May 16, 2011 – Daily Brief

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jeff
  • July 1 looms large for City Hall and library patrons, but still much remains to be done in the city’s takeover of the three County libraries. The Signal says the City and County still haven’t come to an agreement on the purchase costs for library assets, and the entire library system will shut down on June 18 to transition to the City SIGNAL
  • Jeff Stenroos, the Valencia resident & LAUSD cop who allegedly faked his shooting, which triggered a massive, 10 hour long manhunt in Woodland Hills, plead not guilty to six charges late last week. LA TIMES
  • 28 year old man is killed after the car he was driving veered off Sierra Highway near Newhall Avenue and rolled over SIGNAL
  • The story last week that April was a terrible month for home sales continued over the weekend. No data on local sales yet but a mortgage guy KHTS talked to blames high gas prices and economic uncertainty for the cooling off of the normally warm spring real estate season KHTS
  • Finally SCV is in the record books for something other than a disastrous dam collapse: on Sunday, participants at the SCV Jewish food and Cultural Festival created the largest falafel ball at 3 feet 10 inches in diameter and weighing in at over 52 lbs. The record has been Guiness-certified DAILY NEWS
  • But if falafel wasn’t your thing this weekend then maybe you went over to Creekside to enjoy the food truck/classic car festival there. WRB
  • Great and heartwarming profile of Max Stone, a 90 year old Santa Clarita resident who has worked as the Dodger’s unofficial-but-official greeter for decades DAILY NEWS
  • The Tour of California bicycle race will hit Santa Clarita on Sunday. Preceded by family fun events, the riders will roll out of Town Center drive between 10am and noon. Rolling closures will be in effect on McBean and Newhall Ranch Road SIGNAL
  • Speaking of bikes, it’s officially Bike to Work Week, and Thursday is bike to work day. Get all the details you need at METRO and CITY BRIEFS
  • LTE writer doesn’t get the new Discovery Park in Canyon Country. “A park has large grassy areas for kids and/or their family pet to run around. A park has swings, lighting, restrooms, picnic tables and shady areas. This park has none of these things that make me want to take my family there,” he writes. SIGNAL
  • Signal editorial gives a rousing defense of the Keep-the-SCV-whole movement, which aims to convince the redistricting commission from splitting us between legislative districts EDITORIAL
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13 Responses to May 16, 2011 – Daily Brief

  1. Gang Fang says:
    May 16, 2011 at 9:12 am

    I sort of understand the LTE writer regarding Discovery Park (bathrooms should be a no brainer for all parks), but overall he comes off as a whiny child. Simple solution for him: GO ELSEWHERE. There are plenty of parks with all of the amenities he desires for his brood, although I suspect he finds something not to his liking in all of them.

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  2. Todd says:
    May 16, 2011 at 10:58 am

    How many swing sets and jungle gyms does anyone see in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Channel Islands or any one of our dozens of National PARKS???? (ok, yes there are play areas in some of them… But you get my point.)

    I don’t know what’s worse…. That the writer actually wasted their time writing it…. or the Signal wasting their and our time publishing it?

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    • jalfonse70 says:
      May 16, 2011 at 1:38 pm

      Hmmm, I don’t buy the Yosemite, Yellowstone, etc analogy. Those are state parks that are naturally beautiful. Taxpayers already pay for them and if you want to drive to see them, you can. Discovery Park is more tax money spent for something that’s supposed to be natural but isn’t. It’s not naturally beautiful and as the write states, it’s not useful either. Besides, if one wants something akin to natural outdoors, shouldn’t one go visit the wide open space we also already pay for?

      I don’t live near Discovery Park but if I did I would feel ripped off. I tend to agree with the writer that this was more about profiles and awards than it was highest and best use of tax monies for a city with 200,000 people in it. People who live in suburban tract home communities like Santa Clarita want parks to spend time with family and kids. I’m sure polling would have revealed the same.

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    • Linda says:
      May 16, 2011 at 3:16 pm

      I have to take the letter writer’s side on this one…. at least there are restrooms, shade, and picnic tables at those places, not to mention scenery worth looking at. (Canyon Country isn’t really in the same league as Yosemite.) If it is going to be semi-landscaped open space, why not just call it that — why call it a park?

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      • lstaedtler says:
        May 16, 2011 at 5:31 pm

        Passive park focuses on minimal development. There are picnic tables and a kids play area at the park so the letter writer was exaggerating. I undersand LTE’s are opinions of the writer but I dont think the Signal should publish letters which contain factually incorrect information.

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      • Todd says:
        May 16, 2011 at 6:19 pm

        I get what you’re saying… but a park doesn’t (by any definition) need to have any sort of improvements. A park is really defined as an open space designated for recreational use by people. Where that becomes different than an “open space” for example is that an open space, while it may be used for human recreation, isn’t necessarily intended for that.

        Of course, I’d suggest that definition is contradictory to the use in national parks, but I digress…

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  3. Petz says:
    May 16, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Madder than hell at Newt Gingrich-with friends like him who needs enemies? There isn’t a big enough bus to throw him under. He is reputed and refuted.

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    • Mr Perez says:
      May 16, 2011 at 10:18 pm

      And you’re surprised how?

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      • TaTonka says:
        May 17, 2011 at 4:50 am

        Like I said before. The republican party is a total mess. The fact that Gingrich even thinks he has a shot at winning is all the evidence you need.

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      • Petz says:
        May 17, 2011 at 5:47 am

        Beacause Petz cousulted with him last summer in a back lot at Disneyworld.

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