Letters to the editor: Issue with air show; backing new developments
Show didn’t need military jets
Why can they have the military jets flying at the Camarillo Air Show but not the July 4th Firework Show at our Camarillo Airport?
They told us they moved the July 4th Firework Show from the park at the airport because it caused to much stress for the animals at the animal shelter. They have no practice for the firework show and it last all of 15-20 minutes.
The Camarillo Air Show has several days of practice and the military flies right over homes and rattles, doors, windows, etc. Not to mention ear problems for a few days after all of this. In all, it’s at least four days of these military planes flying over homes at least two times a day for practice and the actual show. You can’t tell me that this does not disturb all the animals at the animal shelter across the street from the air show.
I love the air show and seeing all the old vintage aircraft, but I don’t think we need the military jets. They have the air show at Pt. Mugu and have them, they don’t need them at the Camarillo show. I’m not putting the military down, my husband served for 17 years and my brother for 25 years, so I am a very proud American.
None of this makes any sense to me and I am sure the animals cannot speak for themselves.
Karen Cory, Camarillo
Support contemporary housing
Re: Mary Hackney’s Aug. 16 letter, “Greed behind big developments”:
Like Ms. Hackney, I moved from Los Angeles to Ventura County to enjoy a less urbanized, more pastoral community. Living near the ocean with the majestic Channel Islands across the Santa Barbara Channel has been a tonic over the past 40 years. However, I do take issue with her statements and sentiments expressed in her letter. She incorrectly states that “The city removed our city’s namesake statue from California Street …” The statue in question is of Fr. Junipero Serra. Last time I checked, our city is named for San Buenaventura, not Saint Serra.
Furthermore, from its first introduction at the countywide level, I have been a strong supporter of SOAR, a citizens-involved annexation approval process which has done wonders to preserve the pastoral and agricultural nature of the county. Infill projects like the ones currently coming online and recently approved by the city council are a good response to address the lack of housing in this city.
Increasing the overall housing supply will help mitigate against escalating housing, read rental, costs. It is a bit rich to complain that “Those of us who moved here from Los Angeles are getting all the problems that we left behind served up to us in our once beautiful city of Ventura. Greed I’m sure lies beneath all of it.”
Whose greed, indeed? Count me in when it comes to supporting the transformation of empty, weeded lots with contemporary housing designed for new and vibrant Venturans.
Manuel Marquez, Ventura
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