Inside Scoop

AN AYE FOR AN I

Proponents of Wal-Mart could put to better use the “perverse money”

they’re spending to defeat Measure I, the ballot initiative that

jeopardizes the retailer’s plan to open a store, resident Don McGee said

at last week’s Huntington Beach City Council meeting.

“It seems to me they could have bought a better vowel,” he said. “If I am

I, then I am supposed to vote against myself by voting no on I,” he said.

“Asking me to vote against myself is asking way too much. Aye on I is

more like it.”

PREOCCUPIED BY FOUNTAINS

Fountain Valley City Manager Ray Kromer has been thumbing through books,

driving around the county and looking at fountains everywhere he travels,

trying to get ideas for the city’s new fountain. This search for the

perfect fountain has even crept into his leisure time at home.

“It’s gotten to the point that when I watch TV and I see a fountain, I

sometimes wish I had a videotape in,” Kromer said.

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY

School board members are encouraged to attend conferences that deal with

educational matters -- it enriches their knowledge and experience of

public education. Bilingual education, special education and how to

augment your science instruction in class are typical topics covered in

educational conferences.

But Huntington Beach Union High School District trustee Michael Simons

wants to cover all the bases in his conference dates. He attended a

conference on the city’s preparedness in the case of nuclear or

biological warfare.

“You’d be surprised how well prepared we are,” Simons said with a smile.

“Everybody at the conference wanted to move to Huntington Beach.”

-- Compiled by Eron Ben-Yehuda, Angelique Flores and Andrew Wainer