PV dog park?
***Update: The Megowans reported that the meeting went well and they're encouraged about the prospects for a dog park to serve the peninsula. They are now doing some research on dog parks in general and are also looking to create a Web site.
If you can help, email Bruce Megowan at bmegowan@cox.net.
We've posted a couple times (see PV dog park -- an update) about an effort to launch an off-leash dog park on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Bruce and Maureen Megowan, who have been spearheading the move, wanted us to let readers know they'll be raising the issue again at a community forum at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (5/5) night.
The couple are focusing on the former Palos Verdes landfill site off of Crenshaw Boulevard as a potential location and have spoken to county officials who have been soliciting ideas for the property.
There are no dog parks on the "hill" and the new park would be designed to serve residents of all three municipalities in PV.
"We believe that it is important that all of the Peninsula cities actively promote this idea of a Peninsula off-leash dog park to the county," Marueen wrote to me in an email. "The major advantage of this proposed use is that it would not distrub the landfill material below the top soil of the property."
So if you like this idea, show up and speak up. The meeting will be in the council chambers at the Palos Verdes Estates City Hall, 340 Palos Verdes Drive West.
The forum is being hosted by Palos Verdes Estates Mayor Ellen Perkins and Rosemary Humphrey, mayor pro tem, as a way to give residents an opportunity to bring up issues of concern at an informal question-and-answer session.
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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
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Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.
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It has to be much better than the dump they use for SP Dog Park which is horrible. All the money we pay in taxes, we should have another petpark within the area. Redondo Beach is the only one around here aside from the Long Beach area.