Gratitude for protection during La Crescenta...

Gratitude for protection during La Crescenta fires

I would like to thank all the Glendale and county firefighters who

have responded to the fires the past two days in La Crescenta. Your

response has been outstanding. What could have been a very disastrous

situation was quickly extinguished by the overwhelming manpower sent

to protect each neighborhood.

Also, thank you to the Glendale Police and county sheriff’s

departments for their help in securing the areas. We appreciate your

great efforts to protect us.

JIM, JULIE, JENNIFER & WILL RICHARDS

La Crescenta

City’s Spanish heritage doesn’t need to change

Aram Barsoumian, don’t you think you are being a little “petty and

inferior”? Some of the nonsense and propaganda you are trying to

spread here in the beautiful city of Glendale sure tells the

residents the type of person you are trying to be. If you do not like

the way our city was built, you can always move to Australia, or back

to your so-called hometown.

The city of Glendale is mostly of Spanish heritage, and will

probably stay that way for a long, long time. If you want to change

it to something foreign, you should try going to the desert or some

other place. But for you to move into a city mostly occupied by

faithful seniors and Americans and think you can change it to your

own satisfaction is really cheap.

And to Bill Fabian, speaking of the other side: Have you read

Samuel Weems’ book yet? They say the truth hurts. I’m sure his book,

which brings out a lot of propaganda, might help all of us in the

future.

DAVE BRYCE

Glendale

There are ways to solve deer problem humanely

I am writing concerning the worry by many about our deer

population and their foraging in our urban gardens, eating roses,

flowers and ground cover in an attempt to survive a serious summer

without much natural food.

I was born and raised in Glendale, having spent my youth on

Sheridan Road, a dirt road leading up to the water reservoir above

Chevy Chase Golf Club, and we had plenty of God’s creatures near our

small home. My dad had to get rid of the pheasants and banty hens

after a coyote raided us. And he switched to planting orange and

lemon trees after the squirrels filled up on peaches and apricots. He

said he would leave the plums and peaches for the animals to eat.

All of the animals are precious, including deer, coyotes,

raccoons, possums, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, snakes and birds.

Usually, if we leave them alone, they are quite happy to co-exist in

our hills. I’ve seen wonderful neighbors putting out water sources

for them, and that is to be applauded. Feeding wild animals like

coyotes and raccoons is not a good idea, as it domesticates them and

makes them a real nuisance to our family pets and gardens.

The deer really made an impact on my 100-plus roses this spring at

our home in Glenoaks Canyon, and I went to war to keep them on the

hillsides; they can have my ivy and vinca bank and perimeter plants

to forage, but not my beloved roses and geraniums. I built a 7-foot

fence, only to find Bambi and two of her fawns lunching at 12:30 in

the afternoon one day in my garden. They simply jumped the fence.

What a waste of time and effort that one was.

Then, I stumbled on a product called “Not Tonight, Deer” which was

used in Marin County and Long Island, both major deer-populated

areas. It consists of dry putrid egg whites and hot white pepper. You

add a little vegetable oil to it and water in a sprinkling can. I

tried it on my roses and geraniums and the deer ate anything else

they could stomach, but left them alone! It seems to work for three

weeks or so, but the nice thing about it is the deer are not harmed,

they just change their eating pattern, and after three treatments,

they don’t even bother to sniff the roses any more.

DARRELL WALDRON

Glendale

English-only sign idea pure and simple racism

This “issue” about how much of a business sign should be in this

language or that language is dangerous and just plain ignorant.

Whether or not regulations (or “guidelines”) violate the 1st

Amendment isn’t important, because behind this absurd idea is racism,

pure and simple. There is absolutely no good reason to restrict the

language used on a business sign.

The signs I’ve seen in Korean aren’t any more sloppy than the

English ones. Do you find the Korean language aesthetically ugly?

Tough! Shop elsewhere. Real estate prices are going up in La

Crescenta anyway.

TIM SONG JONES

La Crescenta