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Speak Out
Train yard will have impact of locomotive
Another pet project is being railroaded through the community. There is a train maintenance yard to be operated on Stockton and Lenzen just northwest of the Arena, near the heart of the Shasta/ Hanchett Park neighborhood.
The yard will operate 24 hours a day on about 13 trains at a time. It will generate a lot of noise and thick black diesel smoke. I do not particularly want black soot coating my property every day. Palm Haven will be the most affected in our area.
There has been no environmental impact study, no neighborhood meetings and a puppet task force put together just to mitigate the project. All council members except Frank Fiscalini voted for the yard. Remember that when other districts ask for our support.
Please call the mayor's office with any concerns.
Patrick Coleman
Willow Glen
A gem of Willow Glen slips quietly away
Richard J. Fox, the man who was un-doubtedly the last vestige of old Willow Glen, passed away March 29.
I first met Dick Fox while in the fourth grade at Highway Grammar School in Mountain View in 1933. He was the shop teacher (which was called manual training) at that time. Here was a kindly man of infinite patience and boundless humor. Much to my joy, I again met Dick Fox in 1936 in shop class at Willow Glen Grammar School.
Dick was a member of the Willow Glen Volunteer Fire Department. He appears in a picture of that group taken in 1932, shown both in Old Willow Glen, by Elizabeth Giar-ratana, and The Willow Glen Neighborhood, by April Hope Halberstadt. Dick is in the middle row, standing, third from the left, wearing a sweater and a big smile.
I frequently met Dick, wearing his broad-brimmed hat, in the local shopping centers. He remembered me, my brother Ralph and my son Chris, all his students over a span of many years. He often rode the fire engine in the Founders Day parade.
He was a large part of what Willow Glen was, and I am very proud to have known him.
Robert L. Smith
Cottle Avenue
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Willow Glen, California Since 1992
