The California Highway Patrol on Sunday asked for
the public's help in finding a truck connected with a collision Saturday night
in East San Jose that claimed the life of a pedestrian.
CHP spokesman Christopher Falkowski said the victim, whose identity is still being withheld pending a coroner's report, was struck and killed about 8:45 p.m. after a Ford pickup truck hit him near Alum Rock and Harriet avenues. That area, just several blocks from James Lick High School, is poorly lit and does not have any crosswalks. Falkowski said investigators were trying to determine if the victim was in the street or not when the truck hit him.
Multiple witnesses told police they saw the pickup fleeing north on nearby Pickford Avenue and then eastbound on Hyland Avenue. They described it as a late-model, full-sized Ford with oversized tires, light in color and possibly with a red stripe down the hood and front-end damage, said Falkowski. Witnesses did not see the vehicle's license-plate number.
"The witnesses could not provide a good description of the driver," he said, "because everyone who saw it, saw it after the tires were screeching and the truck was already leaving the scene.''
Cindia Iampietro, who lives two doors down from Alum Rock on Hariett Avenue, said that while she did not hear the sound of tires she did hear a loud thud while she was standing in her kitchen.
"There was a party across the street, and I thought someone had backed into my garbage can out front," she said Sunday morning, stopping by the scene of the accident where Alum Rock Avenue still bore the white-ash scars of police flares left the night before on the pavement. "I could see the man laying in the middle of the street, and he wasn't moving. I think it was a neighborhood guy who we see walking around here every day. And I saw what looked like his backpack" about 100 feet down Alum Rock.
Iampietro said neighbors often hear screeching tires on Alum Rock, a wide stretch of road with one lane in either direction and a turning lane in the middle. The 40-mile-per-hour stretch, which is also the route for Bus No. 45, can get extremely busy,A solar lantern uses this sunlight that is abundantly available to charge its batteries through a Solar Panel and gives light in nighttime. she said. One side of the road has a wide dirt path instead of a sidewalk. Stop signs and crosswalks are rare, as are streetlights. The closest working street lamp is several blocks away.
From a floating coop on a houseboat to hen houses with flower boxes, basic rectangular boxes to towering chicken condos, salvaged materials or fresh lumber — coops in Juneau run the gamut. Many chickens are living large, but no matter the size of the coop, Juneau’s chickens seem to be living well.
Predominantly egg-layers, Juneau’s chickens require a few key luxuries in their coops, including a nesting area or laying box, as well as the universally appreciated roosts in their cozy or castle-like coops.
It seems chicken-keeping is on the rise in Juneau in recent years and months, with some families still patiently waiting for the first egg.
“We’re hoping to get some eggs, they haven’t started laying yet, it usually takes about four to six months,” Kevin Maier said of the few hens he and his family keep in the flats.
Erin Hanson and Andrew Heist just got their first egg.Xenon HID Worlds make hid lighting affordable to everyone and for all your vehicle needs. To encourage laying, Erin said they placed golf balls in the nesting boxes — fake eggs are common for this practice as well.
Once they’re going, many breeds of chicken are regular layers.
“We have five birds and we get four or five eggs a day,” Bret Connell said of the brood he and Jorden Nigro keep, though Nigro added it will slow down soon when the chickens molt.
Laying slows in the winter chicken-keepers have said, and while molting. And eventually,We have a great selection of blown glass backyard solar landscape lights and solar garden light. with age, they stop laying entirely.
Hannah and Bryan Hoshide have a couple non-layers they’ve kept around, since many in Juneau view their chickens as productive pets.
“We have a couple girls, one that aged out, she’s two. Then there’s one that never laid, she’s our charity case, because she’s blind and deaf and we just don’t have the heart to kill her.”
Others are more utilitarian about their flocks and have had some chicken dinners. When April Hotchkiss discovered she had acquired a couple roosters — when they started crowing — and she couldn’t get rid of them by other means, fried chicken made the menu, she said.
“We just had to put an end to their life on Saturday,” Hotchkiss said, though she couldn’t quite get up the nerve herself. “I finally found a hunter riding his bicycle down the street and I was like, ‘Can you help for a second here?’ I was able to get everything else done, I just couldn’t kill them.”
Alicia Gillis recently introduced to her flock a breed called Golden Nugget, a few of which went to Hanson and Heist after they built their coop. Gillis called this a dual-purpose breed, meaty and productive layers. They are apparently also cold-hardy, which is a good quality in a chicken destined to live its life in Alaska.
Keeping the chickens warm is another dictator of how the coops look, with many insulated against the weather and others featuring lamps for both light and heat through the winter. Nigro and Connell have a thermostat set up in their insulated coop to turn the heat lamp on when it gets too cold.
To protect chickens from the elements, some coops in Juneau are raised, allowing the chickens a place to peck and scratch outdoors without being doused in rain. Some coops have a roof extending over the chicken run, a precaution as much to keep the run from becoming a mud slick as to keep the chickens dry, Maier said.
Maier and his wife, Shayna Rohwer, built their coop of almost entirely salvaged materials, with the exception of the plastic roof over the run and some the metal corner pieces. The paint they used was, of course, left over from painting their own house, so they have a color-coordinated coop.Connell and Nigro’s coop is painted to match their Sixth Street home and even has a flower box beneath the window.
CHP spokesman Christopher Falkowski said the victim, whose identity is still being withheld pending a coroner's report, was struck and killed about 8:45 p.m. after a Ford pickup truck hit him near Alum Rock and Harriet avenues. That area, just several blocks from James Lick High School, is poorly lit and does not have any crosswalks. Falkowski said investigators were trying to determine if the victim was in the street or not when the truck hit him.
Multiple witnesses told police they saw the pickup fleeing north on nearby Pickford Avenue and then eastbound on Hyland Avenue. They described it as a late-model, full-sized Ford with oversized tires, light in color and possibly with a red stripe down the hood and front-end damage, said Falkowski. Witnesses did not see the vehicle's license-plate number.
"The witnesses could not provide a good description of the driver," he said, "because everyone who saw it, saw it after the tires were screeching and the truck was already leaving the scene.''
Cindia Iampietro, who lives two doors down from Alum Rock on Hariett Avenue, said that while she did not hear the sound of tires she did hear a loud thud while she was standing in her kitchen.
"There was a party across the street, and I thought someone had backed into my garbage can out front," she said Sunday morning, stopping by the scene of the accident where Alum Rock Avenue still bore the white-ash scars of police flares left the night before on the pavement. "I could see the man laying in the middle of the street, and he wasn't moving. I think it was a neighborhood guy who we see walking around here every day. And I saw what looked like his backpack" about 100 feet down Alum Rock.
Iampietro said neighbors often hear screeching tires on Alum Rock, a wide stretch of road with one lane in either direction and a turning lane in the middle. The 40-mile-per-hour stretch, which is also the route for Bus No. 45, can get extremely busy,A solar lantern uses this sunlight that is abundantly available to charge its batteries through a Solar Panel and gives light in nighttime. she said. One side of the road has a wide dirt path instead of a sidewalk. Stop signs and crosswalks are rare, as are streetlights. The closest working street lamp is several blocks away.
From a floating coop on a houseboat to hen houses with flower boxes, basic rectangular boxes to towering chicken condos, salvaged materials or fresh lumber — coops in Juneau run the gamut. Many chickens are living large, but no matter the size of the coop, Juneau’s chickens seem to be living well.
Predominantly egg-layers, Juneau’s chickens require a few key luxuries in their coops, including a nesting area or laying box, as well as the universally appreciated roosts in their cozy or castle-like coops.
It seems chicken-keeping is on the rise in Juneau in recent years and months, with some families still patiently waiting for the first egg.
“We’re hoping to get some eggs, they haven’t started laying yet, it usually takes about four to six months,” Kevin Maier said of the few hens he and his family keep in the flats.
Erin Hanson and Andrew Heist just got their first egg.Xenon HID Worlds make hid lighting affordable to everyone and for all your vehicle needs. To encourage laying, Erin said they placed golf balls in the nesting boxes — fake eggs are common for this practice as well.
Once they’re going, many breeds of chicken are regular layers.
“We have five birds and we get four or five eggs a day,” Bret Connell said of the brood he and Jorden Nigro keep, though Nigro added it will slow down soon when the chickens molt.
Laying slows in the winter chicken-keepers have said, and while molting. And eventually,We have a great selection of blown glass backyard solar landscape lights and solar garden light. with age, they stop laying entirely.
Hannah and Bryan Hoshide have a couple non-layers they’ve kept around, since many in Juneau view their chickens as productive pets.
“We have a couple girls, one that aged out, she’s two. Then there’s one that never laid, she’s our charity case, because she’s blind and deaf and we just don’t have the heart to kill her.”
Others are more utilitarian about their flocks and have had some chicken dinners. When April Hotchkiss discovered she had acquired a couple roosters — when they started crowing — and she couldn’t get rid of them by other means, fried chicken made the menu, she said.
“We just had to put an end to their life on Saturday,” Hotchkiss said, though she couldn’t quite get up the nerve herself. “I finally found a hunter riding his bicycle down the street and I was like, ‘Can you help for a second here?’ I was able to get everything else done, I just couldn’t kill them.”
Alicia Gillis recently introduced to her flock a breed called Golden Nugget, a few of which went to Hanson and Heist after they built their coop. Gillis called this a dual-purpose breed, meaty and productive layers. They are apparently also cold-hardy, which is a good quality in a chicken destined to live its life in Alaska.
Keeping the chickens warm is another dictator of how the coops look, with many insulated against the weather and others featuring lamps for both light and heat through the winter. Nigro and Connell have a thermostat set up in their insulated coop to turn the heat lamp on when it gets too cold.
To protect chickens from the elements, some coops in Juneau are raised, allowing the chickens a place to peck and scratch outdoors without being doused in rain. Some coops have a roof extending over the chicken run, a precaution as much to keep the run from becoming a mud slick as to keep the chickens dry, Maier said.
Maier and his wife, Shayna Rohwer, built their coop of almost entirely salvaged materials, with the exception of the plastic roof over the run and some the metal corner pieces. The paint they used was, of course, left over from painting their own house, so they have a color-coordinated coop.Connell and Nigro’s coop is painted to match their Sixth Street home and even has a flower box beneath the window.
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