Animals matter, too
On 10/5, at 11:08 PM I received a phone call from my neighbor to help with a dog that been hit in the road in front of our homes. That thankfully survived. We went out to help the pet. It looked very good that the little girl would survive. As we were in the process of trying to get if off the road, an oncoming vehicle approached. With flashlights waving, we tried to get said large white pickup to stop or go around. Instead of heading our warning, said truck kept coming, almost hitting us, and ran the poor dog over. Didn’t even stop!
Have we not had enough loss that some unfeeling driver just had to get somewhere in that big of a hurry? At 11 at night?
Sorry to say that this unfeeling driver, who could have stopped to help, just kept on going.
This happened across from the Fire Station on 175. I hope this driver sees this and knows that they have caused a family with kids another great loss.
I have lost a lot of pets in my lifetime, but this was unnecessary, TOTALLY.
Dolores Patrignani, Middletown
A new approach
At a time when the need for new jobs is central to this nation finding itself back on track in enjoying the American Dream once again, our leadership and corporate America seems to think the only answer is to create something new to bring the needed jobs back to our nation.
This shows short sighted thinking an the lack of common sense in our dealing with this need. We all ready have, lets call them factories, in place and the bodies to fill the openings, along with adding greater profit, both to those in the private sector and taxpayers investments. If we just made a single adjustment which is to split the professional basketball teams into two different leagues. One for those players now playing for all the teams that are now in the NBA. By starting a second league made up of only those players under 6 feet tall, who would play their games in the “factories” that are spread across this nation. No need to build new ones. Many of which were build using taxpayer funding. These “factories” that I speak of are also called arenas and stadiums in the present era.
There are 1,000s of truly great players who are under 6 feet tall, are great shots, and would play a different type of game then we view now. They would play a faster game, offer great ball handling, great scoring ability, and have been kicked to the curb because they are not tall or big enough for the modern day NBA.
The new league needs to be completely separate from the present day NBA, hiring their own staff of Players, coaches, as well as an army of new vendors, buying from their own needed suppliers, sighing their own sponsors and cutting their own deals with the TV and Radio medias. Buy doing this, 1,000s of new jobs will need to be filled in all areas that support this sport. All the companies that feed off this pro sport should not be duplicated by this new league, including ownership. They would use their own officials, lets say play the game, SEPARATE BUT EQUAL.
Education scholarships would be increased also. But most important, it would offer so many kids who excel at the game to find a path to greater income and far few broken hearts. In-door football offered this chance, but the difference between this new league and that one, is the rule of play stay the same, exactly the same. A spin-off positive effect would be a larger segment of the teen population would take more serious interest in being fit as well as a opening for the growing interest and skills of the female teens to compete is such a new league.
One only has to go to any high school to see and understand just how welcome this new league would find great favor from that level of future players. To get such a new league started, teams could offer more affordable fee’s to there fan bases.
This also would bring new blood to the game, offering new creative thinking, in promoting this new concept.
The new league could be started in California alone, using four major cities and add one team in Hawaii. In doing so, it may even help support the new fast rail systems now being built in the state for fans to travel to out of area games. Our state has been a leader in new areas for decades and we should take advantage of that fact now. The league could expand all along the West Coast states as both Oregon and Washington have fan bases for this sport.
A push by states is far easier then trying to develop this nationwide. The wealth of Silicon Valley is a great factor in bringing the funds needed to bring this type of project to life. It would help in bringing the level of skilled employees they always are looking for also. All forms of entertainment amount to a benefit that any business can use to there benefit.
Once again, the factories are in place, as are the job seekers on many different levels. Commercial space, both retail and manufacturing is in place. The only question is, is there a fan base able to support such a project, and I would bet there is.
Jim Hall, Clearlake Oaks
