Letter: Moving Senior Meals Program From Palisades Park Is Wrong

A letter to the editor from Santa Monica resident Bob Trudeau, who says seniors should be allowed to continue eating discounted meals at the center in Palisades Park.

Posted by Jenna Chandler (Editor), May 29, 2012 at 10:08 am

Editor:

In response to :

It is not a good thing to take the Palisades Park Senior Center from the seniors. The City Council is taking advantage of the most vulnerable and most deserving of its population.

Thousands of visitors each year make note of charming features they discover here, and consider them when choosing a location for their retirement. Unfortunately, when a town loses it's charm, it never comes back.

Keep Santa Monica a charming place to live for all of its population, and give the Palisades Park Senior Center back to the seniors!

— Bob Trudeau, Santa Monica resident

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Dan Charney May 27, 2012 at 06:37 am

Agree Bob- this is a terrible move - the seniors get outdoors and on grass and smell good fresh air and can walk -- the 4th ST location has all the charm of a hospice and all the traffic and stress of Times Square in NY- the opposite of Santa Monica- I see huge waste in unneeded salaries all over the city - and in so many departments- to keep making the lives of seniors and low income people less exciting and more institutional is the opposite of the spirit of the real Santa Monica- something this all too business friendly Mayor and City Council seems to have forgotten- or are we really run by Macerich and other developers now?

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Claudia Schafer May 27, 2012 at 02:06 pm

Bob - I agree with you wholeheartedly. Unfortunately this is yet again an example the the ongoing shell game played by the City Council on the residents of SM. Telling a group of people that this is a gainful change for them is like telling someone that you are enriching him by stealing his wallet. Why is it that the funding for old those additional services is contingent upon a change in location? "Hmmmmm - Ocean View property. How can we get our hands on it? Hey - let's tell the alte kackers that we are going to help them more by taking it away. Yeah - that's the ticket!"

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Claudia Schafer May 27, 2012 at 02:08 pm

...sentence 4 should read "all those additional services"...

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Eddie Greenberg May 27, 2012 at 08:49 pm

ALL OF YOU ARE CORRECT, WITH NO QUESTION. REMEMBER WHEN THE MIRAMAR PROJECT IS UNDER WAY THEY WILL NEED A CONSTRUCTION OFFICE LOCATION. WHAT BETTER ONE THAN AT THAT LOCATION? OF COURSE THIS WILL NOT BE SAID IN ADVANCE AS THERE WOULD BE A MINI REVOLUTION AS WELL THERE SHOULD BE. AS A SENIOR MYSELF I THANK YOU FOR REMARKS THAT ECHO ALL OF MY VERY SENTIMENTS.

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oboogie May 31, 2012 at 04:23 pm

this is a horrible and disrespectful move. let the seniors stay at the palisades location, expand the services for them there, and don't banish them to the sterile confines of the ken edwards center. the city council should be ashamed of themselves. mayor bloom too! i look forward to voting soon!

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