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By Ellen Wright
replacement project.
The sewer replacement
program aims to get rid of
three sewer lift stations
along a 3.4-mile segment
along Felicita Road, Via
Rancho Parkway and Park
Drive.
HELIX Environmental Planning Inc. was hired
by the city for a mitigation
report as part of the sewer
project.
In the report, staff
wrote that the levels of a
carcinogenic substance, trichloroethene, were three
times higher along Felicita
Road between Hamilton
Lane and Via Rancho Parkway than the maximum considered safe by the state.
The report also said
that since trenching will
dig about 14 feet underground, there is a high likelihood of hitting the toxic
groundwater.
“Due to the relatively
shallow depth to groundwater in the immediate vicinity of the Felicita Road
portions of the alignment,
there is potential for en-
ESCONDIDO — The
City Council unanimously
approved the annexation
of 11.2 acres for a 21 home
project called Amanda
Estates at a council meeting Wednesday.
The developer, New
Urban West Inc., still
needs approval from LAFCO to annex the parcel of
land, which is currently
part of the county.
LAFCO, which stands
for Local Agency Formation Committee, is a quasi-legislative regulatory
agency in San Diego that
has authority in the county.
Three homeowners
in the surrounding area
also chose to be annexed
into the city because they
will gain access to city
services.
New Urban West has
a history of developing
in Escondido. The company is responsible for
Brookside, Rancho Vistamonte and Harmony
Grove.
Last month the developers were approved for
a 65-home project along
Felicita Road, called Oak
Creek.
Once all of the projects are complete, New
Urban West will have
built more than 400
homes in Escondido and
700 in adjacent Harmony
Grove for a total of more
than 1,100 homes.
The Amanda Lane
development is at the
end of West Citracado
Parkway next to Del Lago
Academy.
The
21
homes
planned for the Amanda
Lane Estates will be between four and six bedrooms. The average size
will be 13,000 square feet
and the majority will be
two story homes.
The project must include 3.5 acres of open
space because of the lot
sizes, said city Principal
Planner Bill Martin.
The
project
was
unanimously
approved
and most of the councilmembers said they’ve
seen firsthand the quality
homes New Urban West
builds.
Councilmember Ed
Gallo said the Amanda
Lane homes are not starter homes and allow people
in upper income levels to
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Five mayors from North County give thumbs up to the Innovate78 logo, which was unveiled on April 7. From left: San Marcos Mayor Jim Desmond, Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood,
Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall, Vista Mayor Judy Ritter, and Escondido Mayor Sam Abed. Photo by Promise Yee
Five city partnership Innovate78 logo, website unveiled
By Promise Yee
REGION — The mayors of
Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista, San
Marcos, and Escondido gathered at
Cal State San Marcos Tuesday to unveil the 78-Corridor logo and Innovate78.com website.
The regional branding and economic development initiative will
sell the fives cities along state Route
78 as the “upside of San Diego.”
Regional business space, housing and institutions of higher education will be sold to companies look- The 78-Corridor logo is meant to unite the five cities of North County: San Marcos,
ing to start up or expand business. Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista and Escondido to help keep business and attract new ones
The motto shared by the mayors to the area. Courtesy image
is intended to keep businesses in the
area.
“We have a more powerful voice
when we speak as one,” Escondido
Mayor Sam Abed said. “Without us
working together we will not reach
our economic potential.”
The regional logo is a pentagon
shape with a “78” in the middle with
the word “corridor” following. Each
side of the pentagon is a different
bright color to represent the five
cites and top businesses clusters.
The website is both a city resource to attract businesses, and
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Toxic plume along Felicita Road still an issue
By Ellen Wright
ESCONDIDO — A decades old large toxic plume
in southwestern Escondido
has once again concerned
residents and the California Department of Toxic
Substances Control.
About 34 years ago, the
Chatham Brothers Barrel
Yard was shut down because storage drums were
leaking toxic material in
the soil.
The waste material has
been cleaned up and 11,000
tons of debris were removed
from the site at the expense
of the companies who delivered the barrels full of toxic
material.
However, the groundwater was contaminated and spread to Felicita
Creek.
At a meeting held last
September, staff from the
state Department of Toxic
Substances Control said the
pollution levels in the creek
are so low that they’re not a
concern to humans.
On March 17, the state
department released their
review of an evaluation update published by Hargis
and Associates, Inc.
The Chatham Site Potential Responsible Parties
Group or the PRP, which
consists of the companies
responsible for the original
contamination, hired Hargis to do the report, which
was requested by the state.
Nearly 40 corporations
make up the PRP, including The Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Co., Solar Turbines
Inc., and multiple helicopter and airplane manufacturing companies.
Theodore Johnson, senior engineering geologist
with the state, said the evaluation update does not provide effective measures to
stop the flow of the plume.
Johnson asked the
members of PRP to provide
an alternative analysis, to
evaluate technical effectiveness, feasibility and
the cost to treat the underground toxic plume.
Members from local
resident activist group, Escondido Neighbors United,
have expressed their concerns about the plume, specifically as it relates to the
upcoming Southwest sewer
The rendering shows the Chatham Plume spread in the groundwater in
southwestern Escondido. The orange represents 100 parts per billion
of carcinogenic substance, trichloroethene and the purple shows it at
10 parts per billion. The maximum amount allowed to be present in
the drinking water mandated by the state is 1.7 parts per billion. Image
courtesy Escondido Neighbors United
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition San Marcos Unified gets $4.1 million energy grant
By Aaron Burgin
SAN MARCOS — The San
Marcos Unified School District
recently received a $4.1 million
grant from the state Energy
Commission to complete energy
efficiency upgrades throughout
its campuses.
The district expects to use
the grant funding, which will
be dispersed over the next four
years, on a range of projects,
including replacing older and
inefficient heating, ventilation
and air conditioning units, optimize the district’s energy management system and install LED
lighting, both interior and exterior, and install solar panel systems at the district’s 18 school
sites.
District officials anticipate
saving more than 1 million kilowatts in annual energy savings
when the plan is fully implemented.
“We are excited that San
Marcos Unified School District
will be able to utilize these grant
funds to improve the sustainable
quality of our facilities while also
reducing overall district expenditures and life-cycle costs,” said
Khary Knowles, the district’s executive director of facilities.
The district partnered with
the firm Schneider Electric for
the grant application and execution of its energy plan.
The funding is in conjunction with Proposition 39, which
voters approved in 2012 and
changed how out-of-state corporations could calculate the taxes they paid. The result was a
$1 billion annual tax windfall,
half of which was earmarked for
clean energy projects.
San Marcos’ award was the
second-largest grant awarded
to a San Diego County school
district. Vista Unified School
District received a $4.7 million
grant toward its clean-energy
projects.
The grants are not of the
matching variety, which means
the state monies will pay for
the entirety of the school
district’s projects.
Mobile home rents
becoming a problem
in North County
By Ellen Wright
VISTA — There are
more than 100 mobile
home parks throughout
the North County and
they are not immune to
rising home prices, even
though there is some city
protection against unfair
rent increases.
The unique situation
of mobile home parks has
caused cities throughout
the region to regulate
them differently.
The state and local
governments do not enforce mobile home parks
but in Vista, the city has
created a Mobile Home
Review Board to hear
disputes between mobile
home tenants and the
park owners.
Mobile homes are
unique because in many,
tenants own the house but
not the land the home sits
on.
This presents a challenge to seniors who are
on fixed incomes and may
not be able to afford an increase in rent.
On April 2, three
mobile home owners in
the Green Valley Mobile
Home Park had a hearing in front of the Mobile
Home Review Board.
They argued recent
rent increases violated
the Mobile Home Park
Accord, which is an agreement between the city and
mobile home park owners.
The accord began
in 1996, after Vista was
bombarded with tenant
complaints.
“It was somewhat of
an agreement since the infighting (between the residents and the city about
a rent controlled ordinance) had gotten so hostile and I would suggest
it’s probably been a good
solution for Vista in the
long term,” Julie Paule
of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association said.
“It was never to bring
uniformity to rents,” she
added.
The board was established to encourage fair
treatment among mobile
home tenants and the
park owners.
The citizen board
heard complaints from
tenants at the Green Valley Mobile Home Park.
Three residents complained their rents unfairly increased and manager
of the mobile home park,
Greg O’Hagen, disagreed.
He said the rental accord protects tenants from
unfair rent increases.
“What (the accord)
does is protect existing
homeowners from big rent
increases year over year.
What it also does, is protect homeowner to homeowner sales,” O’Hagen
said.
Generally, the rent
can’t increase more than 2
percent although if there
is a break in homeowner-to-homeowner
sales,
rent can increase more.
The board voted in
favor of the mobile home
park owner, stating the
rent increases did not violate the accord because
there was a break in the
chain of sales.
“For every dollar that
you raise the rent, you’re
cutting into a potential
profit for me because
there is a limit on how
much rent you can charge
before people won’t buy
these units,” Green Valley
resident Stephen Harvey
told the park manager.
Rutherford
Investments owns the mobile
home park.
In Escondido, city
council members heard
arguments about a separate mobile home park,
Sundance Mobile Home
Park.
On March 25, the city
approved a rent increase
of about $15 per space per
month.
In October 2013,
the council approved a
monthly rent increase of
$124 per space.
Oceanside
mobile
home residents have also
had issues lately.
In February, mobile
home
residents
complained of park management obstructing home
sales, which is illegal in
California.
City Attorney John
Mullen met with residents, park owners and
other interested parties
to establish if unfair and
illegal treatment was going on.
The report was supposed to go in front of city
council within 60 days but
Mullen said it took longer
getting all the required
documents.
He said the report
will go in front of council
when it’s ready.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal delivers a 3-0 ruling last week that upholds a lower court’s ruling that the Encinitas Union School District’s
yoga program does not violate the state Constitution’s separation of church and state. File photo
Appeals court rules: ‘Yoga isn’t religious’
By Aaron Burgin
REGION — The State
Court of Appeal has sent
an clear message about
Encinitas Union School
District’s yoga program to
the family and organization that challenged it: it
isn’t religious.
The Fourth District
Court of Appeal last week
delivered a 3-0 ruling that
upholds a lower court’s
ruling that the K-6 school
district’s yoga program
does not violate the state
Constitution’s separation
of church and state.
“After a careful review of the extensive evidence presented in the
trial court concerning the
nature of the particular
yoga program at issue in
this case, we conclude that
the program is secular in
purpose, does not have the
primary effect of advancing or inhibiting religion,
and does not excessively
entangle the school district in religion,” Associate Justice Cynthia Aaron
wrote in the unanimous
opinion.
“Accordingly,
we conclude that the trial
court properly determined
that the district’s yoga program does not violate our
state constitution.”
The appeal’s court
ruling upholds Superior
Court Judge John Meyer’s
decision in 2013 in favor
of the school district at
the group Yoga for Encinitas Students — known as
YES! — that the district’s
program did not endorse
Hinduism over other religion and did not create a
violation of the so-called
“establishment” clause of
the constitution.
“We are thankful that
this episode has ended,
even though we anticipated the outcome, it is nice
to be on this side of it,” En-
peal panel refuted each
of the arguments made
by the conservative law
group, concluding that the
yoga class had a primary
secular purpose — physical fitness — that it did
not advance or inhibit a
particular religion and
did not foster an excessive
government entanglement
with religion.
We are thankful that this
episode has ended, even though
we anticipated the outcome...”
Timothy Baird
Superintendent, Encinitas Union School District
cinitas Union School District superintendent Timothy Baird said. “It doesn’t
change anything in the
way we are delivering the
program. We are appreciative that the appeals court
found in our favor.”
The case, Sedlock v.
Baird, was filed by the
National Center for Law
and Policy, a conservative
rights law group, on behalf of the parents of two
El Camino Creek students,
who said that the district’s
yoga program was an endorsement of Hindu religious beliefs promoted
in Ashtanga yoga and indoctrinated students with
those beliefs.
The three-judge ap-
The court acknowledged that the origin of
yoga was religious, but noted that so are other forms
of physical fitness that
have become mainstream
practices, including karate, kung fu and other martial arts.
But the district’s yoga
program, which the school
district argued had been
stripped of all vestiges of
religious symbolism, was
not religious in nature, the
court concluded.
“To be sure, if the District’s program instructed
children that through yoga
they would become one
with God and that yoga
could help end the karmic
cycle of reincarnation…
we have little doubt that
the program would violate
the establishment clause,”
Aaron wrote in the ruling.
”However, nowhere in the
District’s curriculum is
there mention of any of the
eight limbs of Ashtanga,
and there is certainly no
mention of the final limb
(union with the divine). Indeed, as described above,
there is no evidence of any
religious indoctrination in
any of the written curriculum or in the evidence
related to the teaching
methods employed in actual District yoga classes.”
Following the court’s
ruling, one Hindu organization called on all school
districts to adopt yoga into
their physical fitness programs.
“If Encinitas Union
School District could successfully teach yoga, why
not other California school
districts could do it similarly?” said Rajan Zed,
president of the Universal
Society of Hinduism.
School district officials thanked the law
firms, both on the district’s side and with YES,
that defended the district
free of charge.
“This would have been
a very expensive case to
defend, especially when
it reached the appeals
phase,” Baird said. “We
are very thankful to both
law firms representing
the district.”
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Community Commentary
Increase water conservation
as supply cutbacks loom
By Mark Muir
Think locally, act globally
By Judy Berlfein
On April 16, Engage
Encinitas will inaugurate
its first Citizens Academy
event.
The topic, now high on
the list of many California
residents, will be water (or
lack thereof). Last week,
Governor Brown issued
unprecedented statewide
mandatory restrictions on
water usage.
Our city is stepping up
to the plate by encouraging
residents to take part in the
National Mayor’s Challenge
for Water Conservation.
California is experiencing record low snowpack
and a fraction of our typical
precipitation.
Welcome to the new
normal.
While drought is to
be expected in our desert
state, the intensity and duration of this particular
drought can be attributed
to our warming planet and
is in line with what climate
scientists have been predicting.
Just a short time ago, it
seemed that global warming was something happening in the future, in a faraway land, to someone else.
I call it the “not me, not
here, not now” phenomenon. Unfortunately, global
warming may be coming to
a place near you — sooner
than any of us thought.
As a volunteer with
Citizens Climate Lobby,
I’m working to educate
my friends, my family, my
neighbors, and my legislators. Action taken now will
save lives and money down
the line.
Our organization proposes a free-market approach that doesn’t pick
winners and losers (such as
incentives); neither does it
impose regulations on fossil
fuel companies.
The federal legislation
would put a price on carbon-based fuels.
All funds collected
would be returned to residents as a dividend. With
a predictable price on energy, investors can be expected to put their money
in non carbon-based fuels,
decreasing our need to emit
excess carbon dioxide into
the air.
It’s an approach that
Republicans, like Darrell
Issa and Duncan Hunter,
as well as Democrats, like
Scott Peters and Susan Davia, can all embrace.
These days I’m thinking globally and acting locally.
But sometimes you’ve
got to also think locally and
act globally.
Judy Berlfein is an
Encinitas resident.
Desalination looks better as water prices rise
California Focus
By Thomas D. Elias
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to
drink…” Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, 1798, in the “Rime
of the Ancient Mariner.”
The reality confronting millions of Californians
as they cope with yet another lengthy episode in a
seemingly endless series
of droughts is that — like
Coleridge’s mariner — this
state has billions of acre
feet of water clearly visible
every day in the form of the
Pacific Ocean and its many
bays and estuaries.
But that’s briny salt
water, containing an array
of minerals that make it almost as inaccessible today
as it was to that parched,
fictitious sailor of 200 years
ago.
But it doesn’t have to
stay that way. As the price
of water goes up, desalinating Pacific waters becomes
ever more enticing and it
will become more so if the
price of taking salts and
other impurities out of salt
water falls. In short, if the
rising price of fresh water
ever comes to match a falling cost for purified seawater, expect desalination to
begin on a large scale in
California.
It appears things are
moving that way now. Over
the winter, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — largest
urban water district in the
state — paid Sacramento
Valley rice farmers an average of $694 per acre foot
of water for 115,000 acre
feet to be sent south via the
state Water Project.
For some farmers, selling water is now more profitable than growing crops.
This sounds like a lot
to pay for one acre foot, the
amount needed to cover
an acre one foot deep and
about the quantity used by
two typical urban families
in the course of a year. But
at that price, water costs
still costs only about onefifth of a cent per gallon.
Well water, by comparison,
averages about $293 per
acre-foot.
Meanwhile, ideas for
new methods of desalinating water arrive frequently
at the state Department of
Water Resources, where analyst Michael Ross checks
to see which might have
real promise.
“The cost of desalination will come down,” Ross
says. “The price of other
water is coming up, as we
can see from the Met’s purchase. Right now I have a
basket-full of proposed processes on my desk.”
Traditional desalination via the process of reverse osmosis (RO) will
vastly increase later this
year,
when
Massachusetts-based Poseidon Water
opens a $1 billion facility
at Carlsbad in northern San
Diego County.
The plant will make
48,000 acre feet yearly,
about 7 percent of San Diego County’s supply, at a
cost of about $2,200 per
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The April 1 snow survey in the Sierra Nevada
showed just 5 percent of
the average snowpack — a
record low since measurements began in 1950. It
was an ominous sign: Four
years into drought, California will get virtually
no runoff this summer to
augment stored water reserves.
On the same day,
Gov. Jerry Brown issued a
sweeping executive order
designed to reduce water
use statewide.
Low deliveries from
the State Water Project
and other factors mean the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
will impose water supply
cutbacks for its customers,
including the San Diego
County Water Authority,
that take effect July 1.
MWD is the largest
water supply source for our
region.
Thankfully, we have
made significant progress
diversifying our water supply sources over the past
two decades.
Regional investments
in water supply reliability
by the Water Authority and
its 24 member agencies will
help reduce the impacts of
any water supply cutbacks
by MWD.
Those investments include long-term, independent Colorado River water
transfers, and enhancing
local supplies with groundwater, surface storage and
water recycling projects
that treat wastewater for
use on places such as farms
and golf courses.
The regional strategy also includes building
the Carlsbad Desalination
Project, which is expected
to start producing water as
soon as this fall.
It will be the largest seawater desalination
project in the nation, generating 50 million gallons
per day of drought-proof
supplies that will help
maintain our region’s $206
billion economy and the
quality of life we enjoy.
Another positive factor is that San Diego County residents have embraced
water conservation as a
way of life.
Per capita water use in
the region has decreased
by more than 20 percent
since 2007, and the region
generated significant water savings in December
and January by turning
off irrigation systems after
rainstorms. Regional water
use in each of those months
dropped by nearly 30 percent compared to the same
months a year earlier, helping to conserve valuable
supplies.
An interesting comparison is that since 1990
our population has grown
by over 700,000, however,
today we are using less water then we did in 1990.
Saving water is becoming even more important
with water supply cutbacks
starting this summer.
How can you save water as the temperatures
rise? More than half of
the water used at a typical
home is for irrigation, so
look for ways to conserve
outdoors. Check for leaks
in your irrigation system
and make sure it’s not watering sidewalks or driveways.
Also, consider replacing unused lawn with
WaterSmart landscaping
that’s both attractive and
appropriate for our region’s
semi-arid climate.
Indoors, make sure to
only run full loads of dishes and laundry.
If you need to replace
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Letters to the Editor
Finding parking friendly
cities
On Easter Sunday
night I took my children to
Dog Beach in Del Mar to
witness the grunion run.
All indications were that
this event was to occur between 10:30 p.m. and midnight. Much to my annoyance — we could not park
near Dog Beach in Del Mar
as Del Mar does not allow
any parking near the beach
from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. We
drove a few hundred yards
to Solana Beach and parked
for free with no worry of a
parking ticket. Del Mar
has beautiful beaches and
a great horse track, but I
will avoid this hamlet for
more parking friendly cities like Solana Beach, Encinitas and Carlsbad where
they welcome residents to
park on streets and enjoy
businesses and beaches
without fear of the ever
present “meter maids.”
Bill Cavanaugh,
Carlsbad
An apology
This is an apology to
Everett DeLano for the behavior of Mayor Sam Abed.
Mr. DeLano, I am truly sorry for the experience you
had when speaking to our
City Council. Our mayor
has been, and unfortunately, will continue to be
a source of embarrassment
to any and all speakers who
disagree with his ideas on
the way things should be in
Escondido. His approach is
my way or the highway.
Hopefully you will not
let his behavior be what
you judge our city by. Had
it not been for two very hot
issues just before the election, I believe you would
have been treated with the
respect any speaker deserves.
Again, my apologies.
Thomas S. Cowan Jr.
Escondido
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition Escondido kite company is flying high
By Tony Cagala
ESCONDIDO — If the
kite industry were anything
like the fashion industry,
BrainStormProducts, LLC
would be the Coco Chanel
of the kite world. In fact,
the two industries are very
similar in that every year
the product changes — everything from design, to
shape, to color — all based
on what’s trending and in
style.
BrainStorm,
tucked
away in a nondescript
building inside one of Escondido’s industrial parks,
has come to dominate the
industry with their licensing rights in North America
and by staying on top of the
trends.
The privately held
company, which has 20 employees that do kite design,
testing and sales onsite, is
the largest kite manufacturer in the U.S., according
to Rich Brady, the company’s senior vice president of
sales. They are one of four
kite manufacturing companies in the country.
While the kite industry
doesn’t really collect information enough to give an
idea on its size, according to
Brady, the industry is in the
millions of dollars.
The company has a fac-
BrainStormProducts, LLC Vice President of Sales Rich Brady holds up
one of the company’s kites that are designed at their headquarters in
Escondido. Their licensing rights in North America has helped them
become the largest kite manufacturer in the U.S.
Employees of the Escondido-based BrainStormProducts, LLC send dozens of kites into the sky near South
Ponto State Beach in Carlsbad earlier this year. The company test flights kites to ensure quality and ease
of use. Photos by Tony Cagla
tory in China that produces
the kites to their specifications and delivers them to
stores, as well as the big box
stores Walmart and Costco,
in every state in the U.S.
The kites tend to hit
the retail floors in January
and stay in stock all the way
through Labor Day in some
cases.
And this month is their
peak season — April being
National Kite Month — a
celebration of all-things
kites, which now extends
into May.
The American Kitefliers Association and the
Kite Trade Association
have collaborated to put on
events around the country
and encourages people to
get involved with the flying
toys, explained John Lutter,
president of the American
Kitefliers Association.
He’s also a kite retailer.
Lutter has owned and
operated his online store
kitestop.com since 2002
and carries some of BrainStorm’s kites.
As a retailer, he said
he’s been seeing a decline
for the last decade or so
with people buying kites,
though he’s clear to point
out that’s only anecdotal
evidence coming from his
personal experience.
“Kites were really popular in the ‘80s and ‘90s and
then basically there’s been
down trending since 2000
or so,” Lutter said.
“BrainStorm has been
fortunate,” Brady said. “We
started out in 2001 with
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SANDAG buys 50 acres in Carlsbad’s Batiquitos Lagoon
By Ellen Wright
CARLSBAD — Representatives from the San
Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG and
CalTrans announced the
$6 million purchase of 50.5
acres in the Batiquitos Lagoon on Tuesday.
The site, called the Batiquitos Bluffs, is southeast
of La Costa Avenue, with a
portion on the north side.
About three of the
acres purchased include
some wetlands, which Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation
President Fred Sandquist
said is a vital wildlife link.
“This
acquisition
brings a key piece of wetlands, which is the last missing piece in the Batiquitos
Ecological Reserve and the
State Marine Conservation,
and provides a wildlife corridor for much of our wildlife that inhabits the area,”
Sandquist said.
The lagoon is home
to more than 180 species
of birds and is a breeding
ground for halibut.
The purchase was made
to conserve and protect the
open space and to fulfill environmental commitments
made under the Interstate
5 North Coast Corridor Program.
Over the coming decades, SANDAG plans to
add express carpool lanes to
the I-5 between La Jolla and
Oceanside, and enhance
rail and transit options in
the region.
The Batiquitos Bluffs
was the latest of the 31 environmental spaces SANDAG
has purchased starting in
2008.
SANDAG Chair and
Santee
Councilmember
that we have policies that
protect the lagoons and the
land around them,” said
Blakespear.
The lagoon is 610 acres.
“By working with the
people who know these lagoons best, we were able to
find parcels like this in serious need and were able to
step in,” Caltrans I-5/SR 76
Corridor Director Allan Ko-
The site of the purchase is mostly east of La Costa Avenue, with about three acres being wetlands. Photo by
Ellen Wright
Jack Dale said SANDAG
will spend $250 million to
preserve and restore sensitive coastal habitats.
The money comes from
TransNet, which is a halfcent sales tax voters first
approved in 1984 and reapproved in 2004.
“This may have been
the most effective investment the people of our region have made in the last
50 or 100 years as far as protecting our quality of life,”
said Dale.
Since 2004, Dale said
SANDAG has purchased
more than 3,600 acres of
land to preserve as open
space throughout San Diego.
“That’s like Del Mar
times three,” Dale said.
A 19-unit housing development was proposed on the
site of the Batiquitos Bluffs
in the past but was denied by
the California Coastal Commission.
“It is very rare for prime
coastal land to become available so we’re very happy for
this acquisition for habitat
and conservation,” Carlsbad
Councilmember Lorraine
Wood said.
Senior Regional Planner
Keith Greer said to enhance
the area, old eucalyptus
trees and non-native species
will be removed.
The foundation of an
old building on the site will
also be demolished.
Encinitas Deputy Mayor Catherine Blakespear
said she does a lot of outdoor recreation and understands the importance of
maintaining the space for
the residents.
“It’s very important
sup said.
He said if everything
goes according to plan, construction on the first phase
of the major transit overhaul will begin next year,
including double tracking
the train tracks at the San
Elijo and Batiquitos lagoons
and one carpool lane in
each direction from Solana
Beach to state Route 78.
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Curiosity is key for students at Vista STEM festival
By Ray Huard
Bubble gum bubbles,
DNA extraction, computer
coding and robotic prosthetics were among the
many topics examined in
student projects at Vista
Unified School District’s
STEM Fest.
“I love the opportunity
to showcase the work of our
kids,” said Board of Education Trustee R. Elizabeth
Jaka. “They’re creative
and interested in science.”
STEM is an acronym
for Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math.
STEM Fest — held this
year at Vista High School
on March 11 — was an expo
where students from 24
schools in grades kindergarten through high school
showed how STEM skills
can be used in practical
and imaginative ways.
“The more exposure,
the more opportunities
they have with STEM experiences, the more prepared
they are for the future,”
district
Superintendent
Devin Vodicka said.
Creative could certainly describe 11-year-old Tanner Mason’s project.
A sixth-grader at Vista Magnet Middle School,
Tanner turned his love of
chewing gum into a project that examined whether
the sugar content of bubble gum affected how big
a bubble he could blow and
how long it would last.
He tested seven brands
of bubble gum, measuring
the size of the bubble each
produced, noting how much
sugar was in each brand
and timing how long the
bubbles held up, noting the
results on a chart.
“I did five trials with
each one,” Tanner said.
Sure enough, just as
Tanner predicted, sugar-
less gum fared poorly when
measured against the fully
loaded brands.
“The bubble gum is
less flavored and the bubble size was a lot smaller
and it didn’t last as long,”
Tanner said.
His mother, Erin Mason, said she was a tad
skeptical about Tanner’s
project, but delighted in
the way he turned something simple into a fairly
complex experiment.
“I think it’s awesome,”
she said. “It started off just
having fun and worked toward something different.”
Strawberries and kiwi
fruit became an awesome
project for a group of Vista
High School students, who
were inspired by a field trip
to Genentech, an Oceanside life science company.
The students modified
what they saw at Genentech to demonstrate how to
extract DNA from the fruit.
“It’s not hard,” said
senior Luis Enriquez, 18.
“You can do this at home.”
The process involves
mashing up the fruit, mixing it with salty water and
dishwashing
detergent,
draining
the
mixture
through a cloth and adding
alcohol.
Mission
Meadows
fifth-grader Julia Kidwell,
11, turned her curiosity
about her family’s medical
history into a project explaining genetics.
“I learned that genetic
diseases come from your
family history,” Julia said.
She outlined what she
discovered on an intricate
chart, tracing how genetic
diseases can be passed on
from one generation to the
next and even skip a generation and how that might
affect her based on illnesses in her family.
“It became personal
for her,” said Julia’s mother, Theresa Kidwell. “She
had a good idea. She picked
the topic and she did the
rest.”
Some STEM Fest projects had to go through a
little trial and error to turn
out, much like real-life science research.
Mission Meadows Elementary School fifth-grader Erik Dixon translated
his love of roller coasters
into a physics project that
Vista High School senior Jesus Flores shows how to extra DNA. Courtesy photos
required a little adjustment.
He postulated that a
marble could go down a
3-foot slope to make a 1.5foot loop, much like a roller coaster ride. With the
help of his dad, Erik made
a model to test his theory.
“It didn’t work,” Erik
said.
With a 4-foot slope, the
model worked just fine.
A little trial and error
was at work with Vista Innovation and Design Academy sixth- graders David
Johnson, 11, Asher Venezia, 12 and Tyler Moreno,
11.
They were demonstrating a prosthetic hand,
which they designed.
The hand was operated remotely by one of the
students wearing a glove,
which sent electrical impulses to the hand to move
its fingers.
It took a few tries to get
the fingers to move.
Lake
Elementary
School third-grader Luke
Maguire, 8, didn’t have any
Lake Elementary School Principal Krista Berntsen with third grader Luke Maguire.
moving parts to his project,
but Luke was on the move
himself, grabbing passers-by to look at the chart
he put together of different
animals.
“He’s totally into this,”
said Luke’s mom, Lisa Maguire. “This all came about
because he loves animals.”
The chart showed unusual animal pairings, like
a lion playing with a small
dog and a rat snake with a
dwarf hamster.
“I wanted to tell peo-
ple, animals do have feelings,” Luke said.
In addition to the student projects, several companies and colleges had displays showing how STEM
studies could lead to a wide
range of careers.
They included CIAN
Engineering, ThermoFisher Scientific, Solutions for
Change, Agua Hedionda,
Gear Works Technology,
SPAWAR, Open Source
Maker Labs, the University of California San Diego,
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STEM Fest coordinators Michelle Gosnell and
Kellie Fleming said they’re
already planning for STEM
Fest 2016.
“The wheels are already turning for next
year,” Gosnell said.
Ray Huard is a communications consultant with the Vista Unified School District.
APRIL 10, 2015 New boundaries set to ease school crunch
By Ray Huard
VISTA — Enrollment
among 14 elementary schools
in the Vista Unified School
District will become more
balanced under changes approved in March by the Board
of Education.
“It creates an even distribution among our schools,”
said Donna Caperton, assistant superintendent for business services.
She said the changes
could affect up to 1,374 students, but no student who is
now in school will be required
to move to a different school if
they don’t want to move.
The boundary changes
don’t affect elementary magnet schools.
Parents whose children
are affected by the boundary
changes have been notified,
Caperton said.
Those who want to keep
their children where they are
must fill out forms that were
sent to them and return the
forms by April 4.
With 26 new housing developments planned or under
construction, the boundary
changes were required to
prevent some schools from becoming overcrowded.
For example, Breeze Hill
Elementary School on Melrose Drive in Oceanside, Foothill-Oak Elementary School
on Oak Drive and Lake Elementary School on Lake
Boulevard in Oceanside are
already at 90 percent or more
of their capacity.
The new boundaries
will ease the crunch at those
schools while adding enrollment at schools with room
to spare, such as Beaumont
Elementary on Beaumont
Drive, Grapevine Elementary School on Grapevine Road
and Alamosa Park Elementary School on Alamosa Park
Drive in Oceanside.
The Vista Unified School
District includes parts of
Oceanside, which account for
about a third of district students.
Middle-school boundaries were adjusted last year
and don’t need to be readjusted, Caperton said. She said
the high schools have room
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The new boundaries will ease the crunch at those schools while adding enrollment at schools with room
to spare. The Vista Unified School District includes parts of Oceanside, which account for about a third of
district students. Map courtesy Vista Unified School District
to accommodate new students with no change in their
boundaries.
The new elementary
school boundaries should hold
for four to five years before
they have to be readjusted,
depending how many schoolaged children come from the
new housing developments.
The boundaries were
developed by special committee, which included parents,
teachers, non-teaching school
staff, administrators and a
city planning representative.
“This was a really good
process and the committee’s
commitment to really find
solutions was excellent,” Caperton said. “We tried to keep
in mind minimal impact to
students.”
Ray Huard is a communications consultant with the Vista Unified School District.
Vista Historical Society names hall-of-famers
VISTA — The Vista
Historical Society annual
meeting and Hall of Fame
induction will be held at
the Shadowridge Country
Club at 11 a.m. May 16.
Members of the board of
directors will also be installed.
Newly elected members to the Early Residents Division of the Hall
of Fame are Charlotte
“Cleo” Morgan, Abraham
Shelhoup, James W. Sutton, Harold H. Yackey, and
Dale E. Wood.
The annual meeting is
open to all interested area
residents.
Reservations
for the luncheon are $30
per person by phoning the
Vista Historical Society
office at (760) 630-0444,
by e-mail to vhm67@1882.
sdcoxmail.com or by letter
to P.O. Box 1032, Vista, CA
92085-1032.
Cleo
Morgan
was
known for her love of the
city and its beauty. She
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition spent her life attempting
to beautify Vista. After her
death, a park was named
for her.
Abraham
Michel
“Abe” Shelhoup was a local
merchant for many years
here. He was known for his
many good works behind
the scenes, was one of the
founders of the Avo Playhouse and financed many
civic improvements.
James
W.
Sutton
earned his living in the insurance business, but was
best known for his time
on the board of directors
of the Vista Irrigation District. He was the president
of the board when the district purchased Lake Henshaw in 1946. He was a
great champion of this purchase, which secured a water supply for the growing
community.
Harold H. Yackey, as
the Vista Irrigation District
Engineer/Manager
in 1946, was responsible
for upgrading the water rectors from 1954 to 1973
system, which had deteri- and was well-known for his
orated due to lack of sup- work at the district.
plies during the war. Later
he served on the district
board of directors.
Dale E. Wood came
to Vista in 1926 working
for one of the principal agriculture developers at the
time. He remained in Vista
the rest of his life, devoting
himself to its development.
He served on the Vista Irrigation District Board of Di-
t was a pretty
tough day, almost
20 years ago, as
we returned from
having our 6-week-old,
all-gray, cute-as-a-button
dwarf bunny put to sleep. The experience not only
made me profoundly sad,
it also exposed me as a
fraud. I don’t think I ever
regained my tough-guy
status with my kids.
Dad had an endearing
habit of going to the pet
store for guppies or birdseed and coming home
with something small
and furry in his pocket.
Through it all, I have been
the hard guy.
First
he
brought
home birds, and I calmly snagged the cockatiel
ffound a new home forwhen we realized she was
lonely. Later, I got to fish the
baby finches out of the
pond. Then there was the
guinea pig that was “too
young to breed.”
After she delivered
three healthy babies, I
found homes for them all.
Then Dad arrived home
with Dust Bunny, and we
prepared to learn what a
dwarf rabbit needs to be
comfortable and content.
Who knows what
makes one animal among
many steal your heart.
He was a charmer. He remained a happy rabbit as
he was handled, petted
and passed around. We carefully kept him
indoors at night, trying to
acclimate him slowly to
the outdoor aviary that
would be his home.
But just two days after his arrival, his breathing became labored and
his sweet bunny nose began to run.
We hustled off to the
vet, presuming (despite
my adult instinct about
these things) that we
would get some medication and hop on home.
It seems, however,
that bunnies don’t recover from thfffis particular
bacterium.
I braced for a storm
of protest from my children when I realized what
the doctor was saying and
that we faced the decision
to put the little guy down.
Both kids turned
large but dry eyes to me
and quietly watched as I
dissolved into tears. I was mortified. I was
failing as the adult here,
but, boy, was I proud of
them. Even my complete
lack of self-control did not
ruffle my children. They
both consoled me and we
agreed that we certainly
didn’t want Dusty to get
worse and suffer. I cried
some more.
It was a hard but important life lesson for
us all. I know we did the
right thing and we soon
got another bunny but I
still rather miss that funny little rabbit.
Jean Gillette is still working hard on her chip-proof
exterior. Contact her at
jgillette@coastnewsgroup.
com.
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other books of poetry from
Robert Frost to W.H. Auden to W.B. Yeats, Whayne
said having his own book of
poems called, “Of Strength
and Grace: Elegy for Love”
(Shanti Arts Publishing)
published didn’t mean a
“helluva lot.”
That’s because it’s poetry, he said.
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in quantity. I give it to my
friends and I get emails from
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together, which he can recall
just about anything from
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one photo shows them on a
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dumb things and all the
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By Alan Sculley
Matt Walst wanted to
be the frontman of Three
Days Grace when his older
brother, bassist Brad Walst,
and drummer Neil Sanderson were putting the band
together in the late ‘90s in
Norwood, Ontario.
“I tried out when I
was younger, like around
17, when I started playing
guitar,” Matt Walst said in
a phone interview. “I was
kind of like a makeshift
guitar player. I didn’t use
a pick. I made up my own
songs. And I wasn’t like a
technical guitar player by
any means. Like I tried
out and I think I played a
couple of shows with them.
But I was so young, and like
I said, I wasn’t a very good
guitar player at all back
then.”
Instead
the
group
found Adam Gontier to fill
the singer slot, and then
added guitarist Barry Stock
in 2003.
But Walst, 32, didn’t
give up on the idea of a career in music. He put together his own band, My Darkest
Days, which got discovered
by Nickelback singer/songwriter Chad Kroeger, a connection that put the group
on a path to notable success.
“I just kept writing my
own songs and then decided
to really make a go of it at
19, 20, and just started focusing on making my own
band,” Walst said. “We
got picked up by Chad Kroeger. He co-wrote a bunch of
songs with us. And we got a
record deal from Island/Def
Jam in the states and 604
Records (Kroeger’s label) in
Canada. We released two albums and we had a number
one song in the states called
‘Porn Star Dancing,’ and it
had Chad Kroeger, Ludacris
and Zakk Wylde (on it). So
it was a big song. I’m pretty
proud with what I did in My
Darkest Days.”
Three Days Grace,
meanwhile, did even better. After signing to the
RCA-affiliated Jive Re-
cords, the band became one
of the most popular hard
rock bands of the past decade, notching nine number
one rock radio hits, a million-selling self-titled debut album and three subsequent albums that all went
top five on “Billboard” magazine’s album chart.
It looked like an all’swell-that-ends-well scenario
for both bands.
But
then
Gontier
abruptly quit Three Days
Grace shortly after the release of the band’s 2012
album, “Transit of Venus,”
when an arena tour with
Shinedown was only a few
weeks away.
In need of a new vocalist, the band turned to
Walst, who just happened to
be on break from My Darkest Days.
“There was no warning at all,” Walst said of
Gontier’s decision to quit
Three Days Grace. “I think
it (Gontier’s sudden departure) was intended to ruin
that tour and ruin everybody pretty much.”
Instead, the new lineup
clicked, and soon Walst was
a full-fledged member of
the band he wanted to join
when he was 17.
“My first show was in
front of about eight to 10,000
people in an arena, and I was
pretty scared,” Walst admitted. “But when it started, it
felt right. And the guys say
there was a new energy.”
Walst made what seems
to be an equally smooth
transition to the studio when
it came time to make Three
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Days Grace’s just-released
fifth album, “Human.”
He settled into the songwriting mix alongside his
three bandmates and producer Gavin Brown.
But unlike many bands,
where the singer is the primary lyricist, that’s not the
case for Walst in Three Days
Grace.
“The other guys write
a lot of lyrics. I think that’s
a misconception that Adam
wrote a majority of the lyrics. But it wasn’t that way,”
Walst said.
“Actually, Neil’s a great
lyricist, our drummer,” the
singer said. “I get a good
one here and there. But I’m
mainly a melody guy when it
comes to writing.”
“Human” finds the
new Three Days Grace, after experimenting with integrating synthesizers and
electronics into its sound
(particularly on “Transit To
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But Walst and his bandmates don’t let the melodies
get lost within the sonic onslaught. Songs like “Painkiller,” “I Am Machine”
(both of which were released
as singles ahead of the album and topped the active
rock chart) and “Landmine”
have the beefy riffs and crisp
big beats the band wanted,
but also boast big chorus
melodies. Meanwhile, a few
other tunes bring necessary
variety to the album. “Human Race” mixes synths
liberally with guitars, while
“Tell Me Why” and “Car
Crash” effectively works a
soft-to-loud dynamic.
In starting its touring
cycle behind “Human” with
a short U.S. spring tour,
Three Days Grace, not surprisingly, is featuring some
new songs.
But with a hit-laden
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back catalog, there isn’t some new album songs we
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“We’ve added about five
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give a taste of the new album,” Walst said. “It’s kind
of hard adding many (older) songs that haven’t been
number one or haven’t been
released to radio. We’ve
had to cut two or three
number one songs to fit in
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SCULPTURE
GARDEN See Matthew Hebert’s sculpture “Information Retrieval” from 2
to 3 p.m., April 11 at Niki
de Saint Phalle's “Queen
Califia's Magical Circle”
in Garden park in Kit Carson Park, 3333 Bear Valley
Parkway‚ Escondido. The
piece is based on stories
shared through a series
of public workshops about
landscape and technology.
ART IN THE GARDEN ArtFest, a combination of a fine art show,
quick-draw contest, art
demonstrations, and Asian
art show including sculptors, painters, potters and
glass, gourd and fiber artists, will be held from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. April 11 and
April 12 at the San Diego
Botanic Garden, 230 Quail
Gardens Drive, Encinitas.
Enjoy native flute music
with Didgeridoo in the
Australian Garden. Visit
SDBGarden.org/artfest.
SATURDAY
NIGHT
POP UPS Join the Del
Mar Village Association
every Saturday evening
in April and May for PopUp Culture. From 5 to 7
p.m. April 11, hear Middle Earth World Beats at
L’Auberge Amphitheater
on the northwest corner
of 15th Street and Camino
Del Mar.
COAL Gallery member
artists display their artwork for sale at Art on the
Green, on the lawn in front
of the Carlsbad Inn Beach
Resort, 3075 Carlsbad
Blvd., Carlsbad,
APRIL 15
NEW AT THE REP
North Coast Rep presents
“Unnecessary Farce” beginning April 15, with
Opening Night, at 8 p.m.
April 18, with performances through May 10 at 987
Lomas Santa Fe Drive,
Suite D, Solana Beach.
Tickets, $44 to $48; $3 off
APRIL 12
admission. Call (858) 481SOLO JAZZ Guitarist 1055 or visit northcoasRobin Henkel will play trep.org to purchase ticksolo blues from 11 a.m. to 2 ets.
p.m. April 12 at the Sandcrab Tavern, 2229 Micro APRIL 16
Place, Escondido. For more
MUSIC AT PALOMAR
information, call (760) Join Professor Emeritus
480-2722.
of the Performing Arts
Department at Palomar
APRIL 13
College, Peter Gach, for
JAZZ
TRIBUTE a three-part series, "MuMiraCosta College pres- sical Insights" beginning
ents a “Tribute to Horace with “What is Music” at 7
Silver,” pianist and hard- p.m. April 16 at the Musebop pioneer, at 1 p.m. um of Making Music, 5970
April 13 in Bldg. 2200, Armada Drive, Carlsbad.
Studio A, 1 Barnard Drive. Tickets are $10 at museuOceanside. Tickets, $10 mofmakingmusic.org.
and $8 online at miracosta.edu/buytix or call (760) APRIL 17
STORY OF LOVE “Col795-6815. ors of Love,” a take on the
various aspects of love and
APRIL 14
ART ON THE GREEN relationships with quotes,
Every Saturday and Sun- poetry, songs & dances at
day (weather permitting), 1 p.m. April 17 at the San
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Send your arts & entertainment
news to [email protected]
Marcos Senior Center, 111
Richmar Ave., San Marcos. Call (760) 744-5535 for
reservations.
Escondido is latest to
join Ciclovia movement
By Tony Cagala
INDIE FILM Carlsbad’s Cultural Arts Office
presents “The Rocket”
(Australia, 2013) at 4 p.m.
and 7 p.m. in Carlsbad City
Library’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, 1775
Dove Lane, Carlsbad, as
part of its free foreign film
festival. In Laos, a boy believed cursed to bring bad
luck builds a giant rocket.
MARK THE CALENDAR
SDA ON STAGE San
Dieguito Academy Theater
students and alum perform
“Pain,” with a pre-show
reception at 6:30 p.m. and
curtain at 7:30 p.m. April
25 in the Clayton E. Liggett Theater. General admission is $35 at seatyourself.biz/sandieguito. As a
fundraiser for SDA drama
department, the evening
includes an After-the-Performance gathering at
3rd Corner Wine and Bistro. Late night menu and
drink pricing will begin
at 10 p.m.
ESCONDIDO — Opening the streets to people,
closing them to vehicles — that’s the idea behind the
Ciclovia movement that began in Bogata, Columbia
back in the ‘60s and has since caught on in several cities across the U.S.
And come April 11, Escondido will be the latest
city to open its streets to walkers, skaters, bicyclists
and anyone else not in a vehicle.
“It is truly an opportunity to get to explore an
area of town without traffic,” said Rorie Johnston,
president and CEO of the Escondido Chamber of Commerce, which is partnering with the county of San Diego to host the event.
The free event is meant to promote “A Healthy
City — Healthy Lifestyle” and will transform a onemile loop of Grand Avenue between Escondido Boulevard and Juniper Street into an urban park or sorts.
This will be the city’s first-ever open streets celebration.
Johnston said she was inspired by a similar event
in Pacific Beach that made her look at what they could
do in Escondido to give residents the same experience.
“We hope that it will bring awareness to the fact
that there’s more to transportation than just driving in
your car,” Johnston said.
They’re also hoping the event will have a positive
economic impact for the businesses in the area.
Local businesses, farmers, health and wellness
organizations will participate to share healthy living
and lifestyle choices available throughout the area.
Johnston said the Chamber hopes to make this
an annual event, hosting it in different areas in town
to give people an opportunity to understand and see
what is available in their own city.
Photographer David Zumaya is asking people to
meet at the corner of Broadway and Grand Avenue at
11:30 a.m. to take part in an aerial photo of the event.
The event goes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit
cicloviaescondido.com for more details.
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Falkner Winery owners Ray Falkner, far left, and Loretta Falkner, second from right, are in the middle of club member fun at their many
events. Photo courtesy Falkner Winery
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the way to go?
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pic. That is
the one word
I would use to
describe
the
Coast Law Group’s office
location just north of Swami’s on Coast Highway 101.
I mean really, these folks
work in a spot people travel from all over the world to
visit.
And of course it’s dog
friendly and they have a
“board room” filled with
surfboards for that they can
literally carry down to Swami’s for a quick paddle.
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The Coast Law Group foodies from left: Dave Peck, Amy Johnsgard, Erika Cueva, and Seyamack Kourtetchian. Photo by David Boylan
Due Date: 04-03-15
While they go to work
in paradise every day, this
is a serious law firm.
But hey, when the lawyering gets stressful, they
can always walk across the
street for a moment of Zen
at the Self Realization Fellowship meditation garden.
I was curious where these
lucky lawyers like to eat
around town and caught up
with some of them recently
to find out.
Marco Gonzalez is a
co-founder and partner at
CLG and despite having
represented a number of
restaurants around town,
he always seems to find his
way back to two favorites:
the Bier Garden and the
Lumberyard Tavern.
“The Tavern’s craft
beer selection is top notch,
and I’m stoked to find Deschutes Black Butte Porter
on tap among some of the
best local offerings. But
the real secret here is the
menu that goes well beyond
the typical beer-house fare
both in terms of quality and
healthy options.
The grilled Ahi and
sweet ginger slaw Waterman salad can be had as a
wrap and is always amazing, and the grilled mahi
tacos are second to none.
“The Bier Garden is the
place to try the latest and
greatest in San Diego beers,
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APPROVAL
April 11, 2015 from 8 a.m. - 7p.m.
OK
In celebration of our 25th anniversary, we welcome the
entire community to our campus. We’ve planned a day long
schedule of events and activities for attendees of all ages!
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Notes:
At Discover CSUSM Day you can:
• View the sun through a solar telescope
• Cheer on CSUSM’s baseball team in a double-header
• Discover if Bruce Wayne or Batman is a better crime fighter
• Visit labs, watch musical performances, paint a mural, listen
to lectures and much, much more.
APPROVAL
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For a complete program of the day’s events visit:
www.csusm.edu/25
CHANGES
he huge increase in wine
clubs on the
west
coast
should not be a big surprise to anyone who has
even a faint idea of how big
the rise in wine consumption has been, especially in
California.
Being a wine observer,
commentator and writer, I
have not joined any wine
clubs, not wanting to play
favorites.
But I have been and
always will be a joiner
since I was a student in
high school, then on to the
Chamber of Commerce in
Fresno, Calif. at the age of
21.
Californians love to
join something or another.
That, matched with
the chatter and endless
stories about your favorite
wines and wineries, and
you have the makings of
a profitable cash flow for
wineries up and down the
state.
Wine clubs work best
for smaller wineries who
rely on the loyalty of their
members to agree to a
number of bottle purchases a year chosen by the
winery, usually their latest
releases.
Wilson Creek in Temecula markets their “Extended Family Wine Club”
by inviting guests to “join
the family.” It’s free to join
with a wine commitment at
a 30 percent discount.
The winery also offers
many benefits like complimentary wine tasting and
discounts on events, their
restaurant, wine classes
and bottles of wine.
Visit wilsoncreekwinery.com.
A look at a recent wine
club newsletter at Wilson
Creek shows fun, fun, fun,
in full color.
Recent events include
parties, snow on the vines,
the newest wine releases,
live entertainment and a
cruise promotion.
Peggy Evans is the executive director of the Temecula Valley Winegrowers. She has helped steer
this rapidly growing wine
country into the largest in
Southern California.
She has done marketing for several of its wineries prior to the association position. “I think the
reason why wine clubs do
so well here is that most
wines are sold direct to
the consumer,” she noted.
“Wine clubs make it easy
for folks to enjoy Temecula
wines.
The clubs offer the
perfect perks to members
who are within driving distance. Members really do
become part of the wine
family.
The wineries must
offer quality-made wine,
they must be friendly to
members… and the wineries must be well-kept and
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Construction of San
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he will host a few Pop-Up 23 opening to the public at
events around the county Pala Casino Spa & Resort
in North County. CAVE is
the cornerstone of a $5 million renovation that started
in mid-January that also
will add a permanent outdoor stage to Pala’s popular Starlight Theatre and
Luis Rey’s, an indoor/out-
NEWS?
door entertainment venue
with a patio lounge and
bar with craft cocktails
as well as wine. CAVE is a
4,300 square-foot restaurant and lounge and a 2,400
square-foot underground
wine cave. It will have an
extensive wine inventory
and offer 480 domestic and
imported wine labels. The
restaurant at CAVE will
be a modern eatery offering Mediterranean cuisine
with an Italian flair. The
lounge will offer. Entertainment in the underground
cave will feature popular
jazz and R&B solo artists,
duos and trios. CANCER YOGA BENEFIT
Jenna King, founder
and CEO of Ayathrive, offering fitness and natural
supplements, will sponsor
a donations-only, 50-minute
yoga beach session at 9 a.m.
April 12 at Powerhouse
Park, 1050 Camino Del
Mar, Del Mar.
The startup, based in
Carlsbad, hopes to raise
money for the Light of Life
Foundation; dedicated to
the thyroid cancer treatment. Participants may
“swipe-to-donate” directly
to the Light of Life’s Web
site. Cash donations cannot be accepted. For more
information and to register
for the event, visit Ayathrive’s Facebook page or contact carmen@ermproducts.
com.
NEW PARTNERS
Dowling & Yahnke,
LLC, a wealth advisory firm
at 12340 El Camino Real,
Suite 450, Carmel Valley,
announced the appointment of Alana Asmussen,
CFA, CFP and Mike Brown,
CFA, CPA, CFP as partners
in the firm.
SURVIVOR
Sahar Paz, war survivor, releases her book
“Find Your Voice” with a
reception/reading and book
signing at 7:30 p.m. April
14 at 210 Windward Way,
Oceanside
For more information,
visit prweb.com/releases/
FindYourVoice/SaharPaz
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SENIOR CENTER The
San Marcos Senior Center,
111 Richmar Ave., serves
lunch Monday through Friday at 11:30 a.m.
Reservations are required at (760) 744-5535
ext. 3606. The suggested
donation is $4 for seniors 60
and over. Under 60 costs $5.
Lunch transportation can
be provided. The San Marcos Senior Center accepts
EBT card donations.
APRIL 11
CELEBRATE
Celebrate Earth Day from 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 11
at the Alta Vista Botanical
Gardens, 1270 Vale Terrace
Drive, Vista. Events include
creative healing in the Ceremonial Garden, plant sale,
music, Alden Hough of the
Sky Mountain Institute
and the dedication of Robert Rochin’s Baobab Tree”
sculpture. For more inforAPRIL 14
mation, visit avbg.org
BOOK CLUB Escondido
DEMOCRATIC CLUB Public Library invites adult
The April meeting of the readers to join the 2nd
Lake San Marcos Demo- Tuesday Book Club meetcratic Club will be at 1 p.m. ing at 6 p.m. April 14 in the
April 11, (social time 12:30 Turrentine Room at.239
p.m.) at the Gallery, just S. Kalmia St., Escondido..
next to the Pavilion at 1105 This month’s nonfiction seLa Bonita Drive, San Mar- lection is “Catherine the
cos. For more information, Great: Portrait of a Woman”
visit lsmdem.org or call by Robert K. Massie For
more information, visit li(760) 743-2990.
brary.escondido.org or contact Neva Robinson at (760)
APRIL 12
ANSTINE PRESERVE 839-4214 or nrobinson@esBIRD WALK Join Buena condido.org.
Vista Audubon Society on
a free, 8 a.m. April 12 tour APRIL 16
POLITICAL ECONOof the Anstine Nature Preserve, Vista. For directions MY DAYS Political Econ-
Golf center
hosts golf
demo day
CARLSBAD — Carlsbad Golf Center’s 13th annual Spring Demo Days &
Custom Fitting Experience
is San Diego’s largest outdoor, on-the-driving-range
golf demo event.
Golfers of all skill and
experience levels can test
the latest equipment, get
info from more than 30
brand vendors and save on
new clubs and throughout
the pro shop.
Call now to schedule
free personal custom fitting appointments. Bring
trade-in clubs for credit.
Free personal video swing
analysis, prize drawing and
giveaways.
The two-day event is
April 24 from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. and April 25 from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. at 2711 Haymar Drive. For information call
the pro shop at (760) 7204653 or visit demodays.
carlsbadgolfcenter.com.
omy Days at Palomar College will host Dick Eiden,
at 11 a.m. April 16 in Room
MD157, 1140 W, Mission
Road, San Marcos, for a talk
and discussion about recent
police shootings and racial
discrimination
charges,
mass incarceration, and police militarization.
For more information,
contact Professor Peter
Bowman at pbowman@
palomar.edu.
GIVE BLOOD Make a
reservation to donate blood
April 16 from 1 p.m. to 7:15
p.m. at Oceanside Masonic Center, 511 Eucalyptus,
Oceanside, or from 10 a.m.
to 4:15 p.m. at the Westminster Seminary Escondido,
1725 Bear Valley Parkway
at redcrossblood.org or call
(800) 733-2767.
MARK THE CALENDAR
ANTI-DRUG EVENT
The North Coastal Prevention Coalition and MADD
join forces 3 to 6 p.m.
April 20 to present “Power of Parents” workshops
in English and Spanish at
Boomers!
Entertainment
Center, 1525 W. Vista Way,
Vista, with Craig Balben of
North Coastal Prevention
Coalition, Alicia Vicencio with Mothers Against
Drunk Driving and Youth
Prevention Advocates from ervations are needed by
El Camino and Oceanside April 16 by calling Donna
(760) 432-0772 or Martha
High Schools.
(760) 471-7059
CHRISTIAN WOMEN
MONEY MATTERS Be
“Wake Up Your Wardrobe”
is the theme of the San Mar- Money Smart @ Escondicos, Vista Christian Wom- do Public Library at 6 p.m.
en's Club luncheon at 11:30 April 21, 239 South Kalmia
a.m. April 20 at the St. St., Escondido. Learn to
Mark Golf Club, 1750 San manage debt/credit cards
and strategies to gain fiPablo Drive, San Marcos.
The cost of the lun- nancial freedom and savvy
cheon is $18 inclusive. Res- credit card use.
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WINE & ROSES Tickets are available now for the
32nd annual Wine & Roses
Charity Wine Tasting set
for 3 to 6 p.m. June 7 at the
Grand Del Mar, presented
by the Social Service Auxiliary.
Proceeds go to Camp
Oliver.
Facebook /sdwineandroses, twitter sdwineandroses of test wineandroses
to 22828.
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition APRIL 10, 2015
The land of sunshine, celebs and mid-century modernism
hit the
road
e’louise ondash
I
t’s spring in Palm
Springs and I
couldn’t
help
thinking
about
all those folks who spent
the winter in Buffalo, Boston and Bemidji battling
blizzards, braving subzero temps and laying claim
to snow-packed parking
places with lawn chairs
that won’t see better use
for a long while yet. Should I feel guilty or
gloat?
I think of our mortgage payments and the
cost of gas in Southern Cal
and I decide to gloat. Ha!
Just another day in paradise …
We
are
visiting
friends Denny and Maureen, Wisconsinites lucky
This mid-century modern home at 1350 Ladera Circle in “upper” Old Las Palmas was Elvis’ home for a year
(rent: $21,000). He and Priscilla honeymooned here after their May 1967 wedding. The 5,000-square-foot
home has four bedrooms and five bathrooms, and is built in “four perfect circles on three levels,” according to
the real estate listing. As of late 2014, the house was for sale for $8.5 million, marked down from $9.5 million.
Tours are held on the weekends by guides dressed as Elvis and Priscilla. Courtesy photo
enough to be able to flee
Midwest winters and live
six months a year in their
pristine mid-century modern condo complex in the
heart of Palm Springs.
They are leading us
through the beautifully
manicured neighborhoods
ROOF! ROOF!
of Old Las Palmas and
Vista Las Palmas, where
a multitude of past and
present A-List celebs, authors, singers, musicians,
entrepreneurs and movie
moguls have lived/live.
The list is long and
spans several generations. It includes Jackie
Cooper, Cyd Charisse, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank
Sinatra, Clark Gable, Carol Lombard, Liberace,
Sidney Sheldon, George
Hamilton, Jay Leno, Mary
Martin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Tomlin, Donna
Reed, Barbra Streisand,
Alan Ladd, William Powell, Rona Barrett, Kenny Rogers, Rudy Vallee,
George Randolph Hearst,
Kirk Douglas and Jack
Warner.
Old Las Palmas and
Vista Las Palmas, which
sit in the shadow of the
San Jacinto Mountains,
are distinguished by architecture and age.
Old Las Palmas features older, mostly expansive mansions fortified
by ornate gates and/or
exceedingly tall, dense
shrubs.
“This neighborhood
fascinates me because it
is so diverse,” explains
guide Kirk Bridgman,
who with his poodle Patrick, has been giving
walking tours of Old Las
Palmas since 2011. “The
first home was built in
1925, and the last one to
be built on virgin land
was in 2008.
The smallest house is
1,400 square feet — it has
one bedroom — and the
largest is 15,000 square
feet and it’s just around
the corner from the smallest one.”
What do visitors like
about Old Las Palmas?
“Most of my custom-
Jay Leno, in a nod to his long-time employer, NBC, had this peacock
gate installed at his home in Old Las Palmas. The current owners decorate it for every season, according to local guide Kirk Bridgman. Photo
by E’Louise Ondas
ers are boomers,” he says,
“but I do get younger
guests who love old movies and so know a lot of
old celebrities. They are
interested in the celebrities, the architecture, and
then they become fascinated by history of Palm
Springs.”
Just west of Old Las
Palmas is the Vista Las
Palmas
neighborhood,
about 375 homes developed in the late 1950s and
1960s; hence, the plethora of mid-century modern homes, most built by
the Alexander brothers,
known for this style.
The neighborhood has
experienced a recent renaissance, starting in the
1990s.
Prior to this, Vista
Las Palmas deteriorated as Palm Springs lost
residents and business to
areas of new growth in
Rancho Mirage and other
desert cities.
Then in the 1990s, the
popularity of the mid-cen-
Residents of Vista Las Palmas like
to get creative with their mailboxes. Courtesy photo
tury modern style exploded, homes were restored
to their original architecture, and their prices skyrocketed.
Today Vista Las Palmas is a main destination
during Modernism Week,
held each February. (It
has become so popular
that it has expanded to 10
days, plus a second event
later in the year). Openair tour buses with hundreds of visitors aboard
cruise through Vista Las
Palmas and commercial
areas where mid-century
architecture dominates.
Bridgman prefers the
Old Las Palmas neighborhood and he likes to see it
on foot.
When you’re on a bus,
“You don’t get to see between the gates and you
don’t hear the silence,”
he says. “We’re only two
blocks off the main drag,
but it’s so quiet. No wonder all these celebrities
wanted to live here.”
Walking tours (maximum four people) with
Kirk Bridgman by appointment only. Visit
ps-research.com/.
For van tours (maximum six people) of
mid-century
modern
homes
and
commercial buildings in Palm
Springs, visit
palmspringsmoderntours.com/
E’Louise Ondash is
a freelance writer living
in North County. Tell her
about your travels at [email protected]
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition Summer Opportunities
Local charter school is currently
enrolling, now with two locations
SAN MARCOS — Taylion San Diego Academy
is now enrolling with two
locations to serve North
County. Taylion offers programs in home school, independent study and a virtual program, and has open
enrollment throughout the
year. With locations in San
Marcos and Vista, the charter school has a program to
meet the needs of students
in need of a more personalized education.
The charter school
opened in 2013, and has
since grown to be a partner in the North County
community. During its first
year of existence, the school
was granted accreditation
by the Western Association of Schools (WASC),
and has now expanded
into Vista. The school even
has an Associated Student
Body (A.S.B.), which plans
field trips and fundraisers
throughout the year.
Taylion’s programs is
an option for students K-12,
who find that a traditional
school setting just isn’t a fit
for them, academically or
otherwise (bullies, etc.). A
large number of their student population are high
school students. “Kids that
come to us, are for whatever reason, not thriving in
a traditional public school
setting,” said Taylion San
LA JOLLA —
Get
ahead or stay on track – National University Virtual
High School (NUVHS) is
now enrolling for summer
term. Since 2003, NUVHS
has been a solution for students to earn Advanced
Placement (AP®) credits,
improve academic performance and strengthen
their college applications
through a premier online
learning experience. NUVHS is accredited by the
Western Association of
Schools (WASC) and has
course approvals for UC
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Diego Academy’s Director
of Business Development,
Shannon Smith. “It can be
for a variety of reasons: academics, socially, and they
come to us where they find
a place where they can academically and socially
thrive.”
Taylion offers three
separate learning environments for students: online
education programs, a homeschool program, and an independent study program. Programs are often blended to
meet the needs of students.
Some additional learning
opportunities include small
group instruction and online
learning programs. School
officials say the program offers individualized learning,
a safe environment with less
distraction, higher parent involvement, credit recovery,
credit acceleration, greater
lence through creating an
active, engaging and cooperative online learning environment.
Students are able to
enroll in NUVHS throughout the school year and can
complete a full semester of
a high school course in as
few as four or as many as
16 weeks on a full or parttime basis. Our small class
size emphasizes individual
learning styles and creates
a dynamic and engaging educational environment. We
provide 24/7 access to courses, help desk, library and
support services. All online
courses are instructor-led
by California-credentialed
teachers. All coursework
meets or exceeds California and national standards
and have been designed
to meet the Common Core
standards. With more than
100 online courses, NUVHS
offers something for every
student.
NUVHS partners with
a variety of educational and
community organizations
in an effort to strengthen
school community relations
and enhance academic
learning among partnering
schools and districts. For
more information on our
summer courses, to enroll,
or learn more about our academic partnerships, please
call (866) 366-8847 or visit
www.nuvhs.org today!
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• UC “a-g” College Board, NCAA,
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Call toll-free (866) 366-8847
or visit nuvhs.org
Shannon Smith
Director of Business
Development
access to new educational
resources, and unparalleled
flexibility in utilizing various instructional delivery
methods based on the particular student’s learning style.
When asked what parents should look for in a
choice for education, Smith
said, “I think, first of all,
parents consider what their
kid’s needs are. What is it
that they think can help
their kid to be successful,
and then go look at what the
options are, and that’s what
is wonderful about charter
schools. At Taylion San Diego Academy, we are able
to customize their learning
program. We offer independent study, online classes,
homeschooling and a blended model. We are able to
take each student, assess
where they are at, determine what would best help
them and design a program
for them individually.”
The San Marcos campus
is located at 100 N. Rancho
Santa Fe Rd. #110, San Marcos, CA 92069, while the
Vista site is located at 1661B South Melrose Drive, Vista, CA 92081.
For more information
regarding enrollment and
upcoming parent information sessions, call (855)
77-LEARN or (760) 2955564, or visit taylionsandiego.com.
Get ahead or stay on track at NUVHS
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Summer F un & L earning
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego’s Ultimate Summer Camps
Ultimate summers start here
Register today for our
Ultimate Summer Camps at
11 locations throughout San
Diego County.
We offer 12 weeks of
safe, affordable and fun
theme weeks of summer
camp with professionally
trained & CPR Certified
staff members.
Grades: K-8th
Locations: 4S Ranch,
Clairemont, Encanto, Escondido, Linda Vista, Logan Heights, National City,
Poway, Ramona and Valley
Center.
We also offer an Adventure Club Summer Camp for
middle school students. 20%
discount for siblings. Scholarships available for those who
qualify. Call 858.866.0591 or
visit SDYouth.org or email
us: [email protected]
When school is out, the
Clubs are in! We are here
to serve you when you need
us. Ultimate summers start
at the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Greater San Diego.
Why choose the BGCGSD?
We have over 70 years of
experience, affordable prices, a trained & CPR certified
staff, fun and structured
activities, age-appropriate
group rotations, great field
trips and a safe environment.
Each of our 12 weeks will
feature a different theme
that kids will enjoy! Register
today at one of our 11 conve-
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San Diego County. In addition, we also offer an Adventure Club Summer Camp for
middle school students. Adventure Club campers will
go on field trips and also stay
at the Club for fun activities
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Safe, fun & positive environment:
Our Clubs are an age-appropriate place of physical
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stability for our Club members, where they have structure and clearly defined
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and their peers.
City of Vista...
Fun is just around the corner
With summer just
around the corner, now is
the time to start looking
into what to do with the
kids to keep them busy.
The City of Vista has just
what you need. We offer several all-inclusive
camps for grades Kindergarten through eighth. For
the middle school grades
5 – 8, we offer Adventure
Camp which is a traveling
camp that goes on a field
trip every day! For the
more active, athletic child
in grades 1 – 6 we have
our Sports Camp with 1
field trip per week. And of
course, we have our traditional camp for grades K –
5 that offers plenty of arts
& crafts along with games
and activities and one field
trip per week. Each camp
is based on a weekly theme
such as ‘Frozen’, ‘Sweet
Summertime’, ‘Mysteries
of Science’, ‘Food Frenzie’
and more. All camps include before & after care,
at least one field trip per
week, one camp T-shirt,
lunch, 2 snacks, and special
camp days every Friday for
NO ADDITIONAL COST!
City of Vista Day Camp
staff are busy planning for
the summer activities and
can’t wait to get started.
Registration opens on April
20th at 8:30am.
For more information
on weekly themes and
trips please visit our website at vistarecreation.com
and choose Summer Day
Camps or give us a call at
(760) 643-5272 or e-mail
at kcrawford@cityofvista.
com.
LICK THE PLATE
and cold tapas, plus hot pot
and sushi. My favorite dish
is the Octopus Balls — mind
blowing little flavor bombs,
usually served scalding hot.
I’m never too proud to order
a second plate.”
That’s funny you mention the octopus balls Dave,
when I wrote about Yu Me
Ya, I described them as “undulating” as a result of the
heat and the crazy visual it
gives them.
Paralegal Erika Cueva joins LTP as a huge fan
of Cardiff Seaside Market.
She shared this story from a
recent birthday.
“When my boyfriend
surprised me at the office
on my birthday to take me
out for a gourmet lunch (my
Marine works nights,) I redirected him to the deli at
family-owned Cardiff Seaside Market.
“Items in the deli case
vary, but their daily specials are usually the highlight.
“Today’s special was
the Hanalei Wrap — sesame
seared Ahi, fresh mango,
shredded cabbage, brown
rice, sesame ginger dressing. My go-to is the chicken
breast veggie rice bowl with
teriyaki sauce. Nate and I
enjoyed my fancy birthday
meal at the benches overlooking Swamis. There’s no
reason to pay an arm and
a leg to eat at a beachside
restaurant when Encinitas’
many beachfront benches
offer the best seat in SoCal.” So true Erika, and
thanks for reminding me of
that lunch option.
CLG partner Seyamack
Kourtetchian finds his true
Zen (a common theme here)
at Darshan Bakery, right
around the corner from his
office.
“This small, unassuming bakery turns out one
masterpiece of pure flakey
heaven at a time. I often
sneak out the back door of
our office and walk the quiet two blocks to step into a
secret wonderland where,
against the background of
classical music, wizard bakers work their magic in the
form of individually crafted
croissants. Peeling a warm,
light, crunchy finger off the
end of a simple butter croissant while sitting under one
of the towering Eucalyptus
trees outside can bring true
inner joy and peace.
When, however, my
soul (or is it my stomach)
craves something sweeter,
I prefer “meditating” over
one of Darshan’s blissful
almond croissants. It is enlightenment, but maybe
with a few extra calories.”
Dang Seyamack, you ought
to try your hand at food
writing. That was very eloquent.
Attorney Amy Johnsgard wraps things up and
represents the self-pro-
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but truth be told I always
opt for Ballast Point’s popular Sculpin IPA. I’m all
about their Shrimp and
Grits. No, it isn’t the best for
the arteries, but after a long
surf or bike ride, you really feel like you’ve earned
that big old bowl of southern buttery goodness.” Nice
picks Marco, and you forgot
to mention you can walk to
both from your office!
Dave Peck is another
partner at CLG and prefers
a wide spectrum of flavors
when he eats out.
He also likes the flexibility of ordering additional
items without feeling like a
complete glutton.
For those reasons he is
a huge fan of restaurants
specializing in tapas or
small plates. “One of my
favorites for both is Yu Me
Ya Sake House in Leucadia.
The tiny Yu Me Ya dining
room could not be more intimate if it tried. And that’s
part of the charm — this
Japanese family-run operation makes guests feel like
welcome relatives.
“While I don’t typically
order sake, I do at Yu Me
Ya. The nuanced flavors are
intriguing on their own but
the ritualized presentation
makes it a must try. On the
food side, the menu offers
impressive lists of both hot
claimed finicky and mainly herbivorous, gluten-free
eaters, yet she also enjoys
being able to dine out with
friends so her pick was
Lotus Café. “It really has
something for everyone,”
said Amy. “Practically all
of the menu options can be
made vegetarian, vegan and
gluten-free. But even meat
lovers can be satiated with
poultry and fish dishes.
Many items are also
organic and non-GMO. The
tempeh or fish tacos are
delectable. After a satisfying and nourishing, natural
meal, you would be remiss
not to treat yourself to one
of their desserts.
“My personal favorite
is the vegan chocolate cupcake with peanut butter
frosting. The relaxed ambiance is part of the experience — on a sunny day,
bring your pooch and relax in the shaded patio on
South Coast Highway.”
More about Coast Law
Group at coastlawgroup.
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Lick the Plate can now
be heard on KPRi, 102.1 FM
Monday - Friday during at
4:10 and 7:10 p.m. David
Boylan is founder of Artichoke Creative and Artichoke Apparel, an Encinitas
based marketing firm and
clothing line. Reach him at
david@artichoke-creative.
com or (858) 395-6905
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JUNE 20, 2014
Two commercial structures at Carlsbad’s La Costa Towne Center will
be demolished to make way for a revamp that includes the addition
of retail and apartment buildings. The larger new building, shown
above, would include 48 apartments, a courtyard for residents, and
retail. Courtesy renderings
Carlsbad retail center to be
revamped with apartments
By Rachel Stine
Sophia Ceja, 3, of Oceanside, shows off a handful of eggs she found. Four city egg hunts are
planned for April 19. See the full story on page A9. Photo by Promise Yee
Council closer to finalizing Pacific View deal
By Jared Whitlock
ENCINITAS — The council took
another step toward acquiring the Pacific View site on Wednesday night.
Council members voted 3-2 in
favor of a $50,000 deposit and other
conditions spelled out in a memorandum of understanding for the property. That document paves the way for a
final purchase agreement, which the
council majority hopes to approve by
the end of May.
But the agenda item sparked a
long debate over whether the council
should have even agreed to pay $10
million to acquire the site from the
Encinitas Union School District.
Resident Jeff Eddington said he’s
excited at the prospect of the city
owning the site, but worried the coun- Pacific View Elementary, which closed a decil is getting “bamboozled.”
cade ago. The council approved a memoran“The city offered $4.3 million for dum of understanding at Wednesday night’s
the property in the not-too-distant meeting, bringing the city closer to acquiring
past, and is now offering more than the site. Photo by Jared Whitlock
2.3 times that price.” Eddington said.
Councilman Tony Kranz, an advocate of the purchase, said the $4.3
million figure was based on the property’s current public zoning. And it
was only intended as a first offer.
Additionally, Kranz said he voted in favor of upping the price knowing that EUSD had a strong rezoning
case, which would have made the land
much more valuable.
The city could have tried to fight
the district’s rezone request, but that
would likely have resulted in an expensive court battle, Kranz added.
Last month, EUSD was due to
auction Pacific View with a minimum
bid set at $9.5 million. With the clock
ticking, the city submitted an offer
just before the deadline. EUSD has
delayed the auction by two months as
a safeguard, in case the deal with the
CARLSBAD — With it’s primary storefront empty
for five years, the 33-year-old La Costa Towne Center at
the corner of El Camino Real and La Costa Avenue is at
last getting a revamp.
The owner of the property gained approval to demolish two commercial structures in the shopping center and replace them with buildings that are half retail
and half apartments from Carlsbad’s Planning Commission on April 16.
Planning Commissioners praised the owners for
coming forward with plans to redevelop the dated shopping center that they said currently lacks signage, design, and a main tenant.
“(La Costa Towne Center is) just this big long white
wall. You have no idea what’s inside, it’s not inviting,”
said Planning Commissioner Hap L’Heureux. “This center has been long overdue.”
Commissioner Aurthur Neil Black called the little
mall an eyesore.
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Center to be part
of housing project
By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — The
announcement that an UrbanLIFT grant will fund
building the Kay Parker
Family Resource Center at
the planned Mission Cove
affordable housing project
bought applause for two
reasons.
Community members
were glad to have a family
resource center as part of
the city’s low-income housing project, and equally
pleased the name of the
center will honor the late
Kay Parker, a beloved, fair
housing advocate.
Kay’s husband Dick
Parker helped accept the
grant at the City Council
meeting April 16. He said
the honor of naming the resource center after his late
wife was well deserved.
The Mission Cove
affordable housing and
mixed-use project on Mission Avenue is being developed through a partnership
between the city and National Community Renaissance nonprofit developer.
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Sports
Johnson was always a
gym-dandy at El Camino
sports
talk
jay paris
H
who married Johnson’s
daughter, Megan. “He was
giving us life lessons along
our journey of getting wins
and losses.’’
Sure the triumphs were
grand. But Johnson’s payoff
came later, when his charges
returned to campus looking
for a hug, not a shrug, from
their mentor.
“When they come back
and are productive and are
doing things you would never ever think, it makes you
a proud daddy,’’ Johnson
said. “It gives you the feeling, with some of them, that
maybe what we did wasn’t
productive when they were
here, but it was in the next
stage of their life. It’s a great
feeling.’’
Johnson
connected
with teenagers on a level,
which is admirable.
“I think it was my passion for the game,’’ Johnson
said. “I think that those
guys understood that I loved
the game and loved what we
were trying to do. Then once
(the program) got going, it
kind of built itself. I would
talk to new players and
they could relate to what
we were doing because they
saw it growing up. But I had
no idea it was going to grow
into what it did.
“I still get chills down
my spine when I think about
regional playoff games,
with the gym packed and
you can’t hear anything. To
be able to experience that,
you just can’t describe or
replace it. You just go ‘wow
this is unbelievable.’’’
What’s not farfetched
is El Camino’s gym being
christened for Johnson. It’s
where the name, and the
coach, are right at home.
ome is where the
hoop is?
“Next
to
my house, it was probably
the place I spent the most
time in,’’ Ray Johnson said.
“It just has a tremendous
amount of good memories
for me.’’
Those
recollections
will flow on Friday, when
El Camino High’s gym becomes the Ray Johnson
Gym in a ceremony honoring its former coach.
“I don’t know if it’s
going to be a roast or not,’’
Johnson said.
The popular Johnson,
who coached 33 seasons at
El Camino, toasted more
prep basketball victories
than anyone in San Diego
County. His 763 triumphs
are No. 1 and that just tells
part of the story.
“I learned a lot from
him,’’ said former player
Carl McCullough. “He was
more of a father figure than
a coach to a lot of us.’’
Johnson won a lot of
games and eight CIF San
Diego Section titles.
But as important as his
work on the hardwood was
his efforts with El Camino’s
special-needs kids. The ones
not soaring through the air
for dunks or twisting defenders’ ankles on a crossover.
While Johnson was surrounded by athletes after
school, during class time,
he was toiling with those on
the other end.
Contact Jay Paris at jparDon’t discount how
[email protected]. Follow him on
those special-needs students Twitter at paris_sports and at
aided Johnson’s coaching.
mighty1090.com
Perspective comes in many
forms and Johnson received
his on a daily basis before
blowing his first whistle.
“It absolutely leaked
in,’’ Johnson, 63, said. “It
gave me the patience to see
what kids could be when
they didn’t have any idea
what they could be, if you
had patience.
“That’s part of the
problem with sports today.
The parents want their kid
to be the guy right away and
they’re not willing to work.
They maybe get a batting
instructor or a shooting instructor, but at the end of
the day, it’s the work you put
in, the hours you put in and
patience to be able to see
those things through — that
is what is important.’’
Johnson is a sweet guy
but never sugarcoated anything. There were no shortcuts to success and isn’t that
how it should be?
“You got to be willing
to put the time in,’’ Johnson
said.
And as a player, willing
to embrace more than the
pick-and-roll.
“It was more than basketball,’’ said McCullough,
The Torrey Pines High School tennis team wins the National High School Tennis All-American Team Invitational, a three-day tournament held
March 20 through 22 at Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach. The team includes Coach John Delille and players Jiayong Li, Max Liu, Charles
Pei, Jacob Brumm, Raul De La Torre, Daniel De La Torre, Sreeganesh Manoharan and Alex Scemanenco. Courtesy photo
Falcons take home national tennis title
By Bianca Kaplanek
CARMEL VALLEY —
Competing against some of
the top players in the country, the Torrey Pines High
School tennis team won
the National High School
Tennis All-American Team
Invitational, a three-day
tournament held March
20 through 22 at Palisades
Tennis Club in Newport
Beach.
“We had a great time,”
said John Delille, who has
coached the team for the
past two seasons. “The effort of the team was crazy.
They were like a bunch of
little kids running around
afterward. They did very
well.”
The event featured 16
teams — half from California and the other eight
from states such as New
York, Texas and Hawaii.
“They usually invite
the teams that are doing
well in their division, with
the theory to have the best
players competing against
one another,” Delille said.
“We’ve got some pretty big
horses.
“The atmosphere is
crazy,” he added. “The
players really try to get inside your head. It’s almost
like a college tournament.
“They always like to
have a San Diego team,
and it’s usually the one that
won CIF,” Delille said.
Although Rancho Bernardo High currently holds
that title, the team was unable to attend so their coach
suggested the Falcons, who
lost to RB in last year’s CIF
championship match.
The Falcons went into
the final day of singles play
in Newport Beach up 2-1.
“My number two singles guy loses his first
match, so now its tied 2-2,”
Delille said. “Then I’m
walking around and I notice all my guys are behind.
I don’t usually see that so
I was a little worried. But
the guys were really scrambling.”
Jacob Brumm and Daniel De La Torre both came
from behind to put the second-seeded Falcons up 4-2.
“So all we needed
was one more win but all
the other guys were still
down,” Delille said. “So
I’m rooting them on and my
number six guy, who hasn’t
played singles, pulled it
off.”
For his efforts, that
player, Sreeganesh Manoharan, earned the coach’s
Pepto Bismol Award, Delille said.
“The other two guys
who were down, I had written them off,” Delille said.
“One was down 4-0. But
they really put the pedal to
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business resource to draw
employees. It includes a description of each city, builds
a business resource, and job
portal.
The website also highlights
area attractions, educational institutions, and major
industries. Area businesses
are encouraged to link to the
site.
“This website will ensure we’re sending the right
message to businesses and
employers about the 78 corridor,” Oceanside Mayor Jim
Wood said.
City mayors, managers,
economic development staff,
and stakeholders have been
meeting for two years to
form a consensus on what the
five cities hold as resources,
and where challenges lie for
business expansion.
Along the way partnerships between businesses,
colleges and universities,
and cities have developed.
Carlsbad Mayor Matt
Hall said collaboration is as
an ongoing process.
“We’ll never reach the
point of ‘got there,’” Hall
said.
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welcoming.”
Ray and Loretta Falkner operate Falkner Winery in Temecula and their
four tailored wine clubs:
Food$Wine, Crush, Barrel
and Connoisseur.
Each calls for a
bi-monthly or quarterly
commitment of various size
wine orders.
Discounts are higher
with the order size. They are
the only winery in the area
to offer “Reward Points”
with all purchases of wine
and food at their winery
and Pinnacle restaurant.
Points are redeemed
for free lunches, wine credits and gift cards. Get the
full story at falknerwinery.
com.
Nancine Hagner joined
a few wine clubs in Temecula, so I asked her what
she looks for in a wine club
before joining. “The vino,
of course, how much I enjoy their wines,” she said.
“Then I note what the winery has to offer their members, like special events,
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acre-foot. A smaller RO
plant opened four years ago
in Sand City, near Monterey. Santa Barbara plans to
reopen a similar plant that
was mothballed for years.
But some believe reverse osmosis, which uses a
series of membranes to filter seawater, is too expensive.
One idea Ross has reviewed comes from a Texas firm called Salt of the
Earth Energy, which would
use water from perforated
plastic pipes eight to 15 feet
beneath the ocean floor,
mixing gases and chemicals
into sea water from which
ocean-bottom silt has filtered almost all marine life.
The process would also produce industrial chemicals
like phosphates, carbonates
and hydroxides, helping
T he C oast News - I nland E dition Mayors and city planning staff are now in the
process of coming up with a
regional set of business and
development
regulations
“best practices,” in order to
market common best practices as regional standards.
Hall said mayors would
be able to take back suggestions to their respective city
councils in about 90 days.
From there cities will take
action to tweak city laws so
businesses have a regional
standard of what it takes to
start up a business.
There are already numerous stories of businesses growing and staying in
the area, by moving or expanding to one of the nearby five cities. The economic
development initiative will
perpetuate more of that happening.
Mayors, city managers
and economic development
staff will adopt a big picture
approach and keep abreast
of area resources.
San Marcos Mayor Jim
Desmond said the collective
benefit of a business setting
up shop in a neighboring city
is that all five cities profit
from the demands for goods,
services and housing of the
company and its workers.
There are also city specific benefits.
Hall said Carlsbad has
business space, and counts
on the regional resources of
housing and higher education that fellow cities have to
draw in companies.
Vista Mayor Judy Ritter
said her city has abundant
space for small businesses,
and can recommend large
business operations locate in
nearby cities.
“Because of the Innovate78 initiative we will see
more collaboration like this
in our future,” Ritter said.
Wood said he sees a benefit in the five cities collectively welcoming a business
to the region.
“For any business that
wants to come to the area it’s
nice to get a letter with all
five mayors signing,” Wood
said.
Mayors agree collaborative efforts are just getting
started.
“Innovate78 is by no
means the end of the effort
for the five cites,” Abed said.
“It marks the beginning of a
new partnership and a new
way of thinking about regional growth.”
generous pours at the tastings, friendly staff, and are
they willing to teach the
members about wine.”
Margarite Triemstra of
the San Diego Women On
Wine is a wine club member in the Napa Valley.
“Wine lovers should take
advantage of a wine club,”
she advised. “Nearly every
winery offers discounts on
wines and shipments of 20
percent or more. Members
get free tastings when they
visit solo or with a group.
There is premier access to
the release of vintages and
rare wines, plus educational experiences and events
at the winery.”
Well, TASTE OF WINE
lovers, time to join the club!
details.
The Barrel Room in
Rancho Bernardo has Italian Comparative Tastings
April 12 at 2 p.m. Mathew
Reagan from Casa Vincola
Zonin will moderate. $35.
Call (858) 673-7512.
Firenze Trattoria in
Encinitas welcomes Niner
Wine Estates of Paso Robles
and winemaker Patrick Muran for a wine dinner April
14 at 6 p.m. Cost is $75. To
make a reservation, call
(760) 944-9000.
The California Wine
Festival at Dana Point Orange County is on for April
17 and April 18. Sunset reserve and rare wine tasting
6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Laguna
Cliffs Marriott and April 18
from 1 to 4 p.m. at Lantern
Bay Park. Ticket info at calWine Bytes
Falkner Winery in iforniawinefestival.com.
Temecula is introducing
free concerts and dancing Frank Mangio is a renowned
starting April 12 and every wine connoisseur certified by
Sunday from noon to 3 p.m., Wine Spectator. He is one of
there is no charge and no the leading wine commentators on the web. View and
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bring down the cost of the
water produced.
The firm’s consultant,
James Torres of Rancho
Cucamonga, says the high
end of water cost using this
process would be $650 per
acre foot, less than the Met
is now paying for some of its
supply.
“This idea is at a proving stage,” said the DWR’s
Ross.
A test facility is
planned along the Gulf
Coast of Texas and if it
proves
promising,
the
method could solve many
current problems with RO,
including the fact only half
the water RO plants take
in eventually becomes potable; the rest is returned
to the sea as heavy brine
harmful to marine life.
“Our process uses 90
percent of the intake,” said
Torres. “And we’ll use only
about half the power of an
RO plant.”
Another possibly promising technology called
“Zero Discharge” is currently being tested in the
Panoche Water and Drainage District in Central California, using solar power to
evaporate and then collect
water from irrigation discharge, with about a 93 percent recovery rate.
Which means drought
has not brought despair.
Instead, it’s spurring an inventiveness that may soon
put the lie to the Rime of
the Ancient Mariner.
Email Thomas Elias at [email protected]. His book, “The
Burzynski Breakthrough:
The Most Promising Cancer
Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch
It,” is now available in a soft
cover fourth edition. For
more Elias columns, visit
californiafocus.net
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want people to take away,”
Whayne said. “That this is
a love story between two
people who are ‘super seniors’ or whatever they call
them.”
A new, unpublished
work called “Love Poem”
contains another reflection
on his time with Wilson
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the metal.
“Max (Liu) was cramping on the court and I told
him to stop,” he added.
“But he came back. So did
Raul De La Torre. … I was
proud that they could stay
focused, especially consid-
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upgrade, which frees up
homes for new homebuyers.
“When you’re building these types of quality
homes, it creates a domino
effect. There are probably
two or three more sales
associated with this one
sale,” Gallo said.
He said building more
homes helps solve affordable housing issues by freeing up homes.
New Urban West President Jason Han agreed.
“Amanda Estates is
a model for how the city’s
good long range planning
translates to helping fam-
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mately 80 percent of all the
mass business in the U.S.
We’ve grown our business
every year for the last 10
years.”
Lutter admits the kite
industry is still competing
against the (video) game
systems, but what seems
more promising, he added,
was that a lot of parents
and grandparents are still
buying kites.
“They kind of harken
back to when they were
growing up and going out
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countering contaminated
groundwater during project construction, resulting
in a potentially significant impact,” HELIX staff
wrote.
A 65-home development is also planned near
the toxic groundwater.
On March 4, the city
approved a 65-home development along Felicita
Road.
New Urban West, Inc.,
has been working on the
Oak Creek development
for the past two years.
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vantage of rebate offers
on water-efficient models.
Shorten showers, and use
a bucket to capture warmup water in the shower for
dousing potted plants or
parts of your garden.
Water agencies countywide have enacted water-use restrictions, and
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and the love he has for her:
“I love you from the marrow out/ Bone to blood/ To
the vessels coursing/ Beneath the mantel of your
skin.”
Whayne is at work on
a new series of poems, setting the subject of age in
his sights this time, something he’s calling serious
but mocking.
“I don’t know why I’m
so lucky to still be so alert
at 90,” he said.
He can list off a number of ailments he does
have because of his age:
hearing aids, a pacemaker,
high blood pressure — but
his brain is working, he
said.
Whayne will read
selections from his book
April 15 at 7 p.m. at
Ducky Waddles.
ering how crazy and distracting the atmosphere
was.”
Torrey Pines defeated
Menlo Park, the defending
champions, 7-2 to win the
invitational, something the
Falcons last did in 2006.
In matches earlier in
the tournament, the Falcons defeated Corona del
Mar High 8-0 and a “very
tough” Los Alamitos team,
the third seed that Delille
describes as “loaded with
talent.”
They also won two out
of three doubles matches
against Menlo Park.
Jacob Brumm and
Charlie Pei were named to
the all-tournament team.
ilies in fulfilling the city’s
long term goals,” said Han.
They met with nearby
neighbors and received 58
signatures in support of the
project.
Part of the developers’
responsibility for the project will be expanding Gamble Lane and installing signage that warns drivers of
an impending dead end.
“The road is quite narrow,” said Martin.
The road width will be
expanded to 24 feet.
City staff told the
council the gate on the west
end of Gamble Lane will
remain closed to keep out
people trying to use it as a
shortcut from West Citra-
cado Parkway to Interstate
15.
The Citracado Parkway alignment is meant to
link I-15 to state Route 78
and has large pieces missing.
City Manager Clay
Phillips said there is no
funding for the expansion
and no plans currently underway to finish the road.
Gallo said it’s normal
for these things to take a
while.
“Citracado has been
on our circulation element
for over 50 years and it’s
not done yet. Some day,
and I hope I’m still around,
it will be completed,”
Gallo said.
and flying kites and they
want their grandkids and
children to experience that
as well,” Lutter said.
“The thing about kites
is that they are unisexual,”
said Brady. “And you have
more girls flying kites today than you ever did before. And you have more
adults flying kites than you
ever did before.”
Brady attributes that
to families looking for an
activity they can do together and to try and get their
kids away from the computers and get them outside.
Also, he added, flying
kites is easy enough that
anybody can do it.
Each week BrainStorm
employees test out the
kites to ensure that they
perform well. Brady said
that their kites can be taken out of the package and
in the air within a couple of
minutes.
“Kites are an impulse
purchase,” he said. “Very
few customers get up in the
morning thinking they’re
going to go fly a kite, but
they’ll walk by a kite display and say, ‘Hey, that’s
great. Something for us to
do on the weekends.’”
The project is planned
for a 41.4-acre property
along Miller Avenue, Hamilton Lane and Felicita
Road.
City Attorney Jeffrey
Epp said at the March 4
meeting that the city does
not have jurisdiction over
the toxic plume, but it is
the responsibility of the
California Department of
Toxic Substance Control.
“We’re
constrained
from doing something because that’s the way the
law is set up,” Epp said. “To
some extent if we were to
get too involved, we could
run the foul of interfering
with their processes. We
have to respect the lines of
authority.”
Edward D. Modiano,
Project Coordinator for the
PRP group responded to
the state’s request for mitigation efforts.
He said they will hold
a technical workshop either April 13 or 14 at the
state department’s control
offices in Cypress to “discuss the available data,
potential
technologies,
challenges of implementing those technologies,
and any further data needs
for evaluating Felicita
Creek alternatives.”
links to each agency are at
WheninDrought.org.
The webpage also includes a link to the Water
Authority’s online conservation portal WaterSmartSD.org, which offers
numerous water-saving tips,
rebates for water-efficient
appliances, financial incentives for turf grass removal
and low-water landscaping,
free home water-use evalua-
tions and WaterSmart landscaping classes, and other
resources.
While it can be a challenge to find new ways to
conserve, it’s important that
we each do our part to save
every day, every way.
Mark Muir is an Encinitas
City Council member and
vice chair of the San Diego
County Water Authority.
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elders will appreciate any effort you make
to include them in your plans.
SOUP TO NUTS by Rick Stromoski
By Eugenia Last
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015
FRANK & ERNEST by Bob Thaves
THE BORN LOSER by Art & Chip Sansom
Your willingness to help others and your
insight into trends will bring you rewards
and opportunities. Others will be inspired
by your adventurous and exciting nature.
Getting involved in charitable or benevolent organizations will spark new ideas
and motivate you to start something new.
MONTY by Jim Meddick
ARLO & JANIS by Jimmy Johnson
THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schorr
ALLEY OOP byJack & Carole Bender
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Boredom or
stress will surface. Get out and do things
you enjoy. The people you usually hang
out with will not be interested in joining
you, but don’t let that hold you back.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Physical
activity will help keep your mind off of
your personal struggles. Be mindful of
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- A joint your budget. Working out at home can
venture will work in your favor. Proper- have just as many benefits as a highty investments look promising. Do your priced gym.
homework and discuss your plans with SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Don’t
the people who can offer you relevant be tempted to gamble or lend money. Be
advice.
wary of anyone who tries to involve you
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Trim your ex- in a dubious venture. Any financial decipenses and keep an eye on your assets. sions should be made with caution.
A thorough scrutiny of your personal doc- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Work
uments can reveal ways to improve your on your own personal issues before offerfinancial status. A family member will try ing advice to others. Remaining neutral
your patience.
and keeping your opinions to yourself will
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Look for
ways to meet new people. Your desire to
travel will stretch your finances. Find venues closer to home that are cost-efficient
and could inspire your ambition.
BIG NATE by Lincoln Peirce
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- A new partnership will entice you, but don’t move too
fast. Take the time to get to know each
other before you decide to dive head-first
into a joint venture.
be the best course of action.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Do whatever it takes to improve your self-confidence. You have a lot to offer, so don’t
sell yourself short. Focus on your attriCANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Business butes, and avoid comparing yourself to
meetings or seminars will introduce you other people.
to like-minded individuals. Mixing busi- PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Be asserness with pleasure will lead to a social tive if someone tries to entangle you in
opportunity. Co-workers will be im- something that goes against your principressed by your humor and friendliness. ples. If you damage your reputation, it will
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition Odd Files
March actually started
forming at midnight, snaking around the building
in Maitland, Fla., but it
wasn’t for concert tickets.
The dozens of people needed coveted visitor passes
just to speak to an IRS
agent — because budget
Government in Action
The predawn line in cuts and personnel reductions have limited services.
“I just came here to verify
my identity,” said one frustrated taxpayer, who arrived at 8 a.m. and would
not be served that day. The
agency said its budget had
been cut by $1 billion since
the congressional “sequestration” in 2011.
ly were caught in raids in
Elyria, Ohio. Officers from
three jurisdictions arrested 34 people — all related
to each other — in connection with a $400,000 drug
operation.
Virginia, resulted in the arrest of six people from the
same family, trafficking in
stolen power tools (includy huck hepherd ing one man who traded
a leaf blower, hedge trimThe Importance of
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Family
Percocet pills). However, a
On Feb. 9 a single traf- month later, members of an
fic stop in Alderson, West even more charming fami-
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Nope, They Haven’t
Grown Back Yet: Canada’s
Department of Veterans
Affairs requires any vet
receiving disability benefits to have a doctor recertify the condition annually — including people
like Afghan war double-leg
amputee Paul Franklin.
He complained to Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
News in March that he had
been harshly threatened
with loss of benefits if he
failed to file (even though
the department told CBC
News that it might perhaps
relax the certification requirement to “every third
year”).
Wait, What?
Attention to Detail:
Major League pitcher Max
Scherzer, new this season
to the Washington Nationals, informed manager
Matt Williams in March,
according to a New York
Times report, that he requires assistance when
he warms up during daily
practice sessions. He spoke
of the importance of simulating actual game conditions, and since Scherzer is a starting pitcher,
he needed someone to
stand beside him and hum
“The Star-Spangled Banner” before he begins his
practice pitching.
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T he C oast News - I nland E dition North County Academic League 2015 champions
NORTH COUNTY —
Torrey Pines High School
brought home the gold this
year in the North County
Academic League. They won
both their Inland Division
and overall champion for the
2015 season at the varsity
level. Torrey Pines defeated
Canyon Crest Academy in
the final playoff match. The
Falcons will represent North
County at the San Diego
County Championships on
April 23, live on ITV channel 16. San Marcos’ Mission Hills High School won
its league Varsity North
Division. Team members
included
Stephen
Rossi, Brittney Binkinz, Mia
Schloss, Kim Magat, Charlotte McGinn, and Curren
Havens, Riley Murphy, Elijah Garcia, Roman Thuliliere, Gavin Jackson, Robert
Henning, Nathaniel Kristan,
John Paul Davis and Kyle
Tanchangco. The coaches of
Mission Hills High School is the North County Academic League’s North Division Varsity Champion for the 2015 season. The team includes, from
left, front row, Stephen Rossi, Brittney Binkinz, Mia Schloss, Kim Magat, Charlotte McGinn and Curren Havens, with back row: Riley Murphy,
Elijah Garcia, Roman Thuliliere, Gavin Jackson, Robert Henning, Nathaniel Kristan, John Paul Davis and Kyle Tanchangco. Grizzly coaches are
Jon Terrell and Michael Butler. Courtesy photo
the Grizzlies are Jon Terrell
In the Inland Divi- won the North County Aca- championship for 2015. The
and Michael Butler.
sion, Canyon Crest Academy demic League junior varsity team included Kathie Ji-
ORCHID
CENTRAL
The Palomar Orchid Society hosts its annual orchid
auction with viewing at
10 a.m. and auction from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 2
at the Lake San Marcos
Lodge Pavilion, 1105 La
Bonita Drive, San Marcos. Hundreds of flowering orchids and other items will
be auctioned off. Orchid
experts will be on hand to
answer questions. Admission and parking are free.
For more information, visit
palomarorchid.org. Courtesy photo
ang, Marie Shi, Eric Wang,
Christina Zhang, Marissa
Wu, Zilu Pan, Varkey Alumootil, Eshaan Nichani, Jonathan Hung, Ethan Ragans
and Coach Tracy Bryant.
The North Division
JV championship went to
San Marcos High School.
The Knights’ team included
Tuheen Manika, Huryoung
Vongsachang, Hurlink Vongsachang, Vibha Vijayakumar, Elle Palka, Alyson Fitzgerald, and Jasmine Quach,
Aubrey Odom, Andrew
Ecker, Alex Katson, Anjo
Armendi, Jordan Palka and
Brian Ngyuen with Coach
Scott Campbell.
In the 2015 North County Academic League’s freshman level, El Camino High
School won Coast Division,
Canyon Crest Academy took
Inland. Escondido High
School topped the Valley Division and San Marcos High
School won the North Division championship.
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