From IN The NEWS and Email IN BOX:

9-22-07 Riverside Press “Your Views”

Reject Spanish signs Instead of going to a home-improvement store off Limonite Avenue, I stopped at a new one off Interstate 15. I'm not against people trying to improve themselves and their families, but they should do it legally and embrace this country by trying to learn English. Every sign in this new store was in Spanish. Why would anyone want to learn English when a store makes it so easy to not have to?

Also, how do non-English speakers communicate at the cash register? Are more jobs going to go to people who also speak Spanish? I will drive farther to a store that doesn't engage in this kind of thing, and it is the last time I shop at a store that does.

MICK MEYER Norco

Gramps Adds:

Try to get a job in construction, a hardware store, restaurant, or farm without being fluent or functional in Spanish. Some Jobs will not hire an American Citizen. I too think there has to be a way for the legal flow of people from place to place. Perhaps Mexico could Welcome Americans first policy by eliminating all their limits to moving to Mexico... It would be a great place to retire. Perhaps Mexico can pay for all of us to learn Spanish.

9-22-07 Sun “The Buzz” Grand Terrace

People here are staving for places to eat out. The city lacks a McDonald’s, Carl’, Jr., Jack in the Box and other nationally prominent fast-food chains. That leaves the few food outlets in the city overflowing with customers. Business is booming at the new Miguel’s Jr. Mexican restaurant on Barton Road.

The recently opened Subway Sandwich shop and Little Caesar’s Pizza are also busting, city officials say. The city plans for a new shopping center with several restaurants along Barton Road.

That should help quiet The growling stomachs a bit more.

Stephen Wall

Emailer's Comment:

Lets get ready to call Barton Road the fast food, junk food restaurants row. Come See The fat Grand Terraceans.

Gramps Comment:

You can add to this a question. How are the other Pizza Parlors Doing? Has their business been affected by Discount Pizza. How many Pizza Boxes and Drink Cups and Napkins, from Cesar's Have you seen in the parking lot of CVS and in the street at Barton and Mt. Vernon? How many Miguel Cups are on the streets as I type... To be honest I counted 6 on my way down the hill tonight.

How is more available Fast Food, going to help our Youth under the age of a minimum wage work permit? A place to hang out and eat fried food. Now that is showing real concern for the community.

Take Out Food collects Sales Tax... Eat In Food does not. You figure out why the Dine In Restaurants are being subjected to the City's Promotion of the Fast Food Freeway aka Barton Rd.

To suggest GT Citizens are Starving, and Fast Food is the way to Feed them is an insult on many levels. The Article Fed to Steve Wall does indicate what the City Manager and City Council and Doug Jacobsen is planning for the "Up Scale Development City Center"... that we could not have developed in a "Natural" Development.

Had nuff yet folks?

LA Times 9-22-07 In Brief

Coastal panel’s staff faults Home Depot plans Plans for a new Home Depot near Belmont Shore do not meet state rules for coastal development, The CA Coastal Commission staff said Friday. The staff recommends hat the commission reject the 16-acre project at its Oct. 10 meeting in San Pedro because of Traffic, environmental and safety problems, and because the parcel lacks a legal permit. Home Depot remains Committed to the project, a spokeswomen said. The report is available at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html.