Letters

I read with great interest about a strong chance of a wet winter. I read the statistics and predictions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center. There was information from previous El Nino years regarding winds, ocean currents, temperatures, etc. With all the descriptive details from the scientists and other experts, the last paragraph quoted from the experts said, “The fact is that this coming winter could extend our record dry weather or bring major storms, heavy precipitation and coastal storm surges or a combination of all.” So I really haven’t learned more than I already knew, so it’s stilll a fifty-fifty chance of a strong, wet winter!

I am just writing because I missed the talk of the week and I wanted to voice my opinion on a recent question of the week. “Do you support the city hosting a Hollister Airshow in 2016?” No, I do not because they are always in the red, as far as the budget. I feel Mike Chambles has too much on his plate. How can we make money, if there losing too much money? One year, with 10,000 people slipping through the gate for free—aren’t you the code enforcement officer? Also when one person has too much on his plate, then maybe it’s time to send in some help, or get demoted.

Right after my grandmother passed away in 1965, my cousin who lived in the flat above my grandmother telephoned me to tell me that she found a paper in grandma’s trunk in the attic, with names, birth dates and villages that were in Czechoslovakia and to ask would I be interested in it. I said yes and she mailed the paper to me. That paper sat in my drawer until I retired and then I started to do my family genealogy. My daughter emailed me one day and told me that she found a genealogist outside of Prague. I emailed him and asked him to do my four lines for me. I emailed him what my cousin sent to me and he said that he lived about 30 minutes away from these villages and that I gave him more information than most people do.

Here we go again! Beware of all the new construction projects!

The Bay Area boom and high costs are driving demand for housing in cities that are still affordable, so once again, Hollister is on a development spree. And just as with previous building sprees, the city is doing little to address serious infrastructure problems, primarily roads leading to/from Hollister.