Comments for San Leandro Times

Comment on Farmer’s Market to Open Downtown by Linda Padron-Silva

Linda Padron-Silva — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:42:22 +0000

I’m looking forward in visiting the Farmer’s Market on Wednesdays. It’s important to support small business that what our country started on. I had a couple business’s and I depend on word and mouth of the type I had at the time. These business work extra hard to bring quanitly products. Thank you bring this event. Linda, San Leandro

Comment on Little Cafe Singing the Blues by Cindy Warner

Cindy Warner — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:32:14 +0000

San Leandro used to be a nice place to raise a family until it sold out . . . San Leandro should support independent entrepreneurs who give it a go here. Given the rise in violent take-over crime and the loss of San Leandro’s character, we should definitely give independent entrepreneurs a break if they are willing to try life here.

Specifically the little Chicago Blues Cafe on East 14th is such a refreshing independent little spot. It should be saved from demolition in the name of more mall parking for Starbucks and Quiznos. The Chicago Blues Cafe deserves our support for even trying to conduct a friendly little spot on such a nasty boulevard. It’s an oasis of local civility with an astonishing array on the menu for such a tiny closet of a place. Moreover I noticed it is free of the dirty old men that loiter forever in many of the other cafes where I may no longer go. I grew up here, I am 48 and I cannot even find a decent cup of coffee even when I stay clear of bars.

But the Chicago Blues Cafe. It has a wonderful little corner of the parking lot and doesn’t take up much space yet it has personality and it’s small and local. It’s quality not quantity. How many San Leandro cafes are suffering because of all the Starbucks that set up next to them? Please, not another casualty. I don’t even have a car to park where the city would put in more pavement, I ride a bike.

Chicago Blues Cafe adds character and diversity and the sacrifice of them is not worth the few parking spaces demolition would allow. There should be a law against sacrifying independent locals in the name of international or national chains. Nothing wrong with Quiznos or Starbucks but they are not mutually exclusive with the neighbors.

Please get the mall landlord off their backs and let Mark get back to the grill where he was happy.

Cindy Warner

Comment on City Group Takes Tour by Frank

Frank — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:04:30 +0000

How about taking a tour of Fruitvale BART at night, because that’s exactly the scary ghetto our TOD is going to become if the city “leadership” refuses to do anything about crime.

Comment on Teachers Declare A Deadlock in Contract Talks by Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:28:24 +0000

But wait–didn’t Lim just assure us last week that everything is okay?

Bottom line, there are two many do-nothing administrative positions that got added in economically flush times, but these people are better connected with the administration and members of the school board (sans Katz and Cassidy), than teachers are. So San Leandro will screw over it’s teachers (to the further detriment of our schools) so they can have an army of do-nothing administrators.

Comment on Boaters Call on City to Dredge Marina by Ti Connelly

Ti Connelly — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:31:24 +0000

The city of San Leandro has wanted to dump the marina since before the Blue Dolphin was damaged during Loma Prieta earthquake. There have been many economical solutions presented to the city which have been ignored. The city should turn the marina operations over to a company that knows how to run a profitable operation. The city’s goal is to allow the harbor to silt over and then develop a large convention center.

I have sold my property and left SL for a smaller more friendlier location outside liberal California.

Comment on Pot Growing Operation Found In Victim’s House by Frank

Frank — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:37:37 +0000

Cindy,

And the selling of pot is not being prosecuted either. We had a drug dealer at my condo building on Carpentier Street–all neighbors called the police, and they did nothing. Finally, as president of the board, I had to shame the narcotics cops into doing something by protesting with the city manager. They did an arrest and release with no real penalties, and no attempted prosecution even though this was ongoing for 3 years with plenty of people willing to testify. This gal brought a lot of thugs into the neighborhood selling wed, leading to increased instances of car robbery and vandalism–her thug friends even jumped a pizza delivery driver–and that pizza establishment stopped delivering to our condo.

You got to love San Leandro liberals–they all live in Estudillo Estates, Broadmor, or the hills; and they don’t want to prosecute drug crime, or any quality of life crime, or anything where “people of color” might call them racist. In the meantime, our downtown is going downhill, and the Transit Oriented Development is just going to be another ghetto like Fruitvale.

Comment on Pot Growing Operation Found In Victim’s House by Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:57:44 +0000

I am sorry for the family of this young Mr. Sauceda that was killed. However. I have to wonder what part citizens have played in making marijuana legal. If it’s legal to smoke small amounts in one’s own home, the marijuana will have to have to be supplied . . . from a seller, from a grower. Selling and growing are still illegal and as history has shown one vice usually is accompanied by others–drinking, drugs, promiscuity and prostitution, guns. How can San Leandro allow marijuana use and not expect there to be a source? Immaculate conception? I mean if the family of Mayor Tony Santos lights ‘em up from time to time at dinner . . . his son and daughter have underage children, two boys . . . suburbs usually do have children, that’s why they exist, to raise families. Or is that marijuana now?

Here is an email about the legality between myself and Peggy Huebel of the San Leandro police. She says marijuana smoking at home became legal two or three years ago in San Leandro.

From: PHeubel@ci.san-leandro.ca.us Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: cynthiadwarner@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:10:09 -0700
Subject: RE: Security in the Washington Manor Neighborhood
Two or three years ago.

From: CynthiaD. Warner [mailto:cynthiadwarner@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:02 PM
To: Heubel, Peggy
Subject: Re: Security in the Washington Manor Neighborhood

Peggy, I had no idea marijuna use is legal at home. When did this happen?

PHeubel@ci.san-leandro.ca.us wrote:
Ms. Warner:

Your email to Chuck Kane was forwarded to me for reply. You expressed several concerns that, hopefully, I can help you with.
Persistent marijuana use and hostility on your corner: If this is occuring in public, call the police as soon as you see this happening. However, if it is occuring in someone’s home, i.e., privately, citizens are allowed as certain amount of marijuana for private use. If you know marijuana is being sold from the house, call our Vice & Narcotics Division and leave a message at 577-3277. You can remain anonymous if you prefer.

Comment on Boaters Call on City to Dredge Marina by Frank

Frank — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:16:29 +0000

Only now is Santos getting it about development. I had asked him about development a year ago, and he bragged about how plenty of developers had approached him to develop that area, but they didn’t have a track record “in town.” And basically, he and his cronies are trying to figure out how to best give development deals to their friends and acquaintances–because that’s how things are done in this city.

Comment on Young Man Shot and Killed Downtown by hermy almonte

hermy almonte — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:05 +0000

April 17, 2008

A motorist faced his final destination and was killed right in the heart of downtown San Leandro. After that tragic incident, people are waiting for the City to address to its’ residents what went wrong and what is being done.
The same incident should not happen at anytime on that location, never again!

It’s over a week since the incident,the public,people working and frequent in the area and business owners deserved to have assurance from the City that community safety is not an issue and there are implementations going on in making sure that the safety of consumers and residents are not at stake while walking or doing business during broad daylight in downtown area of San Leandro!

Hermy B. Almonte, Concerned Citizen

Comment on Young Man Shot and Killed Downtown by Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:36:51 +0000

Right back at ‘ya Frank, absolutely. I tried to get the mayor to tell his family to stop stinking up my neighborhood with those marijuana fumes but he was in denial . . . then the police sent me an email saying San Leandro considers marijuana LEGAL. Yep, that was the exact word. The mayor’s family had an ex con living next door and I recall a bunch of cars pulling up, staying a couple of minutes and driving off like they just ordered fast food. The police says take license numbers and I’m thinking video and photos would be nice. Then I caught the mayor red handed wrapping his arms around my 75 year old alcoholic mother in the hall of the main library, telling her, “she got a story in the paper” when the Times published my letter to the editor about him being in denial about crime. He was getting at me through my 75 year old mother. Puhleeeeze.

Somebody kick these people to the curb.