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Around The Glen
Holiday lights to be taken down by city
The lights are about to go down over Lincoln Avenue.
The Willow Glen Business and Professional Association has plans to take down the strings of lights that span the business district. The lights were put up for Christmas two years ago, association President Bob Waligore said, and were left up because of the expense and inconvenience of removing and replacing them every year.
However, Waligore said the association has been receiving calls from people wondering why the lights are still up and still on, especially when everyone else is being asked to conserve energy.
"The city has to put the lights up and take them down," Waligore said. "There isn't a switch to turn them off."
Vice President Chris Carris said he is working with the District 6 city council office to get the lights taken down soon.
The lights are plugged into outlets located inside street lights and in other inaccessible places, Waligore said, and are always on. He said the association would decide later whether or not to put them back up for this Christmas.
"It doesn't look like next year is going to be any better of an energy situation," he said.
--Kate Carter
Willow Glen, Campbell hit by power outages
It wasn't a rolling power outage.
It was fallen palm fronds knocked loose by high winds that caused the electricity to go out in southwest Willow Glen and southeast Campbell on Feb. 7, PG&E spokesman Scott Blakey said.
The flora tumbled onto power lines at New Jersey and Foxworthy avenues and brought them down at about 11 a.m., Blakey said. The jolt also affected lines at New Jersey and Curtner avenues, he said.
About 4,800 customers lost power, Blakey said, in an area bordered by Ridgeley Drive to the north, Union Avenue to the west, Foxworthy Avenue and Hallmark Lane to the south and Meridian and Leigh avenues and Woodford Drive to the east.
Crews were able to begin restoring power between noon and 1 p.m., but were still working on the problem into the afternoon.
"It was one of those outages that went on and on," Blakey said. "It was slow-going, but at least they got it done."
He said PG&E had power fully restored by 6:15 p.m.
--Kate Carter
Public hearing for Kmart site deferred
A public hearing the city had scheduled to discuss the final environmental impact report for the "Fruitdale Station General Plan Amendments" has been deferred to an unknown day and time, said City Planner Laurel Prevetti. The meeting had originally been scheduled for Feb. 14, at 6 p.m. A residential development and office building is proposed for the site of the Kmart store located at the corner of Fruitdale Avenue and Southwest Expressway.
--Kate Carter
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