Planes landing too loud and low
I am a lifelong resident of the Camarillo Old Town neighborhood since 1950. Old Town has always been a special place to live — excellent weather, small-town atmosphere, and friendly people.
Presently, I have deep concerns about the quality of life in my neighborhood due to the incessant noise and air pollution caused by airplanes flying all day directly over my house at low altitudes. This is due to an awkward flight landing track for the Camarillo Airport.
An alternative arrival track should be studied, implemented, and emphasized further to the south over agricultural open lands, including a size limit of the planes allowed to land.
The planes continually landing all day over the Camarillo Old Town residential area are so low and noisy, one can often read the call marks on the airplane fuselages.
The quality of my family’s health, well-being, and value of my cherished home is suffering, including that of my neighbors. I am very, very disturbed by this.
James Donlon, Camarillo
Reparations for women overdue
Re: Tom Elias’ April 9 column, “Reparations drive won’t produce a lot this year”:
It seems that reparations for injustices done are all the rage now. What about reparations for women?
We were once considered property of our husbands, they were free to do basically anything they wanted with us, including rape.
After fighting long and hard for almost 80 years, it took until 1920 for women to finally get national voting rights in America.
Sexual harassment is still an issue, in spite of the #MeToo Movement. (Of course, having women like Miley Cyrus gyrating to “Flowers” wearing almost nothing at the Grammy Awards isn’t helping matters, even though it was hilarious and iconic).
Where did men and these supercilious politicians and judges ever think they had the right to tell a woman what she can and can’t do with her body?
Women still earn less on the dollar then their male counterparts, doing the same and many times even more work in the same job.
When do women get reparations? When is it our turn?
Allison Monahan, Ojai