Our Mailbox: Warm seniors, cars win, political maps

Long Beach

Seniors accidental thanks

Dear Editor,

To each of the assemblage members who donated during Long Beach Gives, the National Jewish Women’s Council, and Chase Bank, convey you connected behalf of seniors successful Long Beach.

The Long Beach Gray Panthers privation to convey you each for providing lukewarm coats for much than 400 low-income seniors successful clip for wintertime and the bedewed weather. For galore of the seniors, it was the archetypal caller overgarment they had received successful years.

As they proudly donned their caller coats, their smiles grew and the laughs started. For this radical of seniors, it volition beryllium a precise merry holiday. Thanks again for caring astir our seniors.

Karen Reside, President

Long Beach Gray Panthers

End car era

Dear Editor,

It’s unfortunate, but understandable, that erstwhile it comes to decisions astir streets and traffic, cars trump radical each time.

The parklets accrued an casual ambience, a consciousness of  community and adjacent safety. Cars had to dilatory down due to the fact that they were forced to bash so.

It’s clip to extremity the car era. Someone should constitute a publication astir that.

Jerry Schaefer 

Belmont Shore

Maps acold off

Dear Editor,

Long Beach conscionable had a remake of its assembly territory boundaries.

Why does the Final Adopted Map by the Independent Redistricting Commission look truthful — off? It is not instantly evident wherefore specified a extremist departure from the historical cores and progression of the metropolis was necessary.

We would not beryllium present if 3 things had not happened:

1. Political interference successful the 2020 Census.

2. Delay of the merchandise of Census information precocious into 2021.

3. Sufficient safeguards to guarantee nationalist information contempt the pandemic were not enactment successful spot anterior to the merchandise of the Final Adopted Map connected Nov. 18.

It would beryllium casual to blasted the compression of disposable work-time for however stage-managed and consultant-driven of a process this was. But a divers acceptable of voices from antithetic neighborhoods and communities consistently had their voices and concerns not heard successful the nationalist map-drawing meetings pursuing the merchandise of the draught maps connected Oct. 20.

As a result, with progressive cheerleading from much conflicted parties than conscionable the consultant, the redistricting representation looks weirdest astir Signal Hill. It commits the fatal flaw of bypassing an existing colonisation to make a caller territory which is not contiguous. The airdrome is so similar the Pyrenees; determination is nary meaningful colonisation that connects Bixby Knolls and Cal Heights with parts of municipality eastbound of Lakewood Country Club.

It besides has the effect of diluting the Cambodian and Black vote, some combined oregon viewed separately, by CVAP successful the cardinal district. This is simply a important missed opportunity, considering these populations are aging out.

Put successful the parlance of the IRC process, if you hole the filigree of F excessively far, you screw up your G, E, D.

Using a method a 12-year-old tin recognize and replicate, 1 tin spot it needs to spell to  districtr.org/plan/94612.

Dave Shukla

Long Beach