December 1, 2009 – Daily Brief

Written by Jeff on December 1st, 2009

City sales tax revenue $260,000 less than expected. The City says it’s already accounted for that loss. Did they account for the $200,000 they’re going to give to the Economic Development Corporation when they were making projections? SIGNAL
A truck carrying pomegranates has crashed on I-5 South near the 14, making traffic a sticky mess, reports KTLA. No injuries. The KTLA photo looks like my kitchen after my wife comes home from the market with pomegranates
Buck McKeon, other House members, to meet with President Obama today ahead of his Afghanistan speech at West Point. The Congressman is planning a press conference with CA-25 reporters as well CBS NEWS
Cross Valley Connector should open by March, the City says. The new roadway will not only save time but “spur business and community development.” KHTS
Dog park, basketball courts and more to open at Santa Clarita Sports Complex in Canyon Country SIGNAL
SCV Homeless Shelter opens. Just in time too, it got down into the 30s last night! The shelter served 14,000 meals last year. SIGNAL
Get your input into the last OVOV meeting before the 450,000 come and the SCV turns into the SFV. The last meeting is in February, which should make it close enough to the City Council election that there’s bound to be some grandstanding! SIGNAL
That dog that was mistakenly given to the wrong family by a pet groomer in Stevenson Ranch? It was found dead near railroad tracks in Canyon Country. Sad story SIGNAL
Santa Clarita girl could be the next Mia Hamm (soccer superstar) ESPN
Would you take mass transit if you got to ride in your own individual pod and the system went where you wanted to go? NPR investigates
Famous mobile Korean BBQ truck will visit the SCV tomorrow night. The Kogi Roja truck will roll into town at 10:30 PM, exact location TBD according to SCVTALKER Mike
Second Big 5 sporting goods store opens in Canyon Country CITY BRIEFS
Fewer drunks on the road is something to be thankful for SIGNAL
I like Bruce McFarland’s column today but his views on Religion are not representative of all SCV Democrats. We are an open and inclusive party SIGNAL
All this talk about “size matters” makes me & the Trader Joe’s parking lot feel inadequate LTE

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19 Comments so far ↓

SCVFan says:

December 1, 2009 at 9:48 am

Jeff – your link is wrong for the dog story FYI.
Jane says:

December 1, 2009 at 9:51 am

Teddy – I feel for this family but have to ask how could someone take home the wrong dog? I think the groomer has not completely fessed up to what happened.
Timothy Myers says:

December 1, 2009 at 10:11 am

Jane:

You are right. I look at Occam’s Razor and one can’t really see a family taking the wrong dog from a groomers UNLESS it was exactly the same breed, and once they realized the mistake they would most likely bring the dog back. I’m thinking the dog escaped from the groomer and they invented the story hoping the dog would turn up.
Jeff says:

December 1, 2009 at 10:16 am

No, the Signal reported on this story this weekend. They said the groomers gave the dog that died to the wrong family. That dog escaped and ran into the wash.

The other family, meanwhile, took home the wrong dog as well but didn’t notice it until they got home:

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She called the groomers only to find out Teddy Bear was accidentally given to someone else and had run away from the other pet owner into the riverbed wash in Canyon Country.
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If something seems like it’s missing, it’s because the Signal left out the name of the Groomer in the story in order to protect the business.
SCVFan says:

December 1, 2009 at 10:20 am

TM – I thought the same thing but that dog ended up on a COMPLETELY different side of town. I agree there is something missing.
cash says:

December 1, 2009 at 11:14 am

•All this talk about “size matters” makes me & the Trader Joe’s parking lot feel inadequate

Obvious before they moved in. That intersection is a mess as well.
NickelDime says:

December 1, 2009 at 11:45 am

The Bouquet Cyn / Newhall Ranch intersection traffic flow should change dramatically once the CVC is done.

I’m not smart enough to know how much of the traffic will be transferred, but it has to be a significant amount.
Valencia Joe says:

December 1, 2009 at 12:13 pm

What is interesting in that in the two Signal articles about the now deceased dog, there is never a mention of the groomer’s name. Was it an individual or a business? Wouldn’t the name of the groomer be of benefit to other dog owners?
KLB says:

December 1, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Not only does The Signal not mention the name of the groomer, channel 2 and channel 7 both did stories on Teddy Bear and neither mention the name of the groomer. The channel 7 web site allows for comments and the supposed daughter of Teddy Bear’s owner posted several comments and even she didn’t name the groomer when someone else asked. Not sure why they’re keeping the groomer’s name a secret. Seems weird to me.
Valencia Joe says:

December 1, 2009 at 1:44 pm

KLB – It does seem weird. I wonder if it could be one of two things… the groomer was a personal friend of theirs, or the owners lost the dog and made up a story that they were given the wrong dog at the groomers so to gain sympathy.
Jane says:

December 1, 2009 at 2:05 pm

I just cannot believe that now they are stating that 2 people didn’t know their own dog. It really sounds far fetched. When I pick up my dogs from the kennel where they stay a couple of times a year, I can hear their barks when I pull into the parking lot, there is no way I wouldn’t know I had the wrong dog.
Need for Involved Citizenry says:

December 1, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Looked at the City’s OVOV website and didn’t see anything on the last OVOV hearing or the EIR being available for review. Sounds like this is only a review and comment for the County EIR. Another fine job of thorough reporting by the Mighty Signal.
divination says:

December 1, 2009 at 2:49 pm

“If something seems like it’s missing, it’s because the Signal left out the name of the Groomer in the story in order to protect the business.”

It was DOGS ETC. in Newhall.
Fred says:

December 1, 2009 at 4:05 pm

We are an open and inclusive party

I doubt that seriously. Maybe patting each other on the head and saying “That’s interesting,” but when pressed they are just as closed minded and exclusive as Fred Phelp’s Church.
cash says:

December 1, 2009 at 5:42 pm

The Bouquet Cyn / Newhall Ranch intersection traffic flow should change dramatically once the CVC is done.

Yes, it will get worse.
Walker :) says:

December 1, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Does anyone know, will the left turn from Bouquet (heading south) onto Newhall be changed? There is no way that tiny little turn lane will be able to handle the flow for the new bridge. It currently takes 3 ridiculously long turn lanes on to Soledad, I’m sure people will prefer the CVC and there is space for maybe 3 vehicles in that current turn lane. I’m guessing they’ll get rid of that odd little turn at Jack in the Box….but then, will they let you U-turn on NHR so you can get to TJs?

That intersection is a joke, and I’ll never understand the poor layout of the BB/TJs parking log.

BTW, I noticed a notice posted in the window at Mervyns. I din’t have time to check for details, but it looked like it might have been an alcohol permit.
Lillian Joshua says:

December 2, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Thanksgiving tragedy. My mom took her dog Teddy Bear to the groomers the day before Thanksgiving. The groomers gave my moms dog to someone else and his dog to us. The other gentleman picked up our dog thinking it was his at 4 or 5pm. We picked up his a couple of hours later. When my brother brought the other dog home my mom immediately realized that this was not her Teddy Bear. My brother went back to the groomers to find that they had given our dog to someone else. When we called this man, he said that he had left our dog on the porch and he had run away. That man did not have a collar on his dog, so his dog had on Teddy’s collar, and Teddy did not have any collar on. We searched all night for him from 8pm until 1:30 in the morning. We heard he was spotted in a wash near railroad tracks. We, with flashlights, searched tiredly to no avail.
The next day was Thanksgiving. Everyone searched again and we still could not find Teddy. We made and posted a thousand signs and scoured the areas he was lost in, but still nothing. That night we got a call and someone said they had found Teddy. We drove to the house and we saw right away that the dog they had was not Teddy. Right when we got home the phone rang again and it was someone else saying they found him. We went there and it was different people, with the same dog…not Teddy. My mom lay awake that night unable to sleep and heartbroken.
Friday was a day of more searching. We spent every waking moment looking for Teddy, with no avail. Saturday we searched again. We went to every pound, shelter and humane society in a 50 mile radius. Also, a nice gentleman brought a bloodhound out to try to trace Teddy’s scent. This gave my mom hope and she prayed that Teddy was somewhere waiting for her to find him.
This morning (Sunday) she got a call at 7:30 in the morning from a kind man who had said that he saw Teddy on Friday morning, dead. He believed that he was hit by a train. He went back this morning and buried him. After, he went to a local grocery store where he saw one of the lost dog signs that we had posted. He gave immediately called my mom to give her the terrible news. This afternoon he met us at the place Teddy died, to give us his body so we could bury him and put him to rest. My mom was in shock and despair. She did not want to believe that Teddy was really gone. On the way home we stopped at the vet so she could confirm, what we all already knew, that Teddy was in fact gone. The cemetery came and picked him up from her home later that day, and he will be buried at the Calabasas cemetery this week.
If you would like to find out more about this, please look at the link, she was on the news on Thanksgiving. Also, she will be on the news tonight at 10pm on channel 9, and at 11pm on channel 2.
We hope that Teddy’s death was not a senseless one. We want to get the word out there that groomers and pet care givers need to have measures in place to ensure that something like this can never happen again. When we leave our pets (family members) in their care, we need to be assured that they will not be in danger and that a tragedy like this one, can never happen again.
May our little Teddy Bear rest in peace and be with the angels. We will miss him. Mom we are so sorry for your loss, we love you very much.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7141337

http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=120734@kcbs.dayport.com
Lillian Joshua says:

December 2, 2009 at 7:26 pm

The only thing “missing” from this is the groomers name. This is intentional. My mom decided not to release the shops name. The owner of the shop is heartbroken as well. The owner was compassionate and helpful in trying to help us search for Teddy Bear, she was also compassionate when she met us to comfort my mom when we had to go pick up Teddy’s dead body. The owner was not physically present when the employees of her shop committed this egregious act. By disclosing the shops name, this owner would most likely be run out of business. My mom feels that by hurting them in this way, it would just be destroying one more life. It will not make her feel better, and it will not bring her Teddy Bear back.
Instead we want to get the word out there that this did happen. We make to make people aware that things like this can happen. We want to hopefully make all groomers/pet care givers aware, so that if they do not have strict practices in place to ensure that these kinds of things don’t happen, they get them in place. You should never have to be afraid when you leave your pet in the care of someone else, that you might never see them again. You should never have to take your dog to get groomed and bring them home dead days later.
Jo Joshua says:

December 5, 2009 at 8:17 pm

I ONLY WANTED YOU

They say memories are golden
Well maybe that is true.
I never wanted memories.
I only wanted you.

A million times I needed you,
A million times I cried,
If love alone could have saved you
You never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly,
In death I love you still,
In my heart you hold a special place
No one could ever fill.

If tears could build a stairway
And heartache make a lane,
I would walk the path to heaven
And bring you back again.

Our family chain is broken
And nothing seems the same.
But as God calls us one by one,
The chain will link again.

Rest in peace my special little Teddy Bear.
The Joshua family with love always.