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  • Letters: Pet-a-Palooza, future of old Sylvan Middle School site

    Sylvan Middle School, demolition
    An excavator finishes demolition work on the first building to go at the old Sylvan Middle School in Citrus Heights on Feb. 7, 2017. // CH Sentinel

    Updated May 12, 9:52 p.m.–
    Latest letters and comments from Sentinel readers discuss Pet-a-Palooza and potential future uses for the old Sylvan Middle School property.

    Hoping Pet-a-Palooza comes back next year
    [RE: Q&A: Why wasn’t Pet-a-Palooza held in Citrus Heights this year?]  Our family really missed Pet-a-Palooza in Rusch Park this year! We go every year with our dog and it is such a fun community event! So many of our neighbors were dismayed to hear we weren’t having it in Rusch Park this year. It has been a wonderful event and we all hope it comes back in 2019.
    -Roxanne Gray, Citrus Heights

    Pet-a-Palooza needs a new corporate sponsor. Dignity Health?
    [RE: Q&A: Why wasn’t Pet-a-Palooza held in Citrus Heights this year?]  Sounds like we need a new corporate sponsor for this event like Dignity Health.
    -Tom Scheeler, Citrus Heights

    From Facebook:

    RE: How about a Performing Arts Center at the old Sylvan school site? (Letter; May 6)

    Aimee P. — I couldn’t agree more. Citrus Heights needs to provide opportunity for people to evolve to their highest purpose. Consumerism and diabetes are rampant. We don’t need more shops and crappy food. We also have enough check cashing, pawn shops, discount and liquor stores, too many in fact. We need something to attract people to the city not repel them.

    Dustin I. — How about parking for the sports that already take place in that field so the disrespectful littering parents don’t congest neighborhood street’s and disturb homeowners with the constant door slams and honking horns and alarms.

    Denise T. — How about some housing for the homeless. Give me a break, some people [have] their head in the sand.

    Nicole W. — I am for the sports complex, played on those fields with Sunrise Girls Softball and went to Sylvan for Jr. High. But I am loving the performing arts center, but only if you revamp Rush Park sports area. A rec center would be great, all year round. Then I would vote yes for the performing arts center. 

    Andy H. — I’d like to know what the cities plans are when we get property tax revenues infused into our budget? I’d like to see things like a performance center, our fire department, libraries, and school district. I know it’s far fetched but aren’t these things we should aspire to?

    RE: Why wasn’t Pet-a-Palooza held in Citrus Heights this year? (Q&A; May 6)

    Olivia D. — I didn’t go this year because it was at William Land Park…  I hope they do bring it back to Rusch, then I will continue to go.

    Jenny W. — I was bummed we didn’t have it this year in our town. I really enjoyed it.

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  • Letters: homelessness, mental health, solutions

    Letters: homelessness, mental health, solutions

    Latest letters and reader comments discuss homelessness in Citrus Heights, along with several ideas for funding and potential solutions.

    Being homeless isn’t the problem; illegal activity is
    [RE: Guest Opinion: What if your son or daughter became homeless? Nov. 11]   I am a community member trying to protect my daughter from the illegal activity that many of the homeless in our community are committing. My daughter shouldn’t have to see the penis of a man urinating in public, even though he is someone’s son. She shouldn’t have to witness a woman shooting up in the parking lot of a store, even though she is someone’s daughter. As a mother, I am doing this to protect my child from other people’s grown children. If you have to have it explained to you that it’s not the fact that they are homeless that’s the issue, then you are not listening.
    -Jennifer Spurr

    Mental health needs funding, but lifestyle choices also have consequences
    [RE: Guest Opinion: What if your son or daughter became homeless? Nov. 11]       I agree with some, but not all of the points outlined in Mr. Warren’s opinion piece regarding homelessness. We clearly do not have enough mental health services available. Foster youth aging out of the system with no support is definitely a problem. These things should be funded and addressed. However, I can tell you where most sons and daughters who are not mentally ill or foster youth would go if they became homeless. They would go home to parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and friends.

    Most of us have lived lives that would give us somewhere to go, at least temporarily while we get back on our feet. However, many of the homeless have made choices that have made them unwelcome in the homes of their parents, siblings, extended family and friends. I personally do not feel that the community in general, and children in parks in particular, should bear the burden of the choices made by drug addicts and criminals. If a person’s family and friends, who know their character and behavior, don’t choose to live with them, I would prefer not to live with them in my neighborhood either.
    -Rebecca Holt

    Homeless, drug addicts make me want to leave Citrus Heights
    [RE: Two fires ignite at homeless camp near Citrus Heights homes, Oct. 29]   We moved to Citrus Heights in Spring 2014 and it was an overall nice area. Now it seems like the homeless and druggies and criminals are enclosing our nice city from all sides: Auburn Boulevard, Antelope Road, by Walmart, Jack in the Box, and on and on. It makes me not want to live here anymore.
    -Roxanne Gray

    Additional comments from Facebook:
    Kris H.– Why don’t they use money in their bank account for the City of Citrus Heights and buy a lot and purchase some tiny houses, with some rules attached, and give these poor sons and daughters some place to go? But nobody thinks of positive feedback on the homelessness.

    Linda M.– There should not be “residents” in our public parks. Most of them are homeless for a reason. Drugs, alcohol, mental illness and/or the inability or unwillingness to hold down a job… The homeless that became homeless through no fault of their own and are working to get back on their feet instead of just looking for a handout or stealing from the people whose tax dollars pay for these parks… they are the minority.

    Joseph P.– Heck, let them have a park, but station police there over every shift. Confront the wrong doers. Enforce the laws, not just whatever seems convenient. Actually get out and do checks. When I was a teen, I couldn’t even walk through a park without cops rolling by talking with all of you. Now it takes 45 minutes to respond to a drive-by shooting.

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