Mailbag: Two-job households make it harder to get a good night’s sleep

Re. “Apodaca: Students aren’t only ones who have to adjust when going back to school,” (Aug 29): In her column, Patrice Apodaca cites research showing students do better work when allowed a later school start time. All very well and good, but nowhere in the article did she address the needs of working parents, who must ensure that kids are up, fed and on their way or driven to school before going off to their own work day. The luxury of waiting for your child to awaken naturally before a leisurely morning departure just does not exist in many two-job households.

Kristi Brooks

Costa Mesa

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City should water same days as we do

The city of Costa Mesa mandated watering yards to two days a week, Tuesdays and Saturdays, before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Commendable, given the drought situation the state is in.

A fellow Costa Mesa resident friend of mine informed me yesterday that he was given a notice of violation when he watered his lawn outside of the mandated hours, which surprised me because I didn’t realize the city was out physically enforcing the rule.

However, when out playing golf at the Costa Mesa Country Club (a city-run course) one Friday morning two weeks ago, I had to dodge several sprinklers actively watering the course over several holes. Again, this was on Friday.

Now, the restrictions may be different for public institutions or, perhaps, for recycled water, why I’ve, no idea. But the city really should be more active in controlling their respective hypocrisy and water only the hours they mandated for the rest of us.

Dave Connors

Costa Mesa

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Stop the proposed LED billboard

Don’t make the tragic mistake of allowing a 850,000-plus points of light digital LED board come to Fountain Valley (on the border of Costa Mesa). What image do we want to project about the virtues and people of Fountain Valley? Do we really want to project those Fountain Valley virtues sandwiched in-between ads for films, drunken-driving lawyers, an upcoming tattoo expo, breast augmentation surgery specials, gun shows, bathed in blinding lights every seven seconds?

You can’t control the content. You think you can, but in reality you won’t! Just try to sue a big company for the next 30 years and see how far you get. You allow one overpowering, intrusive LED sign and you will be pursued and rightly sued to allow additional like commercial billboards!

What a potential nightmare!

Leston Trueblood

Fountain Valley

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