Woody's Agenda

By Woody Roe Alspaugh

Stockton Ca. is mostly an agriculture area. There are several types of soil in and around Stockton as thousands of years ago, it was mostly a swamp. The particular area, to which I will be referring, is Adobe.

Stockton Ca. is mostly an agriculture area. There are several types of soil in and around Stockton as thousands of years ago, it was mostly a swamp. The particular area, to which I will be referring, is Adobe. Now a lot of people don't understand Adobe. It is one of the richest soils in the world. This area was once under water as it is below sea level. Now beside that fact, not only to build half million dollar "shacks" on the land would be like killing the "goose" that laid the golden egg, but it would create a L.A. atmosphere. The land has been and still, mostly, been farmland whith a few house, mostly farm house and or barns. This area in question starts approximately at Farmington Road and stretches south to just past "Sunny" Rd. The project is labeled "Mariposa Lakes ". (I don't know where or how, the but holes, came up whith "Lakes"). Meanwhile, there is a coffee house,returant, called "The Ranch". It started out in an old wooden building at the end of Pock Lane. Then the owners, Bill and Dorothy, built a new building a little further up on Mariposa Road. I was told, by a friend "Frank", that all the Big shots meet their every Monday morning and that I should come out and see. *It is very disappointing that one of the Men is a black man who is and has been involved in politics for his own benefit.) So I went out to visit my old friend Dorothy and told her that I was trying to stop the building. (The news media, crocked city officials and builders refer to this as a "Development"). She asked me "Why"? So I thought for a moment and replied "think about where you live, now as well as in the past and this restaurant out here in the country, virtually unchanged since day one and then think of Los Angles". She thought for a minute and replied "oh yes".