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Mailbag: Allow fair mooring transfers to continue

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Thank you for your recent article regarding the Newport Harbor moorings (“Fees for Newport Harbor moorings may take a dive,” April 9).

I would like to compliment the Newport Harbor Commission for its good work in reviewing the current mooring fees and mooring transferability issue. The Harbor Commission undertook a significant amount of work in this review, including holding several well-attended meetings for public input.

I am a mooring permit holder and agree with the Harbor Commission’s recommendations in this matter. The continued transferability of moorings, with a transfer fee paid to the city, is in the best interest of both the city and mooring permit holders.

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The current mooring rule, with termination of transferability after the year 2021, except transfer to family members, is not a fair or well thought-out ruling. A mooring fee reduction to match the fee reduction recently granted to the Newport residential pier owners seems fair.

The Newport Beach City Council would do well to follow the Harbor Commission’s recommendation in this matter.

Kevin Fullerton

Costa Mesa

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Lifeguard is deserved of honor

I am a Star Scout rank in Boy Scouts in Troop 764 and attended the Nov. 6 Newport Beach City Council meeting. I also participated in the Junior Lifeguard program. When we heard of the drowning of lifeguard Benjamin M. Carlson we all felt really bad.

After this tragic event the junior lifeguards were not allowed to go in the water for a few days, as the waves were really big. Our instructor was the only instructor who allowed us to go into the water one day soon after this tragedy. Only six of us volunteered to go, and we swam out to the silver buoy.

However, after we got out to the Boey the waves really picked up, and the lifeguards on the beach immediately all swam out to guide us back in. We quickly realized how dangerous the ocean can be, and how conditions can change so quickly. I thought about Mr. Carlson and how dangerous being a lifeguard is.

When I went to the City Council meeting I was so happy to hear they were naming lifeguard headquarters after him. I thought I would be bored at the meeting, but this made me happy to know how much the city cared.

Landon Searcy

Newport Beach

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Ensign kids are well-mannered

I attended an assembly for the seventh and eighth grades at Ensign Intermediate School. We see and hear so much negativity about our young people these days, which prompted me to write you. When I entered the hall to be seated a row of boys moved over and beckoned to me to sit next to them.

They were moving across to other seats for other people coming in, but this is what impressed me so: These young men extended their hands to shake with mine and thanked me for coming. Such politeness.

I am an 85-year-old mother one of the school’s officials. I truly appreciated their courtesy and respect.

Brenda G. Nanney

Longview, Wa.

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