Letters to the Editor

Editor:

The LWSB Senior Peace Club extends its most profound sympathy to the Choi family as well as the entire Asian community in Leisure World.

Acts such as the hateful letter sent to the Chois, as well as physical attacks on Asians, are unequivocally condemned by our group.

It is totally unacceptable to all peaceful people for any of our neighbors to be afraid to go about their daily activities.

Opening mail, walking down the street or going to work should not require taking a deep, courageous breath as the first step.

Be assured that we stand with you in protest and in unity to rid our community of hate and racism.

Pat Kruger Mutual 9 vice president LW Senior Peace Club Editor:

I was happy to learn that Leisure World hosted a solidarity rally March 29 to oppose racism in our community. Racism is a scourge in our society that must not be tolerated and must be eliminated.

At the same time, I was surprised to read that a U.S. Republican Congressional Representative and local Republican Club representative had been invited and/or would participate in the rally.

It is hypocritical for these people to participate since they supported the most significant purveyor of racist dogma in our country, former President Donald Trump.

Donald Hodel Mutual 6 Editor:

The new 2021 map of Leisure World looks very lovely. You can find any location easily through the directory.

The map should include the distance of premises with a scale in yards or meters and show the walkway between buildings so people don’t get lost.

Hopefully, there will one day be an additional gate that leads to a route closer to Pacific Coast Highway, the beach and the pier.

Robert Chung Mutual 4 Editor:

Recently, my friends took me to Rusty Pelican Restaurant in Newport Beach to celebrate my birthday. It was delightful. Everyone observed the CDC measures.

We had fun watching the colorful sailboats. Passengers were waving, and we joyfully waved back.

Everyone ordered seafood, and I had my favorite, fried calamari with all the trimmings, salad and cherry pie á la mode.

We had fun feasting and socializing.

It’s a blessing celebrating my natal day with good friends. It surely helps in coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Life must go on.

Lisa A. Dickson Mutual 1 Editor:

Flying over Leisure World on the way to a landing at Long Beach Airport, I was struck by the expanse of rooftops—flat rooftops.

Why aren’t they, especially the empty ones over garages, covered in solar panels? We should be ashamed.

Rachael Lehmberg Mutual 2 Editor:

Thank you for listing all the Leisure World rules in the March 4 LW Weekly.

And thank you for always reminding us that the street sweeping date is on the fourth Thursday of the month.

Because there is no penalty for parking on the trust streets during this time, our streets are full of debris and particularly small particles of asphalt.

These particles create a safety hazard when exiting your car and stepping onto the sidewalk.

This is the first community I have lived in that does not ticket offenders, and consequently we have a safety issue and and dirty gutters.

I would like to hear if anyone cares or has a solution to this problem.

Geraldine Wright Mutual 11 Editor:

Having not even scanned a LW newspaper for a month, opening the March 25 issue shocked me. Perhaps having had the privilege of teaching English to Asians who had escaped from communist-controlled Laos and Cambodia (once defined as “the killing fields”) made me wonder why any American would want to (as quoted from the hate letter) “send” these people “back” to countries from which they’d escaped.

About five years ago in Africa, an 11-year-old girl was invited to make a speech to a group of adults in her community. The first words that came from that young child’s lips should have shocked the world! They were: “The world is a thorny place.”

One of the sharpest “thorns” is hatred. (I have felt its prick. Perhaps you have too.) Hatred’s boldness is sometimes partially veiled, sometimes brazenly displayed, but always harmful. The best antidote is love—the “kind” that is kind, is not arrogant, does not seek to force its own way on others, does not harm others.

Let’s give this description of love a chance to thrive in LW.

D. Schilpp Mutual 12