Thank you very much for covering Rae Gabelich’s community meeting about the walkway between Wrigley Heights and Los Cerritos Park and Elementary School [“Pedestrian tunnel linking Wrigley to Bixby Knolls becomes contentious topic at Gabelich-Johnson community meeting,” Jan. 28, 2011]. Cory did a great job. Also for putting an announcement about the meeting in your paper the previous week.
I asked one lady whom I had never seen before if she lived in Los Cerritos (I didn’t recognize her from Wrigley Heights). She said she lived in Bixby Knolls. I asked how she knew about the meeting (since I didn’t think Rae notified that area). She said she just read about a meeting regarding the Del Mar Tunnel/Walkway in the Signal and came to see what it was all about!
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I’m a bit disappointed that CJ appears to have just taken what the head of The Center for Discovery (Dr. Craig Brown) said at face value [“New site for adolescent treatment to take over former site of Boys Town,” Feb. 4, 2011]. Maybe what he said is true, but if you follow the first link I provided her in the email (to their website), it’s clear that The Center for Discovery has two different types of facilities: one treats eating disorders, and the other is dual diagnosis.
The Wardlow Road facility is supposed to be dual diagnosis— not a treatment center for eating disorders as Councilmember James Johnson is reported to have said. The facility here will be treating what The Center for Discovery calls dual diagnosis patients— those with both a diagnosed psychiatric illness and drug or alcohol addiction.
Neena, I don’t mean to be a complainer. I will be very happy if the story is correct about the kind of patients that will be treated in our neighborhood, but what Dr. Brown is reported to have said is not what their website says.
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Richard Gutmann
Long Beach
