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BETTER THAN EVER RESIDENT MUSINGS

Walter Wagner THE UNINVITED GUEST

The train that passed by my grandparent’s house, BY JULIE GARVIN, SAN BENANCIO
discovering new cosmic rays, and creating botanical gardens I hear him walking on the hill.
I look out the window; see nothing - what’s the deal? Send us your stories, poems, historic anecdotes of
the area, photographs, etc. - this section celebrates
BY WALTER WAGNER, SALINAS I realize that suddenly I cannot see or hear Loop residents’ creativity and passion! Email
Laurie.Martin@n2co.com or phone 272-4620.
Quietness instigates terrific fear.
It is a beautiful day, full of glowing sunshine,
“Growing up, I spent my weekends at After I left Cal in 1975, I studied law for conjunction with UCSF researchers who Why am I deprived of a peaceful quiet time?
my grandparents’ ranch, which faced 3 years in Sacramento and practiced as had their research laboratories at the Instead, I am so fearful a breath I cannot take.
HWY 68 and is now called The Villas. I an attorney.” VAMCSF facility, as well as with VA staff. I wish someone here for my sake.
would spend my summers helping pick Walter has also been credited with “After 5 years in San Francisco, I took up I think he has gone behind the barbeque.
vegetables in my grandfather’s garden. the discovery of an unusual cosmic ray education, earning 100% on the CBEST I do not know what to do.
When I was about 5 years old, I saw an in 1975, and many science digests have exam in mathematics in 1984. I taught Suddenly, three deer race across my lawn.
amazing sight. I looked up from playing published articles on it. It had been math, science, and language. My wife They seem frightened, especially poor little fawn.
and saw a train passing by! Of course, I categorized as a magnetic monopole, and I moved to Utah and Hawaii, where He walks around like he owns the place.
ran inside to tell my grandmother, who but the door has been left open for I continued to teach. While in Hawaii, Why doesn’t he show his face?
chastised me for fibbing. Well, as it turns several prospective theoretical particles, I developed a botanical garden on 300 I think I should call 911
out, a train did go by that day. An engine including a massive magnetic monopole, acres of the Big Island, which is now But what will I say he has done? If all the animals are so alarmed,
was being transported to Monterey a strangelet, or a micro black hole. known as Botanical World Adventures He has not broken into my home yet; Should I call a neighbor before I am harmed?
for its final resting place at the newly He is currently writing a first-person and the Umauma Experience. Since He won’t in the middle of this sunny day. I bet. Oh, in a different patio,
created Dennis the Menace Park.” review of the discovery, which will be returning to the mainland, I have begun Does he have a gun to shoot? I see a big gray paw down below.
The engine and its tender were published in commemoration of the plans for developing a botanical garden What I hear is a heavy boot. Sighing, I see no long tail.
donated by Southern Pacific to the City 50-year anniversary in July 2025. “My for our Monterey County community – From window to window, I flutter. Mr. Bobcat, you will prevail!
of Monterey in January 1956. Because it first love has always been physics, so I the Monterey Bay Botanical Gardens.” I say a quick prayer with a stutter.
was so heavy, the engine was conveyed returned to work in the field in 1979, To learn more about this exciting All the doors I check.
by Company C of the 84th Army administering the NRC broad-scope plan for our community, please email All securely locked, even out to the deck. Julie lives in San Benancio and enjoys writing
Engineers from Fort Ord. “I attended radioisotope license. This covered Monterey Bay Botanical Gardens at Suddenly there is a loud bang. poetry. We especially love that she writes about
Salinas High School, then Hartnell nuclear medicine, radiology, medical mbbg2012@hotmail.com. A patio chair has fallen with a harsh clang. her wildlife experiences that she encounters in
College, and transferred to UC Berkeley, research labs, clinical labs, etc., for the A turkey strolling up my driveway, the community in which she lives.
where I earned a degree in Botany/ Veteran Affairs Medical Center, SF. I was Living life to the fullest and being in the 50+ crowd is flies high up a tree, to stay.
celebrated on this page. Contact Laurie.martin@n2co.com or
Biology and a minor in Physics/Math. there from 1979 to 1984.” He worked in phone 272-4620 to share your accomplishments and stories.

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