PUBLIC FORUM : SAN FERNANDO IS VALLEY'S `BEST-KEPT SECRET'.I read with great interest the Daily News' Sept. 16 story, ``Feeling at home; residents see San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. as cut above,'' extolling the virtues of the city of San Fernando. My father first settled in San Fernando over 70 years ago and my 92-year-old mother will not live anywhere else. As the article noted, the outstanding Police Department under Chief Dave Regetti maintains a safe and secure environment within the city. The government and city administrators are always available to meet with you and have proved time and time again that they are business-friendly. The latter became very evident to me when I refurbished a building that my family owns in San Fernando. The efficiency, professionalism and expediency with which the construction plans were approved and the permits issued astonished a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. my contractor, whose prior experience had been dealing with the red-tape-laden bureaucracy of Los Angeles' Department of Building and Safety. He was amazed at the help and support he received from the city engineers and the Department of Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. during the construction phase of the project. ``Only in San Fernando would this happen,'' he would say. I have always maintained that the city of San Fernando is the best-kept secret in the Valley. This need not be the case. The leadership of San Fernando needs to develop an aggressive public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most campaign to better promote the attributes of this fine city so as to attract additional quality commercial and manufacturing development within its borders. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to let the cat out of the bag to tell a secret, carelessly or willfully. See also: cat . - James F. Sierra Northridge Fooling the public Well, I see that our president has been able to fool even the regional director of the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Hans Hemann (Public Forum, Sept. 22), President Clinton's designation of national monument national monument In the U.S., any of numerous areas reserved by the federal government for the protection of objects or places of historical, scientific, or prehistoric interest. status for the robust and brawny brawn·y adj. 1. Strong and muscular. 2. Hardened; calloused. 2 million acres of Utah's Escalante area will stop the mining of coal in this region. This is not so. Mining is allowed in national monuments, the former Death Valley and Joshua Tree Joshua tree: see yucca. national monuments being cases in point. In his continuing war on the West, Clinton may have overstepped his bounds in his proclamation, another example of his abuse of power. Even the provisions of the 1906 Antiquities Act used by Clinton to make his land grab land grab n. An aggressive taking of land, especially by military force, in order to expand territorial holdings or broaden power: "The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was . . . must follow the processes of the National Environmental Policy Act. I have not seen or heard the results of any environmental impact study or any public input for the Escalante area. Even Clinton is not above the law and must submit to the NEPA process. I suspect the people of Utah through their elected representatives, after his cowardly act, would reject any such national monument status for this area. - Merwyn H. Hemp Northridge More on Clinton If Bill Clinton were a baseball player rather than president, he would have the unique ability to strike out while at bat, convince everyone in the stands that he had hit a home run and, when the other team objected, the umpires would call it ``mean-spirited.'' - H.L. Bradbury Granada Hills Feuer helps businesses In response to your article of Aug. 31 concerning the troubled Sherman Oaks Merchants Association: Our experience in Studio City with the office of Councilman Mike Feuer and his staff has been, to say the least, quite different than that of the Sherman Oaks group. Without the councilman's personal commitment and direction there would be no Studio City Improvement Association today or one even in sight. These self-assessing business improvement districts are creatures of state law and are quite complex. They need guidance by a professional government navigator to have any chance of getting started and succeeding. Late in 1995, our embryonic group of Studio City business people, for months clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. , sought out Feuer, looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. direction. He explained to us the state and local legal requirements we faced and described the labyrinth nature of City Hall's approval process. He stated clearly that he was ``rule-explaining, not rule-making,'' and then offered his help, which we gladly accepted. Feuer gave our project his highest priority as he had promised. Today, with the city's help and money, we have been able to hire a professional consultant of our own choosing to give us day-to-day assistance. With the councilman and his staff's help we have been given information and guidance to effectively organize ourselves and the Studio City business community toward an exciting future for our historic village. That future will be designed by the community itself. In this, we are confident to have the continued support and encouragement of Mike Feuer. The success of all the Valley communities along Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. are interdependent with one another. Studio City has learned over the years that consensus, not conflict, is a more effective course for constructive change. We do wish our sister community of Sherman Oaks well. Its eventual success will resonate in both directions along the Boulevard. - Robert E. Kayyem, President Studio City Improvement Association Studio City Try learning English Re the Sept. 12 Daily News article ``Report outlines harmonious plan for diverse L.A.; immigrant empowerment called key'': This report from L.A.'s Human Relations human relations npl → relaciones fpl humanas Commission makes me furious. This report suggests we - American citizens or nationals - learn immigrants' native languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Tagalog, just to show some respect. My lord; we already have thousands of problems to worry about, too busy to make a living, and they ask me to waste my time to learn these immigrants' native languages - five of them? Why not ask these immigrants to respect our American culture, American people An American people may be:
If they have no respect for the American people and culture, then don't expect us to respect them. - Bobby Ting Burbank Illegal immigrants Re your Sept. 20 article, ``Food-aid recipients fear cuts'' in which county Supervisor Gloria Molina lobbied to continue the handouts to immigrants, legal and illegal: I, as a taxpaying citizen, believe we should adhere to the law passed by Congress and signed by the president. I do not believe most American citizens are in favor of paying huge taxes so that the freeloaders of the world can come in and destroy our generous system. - Byron Schmidt Pacoima Editorial rebuttal rebuttal n. evidence introduced to counter, disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or a presumption, or responsive legal argument. What's wrong with the Daily News? After all this time you still don't understand one of the basic facts of life: When the government cuts taxes it does not spend money. The simple fact of the matter is that the government doesn't earn money. It either prints it, in which case it steals by inflation, or it takes money directly from taxpayers. Thus, your whole Sept. 23 editorial (``Expensive talk; presidential campaign promises aren't cheap'') is premised on an assumption that is wildly incorrect. The only way in which your editorial could be correct is if either there is some higher law that mandates a constant level of spending or services, or you subscribe to the bankrupt idea that everything a taxpayer earns belongs to the government, and the government is just gracious enough to let the taxpayer keep some of it from time to time. - David Richmond Encino Dole's tax plan I would like to know what Bob Dole considers an average family. Under his 15 percent across-the-board tax cut, for someone to get a $1,600 tax break, he or she would have to be paying $10,000 in federal income tax. Does the average family have an adjusted gross income high enough to pay $10,000? - Edward Schlotter Simi Valley Casting stones In this society of ours, we have heard a lot of talk about discrimination and prejudice against racial minorities and women. Yet, I wonder just how many of us realize that there is a certain amount of discrimination and prejudice inside each one of us, regardless of our racial or gender status. If we would first clean up our own wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do , then we might have a better insight on how to deal with
others in their wrongdoing.
- James Cady Rosemead Zoo is a refuge from beastly beast·ly adj. beast·li·er, beast·li·est 1. Of or resembling a beast; bestial. 2. Very disagreeable; unpleasant. adv. Chiefly British To an extreme degree; very. news In a city beset by quakes, fires, riots and trials, there is a sense of civic renewal in reading about an island of calm and caring as typified by the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. (L.A. Zoo receives accreditation; panel cites `massive turnaround,' Daily News, Sept. 18). As a member of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, I know that more people visit zoos and gardens every year than all the sports and entertainment venues put together. Anyone who has ever visited the world-famous San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo One of the world's largest collections of mammals, birds, and reptiles, located in San Diego, Calif., and administered by the Zoological Society of San Diego. The 100-acre (40. knows what potential also exists here for species protection and education if the city and its citizens continue to back new Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo's plans. Robert Knowles Los Angeles CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO After a grueling battle, the Los Angeles Zoo was accr edited last week. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion