Warm memories of cold Carvel ice cream

I look forward to checking out Derric and Kim Pollard’s new Carvel

Ice Cream store in Costa Mesa. However, contrary to what Kim Pollard

said, you don’t have to be from the East Coast to be familiar with

Carvel.

As a child in the early ‘60s, I remember frequent visits to a

Carvel store in Santa Ana near my grandparents’ house on French

Street. There was a miniature delivery car out front. I also recall

their folksy TV and radio ads (not real sophisticated by today’s

standards) for ice cream cakes. With an East Coast base, I imagine

there was too much competition from 31 Flavors, Thrifty’s, Fosters

and the like, and they just faded away.

That said, it’s good to see Carvel back in Orange County, and I

wish Derric and Kim Pollard much success.

TERRY SHAW

Costa Mesa

No more passing notes, understood?

The recent verbiage on the City Council meetings in Costa Mesa

reminds us that it is no more acceptable to pass notes during

meetings than it is for students to pass notes in a school room.

Information should go to all persons who are present, not to a chosen

few and not by a note.

Costa Mesa is fortunate to have on its City Council a person who

knows what is right and does not hesitate to say so. Hurrah for Linda

Dixon.

I.E. CUNNINGHAM

Corona del Mar

Two-party politics good for capital

I just read The Bell Curve in the June 15 Daily Pilot. I know it

was titled “Democrats must dream in shades of red,” but I read it as

“Chuck Cassity, take a look at this and get back to me with your

thoughts.” So, here goes:

First of all, Bell seems oblivious to the fact that California is

a red state with three blue counties. It’s just a shame that the

majority of our voters happen to live in those three counties, and

they vote their pocketbooks.

Or, maybe better put, they vote our pocketbooks. This is why

Sacramento is infested with politicians who, with a few notable

exceptions, have never earned a paycheck from the private sector.

Or, maybe better put, who’ve never earned a paycheck. They don’t

understand, or perhaps refuse to recognize, that their inane and

counterproductive actions are destroying our once-proud state. Bell

happens to live in Orange, one of our redder counties.

So yes, it’s highly unlikely that a Democrat can win Rep.

Christopher Cox’s congressional seat, even if he or she attempts to

don the mantle of faux conservatism as a cruel ruse. Thank God for

small favors.

By the way, remember a few months back when Bell was lamenting the

fact that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power enabled him to

raise millions to pay for the upcoming special election he had no

choice but to call?

Recall my response in which I stated that he’d be outspent three

or four to one by the special interests he’s trying so hard on our

behalf to defeat. Well, our good governor has raised $28 million so

far to fund that quest.

Did you read the papers recently, which reported the teachers

union leadership passed by fiat a special assessment on their members

which will raise $50 million to try to send him packing back to the

People’s Republic of Santa Monica? One union, $50 million. By the

time the other unions and the lawyers get in on the act, my three or

four to one guess is sure to be a woefully low estimate.

Bell wants to try to introduce two-party politics to Newport-Mesa.

I’d like to introduce two-party politics to Sacramento. I hope we get

our wish.

CHUCK CASSITY

Costa Mesa