For a month we have been looking foward to attending the Cherry Festival this year, just like the previous years. Sad to say this year, we are not able to attend and enjoy the activities, food, rides, and entertainment for many reasons. As we all know, the economy is not what it use to be and was hoping that organizers would take that into account, when pricing or deciding on what the entrance fees are and will be. For my family of five, it will cost us $25 just to enter the festival. We all wanted to enjoy the rides as a family but that would cost us and extra $125 on top of the $25, which adds upto $150. Then, having three teens and two adults to feed will most likely be another $50 to $75, totaling about $225 for a night. I thought The Cherry Festival is a non-profit organization made up of volunteers. It seems to me that the cost of the entry prices alone, shows that organization makes a pretty hefty profit. I was a Cherry Festival supporter, but is now not likely to happen and have shared my concerns with all my family and friends. I will not be surprise if in the near future, families stop supporting these so called non-profit organizations like these. Which means there will be no more Cherry Festivals or any other kind of festivals that pretends to be for a great cause.
Cherry Festival 2012...not so festive anymore.
Cherry Festival? Are you kidding me? $25 for a family of five just to walk in.
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James Hampton May 21, 2013 at 11:05 am
Well said ATC. Like I mentioned, it will be interesting to see if any rental properties that City…Read More Council members, or others who work for the City, seem to always fall into the self inspect category. Unless the City posts an open listing of all rental properties and their status, those things always fly under the radar. The City must be in that "innovative" cash flow mode. They need cash, and viola! Things just pop up.
ATC May 21, 2013 at 10:50 am
Looks to me like a nice easy way for the city to squeeze even more money out of property owners, for…Read More a problem that doesn't actually exist. There will indeed be a cost for these inspections (look at the last sentence of the agenda item). If there was a history of ongoing issues related to the quality of rental units, that might be another story, but nowhere in the agenda item is that claim made. So they are in effect creating a solution to a non-existent problem, and billing for that solution.
What, the city isn't making enough money off of Mello Roos?
James Hampton May 21, 2013 at 10:37 am
Its not such a bad idea to make sure rental housing is safe. Renting out some of the brand new homes…Read More is not a problem, but the older homes rented to many tenants should have a legal CO. However, one wonders if there is a cost for these inspections, who will cover it, and if those in City government will be favored with the self-inspect clause for rental property they own. It always happens.
Washy May 21, 2013 at 05:44 am
I agree albeit easy to figure out how to do things, I liked the list on the side to track on going…Read More conversations. This new method makes you have to get email alerts to know when someone replied. I guess if less traffic is what your advertisers were looking for its what you got
Tempest May 20, 2013 at 03:27 pm
Hahaha- if you wonder where Vic went he's now busy hitting the recommend button on his blog cause no…Read More one is paying attention to him. Note to Patch- if you must have a stupid recommend/like button, at least not have it work so that people can self abuse it- you're gonna make poor Victor go blind.
Claire Frémont May 20, 2013 at 01:08 pm
Renee, please know that none of us are upset with you when we critique the new updates. We know you…Read More are at the mercy of the powers that be. Hopefully, those powers listen to complaints and return some of the features we enjoyed. Jeremiah- look at the right of your screen, you should see a green feedback box. It will take you to a page to email your opinion to the Patch. Renee- I'm having lots of problems with the site blanking out and reloading, also. Its constantly is freezing since the change. Never had a problem before. And no, I am not going to do what the Huff Post pushes, that is, install Google Chrome.
Nancy Hunt May 20, 2013 at 02:06 pm
Wonderful! Hope this is in the local paper and Press Enterprise too! Congrats to Carl and his…Read More family!
Victor S Dominguez May 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Steve, I was not aware of the lecture until the earlier post. Like you, I am learning the new site…Read More and how to navigate it. I was trying the new tools, Willie Boy was the topic of input, no agenda. So yes in the future I will have more meat and less potatoes :}
Victor S Dominguez May 21, 2013 at 11:56 am
James, it got you to talk about it. Now look, information was shared and more people are aware of…Read More the speaking event on June 15. Not bad for just posting a picture. I wonder how many people googled more information as well just from this picture. James thanks for your input, it`s people like you that make me relevant ;]
Jeremiah Price May 20, 2013 at 06:56 am
Renee - I agree 100% with Lloyd on this and you will find all the posters who used to make the Patch…Read More an interesting read are going elsewhere. I know you are stuck with what they give you, but you need to stop defending this change and address it's failure. Holding our comments does no good - giving them to the people you deal with AFTER the site becomes set in stone will not work. Even the news stories don't rotate fast enough - the same things are on the page that were there after the changeover. I won't be using the new features - they are not nearly as user-friendly as you try to portray and new responses to blogs and new comments are hidden. If they even show up - many of my comments on this new format have posted and then disappeared. Not a good move and it has hurt your paper.
Jeremiah
Renee Schiavone (Editor) May 19, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Hi James,
Actually all the Patch sites are switching over to this format, as the west coast was…Read More just the latest roll-out. They tested this model on the east coast, and most of the sites do have our "2.0" format now. However, they do encourage us to forward on user feedback about features you guys like— and don't like. I am saving all these comments to pass on to our teams. I appreciate your thoughts and I hope you will come to take advantage of some of the new features (as you already have with this board posting.) Patch is all about getting the community involved, and that's why there are now more ways for people to post, and why the blogs are now in the main column.
Lloyd White May 19, 2013 at 05:31 pm
James, I couldn't agree more. My posts on the old format generated many more comments than with the…Read More new format. Sometimes my posts wouldn't make it to the front page and no one saw them until I asked the editor to move them to the blog column. Now they get lost in the news column and they drop off faster. Newcomers to the patch won't know whose blogs to go and check out. I hope the patch will find away to return the focus to the blogs, you are right there is no difference from the newspaper sites now.
Tina West May 17, 2013 at 03:09 pm
Join us for the March! We will have picket signs that clearly state our different perspectives. We…Read More will have brochures that explain the cause. Distributing fliers before the march is a HUGE part of this. Please tell your neighbors about this...
www.march-against-monsanto.com
bryce May 19, 2013 at 11:27 am
TOTALLY AGREE 100% too !! Especially with Mr. Price regarding replying to individual comments, vs.…Read More these big 'ol run-on threads -- & the ginormous ad panel sucks too...Patch doesn't feel as intimate as before. It was cute, handy, & informative ...Now it thinks its Facebook, ....Errrr..... :(
Renee Schiavone (Editor) May 15, 2013 at 03:28 pm
I personally don't have too much control over the way the site looks and functions, since it's part…Read More of Patch overall. However, I am forwarding all your suggestions on to our design team and appreciate all the feedback-- positive and negative! And Jeremiah, I've asked around about the FB commenting thing some more, and there really are no plans to do away with our Patch logins. The FB comments are just meant to be a "plus" for those who want them... and others don't have to touch :)
Jeremiah Price May 15, 2013 at 03:01 pm
100% agree with that! Plus I liked the way that in the old one you could reply to an individual…Read More comment. This one only lets you post at the end of the thread. Pretty sure she has started using the Facebook comments program, which by itself will keep me from posting. If the old one doesn't come back I will most likely be saying sayonara. I pretty much like everything else, but this was the real draw of the Patch and it's strong point - especially during the fire. Advertisement pane is about 10% too large as well and should be on the other side of the page to look right. Renee is trying though, which is appreciated. I just hope she listens about the comments section.
Jeremiah
Kathleen Embry May 8, 2013 at 12:14 am
Congrats to you and yours, make sure you put as much time and effort into your marriage as you will…Read More in planning the perfect wedding! Invite God in you will surprised what he knows. I am so happy for you. Kathy Embry (Nikki's Grandmother's friend on her mother's side)