Ventura Ca Public Facilities

With garbage truck No. 210 rumbling in the background, Jim Harrison, vice president of the Harrison Industries refuse collection service, talked trash Tuesday under appropriately mucky, gray skies at Ventura's Huntsinger Park.

If Ventura wants to keep visitors happy, it needs to get serious about providing public toilets, city tourism officials say. At a recent Downtown Community Council meeting, Kathy Janega-Dykes, executive director of the city's tourist bureau, implored merchants to find a solution, saying her office had received many complaints over the summer. "We had irate--and I mean irate--people at our visitors center," she told local merchants. The problem is a sign of downtown Ventura's growing pains.

If Ventura wants to keep visitors happy, it needs to get serious about providing public toilets, city tourism officials say. At a recent Downtown Community Council meeting, Kathy Janega-Dykes, executive director of the city's tourist bureau, implored merchants to find a solution, saying her office had received many complaints over the summer. "We had irate--and I mean irate--people at our visitors center," she told local merchants. The problem is a sign of downtown Ventura's growing pains.

With garbage truck No. 210 rumbling in the background, Jim Harrison, vice president of the Harrison Industries refuse collection service, talked trash Tuesday under appropriately mucky, gray skies at Ventura's Huntsinger Park.