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November 18, 2010 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

  • WTF! SCV handyman attacks and tries to kill a client’s dog at four in the morning. The dog’s owner awoke at that time to her Dachsund’s cries, so she went outside and saw her handyman holding her dog underneath a tarp that was soaked in a “bleach like chemical.” The Dachsund later died and the handyman, John Gilchrist, has been arrested SIGNAL
  • City planners and the Planning Commission worked through the One Valley One Vision’s Traffic and Circulation element at the Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday night SIGNAL. I HEART goes deep on Level of Service claims (Rated A through F) and tells us how the plan to keep traffic at current levels while the population increases is dependent on bridges while Cam Noltemeyer predictably calls OVOV an “assault on the residential community.”
  • As if we needed something else to worry about. The Daily News says health officials have found more rabid bats than usual in the SFV and SCV this year. The tiny flying mammals, which eat insects and hang out with vampires, are a potential threat to people and animals. If you see a sick one, don’t touch! DAILY NEWS
  • City lands Trifecta triathlon event in June, the same time we’ll host a stage start in the Amgen Tour of California. SIGNAL
  • AP profiles three California Republican Congressman, including Buck McKeon and Kevin McCarthy from nearby Bakersfield, who are ascending to top leadership positions in the new House SIGNAL
  • Buck McKeon says that if we cut defense spending, it means we’re undermining America. But other Republicans seem open to cutting from the DoD TIME MAG
  • It’s confirmed: the problem with California is….Californians. An LA Times poll finds that Californians don’t want to pay more taxes but also dislike cuts to popular programs and want spending increased on others LA TIMES
  • County to build Commerce Center drive overpass that takes Commerce Center drive traffic off Highway 126 and puts it on Henry Mayo Drive. SIGNAL
  • City to host “Breakfast with Santa Claus” on December 11 CITY BRIEFS
  • Letter writer wants Frank Ferry to resign because, as Principal of Alemany High School, Ferry is stealing the SCV’s talented football youth. He even checked with the City Attorney and District Attorney who told them there’s no conflict of interest between Ferry’s position on the Council and as Principal of Alemany. Ahh, but there’s a “moral conflict of interest” our LETTER WRITER says
  • John Boston’s Time Ranger column this week is a win with new information about the first discovery of gold in California (it may not have been Francisco Lopez in P-Canyon but rather some Indians in P-Canyon way back in 1796) and lots more WRB
  • Big Picture takes a look at all the protesting going on around the world BIG PICTURE
  • Happy 29th Birthday to my brother Scott!

Comments

30 · as published
  1. ThomasNovember 18, 2010 at 7:54 am
    Funny, even when I went to Alemany over 25 years ago, people from Santa Clarita attended. Is there only a problem now because Ferry is principal and this is the anti-Ferry board? If he were no longer principal of Alemany, would anyone here care who from SCV was going to Alemany? My answer is no.
  2. Berta González-HarperNovember 18, 2010 at 4:31 pm
    Thomas, I agree. I attended Bishop Alemany High School a whopping 45 years ago when the campus was still gender divided! There was some place north of us on a map, I think Newhall. I do not remember any “Indians” or “jocks” for outside of the San Fernando Valley area attending back then but I suppose there may have been.
  3. Timothy Myers SRNovember 18, 2010 at 9:09 am
    On the handyman incident: I am guessing their is more than just the “handyman/homeowner” relationship going on. We had an excellent dauchsund named “Gidget” that we got as a result a divorce (some other folks). I love dogs (cats too) so I really don’t like this guy.
  4. navigatorNovember 18, 2010 at 10:35 am
    That was my first thought as well. I’d like to know what hedge he was trimming for him to be there at 4 in the morning. Maybe the dog kept getting between him and the hedge? Give him the same fate!
  5. WalkerNovember 18, 2010 at 9:45 am
    Woot! I’m totally doing the sprint triathlon! The city offered a sprint training class in the fall, I wonder if they will again in the spring. Crazy on the dog/handyman story. What a nut!
  6. Timothy Myers SRNovember 18, 2010 at 9:57 am
    On Frank Ferry: Now we add to the list of City Council duties: Number One Get us a Cheesecake Factory Number Two Give us dominant football teams Since West Ranch and Castaic will be outside the City is it OK to loot players from them to play at schools inside the City.
  7. Need for Involved CitizenryNovember 18, 2010 at 11:44 am
    Re: The letter writer complaining about Frank Ferry’s recruiting – how funny that he says he voted for him! Re: OVOV – I sat through the Planning Comission meeting and was one of the speakers. There should be meetings set aside for discussing just this issue. The staff presentation did not begin till 10:45 and public comment began at 11:45. I’ll have to send in written comments to staff and see if they get incorporated into the revised EIR. It is impossible to adequately comment on 8,000 + pages of material in three or even 5 – 3 minute sessions. What is really needed here is a dialogue with City staff, the Planning Commission and interested members of the public. I find it pretty ballsy that the City takes 5+ years to prepare the plan, another 2 to get a draft EIR out with supporting element data changing significantly from what they presented for study sessions and then only want to have a 90 public comment period during three Commission meetings. I was also very disappointed that only Commissioners Ostrom and Kennedy asked questions of Staff during the OVOV portion of the meeting. The rest were either uninterested, hadn’t read the documents or will just vote for whatever staff recommends. Some of the contradictions in the Circulation Element were: Major intersection Level of Service quality at peak periods goes from a B- average grade to a D- (only if all improvements are built otherwise, they will become an E-). SR 14 goes from a B level of service to an F level of service at peak (essentially gridlock). While the Plan supposedly promotes walking and biking as alternative forms of transportation, there will be 48 new 6 lane streets (8 lane crossings at intersections) and 11 new 8 lane streets (10 lane crossings) created. These by their nature are not bike or pedestrian friendly. Furthermore, 5 bikeway segments will be removed to accommodate street expansions. There will need to be 8 Rights of Way required to do the intersection improvements. In the prior Plan, the City indicated this would be a limiting condition. There was no examination of traffic conditions on Newhall Pass The traffic impacts were deemed as less than significant with mitigation measures by the EIR consultant – hogwash. I urge anyone who will be living here in the next 20 years to take a hard look at this plan as it will have significant impacts on the quality of life here. I commented on the prior circulation element and EIR scoping 2 years ago
  8. ThomasNovember 18, 2010 at 4:20 pm
    I already have. 10 years to retirement and I am out of here.
  9. dogsleeperNovember 18, 2010 at 12:18 pm
    Sad about the doxie. I am sure there is much more to this story. In my opinion dogs, especially the little ones, should be inside at 4 am either sleeping in their own doggie bed or tucked in with a person.
  10. Timothy Myers SRNovember 18, 2010 at 2:14 pm
    You are right. All of our dogs (small dogs) sleep with my Nebraska bride and me.
  11. Bill ReynoldsNovember 18, 2010 at 5:57 pm
    Not a surprise that Tim sleeps with dogs.
  12. Timothy Myers SRNovember 19, 2010 at 8:39 am
    Bill: Did not realize you were a Muslim! (Dogs are unclean.)
  13. Bill ReynoldsNovember 20, 2010 at 5:20 pm
    You didn’t realize that!? And yet another example of Tim’s exceptional perception…
  14. DamageIncNovember 19, 2010 at 10:55 am
    Bill can’t get dogs to sleep with him and as a child his mom use to tie a bone around his neck to get the dog to play him.
  15. Bill ReynoldsNovember 20, 2010 at 5:20 pm
    That’s all you got? C’mon Brain Damaged…
  16. NateNovember 18, 2010 at 1:58 pm
    How can someone kill a dog? Sick. Happy birthday Scott
  17. Berta González-HarperNovember 18, 2010 at 2:51 pm
    Whatever his reasons or motives, this guy had no right to take out his anger and aggression against this poor defenseless little dog. The poor doxie must have suffered horrific pain and injury from these chemical burns to cause death. If he receives any punishment at all, it will not be enough in my book.
  18. Your Web GuruNovember 18, 2010 at 3:53 pm
    I wholeheartedly agree, Berta.
  19. DamageIncNovember 19, 2010 at 10:56 am
    Guy is sick in the head. It is a matter of time before he tries something like this on humans.
  20. ScottNovember 18, 2010 at 4:13 pm
    Thanks for the birthday wishes!
  21. NavigatorNovember 18, 2010 at 6:05 pm
    So what’s your point Bill? Doesn’t everyone?
  22. Bill ReynoldsNovember 18, 2010 at 9:10 pm
    Ha! Well, it just so happens that I sleep with a very beautiful woman every night. No dogs in our bed.
  23. Gang FangNovember 18, 2010 at 10:28 pm
    Moms don’t count, Billy.
  24. MikeNovember 18, 2010 at 11:05 pm
    Damn, Fungus!
  25. john adamsNovember 19, 2010 at 6:49 am
    We sleep with our doxie. Hell, some nights she cheers me on!
  26. Bill ReynoldsNovember 19, 2010 at 8:56 am
    What? Every other week. Ha!
  27. DamageIncNovember 19, 2010 at 10:57 am
    Your funniest comment ever.
  28. Bill ReynoldsNovember 19, 2010 at 8:56 am
    That would be the mother of my children, not like your full size blow up doll.
  29. DamageIncNovember 19, 2010 at 10:57 am
    Chubby Bunny loves his blue pills…
  30. Bill ReynoldsNovember 20, 2010 at 8:09 am
    Don’t need ‘em sonny…
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