Eastside shop owner, designer dies - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Isn't this just a civilized country we live in? Aren't we so much better off paying 30% overhead to for-profit health insurance companies so they can deny the insured benefits, instead of having vital, contributing members of our community among us? Bueller? Anyone?

Why isn't the Chronicle cited in this story, as the Sentinel reported lifted it nearly verbatim from yesterday's Chron? Pathetic.

We need to get rid of the Insurance Companies! They are ruthless. Why do we have such a pathetic health care system?

Good thing we're *sure* "socialized" medicine is a bad idea.

Wouldn't want to be like those Canadians, Europeans or whatever. He might have had to live for many more years were he a citizen in the Great White North.

This is how our "system" works. The insurance companies are just protecting their stock holders who they have a "fiscal responsibility" to. In other words, they are in the business of making money, not providing health care. To the rest of us, as services across the board become harder for average Americans to obtain, it is more evidence that the US is becoming a third world country.

John wrote:

Why isn't the Chronicle cited in this story, as the Sentinel reported lifted it nearly verbatim from yesterday's Chron? Pathetic.

"We've gone through a lot in the past year — a change in ownership, moving our offices from downtown Santa Cruz to Scotts Valley, moving our printing to San Jose, and losing more than 30 percent of our work force. We recently lost two more valuable people in our newsroom due to further economic retrenching," writes Editor Don Miller." -- July 1, 2008

Don, did you look on craigslist lost&found?

How about a little something about Pete! He was one of Santa Cruz's memorable characters. I worked for him in the early days of his antique store. He was energetic, creative and a ball of fire at times, running circles around me. His enthusiasm for his work was apparent in the quality of his creations. Temperamental artist, hard at work, now assigned to repair heaven's crystal chandeliers.

He wil be missed. Isgro family, I am sorry for your loss.

(If any readers have a family history of colon cancer, or even polyps, get a colonoscopy and regular screenings. I've lost two people to this disease in the last several years. It is a bad way to go. If caught early, colon cancer can be treated.)

who was that oncologist? what a great doc. burn and loot all insurance companies. stat with anthem.

Hank Williams sang it *I'll never get out of this world alive".
It is very sad to hear of his passing, but as one blogger said "he's probably busy making chandeliers in Heaven".
It points out to all, how quikly the years pass on this Planet and how we need to live each day as tho it is our last, loving each person we come in contact with and helping our brothers and sisters along the Path.

Say, I guess everyone knows that the "city" listed under our "handle" on this blog is bogus and that each of us are indeed Santa Cruz folks?

Yes, that's correct in my case - Seacliff, actually. But how do we change it? Or is it really all that important?

seabling8 wrote:

Yes, that's correct in my case - Seacliff, actually. But how do we change it? Or is it really all that important?

It can't be changed. It is the address of your Internet Service Provider (ISP). It absolutley does not matter, and is only a detriment when it's unusual and therefore recognizable, so that stupid people with nothing better to do tend to chase you around the forum and harrass you. You "bettah' off" being an unrecognizable floater. Topix is full of cruel people with small lives.

(Caveat -- if you register, you might be able to specify a location. Don't know because I haven't ever tried to register. But then you become recognizable, and a target...)

Support the local ISP's! then you can proudly show your Santa Cruz location!
locals support locals!

Wish I could but we're corporate now so it's out of my control. My thoughts go out to Pete's family. He was a unique human being.

Thanks for reading the Isgro story, and for commenting.(We'd like to have the comment board provide easier ways to change the city. It defaults to your ISP, but you can change it by editing your profile, changing "hometown")- Tom Moore, online editor

How tragic that the short lapse in doc recommended treatment cost him his life. I hope some serious attention is paid and some procedural changes made. My condolences to the family and yes, I too am a local.

seabling8 wrote:

How about a little something about Pete! He was one of Santa Cruz's memorable characters. I worked for him in the early days of his antique store. He was energetic, creative and a ball of fire at times, running circles around me. His enthusiasm for his work was apparent in the quality of his creations. Temperamental artist, hard at work, now assigned to repair heaven's crystal chandeliers.

Here, Here! I enjoyed Peter as well...I had worked with him on several projects in the last 25 years. Interestingly, I just took an art deco lamp I got from him years ago out of storage and put it on my piano...where it will now stay in his memory.

I did not know this person, but my condolences to his family.

How do you screen for colon cancer? How is that done?(If no one minds me asking)