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Thank you for Ladies’ Day
I would like to give a shout-out to several people and groups who have supported our Ladies’ Day at the Races at the Alameda County Fair over the past 33 years. Over 600 ladies have attended at least one Ladies’ Day since it was organized in 1992.
On June 28, 2024, we celebrated our 33rd year with one of the day’s races being named for our group; with that comes the special opportunity to have our photo taken in the winner’s circle. The fair also supplied each of us with a racing day T-shirt, as well as a post-race social hour location, so we all could hang out for another hour to share our fun memories.
Thank you, Alameda County Fair, for all the special treatment.
Each year we take a group photo to document our Ladies’ Day at the Races and place it in our ever-growing scrapbook, which is viewed by the attendees. For this photo we thank Chuck Deckert, who has photographed our group for 16 years.
He also takes the photo of all of us holding the Pleasanton Weekly, which is then printed in the Take Us Along section of the paper. We thank Chuck and the Pleasanton Weekly for highlighting our Ladies’ Day at the Races each year!
We truly appreciate all who support, recognize and attend Ladies’ Day at the Races. Thanks for keeping our tradition alive!
— Kay Huff
Pleasanton tax increase
Vice Mayor Julie Testa said we do not have a spending problem. From my vantage point, the skate park and that old house are a spending problem. A tax increase recognizes there is a spending problem.
When there is a spending problem (e.g., excessive government spending), government raises taxes to address it. Let us break it down:
1. Identify the spending issue (e.g., budget deficit, unsustainable/unnecessary programs).
2. Prepare a tax increase as a solution.
3. Communicate the tax increase is to offset excessive spending.
4. A tax increase will have an equal impact on aggregate demand, for example, if the government increases taxes by $10 million a year, it reduces aggregate demand by the same amount.
Suggesting closing a fire station and reducing police services is a political stunt to win support for a tax increase. Let us close Callippe Preserve; it is a money drain. Shutter the Firehouse. Street sweeping serves no purpose, city-owned trees immediately keep streets littered. Shutter park activities that are a money drain.
Let residential neighborhoods finance the activity if they so want. The city tree program has cost the city millions of dollars, rethinking planting and maintenance, and the program is a money drain. Establish an army of neighborhood volunteers for everything.
The Pleasanton City Council majority is not sincere in reducing costs.
Their efforts to date have been dismal.
— Michael Austin
Ideas to help our environment
I’m a 13-year-old resident of Pleasanton. I am not sure whether this might be news, but I just want to share some thoughts on how we, together, can socialize and do small things that can help our society.
1. We can plan a day where we come with trash bags and gloves, to help take out the litter in parts of our city. This will definitely make our town look much better, and healthier.
2. Take public transportation. By doing this, we can reduce the amount of carbon we put in the air by using one vehicle rather than five or more, to get to a destination that is close to us. Speaking of close destinations, we can walk or bike, because it will help our society and health.
3. Let’s limit how much water we use. If you think that wasting a drop doesn’t matter, then maybe so do around 8 billion people. If you think about it, that’s a lot of water. By limiting our water use, we can help reserve our fresh water for the future.
4. We can limit our daily use of energy. Let’s be real, with bright sunlight outside, do we need artificial lights? Let’s use these lights when we really need them, like at night. We can do the same thing with dishwashers, heaters and laundry; let’s use them less often.
5. We can plant more plants. We all know that plants take in carbon dioxide and do cellular respiration to release oxygen. With our trees already going down faster than raindrops, why should we let them go down? By planting more we can do our part in reducing carbon dioxide in our fresh air by a little.
If we all work together, we can have a chance.
— Arjun Somu
Happy Fourth of July
Happy 248th birthday to the United States of America. We all should be so grateful for the excellent job our founding fathers did to create the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These documents laid the foundation for the freedom and democracy that we enjoy in the constitutional republic we call America.
Our great country was founded on Christian principles and over time the progressive left have tried to destroy our country by chipping away at those basic principles to take away our freedom and democracy. Fortunately, there are many Americans who want to hold on to these principles and morals that make our country exceptional. Last week the state of Louisiana took a step in the right direction by restoring the Ten Commandments in all public school rooms. Kudos to Louisiana.
— David Ott
