Los Banos Forum

Let's call it the Tommy and Joe Community Center. TJ hall for short.

As in so much of society today, Gooberville suffered a breakdown in civil discourse. The Gooberville City Council meetings grew longer in length as citizen and politicians took to calling each other doodyheads and such things, getting into personal, vindictive arguments, rather than attempting to debate issues in a civil manner.

The Mayor asked the City Attorney to draft an ordinance to force people to behave in a civil manner. The City Attorney said, “Let me think about this. I will let you know soon.”

As they entered Gooberville City Hall the night of the next Council meeting, the Mayor told the Attorney that he had not heard from the Attorney as promised. “Ah, I think you will find tonight that the matter will be resolved without need for a new ordinance.”

Hello San Jose! OOPS! I mean Los Banos. I hear alot of people down talking Mr. Jones... Thats not cool! You should be praising him. While he has been in office, he has built a rec. center for our youth, caught a lady stealing money from Los Banos (by the way, Amabile must have needed glasses to not see that much money mi$$ing!) and is also in the community and is well known and liked by the youth in our community. Lets face it... Los Banos is a little San Jose and times are changing! This city will not be all about farming and things of that nature...It is gonnna be about money, merchandising and school!

The forum was NOT closed last night and ALL citizens of LB deserve an apology.

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WOW WATER RATES WENT UP,,, AND YOUR PROTESTING YOURSELF I SAW YOUR LAWN THE OTHER DAY WOW .. ARE YOU GROWING HAY FOR THE COWS?? YOUR A JOKE

Like many we waited in anticipation of the outcome of the Trial Payment Period of the loan modification workout package. We were hopeful as they gave us an affordable trial monthly mortgage amount and said that our new payment may be just as close to this amount after the trial payment period had been completed and approved.

Well, low and behold we were approved for the Loan Modification. But that was short lived as we looked thru the approved package. The actual loan modification is really a Catch-22 in disguise.
Here is what they did to get that AFFORDABLE target amount that they thought we needed to be in:

Everyone seems to be putting the blame somewhere. We need to think first. The people came from all over they brought these homes. That they could not pay for. Half of them were just house painters others were grass cutter yet they got homes for 5 hundred thousand. The mort. was 22-2,5oo a month. The day they move into these homes they were already behind in the mortg. Then they went out a got the biggest suv's they could get,some even brought boats, They stay a year or two and when they saw they were losing it they just left. It's not the mayor's fault. These people knew in the beginning they could not pay for these homes.But like so many of them said.I just put the house in my wife's name My credit is still good.

My last article was a very light introduction to health and fitness with emphasis on physical fitness programs from the easiest and most simple (stretching and walking) to the discovery of online fitness programs that may better suit your schedule and lifestyle than gym membership. In this article I'd like to touch on the topic of nutrition, offering a few tidbits to get you started thinking about nutrition and providing a source for further research.

If you are like most health conscious adults, you notice nutrition information on your favorite foods, and make good choices based on recommended nutritional guidelines. A great site to visit that has reliable nutrition information is www.nutrition.gov, made available to consumers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Library. This site features discussion on all the latest nutrition news, in addition to answers to the most frequently asked questions about the latest dietary guidelines for all age groups. Nutrition information is included for everyone, including men, women, infants, children, adolescents, the elderly, and for women that are pregnant or breast feeding. The revised Food Guide Pyramid is also discussed, and describes each food group, recommended number of daily servings, and how to get these foods into your diet.

What is wrong with our justice system? A Los Banos resident, Gilbert Fuentes Jr., pleaded guilty yesterday to vehicular manslaughter charges and was sentenced by the judge to 360 hours of community service. On November 30th, 2008 Mr. Fuentes was driving west bound on Highway 152 at an excessive speed for the weather conditions. His wrecklessness caused the death of my only brother, Mauricio Inocenio Diaz, 24, and caused my cousin, Antonio Franco, 17, to be paralyzed from his chest line down for the rest of his life at the last stoplight heading westbound on Highway 152. The place is marked with a wooden cross by Merced Community College. The judge allowed us to speak and share with him how the loss of my brother's life has impacted us. We shared our tears, deepest emotions, and feelings and were disappointed to hear that the judge valued my brothers life, a productive member of society, CSU Fresno alumni, recently accepted to Masters program, at 360 hours of community service.

What is wrong with our justice system? A Los Banos resident, Gilbert Fuentes Jr., pleaded guilty yesterday to vehicular manslaughter charges and was sentenced by the judge to 360 hours of community service. On November 30th, 2008 Mr. Fuentes was driving west bound on Highway 152 at an excessive speed for the weather conditions. His wrecklessness caused the death of my only brother, Mauricio Inocenio Diaz, 24, and caused my cousin, Antonio Franco, 17, to be paralyzed from his chest line down for the rest of his life at the last stoplight heading westbound on Highway 152. The place is marked with a wooden cross by Merced Community College. The judge allowed us to speak and share with him how the loss of my brother's life has impacted us. We shared our tears, deepest emotions, and feelings and were disappointed to hear that the judge valued my brothers life, a productive member of society, CSU Fresno alumni, recently accepted to Masters program, at 360 hours of community service.