Odds and Ends 12

It seems to be getting a bit confusing attempting to keep remembering all the 'pins' that are being juggled around OUR community lately.

I think this edition will try and lump everything together to demonstrate that there are quite a few things going on in the San Pedro area.

San Pedrans are currently thinking about many things including Ponte Vista, McCowan's redevelopment, a new cruise ship terminal, the recirculation of the China Shipping Environmental Impact Report, South Region High School No. 15 (SRHS 15), the Clearwater Program, developments in downtown San Pedro, the continuing work to clear the area where the Highland Park development may be built, on North Gaffey, the implementation of the Small Learning Communities at San Pedro High School, the redevelopment of the Point Fermin Outdoor Education Center, the upcoming Palos Verdes Marathon, our getting closer to summer with Shakespeare by the Sea and Music by the Sea, the political races that are just really getting started, the talks for a new contract that is very important, and other issues that may be as important, but I just haven't looked into them as much as I probably should have.
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The Palisades Residents Association's Annual election meeting is this coming Tuesday at White Point Elementary school in the evening. Information about the meeting is placed on other posts on this blog.

The meeting will feature many issues concerning residents who live between 25Th Street and the Ocean and between Western Avenue and Gaffey Street.

Councilwoman Janice Hahn will make comments and field questions on a variety of issue, not just whether a new school is going to be built in the area.

Attendees to the meeting will get an overview of the Clearwater Program and other issues that are of interest, or should be, to folks living in the area.
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The illustrations from the Port of Los Angeles for their improvements to the harbor area include an illustration of a cruise ship at Kaiser Point.

This issue has not been formally decided yet and there are plenty of San Pedrans who are on one side of the issue or the other, to make this issue, something of a coming hot item.

It was also reported in the news this week that the Port of L.A. may have to borrow funds to keep it going, perhaps as early as next year.

With the downturn in the economy, not as many containers are being shipped into the port and revenue is decreasing.

The Port of L.A. is not the 'cash cow' many folks believe it is, so the Port of L.A. claims, and they still have to fund the projects they promised would get funding, including the improvements to the waterfront.
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No news, thankfully for these sore typing fingers, concerning Ponte Vista lately. I still don't know if Bob lost his house, and nobody from the Outreach team, who I know reads my Ponte Vista blog, has bothered to straighten me out and provide me with what really happened.

So I guess we can still dream that Bob had to move into one of the trailers on Western Avenue, or into one of the duplexes that continue to get worse, along S. John Montgomery Street.
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After watching a program on the Science Channel about what will probably happen of the volcano under Yellowstone National Park decides to explode, with a massive eruption similar to the one that happened somewhere else 74,000 years ago, just about everything I write about won't really matter at all, it seems.

If it does happen, please have all the warmest cloths you have handy, you will need them!