WEB THREADS

Responding to Billy Fried’s Sounding Off, “Revelations at Low Tide in Laguna,” (Dec. 15)

Craig said:

“Thanks for the article. As a shore fisherman who frequently uses the area, I enjoyed reading every bit of it.”

Liza Stewart said:

“Thank you, Billy. I was there with you while I took a break to enjoy the beauty of where we live. Reading your piece made it all come back and I enjoyed it more through your words. Thanks.”

Regarding the Dawson Cole Gallery Sculpture garden project (“Endangered art park,” Dec. 8)

Susan Bartlett said:

“Please don’t close this beautiful serene sculpture garden in a little corner of our town, used by many, and give it to the few that will park there. This is an art town, not a parking town.”

Regarding Marcus Cole, who fell from a hotel balcony to his death (“Drinking suspected in teen’s fatal fall,” Dec. 8)

Terry Williams said:

“Such an unnecessary waste of a young life. I guess we were the lucky ones that made it through our teenage years.”

Regarding the senior/community center project (Editorial, Dec. 8)

Elia Bledsoe said:

“Build the senior center and stop complaining; so the windows are high up. Are we not getting air conditioning? Good grief! All the talking is just wasting precious time, so get busy and let Elizabeth get her project going. It was her idea and she has worked hard for it, so the rest of you get your projects and let the doers get on with their own. It will be fun to go once a month for the meetings and the other times to sit and visit or play cards. Could we have a tai chi class? That is fun! Happy holidays!”

Liza Stewart said:

“The design of the senior center looks as if it should be in Aliso Viejo or Irvine. There was a chance here to make a beautiful space, with gardens to walk through, but the massive space for inside was more important than the outside look. All this for 72 parking spaces under this big brown institutional-looking mass of a building. There was a time when seniors enjoyed playing cards and checkers outside, and with our climate it could have made it a special place to go.”

Regarding the Ceanothus Drive project (Sounding Off, “Huge hillside projects must stop,” Dec. 8)

Lindsay Tognetti said:

“We live downhill from this ‘Big Dig/Big Scar,’ which can be seen from Pacific Coast Highway in South Laguna village. The constant noise, dust, dirt, potholes and exhaust fumes that we must endure on a daily basis for these ‘spec’ homes to be built is just unreal. We all feel like we are living in something not unlike a war zone. How can our city allow such madness on our once-beautiful hillsides and to our once-peaceful neighborhoods?”

Responding to Laguna Beach High School Principal Don Austin’s Principal’s Corner, (“Getting Beyond the Noise,” Dec. 1)

Tom Tomberlin said:

“Sounds like the artists have an excellent leader in Don Austin. — T.T., class of ’77.”