Happy New Year! Hello to the future, and farewell to 2021, with a look back at the last six months. The theme for the second half of the year seems to be reopening . Onward to 2022.
Goodbye, 2021 the strange year when we tentatively rejoined the world, cautiously stepping out from our quarantining and still wearing masks. Hopefully as we look back at January to June 2021, we see progress made in our cities.
Anne Fox, Pleasanton
This week, my Pleasanton neighborhood is mourning the senseless death of our one of our neighbors, Mark Fiala, a respected realtor well-known in town, who was tragically struck down this week in the crosswalk on Stoneridge Drive at Newton Way in Pleasanton.
This happened a few months after the city manager Nelson Fialho chose to place an agenda item to raise the speed limit between Kamp Drive to Trevor Parkway from 35 mph to 40 mph on a consent calendar item, not a public hearing item, without informing elected officials that a previous city council had unanimously adopted ordinances, including Ordinance 1882, which made the stretch of road 35 mph. Furthermore, even though raising the speed limit near Mohr Elementary would affect the safety of students, elected school board members were kept in the dark.
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PLEASANTON, CA Pleasanton police plan to shut down a portion of Stoneridge Drive Tuesday, for the second day in a row.
Officers anticipate closing the road from Newton Way to Trevor Parkway in both directions from 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. as they conduct a follow-up traffic investigation.
Mark Fiala, a 66-year-old resident in the area was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash at Stoneridge and Newton early Monday morning, officials said. Fiala was walking his dog in the crosswalk when he was struck by a driver whose name has not been released.
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Feb 22, 2021
Roger Joseph Fiala, 82, of Tehachapi, CA, and formerly of Moorland, IA, went home to be with the Lord on January 31, 2021, in Tehachapi, CA, after a well-fought battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held February 27, 2021, at 2:30 pm CST at the Historic Bruce Funeral Home, 923 First Avenue South, Fort Dodge Iowa 50501 followed by a graveside service at the Elkhorn Township Cemetery in rural Moorland. Services will be live streamed via our Historic Bruce Funeral Home Facebook page. A celebration of life ceremony will be held March 20, 2021, at 11:00 am PST at Grace Chapel, 44648 15th Street West, Lancaster, CA 93534. This event will be livestreamed on You Tube. For link, please email Brenda Smethurst at deanorbrenda@gmail.com. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.brucesfuneralhome.com