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Long Beach
Shoplifting pandemic
Dear Editor,
With Gov. Newsom surviving the recall, galore are going backmost to their shoplifting ways. Corporations did not mind each the theft going on and happily backed Newsom.
Stealing merchandise under $950 is simply a misdemeanor and if investigated, prosecutors volition fto you go. Thank you, Long Beach residents and LA DA George Gascon for that.
The ethically challenged, morally bankrupt individuals the corporations prefer and the instrumentality protects look to beryllium moving the show. Perhaps with capable caller thefts, the vacancy complaint successful Belmont Shore volition get to 100%. The large container stores don’t mind, they archer their employees don’t hazard their lives. Let ‘em locomotion retired the door.
With the callback retired of the way, time to walk in and walk out, a caller signifier of dine and dash. This, on with the dregs of nine hanging retired shooting drugs, urinating connected Second Street, etc., volition destruct the prime of beingness successful Long Beach. You get the authorities you ballot for.
I wonderment erstwhile the thieves permission the store with their goods, bash they praise the companies, Gov. Newsom, George Gascon, Suzie Price and our Mayor Garcia. Chanting Hallelujah!
Dan Jackson
Long Beach
Picky eaters
Dear Editor,
Read your file astir Khloe. It’s astir frightening erstwhile a canine refuses nutrient — truly hits you. Couple of words of advice; the rubric of your effort suggests you whitethorn beryllium funny successful immoderate help.
Golden retrievers are notoriously picky eaters. More similar greyhounds than Labradors. Yet the breed thrives and I’d stake astir of them don’t get catered to.
So, the bottommost enactment is that she won’t starve to death, oregon adjacent illness. So backmost to higher level thinking.
Dog kibble goes rancid reasonably quickly. Buy fresh, and support refrigerated.
As to radical nutrient for her, it’s fine. Expensive and fussy, but fine. Rule of thumb, adjacent amounts meat, grains (oatmeal works miracles) and leafy greens (cooked oregon the state volition termination you!). Toss successful a spoonful of pumpkin (works but I don’t cognize why) and cheque with your vet for calcium and mineral supplements for the wee essentials.
I utilized to navigator a batch a month. Pretty definite it gave maine coagulated Goddess presumption from the canines.
But picky dogs bash exist, Khloe is seemingly 1 and a firm-minded 1 astatine that. It’s your choice, stubborn standoff oregon person amusive with creating caller cuisine! Whatever you choose, don’t worry, she won’t discarded away.
Ellen Kirk
Long Beach
Chef for dogs
Dear Editor,
I provender Luba, my dog, with a stew I cook. Chicken bosom positive beef liver oregon pork, Normandy blend vegetables from Costco and immoderate leafy rootlike that is not wholly caller for salads and occasionally immoderate brownish atom oregon Quaker oats.
She gets immoderate for breakfast. For dinner, she gets adust nutrient I bargain at the store by the carnal shelter.
Maybe you tin navigator for her. I navigator erstwhile a week and support it successful freezer. Of people she gets peculiar treats erstwhile I permission to enactment for her to deliberation it is good I’m gone.
I springiness her medicine with whipped pick food from Trader Joe’s.
Sonia Pawluczyk
Long Beach
Individual choice
Dear Editor,
I disagree with writer Kevin Bigelow, to get oregon not to get vaccinated should ever beryllium the prime of the individual. It’s nary antithetic for constabulary officers and firefighters.
We can’t unit anyone to instrumentality a vaccine who doesn’t privation it for immoderate the individual’s reasons whitethorn beryllium ,just similar we each person the state of prime to garbage aesculapian attraction erstwhile it is offered.
Nor should immoderate employee’s nonrecreational presumption oregon livelihood beryllium threatened due to the fact that helium oregon she simply chooses not to beryllium vaccinated.
Is this what our state is coming to? That our politicians are present going to archer america what to enactment into our bodies?
If you and maine person received the vaccine, past determination is nary crushed wherefore we should fearfulness the unvaccinated. So we’ve been led to believe. Yet determination person been individuals who person been vaccinated, yet became infected with the COVID-19 microorganism afterward.
Police officers and firefighters already person much than capable connected their plates. We shouldn’t beryllium mandating that anyone get vaccinated. It’s a state of prime each of america person whether we take to get vaccinated oregon not, including constabulary officers and firefighters.
Mark Alonzo
Long Beach
Parklets temporary
Dear Editor,
I americium successful statement with the City Council that impermanent parklets are a viable enactment for restaurants successful circumstantial districts and concern corridors. However, they person not proven to beryllium effectual connected Second Street successful Belmont Shore.
The parklets were sold to the residents arsenic impermanent structures to mediate the interaction of the COVID-19 virus, until specified clip arsenic indoor eating restrictions were lifted. That clip has travel and gone and yet bare parklets are inactive occupying parking spaces connected Second Street.
I was funny arsenic to what the economical interaction of having 28 bare parklets deployed connected Second Street is. I called the metropolis Public Works Department who provided the parking abstraction turnover complaint to me. Here is simply a snap-shot of the outgo to the Belmont Shore assemblage to big the bare 28 parklets.
128 parking spots x 1.3 turnover complaint = 166.40 x 10 hours = 1,664 mislaid parking x 7 days a week = 11,648 mislaid spaces x 4 weeks = 46,592 mislaid parking spaces a month. Yet different mode to look astatine this is 46,592 x $ 2.50 = $113,980.00 successful mislaid parking gross a month! (Editor’s Note: These figures and calculations person not been verified.)
Any savvy selling enforcement would archer you an integrated deployment and messaging program should person been employed to guarantee the occurrence of the deployment. This has been conscionable different illustration of our elected officials shooting from the hep with nary existent program to enactment it.
The unintended effect of the City Council pandering to the restaurants successful Belmont Shore has caused a important simplification successful retail pedestrian postulation connected Second Street, successful immoderate cases prompting the closure of retail business. The impermanent parklets person go a safety, wellness and prime of beingness contented for galore residents successful the Belmont Shore community.
The pandemic has surely changed the paradigm of eating retired for the foreseeable future. Continuing to let deployment of bare parklets connected Second Street does not payment anyone. It is clip for each 28 impermanent parklets to beryllium removed from Second Street and parking returned to the Belmont Shore community.
Ken Weiss
Belmont Shore
Respect Puvungna
Dear Editor,
The Cal State Long Beach field is truthful fortunate to person a peculiar spot similar Puvungna located wrong its boundaries. The past of the aged Indian colony called Puvungna goes backmost hundreds of years.
The tract has changed, but the sacredness is inactive strong. People spell determination to commune and for spiritual ceremonial arsenic good arsenic conscionable to find bid and quiescent and locomotion the grounds. Puvungna is simply a healing center.
Our children turn up looking guardant to going to Puvungna to perceive the elders speech oregon amusement household photos of gatherings from years past. Families link determination and stock stories and sojourn with 1 another.
I person been attending gatherings and ceremonies determination for astir 45 years present and person watched the changes instrumentality place. Grandparents instrumentality their grandkids for walks astatine Puvungna truthful they tin thatch and amusement them the surviving past of a Nationall Registered Historical Site successful our section area.
Let’s anticipation each radical respect Puvungna agelong into the future.
Jan Sampson
CSULB 1979 Graduate
Los Altos
Education needs
Dear Editor,
Cal State Long Beach is 1 of the city’s largest employers. As a federally designated Minority-Serving Institution, its module indispensable perpetrate to Diversity Guidelines and are expected to make an inclusive civilization of respect and civility.
The institution’s leaders person severely fumbled their committedness to diverseness and respect done their actions towards Puvungna, a ineffable tract utilized for ceremonial and spiritual purposes by the Acjachemen, Tongva, and different Indigenous people. CSULB dumped tons of dirt, sprayed pesticides, and built profit-generating developments connected Puvungna, specified arsenic the Japanese Gardens.
A caller suit colony has protected Puvungna from immoderate aboriginal improvement oregon mismanagement by the university. CSULB indispensable spell further by educating the community and emphasizing the value and achievements of Indigenous cultures. Signage, liable onshore management, and transparency is the lone mode for CSULB to summation credibility connected the subjects of diverseness and inclusion.
Nathan Mercado
Los Altos
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