Wednesday column preview

By David Allen on January 13, 2009 4:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (5) |

Doesn't it seem like our founding fathers are more popular than ever? Not in Pomona, where one man, fresh from having wiped James Madison's name off a local park, is now hoping to do the same with Alexander Hamilton on another park. Talk about your foundering fathers.

In other news, Tim Saunders had his first full meeting as a Pomona councilman on Monday, the Ontario City Council is taking its internal fight to the Bulletin's Opinion page and, a bit belatedly, I share a story from Thursday's earthquake.

5 Comments

Steve said:

Funny thing is the person changing the park names is not a resident of Pomona.

January 13, 2009 8:47 PM

DiDi said:

Cerda Park, Soto Park, Carrizosa Park, .........

January 13, 2009 9:26 PM

Bob Terry said:

Thank goodness my family's name & heritage already has a street, a school, a park and a community center named after them...Palomares. I first went to Madison Elementary, then to Lexington Elementary, then to Fremont Jr. High and then to Garey H.S. My God, historic names in California is a reflection on our HISTORY, what next...changing Highway 71 through Pomona to Donna Fuqua Expressway....how's that one?

January 14, 2009 8:45 PM

Robin said:

Where do I find the original story about name changes? That's just dumb. Why change? What is Madison Park to be called?

Hamilton Park has already been renamed in the past. It was called Cherrieville Park, after the nickname of the neighborhood. That lasted for a decade or two. Then it returned to the name Hamilton. Ah, much better. Now they want to change it again? Say it isn't so.

[Madison will be Tony Cerda Park, as noted in Wednesday's column. -- DA]

January 15, 2009 8:08 AM

birdi said:

Pomona should be renamed "Vejar's Revenge."

January 15, 2009 5:09 PM