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Letters
Los Gatos track team's rudeness was appalling
I was at the recent Los Gatos/San Francisco track meet, and I had a different view than many Los Gatos parents did. I was near the start/finish line and noticed the actions of both teams. I am ashamed to be affiliated with Los Gatos.
Their rudeness toward the volunteers, both coaches and students, was appalling. The runners were late because they were socializing rather than paying attention to the meet progress.
One student even admitted as much to the starter. I had overheard from some San Francisco parents that Los Gatos had a bad reputation for pushing other runners out of the way and I can believe it. In fact in one race, one member of our team ran around a San Francisco racer on the grass off the track, which I believe is illegal.
The San Francisco officials either didn't see it or let it go. We better take a look at ourselves before we heap praise. Especially since we have a coach that was suspended at one time for illegal practices.
I am sure you won't print this, but it is sure good to get if off my chest.
Fred Norris
Los Gatos
Old men quote not quite right
Carl Heintze misquoted Yeats in his column in the April 5 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, "The elderly face their 'last hurrah' election." He started with "There is no country for old men. ..." The actual quote is "That is no country for old men." It is part of the first line of Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium."
Janet Trankle
Cupertino
Seven more units have been erased from the town's low-cost housing
The seven-unit apartment building on Broadway which has been apartments for more than a generation, and which has been counted as part of our low-cost housing units, and which came under the authority of our rent-control ordinance was recently converted to single-family residential with the town's blessing.
It is obvious why. In today's market an apartment complex is worth half what a residence is worth. In this case more than a million dollars more. Have we not allowed the previous apartment landowner special privileges to rent the property and make a lot of money? Seven units in today's market pencils out to around $100,000 a year.
For this does he not owe us in return an obligation to continue his contract to the community by renting? There is no turning back. Even if the property did not have legal use permits it was still grandfathered in and enjoyed the spoils of the short housing market.
I do not need to say much about the ramifications of the Planning Commission's allowing this, except that I know for a fact that commissioners are responsible for putting out seven working tenants who can no longer live and work in Los Gatos.
I am embarrassed for them.
Larry Arzie
Los Gatos
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