Save the San Joaquin Valley
and the Delta
Save the Farmland Stop  The "Mariposa" Project. Yes
Hello, I live in a town/city in the San Joaquin Valley, Kalifornia-USAThe Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley is wedge between the north and
outh end of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.  Greed and the corrupt local officials are building houses and businesses on the farmland south end of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Greed and the corrupt local officials are building houses and businesses on the farmland
This is a picture of one of my billboards that I rented.



GAAR
(Garr’s Aberdeen Angus Ranch)

There are two major cows (cattle) that are bread (hej, misspelled is a neat pun) for meat.  Herford, (White Face) and (Black) Angus.  

On the corner of the west side of highway 99 and French Camp Road, there was a cattle ranch owned by a man by the name of Garr.  At the very
corner of the intersection was a small snack bar, beer bar, general store and gas pumps called Jackass Junction.  It used to be on the other side of
the highway, but when they made 99 a highway whith an overpass, the business was called Turner Station.  Turner was a German family that
owned most all the land on the East side of the highway.  The family also owns lot of land in Lodi Ca.  It was called a Station because it used to be a
train station to load farm goods.  Now Mr. Wright married a Turner, so the land later was inherited by his son, by the name of Foster.  (Foster is a
whole another story, he sold the land piece by piece and eventually sold the reminder bulk to a tomato king, (Ace), George Lagorio.  But on whith the
story.  Next to the Bar were old motel/apartments.  Next to that is a cemetery, but the ranch is now a golf course.

Here is an interesting twist of fate.  Foster’ land was “virgin” land.  I told him that we, although I had no money at the time, although he had
bowered money from me when he would run out of money and have to sell more land, (I had to sigh a release form when he sold to George), could
build houses as it would be a direct link to the then highway 50, the only way to S.F.  Well he decided to have the land leveled to be used for row
crops and put in a irrigation system whith water wells.  Now, as irony will have it, I’m trying to keep it farmland.

I (we) lived in the country, “Sunny Road”, went to a small country school, East of Fosters land (Castle, named after the Castle family that donated
the land for the school.  I raised many animals so I belonged to the 4H.  Peck was the 4H leader.  (Later, when at Manteca High, I joined the FFA.)



Peck Garr:  It was said that Peck jump off a train and got a job as a farm helper for the then window that owned the ranch.  He later married her,
and then the name of the land became Garr.  They then hired a house keeper who had her own trailer parked right outside the big farm house.  Well
as Mrs. Garr got older, peck would slip over to “visit” the house keeper.  (They would go down to the Na Neto Motel Bar, in which I stayed for awhile,
(that was in my “love” making days).  Mrs. Garr eventually died so Peck married the house keeper.  So when Peck died, the housekeeper got the
ranch.  The rest is history, except, small world, Stockton, - the man who helps me remodel my houses bought the old house and had it moved to its
now location.
                 HOPE

This is going to be a short story about the present
hope for the San Joaquin Valley.  (Notwithstanding,
the hope for the world, especial at this time of
celebration and the current events happening around
in the world, wars, warming, etc.).  As I have been
saying, there are many money hungry people and
corrupt local officials that are planning to sidetrack the
people and rape the farmland.  It is almost humorous,
if it wasn’t so serious, that so many private interest
people have untied, not necessarily aware of their
actions are in unison in producing a scenario where the
general public is unaware of the, their proceedings to
build at random on prime farmland.  The last straw was
where, not only the City of Stockton, the Board of
Supervisors and the Council of Governments, (COG),
but a local group who claims to prevent the
devastation, (destruction) are permitting it to happen.  
Last night, as a surprise to me, a representative of COG
gave a brainwashing spiel on how they were going to
meet whith the locals to discus a new general plan at
the meeting of an organization called “Common
Ground”.  Although C.G. has many members, few, if
any show up for the meetings, except for about half a
dozen, notwithstanding the “ego four”, the Ackerson’
s, Dale and Erick, who want to run the whole show and
just like the City “Staff”, are oblivious
to any outside information and/ or suggestions.  I had
HOPEed that, since the local idiot reporter who covers
most of the Cities Council’s events attended, that
something would be put in the local paper, the
“Record”, so that the general public might be given a
clue on what is going on, But, alas, NO.
Well, the following nite after the meeting, where upon the “letter”
that was going to be presented to the council was discussed,
mainly by the “four”, was presented by one of the “four” whith
oblivious results.
You see, the local head of the Planning division of Stockton, is in
league whith the “developers”, argued that it was just a matter of
procedure and would not have any influence of the outcome, along
whith one outspoken council person, who I think is being paid off,
voted to proceed whith the city authorizing the study of building
mass houses on a large portion of farmland.  Woody.
Yesterday, a group of students from Berkley, presented a "make
believe " presentation on how to make Stockton a better place by
improving one of the main streets.  The ignorant "sheep" city council
took them literally, which of course, any new idea is welcome,
how-ever, there is an "ego-trip" college here that could do the
same thing, but, for the life of me, I cannot get them involved. UOP