As You See It: July 17, 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Thank you for the article on possible housing on Golf Club Drive. What a lovely idea.

[Lynn]

Evelyn, you won't qualify for the senior housing. Once you sell your Soquel home, you're bumped out of the range of acceptable applicants.

[SCLocal]

Oliver, this is not Carmel! If you want to live in that dump so you can take your pets into stores and have then run free on beaches, then move there!
Unless you are blind, there is no need for you to take your "animal" into a store! It is not a human. Accept it and move on!

[Sabrina]

Alicia, I am so sorry to hear that happened! I'm going up there today and am going to make sure my mom's site is ok!
People are so inconsiderate!

[Literate in Carmel]

Oh, Oliiiiiverrr,

There IS a bookstore in Carmel. But I guess if you ever bothered to visit Carmel, you'd know that.

From their website, www.pilgrimsway.com :

The Pilgrim’s Way Community Bookstore was established nearly 40 years ago, in 1969. Managed by the husband and wife team, Paul Fridlund and Cynthia Fernandes, local residents of Carmel Valley.

Carmel’s only bookstore is located on Dolores between 5th & 6th across from the Art Association Gallery and next door to the famous EmLe's Resaurant.

We are a little sanctuary in the middle of downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. Please visit our bookstore and garden shop on Dolores Street between 5th & 6th, Carmel.

Our book selection includes the best of Novels, Personal Development, Local Interest, New Releases,Children’s Metaphysical and much more! Plus we carry Crystals, Gemstones, Jewelry, and many locally crafted gift and garden items.

[Literate in Carmel]

SCLocal wrote:

Oliver, this is not Carmel! If you want to live in that dump so you can take your pets into stores and have then run free on beaches, then move there!
Unless you are blind, there is no need for you to take your "animal" into a store! It is not a human. Accept it and move on!

Hi SCLocal,

As I read Oliver's letter, he's dissing Carmel's dog policies, not Santa Cruz. And he is misinforming the public by saying there are no bookstores in Carmel.:-)

[drl]

SCLocal wrote:

Oliver, this is not Carmel! If you want to live in that dump so you can take your pets into stores and have then run free on beaches, then move there!
Unless you are blind, there is no need for you to take your "animal" into a store! It is not a human. Accept it and move on!

There is absolutely no comparing Downtown Santa Cruz to Carmel. As I recall, the "no-dog" policy on Pacific Avenue was put in force due to the irresponsible pet owners who hang around all day and let their dogs defecate on the sidewalks. I have been a frequent visitor to Carmel and have not once encountered a "mistake" on any public street.

[Reciprocity]

What a joke. I would like to point out that even though Carmel has a more relaxed policy on dogs Santa Cruz is still dirtier by orders of magnitude. Think about it a little bit.

[disabuser]

Barbara Goza Chemers of "Women in Philanthropy" is not advocating philanthropy, which is voluntary, but taxation, which is coercive. Here's an op-ed in the LA Times about the increase in state government spending in the last 4 years and where is goes.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-mat...

[mountain folk]

Share its beach!

I don't like doggy boutiques.
I just want my dog to socialize on the beach.

[Les]

<<updating the California tax system to reflect a changing economy>>

The Barbaras in that group - Chemers and Sprenger - want to eliminate Prop 13 and change property tax votes to simple majority.

[Les]

Thank goodness those 2 are irrelevant.

[Nothing]

I vote that all stores are replaced with book stores.

[My2cents]

Stepen Arnold for SC County Supe! You get my vote - Go Live Oak.

[Pixie_Vampyress]

My dog can go with me on Pacific. Of course, he is a service animal.*Shrugs*

Now to the one that is important to me:

Grave destruction despicable
I was so disheartened to go to the Felton cemetery, where my nephew is buried, only to find the flowers dug up with a shovel from his grave. Are we that desperate in these trying times that we need to steal flowers from a baby who was only allotted an hour in this life? Are we so far removed from our conscious and our sense of wrongdoing? We are not savage beasts, we are a civilized community and our actions should reflect that. Go buy a pack of seeds and plant your own flowers, don't steal from those from whom life has already been taken.

Alicia Hinde
Los Gatos

Nothing is scared anymore. People have stolen the angel, the flowers, even the sea shells from my friends' grave.*sighs*

[whatthef]

Lame Oliver, just lame. Literacy and dog rules have nothing to do with each other. If you thought this was clever, think again....

[Santa Cruz Local]

Reciprocity wrote:

What a joke. I would like to point out that even though Carmel has a more relaxed policy on dogs Santa Cruz is still dirtier by orders of magnitude. Think about it a little bit.

Spot on! Downtown Santa Cruz smells like pee and it's not because of dogs......

[Pet Kattle]

You have a problem Alicia Hinde. You are generalizing that all human beings are inherently good. I know you want to believe this but it is not so. The sooner people like you realize this the sooner our society can stop pretending to think that these people can be rehabilitated and instead deal with them using the laws of the wild. To refer to the flower thief as "we" makes you and I look bad or the flower thief look good. Neither is true. The perp is nothing more than degenerate scum and deserves nothing in his life but banishment and/or total removal from society. Forgiveness is not human nature. It is an over rated excuse to give losers second third and fourth chances at the expense of the kind.

[kidsonbeach]

mountain folk wrote:

Share its beach!
I don't like doggy boutiques.
I just want my dog to socialize on the beach.

I'd like my kids (humans) to be able to enjoy the beach too, and your dogs keep jumping on them and you keep saying "it's ok!" and we keep ending up bummed. My kids don't jump on other kids and scare them, that's why they are allowed off leash.

[billy]

Pet Kattle wrote:

Forgiveness is not human nature. It is an over rated excuse to give losers second third and fourth chances at the expense of the kind.

I see where you're coming from, but your post hardly presents you as one of the "kind". Banishment seems a bit extreme for what's basically a broken sense of society and one's place in it. Desecrating cemeteries is deplorable, but that doesn't mean we need to bring back the guillotine.

[Former Carmelite]

I lived in Carmel 40 years ago and LOVED the Pilgram's Way. I used to go there a couple of times a week just to talk to the wonderful owners. It is great to hear it is still there.
Besides, just at the mouth of the valley, walking distance from the downtown is the Thunderbird bookstore, which has been great ever since it started up in the town of Carmel Valley