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

Congratulations to Art Kiesel for being re-elected to the FC City Council and to Steve Okamoto and Herb Perez for their election victories last night as well. They ran well fought campaigns and deserve the win. Naturally, I was a little bummed that my cousin Jennifer didn’t win last night, but as active as she is in this community she’ll have plenty of years of service that are yet to come. Honestly, I’m REALLY proud of her campaign and the effort she put forth. She came pretty darn close…losing by 65 votes is certainly no disgrace.

Congrats once again to everybody involved on a well fought campaign. Here’s a link to the SJ Mecury-News article today on the totals:

http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_19293870

As I’ve mentioned before, my wonderful cousin Jennifer is running for City Council in Foster City this year and she’s going to have a little meet the candidate coffee and cookie event tomorrow night at the clubhouse at Isle Cove. It’s going to be at 7:00PM…come on over and say hello and meet her. We would love to see you! Here’s a link to the location…it’s really easy to find:

http://g.co/maps/z8g4j

See you Wednesday night at 7:00!

As some of you already know, FC Blog contributor and, more importantly, my cousin Jennifer Selvitella has decided to officially throw her hat into the ring and is running for City Council this fall. To me, this is a completely natural fit…Jen is absolutely tailor made to be on the City Council. She’s Foster City’s biggest fan and advocate, she has a successful business here and she’s a native Foster City-ite.

Jen, her husband John and their 3 kids are incredibly involved in a variety of events and activities in Foster City and, while I’m certainly biased, I can’t imagine anybody who can better serve this community than Jen can. It’s super exciting that she’s running…and really good for Foster City!

Just in case you weren’t aware of this, you can now pay your water bill online and can also enroll in online bill pay. The Estero Municipal Improvement District has it set up so that you can:

• View your bills online
• Go paperless and have your bills e-mailed to you
• Pay your bill online
• Setup automatic payments from your checking, savings, or credit card accounts
• Track historical usage

You can set this process up by clicking on the following link:

https://www.onlinebiller.com/fostercity/

Pretty easy and simple.