Well, it became too big. Not Halloween itself, but the “Safe-Streets” event that has taken place every year in the Ponderosa Shores neighborhood in Foster City. There were so many kids there in the last few years, some coming from WAY far from Foster City that the Rotary Club, sponsors of the event, have heard the cry of neighbors and have stopped the 2012 version of this event. I have no doubt that this will put even more burden onto the San Carlos safe streets on Eucalyptus Street..which is also HUGE. More details are available on the FC Patch…here’s a link:

http://fostercity.patch.com/articles/sad-news-for-foster-city-no-halloween-safe-streets-event-this-year

In the last few years it sure seems like I hear a fair amount of discussion about the geese around this community. I also hear incredibly passionate arguements from folks that don’t like the large goose population and plenty of opposing points of view by folks that love these birds and will seemingly defend them to the end. I get it, they’re really quite beautiful and remarkable. They also really leave a mess.  A friend of mine coached a youth football team that plays at Bowditch Middle School and told me how the kids and coaches would rountinely need to scrape the field of goose poop prior to playing or practicing. Understandable…it would sort of be a gross and particularly unsanitary situation to be playing on a field covered in poop…no matter what creature created it.

This topic sort of came to me when my friend Lydia told me how some folks in Redwood Shores are planning some sort of response to their own problem with these geese. They’re in effect creating a gameplan for limiting or discouraging geese from migrating into that area. Naturally, it would seem that if sucessful that would most likely bring more geese into Foster City. Who knows. Can we live with these geese? Can we live with more of them? Should there be plans here for limiting them as well?

As I’m sure alot of you have heard, there’s been a scam uncovered at several Lucky Food stores in Northern California in the last month or so and Foster City’s Lucky is included in the number of “unlucky” stores. Seems that someone has tampered with the credit and debit card readers in the self check out area and thereby gathered information necessary to withdraw money from the accounts of several people.  The theives had managed to place card skimmers in 23 stores and over 100 people, both customers and employees have fallen victim.

Several other Mid Peninsula Lucky stores were hit the same way. Here’s a link to the KCBS story about this event along with a complete list of affected stores.

Lucky Supermarket Chain Reveals Scope Of Card Reader Scam