TRAVEL
March 23, 2008
I really enjoyed Geoff Boucher's piece on the trip to the missions ["Mission Project: Not Bad, Dad," March 16]. Over the years I have been to many of them from Sonoma to San Diego. La Purisima has always been my favorite, followed by San Juan Bautista. Jerry West Gold River, Canada
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 20, 2006 | Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writer
If you're a chicken, this picturesque little burg is close to paradise. You and a few hundred pals have the run of downtown, strutting down sidewalks and across streets without fear of winding up fricasseed. Kindly locals buy sacks of feed for you, diners at outdoor restaurants throw scraps to you and camera-toting tourists ooh-and-aah all over you.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 10, 2006 | Rong-Gong Lin II, Times Staff Writer
Public health officials have suspected for weeks that a hepatitis A outbreak among 19 workers on a San Marino movie set might be linked to lettuce that came from a prominent Northern California grower. But a contractor for the San Benito County company, Pride of San Juan, said this week that it had never been notified of the outbreak, let alone investigated as a possible source of tainted produce.
ENTERTAINMENT
June 29, 2004 | Reed Johnson, Times Staff Writer
Her face as dark and furrowed as a walnut, her body bent from 80 years of hard work, the old woman leaned in close to her visitors and told them why it's always a mixed blessing when her grandson and his family arrive from Los Angeles. "Yes, I'm happy when they come back," said Guadalupe Mendoza, the matriarch of a clan that spans two emotionally intertwined but distant worlds. "But I'm sad when they leave again."
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 18, 2004 | Steve Lopez
Pay a visit to this hilltop farm town with the pretty little church in the plaza, a state official had suggested, and I would discover something was missing. Half the population. Where'd they go? I asked. Los Angeles, he said. I figured he was exaggerating. He wasn't. "Si, un mitad," said the first person I met in San Juan's quiet, nearly evacuated central plaza. Yes, one half. The official population of San Juan, four hours south of Mexico City, is 6,000.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 13, 1992 | JOHN ENDERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The police chief is gone. So are the police. And so are all the other employees of this small Spanish mission town nestled in the rolling hills an hour's drive south of San Jose. Since the Public Works Department shut down, volunteer Fire Chief Rick Cokley does the yardwork around his two-engine firehouse. Volunteers run City Hall. A contractor picks up garbage.