City should spend the money to enforce its laws
      I'd like to address a statement presented in the Thousand Oaks Acorn editorial on July 19 regarding the concept that some people apparently think cities have endless supplies of cash and that constructing parks is how municipalities make money.
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Leash law being ignored in T.O.
      I walk frequently at Peppertree Park, and almost every time there's a dog or two without a leash. Not a small dog, big ones. Sometimes kids are playing in the park or walking around with their parents. I believe this to be very dangerous situation.
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Waiting for censure of trustee
      I've been anxiously reading the pages of the Acorn hoping to see an article about a censure hearing for Ms. Didio. In the wake of her performance at the Reagan Library event in May, the Acorn's subsequent editorial calling on her to not stand for reelection and . . . her f...
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Park district didn't do its homework on public speaker
      I'm writing in response to an article written July 19 by Nancy Needham ("Meeting tries to soothe anger over flier, class.") I, too, was at the meeting at the Goebel Senior Center.
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Bring back a roller skating rink
      I've been reading all your letters to the editor pertaining to the Kmart building being turned into another Home Depot. We have a Home Depot. I was a schoolteacher here for 27 years, and we've lived in Thousand Oaks for 47 years.
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We've been too quiet about loud motorcycles
      It's time to muffle loud vehicles. Thousand Oaks takes noise seriously (see the noise element in the General Plan). The plan assumes that the city can do little to combat individual muffler law violators. Luckily, in the case of motorcycles, that assumption is false.
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