Orange County Readers

Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992. John Peloza, the high school biology teacher suing for the right to teach creationism along with evolution, complains that he got a bad evaluation from his supervisors in the Capistrano Unified School District.

Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992. When I see the well-fed, well-clothed women (and men) gushing with relief about how nice it is to stroll through the areas where the homeless have been evicted, I want to take back every note I sang at fund-raisers for the Performing Arts Center.

Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992. The great Oxford don, C.S. Lewis, once quipped that he preferred his Christianity like he preferred his whiskey--straight.

Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992. In a time when the news is so grim about our public school system and our government is so unsupportive of the arts, it is refreshing and encouraging to read that the Garden Grove Unified School District has chosen to make fine arts a priority.

Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992. Having to make several trips to John Wayne Airport in the pouring rain and getting soaked because both the arrival and departure loading areas are open to the elements reminds me of how out of touch with reality some of our California architects are. They, and those who hire them, seem to think it never rains.

Freedom Newspapers Inc., owner of the Orange County Register, has agreed to purchase 30 suburban weekly newspapers in Los Angeles and Orange counties from Media General Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the price is believed to be about $20 million. The chain, Golden West Publishing Inc.

It struck me recently--while thinking of ways to introduce Orange County readers to this new column--that I've lived through two race riots in Southern California. I survived them 22 years apart, like violent bookends to an otherwise tranquil adulthood spanning both the Disco and Me decades. I displayed no distinguishing valor to speak of in these dual disturbances. Few things are as scary as the collapse of social order. Even war has rules; riots are so darn anarchic.

In Anaheim, it is standing room only. In Orange, people are beginning to complain. In Buena Park, a popular children's story-time program was canceled. Throughout Orange County, libraries are in crisis. Demand for library services is growing countywide because of the lingering recession, but at the same time budget cuts are forcing officials to reduce hours, trim staff and buy fewer books. With more customers to serve and fewer workers behind the counter, lines are longer at some libraries.

Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman, is expecting federal government assistance to build roads and solve traffic problems in Anaheim or Long Beach before he can consent to building a new Disneyland Park. This is a charming idea. Since we in Orange County are unable to find federal money to solve our existing freeway problems, Eisner, if successful in obtaining federal money, might consider sharing Disneyland profits--so we can solve our traffic problems. DAVID G. BAKER, Yorba Linda