Comments for Folsom Local News http://folsomlocalnews.com Folsom News, reporting the life and times of Folsom, California Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:06:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on What is a Sportsbook? by Reynaldo Picketpin http://folsomlocalnews.com/2010/06/22/what-is-a-sportsbook.html/comment-page-1#comment-366 Reynaldo Picketpin Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:06:00 +0000 http://folsomlocalnews.com/?p=83#comment-366 In the USA playing poker for cash is illegal but there is no harm in playing the free poker games. If you are playing on a site where you are dealing with real money then it can cause a lot of trouble for sure. In that situation offline betting is much easier to get away with if it’s illegal in your country! lol In the USA playing poker for cash is illegal but there is no harm in playing the free poker games. If you are playing on a site where you are dealing with real money then it can cause a lot of trouble for sure. In that situation offline betting is much easier to get away with if it’s illegal in your country! lol

]]> Comment on Shed Roofs To Come Down Next Week in 800 Block by Alan http://folsomlocalnews.com/2010/08/14/shed-roofs-to-come-down-next-week-in-800-block.html/comment-page-1#comment-344 Alan Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:21:28 +0000 http://folsomlocalnews.com/?p=352#comment-344 It is certainly a mess right now, but when you say there was nothing wrong means you don't understand what was wrong. Try for example, those particular trees have a lifespan of 60 years and they were very close to it. They were planted in less than 2 feet of dirt. If you got up close to them, you would have seen they were very sick. If one of them fell, it could have wiped out more than one building. If there was a fire in the street, the fire trucks would have had great difficulty getting to a place they could do something about it. The sewers under the road are close to disintegrating. The shed roofs are rotten and they are destroying the building walls. If you are quick, you can come down and see the dirt and grass growing on top of them and you can see the wood rotting. After they come down next week, go look at the front of the buildings where they were and you'll see the damage they were doing. The sidewalks are uneven and dangerous and if something wasn't done, the guy who sues cities and takes all their money could easily have done the same here. Without a major redesign, it would have been very difficult to be ADA compliant. The street was dying, just as it was in the early 1960's when they did a revitalization that took the street from the way it is right now (wide) and put in the median. That revitalization brought the street back to life. I liked the median and the trees too, but it was a waste of space and it wasn't historic, but if you were born after 1963, or you arrived in Folsom after that time, then the median is all you know. The changes are difficult, the merchants are hurting, but if they can survive the next 14 weeks, the street will be much better and so will they. A lot of people put in a lot of time and effort into this and while not everyone agrees, I believe this will be good for Folsom. It is like a house - you can live in it forever without doing any work on it, until it slowly falls down around you, or you can renovate it and give it a new lease on life. That is what they are doing here. The aim is not to made it modern. The aim is to keep the historic character. If that wasn't the goal, the project would never have been approved by the watchdogs who make sure that all changes meet the historic standards. The really hard part is that it looks like a complete mess right now, but I challenge you to come down and be in the street and support the merchants and find out what's really going on. Most of the construction will be completed in 14 weeks. By Christmas, you will either be able to say "doesn't this look great" or you could say "Alan Gray is a dummy who didn't know what he was talking about" I hope I'm right, not because I want to be right, but because I love Folsom and I want to leave it better than I found it. It is certainly a mess right now, but when you say there was nothing wrong means you don’t understand what was wrong. Try for example, those particular trees have a lifespan of 60 years and they were very close to it. They were planted in less than 2 feet of dirt. If you got up close to them, you would have seen they were very sick. If one of them fell, it could have wiped out more than one building. If there was a fire in the street, the fire trucks would have had great difficulty getting to a place they could do something about it.

The sewers under the road are close to disintegrating.

The shed roofs are rotten and they are destroying the building walls.
If you are quick, you can come down and see the dirt and grass growing on top of them and you can see the wood rotting. After they come down next week, go look at the front of the buildings where they were and you’ll see the damage they were doing.

The sidewalks are uneven and dangerous and if something wasn’t done, the guy who sues cities and takes all their money could easily have done the same here. Without a major redesign, it would have been very difficult to be ADA compliant.

The street was dying, just as it was in the early 1960’s when they did a revitalization that took the street from the way it is right now (wide) and put in the median. That revitalization brought the street back to life.

I liked the median and the trees too, but it was a waste of space and it wasn’t historic, but if you were born after 1963, or you arrived in Folsom after that time, then the median is all you know. The changes are difficult, the merchants are hurting, but if they can survive the next 14 weeks, the street will be much better and so will they.

A lot of people put in a lot of time and effort into this and while not everyone agrees, I believe this will be good for Folsom. It is like a house – you can live in it forever without doing any work on it, until it slowly falls down around you, or you can renovate it and give it a new lease on life. That is what they are doing here.

The aim is not to made it modern. The aim is to keep the historic character. If that wasn’t the goal, the project would never have been approved by the watchdogs who make sure that all changes meet the historic standards.

The really hard part is that it looks like a complete mess right now, but I challenge you to come down and be in the street and support the merchants and find out what’s really going on.

Most of the construction will be completed in 14 weeks.

By Christmas, you will either be able to say “doesn’t this look great” or you could say “Alan Gray is a dummy who didn’t know what he was talking about”

I hope I’m right, not because I want to be right, but because I love Folsom and I want to leave it better than I found it.

]]> Comment on Shed Roofs To Come Down Next Week in 800 Block by Brian http://folsomlocalnews.com/2010/08/14/shed-roofs-to-come-down-next-week-in-800-block.html/comment-page-1#comment-343 Brian Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:26:14 +0000 http://folsomlocalnews.com/?p=352#comment-343 This whole project is retarded. There was nothing wrong with Sutter Street the way it was. This whole project is retarded. There was nothing wrong with Sutter Street the way it was.

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