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| We are a group of residents
living in the areas surrounding the Goddard Middle School and Sandburg
Middle School in Glendora California. Most have been in our home for many years including prior to the schools and sports parks. Since 1965 we have resisted efforts to install additional lighting and recreational sports fields on the school grounds. We have lived with cars blocking our drives, PA systems, people climbing our fences, streets strewn with trash, lights from the ball fields, Monday-Friday evenings all day Saturday, and now Sundays. In the winter months most of us leave for our office in the dark and arrive home in the dark, only to find a car blocking our drive and to learn that someone was just scored a touchdown over the PA. The straw that broke the proverbial camels back was the Community Services Department telling us that they were going to install lights so that the Football and Soccer teams could practice M-F nights and have their games on Saturday and now Sunday nights. It
started with six (eleven this year) rumbling gas powered light generators installed on a "temporary bases”, a PA system introducing each player and then announcing
the play-by-play game. Living in a valley that slopes abruptly into the
foothills we received the noise as it emanated from the game and then again
as it reverberates back from the hills. Cars parked on both sides of the
streets with horns honking and lights flashing as the remote door locks were
turned on and off, kids running across them in the dark without watching for
traffic to get to and from the sports park. |
