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Letters
Instead of new library, extend the current structure
Before we become involved seriously again in the subject of a new library for Los Gatos, it might be well to review some of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times coverage of it, when it was a paramount issue a few years ago.
The architectural design of the town's civic center was an award winner for the two men who created it.
I do not know if it was reported in the Weekly-Times at the time, but I was told that the center was designed and constructed to support second stories above the rooms that are there.
I was told that the co-designer offered to come to Los Gatos to discuss this, if invited, but wasn't.
Enlarging the present library by adding another floor above the one we have seems to be the single most compelling argument against constructing a new library.
I lived in Los Gatos for 40 years before moving last year to a senior residence facility in Campbell.
Vern Hansen
Campbell
Cartoon sets a poor example for students
Your May 2 issue features a story on the role bullying plays in incidents of campus violence and reports on what is being done by local administrators, faculty and staff to address this problem. The editorial cartoon immediately preceding this story uses name calling in an attempt to make its point.
Which do you think will be more frequently discussed by LGHS students? What will they learn? Until we, the adults, willingly scrutinize and change our own behaviors it is hypocritical to ask our youth to abide by a higher standard. "Do as I say, not as I do," has never been an effective role-modeling strategy.
Nancy Offer
Los Gatos
Paper contained too many ads recently
Every week I look forward to the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, especially the letters to the editor, local news and even the police reports. In the paper dated April 25, I noticed that there were 77 pages of advertisements out of 96 total pages. There were only 11 pages of local news. There were no police reports, no obituary, but literally hundreds of pictures of real estate for sale. While I realize that advertisement pays many bills, I feel that a newspaper that is 80 percent advertisement and only 20 percent local and general news is not worth reading.
I certainly hope that this is not a continuing trend for the Weekly-Times and that you realize there are many letters to the editor that are of great interest, which apparently are never published, because of the excess advertisement. Please try and restore a better balance to the Weekly-Times.
Charles A. Borgia, M.D.
Samaritan Orthopedic and Medical Group Inc.
Willow Street is not a pizza parlor!
I am very disappointed in the response from certain town council members, comparing Willow Street to Round Table Pizza and Thunderbirds. There is no comparison! They obviously have never eaten there. Willow Street does not serve medium or large pizzas--they are personal meals.
Pizza is just part of the menu that offers pastas, grilled salmon, daily specials and desserts from Icing on the Cake. We do not go to Round Table Pizza, but I doubt they have grilled salmon on the menu, not to mention the atmosphere is very different!
Willow Street, in my opinion, is the only family restaurant in the entire Bay Area where my husband and two children can enjoy a great meal. The kids are happy with their choices on the menu and coloring it. My husband and I can have a delicious adult meal and the menu offers a choice of a good glass of wine or now a cocktail. We look forward to the creative specials that change daily or weekly. There are not any [other] family restaurants I can say that about.
Debbie Moessinger
Los Gatos
Coverage of local high school was mean-spirited
What is the purpose of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times? I had thought we had a local hometown newspaper whose purpose was to portray events in our town ... now, I find instead, that we have a mean-spirited editor who takes it upon himself to attack members of the community according to his personal bias. Doesn't sound like a comfortable hometown paper to me...
When I saw the cartoon in the May 2 edition of the Weekly-Times, I was speechless ... how could our local paper be so off-base? Within five minutes of last week's April 25 Weekly-Times being delivered (with the article trying to create friction between Los Gatos High School Principal Trudy McCulloch and the school's track coach, Willie Harmatz), Coach Harmatz and Ms. McCulloch had talked, clarified their miscommunication, and gone on to other things. The Weekly-Times is still trying to drum up something that doesn't exist ... and in such a destructive and mean-spirited way!
What are our high school students thinking, when they see their local paper lampooning the principal and the coach they respect?
Those of us who know Coach Harmatz, know the effort he has put out over the years for track at LGHS. We know he can become flustered when caught off guard, and can speak without thinking. It is obvious from reading your April 25 article, that your reporter caught Coach Harmatz unawares and he reacted without thinking ... and he made it worse by trying to undo what he had unwittingly said ... those of us who know the coach just give him time to settle down. Then, he figures out what he meant to say and says it. This does not take away from his 23 years of coaching, and the wonderful program he has developed. He'll never make it as a public speaker, but he is a good coach.
Your cartoon was uncalled for, mean-spirited and just plain nasty. You need to apologize not only to Ms. McCulloch and Coach Harmatz, but to the students at Los Gatos High School. We don't need a paper that attacks the adults that our students look to for guidance.
Mary Beth Minniea
Los Gatos
Volunteer praises efforts of recent local blood drive
As a volunteer blood platelet donor/recruiter with the Stanford Medical School Blood Center and attendee at the April 29 Congregation Shir Hadash blood drive in Los Gatos, I would like to salute the members of the congregation and organizer Dale Bergman for putting on the drive that drew over 50 people.
Drives like this one are important to help maintain the area's blood supply, and I encourage other community-minded people like Dale to consider organizing a blood drive.
You can also easily do your part in maintaining the area's blood supply by donating blood whenever you can. Shir Hadash will hold another drive on Sunday, Oct. 21, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Or you can check the blood center's website: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu, to see when there will be other blood drives in the Los Gatos area, then make an appointment online for that drive.
June E. Cooley
San Jose
Group thanks town for supporting sale
This year's Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County cookie sale was a huge success, and we could not have succeeded without you! Thanks goes out to the community for their generous support. You not only got a great box of cookies, but over two-thirds of your purchase went directly to help Girl Scouts in our area.
We also want to thank the merchants who agreed to let us sell cookies in front of their businesses: Le Boulanger, Sur La Table, Walgreen's, Safeway, Lunardi's, Fiori's Hallmark, Peet's Coffee, The Wooden Horse, Nob Hill Foods, Hollywood Video, Super Crown Books, Starbucks, Jamba Juice, all the merchants of Cornerstone Shopping Center and the town of Los Gatos.
We are thankful for the continuous help and generosity of these merchants!
Through the cookie sale, Girl Scouts learn about responsibility, setting and achieving goals, working with the public, money management, teamwork and organization. Cookie sale earnings support Girl Scout activities and programs. The Girl Scouts of Santa Clara serves more than 18,000 girls and young women in our community. For more information, call 408.287.4170, or visit www.girlscoutsofscc.org.
Carole Safir
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County
Public Sales Coordinator
Service Unit 10/Los Gatos
Water should serve humans before fish
Salmon don't generate electricity. When will the damn fools of Washington and Oregon face that fact, and quit spawning fears of siphoning off water that is needed more by humans that it is by fish.
Are they so oblivious to the obvious that they can't see the egg on their face for the fish on their lines?
Jeff Coykendall
Los Gatos
Paper owes coach, principal apology for cartoon
What a disappointment to see your tasteless joke ridiculing Coach Harmatz and LGHS Principal Trudy McCulloch. The Los Gatos Weekly-Times is totally out of line. The Weekly-Times owes both Coach Harmatz and Ms. McCulloch an apology.
M. Simon
Los Gatos
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