Pinnacle links soldier with home
This note is just to thank you for publishing The Pinnacle on
the Web. I can get a touch of home even way over here, and it
really helps to stay connected. I’ve always enjoyed your paper
tremendously and appreciate the fact that I can read at least some
of it while I’m away.
Pinnacle links soldier with home
This note is just to thank you for publishing The Pinnacle on the Web. I can get a touch of home even way over here, and it really helps to stay connected. I’ve always enjoyed your paper tremendously and appreciate the fact that I can read at least some of it while I’m away.
Keep up the good work.
Rich Johnson
Kuwait
Disneybautista?
How can we stop the “rape” of San Juan Bautista?
Thirty-four-plus luxury homes and nothing for the less affluent. Now the Castro/Breen adobe, a treasure in our city, is to be converted to a Disneyland attraction – or worse.
I am outraged!
Can anyone offer a solution to this latest fiasco?
Elinore S. Hanna
San Juan Bautista
Not too late for adobe input
There’s nothing like a little controversy to get people interested in something they usually take for granted! Last April, when San Juan Bautista Sector Superintendent C.L. Price invited the public, including local historical society members, to a meeting to give input on the renovation of the Castro-Breen adobe, only one community member showed up. Now your Oct. 24 article about the proposed changes has brought us more attention than we know what to do with.
Whinnying animated horses and motion-sensitive sound effects? Cutout figures and photo backgrounds? The board of the Plaza History Association (the group that supports Park activities with the gift shop and by organizing the annual June event and Victorian Ball) has let Price know that we think these are awful ideas. Luckily, it’s not too late for input from us and YOU, the public.
The “interpretive plan” presented by the Sibbett Group, is nothing more than that: a plan, and plans can be changed. Several features, including the
animated animals and sound effects, will fall by the wayside as impractical to maintain. Others, such as increased accessibility and protection of irreplaceable artifacts, will probably be implemented. And the “behind-the-scenes” work to shore up the crumbling building, the most necessary of all, will go forward.
If you have comments or suggestions about the Castro-Breen adobe, please let us know! You can send email to [email protected].
Elizabeth Gage
President
Board of the Plaza History Assn.
