It’s been said Hollister is the earthquake capitol of the world,
seeing how the mighty San Andreas Fault runs smack dab through
town. And thanks to that geographical present bestowed upon our
little city, many a merchant have capitalized on it, naming their
business after it.
TOO MANY FAULTLINES
It’s been said Hollister is the earthquake capitol of the world, seeing how the mighty San Andreas Fault runs smack dab through town. And thanks to that geographical present bestowed upon our little city, many a merchant have capitalized on it, naming their business after it.
Currently in San Benito County there are two establishments with the name “Faultline” – one a power sports company in Hollister, and another a restaurant in San Juan Bautista.
The Free Lance ran a story in its weekend lifestyles edition about Joan and Peter’s German Restaurant in San Juan, quoting a lover of German food and the owner of the Fault Line Restaurant in San Juan, Edie Duncan. And while we strive to be as accurate as possible, mistakes do happen, and unfortunately the Free Lance reported that Edie’s restaurant was located in Hollister, which it isn’t.
We take full responsibility for our mistakes, and apologize to Ms. Duncan and the rest of the residents who frequent her establishment in San Juan. So to make everything right, we encourage everyone to hop on over to Edie’s place in San Juan – and while you’re at it, if you’re in the mood for some power sports, take a trip to the Faultline Power Sports, Inc. in Hollister, too. As far as we’re concerned, there can never be too many faultlines.
LOOK OUT FOR THAT HOLE!
For some people, potholes are the bane of their existence. And here at the Red Phone, we sympathize, considering the little buggers wore one of our wonderful writers’ car tires down because they plagued the street she lived on while she was in college. So when one Hollister resident called the Red Phone this week complaining of potholes lining Suitor Street – you see, her granddaughter lives on that street, and when frequently visiting the little angel she must contend with the frustration that is a pothole – we were more than ready to conquer her pothole problem for her. And while she commended city employees for fixing the holes peppering Powell Street, there simply hasn’t been anything done to the ones on Suitor. So we called up our always helpful and terminally nice friend David Rubcic at Hollister Public Works, where he was more than happy to check on the Suitor Street Pothole Problem. And come to find out, it’s a good thing the woman called the Red Phone this week, because David’s handy-dandy pothole locator computer didn’t show Suitor Street having any kind of upcoming resurfacing work. However, he promised to contact the city’s street maintenance department and have them take a look and see if they can’t do something about it. That just goes to show you folks, the squeaky wheel does get the grease, or in this case, the asphalt.
WHILE WE’RE AT IT…
While we were yukking it up with David from public works, as mentioned above, he informed us of another Red Phone problem that is, literally, a Red Phone problem. Because the Public Works Department doesn’t receive copies of the Free Lance at its office (a problem that really should be rectified, subscriptions aren’t that expensive), David said he frequently reads the paper online. But considering how often David is in the Red Phone – the potholes on Suitor Street aren’t the only ones in town, and they certainly are the bane of more than one person’s existence who likes to tell the Red Phone about it – he likes to check that out online, as well. Well, we’ve apparently been doing a poor job of keeping it updated on the Web (we’re full of apologies today), because the last Red Phone item on the Free Lance’s Internet site is from September. Yikes! We know not everyone can subscribe to the Free Lance, or they simply find it easier to get their news straight off the Internet, and we try our best to keep the paper’s content as up to date as possible. So if you can’t find a paper and love the Red Phone, which we can’t fathom a reason why you wouldn’t, we promise to do a better job of putting every new and compelling edition of the Red Phone on the Web. Now there’s no excuse for not reading it, or calling in if you have a problem. Need the number again? It’s 635-9219. Get to it.
