Hush Ranger Guiney don’t you squall, you need to clean your crystal ball.
In your distinctive heated assault on me, The Malibu Times, July 14, 2001, I need to have you review your erroneous facts (misinformation). First, I am a volunteer with the Disaster Communication Group and was working in that status as a ham radio operator in a disaster preparedness drill. If you knew anything about the local Disaster Communications Service you would know that it is composed of 300 or so “volunteer” men and women who spend numerous hours each year preparing to help the governmental services with emergency communications. Thus, since I do not work for or with your agency, I have no idea whether you do or do not have a good working relationship with the other governmental agencies in the area.
I am a 29-year resident of Malibu, a private citizen, and I certainly am not going to be hushed by your sweeping intimations.
Several articles have been published in The Malibu Times and several white papers have been circulated within the Malibu community regarding the change in format at the Malibu Bluffs Park. I declared nothing more. In a letter written at the request of Governor Gray Davis, dated July 9, 2001, shared with The Malibu Times publisher, your boss Southern Division Chief Steve Trenor states “protection of the coastal view shed, public access and natural resources were primary reasons why the Department purchased (wrong, the Adamson family gave the land as a gift to the people of the state of California) this property and not for athletic fields.”
I ask Ranger that you publicly state that your department has no intentions of tearing down the Michael Landon Community Center, the maintenance building, the picnic area, the Dolphin and Whale Watching area and the accompanying pathways and parking. We already know that the baseball and soccer fields have been redlined for destruction. We, the people of Malibu, the parents of the kids of Malibu have $5,000,000 invested in that park. Tell me that the specifics as to the future of the Bluff’s Park that I hear from members of the Lilly’s Cafe Steering Committee are mistaken. Tell me that the only thing that you and your Department are concerned within the Bluff’s Park is kicking our Malibu children’s sports teams out of the Malibu Bluffs recreational area.
The Lilly’s Caf Steering Committee invites you to the daily 8 a.m. coffee assembly to discuss the future of the Malibu Bluffs Park. While you Ranger Guiney claim that I personally made one man shed tears you are making thousands of Malibu boys, girls and their parents weep over the loss of their traditional baseball and soccer fields.
And that is all I have to say.
Tom Fakehany