Aaron wants to tell me about what improvements he'd like to make in the City of Pittsburg, CA where we used to live. [note: I typed this as he told it to me - it will be edited and put into a letter form]

Subject: Turning the world of hell into the world of peace.

First I'd put in cyclone and barbed wire fences around the railroad tracks so no animal can get in and plus I'd have inmates from jail come down and have them plant grass and seeds by the railroad tracks, by the fence. I'd help out the environment because of more oxygen (from the plants). And plus I'd have like the old building torn down and plus I'd have billboards placed regularly up around the town for people to place stuff up there so poor people can get a decent job like landscaping or mural painting. And I'd have issues of recycling and gardening books with seeds in them about how to make plants grow so people can plant their own vegetable gardens, no problem. And plus down by the river I'd have like sand placed in so that way people can walk by the river on the sand, sort of like a beach. And then plus I'd have like metal road guards by the railroad tracks plus I'd have old sidewalks taken out so I could put in new sidewalks because its all wrecked up, broken with glass everywhere. Plus I'd have a truck that comes along, a sculpture truck, that drives by people's houses with messy yards, so the guy can ask if he can have the junk in people's yards (for metal sculptures). I'd have a recycling truck that goes to people's yards that would ask for donations for sculptures. Down in the park I'd have more trees planted and more grass planted, so people can play in the grass... because I remember when I lived there if I wanted to play soccer in the baseball field I got kicked out. I'd have a building near the skateboard parks to sell things. I'd have shops set up for the system, to sell things that are good for the environment and your body. Teenagers could get paid by doing murals instead of doing graffiti. And plus I'd have inmates from jail go and do yardwork. And plus I'd have small shops placed all over town on these environmentally safe things for the environment. I'd have a person go house to house every month to do smog tests on cars. So that way the air won't be polluted. You know how there's an old train station shut off? They should repair it and reopen it. You know how they have those tunnels under the street that people use to go under the street? They should have more of those or walkways over the streets for kids to walk on because almost every day kids got hit walking home from school. And they should do lots of repairs to Pittsburg because that's a cursed place. It just needs what I'm talking about right now - it needs repairs like that. The place needs more cops. Cops that get search warrants to search houses for weapons, and if they have weapons they need weapons permits and they need cops that listen to small people like us like when I got my bike stolen, or the cats (they were stolen too). I'd have bleachers installed where people take their lawn chairs. I have the bleachers moved regularly to mow the lawn underneath it. By the road I'd have a sidewalk with little lights next to the sidewalk that shine out onto the road so you won't be alarmed if kids are crossing the road. They should hire people to do murals instead of graffiti, so they don't do it on the train cars. In London there's security cameras put up on streetlights, and I'd put them up and the police could stay up all night looking at security cameras and if someone does a robbery the police would know right away, just like in London. And they should have undercover cops there too - to go to places where they sell drugs so they won't be known, so they can bust the people who sell drugs so there would be no drugs. Sure there would be people fainting on the road because they would have no drugs in their system but still it would stop the drug problem. I'd also put up homeless homes, all around town. You don't know how many homeless people there are, probably a lot. But they do have one nice thing where people donate food and people can go eat.

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