{"id":229201,"date":"2017-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-20-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T08:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-jan-20-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-20-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor \u2014 Jan. 20, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

A holiday hike<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Re: \u201cA peak experience\u201d [Volume 21, Issue 11 or bit.ly\/2j8zQt5<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

I just had my son Kenny and his family out for the Thanksgiving holiday. Kenny is in the Air Force and stationed at Canon Air Force base in Clovis, New Mexico. He went to Gage Elementary, Pershing Junior High and graduated from Patrick Henry. He is also an Eagle Scout from Troop 959.<\/p>\n

I had told him about the 5 Peak Challenge going on at the Mission Trails Park and he wanted the whole family to do it while they were here. As you can see by the picture we all made it \u2014 including his wife Anna, daughters 12-year-old Victoria and 6-year-old Isabella and even his new son, 6-month-old Roddy.<\/p>\n

We had a blast. If there is any way you could put the picture in Mission Times Courier,\u00a0it would make his day. (Also his daughters\u2019 day).<\/p>\n

\u2014Rick Derkatz, San Carlos<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Letters<\/a>
The Derkatz family enjoys a hike in Mission Trails. (l to r) Kenny, Roddy, Rick, Isabell, Ana and Victoria (Courtesy of Rick Derkatz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wrong neighborhood<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Re: \u201cLetters: No MAD\u201d [Volume 22, Issue 12 or bit.ly\/2hr4Eos]<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello. I\u2019m writing to let you know of an error. Plus, I\u2019m writing to let you know how much your error irks me.<\/p>\n

I tore from your most-recent copy of the Mission Times Courier the offending words (highlighted below).<\/p>\n

The Temple Emanu-El is located in the city limits of San Diego, within the community of San Carlos. Ask me how I know? Well, I\u2019m a San Diego native, age 63, and I\u2019ve been around a bit. Also, I used to live on the street, Whelan Drive, in the early 1970s that butts up to the back parking lot of said temple. (I lived there long before the temple was built.)<\/p>\n

In no way is Capri Drive considered Del Cerro. It never has been, and it never will be, Del Cerro.<\/p>\n

Maybe soccer moms will be impressed that they are sending their children to a private, costly school in \u201cDel Cerro\u201d when they send them to the temple? Perhaps by having ownership of that, it will comfort them (snob-wise) to offset tuition (i.e. bragging rights)?<\/p>\n

Real estate agents trying to inflate a home\u2019s asking price \u2014 selling homes in Allied Gardens (my neighborhood for the last 15 years) \u2014 also pull this cheap trick. They advertise a home for sale in \u201cDel Cerro\u201d when in fact it\u2019s on Waring Road, for example, which is clearly not Del Cerro.<\/p>\n

Del Cerro is the high hill and maybe immediate surrounding areas such as where the fire station and St. Therese Catholic Church are located and possibly as far as Patrick Henry High School.<\/p>\n

Del Cerro is not San Carlos. Del Cerro is not Allied Gardens. Del Cerro is not Fletcher Hills. Del Cerro is not El Cajon. Del Cerro is not La Mesa. Del Cerro is not El Centro. You get the picture.<\/p>\n

I intensely dislike this stretching of the truth. It\u2019s deceptive, cunning and a bald-faced lie. Shame on you for printing such a falsehood.<\/p>\n

Del Cerro is for rich snobs. Allied Gardens and San Carlos are defined areas and neither are Del Cerro. Neither!<\/p>\n

Get a clue and get it correct next time, please.<\/p>\n

P.S. I hope the rich snobs have to pay the up-charge taxes. They can well afford it.<\/p>\n

\u2014Suzanne Ross, Allied Gardens<\/em><\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s note: We regret not catching the error in Mr. Josephs\u2019 letter to the editor. We usually print letters as close to the original way they come in to us and Del Cerro was the designation the author gave for Temple Emanu-El\u2019s location.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Between a rock and a \u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My family and I have lived in San Carlos for 33 years. Every day we look at our beautiful Cowles Mountain.<\/p>\n

For 33 years I have observed a beautiful, huge rock on Cowles Mountain. This rock faces Golfcrest Drive next to Mission Trails Park.<\/p>\n

At first this rock was just standing tall. As time passed, I noticed that this rock had split right down the middle. Now, half the rock is slanted.<\/p>\n

My concern is for our Golfcrest neighbors. If the rock slides, where will it land? Will the rock fall into the canyon below it, or will it keep rolling and fall across the Golfcrest yards?<\/p>\n

\u2014Dolores Valadez, San Carlos<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

R.I.P., San Diego Chargers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It was a gloomy day in January of 2017 when San Diego Chargers\u00a0bolted town with their Chief Dean.<\/p>\n

Now, the\u00a0Spanoses\u00a0were filthy rich, packing two billion clams, but they skipped town to Carson to piggyback the Rams.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t wave or kiss their fans goodbye as their Jets soared away, like an Eagle or a Seahawk, from the egg-throwing fray.<\/p>\n

After 55 years in town how could they Steel away? All the leaves were Brown on such a cloudy day.<\/p>\n

And what forced these Buccaneers, these\u00a0cheapskates\u00a0to jump ship? Mission Valley Qualcomm Stadium was no longer hip.<\/p>\n

They wanted to build a \u201cconvadium\u201d downtown. But the rise of Bills and loss of tailgates made the people frown.<\/p>\n

Dean rode the City Council like a Cowboy breaks a Colt. He tried to raid the city\u2019s coffers like a Giant dolt.<\/p>\n

As their tears poured down, a winter storm, San Diego said goodbye, lighting Chargers gear on fire, the flames rising to the sky.<\/p>\n

Sad and hurt and angry, fans shouted to the news: \u201cDean, that Lion bastard! We can\u2019t bear his Cardinal abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSlinking off like a Jaguar or a Panther in the night, he\u2019s a Titan of Vikings, it is just not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

So now the morning after, as tears and rain subside, Chargers fans now realize we have something to decide.<\/p>\n

Redskins, Broncos, Dolphins \u2014 fish? Or Bengals, Texans, Falcons\u00a0\u2014 birds? 49ers? Patriots? Saints? Are these not merely words?<\/p>\n

As for the San Diego Chargers, the chapter is now shut. Quoth\u00a0the Raven, \u201cNevermore,\u201d so we\u2019ll heal the deepest cut.<\/p>\n

And as our handsome Mayor Kevin said in his State-of-Town address, San Diego did not lose the team;\u00a0they\u00a0lost the town that\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

\u2014Patty Mooney, San Carlos<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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