Transportation, Animal Rights and the Fair

* Your coverage of the new Hansen Dam location for the San Fernando Valley Fair (“Fair in the Air,” June 8) was good but should have gone one step further: How does one get there by bus?

I know the MTA 233 bus route goes to Lake View Terrace, and routes 234, 166, 168 and 92 or 94 go near there, but I wonder how many readers know the best way to get there by bus. Making it worse, streets in the area run northwest or southeast, instead of north-south and east-west.

RICK ROFMAN

Van Nuys

* I wish to bring some needed clarity to the meaning behind the photos and narrative on the annual Valley junior livestock auction (“Fair Market Price,” June 11).

The facts behind the photo of the calf drinking goat’s milk are that “it,” like all livestock, was ripped from its mother after birth, and there was approximately seven days of wailing and calling between mother and calf after this. Now the calf is fed goat’s milk because the processed and pasteurized cow’s milk is indigestible for a calf.

One of the young participants kisses the snout of her three-month-old calf, but she is aware that she is going to miss “it” after it is sold at auction (for slaughter). Is it just me or did the story on the annual auction drive home a shocking reality: Some animals are pets, some are food and some are both.

CARLA HALL

Woodland Hills