Support for the City CouncilMEN & mayor
It is time for the people against building the Regents Road Bridge to stop venting their anger at Scott Peters, Mayor Sanders and the CouncilMEN. You’ve stopped the bridge for 30-plus years and never cared about or given a thought to the rest of your fellow University City residents. Many, many of us urgently need and want the bridge. Grow up and stop acting like spoiled children ” which you are! The bridge is going in ” it’s only a matter of time! The bridge won’t spoil your lifestyle. It won’t bring hordes of people into your area, although new people might bring some life back to the west end.
Many, many University City residents fully support Scott Peters, Mayor Sanders and the CouncilMEN. They demonstrated leadership and common sense. They proved their courage, wisdom, experience and far-sightedness in realizing the need for the bridge. It was not necessary for developers or businessmen to sway their vote. Much of University City supports our city leaders and will continue to support them all the way. Scott Peters, the Mayor and CouncilMEN were positively magnificent and produced a magnificent result.
I especially applaud Scott Peters who has bent over backwards to find a solution that will cause the least distress to all. He has the ideal answer ” the bridge for safety, $4 million to preserve Rose Canyon, and every attempt to make the bridge unobtrusive for the west end. Those who truly love Rose Canyon will see the money is spent wisely!
Now is the time for those against the bridge to focus their energy and outrage to keep the airport out of Miramar. Once it is there, it will be too late to blame the City Council and Mayor. It will cause University City a great deal more distress than the bridge ever will!
M. J. Schuster, University City

Many will benefit, no one will be harmed
We are overjoyed that the City Council unanimously approved our La Jolla Eruv project this past Monday (Sept. 18). The Eruv ” a symbolic demarcation used for millenia in Jewish law ” will enable hundreds of people in La Jolla to participate more fully in communal life on the Sabbath. Parents with young children, the disabled and elderly people will now be able to attend synagogue, visit one another, and use the public streets and parks on Friday Night and Saturday.
As with the nearly 150 Eruvs around the country, and the two already approved in San Diego, many people will benefit while no one will be harmed. The Eruv will be privately financed, with no cost to the city or the taxpayers for construction or maintenance. We are gratified that the City of San Diego and our community of La Jolla have demonstrated their commitment to welcoming people of all faiths and backgrounds. It is fitting that the council saw fit to approve the project on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which this year we will observe and celebrate with added joy and satisfaction.
Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlgelernteri
Matthew Weitzman, President
Congregation Adat Yeshurun, La Jolla

Laudable Eruv support
Kudos to the City Council for unanimously approving the La Jolla Eruv project.
All eight council members recognized how immensely important the Eruv is to the Jewish community in La Jolla ” and how utterly innocuous it will be to the general public.
As federal courts have repeatedly held, the invisible fishing wire constituting an Eruv in scores of cities across the country is not a recognizable religious symbol; governmental support for an Eruv, far from implicating church-state concerns, furthers the laudable goal of promoting the free exercise of religion by enabling small children, the elderly, and the handicapped to worship and travel freely on their Sabbath.
As a practicing Jew, I am deeply appreciative that our elected leaders and the broader community are committed to such inclusivity.
Michael M. Rosen, La Jolla

Disturbing display
A presentation was scheduled for the University City Planning Group and the public this evening (Sept. 12), with speakers from the County Regional Airport Authority and the U.S.M.C. In a disturbing display of uncivil behavior, the Airport Authority Chairman cancelled with only 26-hour notice. The one-sided presentation went on as scheduled and was much appreciated.
By the time all the disappointed attendees tell the story to friends, co-workers, family and acquaintances, those 110-115 attendees will probably create 300-500 new votes against the proposition at the November 7 election. A “no” vote is the right vote for Prop A. I recommend it, and I hope you urge people in your sphere of activity to vote “no” as well.
Residents, taxpayers and voters deserved a first-class presentation from the Airport Authority. As a taxpayer and county resident I’m ashamed to say they didn’t get one this evening.
In view of the excuses the Airport Authority’s chairman and its outreach consultant gave for canceling, it remains unclear whether the Airport Authority will ever participate in any side-by-side presentation on its ballot measure.
It should. We deserve no less.
“No on Prop A.”
Jim Varnadore, City Heights

South bay runways?
Although I have the utmost respect for Walter Munk and Frieder Sieble, I cannot agree with their proposal to building a floating airport offshore (“Scholars float idea for airport,” UC/Golden Triangle News, Aug. 24, page 1). The cost would be prohibitive and technically, in my opinion, is not feasible. However, I do agree, as they propose, with leaving the Lindbergh terminals and parking for check-in and transport passengers to the remote runways.
I propose two 12,000-foot-long parallel runways to be built in the south bay, primarily on the existing salt evaporators. The advantages to this location are obvious: Takeoff over the ocean and landing in a relatively uncluttered (no high-rises) final approach. There are several options for passenger transportation: (1) high-speed passenger ferries to the south bay, (2) special passenger buses on the Interstate 5 freeway, (3) extend the existing trolley line (4) construct a newly developed Maglev railroad along the east bay shore and finally (5) a San Francisco BART-type underwater light railway direct to the site.
The Naval Radio Station shown on the western portion of the map contains the AN/FRD-10 Wullunweber Circularly Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA). The Navy built 16 CDAAs around the world, starting in the early ’60s. Most have been dismantled, with the Imperial Beach installation built in 1964 to be removed next year. Thus this site should be readily available for the extension of the runways, including offshore if further length is desirable in the future.
William A. Daly, La Jolla

Marine Athletes Inc. seeks Marshall family
My name is Gene Carrington. I am the president of a small, not-for-profit group called Quantico Marine Athletes of the Sixties Inc. One of our missions is to honor and perpetuate the honor of our fallen teammates. To help honor our fallen teammates, we have raised the money and have purchased a monument, which will be dedicated at Quantico, VA, sometime during the month of June, 2007. There will be 11 names on the monument.
One of these names is Willard Dale Marshall. Captain Marshall was killed in Vietnam on June 11, 1968. He is buried at El Toro Cemetery, El Toro, Calif. At the time of his death, he had listed La Jolla as his home of record. Dale Marshall was a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He was married and his wife’s name was Marie. He had two sons, Rod and Rowland. I have been trying for two years to find his family but I have had no luck.
I was hoping that you may be able to put something in your newspaper that explains why we are trying to find his family. We would love to have them know about our monument and perhaps have one of them attend the dedication next year; but first we have to find them. Any help or suggestions you could give us would be appreciated.
Gene Carrington. Leesburg, Fla.
” Please contact the UC/Golden Triangle News, (858) 270-3103, ext. 133 or [email protected], if you have any information about the Marshall family. The info will be forwarded to the Marine Athletes.