Mailbag:

What is going on in our city of Huntington Beach is a bigger issue than building a 27,000-square-foot multipurpose gym in a quiet residential neighborhood (“Gym doesn’t warrant protest,” Mailbag, July 2). It is a bigger issue than a gym that will hold more than 1,400 people. It is a bigger issue than holding Friday and Saturday night football games with more than 900 spectators 150 feet from someone’s home. It is a bigger issue than hundreds of cars flooding a quiet neighborhood with traffic, noise, lights, air pollution and filling every neighborhood parking space a quarter-mile away.

The bigger issue is the enforcement of the laws, policies, ordinances and statutes that are designed to protect the safety of the individual and create a quality of life. Protecting the safety of the individual and creating a quality of life are things that make this country great.

This bigger issue is what other Huntington Beach citizens may want to think about. Will your neighborhood be the next one that is forced to sue the city to enforce the laws, policies, ordinances and statutes?

This is about a much bigger issue than a gym! It is about taking action to protect the safety of the individual and fighting for our quality of life!

Strangers help save trapped kitten’s life

These days, it seems all we hear is about folks doing bad things to other folks. I met two wonderful people July 2.

I was running errands and went into the strip mall at Goldenwest Street and Warner Avenue. I did a little shopping and when I got back to my car, I could hear a kitten meowing. I glanced into the van next to my car and could see that the driver was leaning over and seemed to be looking into some sort of animal carrier, which was on the floor of the passenger side. I thought that perhaps he had a new kitten and that was what I heard meowing.

I looked around my car to make sure there was no kitten near it. Seeing none, I got into my car and drove west on Warner.