The Willow Glen Resident Letters Many thanks from an animal lover for article on TV show I just want to say thank you to Michelle Ku for the wonderful article she wrote about me and our television show For the Animals. I just found out that our Garden Gourmet, Kay Bushnell, used to live in Willow Glen too. I hope we have gained a few more viewers with the Willow Glen Resident publicity. When we decided to buy a house 30 years ago, I told my husband that I wanted to live in Willow Glen--no place else would do. He said we could spend $16,500. Well I couldn't quite find what I wanted for that amount, so we had to come up with a little more money to buy the house I wanted. It cost $20,000. My husband and I both were working; however, in 1968, the mortgage companies would only use the man's income to qualify you for a loan. I've never been sorry we bought in this neighborhood. We love it here. Judy Jones Willow Glen After 14 years, Broadway neighbors are ready for change As one of the 30-plus immediate neighbors of Broadway Continuation High School, I wanted to voice another opinion about moving the students to another campus and returning the site to an elementary school setting. Fourteen years ago, when the district moved in the older students, there was major opposition to their using the local school site for this purpose. Out of 30 neighbors I know well, 20 are unhappy about the continuation school. The district claimed this was only a temporary situation--14 years ago--and has stonewalled any efforts to move them out until now, when they need to move a whole school. They have bought expensive portables for other crowded elementary sites while continuing to use this one unwisely. Our property values have dropped $10,000 to $30,000 per house (according to appraisals) depending on how close you live to this problem, and will only rise back to normal when elementary children come back. Families want to buy near a school for their little ones, not have them walk down busy Lincoln and Bird Avenues. The graffiti will stop, the fast, loud and dangerously driven cars of students and their friends will be gone, the hordes of milling teens trashing Broadway and Lincoln will disappear, and the constant police interventions for gang fights, drug use and other criminal activities will probably end. K-5 students just don't have those problems. Two weeks after school opened this year a major police intervention took place on Friday, with six marked and four unmarked cars, and more than 20 officers, all trying to deter a gang fight. There are permanent police placed on site. Just last year I phoned the district again about this, and a planner told me it would take $1 million to move the Broadway Continuation High School. As usual, this was just a red herring to discourage neighborhood agitation to move the school, as promised 14 years ago. Any elementary school use on this site is better than what we have now. It's a small campus, and an otherwise quiet neighborhood. Letters from Faircliff Court (Booksin and Foxworthy) residents, who don't live with the daily speeding, auto break-ins, trash, cursing, gang graffiti and other problems, don't have a clue, but they can have the next "temporary" site for the continuation high school, just as we were told 14 year ago that it was only going to be a temporary situation. D.T. Hollis Willow Glen If voting changed anything, it would be outlawed It's very interesting to read the backlash on the latest election results in the Willow Glen Resident. However, many residents are missing the point, just like one of your letter writers, Alma Taylor. Along with her, millions of Republicans blaming each other for being "boneheaded" on issues as abortion and gun control, forgetting the simple fact that to support both is not a political issue but an American issue. Behind both issues are the dark forces of the New Age. The U.S. Constitution--which seems to be the biggest enemy of all Democrats and liberals--declares the right to life. So, the pro-death campaigners are anti-Americans? Yes, they are! The Second Amendment has no additional amendments saying that only the federal government can have some kind of weapons, while citizens are qualified to be armed only with kitchen knives. After Ruby Ridge, Waco and several other "learnings," do Americans still believe that gun control will bring peace to the streets of America? I find it very stupid if people used their votes to "protest" against the Clinton sex-scandal led by some Republican forces. These people ignore the fact that Clinton is brought to justice not because he had sex in the White House, but because he brought scandalous moral decay to the highest office of the nation. Those who used their pens to express their opposition are nothing else but contributors to more decay! On the gun-control issue, if Americans want the crime wave stopped, they should have voted out the Democrats. In the last four decades, the Democrats are the ones who supported more immigration and open borders, so it is them who brought the crime wave into America. The Democrats' gun-control agenda is nothing else but an example of their vicious hypocrisy. Anti-gun zealot Don Perata, for example, carries a Beretta 92F pistol (a so-called "assault weapon"), and another anti-gun and anti-American "professional," Dianne Feinstein, carries a Smith&Wesson M66 revolver, a so-called "Saturday Night Special." A large number of district attorneys, judges and wealthy business owners carry several weapons like these. Yet the sheriff holds the belief that the average citizen should be content with calling 911. (And the help will arrive within 24 hours, right?) Why are their lives more worth defending than mine? The fact is, what the average American cannot or won't understand is that the gun-control advocates want to desensitize the public about gun seizure. The goal is the total confiscation of all guns and the enslavement of the American people. Furthermore, the murder rate in the U.S. prisons and jails is 250 percent that of the general population. How can this be, if gun control is an effective solution to the problem of violent crimes? Regarding the latest election, we did not vote. First of all, because there was no real candidate who supported our beliefs. Second, if voting changed anything, it would be outlawed. Tibor Fuyer Keesling Avenue [ Back to Contents Page | Willow Glen Resident Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Willow Glen Resident, November 18, 1998. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.