CM PRESS # 683

A Commercial Worm Farm

VERMICULTURE FOR COSTA MESA?

At last night's Parks and Recreation Commission meeting, we suggested that Costa Mesa might want to start a large scale worm farm using volunteers to run it. 

Specifically, we suggested that the core volunteers might be those who are presently using the community gardens.

The community gardens now cost taxpayers about $ 17,000 per year over the approximately $ 3,000 per year paid by the community gardeners for their plots. 

Why not have them pay the city back by putting some hours in for free to help run a worm farm that will produce worm castings that can then be used as fertilizer all around the city and which can also be sold to the public?

The heart of this system is the fact that we presently just throw away tons of grass clippings from all of our parks.  These clippings would serve as food for the worms.

The worms will work 24 hours a day producing valuable castings and they won't get pensions. 

Also, while they're producing castings, they'll also be producing new worms to join their work force.
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A TOP NFL PLAYER SAYS HIS RACE IS PART OF THE REASON FOR HIS SUCCESS --HE'S WHITE [Nope, it's not Wes Welker--who is also White]
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BLACK JONATHAN CAPEHART OF THE WASHINGTON POST SAYS RICK PERRY CALLING OBAMA 'PRIVELEGED' IS RACIST

Yawn. Do any Whites with half a brain even try to deny such charges anymore?  Well, of course, we're talking about Rick Perry, so we'll have to wait to see if he runs to the back of the bus and hides over this.
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THE DOWNSIDE OF DIVERSITY

An honest liberal Harvard prof found at last and this one writes some of the truth about diversity.  Hint:  It isn't our greatest strength and may be one of our greatest weaknesses.
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***HOLD THE PRESSES--WORLD SHATTERING BREAKING NEWS***

Someone put a "Colored Only" sign over a drinking fountain at a college in N.Y. LINK

Be sure to read the above linked news report.  We'll betcha the sign was put up by a Black, and maybe by the Black guy quoted in the article. 

But, here's how these things work.  This story will be included in hate statistics of those phony anti-hate organizations and it'll remain there even when, as we believe, it will be discovered that it was a Black who did this. 

In fact, if it is discovered that a Black did this and if that discovery isn't buried, but comes out, we betcha that the college president in this city that should really be called New Putz, will praise the Black for showing us that racism can exist and he'll then do some sort of big affirmative action push.

Also, get ready for the usual lefty low I.Q. types to walk around campus  holding candles and with tears in their eyes.  Oh, the humanity of it all.
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INTERESTING NIGHT AT THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING LAST NIGHT
[A commission that should be disbanded, by the way.]

Some trees are more equal than others

Here's the usual way things go at the PRC:  A property owner will try to have the city remove a city owned tree from in front of his or her property because the tree is lifting the sidewalk, screwing up the sewer, and causing other problems and because it presents a danger to the public.

Staff then tells the PRC that the tree is in wonderful shape and very nice and it shouldn't be removed.

The PRC then votes to deny the removal request.

Last night was different (at least in one case): A new property owner said he wanted to remove a city tree on city property because he didn't like the way it looked--wrong species, don't you know. Different look than what he wanted.  In fact, there were twelve trees that he wanted to remove.  Were the trees sick and dying?  Nope.  Were they screwing up the sidewalk and sewer lines?  Nope.  Were they a danger to the public? Nope. Were they nice looking trees that one would usually want to have in front of one's property? Yup. These are Golden Rain trees (Koelreuteria paniculata).

And, remember, these trees weren't on this property owner's property. They were on citizen owned property across the sidewalk from the property in question. LINK

Then, in a  complete role reversal from the usual way things go, staff gurgled and mumbled in favor of all twelve trees being removed.

The PRC then smiled a lot and voted to have the trees removed.

Say, did we forget to mention that the property owner in the above case is the Irvine Company? If you hurry you can go by and see the healthy and nice looking trees facing their death at 655-675 Anton Boulevard.

See how it works?

Meanwhile, homeowners in Mesa North continue to have their sidewalks ripped up, their curbs cracked, their sprinkler systems destroyed, their sewer lines blocked by city owned trees in the neighborhood because the city refuses to remove them.

And, as we've written before, these trees--they're Carrotwoods (Cupaniopsis anacardioides)--are considered noxious weeds in the state of Florida and must be destroyed when found.

"Carrotwood...was added to the Florida Noxious Weed List (5b-57.007 FAC) by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in 1999. Plants on the Florida Noxious Weed List may not be introduced, possessed, moved, or released without a permit." LINK


Contrast the above action by staff and the PRC to remove the twelve trees on Anton,with their refusal to remove a tree when requested by an ordinary citizen.  This request was heard just before the Irvine Company's request.LINK

You can go and see the tree that the citizen wanted removed at 2822 Ellesmere Ave.  You don't have to hurry; this bad tree, unlike the twelve good trees on Anton, isn't being removed.
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And, in other business, the PRC voted to give a year's renewal on the contract for the use of a part of Fairview Park for model planes, but wisely turned down a request to increase the size of the model plane area and to pave part of the park.
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