WHAT’S UP WITH THAT
A reader wants to know what happened to hopes of a Salinas minor league baseball team making its home at the old Hayward Lumber site on Front Street. Property negotiations ended after eight months. “This is a very disappointing conclusion,” Bakersfield Blaze team owner D.G. Elmore said then. But there’s good news: The Blaze is in talks to purchase another location, home of the old Uni-kool Co. plant at John and Abbott streets, to host a field and a 3,500-seat stadium.
OVERHEARD
“Taco Bell is the closest to Mexican food Joe Heston will eat.”
– Beleaguered Salinas City Councilman Jose Castañeda on KSBW President and General Manager Joe Heston’s culinary proclivities. For more on the beleaguerment, check “Bad Week,” below.