My Opinion

With apologies for the late notice, we wanted to let you know that (at long last) the Citizens’ Advisory Panel for the Baldwin Hills oil field ("CAP") will include at their 7 o’clock meeting on Thursday evening at Kenneth Hahn State Park a presentation on fracking (the process that was studied in the film the Culver Crest Neighborhood Assn. showed a few months ago).

[Editor’s Note: Ms. Hamme is President of the Assn. of Classified Employees —Culver City.]

Friends and Neighbors,

For those of you who did not receive your very own copy, I am forwarding this Safe Routes to School update from Gabe Garcia, the city’s Traffic Engineer.

After the fact, we soldiers, at times, dwell on the overall implications of our actions in war because in battle there is no time for quiet reflection. Yet for those who have actually experienced “the rockets’ red glare, bombs bursting in air,” there is a meaning few of the uninitiated will ever understand.

As California emerges from the recession, many businesses will begin revving up for the more prosperous days ahead — as will many small, minority- and women-owned firms.

Re “In Rapping Supervisor, Zeidman Says Ridley-Thomas Is No Sen. Price”

Join us Thursday evening at 6:30 — U.S. Bank Community Room on Crenshaw/Slauson, 5760 Crenshaw — as we unveil our strategy for winning the battle for a Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail Line.

Many persons know I am politically very conservative, but I hope my more liberal friends and relatives will read the rest of this essay with an open mind.

The Combat Veterans for Congress PAC has joined with the Vietnam Veterans of America in supporting the action by multiple claimants in requesting the unauthorized transfer of 387 acres of the National Veterans Home in West Los Angeles be returned to the benefit of disabled and homeless Veterans.

[Editor’s Note: Mr. Rice is a lobbyist for City Hall in Sacramento.]