is there a Buffalo Way in Manteca’s future?

The proposed changes to the Manteca High campus as part of a $40 million modernization project that will address health and safety issues as well as put facilities in place to accommodate expanding the campus to 2,200 students will split Garfield Avenue in half.

As luck would have it, the southern segment of Garfield Avenue from Moffat Boulevard to a planned roundabout where a plaza will be created in a section of the street that is being closed next to where the new big gym is being built has no other properties facing it. Precision Automotive that borders Garfield actually fronts Moffat Boulevard and has its address connected to that street.

That opens the door for Manteca High’s Associated Student Body to ask the Manteca City Council for a name change for the southern half of Garfield Avenue to Buffalo Way.

East Union High has Lancers Way for the driveway that enters the campus opposite of Sprague Street at the traffic signals on Union Road. And in Lathrop, the city re-named the street that Lathrop High faces as Spartan Way before any other development occured. It is the western continuation of Lathrop Road after it clears the Interstate 5 ramps.

Not only would Buffalo Way be a classy touch but perhaps alumni could come up with an appropriate project — maybe a charging Buffalo sculpture — for the proposed roundabout on Buffalo Way by the gym as a way to mark the school’s 100th anniversary that is just around the corner.

Perhaps money could be raised for green and white concrete pavers at the roundabout.

Kudos for

Spin Cycle

The Spin Cycle Laundry Lounge, 161 E. Yosemite Ave., deserves kudos for their efforts during the three week-long homeless tent revival staged by Inner City Action to reach out to homeless as the first step to helping them get off the streets.

Once a week  the Spin Cycle Laundry staff and volunteers picked up 16 loads of laundry at the temporary homeless resource center at 555 Industrial Park Drive.  The laundry was washed, dried and folded at the Spin Cycle Laundry and returned the following day.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com