpaying person I’m tired of our money being wasted, as always.”
Dear Tired,
Red Phone agrees that paying someone not to come to work is a waste of money, so it contacted Gilroy Unified School Board President Rhoda Bress for the official story. She said, the board “is not hiding behind the catch-all curtain of ‘it’s a personnel issue.’ It is acting in a responsible manner in order for the district to not be harmed in a way that would provide a major distraction to the business of educating students and could result in the dissipation of limited resources on issues that are far removed from the classroom.” (Read: The board does not want to get sued for commenting on why Lyons and the district parted ways). “I strongly believe that … the public has the right to have access to all public records, and that elected officials respond to questions regarding public business in a truthful and forthright manner. However, the public also should expect its elected officials to carry out their responsibilities as prescribed by law, make sound business decisions that protect taxpayers’ money, and do all that is possible to advance the mission of the school district … The decision to settle with Michael Lyons was a business decision … We obtained legal certainty for the district, and we were able to come up with a professional resolution between Michael Lyons and the district.”
SVD&R makes recycling easy
“I have to admit, I’ve been fairly eco-hostile in the past. It was just not convenient to recycle, in fact it was kind of hard. Cans and bottles in one bin, but not the labels – you have to take those off or they won’t take them. Paper in the other bin, but don’t put it in recyclable plastic bags or they won’t take them. And the bins were just too small to hold everything, and too big to go inside. Now, I have two tall, kitchen ‘garbage’ cans sitting side by side. One gets the recycling and the other gets the true garbage. Last week my recycling was full and my garbage only had a few things in it, and it wasn’t icky-stinky so I only put out the blue can. As I looked down my block, I noticed that there were lots of houses that had skipped the gray can. I love the blue can!”
Dear Eco-friendly,
Red Phone contacted Phil Couchee, general manager at South Valley Disposal and Recycling. He was thrilled to hear your response to the new program. “That’s great to hear! It is definitely the expectation that with the convenience of being able to recycle everything in the large blue recycling cart that recycling will increase and garbage will decrease. It sounds like its working for this reader, and we hope it works as well for everyone else.
