The ‘Beef’ About the Quarry

I carefully read the article about the quarry on Happy Camp Road in Moorpark (June 18) and, frankly, people like Tom and Pat Schleve make me sick!

Obviously they knew the quarry was in existence when they bought their property nine years ago, and obviously they realized that the business was growing when they moved onto that property three years ago. Since most successful businesses do continue to grow, what is their beef?

Could their commotion all be for monetary gain? After all, if they can shut the quarry down, their property would escalate in value dramatically. Why else would they be willing to spend $20,000 to drive out a quarry that existed before they came along? Indeed, there has been mining activists in that area since before either of the Schleves was born!

Yes, Tom and Pat Schleve are typical of people who buy next to an airport and then bellyache about the air traffic. They are typical of the whiners who buy next to the freeway and then cry about the traffic noise. They are comparable to people who build on the ocean’s edge, then boo-hoo when a storm sweeps waves over their property. They are kin to folks who build on steep, unstable hillsides and expect sympathy when their house slides into the valley below.

Whiners like them have driven the cows out of Dairy Valley, now known as Cypress, Calif. They’ve driven the horses out of most parts of Thousand Oaks. They are trying to drive out all chicken ranches. They have already closed one quarry in this area.

My suggestion to Tom and Pat is, please move back to where you came from, or did you leave behind a tempest there also?

LEONA THOMASON

Camarillo