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I’m in favor of the Public Works Department getting a raise.
They do a lot for the city. They keep our parks clean. They keep
the debris off our streets. They take care of everything our city
has.
I think the city should show a lot more respect toward them than
what they are. They are hard-working men and women who work for the
Public Works Department. They do need to get a raise.
Who else would we call if we didn’t need the help of the
city?
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“I’m in favor of the Public Works Department getting a raise. They do a lot for the city. They keep our parks clean. They keep the debris off our streets. They take care of everything our city has.
I think the city should show a lot more respect toward them than what they are. They are hard-working men and women who work for the Public Works Department. They do need to get a raise.
Who else would we call if we didn’t need the help of the city?”
“Why is it in this county we have so many Hispanic agricultural workers and yet for the Mexican holidays, we have no downtown celebrations?”
“I wish that there would be something to help grandparents for grandparent rights. Apparently, nobody in the City of Hollister knows anything about grandparent rights. Is there any possible place where someone who needs help to try to see their grandchild can go to?”
“To get ahead of the energy game, why doesn’t the county install some of those large windmills so we could generate electricity at a lower cost?”
“On April 4, 2003, Howard ended his management of the Granada Theater begun in 1986 by showing ‘The Piano Teacher,’ an Academy Award winning foreign film. He said that in the transfer to Premiere Theaters, everything would be kept the same as he ran it, including his pre-show speech about cleaning up your own popcorn and drink cups. Instead, Premiere seems to use the Granada as another place to show the same old same old Premiere mainstream fare aimed at 14-year-old boys (of course they are an important target market, but there’s also the rest of us). GONE are Tightwad Monday tickets for $2, Ladies Night Tuesdays for $3, and the Saturday double matinee for kids for 75 cents. (Hollister seemed like heaven on earth when we could go see “Harry Potter I” and ‘Monsters Inc.’ on a hot afternoon last summer). But the worst part is that we no longer get quality, thoughtful, creative films – I’ve been waiting week after week for films like ‘Respiro,’ ‘L’Auberge Espanol’ and ‘Nowhere in Africa.’
While vacationing in other parts of the country this summer, I heard friends talking about the great movies they had seen – and that we had missed. At least I could say, ‘Gee there were only 500 prints of ‘Freida and Diego’ in the entire U.S. – can you believe one of them was at the Hollister Granada Theater?’
What’s going on? Did the heartless Corporate Headquarters of the Premiere chain in L.A. or Arizona or wherever, tell the local management to dump the promises made last March? I’ll concede that I’m grateful the historic theater building has activity, and still creates jobs and sales tax, but there’s a huge hole in our cultural opportunities now…”
