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I can’t believe that the CHP and Hollister cops let drivers
regularly go 45 to 50 miles an hour down San Benito Street in a 25
zone. Just go stand there on any downtown corner for five minutes
any day or evening and check it out. Or try to cross San Benito in
your car from Sixth Street during the day, especially with the way
cars are allowed to be parked so close to the corner, which also
shows how stupid the city street planners are. And the district
commander of the CHP lives here! Some pedestrian or school kid is
going to get killed trying to cross or there will be a deadly
accident soon. They better get off their butt and start writing
some speeding tickets on the main street in town before someone
gets killed or badly hurt because of their laziness. And budget
cuts are NO excuse.
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“I can’t believe that the CHP and Hollister cops let drivers regularly go 45 to 50 miles an hour down San Benito Street in a 25 zone. Just go stand there on any downtown corner for five minutes any day or evening and check it out. Or try to cross San Benito in your car from Sixth Street during the day, especially with the way cars are allowed to be parked so close to the corner, which also shows how stupid the city street planners are. And the district commander of the CHP lives here! Some pedestrian or school kid is going to get killed trying to cross or there will be a deadly accident soon. They better get off their butt and start writing some speeding tickets on the main street in town before someone gets killed or badly hurt because of their laziness. And budget cuts are NO excuse.”
“It’s good guys like Rev. David Rodriguez and ex-councilman and all around good guy Richard Boomer that make me proud to be a member of this community.
After being “shot down” by then Sheriff Harvey Nyland and the Board of Supes over a battered woman’s shelter above the Sheriff’s Office, Boomer and the City of Hollister stepped up to the plate and smacked it out of the park.
Give us 10 people like Boomer and Rev. Rodriguez and this would be a better place by far. Good luck to Rev. Rodriquez and the future inhabitants of the Emmaus House.”
“I wanted to write in about how my child’s rights have been violated. My son, a special education student, is a fifth grader and he was recently moved from Calaveras School to Rancho without parental input or consent.
Although he’s enrolled at Rancho, he is in the home-hospital program from Stanford Hospital, so he is not on the Rancho campus.
On top of that, my son should be in a yearbook with other fifth graders. I don’t believe fifth graders should be at a middle school. His yearbook picture should be in the Calaveras yearbook – where he was when he was put on the home-hospital program – but school officials will not allow that.
He is a Rancho student in numbers only.
I question the handling of fifth-grade students like my son by the Hollister School District. I want my son back at Calaveras.”
“My son plays in the Hollister Pop Warner Football League and is one of those non-favored players that gets six plays within a game. It usually takes place within the first five minutes and then he stands on the sideline for the remaining three and a half quarters with his head down in disappointment.
I have approached the coach about this unfair treatment and his only response to me, in a non-remorseful tone is, “I’m only required to give your son six plays.” It’s obvious he chooses at this liking who to inflict the terrible rule on.
My question to the president of the Hollister Pop Warner Youth Football League, is why do you allow such incomprehensible treatment to take place on those non-favored young boys? Is winning so important that you don’t care to ensure that every player deserves equal and fair playing time? As the president, you are responsible to the Hollister community that supports the league to treat all the players equally. If you and the coaches refuse to do what’s right, why do you participate in an organization that is supposed to be about having fun and learning the game?
Why aren’t the parents who support the organization given the opportunity to vote on the coaches and board members? Are you afraid of the outcome, therefore that is why you have run the organization without parent voting participation for years? You have been president for a number of years and it’s time for you to step down so a person who has the kid’s best interest at heart can take over.”
