YOO HOO! It's me, back from my vacation.
I promised you there would be changes at the Daily Pilot.
No, dear readers, this won't happen. This is not a picture of Tom Waving Johnson. Waving promised readers that he wasn't going the route of the sports writer at the LA TIMES.
Still, this might be what Waving would look like if he no longer had a Johnson to wave.
Tomorrow--Sunday, April 29, we get to see the start of the changes Waving has planned for the Daily Pilot.
We're an optimistic lot here at CM PRESS HQ, but we're still just expecting to see the same tired columnists in the Pilot such as the Pilot's scolding Aunt, Steve Smith, and the rest of the out of touch crew writing their usual nonsense and trying to hide the fact that Costa Mesa's problems are almost all connected with this city being turned into an illegal alien sanctuary.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Improvers might want to mark their calendars and try to attend the following meetings that have some impact on improvement, as indicated in brief below:
MAY 1, Tuesday 6:00 p.m.-- CITY COUNCIL MEETING--Several improvement issues on the agenda including:
1. A tract map for 1011-1045 El Camino Drive for a 24 unit common interest development. This is the now closed down shopping center in Mesa del Mar that sits across the street from the Misson-Mendoza slum. This will move this property a step closer to being turned into nice homes. THE CM PRESS SUGGESTION: Improvers should support this.
2. CDBG funding is on the agenda. You will recall that the CM PRESS has written extensively about how the City Council keeps giving your money to some charities that serve suspected illegal aliens and that don't look like Costa Mesa. THE CM PRESS SUGGESTION: Improvers should let the Council know that they want this money spent on fixing the physical parts of the Westside and not continue to be thrown down a black hole as has been the case for many years.
MAY 2, Wednesday--7:00 p.m. PAULARINO SCHOOL--A meeting about passive parks. Some small parks in the city that don't have sports fields are being taken over for pick-up soccer games (often by people who don't live in Costa Mesa). This endangers the players and others. If the City makes some parks passive parks, you'll still be able to throw a ball to your kids and do similar things, but you'll no longer be chased out of the park by soccer players and you won't have soccer players urinating and defecating behind trees and in the tot lots. THE CM PRESS SUGGESTIONS: Improvers should ask that the City name certain parks in the city as passive parks so these parks can be safely used by citizens for their intended purposes. Among such parks are Paularino Park, Canyon Park, Vista Park, and Brentwood Park.
MAY 9, Wednesday--City Council Chambers--A meeting about cleaning up the toxic chemicals on the 6.8 parcel at 1640 Monrovia Ave. that we wrote about in Issue # 125.
THE CM PRESS SUGGESTION: Improvers should attend to learn about this and to ask that additional tests be conducted in other places on the Westside bluffs including tests of emissions in the air, soil tests and groundwater tests.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
