THE FOOTHILLS PAPER • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014 — 3
VOLUME 10 • NUMBER 24 • www.thefoothillspaper.com
WOW! Did this year go fast. Look around you, for all the businesses that the old chamber of commerce put out of business, new ones like weeds have sprouted in their place. We’ve even got new life in the Commerce Town Center. This has been a pretty good year for most of us. We moved from our shop to the ranch and that gives me the freedom to pay more writers. A win-win situation. The street people have re-located to county/city facilities and the die-hards have moved deeper into the wash. We now have a demarcation between the “campers” and those with severe mental problems. Did you ever see the movie “Escape from New York?” That’s what the Big-T is like, with its own rules and its own justice. Do you know how many bodies have been found (or not found) in the Big-T this year? At The Paper, we do. We just finished our ten years of telling the truth and pissing off the wrong doers, laughing all along the way. Now don’t get me wrong, all those bad guys (and girls) are still playing their games, but they are less effective without their minions doing their dirty work. We even have our own fan club “The I Hate The Foothills Paper.” I guess you’d call them “Paper Banger Wanna-bees. For a good laugh, check
them out. Today’s Word is interesting. What word you ask? Well let’s try infundibulum. It sounds more complex than a vortex, but it all ends up the same. We have a lot of people trying to figure out what is really happening here in S-T, and it all ends up being the same old 7-8 people kissing up to the insipid representative(s) we’ve gotten stuck with. But I can’t blame him, he’s a “POLITICIAN”, and in a few short months that he’s been playing demi-god, he has emasculated our neighborhood council, the LAPD Foothills Division, and what used to be the best fire station in the San Fernando Valley. And then there are the land issues. Back in the beginning about 2004, there was the White Bird Development, then Home Depot, Robert Hall and his Mc Mansions, the Snowball Development, the incredibly crazy drivers and all the activities that make S-T unique, they’re mostly dormant now, waiting for the right moment to strike back. So now we’ve replaced them with the Sister Elsie Debacle and the Big Tujunga Canyon Development. I really feel sorry for the developer, he had no idea what an Aluvial Fan meant until he decided to build his 240+ homes there. The good thing about that, is that the com-
munity can now all jump onto the bandwagon and pretend to chase him away. We are a pretty tight community, even with all the factions and ethnic challenges. We’ve seen the rise and fall of some of our local service organizations, and of course the incredibly corrupt and incestuous Chamber of Commerce. They are all living the “BIG LIE” and they go home and laugh about getting away with it. But it doesn’t matter, it’s like a merry-go-round. I will never forget the statement purportedly said by the then CD-2 Councilmember Krekorian about our community organizations: “Sunland-Tujunga is a merry-goround where the people forgot to get off!” At least our past councilmember Alarcon saw what was happening and declined to pass out the letters of commendation and doughnuts himself. He may have had his problems, and like I said to him at one gathering, “You may be a crook, but you’re our crook!” Damn, we really do miss him. Someone once told me “You will know how effective you’ve been by the enemies you’ve made!” And it’s true. You all know who they are and you can laugh with me. After fighting the Facebook challenge for four years, I finally got around to making it successful. WOW! 5,000,000 visitors and
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RO CK an average of 4,000 visitors per day. Obviously we are doing something right, or maybe, the community is doing something so outlandish, that people all over the country want to participate in our little “REALITY” show. Look around you, for all its problems, Sunland-Tujunga is really a great community. Ignore the questionable police statistics, if you don’t get run over, raped, mugged or burglarized, you will have a great life watching the characters that make up our community. You’ve learned to laugh at the real world out there, and if that old saying “What Doesn’t Destroy You, Will Make You Stronger” is a truth, we are the strongest people in California. And you know another thing, when we want to, we really can work together for the good of the community. And you know, it might just be The Water!
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I couldn’t help but notice your front page slogan “Telling The Truth For Over 10 Years”! I take exception to your Open Letter to Desiree Dreeuws, The Foothill Record and Sonja................I have verified and they do have the OK to leave their paper at Von’s, Goodwill, Dollar Tree, CoCo’s and Do it Center that you mentioned.. Further some of those stores allow racks that are provided by the paper. Just setting the record straight! Roger E. Swart Tujunga Resident since 1959
Thanks for writing, Doc Editor, The Foothills Paper
Dear Editor,
around town? I just called in the vandalization at the post office and a neighbor’s truck on Mt. Gleason. Is the “187” a new group around here or an old group with a new name? I really don’t understand what this is all about. Do you? JT, Sunland
What is going on with all this new spurt of graffiti
JT, Thank you for bringing this
New Taggers in Town?
to our attention. We’ve seen this new arrival around town and don’t know anything about them. I suggest that you call our local council office and ask for Wesley Hernandez 818-3523287. They work with the LAPD community watch and should have your answers. Doc Editor, The Foothills Paper
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••• Hi Rodger, I hate to tell you this, but you got false information. I personally work with the CEO of Retail Marketing of Goodwill Southern Califoria, and there is no proviso for allowing any materials that are not Goodwill-related. As for Vons, we rent space there in the yellow rack. Other papers are not allowed and get thrown out by the cleaning crew if they are left on the floor. Coco’s regional manager had a problem with another paper and mandated “No outside publications or notices of any kind in Coco’s Sunland.” The list goes on. Sorry, you’re listening to the wrong people.
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