This Water Conservation Plan Might Be a Tough Sell to Conservatives
Dean Gatons of Crestline points out that San Clemente is one city that has formulated an overall plan to conserve water -- while enabling residents to get to know each other better (see accompanying). Fine. But I just don’t know where the city could find a shower big enough for everyone.
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No togetherness here: “After seeing these signs at Oakland airport,” wrote Perry Valantine of Costa Mesa, “my wife and I wondered if we’d have to take separate flights” (see photos). Or, maybe it was a lost-and-found.
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Word imperfect: Puzzled by a type of dress mentioned on a laundromat’s sign (see photo), Bill Kennedy of South Pasadena asked: “What kind of frock is this? You certainly wouldn’t get married in it. And you wouldn’t be caught gardening in it.”
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California the pacesetter: No sooner did I mention ruses by carpool-users than the Toronto Star wrote about a local woman who was ticketed after she filled a baby seat with a stuffed winter coat and pulled the hood down so the “head” wouldn’t be visible.
“His arms were stretched out, but there weren’t any hands,” a police spokesman said of the phantom passenger. “Looked like a scarecrow ... and that Kenny character from the ‘South Park’ cartoon series.”
The spokesman said he was surprised by her skulduggery, adding that he hadn’t seen “a lot of people using mannequins like they have done in California and other places.”
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L.A. -- you can’t escape it! “It’s not just Las Vegas that suffers L.A. envy,” wrote Peter Grant, referring to the item here about Hollywood Hills Court, Pico Rivera Avenue and other local place names in a new Nevada development.
“How about Huntington Park?” Grant continued. “Like their neighbor to the north, Huntington Park (and unincorporated Walnut Park) have these street names in this order: Broadway, Hill, Olive, Grand, Hope and Flower. Sound familiar? It should to anyone who works in downtown L.A.
Grant noted that “the folks in Huntington Park don’t have to come up with a new mnemonic device to remember the order. It’s already been done!” As old-timers will recall, one version goes like this: “From Main we Spring to Broadway, and over the Hill to Olive. Wouldn’t it be Grand if we could Hope to pick a Flower that grows on Figueroa?” Of course, the Huntington Park version would omit Main, Spring and Figueroa. Difficult to imagine a flower growing on Figueroa anyway.
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miscelLAny: Holy Toledo -- can’t anyone get along? The crime log of the Los Alamitos News-Enterprise said, “A resident reported that two male subjects had threatened him. It turned out to be part of an ongoing argument between a pastor and church elders.”
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