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DEC. 27, 2013
A housing project that would be built near homes near Rancho Cielo
Estates in Rancho Santa Fe is under opposition from members in the
community. File photo
Motorists travel across a span of bridge on Interstate 15, where in the past water from Lake Hodges would be, but has since sprouted a small forest of shrubs, trees and brush. Photo by Tony Cagala
THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS OF IT
Questions rise as the water level of Lake Hodges continues to fall
By Tony Cagala
REGION— Residents living in sight
of the Lake Hodges Reservoir, which
stretches from Interstate 15 all the way
west towards Del Dios Highway, have
seen its highs and lows over the years.
Rainy seasons have filled the reservoir beyond its water level capacity, losing much needed water as it spilled over
the dam.
Extremely dry seasons have
dropped the level so low as to reveal the
lake bed in some areas, allowing a small
forest of trees to sprout up.
But after an SDCWA (San Diego
County Water Authority) project costing
millions of dollars and years of blasting
and construction to create the
Olivenhain Reservoir and dam, and connect it to Hodges — a project designed,
in part, to maintain more consistent levels at Hodges — some residents are asking why the water level continues to
shrink.
This year, its 27 shoreline miles are
again showing signs of another dry season.
Historically, the water levels at
Hodges have fluctuated widely from
year to year, according to Arian Collins,
The Lake Hodges reservoir stretches from Interstate 15 to west towards Del Dios Highway It was
joined with the Olivenhain Dam and Reservoir, upper left, to help keep the lake at a more consistent level. Map courtesy of Google
supervising public information officer Diego and has, as of last year been draftwith the San Diego Public Utilities ing water from the reservoir for some of
Department.
The lake is owned by the city of San
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Opposition to Rancho
Cielo projects builds
By Rachel Stine
RANCHO SANTA FE
— Multiple lawsuits and
an appeal have been filed
against proposed development projects in the
Rancho Cielo residential
community of Rancho
Santa Fe.
The specific plan to
develop Rancho Cielo,
which encompasses about
2,668 acres north and west
of Del Dios Highway, originally came before the San
Diego County Board of
Supervisors in 1981.
Over the past 30
years, the plan has been
amended six times to
incorporate a variety of
changes to the proposed
development.
Recently,
Rancho
Cielo Estates Ltd., the site
developer, has brought
forth two proposals before
the San Diego County
Planning Commission and
Board of Supervisors to
build houses and condominiums on portions of the
Rancho Cielo property.
On Aug. 7, the County
Board of Supervisors
granted approval for the
construction of 24 singlefamily homes located off
of Via Ambiente.
A group of nearby residents
consequently
formed the nonprofit San
Dieguito
Community
Council to oppose the project.
They filed a lawsuit
against San Diego County
for approving the project
on Sept. 6, claiming that
the project fails to comply
with
the
California
E n v i r o n m e n t a l
Quality Act.
The claim specifically
cites that the County did
not consider the full environmental impacts of the
project that was ultimately approved after decades
of changes and instead
relied on outdated environmental analysis.
The lawsuit mentions
concerns about impacts
the project might have on
safety and traffic in the
area.
It doesn’t
make any sense.
Why wouldn’t
(the project
developers) go
ahead and do
new studies?”
Everett DeLano
Attorney
According to the
group’s attorney, Everett
DeLano, the suit is still in
discovery.
County documents on
the project state that the
development plan that was
approved did not substantially change the environmental impacts that were
originally reviewed as the
project was completed.
Two other parties are
also in the process of suing
Rancho Cielo Estates,
Ltd., over the project.
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DEC. 27, 2013
RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS
USPS, Staples team up for pilot program
By Tony Cagala
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Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District firefighters Nathan Fritchle, left, and Joe Carter wait
for the Marines on Dec. 20 to pick up toys donated by the Rancho Santa Fe woman’s golf
club and community. All four RSFFPD stations and the administration office served as drop
off locations for Toys-For-Tots. Photo by Tony Cagala
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REGION
—
Since
November, the USPS (United
States Postal Service) and
Staples have been studying a
pilot program in North
County.
In what’s being called a
Retail Partner Expansion
Program pilot, Staples in
Escondido,
Vista
and
Temecula will be providing
post office services and products in their stores.
Expected to last through
Sept. 30, 2014, the USPS will
then determine whether the
program is feasible to expand
to a full-scale launch.
At the select Staples
locations, customers will have
access to some of the more
“popular” products and services, which includes stamps,
First Class Mail (Domestic
and International), Priority
Mail
(Domestic
and
International), Priority Mail
Express (Domestic and
International), First-Class
Package
International
Service, Global Express
Guaranteed, Standard Post,
and select extra services.
While the postal service
already has approved postal
providers in the area, which
offer limited services as shipping and the purchasing of
stamps, USPS officials have
said that the retail pilot program is different.
“The Retail Partner
Expansion Program pilot
allows for leading retailers to
sell postal products and services in their stores. At these
partner-plus locations customers will be able to access a
simplified product portfolio
containing our most popular
products and services,” a
USPS official said in an email
response.
The Staples locations
will also serve as a site for
receiving mail.
According to the USPS,
Staples was selected as the
first partner in the program
because of its appeal to business customers and because it
is a “leading office supply
market leader. The Postal
Service will be the exclusive
mailing/shipping
services
provider for customers at
pilot stores.”
A spokesperson for
Staples said that they became
involved with the program
because it offered customers
The Staples store on W. Valley Parkway is participating in a USPS pilot
program expected to last for a year. Photo by Tony Cagala
access to postal products and
services inside the select locations, which makes it easy for
their small business customers.
The postal service is
experiencing tremendous
financial turmoil. They ended
the 2013 fiscal year with a net
loss of $5 billion. It’s the seventh consecutive year with an
incurred net loss.
The USPS said costs
incurred from the pilot program will include construction materials, marketing and
the point-of-sale technology,
mirroring
support
for
Contract Postal Units and
Village Post Offices.
If the program was determined to be feasible, the
USPS said there aren’t any
foreseeable changes to the
brick-and-mortar post office
locations. While they say the
program wouldn’t cut costs to
the operation of its own post
offices, it would improve
postal access and wait times
in their postal facilities.
“The USPS will be looking for additional revenue
opportunities by capturing
revenue from customers that
once used only UPS for shipping packages,” the email
reply said.
A Staples spokesperson
said they didn’t have the
details to share on how the
stores would determine if the
program is feasible for a full
implementation to other
stores.
While the USPS will
train Staples employees,
Staples said that they won’t
be hiring new employees for
the program, and wouldn’t say
how many employees would
be allocated towards it. “Our
associates are trained to manage all USPS transactions,” a
spokesperson said.
Staples employees will
be trained in USPS Hazmat
and aviation security measures. “Security of the mail is a
measure of national homeland security and both USPS
and Staples employees treat
it as such,” a USPS spokesperson responded.
Tom Wood is president of
the APUW (American Postal
Union Workers) Local 197 in
San Diego.
He said they are in support of the expansion of
postal services, but are
adamantly opposed to the
postal service taking good
union paying jobs and replacing them with non-union, low
wage jobs.
The APUW represents
all of the clerks that work in
the brick-and-mortar sites,
maintenance personnel, truck
drivers and the custodians
that clean the buildings.
“We’re not the carriers that
deliver the mail,” Wood said.
He added that the USPS
did inform the postal union
headquarters in March that
the pilot program was under
consideration to begin.
In North County, the
USPS is currently reviewing
the possible closure of the
post office facility in
Escondido on Escondido
Boulevard. A decision is
expected to be made at the
end of the year. In January a
closure study is slated to
begin on the post office in
Lecuadia.
Because it is a pilot program, a USPS spokesperson
said it would probably not
affect the final determination
of the Escondido Postal Store.
Staples stores that are
participating include the
locations on W. Valley
Parkway in Escondido;
Highway 79 in Temecula and
Vista Village Drive in Vista.
The pilot program has
also been implemented in
San Francisco, Atlanta,
Pittsburgh
and
Worcester, Mass.
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DEC. 27, 2013
Trap limit among regulations proposed for lobstermen
By Jared Whitlock
COAST
CITIES
—
Proposed rules like a trap
limit could have a significant
impact on commercial and
recreational lobstermen for
years to come.
A volunteer committee
made up of marine scientists,
environmentalists and lobstermen from across the
industry settled on recommendations last week for the
California Lobster Fishery
Management Plan. They’ve
met in public 10 times over
the past year with the goal of
keeping the fishery healthy
and the business fair for all
involved.
“Lobster is one of the
very few remaining sustainable fisheries in California
that you can make a living off
of,” said commercial lobsterman Shad Catarius, who
served on the commission.
“We want to maintain our
lifestyle.”
Most notably, the committee unanimously agreed
that a commercial lobster
boat shouldn’t use more than
300 lobster traps at any time.
Currently, there isn’t a
ceiling on traps for lobstermen. But the committee
agreed on the need, in part,
given expanded marine protected areas that took effect
two years ago.
Catarius explained that
lobstermen weren’t in favor of
the reserves to begin with.
They’ve limited where lobstermen can put their traps in
the water, causing congestion
A lobsterman stacks traps in Oceanside. Under proposed rules, a lobsterman would be limited to 300 traps per license, with option of buying a second license. Other potential changes like a ban of conical hoop nets are part of recommendations for the Lobster Fishery Management Plan. File
photo
and diminished returns.
However, because it’s
likely the marine areas aren’t
going anywhere, the committee recognized that there’s
“too much gear in the water.”
“The committee said a
300 limit could help alleviate
crowding,” said Catarius, who
fishes with 550 traps.
“I’m not thrilled about
the limit, but it was a compromise among the stakeholders,” he added.
A consolation might
come from the law of econom-
ics. The trap limit could
increase how much lobstermen receive for their catch
since there’s less supply coming out of the water, Catarius
noted.
Lobster currently fetches
about $18 a pound.
Presently, it’s required
that lobstermen pull up their
traps every 96 hours.
However, Catarius said that’s
difficult to enforce — another
reason cited in establishing
the 300-trap limit.
Oceanside Lobsterman
Wayne Campbell said large
boats like his that haul in a
high number of lobster were
left out of the committee’s
decision-making process.
“It feels like a punishment for those who took the
time to build their business,”
Campbell said of the trap
limit recommendation.
Campbell and his crew
use about 750 traps. Under
the proposed rules, lobstermen can buy a second permit,
allowing them a maximum of
600 traps. But the price of a
permit is an issue.
Lobster permits once ran
for $50,000, but the cost can
be as high as $100,000 these
days.
“I certainly don’t have
$100,000 laying around for a
second permit,” Campbell
said.
He added: “The limit
doesn’t have to do with the
biology of the fishery, but the
money the permits bring in.”
To preserve the lobster
fishery, he said rules should
instead focus on solutions like
making it more difficult to
transfer lobster permits.
About 195 lobstermen
have a commercial permit
throughout the state. In an
effort to keep lobster catches
in check, 48 of those permits
aren’t transferable and will
eventually expire.
Kristine Barsky, senior
marine biologist with the
California Department of
Fish and Wildlife, oversaw the
lobster committee’s meetings.
She said 1998’s Marine
Life Management Act calls
for stakeholders to develop
management plans for various fisheries so they remain
sustainable. A plan to prevent
the over-fishing of white
seabass, for instance, was previously completed.
For the lobster committee’s recommendations to
become law, the Department
of Fish and Wildlife and ultimately the California Fish
and Game Commission must
approve them. The proposals
that received unanimous consent from the committee have
a better chance of entering
the books, Barsky noted.
The aim is to have a
Lobster Fishery Management
Plan in place by 2015.
Lobster is the most valuable species for the local fishing industry, representing
$4.7 million in dockside value
in 2012-13, according to landing data from the Department
of Fish and Wildlife.
During last year’s season,
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ArtSplash treasurer arrested for grand theft
By Rachel Stine
FUNDRAISER SETS SAIL
Co-chairwomen for the The Bishop’s School’s annual fundraiser are, from left, Dawn Calvetti,
Alice Hayes and Margot Kerr who will launch the auction during the school’s Tastings Party,
an evening of food and wine to be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Rancho Santa
Fe home of Bishop’s parents Tricia and Raymond Faltinsky. Guests are asked to donate $100
per couple or bring a premium bottle of wine (95 points or higher) for admission, which will
be offered in the wine section of the event’s silent auction. Donations by local businesses of
auction items and financial support are welcomed. For information, contact the School’s
Advancement Office at (858) 875-0804. Courtesy photo
CARLSBAD — James
Comstock, the treasurer for
ArtSplash
and
former
Carlsbad treasurer, was
arrested Wednesday morning
for allegations of grand theft
and misappropriation of
funds.
Comstock, 53, has served
as the volunteer treasurer for
the nonprofit ArtSplash since
2003. He was elected treasurer for the city of Carlsbad in
Nov. 2010, but resigned in
January before the end of his
four-year term.
The Carlsbad Police
began an investigation on
Jan. 31 into accounting discrepancies of ArtSplash,
which hosts an annual twoday community art event in
Carlsbad, according to a press
release from the Carlsbad
Police.
The investigation does
not involve Comstock’s management of funds for the city
of Carlsbad.
An ArtSplash board
member noticed inconsistencies with the organization’s
funds and brought it to the
attention of Carlsbad Mayor
Matt Hall. These concerns
were passed onto the City
Attorney who then notified
Carlsbad Police.
Investigators searched
all financial records involving
Comstock’s Bank of America
accounts from Jan. 9, 2009
through Jan. 31, 2013.
Comstock turned himself in this morning at the
Carlsbad Police Station after
the District Attorney’s office
reviewed the information
gathered by the Carlsbad
Police.
He was booked into the
Vista Detention Facility and
is being held on $120,000
bail.
City finance director
Chuck McBride stated that
an independent audit conducted after Comstock’s resignation revealed that everything was accounted for with
city finances.
Though he noted that
the city has thorough checks
and balances in place to
ensure that one person can-
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funds,
McBride said the audit was a
necessary precaution.
“When an elected treasurer walks out the door
before term is over, we just
make sure nothing is amiss,”
he said.
McBride explained that
while working as city treasurer, Comstock was primarily
responsible for managing the
city’s investment portfolio,
which is currently worth over
$600 million.
After Comstock’s resignation, Craig Lindholm was
selected to serve as interim
city treasurer until the 2014
election.
The city was a major
ArtSplash donor, and in
recent years donated a little
over $28,000 in cash and
$5,000 in in-kind services to
the nonprofit, according to
McBride.
Comstock
was
an
accountant for Comstock &
Associates, and formerly
served as a volunteer for a
number
of
other
Carlsbad foundations.
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DEC. 27, 2013
There’s no hope for
‘Disclose Act’ in 2014
CALIFORNIA FOCUS
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS
COMMUNITY COMMENTARY
Challenges continue to loom over Fletcher Cove
By Richard Jacobs
It’s a warm and beautiful summer day in
Solana Beach and you have plans to take the family to Fletcher Cove to enjoy an afternoon at the
beach.
You prepare a picnic lunch; gather up the
kids and head to the beach only to find that not a
single parking space is available in the vicinity of
Fletcher Cove.
You head home with a carload of unhappy
kids. You later learn that on that sunny day, a
total of 100 people were attending a private party
at the Fletcher Cove Community Center (FCCC)
and, except for two handicapped spaces, the
FCCC has no onsite parking.
If Proposition B is enacted in February, this
scene will occur time and again every Saturday
and Sunday because passage of Proposition B will
allow private parties of up to 100 people on two
days of every weekend at FCCC.
This means 60 additional automobiles will be
competing with surfers, beach goers and shoppers
for the already limited parking in the area.
Should private parties be allowed at the
Community Center?
Yes, but at a much lower intensity regarding
frequency and number of attendees, which is
reflected in the current compromise city policy
already voted in place by the City Council. The
city policy allows for one private party for up to
50 people on every other weekend.
Recently there have been editorials highlighting the findings included in a report, which was
prepared by an outside legal firm to analyze the
effect of the proposed FCCC initiative measure
(Proposition B).
The report concludes that there are not
expected to be adverse impacts to traffic and
parking. Obviously in reaching its conclusion, the
legal firm did not analyze the Brohard report,
which is included in the public record and available at the city.
The Brohard report, prepared by a licensed
traffic engineer with over 40 years experience
states that, “the expansion of use for the FCCC to
allow up to 100 attendees twice per week will
cause impacts on parking in the surrounding
neighborhood and to the public parking lots.”
The Brohard report goes on further to conclude, “the evidence (contained in the environmental documents) cannot reach a conclusion of
no significant impact on parking and also, there is
a complete absence of any mitigation for the
impacts on parking.”
The City Council at its meeting of Nov. 26,
2013 directed the city attorney to respond to the
legal firm’s report findings.
The city attorney’s letter to the report preparer states, “Contrary to conclusions in the report,
there could be significant impacts if the initiative
is adopted.”
In addition to parking impacts, the letter
states that there could be significant fiscal
impacts to the city in defending potential legal
challenges to the initiative.
Finally, and of most importance, if the measure passes, the City Council is powerless to make
any changes to the initiatives’ provisions without
the cost of another city wide election.
The cost of Proposition B, forced on voters by
the initiatives’ sponsors, is estimated at $200,000.
Leave the Council’s policy in place. Vote no
on Proposition B.
Richard Jacobs is a Solana Beach resident.
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If there’s one main reason
behind the distrust many
Californians feel for government and elected officials at all
levels, it may be the way special
interests regularly pour millions
of dollars into election campaigns while managing to hide
their identities.
There was hope last year for
an end to the sense of political
impotence and frustration this
often produces among voters.
With two-thirds majorities for
Democrats in both houses of the
state Legislature and a governor
who helped write this state’s
original clean elections law, the
Political Reform Act of 1975, the
expectation was that a major
disclosure bill would pass.
But those two-thirds majorities turned out to be ephemeral
and sporadic, coming and going
irregularly as politicians played
musical chairs when vacancies
occurred in congressional, state
Senate and Assembly seats.
So the single legislative bill
that could have done the most to
restore trust in time for next
with the last-minute 2012 dumping of millions of dollars into
California proposition campaigns by out-of-state groups
with vague names and anonymous donors, many still secret.
The DISCLOSE Act, first
sponsored in the Legislature by
former
Democratic
Assemblywoman Julia Brownley
of Ventura County, now a congresswoman, would force every
political TV commercial in
California to disclose its three
largest funders prominently for
six seconds at the start of the
ads, rather than using small
print at the end. Similar rules
would apply to print and radio
ads, mass mailers, billboards
and websites.
So voters would know
before they heard a message
who is behind it.
This bill passed the
Assembly in 2012, but time ran
out before the Senate considered it.
Its passage in the new year
has the backing of Assembly
Speaker John Perez of Los
Angeles, giving it a strong shot
of getting the two-thirds backing
it needs to become law so long
as the Democrats’ current twothirds majority proves a bit
The need for transparency allowing voters
to peel away the veil of anonymity many
campaign donors now hide behind is more
pressing today than ever...
year’s election languished. It’s
not dead, having been turned
into a two-year bill after it
passed the Senate by an easy 2811margin,
with
most
Republicans voting no.
But
no
Assembly
Republican voted for the bill,
known informally as the DISCLOSE Act and officially as SB
52, originally sponsored by Sens.
Mark Leno of San Francisco and
Jerry Hill of San Mateo.
So when it was due for an
August hearing in an Assembly
elections committee, it was converted into a two-year bill
instead, with that house due to
take it up again in 2014.
There is no way this or any
other proposal can hope to keep
big money, both from within
California and outside, from
playing a major role in the
state’s politics, electoral and initiative. But this measure is
intended at least to let voters
know who is paying for what.
The need for a law like this
became urgent after the U.S.
Supreme Court’s notorious 2010
Citizens
United
decision
declared corporations the equivalent of human beings, giving
them the right to donate limitless amounts to political campaigns not formally controlled
by candidates.
This led to independent
expenditure committees, which
run ads at the very least dovetailing with those of the candidates. So we get subterfuge, as
more stable than it was through
most of 2013.
The need for transparency
allowing voters to peel away the
veil of anonymity many campaign donors now hide behind is
more pressing today than ever,
thanks to the unlimited quantities of cash corporations can
deploy.
That’s what made the DISCLOSE Act the most important
bill the Legislature considered
in the past year, more so than
fracking regulations, prison
changes, drivers licenses for
undocumented immigrants or
anything else. It will be again in
2014.
Other
open-government
bills will also be on the docket in
this session, but if this one passes, California voters could
become the best informed in the
nation. And if it happens here,
count on it being imitated elsewhere, like many other
California-first laws covering
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DEC. 27, 2013
Soledad cross controversy renewed after judicial order
By Dave Schwab
LA JOLLA — In a nearly
25-year legal fight that has
taken countless twists and
turns, a federal judge recently ordered the iconic 29-foot
cross atop Mount Soledad
Veteran’s Memorial in La
Jolla to be moved.
It was the second time
the landmark cross, which
opponents argue is a
Christian symbol constituting
an unconstitutional “establishment or endorsement of
religion,” has been ordered to
come down.
In May 2006, U.S. District
Judge Gordon Thompson
ordered the city to remove the
cross from then city-owned
property by Aug. 1 of that
year or be fined $5,000 a day.
Two months later, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
Anthony Kennedy temporarily blocked Thompson’s order.
A month later, President
George W. Bush signed into
law a bill transferring the
cross to the Defense
Department as a war memorial. That law was subsequently
challenged in federal court by
the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), Jewish War
Veterans and others.
In 2008, U.S. District
Judge Larry A. Burns ruled
the cross could stay. In 2011,
however, the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals overturned
Burns’ ruling, finding that the
cross, as currently presented
and situated, violated the
First Amendment.
The 9th Circuit didn’t,
however, order the cross to be
dismantled.
Instead,
it
offered the defendants an
opportunity to alter the monument in some unspecified
way so that it no longer violated the law. Litigants have
attempted, unsuccessfully, to
do just that.
Over the years, the U.S.
Supreme Court has twice
declined to hear the Soledad
cross case. But the highest
court in the land has hinted
that it remained open to hearing the case after the trial
court had taken up the 9th
Circuit Court’s suggestion to
look for alternatives.
Proponents of keeping
the cross “where it is, as it is,”
said they’ll challenge this latest legal attempt to move the
Soledad cross.
“It’s unfortunate that the
9th Circuit left the judge no
choice but to order the tearing down of the Mount
Soledad Veterans Memorial
Cross,” said Bruce Bailey,
president of the Mount
Soledad
Memorial
Association
(MSMA).
“However, we are grateful for
the judge’s stay that gives us
an opportunity to fight this all
the way to Supreme Court.”
The U.S. Supreme Court
is exactly where the Soledad
cross case could — and likely
will — end up, said Glenn
Smith,
professor
of
Constitutional
Law
at
California Western School of
Law in San Diego.
“The cross is one of those
things that has taken on a
symbolic significance that far
exceeds this particular set of
facts, that’s why the issue has
taken on such life,” Smith
said.
The legal battle over the
landmark cross is far from
over, Smith said.
“I fully expect that Judge
Burns’ decision will be
appealed to the 9th Circuit,
and I would expect the 9th
Circuit to affirm Judge Burns’
decision, and that it will again
be appealed to the U.S.
Supreme Court,” he said.
“This is likely to be the last
round. Then, in two or three
years, we’ll definitely have a
resolution.”
Mount Soledad veterans
have secured the support of
the Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal group dedicated
to defending and restoring
religious liberty, in its continuing fight to keep the cross on
its La Jolla mountaintop site.
“We will continue to
fight for this memorial and
the selfless sacrifice and service of all the millions of veterans it represents,” said Hiram
Sasser, Liberty Institute litigation director.
“It is the least we can do
for those who gave so much to
us all.”
Scripps Health
Trail to be named for former senator
launches wireless care
directors at the time was
staunchly opposed. Only
three of those members —
Day, Russ Penniman and
Ruben Barrales — still serve
on the board.
Penniman was absent
from the meeting and
Barrales stepped out to participate in a previously
scheduled conference call
for the 6-0 vote. There is one
vacancy on the nine-member board.
The entire west-to-east
length of the trail on fairgrounds property will be
named the Christine Kehoe
Public Trail and Wetland
Buffer.
Signage
recognizing
Kehoe’s contributions to the
22nd DAA and San Dieguito
River and Lagoon will be
installed.
Board President Fred
Schnek said an event to
properly recognize Kehoe
will be held at a later date.
By Bianca Kaplanek
COAST CITIES —
Scripps
Health
has
launched a pilot study
using the ViSi Mobile wireless device to continuously
track the vital signs of a
group of patients at
Scripps Green Hospital as
part of a system-wide
effort to evaluate and
adopt the most promising
new digital health technology.
The ViSi Mobile study
is designed to determine
whether
nurses
and
patients are comfortable
using the FDA-approved,
non-invasive wrist monitor
made by Sotera Wireless of
San Diego.
“Wireless health technology has an important
role to play in a patientfocused health care system
that delivers the right care
at the right place and at
the right time,” said
Scripps President and CEO
Chris
Van
Gorder.
“Through pilot studies
such as this one, we are
evaluating
the
latest
mobile health devices at
our hospitals to see where
they can help improve
patient outcomes, increase
efficiency and lower costs.”
The ViSi Mobile measures electrocardiogram,
heart rate, pulse, blood
pressure, blood oxygenation and skin temperature.
The data are displayed on
the device’s small screen
and relayed wirelessly to a
nursing station computer
where they can be monitored in real time through
an on-screen dashboard.
Device tested in medsurg unit
The Scripps study
involves up to 30 patients
who are being fitted with a
ViSi Mobile during their
stay in one of Scripps
Green’s medical-surgical
units. Patients in these
units are recovering from
surgery or are recuperating
from pneumonia, liver disease and other illnesses.
Normally, a nurse
checks patient vital signs
when conducting routine
rounds every one or two
hours. The ViSi Mobile
delivers that information
on a constant basis for each
patient who is being monitored. If a patient’s vital
signs move outside safe
ranges, on-screen alerts
appear on the nursing station dashboard to warn
nurses of the potential
problem.
“Continuous monitoring tells a much deeper
story about what is going
on with a patient, revealing
early signs of trouble that
can trigger life-saving
intervention,” said Mary
Ellen Doyle, Scripps vice
president for nursing operations.
“By testing the most
promising wireless technologies and bringing them
into our hospital, we are
keeping our focus on
patients and the quality of
care that we deliver to
them.”
One patient in the
study, William Romo of San
Diego, said the ViSi Mobile
seemed far more convenient to use than larger
machines that use cumbersome leads. “I like that I
don’t have wires attached
all over me,” he said.
A second pilot study is
planned for early 2014 to
evaluate the ViSi Mobile
on another group of
patients
at
Scripps
Memorial Hospital La
Jolla. Scripps will decide
whether to deploy the
device permanently in its
hospitals after the studies
at
Green
and
La
Jolla are completed.
DEL MAR — In recognition of Christine Kehoe’s
longstanding efforts to protect
the
environment,
coastal resources and, most
notably, the San Dieguito
River, the 22nd District
Agricultural
Association
board of directors agreed at
Dec. 17 meeting to name
part of the Coast to Crest
Trail after the former state
senator.
Director Adam Day said
he proposed the resolution
because Kehoe introduced
legislation in 2010 that
would have required the
22nd DAA to develop and
manage a 100-foot-wide
greenbelt along the north
bank of the river to provide
a permanent buffer between
the waterway and fairgrounds buildings.
The bill was approved
by the Senate but not the
Assembly and never made it
to the governor’s desk.
Day said he had the
“honor and privilege” to
work with Kehoe during the
past several years, “although
I didn’t always agree with
her.”
In fact, Day said perhaps the only time the two
found themselves on the
same side of an issue was
when they opposed a 2009
bid to sell the state-owned
Del Mar Fairgrounds, which
is overseen by the 22nd
DAA.
The resolution acknowledges Kehoe “has placed
the protection of the environment
and
coastal
resources as one of the most
important priorities for her
legislative agenda and annual funding proposals.”
It notes that she “provided critical leadership
towards the establishment,
development, growth and
success of the San Dieguito
River Park, and especially
the Coast to Crest Trail.”
Director David Watson
said he also worked with
Kehoe, who had “always
been a proactive advocate
for the environment.”
“The fairgrounds held a
special place in her heart,”
Watson said. “I think this
would be fitting.”
During a recent e-mail
exchange with Kehoe,
Watson said she told him she
usually doesn’t “buy into”
such recognition but she was
The 22nd DAA has agreed to name part of the Coast to Crest Trail after
former state senator Christine Kehoe. Courtesy photo
think this is a very worth“deeply touched by this.”
“Her final sentence while recognition.”
When Kehoe introwas, ‘I hope they approve
it,’” Watson said. “I just duced her bill, the board of
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for children at Christmas with Operation Christmas Child.
Horizon Prep eighth-grader, Hayden Center,
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take place January through
April 2014 in three venues:
The Auditorium at TSRI
(Formerly
The
Neurosciences Institute),
La Jolla; St. Elizabeth
Seton Church, Carlsbad
and the Rancho Santa Fe
Garden Club.
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Mozart Festival opens with
the Spotlight series and
concludes June 21 with the
final Festival Orchestra
concert, continues with the
new “Festival Series” format that met with much
success in summer 2013.
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events in five different
series, the festival features
the Mainly Mozart Festival
Orchestra, the Spotlight
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Fair to consider
ban on e-cigarettes
By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — In 2013 the
San Diego County Fair
became the first comparable
event of its size in Southern
California to be completely
smoke-free.
The
22nd
District
Agricultural
Association,
which governs the Del Mar
Fairgrounds, will not change
that policy for next year’s fair
except for the possible addition of electronic cigarettes
as banned products.
According to a policy
review presented during the
Dec. 17 meeting of the 22nd
DAA board of directors, there
was an increase in the use of
e-cigarettes this past summer.
Fairgrounds staff recommended allowing their continued use as a “noninvasive,
litter-free alternative” to traditional cigarettes, especially
since they are used as a way
to quit smoking.
E-cigarettes are batterypowered devices that use
heat to vaporize a liquid solution that usually includes a
mixture of nicotine and flavorings.
California law prohibits
selling the product to minors.
In San Diego, the county
Board of Supervisors is
researching potential regulations. Carlsbad and Vista
have banned e-cigarettes in
public areas where smoking
is not allowed.
Anti-smoking advocates
told board members use of ecigarettes by minors is
increasing dramatically.
“They think they’re
safer (than tobacco cigarettes),” Peggy Walker said,
noting that marijuana and
heroin can also be smoked in
e-cigarettes.
“I’m not a public health
expert,” Director David
Lizerbram said. “But at some
point we need to articulate a
public policy.”
Director
Stephen
Shewmaker agreed. “I’ve
heard enough statistics to
warrant an investigation,” he
said.
Director Lisa Barkett
said she is “completely
against” the continued use of
e-cigarettes at the fair. She
noted that they are carcinogenic and health warnings
have been issued.
“Do we really want to
promote that?” she asked. “I
don’t think it’s going to get
any better.
“Our job isn’t to promote
e-cigarettes to people who
want to stop smoking,” she
added. “We’re a smoke-free
environment. … If we’re really concerned about our youth
and our policy we should look
at banning e-cigarettes.”
Board members agreed
to address the issue at a
meeting in January or
February, which would give
them time to amend the policy before the start of the 2014
fair in June.
According to the policy
review, presented by Katie
Phillips, fairgrounds staff
believes the no-smoking policy adversely affected attendance at the 2013 fair. She
said that assumption was
based on feedback from
attendees
and
online comments.
General Manager Tim
Fennell said 2013 was the
first time in several years
attendance dipped at the
event.
Despite the numbers
decrease, food and beverage
sales were up, Barkett noted.
“I don’t give a lot of
weight to online comments”
and newspaper surveys,
Director Adam Day said,
adding that he received
“overwhelmingly positive”
feedback about the no-smoking policy.
Phillips said most area
amusement parks have an
average of three designated
smoking areas, although
locally, Legoland and the San
Diego Zoo are both smokefree.
Area resident Dean
Scott highlighted the irony
that at many of those venues,
smoking is prohibited near
animals.
Despite any negative
impacts the no-smoking rules
may have had on the 2013
fair, directors said they did
not want to make any
changes to the policy after
only one year.
Smoking is currently
allowed in three nonpublic
areas for employees and vendors “to control litter and
serve the needs of smokers
who work” eight-plus-hour
shifts, the report states.
Most of the speakers at
the Dec. 17 meeting voiced
concerns about e-cigarettes
as well as tobacco and marijuana smoking at the fair and
race concerts.
In response to a request
by Director David Watson,
some also provided potential
solutions. Watson said he particularly liked one from Janet
Asaro, who recommended
hand stamps that read, “No
Smoking.”
Speakers also suggested
bands announce the no-smoking policy prior to each show
and security and law enforcement officers “get inside the
crowd” rather than stand on
the perimeter.
Sheriff’s Capt. Robert
Haley said anyone smoking
cigarettes or marijuana
would be cited, but enforcement has become increasingly difficult.
“If one or two people are
smoking in the middle of a
crowd of 2,000, we’re not
going send two people in
there to stop it,” he said. “We
do have a no-tolerance policy.
“But causing a mini-riot
to write someone a citation
(for an infraction) — that’s
the balancing act,” Haley
said. “We don’t want to put
deputies or anyone from
Elite (Security) in danger.”
Adding to the problem
of enforcement is that “a significant number of people”
have medical marijuana
cards, he said.
“We don’t want to create
a conflict, and we want to
make sure people don’t get
hurt,” he said.
The current no-smoking
policy and potential ban on ecigarettes apply only to the
annual fair, not any of the
more than 300 other events
that take place at the stateowned facility, including the
horse race meet.
Store robberies may be connected
the break-in at Curate Co.
Detectives did find a
hammer and a plastic bag
at the scene of the
Europtics site.
Lawrence said that
only the sunglasses were
taken. If attempted to be
sold, they would be without
the cases and any certificate of authenticity.
If there is any information on either case, contact
Detective Lawrence at
(760) 966-3558.
By Tony Cagala
ENCINITAS
—
Detectives
from
the
Encinitas
Sheriff’s
Department are approaching two robberies in
Encinitas and Solana Beach
as possibly being connected.
On Nov. 20, Europtics,
Inc., an eyewear company in
Encinitas was robbed of
approximately
$25,000
worth of designer sunglasses. Several weeks later, on
Dec. 2, another eyewear
business, Curate Co. in
Solana Beach was robbed of
$12,000 worth of designer
sunglasses.
Both break-ins, according
to
Detective
Christopher
Lawrence,
were done in a similar manner with a suspect or suspects breaking a window
with a hammer to enter the
businesses.
A nearby video camera
captured two suspects
breaking into the Europtics
business.
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male’s head was not seen in Malibu with no license
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COAST CITIES
—
Helen Woodward Animal
Center will be the recipient
of proceeds from the upcoming show by artist Dani
Dodge, “Loyal, Brave and
True,” with an opening reception from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 9
through mid-April at Pimento
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painting.
The models for the
pieces are shelter dogs. Olive
PR firm transforms into a
fine art gallery as Dodge
unveils her newest collection
of more than two dozen paintings featuring man’s best
friend.
“It was a joy to go back
into the studio and focus on
dogs, which have been a lifelong source of comfort for
me,” Dodge said.
A former San Diego resident, Dodge now lives in Los
Angeles. She has galleries in
Los Angeles and New York,
and her work has been
acquired by museums. Her
installation work will be on
display at a solo show at the
Museum of the Living Artist
in Balboa Park in March.
The works range in size
from 6-inches-by-6-inches to
36-inches-by-36-inches.
Each canvas started with
graffiti-style spray paint and
then was developed through
many layers of drawing and
acrylic paint.
Some of the works
include Monopoly game
cards to emphasize the capriciousness of the lives of these
discarded animals.
The images Dodge used
to create the pieces were the
first photos taken of the animals when they arrived at
animal shelters — either
because they were surrendered by their owners, or
picked up as strays by animal
control.
In using these
images as her subjects,
Dodge aims to bring back the
dignity of these abandoned
canines.
“Through no fault of
their own, these dogs ended
up behind bars without comfort,” Dodge said. “It breaks
my heart to see animals that
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behind in this way. Please
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By Tony Cagala
The Chargers have relied a lot on the leg of kicker Nick Novak this season. During Sunday’s win against the Oakland Raiders, Novak made four
field goals, tying second with former kicker Nate Kaeding for most field
goals made in a season. The Chargers have one more game to go in the
regular season Dec. 29. File photo by Bill Reilly
Chargers postseason
push still has a ‘pulse’
By Tony Cagala
SAN DIEGO — The
Chargers have one more
week remaining for the
2013 regular season — a
season which saw the
debut of a new head coach,
a new general manager
and a new feeling of optimism.
Though that optimism
of the season was tempered by a sense of realism, which set in following
injuries to key players and
a constantly shifting offensive line, to name just a
couple of issues, the
Chargers have rallied to
an 8-7 record and the door
to a possible playoff
appearance still remains
open.
Losses from the Miami
Dolphins and Baltimore
Ravens, and the Chargers
26-13 win against the
Raiders on Sunday, lent an
extra sense of optimism in
making the playoffs to permeate throughout every
facet of the organization
from team President Dean
Spanos, to general manager Tom Telesco and especially the players.
“Lookout, there’s a
pulse,” quarterback Philip
Rivers shouted before
entering the locker room
in response to the win.
But he knows they can
only control their end of
things, and that involves
beating Kansas City next
week to end the regular
season.
Still, even if the
Chargers win, they’ll need
help, and Rivers said that
that was their own fault.
“We should have clinched
it today,” he said. “We
should have clinched a
spot today, but those are
all ‘What ifs?’ We didn’t.
We can’t go back. We can
get to 4-2 in the division —
win our last division
games to get to 4-2 —
that’s all we can control.”
With four field goals
on the day, kicker Nick
Novak tied a Chargers
record with former kicker
Nate Kaeding for second
most field goals made in a
season at 32.
The record for most
kicks in a season was set
by John Carney with 34
field goals in 1994.
The Chargers have
relied a lot on Novak’s leg
this season, and he credits
being able to spend a full
season with the team, his
teammates and a consistent technique for his success.
Head coach Mike
McCoy has set parameters
for when he goes to Novak
or whether he punts with
Mike Scifres.
Novak said he always
gives McCoy a yard line
that he’s feeling good at
before the game. “And if
we pass that threshold
then we’re off (for the)
field goal no matter;
whether it’s the 35-yard
line or 36-yard line, it just
depends on that.”
Once they get to that
point, Novak knows that
it’s time to get ready to
kick the field goal.
Considering where the
team sat several weeks
ago, Rivers said they
wouldn’t be satisfied with
finishing the season 9-7,
but it’s a sign of character,
of team toughness.
“We’ve always fought
to the end, and we’re going
to fight like crazy to do
our part and if it’s not
enough, it’s not enough.
But we’ve got to make sure
to hold up our end,” he
said. The Chargers finish
the regular season at
Qualcomm
Stadium
against the Kansas City
Chiefs Dec. 29.
ENCINITAS — “How
are you going to not do the
race after two years of
preparation and you’re in
Texas with a torn quad muscle and you still have 5,000
miles to go?” Paul Solon
asked himself.
Solon, who holds world
records as an endurance
cyclist, was in the midst of
the La Corona De Las
Americas, a nearly 7,000
mile race from Mexico City,
Mexico to Ottawa, Canada
and back again.
He did what he needed
to do. Gritting his teeth and
clenching his fists over the
handlebars, Solon kept riding through the pain
because to fail would have
been catastrophic.
“What I did is I decided
that I had to relax my body,
and ride in an easy gear and
I just had to accept the pain
and not fight against it, but
just accept it,” he said.
“So what I did is I rode
with a torn quad and forced
my body to relax, and then it
healed, and then I was OK.”
The 59-year-old cyclist
admitted that he was still
sore from the race, as he
spent a few days in North
County this week for some
rest and to receive physical
therapy.
Born in Rapid City,
South Dakota, Solon grew
up in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. He came from a
very athletic family of eight
kids. Having played quarterback in high school and college, Solon always intended
to be a professional football
player.
But by his junior year
of college, he realized he
wasn’t good enough to make
it, he said.
Finding the right sport
for him to excel at would
take time, including a yearlong stint while attending
law school before dropping
out.
He went down to
Mexico to try and become a
professional
basketball
player, but after two weeks,
he was cut from the team.
“I wasn’t good enough
for basketball,” he said. “So
I hitched around Mexico.”
He spent 10 months living with the very poor people of Mexico, learning the
language and hitchhiking
around. Having just left
home and law school, Solon
didn’t have any money. He
did nothing but learn
Spanish, the occasional
work on a farm and seeing
the sights.
Though he would
return to the U.S. and finish
law school at the University
of California, Berkeley,
becoming an assistant U.S.
attorney in San Francisco.
It’s been about 14 years
since he’s practiced law, and
he hasn’t considered himself a lawyer for the past 12
to 13 years. He’s just racing
bikes now, he said.
“As the years went by, I
became more involved in
the American way of life,
which is your job is so
important; in a way, it
Paul Solon, a world record holder in endurance bicycle racing, spent a few days in North County recovering after a nearly 7,000 mile bike ride from Mexico City, Mexico to Ottawa, Canada and back. Photo by
Tony Cagala
defines you as a person in
our country, sadly, in my
opinion,” he said.
When
becoming
hooked on triathlons (he
was training 20 hours a
week all the while he was
working 50, 60, 70 hours a
week as a lawyer and
around the clock when he
was in trial.)
After about three years
of trying very hard to
become a pro triathlete, he
realized he wasn’t going to
make it.
But he noticed that he
was usually winning the
bicycling waves of the
triathlon races.
“Because I failed in
football, and failed in basketball, and failed as a
triathlete, I finally realized I
had the special talent as a
cyclist, especially long distance,” he said. “And I
thought that if you have a
talent and you don’t use it,
then you’re wasting time. So
I’m doing my fourth favorite
sport,” he said.
Racing bikes for 11
years in Europe, Solon set
the world record racing
across Europe from North
Cape, Norway to Palermo,
Sicily.
His start of the race in
Mexico City was a rather
auspicious one. For the first
week, he was ailed with
dysentery, which lasted
until he got to Arkansas.
And then, he tore his
quad after not having started off in the right gear.
On the way back to
Mexico City, it wasn’t a
physical injury that almost
beat him — it was the
wind.
“The hardest part of
the race was not the quad,
although I thought that is
was at the time,” Solon
said. “And not my Achilles,
and not the dysentery, and
not the internal discord
with the team, but it was
the head winds.”
He’s raced in head
winds before, he said. Head
winds that would last for a
day, that is, but in this race
they were unforgiving and
unrelenting for five days
and five nights.
It forced him to get off
his bike.
“Psychologically,
I
started to crack. I got off the
bike at midnight outside of
Lafayette, Illinois and I told
my team, ‘I just got to get off
the bike.’”
Physically, he knew he
could go on, but psychologically, he didn’t know how he
would be able to go on.
And the next day, the
wind was gone. And it
stayed gone, he said.
“Just at the point
where I was unable to see
the end of the race, the wind
changed, and it died. And
then after a day or two, we
actually got tail winds and it
was crisis ended,” he said.
“If you quit a race
because of a muscular
injury or something you can
understand that better
yourself. But if you quit a
race because you lack
courage and the wind has
defeated you, that’s a much
harder thing to take. I
almost quit because of a
head wind.”
For Solon, it isn’t so
much a fear of failure that
he has — he knows what
failure is and what it feels
like, he said.
“I’m not afraid of it, but
I recognize it,” Solon said. “I
know how terrible it feels
and it just stays with you
and it doesn’t really go away
ever until you do some other
race and are successful at
it…
“I think you can’t really
do anything in life if you’re
afraid that you’re going to
fail.You have to believe that
you’re going to prevail,” he
said. “It’s an avoidance
thing. I want to avoid the
horrible bad feeling when I
fail, and I’ve failed many
times in my life. And felt
really bad each time.”
Life as a bicycle racer is
a hard life, he said. There
are times of doubt –
whether he’s doing the right
thing, or constantly on the
look for sponsors.
A portion of his life is
alone, too, he said. Though
that doesn’t mean it’s a lonely life.
“If you enjoy spending
time with yourself then it’s
not lonely at all, it’s invigorating and loving. If you don’t
enjoy
being
by
yourself…then it’s a life of
anxiety and loneliness.
“But there is a big difference between being
alone and being lonely,”
Solon said.
As he makes his way
back home, Solon will again
begin preparing for another
endurance race, this one,
the Race Across Australia.
To succeed, it’s not necessarily a feeling of joy,
though, he said, there is that
element of joy, it’s also a big
feeling of relief and
of gratitude.
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DEC. 27, 2013
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Reel Big Fish performs at San Diego’s House of Blues Jan. 4. Photo by
Kevin Knight
Reel Big Fish keeps its
energy through the years
By L. Kent Wolgamott
Be ready for instant
action when Reel Big Fish
takes the stage — no matter
where or when.
That’s the word from
RBF drummer Ryland Steen.
“Pretty much from word
go, from note one, we do our
best to give the audience an
action packed show,” Steen
said in a recent phone interview.
“These days, you want to
leave a show feeling like
you’ve been somewhere. We
do our best to give them a fun
show, that kind of experience
and the music, universally,
just makes people go crazy —
in a good sort of way.”
The music is ska-punk,
something RBF helped pioneer in the United States in
the 1990s along with other
Orange County, California
bands like Sublime and No
Doubt.
For Steen, a native of
Lincoln, Nebraska, playing
the fast-paced, highly rhythmic music that incorporates
elements of 1950s Jamaican
music with American R&B
and punk rock was, at first, a
challenge.
“Growing up, I had
knowledge of reggae music,
but I didn’t know anything
about original ska, much less
the third wave of ska music
that Reel Big Fish came out
of,” he said. “It was definitely
a challenge. It took me a couple years before I really felt
comfortable, like I knew what
I was doing.
“It’s very active. I’m definitely worn out by the end of
the show.
It’s definitely a bit of a
trick, but it is really fun music
to play.
It’s not just pure ska
punk either. Aaron Barrett
(RBF singer and primary
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writer) is a big fan of ‘80s hair
metal. Some of that peeps
through here and there.”
Barrett was a backing
vocalist when Reel Big Fish
got together in 1992.
The band’s original
singer quit, Barrett became
the lead vocalist and RBF
changed its sound to ska.
That’s been the band’s direction for two decades, whether
on major or independent
labels.
The band enjoyed a
major burst of popularity in
the late 1990s when groups
such as the aforementioned
No Doubt and Sublime
helped push ska to the forefront of the alternative rock
scene.
“Sell Out,” the single off
of the group’s 1996 CD, “Turn
The Radio Off,” reached number 10 on “Billboard” magazine’s modern rock chart, and
the video for the song saw
considerable play on MTV.
But the popularity of ska
(and ska-punk) proved brief,
and Reel Big Fish never again
cracked the upper tier of the
modern rock charts.
After 20 years, Barrett is
the only remaining original
member of RBF.
The other current members are Dan Regan (trombone), John Christianson
(trumpet), Derek Gibbs (bass)
and Matt Appleton (saxophone). On March1, Steen
will mark his eighth year in
the band.
“They go by in a blur,” he
said. “When I first joined the
band I thought ‘I’ll be in it for
a year or two. Eight years
later, I feel really lucky to be
in this band and to have it
turn into the experience it’s
become.”
Steen
moved
to
TURN TO REEL BIG FISH ON A14
By Noah S. Lee
Despite its greater
focus on cast performances
instead of plot, which can
be all too noticeable, at
times, “American Hustle”
is a charming semi-serious,
semi-funny 1970s character
study in which its strength
outweighs what may or may
not be its weakness.
Small-time
hustler
Irving Rosenfeld (Christian
Bale) discovers a way to
change the life he’s been
living when he and Sydney
Prosser (Amy Adams)
meet.
Together, as lovers and
partners-in-crime,
their
business flourishes, only to
cease when Richie DiMaso
(Bradley Cooper), an FBI
agent, forces them to participate in a sting operation
to arrest corrupt government officials.
One such person is
Mayor Carmine Polito
(Jeremy Renner), who is
trying to revitalize his city
through shady connections.
The glamorous world
Irving and Sydney live in
has a profound impact on
DiMaso, providing him an
opportunity to transform
himself into the kind of
person he wants to be.
In the meantime,
Irving’s wild card of a wife,
Rosalyn
(Jennifer
Lawrence), threatens to
endanger the entire operation.
What could’ve easily
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DEC. 28
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
See the paintings, sculpture,
and installation of Melora
Kuhn through Dec. 28 at Lux
Art Institute, 1550 S. El
Camino
Real
Visit
LuxArtInstitute.org for more
information.
ART OF RAKU Through
DEC. 31
Jan.. 10, see the Raku pottery
of Alex Long at the Civic
Center Gallery, City Hall, 505
S. Vulcan Ave., Encinitas. Visit
AlexLongArt.com for more
“Dogs, Houses and Pictures,”
the art of Steve Webb, will be
on display through Dec. 31 at
the Cardiff Library, 2081
AND
ART
Photo by Francois Duhamel
‘American Hustle’ a charming character study
Newcastle Ave.
information.
WHIMSY
From left: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle.”
Voss displays “Mid-Century
Art paintings through Dec. 31
at the Encinitas 101 Gallery,
818 S. Coast Highway 101. Call
(760) 943-1950, or visit
Encinitas101.com for more
information.
JAN. 1
just been a cynical, gritty
crime drama turned out to
be a demonstrative character study set amidst a fictionalized portrayal of the
ABSCAM
investigation
(which the FBI began in
the late 1970s so as to target corrupt public officials).
In David O. Russell’s
hands, you can expect
“American Hustle” to both
entertain and enthrall, just
like he did with “Silver
Linings Playbook” last
year.
While there clearly is a
plot happening in the film
(which derives inspiration
from “The Sting”), I’ll
admit that I found myself
paying more attention to
how the idea of hustling
affects the characters’ relationships than the actual
ABSCAM sting.
Nevertheless, it was
still exciting to see the
dynamic interplay between
the cast members, which, in
itself, created a story of its
own to explore — one
where the truth about reinvention
and
survival
affects people on different
levels.
The most obvious highlight of “American Hustle”
is the ensemble cast, all of
whom deliver masterful
performances
worth
remembering as 2013
draws to a close.
This is very much a
film in which the actors
and actresses are the main
attraction, and those we
see here do not, in any
shape or form, disappoint.
With his propensity for
chameleon-like transformations, Christian Bale surprises and impresses us
with his character of
Irving, a role that calls for
the kind of scrupulous
charisma that only a con
artist would possess.
He brings his A-game
to the film, shedding those
memorable years of playing
Batman and stepping into
the shoes of a swindler
seeking to reinvent his life.
As the enchanting,
seductive Sydney, Amy
Adams hits all the right
notes with elegant precision, navigating this dangerous world with a confidence designed to conceal
her apprehension. She has
this poise about her that
immediately grabs your
attention, and as you delve
deeper into how she feels
about her love for Irving,
you’ll want to keep watching.
The term “idiosyncratic” best describes Bradley
Cooper’s presence; his
atypical G-Man mannerisms generated this reckless vibe that goes hand in
hand with the backdrop of
this film.
Even if you were to
take away his distinctive
hairstyle, you’d still see
DiMaso as a forceful Fed
JAN. 2
JAN. 3
BRUSH UP Registration is
open now for the Intrepid
Shakespeare Company Young
Actors Winter drama classes
for 8- to 14-year-olds, focused
on acting, singing, scene study,
fight choreography, dance, and
improv. Sessions are Fridays
from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Jan. 10 to
Feb. 7 and Feb. 21 to March 21
at the Encinitas Community
Center.
Cost: $190/session. Contact
Sean Cox at [email protected] or phone
(760) 295-7541.
CITY
HALL ART Artie
Mattson’s “World of Ink,” Pen
and Ink art will be on display
at the Encinitas Civic Center
Gallery, City Hall, 505 S.
Vulcan Ave.
MARK YOUR
CALENDAR
AUDITIONS
SET
The
Rancho Santa Fe Village
Community Theater, 6225
Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa
Fe, has scheduled auditions for
its spring presentation of
“Cotton Patch Gospel,” open-
whose attitude about life in
general undergoes a drastic
evolution.
Bigmouthed recklessness has a way of getting
your attention when it’s
Jennifer Lawrence.
It’s amazing how you
can tell she’s unpleasant
yet scared — just by looking at the animated spark
in her eyes.
Jeremy Renner, always
the capable man when you
need him, succeeds in
instilling a sympathetic
quality in Carmine Polito
(whose desire to create
new jobs for the people he
loves is on a par with the
shady deals he’s had to
make).
He definitely nailed
the mayor’s passion for the
public, due in no small part
to the human face he gives
to political corruption.
See
“American
Hustle” for what these fine
cast members have to offer
whilst living life in the
1970s, especially if you’re a
fan of Russell’s recent
work.
MPAA rating: R for pervasive
language, some sexual content
and brief violence.
Running time: 2 hours and 18
minutes
Playing: In general release
ing March 14.
Auditions are 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 5
and 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 6. Get audition forms at http://villagechurchcommunitytheater.org/auditions.
‘ASH GIRL’ San Dieguito
Academy presents “The Ash
Girl,” a re-telling of the
Cinderella story. The play is at
7 p.m. Jan. 10, Jan. 11, Jan. 16
Through Jan. 18 in SDA’s
Clayton E. Liggett Theatre, 800
Santa Fe Drive, Encinitas.
Tickets are $8 for students and
$15 for adults and will be sold
online
at
seatyourself.biz/sandieguito.
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DEC. 27, 2013
Stories from the road: Authors pen books on travel experiences
E’LOUISE
ONDASH
Hit the Road
It was the summer of
1957 and Carl and Kay
Keister piled their three
sons into their new Mercury
Monterey and began their
4,000-mile
trip
from
Lincoln, Neb., to California
and back.
The car had a 312-cubic
inch V8 engine that produced 265 horsepower, but
no power steering, air-conditioning or radio.
But gas was 17 cents a
gallon, there were Burma
Shave signs across Nebraska
(“Hardly a driver / Is now
alive / Who passed / On hills
/ At 75”), Blackie’s Curios in
Moriarty, N.M., and the delicious anticipation of the
Golden State’s Nirvana —
Disneyland.
“I had done my
research,” writes author and
photographer
Douglas
Keister in his memoir
“Heart-Land: Growing Up
in
the
Middle
of
Everything” (Doublewide
Productions;
softcover;
$8.99).
“I was 9 years old.
Frontierland was the home
of Tom Sawyer Island. That
mythic place was my destination … I yearned for a life
like Tom’s.”
Keister’s collection of
memories tells the story of
growing up “free-range” as
a middle child in the middle
of the country in the middle
of the century.
“I’m taking credit for
inventing the term ‘freerange children,’” Keister
says. When he uses it among
his peers, “they know exactly what I mean.”
“Heart-Land” evolved
from a collection of columns
that Keister, who lives in
Chico, wrote in 2011 for the
Chico Enterprise Record.
“I realized that a number of my columns drew on
my childhood experiences,
and the editor said that my
remembrances would make
a great book.”
The editor was right.
Even if you aren’t a
boomer, you’ll enjoy the
chapters; each capsulizes a
theme or experience common to the era.
Some
stories
are
delightful and funny, some
poignant and others sad —
like the loss of innocence
that occurred that same
year
Keister
visited
Disneyland.
In December 1957, an
unemployed garbage man
named
Charlie
Starkweather and his 14year-old girlfriend went on a
murder spree across the
country that began in the
“safe, clean, white-bread
Lincoln, Nebraska.” By Jan.
29, 1958, when they were
apprehended, the duo had
murdered 11 people.
“Nothing would ever be
quite the same again,”
Keister writes.
The other 19 chapters
touch on topics and experiences that all boomers who
didn’t grow up in California
will find familiar: horrendous weather; parental
obfuscation on the facts of
life; the early days of television (imagine: only two-anda-half channels!); camping
with the Cub Scouts;
Christmas; and the simplicity of life.
For more information
and to read a sample chapter (“Sex!), visit douglaskeister.com.
Disneyland is the focus
of another publication by
Pasadena resident Sam
Gennaway.
An urban planner by
trade, the author and expert
on all-things-Disney gives us
“The Disneyland Story: The
Unofficial Guide to the
Evolution of Walt Disney’s
Dream”
(Keen
Communications; softcover;
$18.95).
It chronicles in great
and fascinating detail the
evolution of the park from
before it opened in July
1955 to the present.
“I’m obsessed with
theme
parks,”
admits
Gennawey, who grew up in
Whittier and spent many a
day in the Magic Kingdom.
“My mom used to take
us there once a month, but
we never bought any food or
tickets to any of the rides.
“Those were the days
when you paid a general
admission, which was reasonable, then bought ticket
books for the rides. The
shows were free. We thought
of it as a public space.
“The admission ticket
could keep out the riff-raff,
but they kept the price low
enough to let blue-collar
families in.”
The Swift Market House on Disneyland’s Main Street, a replica of an oldfashioned grocery and butcher shop, was operated by Swift & Company,
a meat-products corporation. Visitors could buy dill pickles and cider, and
were invited to take a seat next to the genuine pot-bellied stove and play
checkers. The market was one of many vendor-operated retail stores
when the park first opened. Author Sam Gennawey writes that Walt
Disney “did not have the time, knowledge or money to open these
stores.” Many of the vendors did not think that Disneyland would last
more than a year. Photo by Jeff Kurtti
Kesiter (L) and his family took a 4,000-mile road trip from Lincoln, Neb.,
to Disneyland and back in 1957 – just two years after the theme park
opened. His favorite memory is spending time on Tom Sawyer’s Island.
“Everything I ever dreamed about was on that island sanctuary,” he
writes. “I resolved to stay (there) forever.” Photo courtesy of Douglas
Keister
The Jungle Cruise was the signature attraction in Adventureland when
Disneyland opened in 1955. Builders needed mature trees and tried
offering Pasadena residents with mature landscaping $200 per tree.
They had no takers. In the end, trees that were uprooted when the Los
Angeles freeway system was being constructed were purchased for $25
apiece. The Jungle Cruise also included trees from Australia, New
Zealand, China, Japan, South America and South Africa, and orange
trees from the property’s groves were turned upside down to look like
mangrove roots.. Photo by Jeff Kurtti
Douglas Keister (L), was a middle kid who grew up as a “free-range
child” in the middle of the century in the middle of the country. “I'm taking
credit for inventing the term ‘free-range children,’ Keister says. "People
who grew up … in the 1950s know exactly what I mean.” Keister and his
brothers spent their formative years in Lincoln, Neb. Today the author
and professional photographer resides in Chico. Photo courtesy of
Douglas Keister
Douglas Keister’s mother, Hilda
Katherine (“Kay”) stands proudly
next to the family’s Motorola console television “which pulled in twoand-a-half stations” – NBC, CBS,
and for a few hours a day, ABC.
“Much to my displeasure, we opted
for ‘Father Knows Best’ over ‘The
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,’
and ‘Your Hit Parade’ over
‘American Bandstand.’ Photo courtesy of Douglas Keister
Gennawey says he
wrote “chunks” of the book,
which contains 30 vintage
photos, an index, more than
800 footnotes and an extensive bibliography, while sitting on Keister’s favorite
place — Tom Sawyer Island.
“It got me out of the
city,” he explains.
“In the ‘50s “you used
to be able to fish on the
island. You could rent a
pole, catch fish, then carry
around three perch for the
rest of the day.”
Now called Disneyland
Park, this American institution has had many incarnations and will continue to do
so, predicts Gennawey, who
likes to say that he’s as old
as the Matterhorn (54).
“Think of Disneyland
as a fat middle-aged guy
who can’t decide whether
he wants to hang out with
adults or kids.”
For more musings by
Gennawey, visit samlanddisney.blogspot.com/.
“The Disneyland Story”
From 1962 to 1966, McDonnell
Douglas sponsored the Rocket to is available at Barnes & E’Louise Ondash is a freelance writer livthe Moon ride in Tomorrowland Noble, and both books are ing in North County. Tell her about your
(note the name “Douglas” on the available from Amazon.com. travels at [email protected].
rocket). The attractions opened in
July 1955 and was inspired by articles in Collier’s magazine written
by space experts in the early
1950s. The rocket ride originally
was subsidized by Trans World
Airlines (TWA). The imaginary journey took place in the future – 1986
– and included vibrating seats and
a somewhat scary encounter with
meteoroids. This and other stories
about the “happiest place on
earth” are told in exquisite detail in
“The Disneyland Story: The
Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of
Walt Disney’s Dream” by Sam
Gennawey. Photo by Jeff Kurtti
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HISTORY
Wanda Prosser of the The
Santa Margarita Chapter,
Daughters of the American
Revolution, welcomed Beverlee
Stuart-Borok, director, District
XIV who spoke on Gen. George
Rogers Clark, and his contributions during the American
Revolution. Clark is best known
for his capture of Vincennes,
which led to the British ceding
the Northwest Territory to the
United States. Stuart-Borok was
presented with a certificate of
appreciation and a DAR
Victorian cup. The DAR is open
to any female 18 years of age or
older who is lineally descended
from a patriot who contributed in
some way to America’s fight for
independence in the
Revolutionary War. Contact
Linda at [email protected].
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A lawsuit was filed on Oct.
22 on behalf of David Radel,
accusing the developer of
fraud, negligent misrepresentation, conflict of interests, and other charges.
Patti Jones filed a suit
on Nov. 25 claiming that the
company breached contracts
and negligently misrepre-
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California in 2000 with his
band Square, a trio that also
included Maroon 5 guitarist
James Valentine.
He met Reel Big Fish
when the Nebraskans
played and won the Ernie
Ball Battle of Bands shortly
after moving west and the
ska-punks were among the
judges.
Steen became friends
with the RBF guys and filled
in for drummers when they
couldn’t make shows.
When Justin Ferreira
decided to quit the band in
early 2005, Steen got a call
asking him to join.
Since Steen joined the
band, RBF has released
three studio albums; a rerecorded hits package, an
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county lobstermen caught
294,200 pounds. That’s up
from 263,650 pounds during
the 2011-12 season and
235,100 pounds in 2010-11.
The county makes up a
significant chunk of the
state’s lobster catch, which
came in at 867,450 pounds in
2012-13.
New regulations could
also impact the recreational
side. With two members of
the 11-member advisory committee opposed, it decided to
recommend a ban on anglers
employing conical hoop nets
to capture lobster.
Barsky said that in the
past, most recreational fishermen dove for lobster, but
now more are relying on the
conical hoop nets.
“The dynamic has completely changed,” she said.
Traditional hoop nets lie
DEC. 27, 2013
sented the project.
On Dec. 13, the San
Diego County Planning
Commission unanimously
approved the development
of 18 single-family homes
and 19 condominiums on
270 acres of the Rancho
Cielo property off of Via
Dora and Cerro Del Sol.
San
Dieguito
Community Council submitted an appeal of that project
as well, also citing lack of
sufficient environmental
review.
“It doesn’t make any
sense. Why wouldn’t (the
project developers) go
ahead and do new studies?”
said DeLano.
That project is scheduled to come before the
County Board of Supervisors
in the near future for a final
decision from the County.
EP and a couple live packages. All of them except
“We’re Not Happy Til You’re
Not Happy” on which Steen
did not play, have been
released independently.
RBF is now touring
behind “Candy Coated
Fury,” released last year.
“It’s kind of a return to
the abandon Reel Big Fish
had back in the early days,
when some of them were
still teenagers,” Steen said
of
“Candy Coated Fury.”’
“At least that’s what I’ve
been told. I do know it’s like
what we do live — playing it
loud and proud. When we
were recording, we really
weren’t worrying about making things perfect. We were
playing a set of songs the
way we play.”
The band played the
Warped tour this past summer and has also done an
extensive run through
Europe.
Touring internationally
is standard operating procedure for the band. But playing countries from Australia
to Dubai isn’t like being a
tourist.
“Being able to be on a
bus and tour the world six or
seven months a year is so
great,” Steen said.
“Wherever we go, we
seem to have a great group
of people to see the show, at
every show. Because we’ve
toured so much, the band
has built it reputation on the
live show. We try to bring it
every night and the people
always do. We feed off of
that. They feed off of us and
it’s fun, man. It’s just fun,
every night.”
flat on the bottom of the
ocean. But the conical nets
have formidable walls, making it more difficult for lobster to escape if they crawl
across them in search of food,
Barsky noted.
She said some believe
the conical nets yield a disproportionate number of lobster, hurting the commercial
lobstermen who rely on the
fishery.
Wardens wrote tickets
for the conical nets when
they first became popular
five years ago, arguing they
were similar to traps. But
those fines were later dismissed in court.
Jim Salazar, who represented recreational fishermen
from
throughout
California on the commission,
voted against the conical net
ban.
“I don’t see evidence justifying a conical net ban,”
he said.
He’s taken video he said
proves lobster can get out of
the conical nets.
Further, the Department
of Fish and Wildlife recently
moved to a new report card
system to get more anglers to
note what kind of equipment
they use and how much they
catch. The Department of
Fish and Wildlife should wait
for more report card data to
determine if the conical nets
are actually creating issues,
Salazar said. Otherwise, it’s
premature to consider a ban.
With two on the committee against, a limit of 70 lobsters per season for recreational fishermen was also
proposed to cut down on illegal commercialization. Right
now, there is no limit. And
Salazar said his constituents
are against that change as
well.
“The recreational fishing industry would suffer,”
he said.
Scout honored for saving woman
DEL MAR — Winston
School 2013 graduate Tim
Higgins received the Boy Scout
Heroism Award for saving a
woman’s life during a People
First meeting.
Congressman Scott Peters
of California’s 52nd district presented the award to Higgins
Dec. 19 at The Winston School.
Higgins was attending the
meeting for People First, which
helps those with developmental disabilities learn to selfadvocate, when he saw the
woman turning blue from choking on a sandwich. He performed the Heimlich maneuver on her while she was sitting
in her scooter and cleared her
airway. He also directed the
others in the room to call 911
and then talked to the dispatcher while assisting the woman
until the first responders
arrived to take her to the hospital.
The Boy Scouts Heroism
sis.”
Tim Higgins received the Boy
Scout Heroism Award for his
quick thinking. Courtesy photo
Award recognizes a youth member or adult leader who has
demonstrated heroism and
skill in saving or attempting to
save life at minimum risk to
self.
According to Headmaster
Mike Peterson, “Tim’s leadership and courage were always
on display at Winston, so none
of us is surprised about Tim’s
quick and decisive action. He’s
the kind of person you want to
have around when there’s a cri-
Higgins started at the
Winston School in November
2010 after struggling in public
school with learning differences and social challenges.
He became a standout student co-winning the Winston
School’s Headmasters Award at
his class graduation ceremonies last spring. The
Headmaster’s Award is the
highest honor given each year
to the upper school student
who best exemplifies the values of The Winston School.
Outside of school, Higgins also
earned a Karate Black Belt
Level 8 and he produced television shows for Del Mar TV.
He also scuba dives and
volunteers at the YMCA and
the White Sea Bass Project and
shares a passion for trains with
his father, volunteering weekends as a docent cashier/tour
guide for the San Diego
Vintage Trolley.
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its customers.
Frank Belock, deputy
general manager of SDCWA,
said that much of the reservoir’s dropping water level can
be attributed to the water
evaporating. “Hodges…compared to most of the reservoirs
in the county, is shallow and
broad. Depending on how full
it is, it evaporates probably
between five to six feet a
year.”
Belock added that over
the last 30 years, they’ve seen
the water levels fluctuate anywhere between 70 feet deep
to 115 feet (which is its fullest
depth).
At the time of printing,
the reservoir was listed at 36.7
percent full on the county’s
public works website; the
reservoir is the fourth lowest
in capacity of the nine reservoirs in the county.
“This is mainly due to the
fact that its water level was
entirely dependent upon local
rain and runoff to fill it,”
Belock said.
In the early 2000s
SDCWA began work on the
Emergency Storage Project.
Costing $1.46 billion, the
project is comprised of
numerous
water-saving
improvements at several sites
designed to protect the county’s water supply in the event
of a natural disaster or other
issue that would essentially
cut off all water supplies to
the county.
“The Water Authority
issued debt to pay for all of
our capital projects as well as
uses Water Authority funds
from capacity charges,” said
Belock. “The debt service payments are reflected in the
Water Authority rates.”
Work on the Hodges project began in 2005 and included the construction of the
Olivenhain Reservoir north of
Del Dios and the Hodges
Pump
Station
and
Hydroelectric Facility.
Pipes traveling 1.25 miles
underground connected to the
two reservoirs together, allowing them to share water.
“The reason the lake
level is low,” Belock said, “is
because of the lack of rainfall
last year and that the city of
San Diego has transferred
about 2,700 acre-feet to else-
A dock sits on the shoreline of Lake Hodges in Del Dios. The shoreline
of the reservoir is showing signs of another dry season. Photo by Tony
Cagala
where in its system. We have
limited our movement of
water into Lake Hodges to
that which is necessary to
operate the turbines in the
Lake Hodges Pumped Storage
facility.”
There is a minimum
water level required to operate the pump storage process
where electricity is generated.
The water level needed to
generate the electricity
(about 40 megawatts of peak
energy) is probably pretty
close to where it is now, Belock
added.
And if the water dips
below a minimum level?
“What we’ve been doing
is, we’ve done it once or
twice…we bring water down
from Olivenhain, just to keep
the water at the minimum,”
Belock said.
He added that costs to
move water from Olivenhain
to Lake Hodges is actually
profitable because of the
hydroelectric facility.
“The costs to operate the
facility are minimal,” he said.
According to a fall 2006
newsletter, part of the ESP
goal was to keep Hodges at a
more consistent water level.
Belock has said that that goal
has not changed.
“At the present time up
until the completion of the
San Vicente Dam Raise project, the Water Authority will
not have any capacity in Lake
Hodges.
After the San Vicente
Dam Raise project is completed, of the 32,000 acre-feet
capacity in Lake Hodges, the
Water Authority will control
20,000 acre-feet of storage in
an ESP event.”
The Hodges Reservoir
serves as a water source for
the Santa Fe Irrigation
District, the San Dieguito
Water District and, as of last
year, the city of San Diego.
With the city having
started drafting water from
the Hodges Reservoir in
March 2012, Collins said on
average, the city expects to
draft between 5,000 and 6,000
acre feet of water per year.
Now, Hodges is being
kept at a certain level
(between 90 feet and 100 feet
deep), according to Collins,
which helps prepare them as
winter approaches.
Trish Boaz, executive
director of the San Dieguito
River Valley Conservancy said
that because of the water
level, they have concerns
about the habitat values being
maintained for the water fowl.
“It’s a very important
area on the flyway for bird
species and we’re concerned
about water quality issues, as
well,” she said.
In October, SDCWA staff
issued an assessment to its
board of directors saying that
the county will have “sufficient water supplies for 2014,
even if dry conditions persist.”
The assessment added
that the water authority isn’t
anticipating the need for
extraordinary conservation
measures or water shortage
allocations in 2014.
DEC. 27, 2013
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Rotary begins prep for
spring bocce tournament
DEL
MAR
—
Preparations are in full swing
for Rotary’s 18th Annual Turf
Bocce Ball Tournament at the
Del Mar Horse Park March 23.
The club recommends registering now for this annual
fundraiser and “Family Day”
targeted to raise more than
$50,000 for youth and humanitarian programs.
Del Mar-Solana Beach
Rotary Club members are currently signing up sponsors and
auction donors. For Bocce 2014
Tournament information, see
DMSBBocce.com or contact
Vicky Mallett via [email protected],
“Although many people
have said that they don’t know
how to play bocce, it is amazing
how only a few games will lead
them to want a bocce set for a
birthday or holiday present,”
said Vicky Mallett, Bocce 2014
co-chairwoman.
All dollars raised by
the tournament benefit youth
programs aimed at breaking
the cycle of illiteracy, poor parenting, ill health, and domestic
abuse. Past major beneficiaries
include Community Resource
Center’s Therapeutic Children’s
Center, Just In Time (for Foster
Youth), Social Advocates for
Youth, and Voices for Children.
Tournament funds in
smaller amounts also have gone
to such local programs as dictionaries for all local thirdgraders, scholarships at Canyon
Del Mar Mayor Terry Sinnott tosses the bocce ball, with from left, Del Mar
Councilman Al Corti, Solana Beach Deputy City Manager Wendé
Protzman and Senior Management Analyst Dan King cheering him on.
Courtesy photo
Crest Academy, YMCA camp
for foster children, youth leadership programs, Stand Down
for homeless vets, and
Wounded Warriors support.
Internationally, funding has gone to school books
and supplies, clean water projects, medical equipment and
supplies,and,in El Salvador,ongoing support of youth education and health. For many of
these programs, individual
Rotarians and the Rotary
Foundation have provided
matching dollars and personal
donations, the total of which
have averaged in excess of
$80,000 per year for the last several years.
Tournament play will
take place on 32 bocce courts
laid out on the Horse Park’s
grand prix field, while onlookers can watch from alongside
the playing courts or from the
spectator seats that surround
the playing field. Those who
would like to watch the fun,
play a little bocce after lunch,
win a nice auction item, and
support Rotary’s charitable programs are invited to come out
and join in with everyone else.
The Del Mar-Solana
Beach Rotary Club consists of
men and women working
together to make this world a
better place for all.For information about DMSB Rotary, go to
DMSBRotary.com or contact
Richard Fogg at (858) 693-7556
or Diane Huckabee at (619)
818-0528.
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of age, from around the world participated. Pictured from left, debutante Christina Kemper
Valentine, her brother Travis Elliott Valentine, her sister Kelsey Kemper Valentine, and
Grandmother Joan Sealy. Photo by Kevin Allen
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JEAN
GILLETTE
Small Talk
The rigors
of holiday
decorating
The holidays are over
and I am dismantling my
decorations once again, by
myself.
But I kept is simple
this year with the holiday
mantra: “Will the kids
care about this?”
If ever my babes move
to Antarctica and can’t get
home for the holidays,
there is a solid chance that
my home will be empty of
anything red, green or
sparkly. I hesitate to sound
like pre-dreams Scrooge,
but unless I am expecting
guests or throwing a party,
it isn’t really worth the
time and fuss of both putup and takedown. Yes, I
am getting old.
Again, I am not at all
like my sweet mother, who
did “Christmas-up” royally and would have done
the same if she only lived
with cats.
And I never stopped
loving her house at
Christmas.
As for me, if I can’t
share my handiwork, I’m
content to just appreciate
other people’s. I think I
can get away with this attitude because I decorate
the library at school for
the most appreciative
audience one can ever
want. Young’ns between 5
and 12 are not only
delighted to find things
decorated but they never
fail to tell me. That is what
really makes it all marvelous.
I do enjoy my lovely
fake tree with its understated white lights. I won
that battle when the other
team didn’t show up. In
spite of my efforts to leave
it intact, wrapped in a
tree-sized bag, it was
ridiculously heavy and
hard to drag down from
the attic.
I can’t figure how we
ever got it up there. I
refuse to put it in the spider-webby, dirty garage so
I am trying to figure out
where to stash it this year.
My guest room may have a
holiday look to it year
round.
There might be years
ahead when I severely
downgrade my décor, but
I’m hoping I will have
grandbabies in time to
resuscitate my enthusiasm. I’ve heard that’s a
guaranteed jumpstarter.
And a happy, understated New Year to all.
Jean Gillette is a freelance writer
who’s celebrating on the inside. Now
pass the cocoa and contact her at
[email protected].
‘Little tree’ brings big joy to neighborhood
By Rachel Stine
ENCINITAS — Something special happens every holiday season at
the corner of Willowspring Drive and
Glen Arbor Drive.
From its start 25 years ago,
Joanne Smith has had a prime view of
the spectacle from her kitchen window. When December arrived, she
started every morning by checking for
its arrival.
As Christmas was drawing closer
and closer, she began to get nervous.
Did the mysterious do-gooders forget?
She hoped that the tradition
would be carried on. She needed it to
happen, this year in particular, as this
would be her first Christmas alone.
Joanne and her husband Emery
moved to Encinitas in 1980.Their only
daughter was grown, so they moved
from San Bernardino when Emery
obtained a job as a station agent for
Amtrak in Del Mar.
From their small home in Village
Park, they have a view of the neighborhood park. They noticed a pine
tree no bigger than three-feet tall was
planted there a few years after they
moved in.
One morning, shortly before
Christmas, the Smiths awoke to find
the tree’s branches covered with ornaments, garlands and other holiday
décor.
They knew one of their neighbors
had done it, but they weren’t sure
whom. Just the same, the two were
quick to walk over and add their own
decorations to the festive site.
The holiday adornment of the
small tree caught on. Every year afterwards, the neighbors came together
with decorations from years past and
new ones to add on.
The tree grew and so did the holiday garnishing. Neighbors soon
adorned the tree with hearts for
Valentines Day, red, white, and blue
for Fourth of July, messages of thanks
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Joanne Smith of Encinitas said she thinks the neighbors in her Village Park neighborhood have outdone themselves with this year’s
Christmas decorations. Photo by Rachel Stine
Nonprofit of ‘Madonna’ mosaic gives back to city
By Tony Cagala
ENCINITAS — As a
piece of underground artwork
surreptitiously
installed on a city overpass,
artist Mark Patterson never
anticipated his mosaic to
have become as relevant a
part of the community that
it has.
“This is a really awesome turn of events for us,
to have really made a good
impact on our community
and be a blessing,” he said.
“It’s not just a piece of art
hanging on a wall. It’s generating goodness in lots of
different ways.”
Patterson created the
“Save the Ocean,” or
Surfing Madonna mosaic, as
it’s affectionately known
around the city, and
installed it, along with
friend Bob Nichols underneath an overpass on
Encinitas Boulevard a couple of years ago.
Since then, the mosaic
has had to overcome challenges questioning the
legality of the installation
— done without permission
on city property — people
initially comparing it to
Giving back to the city are Bob Nichols, far left, vice president of the Surfing Madonna Oceans Project, and
second from left, Mark Patterson, artist, founder and president of the Surfing Madonna Oceans Project. They
presented a check for $20,000 to members of the City Council from left: Lisa Shaffer, Mayor Teresa Barth,
Mark Muir and Tony Kranz on Dec. 11. Photo courtesy of Megan McCarthy
graffiti, and having to find a
permanent place for the
piece once the city had it
removed from the overpass.
The piece has seemingly found a permanent home
recently, across the street
from where it all began.
Through the nonprofit
Surfing Madonna Oceans
Project, which Patterson
founded and serves as pres-
ident, the piece has started
to give back to the community as more than art.
That was the goal of the
piece, said Nichols, vice
president of the Surfing
Madonna Oceans Project.
“Originally, when Mark and
I put Madonna up underneath the overpass, we said,
‘OK, this is a gift to the community. Nobody needs to
know who it came from.’
And then when everybody
found out, we thought,
‘What could we do with this
gift?’”
And so that’s how the
idea for the Surfing
Madonna Run came about.
The inaugural race on
Nov. 16 earned $78,000 and
had just under 2,000
race participants.
Of that amount raised,
$50,000 of it was distributed back into the community.
On Dec. 11 Patterson
and Nichols presented the
city with a check for
$20,000.
“We didn’t just want to
write a check to the city of
Encinitas, because who
knows how much money
actually goes to save the
ocean. A lot of it might go
towards paper and pencils,
and then $5,000 go to actually saving the ocean,”
Nichols said.
The nonprofit told the
city that they wanted the
people to decide where the
money went.
On race day, the racers
voted to have the money go
towards several needs. That
included the purchase of a
$6,000 sea lion cage; another $6,000 will go to funding
disadvantaged kids who
want to participate in the
Junior Lifeguard program
next summer.
A porpoise stretcher
will also be purchased,
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DEC. 27, 2013
Council agreed 4-1 to consider the addition of residential units to the Garden Del Mar specific plan a minor change, which means an amendment can be made if four of the five members support the change. Residents will be polled for their opinion on moving forward with the modification. Courtesy rendering
Under a deemed-approved ordinance, bars would have to meet regulations related to trash, noise and other metrics. Residents gave input on
the draft ordinance on Monday. Photo by Jared Whitlock
Change to Garden Del Mar
project moves forward
Residents review tougher
standards for bars
By Jared Whitlock
By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — In an effort to
decide whether residential should be
an allowed use in the Garden Del Mar
specific plan, council members voted
4-1 at the Dec. 9 meeting to follow the
recommendation of a steering committee that many say was instrumental in getting the proposal passed in
2008 with 85 percent of the vote.
Council members agree they consider the change a minor amendment,
but will poll residents before moving
forward.
The Schaar Company bought the
25,527-square-foot lot at the corner of
Camino del Mar and 10th Street in
2006 and initially proposed an alloffice development.
Because of its size, the project
triggered compliance with Measure
B, which limits downtown commercial
developments larger than 25,000
square feet until a specific plan is
approved by voters.
At the time, City Council
appointed five residents to a Gas
Station
Steering
Committee
(UltraMar gas station once occupied
the site) to work with the developer
and the community.
The group held more than 60
meetings in almost two years. When
presented to voters in 2008 the project featured six two-story buildings
that included retail and office space,
three public plazas, a restaurant and
106 stalls in a two-level parking structure.
Community members sought to
have residential units added but the
developer declined to include them.
In 2010 Schaar defaulted on its
loan. The bank foreclosed on the
property this year, and it is currently
for sale.
City staff said potential buyers
have expressed interest in adding residential, which would require an
amendment to the specific plan,
something easier said than done
because of Measure B.
According to the Garden Del Mar
specific plan, minor changes require
approval by four of the five council
members. Major changes require city
approval and a public vote. The plan
lists which category some changes
would fall under, but residential is
not among them.
Council members first considered the request at the Nov. 18 meeting and opted to reconvene the Gas
Station Steering Committee for
input.
That group met Nov. 25 and
unanimously agreed the change
should be considered minor, but to
respect the spirit of Measure B, a procedure should be conducted to get
the “pulse” of the community on
whether to proceed
with
an
amendment.
Members suggested a timely and
inexpensive process either online or
with a mail-in form.
Residents will be asked if it is
appropriate for the city to pursue an
amendment to the Garden Del Mar
specific plan to allow residential
units on the site.
Councilman Don Mosier said the
language must clearly indicate the
question is a poll and not a vote.
Kitchell Development Company,
which has entered into an agreement
to buy the lot, asked for the modification but has since indicated “even the
inclusion of residential as an allowed
use is not going to go far enough to
make the project viable from a
return-on-investment standpoint,”
Planning Manager Adam Birnbaum
said.
But he added that other prospective buyers have made a similar
request, so if the Kitchell deal falls
out, the change may still be needed
for other potential investors.
Councilwoman Sherryl Parks,
who cast the dissenting vote, said she
did not think it is within the purview
of City Council to modify the specific
plan.
“We had a vote,” she said. “It was
well-defined what that project was. …
The fixed plan is already in front of
us. It isn’t up for us to tweak that.”
ENCINITAS — New
standards that aim to curb
noise and trash outside of
bars got a public unveiling on
Monday night.
The stricter measures
are part of the city’s draft
deemed-approved ordinance.
A final version, complete with public input, will
go in front of the City
Council for consideration
sometime next year.
In the meantime, some
residents at Monday’s meeting chimed in on whether the
city should have further
rules in the first place.
Bev Goodman, who owns
a business on Coast Highway
101, said that in the past
she’s walked up to her store
in the mornings only to discover broken windows and
intoxicated people passed
out in front.
But since August, the
Encinitas
Hospitality
Association, a group comprised of bar owners, has
made a concerted effort to
improve the situation.
“Everything to me is so
much better,” Goodman said,
adding that an ordinance
isn’t needed.
John Balogh, from the
Encinitas
Citizens
Committee, a group of residents who have voiced concerns with the bars, said an
ordinance would allow the
city to hold all bars — not
just new ones — accountable.
“We appreciate the
efforts of some local bars
that pick up trash and provide security services in a
few downtown locations in
the recent months,” he said.
“But we need more than that
— we need consistent and
uniform standards.”
This summer, the City
Council voted 3-2 to direct
staff to develop the deemedapproved program, citing the
city’s inability to regulate
older bars.
Bars that obtained a
liquor license more than 20
years ago face fewer performance standards than
new bars.
But under the proposed
rules, all alcohol-serving
establishments covered in
the ordinance would have to
meet tougher measures for
noise, trash and other metTURN TO BARS ON B11
ODD FILES
BY CHUCK SHEPHERD
Annals of Science
America’s
foremost
advocate for frontal lobotomies as “treatment” for mental disorder, the late Dr.
Walter Freeman, performed
an estimated 3,500 lobotomies during the 1940s and
1950s before opposition finally solidified against him,
according to a December
2013 investigation by The
Wall Street Journal.
At the peak of his influence, he was so confident that
he demonstrated the procedure to skeptics by hammering an icepick (“from his own
kitchen,” the Journal reported) into both eye sockets of an
electrical-shocked patient
and “toggling” the picks
around the brain tissue, certain that he was severing
“correctly.”
For
years,
Freeman (a neurologist
untrained in surgery) marshaled positive feedback
from enough patients and
families for the procedure to
survive criticism, and he
spent his final years (until his
death in 1972) securing
patient testimonials to
“prove” the validity of lobotomies.
Cultural Diversity
Each Nov. 1 is a day (or
two) of craziness in the isolated mountain village of Todos
Santos
Cuchumatanes,
Guatemala, where Mayan tradition commands continuous
horse races through town,
jockeyed by increasingly
drunk riders, until only a
sober-enough
winner
remains. Collisions occur in
the Race of the Souls, and
occasionally someone dies,
but the misfortune is met
with a collective shrug and
regarded as a spiritual offering for fertile crops during
the coming year, according to
an eyewitness this year
reporting for Vice.com.
Ironically, for the rest of the
year, the village is largely
alcohol-free except for that on
hand to sell to tourists.
Since the 13th century,
sheepherders in Spain have
had the right (still honored)
to use 78,000 miles of paths in
the country for seasonal flock
migrations — even some
streets of Madrid, including a
crossing of Puerta del Sol,
described as Madrid’s Times
Square.
The shepherds pay a customary, token duty, which,
according to an October
Associated Press dispatch,
the government proudly
accepts, given the prominence of Spain’s native
Merino sheep breed in the
world’s wool market.
Postal worker Umakant
Mishra, of Kanpur city in
Uttar Pradesh, India, was
freed by a criminal court in
December — 29 years after
he was charged when a
money-order account turned
up 92 cents short.
Mishra was called to
judicial hearings 348 times
over the years, but it was not
until recently that the government admitted it had no witnesses for the court to hear
against him. A December
BBC News dispatch reported,
citing “official” figures, that
more than 30 million cases
are pending in Indian courts.
B3
DEC. 27, 2013
Vapor shops unite to oppose e-cigarette ban
By Rachel Stine
CARLSBAD — Despite
years of trying, Jason
Delveccio could not find anything that would help him
quit smoking and kick his
addiction to Marlboro cigarettes.
“I failed every single
attempt over the years,” he
told City Council on Dec. 17.
“I’ve tried patches, gum, cold
turkey.”
At last, he tried electronic cigarettes, commonly
referred to as “e-cigarettes.”
The
battery-powered
devices heat up a chemical
liquid, which can contain
nicotine and/or flavors, creating a vapor that users inhale.
Because users can adjust the
amount of nicotine inhaled
from the devices, some argue
that they can help people quit
smoking tobacco products.
“It’s changed my life,” he
said. Not only has he stopped
smoking traditional cigarettes, Delveccio said he also
lost 50 pounds and can exercise more easily.
Owners of local e-cigarette shops, known as vape
shops, point to people like
Delveccio as examples for
why banning e-cigarette
smoking could be a detriment
to public health.
A ban prohibiting the
use of e-cigarettes wherever
smoking is outlawed in
From left to right, Mix Vapes owners Ben Farrell, Dan Daniel, and Max Velinsky use their electronic cigarettes at the flavor bar inside their store.
Their store is saturated with the scent of bubblegum from all of the sweet flavors customers try inside. Photo by Rachel Stine
Carlsbad was up for final
approval by City Council on
Dec. 17. Smoking tobacco
products is currently prohibited in libraries, beaches,
restaurants, parks, and other
public places under federal,
state, and city laws.
With the recent rise in
the popularity of e-cigarettes,
several vape shops have
opened throughout Carlsbad.
Some representatives
from these shops united to
oppose the ban after learning
that City Council had granted
the ban initial approval at
their Dec. 3 meeting. They
argue that while the ban will
most likely not harm their
businesses significantly, keeping e-cigarettes out of the
public eye will prevent people
from learning about the
devices and their potential to
help with quitting smoking.
“We are vilifying a lifesaving technology,” said the
owner of Feels Good Vapor in
Oceanside, Fabi Ramsey,
about the ban. She emphasized that her husband quit
smoking after 30 years by
using e-cigarettes.
Ramsey stated that it is
not fair to ban e-cigarettes
because the long-term effects
of using the devices have not
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Del Mar plans to survey community on needs for City Hall
By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — City officials
are working to create a survey
to find out if the rest of the community agrees with input from
about 40 people who attended
a meeting focused on replacing
City Hall.
Participants were asked at
a Dec. 2 workshop where a new
civic center should be located,
what it should include and how
it should be paid for and implemented.
Keeping it where the current City Hall is at 1050
Camino del Mar was identified
as the first choice for location,
with a private office building
near Ninth Street ranked second. Most participants indicated the Shores property should
not be considered an option.
Workshop participants
generally agreed a new civic
center must include administrative office space and a town
hall/council chambers.
There was also interest in
having public parking, open
spaces or plazas and conference or meeting rooms as part
of the complex.
The majority of attendees
rated a public/private partnership or bond financing as preferred funding options, with
the city’s traditional pay-as-yougo method ranked as the least
desirable.
The only consensus on
implementation was to move
the project forward. Most participants said the other decisions should be made before an
implementation plan is selected.
Staff members used all
the information to create a
sample survey that was presented to council members at
Community members should be receiving a survey by the end of January
for their input on replacing City Hall. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
the Dec. 9 meeting.
According to the six-page
document, the survey was slated to take between 15 and 30
minutes to complete.
It includes background
information, the options selected at the workshop and space
for alternative answers.
“I think the survey needs
work,” Councilwoman Sherryl
Parks said, noting that it was
too wordy. “If it went on a nice
big diet and focused on 10
questions then I think we’ve
got something that might be
useful.”
Her colleagues agreed it
was
too
lengthy, and
Councilman Don Mosier had
additional concerns. He said
respondents should be given
cost estimates before making
decisions.
“I don’t want to go six
months from now having a big
backlash when we start getting
… estimates and everybody
says, ‘Well, this is a great idea
but it costs way too much,’”
Mosier said. “I want to try to
address that potential problem
as much as possible up front.”
Parks also said she didn’t
understand why the Shores
property would be included as
a location option when workshop participants basically
labeled it taboo.
“I think it’s confusing to
send that kind of survey out,”
she said.
She also said she would
like the format to appear less
biased by alphabetizing answer
options.
“It didn’t appear to be
very neutral to me,” she said.
“It was almost like it was set up
to get the answer that we got at
the workshop.”
Councilman Al Corti disagreed. “I don’t think it’s gearing them,” he said. Corti suggested telling survey respondents the information came
from a small group of people
who attended the workshop.
“The overriding direction,
consensus of the workshop was,
‘Get on with it,’” Corti said.
“Let’s move forward.
Give the public the oppor-
tunity to have their same opinion as the 40 or so that showed
up at the workshop.
“There was broad consensus … but I think we need to
open it up to the rest of the public to get a sense of that,” he
said. “I think that’s the most
important thing we can do and
the sooner we do it the better.”
Council members directed
staff to refine the survey so it
takes 10 to 12 minutes to complete.
Planning Director Kathy
Garcia suggested eliminating
the implementation questions
since there was no consensus
on that issue.
A new survey will be presented to council at the Jan. 6
meeting, with a goal to distribute it to the community by the
end of that month.
B4
DEC. 27, 2013
A recently released report shows that parents are turning more to the police in cases of cyber bullying.
Courtesy photo
Growing number of parents turn
to police to report cyber bullying
(BPT) — As more people
become aware of the harmful
consequences of cyber bullying, parents are more likely to
report cyber bullying incidents directly to their local
police than local school officials.
That’s the finding of a
new national survey of 642
American parents conducted
by the Fraud Prevention and
Investigations business unit of
Thomson Reuters.
According to the survey,
36 percent of parents would
turn to law enforcement first
if they learned that their child
was the victim of cyber bullying threats and attacks versus
29 percent of parents who said
they would go to their local
school officials.
One reason that parents
may hesitate going to their
local school officials is that 30
percent of parents surveyed
didn’t know if their child’s
school has a policy to address
cyber bullying.
Cyber bullying is defined
as bullying-that takes place
using electronic technology,
according to stopbullying.gov,
a website managed by the
U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services.
Cyber bullying can take
many forms — hurtful messages or embarrassing photos
posted on social media sites,
harassing text messages and
emails, and private information purposefully shared
through text messages, email
or through the Internet.
The issue has become a
priority for parents surveyed,
of which 50 percent indicated
that they are very concerned
about the rise in cyber bullying.
Today, more than 80 percent of teens use a cellphone
regularly, making it the most
common tool among cyber
bullies, according to dosomething.org.
The presence of teens on
social media sites has only
compounded the issue, blurring the lines between a
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In a related survey of U.S.
law enforcement professionals conducted by Thomson
Reuters in conjunction with
PoliceOne.com, 48 percent of
law enforcement agencies
report that time spent investigating cyber bullying, bullying and school violence has
dramatically increased over
the past two years.
Yet, most law enforcement agencies feel illequipped to effectively investigate these cases, with 76 percent reporting that training to
handle cyber bullying complaints has been insufficient.
While parents may trust
law enforcement officials
more than school officials
with handling cyber bullying
incidents involving their children, 68 percent of the law
enforcement professionals
surveyed said that they work
to foster stronger relationships with school officials
and/or principals to prevent or
deter cyber bullying.
“Though cyber bullying
is a challenging issue for students, parents, school officials
and law enforcement, these
statistics suggest that people
want to work together to
understand the issue, protect
kids from cyber bullying, and
help kids understand the serious consequences of participating in cyber bullying,” says
Jason Thomas, manager of
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Thomson Reuters.
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3D print expert Daniel Remba, far right, at the Kearney Mesa UPS Store, teaches
Rancho Santa Fe Horizon Prep students about the Stratasys 3D printer and its capabilities. Teacher Matt Davis held a contest in his design class for students to have a design
3D-printed. The winning student’s design, a car on a street with a traffic light, was printed while students watched. Courtesy photo
Students at Skyline turn
hobby into a helping hand
“If any one of you have
experienced the Rainbow
Loom craze that has swept
elementary kids over the
last few months, you know
how much work goes into
making each piece as well
as how much time these
students spend on the
hobby (and the mad search
for the right color rubber
bands),” Chris said. “It is
impressive that all these
kids came up with the idea
to use their energy and
time for good.”
SOLANA BEACH —
Avery Lee’s dad, Chris, is
proud of his daughter and
all the students at Skyline
Elementary School.
Fourth-grader Avery
launched a philanthropic
effort with her third- and
fourth-grade classmates in
Tiffany Farnsworth’s classroom, which soon spread to
rest of the school.
The students made
and
sold
handmade
Rainbow Loom items like
bracelets, necklaces and
charms, and will donate all
the proceeds to support the
Typhoon Haiyan Relief
efforts in the Philippines.
The students are working is association with
Positive
Community
Impact (PCI), a San Diegobased humanitarian organization.
The youngsters started
making their products during the Thanksgiving break
and continued through
Dec. 10, when they set up a
stand as school let out.
community
CALENDAR
Cost is $10 per person at the essary. For more information,
door.
call (760) 944-9226.
DEC. 28
JAN. 1
W R I T I N G N E W YEAR
Sign up now for the
“Creative Writing Workshop:
Finding the Poem Within” at
10 a.m. Saturdays, Jan. 4,
Jan. 11, Jan. 18 and Jan. 25
at the Encinitas Library, 540
EC
GARDEN OF LIGHTS Cornish Drive, Encinitas.
Bring the family to the San
EC
Diego
Botanic
Garden
Garden of Lights, 230 Quail RELEASE THE OLD A
New
Gardens Drive, when the non-denominational
Botanic Garden transforms Year’s Eve “Burning Bowl”
into a winter wonderland. Ceremony to burn and
For more information, visit release the old and set
intentions for the new year
sdbgarden.org/lights.htm.
COME ON AND DANCE in a supportive community
at
Friday Night music and danc- setting, will be held
ing, is offered every Friday 7 Seaside Center for Spiritual
to 11 p.m. at the Encinitas Living, 1613 Lake Drive,
Elks Lodge, 1393 Windsor Encinitas from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Road, Cardiff. Dance lessons Dec. 31. All are invited and
are offered from 6 to 7 p.m. no advance sign-ups are nec-
Got an item for the calendar?
Send the details via e-mail to
[email protected].
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JAN. 2
SOMETHING’S COOKING
Cooking demonstrations are
being planned at 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 2, Jan. 9, Jan. 16 and Jan.
23 at the Encinitas Library,
540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas.
Thursdays.
For more information, call
(760) 753-7376.
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DEC. 27, 2013
EDUCATIONAL O PPORTUNITIES
A modern approach to traditional martial arts
Not all martial arts
schools are created equal,
and West Coast Martial Arts
Academy is the real deal. In
addition to popular martial
arts styles such as Kempo,
Jiu Jitsu, Judo and Boxing,
West Coast Martial Arts
Academy (WCMAA) teaches a rare traditional style of
Kung Fu only taught by a
select few in the world. This
exclusive and traditional
training, and a friendly family
atmosphere,
make
WCMAA a unique place for
students of all ages and skill
levels to learn and progress.
Tiger Claw Kung Fu is
an art that has not been
commercialized due to its
strict rigid guidelines. If
you find someone teaching our master be one of the
this art endorsed by the few granted permission to
Grandmaster, you know teach this rare and vulnerable art. Others styles taught
at the academy include but
are not limited to Tai Chi
and Chi Gong, which serves
well to promote health, wellness, and longevity.
Celebrating their 10year anniversary on the
West Coast, West Coast
Martial Arts Academy has 2
locations in North County,
one in Encinitas and one in
4S Ranch. They are currently enrolling for ages 4 and
up and for all experience
levels. For more informayou’re in the right place. tion, check out our website
West Coast Martial Arts at wcmaasd.com or call 760Academy is proud to have 942-5425 (KICK) today.
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Discover Grauer Tours
Scheduled at The Grauer School
The Grauer School is
hosting semi-private Discover
Grauer Tours on Thursday,
January 9th, January 23rd
and February 6th for prospective families. Due to high
demand, a Jan. 15 and Feb. 5
date were recently added.
“Discover Grauer Tours
are an excellent way to learn
about The Grauer School’s
programs and view classroom
dynamics in action,” states
Elizabeth Braymen, Director
of Admissions. “We encourage families who would like
to get an inside glimpse into
the school to sign up for these
free, semi-private tours.”
The Grauer School is a
grades 6-12 college preparatory school that is the regional
leader in the small schools
movement.
The Grauer School focuses on college preparatory
rigor balanced with expeditionary learning and Socratic
teaching.
As a small school by
design, with approximately
150 students total, The
Grauer School emphasizes
relationship-based teaching
that stems from its small class
sizes with a student-toteacher ratio of 6 to 1.
“The best way to under-
stand the power of relationship-driven education, a core
feature at The Grauer School,
is to witness it firsthand,”
Braymen adds. “Once you
step onto campus, and especially after you see a class in
action, you’ll understand why
the seniors in our graduating
class were accepted to 89 percent of the colleges to which
they applied.”
RSVP to the “Discover
Grauer”
event
at
grauerschool.com or by calling (760) 274-2116. The
Grauer School is currently
enrolling grades 7-12 for the
2014-2015 academic year.
New charter school opens in San Marcos
SAN
MARCOS
—
Taylion San Diego Academy
announces the opening of its
newest location in San
Marcos, just in time for the
2013-2014 school year, offering classes for grades K-12.
The school presents a program that’s online, at-home,
or a blended program of
both, for gifted and talented
students who are looking for
a more challenging curriculum different from a traditional class setting.
The Taylion program is
“Taylion San Diego
Academy provides students
a unique holistic learning
environment that prepares
them for the 21st century
academically, physically, and
mentally,” said Taylion’s
Academic Director Vicki
McFarland. “Taylion’s philosophy is that all students can
succeed if they truly learn to
believe in themselves.
Our philosophy is to
inspire confidence in a child
through our belief that we
can make a significant
Taylion San Diego Academy
provides students a unique, holistic
learning environment that
prepares them for the 21st century
academically, physically, and
mentally.”
Vicki McFarland
Academic Director,Taylion San Diego Academy
an option for students K-12,
who find that a traditional
school setting just isn’t a
good fit for them, academically or otherwise (bullies,
etc.). A large number of their
student population is high
school students.
The program is FREE
with one-on-one assistance,
and an environment and
experience
tailored
to each student.
impact with each child by
empowering all students to
better understand themselves as individuals.”
Taylion offers three separate learning environments
for students: an online component, a home-school program, and a blended program that includes independent study and classroom options along with
online components. School
officials say the program
offers individualized learning, a safe environment with
less distraction, higher parent involvement, credit
recovery, credit acceleration,
greater access to new educational resources, and unparalleled flexibility in utilizing
various instructional delivery methods based on the
particular student’s learning
style.
“We are thrilled to be
opening a school here in San
Diego, offering a blended
learning solution which is
state of the art, but we are
also very proud of our independent study and home
schooling options as well,”
said Timothy A. Smith, president of the school’s parent
company, Learning Matters
Educational Group.
“We feel that we are
going to be able to serve our
students in the San Diego
area very well with highly
qualified
teachers
—
dynamic teachers that are
going to be able to personalize instruction for each
child.”
Taylion belongs to a
group of charter schools that
began in Arizona in 1996.
The San Marcos campus
is located at 100 N. Rancho
Santa Fe Rd. #119, San
Marcos, CA 92069.
regarding enrollment and
upcoming parent information sessions, call (855) 77LEARN or (760) 295-5564, or
visit taylionsandiego.com.
DISCOVER GRAUER
Discover the secret to educational
happiness. Take a tour with us and learn
about Grauer’s outstanding educational
program. Our approach to college
preparation cultivates thoughtfulness,
achievement, pride, and happiness.
Grauer graduates from the Class of 2013
were accepted to 89% of the colleges to
which they applied.
Sign-up for a Discover Grauer Tour on our website. Choose from
tours on 1/9, 1/23, and 2/6/2014. Or call to schedule a private visit.
At Grauer, you’ll discover that the school of your dreams actually
exists right here in Encinitas, California.
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Concorde Enterprises has a goal to wow all of their clients
Raj Narayanan is used to
having clients tell him, “You’re
different.”
In the 17 years he has
been in business on his own, he
has prided himself on giving
his clients the unique experience of working closely with an
architect through every step in
their project no matter what
the size. So yes, he’s different.
And that’s a good thing.
Before starting Concorde
Enterprises, Raj worked for
other large construction companies as an architect, project
manager and in design consulting.
He decided he wanted to
go out on his own, and has
spent the better part of two
decades building lasting relationships with his clients and a
great team “that runs like a
well-oiled machine.”
While he bills himself as
an architect, Raj is so much
more than that. The close relationships he has with his clients
has allowed them to see his passion for his work. He might be
hired to design a project and
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Local vet nominated
The Drake Center for
Veterinary Care in Encinitas
has been named a finalist for
Petplan Pet Insurance’s 2014
Veterinary Practice of the Year
award. The hospital's nomination was chosen from more
than 3,100 nominations nationwide.
The winner of this category will be selected in February
at the 86th annual Western
Veterinary Conference in Las
Vegas.
Grant fights diabetes
Insulindependence of
S o l a n a
Beach,
a
n o n p ro f i t
member
association
dedicated to
uniting,
expanding,
and supporting
the
active diabetes comSARAH HOLT
munity, was
included in Medtronic, Inc.’s
two-year Health Access Grants
from Medtronic Philanthropy,
in recognition of continued
commitment to improve access
to healthcare services for
underserved populations, with
an emphasis on diabetes.
Health Access Grants are
awarded in 34 communities
around the world where
Medtronic has a major presence.
Fun in Del Mar
The Del Mar Foundation
end up being asked to build it
as well. Once they see how efficient he is, clients just feel
taken care of.
Also a licensed contractor,
Raj is highly knowledgeable in
all aspects of construction from
the early stages of permitting
to designing and engineering
all the way to final build out.
Raj is a genius at making
the most of space. He loves to
add interest to a room, to open
it up with dramatic windows.
But more importantly he is a
master listener. He pays attention to what his clients want
and works closely with them to
make their wishes a reality.
Concorde
Enterprises
aims to impress. A current
client in San Diego recently
walked on to the job site and all
she could say was,“Wow!”Raj’s
offered special thanks to the
Young Del Mar/Children’s
Committee, chaired by Kelley
Huggett and Sandra Hoyle.
This group provided family
activities throughout the past
year.
These included beach
bonfires, Bingo night, the
Fancy Nancy Parade, the
Easter rabbit and annual
Easter egg hunt, the 4th of July
Parade with Uncle Sam and
the toddlers playgroups. The
Del Mar Foundation encourages community financial support for upcoming programs, at
delmarfoundation.org.
Wheaton College student the
2013 Christmas Festival.
Stuart-Flunker sang soprano.
Raj
Narayanan,founder
of
Concorde Enterprises, has a goal
for each of their clients to be wowed
by their home design results.
goal is for every client to be
wowed with their results.
Concorde Enterprises’
engineering services run from
structural and plumbing engineering, to HVAC and electrical engineering.
Raj and his team also
offer space and interior planning services, full construction
estimates and execution of
projects and permit processing.
Concorde
Enterprises
basically provides full planning
to final build out services. Raj
can fully oversee a project handling permitting, scheduling,
budgeting and building. He
gives his clients top quality
service and is always conscious
of value designing for the
clients’ budget. What this
means is that clients have
someone with them every step
of the way whose goal is not
only to give them what they
want, but to give it to them
affordably.
Raj loves working with
clients who are open to unique
design ideas. Getting ready for
the New Year, people tend to
make resolutions to improve
not only their selves but their
homes
and
businesses.
Upgrading cabinets, counters,
appliances and fixtures are
smaller projects that can have
huge impact on the look of a
space.
Speaking
of
space,
Concorde Enterprises can also
help create a floor plan customized for any lifestyle. Need
more space? Perhaps improving energy efficiency is a priority.They can help with that too!
And these great changes are
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efficient, they are also improving the resale value of your
home.
Raj’s pride in his work is
only rivaled by his pride in his
customer relationships. He is
the kind of professional who is
hands on and readily available
to his clients. He is in constant
contact with his clients and is
one step ahead of everything.
So no matter what size job
you’re considering having
done, Raj and his team will
gladly be on your side from
start to finish. Call (619) 2489574 to find out more about
what Concorde Enterprises can
do for you.
Directors award
Sarah Holt received the
John Cosh Award at the annual Board of Directors Award for
2013. The John Cosh Award,
the highest achievement at the
Boys & Girls Club of Vista, was
named after the Boys & Girls
Club of Vista’s founder.
Board leaders named
The Palomar Community
College District Governing
Board voted in new leaders at
their meeting Dec. 10. The
Board elected Trustee Paul P.
McNamara to the position of
governing board president.
Trustees John Halcón and
Nancy Ann Hensch were elected to the positions of board
vice president and secretary
respectively.
Visit Grauer School
The Grauer School is hosting semi-private Discover
Grauer Tours at 9:15 a.m. Jan.
9, Jan. 23 and Feb. 6 for
prospective student families.
The hour-long tours are limited
to eight families per tour.
RSVP
to
grauerschool.com or by calling Fair earns top honors
(760) 274-2116.
The 2013 San Diego
County Fair was once again a
Rhoades school tours
top award winner at the
The Rhoades School, will International Association of
and
Expositions
host Open House tours for Fairs
kindergarten through fourth Convention and Trade Show.
grade 9 to 11 a.m. Jan. 14 and The 2013 fair won a total of 24
for grades 5 to 8 from 9 to 11 awards which included seven
a.m. Jan. 15. The program first-place awards for outstanding
Agricultural
and
begins promptly at 9:15 a.m.
To reserve a spot visit Competitive programs plus
RSVP@dseltzer@rhoadess- awards in 24 categories. For
more information
visit
chool.com.
sdfair.com.
Knights aid NAMI
The Knights of Columbus New sparkle at Pala
Pala Casino Spa & Resort
Council 15076 at St. Patrick
Parish in Carlsbad held its has opened a Swarovski bouyearly Tootsie Roll Drive, tique that offers the brand’s
raisING money for the mental- fashion jewelry, accessories
ly disabled. This year, Council and crystal décor objects. The
15076, collected approximate- boutique will be open from 10
ly $1,500 that was directed to a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday
the local North Coastal chap- through Thursday and 10 a.m.
ter of the National Alliance on to midnight on Friday and
Saturday. Swarovski was
Mental Illness (NAMI).
founded in 1895 in Austria and
Star soprano
is a leading producer of preciAimee Stuart-Flunker, of sion-cut crystal.
For more information,
Oceanside, performed in
palacasino.com.
“Before the Marvel,” the visit
Blaine and LaVerne Briggs get thanks from Michael Lobatz, neurologist and medical director of the
Rehabilitation Center at Scripps Encinitas. Courtesy photo
Scripps program honors Rancho
Santa Fe philanthropists
COAST CITIES —The
LaVerne and Blaine Briggs
Rehabilitation Program was
dedicated Dec. 13 in honor of
the Briggs family for their
continued philanthropic support of the Rehabilitation
Center at Scripps Memorial
Hospital Encinitas.
The Briggs have been
philanthropic supporters of
Scripps Health for more than
20 years.
In 2004, The LaVerne
and
Blaine
Briggs
Rehabilitation
and
Neuroscience Fund was created to provide funding and
support for patient-focused
programs offered by the
Rehabilitation Center at
Scripps Encinitas.
During that time, the
program has grown from a
local resource to a nationally
recognized rehabilitation
center that offers patients
state-of-the-art technology as
part of their recovery
process.
“LaVerne and Blaine
Briggs have been part of the
Scripps family for many
years, quietly supporting pro-
grams and services that
greatly benefit our patients,
their families and the community” said Chris Van
Gorder, president and CEO
of Scripps Health. “We are
very grateful for their continued generosity, which will
help others for years to
come.”
In addition to the acquisition of several devices,
including the Ekso robotic
skeleton, Alter-G anti-gravity
treadmill and a driving simulator for a driver rehabilitation program, their philanthropic gifts have helped provide specialized training for
rehabilitation nurses and
therapists, as well as several
patient education clinics
focused on concussions, multiple sclerosis and wheelchair seating.
In 2006, the Briggs also
funded the military brain
injury day treatment program, which worked to rehabilitate more than 100 active
duty members of the military
who returned from Iraq and
Afghanistan with traumatic
brain injuries.
“The results of the
Briggs family’s generosity is
evident in our rehabilitation
center, from the caliber of
our staff and the comprehensive therapies we are able to
offer our patients to the very
latest in rehabilitation technology,” said Michael Lobatz,
M.D., neurologist and medical
director
of
the
Rehabilitation Center at
Scripps Encinitas. “Mr. and
Mrs. Briggs have made a
tremendous impact on the
care and services we provide
each day.”
The
Rehabilitation
Center at Scripps Memorial
Hospital Encinitas is a comprehensive rehabilitation
facility in northern San
Diego County, providing
rehabilitation services with
specialization in neuroscience services.
It is the first facility in
San Diego County to be fully
accredited in both brain
injury and stroke rehabilitation services by CARF
(Commission
on
Accreditation
of
Rehabilitation Facilities).
B7
DEC. 27, 2013
Scripps helps DJ to press ‘play’ again PET OFTHE WEEK
HEALTH WATCH
BY THE PHYSICIANS AND STAFF OF SCRIPPS HEALTH
Music rings through
every chapter of Scott
Butler’s life story.
He performed in a
youth choir and later
played trombone in high
school.
During college, he sang
lead vocals in a rock band.
And for more than a
decade, he’s run a successful local DJ business, San
Diego’s Favorite DJ.
But the music suddenly
went silent for Butler on
Feb. 21, 2010.
That’s the day the
Rancho Penasquitos resident drove himself to
Scripps Clinic Rancho
Bernardo with severe flulike symptoms.
When results from a
routine blood analysis came
back, Butler was rushed by
ambulance to Scripps
Green Hospital for more
tests.
The diagnosis was
acute myeloid leukemia, a
fast-growing and potentially fatal form of blood cancer. “I felt like I dropped
off the face of the earth
that day,” Butler recalled.
Butler was “speechless
and in shock” when the
reality and gravity of his situation took hold.
But he felt relieved and
confident when he found
out that he would be in the
care of a team of physicians
who specialize in blood disorders: James Mason, M.D.,
William Miller, M.D. and
Jeffrey Andrey, M.D., of the
Scripps Blood and Marrow
Transplant Program at
Scripps Green Hospital in
La Jolla.
Butler’s
treatment
began with high-dosage
chemotherapy drugs, which
are very effective at killing
cancer cells in the blood.
But the drugs also destroy
bone marrow, the soft inner
part of bones where new
blood cells are made.
After four months of
chemo, blood transfusions
and total body irradiation,
Butler was ready for the
most critical step in his
treatment: an intravenous
stem cell transplant to
restore his bone marrow to
health.
Today, peripheral blood
stem cells are used for
transplants far more commonly than actual bone
marrow.
Following the transplant, Butler spent three
months in the hospital,
where he began a slow and
gradual recuperation.
While the recovery
process was slow, he eventually saw progress.
In the hospital, his
physical therapy consisted
of
short
walks
down the hallways.
After returning home,
his rehabilitation grew to
include routine household
tasks, such as retrieving the
mail.
As his strength came
back, he has resumed fulltime work as a writer and
software analyst, and is
back to enjoying quality
time with his wife and children.
And
music
has
returned to Butler’s life. He
resumed booking events for
his DJ business in February
2011, just one year after
being
diagnosed
with
leukemia.
And he was immediately uplifted at his first event,
a wedding. “That day, for
the first time, I realized
that I was going to make it,”
he said. “I felt like myself
again. Being around music,
joy and celebrations has
done wonders for me.”
Butler, 51, gives back to
the community by donating
his DJ services to various
health-related fundraisers,
including events with the
Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society,
the
Lupus
Foundation, Spina Bifida
San
Diego
and
the
American
Diabetes
Association.
In addition to giving his
time and talents, Butler has
also given of himself, literally.
He grew out his hair for
more than a year, and in
spring 2013 he had it cut
and donated to Locks of
Love, which provides hair-
pieces to children suffering
from medically related hair
loss.
“Health Watch” is
brought to you by the physicians and staff of Scripps
Health. For more information or for A physician referral, call 1-800-SCRIPPS or
visit scripps.org.
@TheRSFNews
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been
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$106 and is micro
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DEC. 27, 2013
F OOD &W INE
Stone Brewing Co.
explodes into
new ventures
that has gained an international reputation as a worldclass beer maker. On top of
that, their footprint in San
DAVID
Diego continues to grow as
BOYLAN
they open their company
stores, restaurants, and even
Lick the Plate
their own farm. I had a conStone Brewing Co. is a versation with Chris Cochran,
North County based business Stone’s Community Relations
Manager recently about that
San Diego expansion.
Tell me about your role with
Stone.
My current role/title
here at Stone Brewing Co, is
Community
Relations
Manager. I work with a variety of entities and organizations such as the Chamber of
Commerce,
Business
Associations, local governments, as well as handling a
big portion of our philanthropy and charity events.
Stone seems to be everywhere these days, but let’s
start at your Escondido location. What’s new out there?
Escondido is our main
facility and location and we
recently finished our brand
new Packaging Hall where
we bottle and keg all of our
beers that we distribute
around the United States.
The building also just won a
big award for the solar features we incorporated into
the design. The menu has
evolved a little more too at
the Stone Brewing World
Bistro & Gardens, and has a
wider variety of items than
before. However, we still stick
to our all-natural food philosophy and have been using
more and more produce
grown
at
Stone
Farms…which is a must visit
location!
Your company store in
Oceanside is very cool. Tell Stone Brewing Co. Community Relations Manager Chris Cochran hard at work. Photo courtesy Stone Brewing
me more about that concept Co. Photo courtesy Stone Brewing Co.
and other locations.
Well, we started with Stone Company Stores in etc…all the cool Stone gear, food vendors are you bring“retail” way back in the day South Park, Oceanside, along with tasting a variety of ing in to these locations?
with our little store when we Pasadena, Liberty Station, our beers. You can also purNone of the Stone
were in San Marcos. Then it and the newest On Kettner in chase beer to go in a growler, Company Stores make or
really evolved with the move downtown SD. The concept is six-pack, case, or a keg.
serve food, so we do allow
to Escondido when we had to have a retail outlet where Annel & Drew’s Kitchen is at people to bring food into our
more of a real store presence. people can buy hats, glasses, your Oceanside company
Since then we’ve opened up shirts, dog bones, soaps, store on Friday’s. What other
TURN TO LICK THE PLATE ON B11
ORTHODONTICS &
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
B9
DEC. 27, 2013
F OOD &W INE
Taking advantage of holiday indulgences here and there
FRANK
MANGIO
Taste of Wine
ndulgences can be anything above and
beyond your time-honored habits that get you
through the day. To me indulgences should stimulate the
senses with a surge of excitement.
This time of the year is a
natural time to indulge.
Parties, people, gifts, food, and
yes, fine wines all play their
part.
With those elements in
mind, let me take you on an
indulgence of flashy, feed-festive, wine infused restaurants
that feature excesses of partyplay and fun. (As the Italians
like to say “La Dolce Vita.”)
First stop is Cucina Enoteca in
Del Mar.
Before you are escorted to
your table to choose many stylish, Italian-influenced dishes,
you pass through a wine store
with more selections than you
can count, including some
Napa Valley and Italian legends that will indulge the senses and your budget. Example:
a 1976 Beaulieu Napa Valley
Vineyard Private Reserve for
$350 and an Italian Super
Tuscan 2010 Sassicaia for $275.
Cate Hughes, director of
wine and beverage, pointed to
a Vietti Italian Castiglione
Barolo at a reasonable $50 that
took my breath away with its
sumptuous quality. Another
Vietti worth trying,the Barbera
D’Alba for even less.
Ask for waiter Shannon
Stegeman when you go. She
knows the food menu better
than the kitchen team. Cucina
Enoteca is a two-story emporium with an enormous bar capturing the culinary flavors of
I
Italy with the organic freshness
of California. See it all at
urbankitchengroup.com.
San Diego has it made
with an indulgent island of fun,
food and wine called Coronado.
It all comes together at
Vigilucci’s, next door to the
famous Del Coronado Resort.
This night, the celebration
was about the Feudi di San
Gregorio lineup from the
Campania area near Naples. It
was a wine pairing event, with
the winery recently declared
the Winery of the Year in Italy.
The place was packed as
Chef Dana Sills spoke about
the fresh ingredients mirroring
the same terroir as the wines.
Her colorful roasted tomato soup with buffalo mozzarella
and basil pesto, and the risotto
with calamari and shrimp,
soaked in sweet squid ink,
share the same rich soil types
as the grapes from Feudi Di
San Gregorio.
Vigilucci’s, long a North
San Diego County favorite is
combining restaurants in
Leucadia to debut a new look
that should add to the fun, feed
the soul and indulge the senses,
open sometime beyond the holidays.
See
more
at
vigiluccis.com.
The TASTE OF WINE Top
Ten Tastings for 2013 are coming in next week’s column. Be
sure to look for them. In the
meantime I’ll be reviewing all
my wine notes from the approximately 400 wine places I have
visited, and re-taste my wines
of the month, to come up with
the Top Ten. It’s my idea of the
ultimate indulgence.
Wine Bytes
More New Year’s Eve
places to go include the Marina
Kitchen at the San Diego
Marriott Marquis and Marina
Dec. 31 starting at 7 p.m. and
ending at 2 a.m. Gourmet food,
craft beers, cult wines, spirits
MILLE FLEURS IN TOP 100
Mille Fleurs Chef de Cuisine Martin Woesle celebrates the
restaurant’s placement on the Open Table 2013 Diner’s
Choice Award list of Top 100 Restaurants in America. The
Mille Fleurs restaurant, 6009 Paseo Delicias, Ranch Santa
Fe, is owned by local restaurateur Bertrand Hug, a resident
of Rancho Santa Fe, and beat nearly 19,000 restaurants.
Visit millefleurs.com or call (858) 756-3085. Courtesy photo
and live music are featured,
along with 10 food stations.
Admission is $150. Ask about
the VIP Party from 10 p.m. to 2
a.m. with special experiences
for $200.Call (619) 699-8222 for
an RSVP.
The Estancia Hotel & Spa
in La Jolla event is Dec.31 from
6 to 9 p.m. with a four-course
Prix Fixe Dinner Menu. Cost is
$60. Learn more at (858) 9646521.
Loews Coronado has its
Dec. 31 New Years’ Eve Bash
from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. with a 6hour hosted bar, hors d’ourves
and dessert bar, live DJ and a
5,000 balloon drop at midnight
— $179 advance, $199 at the
door, $263 for the VIP experience. (619) 424-4000 for an
RSVP.
Frank Mangio is a renowned San Diego
wine connoisseur certified by Wine
Spectator. He is one of the leading commentators on the web. View and link up
with his columns at tasteofwinetv.com.
Reach him at [email protected].
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B10
DEC. 27, 2013
Chef is wanting to save the males by getting them into the kitchen
By Tony Cagala
In the late ‘80s, Chef
Gordon Smith opened Basil
St. Café in Encinitas. Many
around might still remember
it as one of the first restaurants to go organic.
Since then, Smith has
gone on to become a personal
chef for people like former
Walt Disney Company CEO
Michael Eisner, Betty Ford
and others.
Now the president of the
Encinitas
Community
Garden, Smith has released
his first cookbook, “Save The
Males: A Kitchen Survival
Cookbook,” (available at
savethemales.com).
The book, in part, is to
help people, men or anybody,
he said, to cook better and to
cook healthier.
The 224-page cookbook
serves up recipes and tips
from Smith’s more than 25
years’ experience as a chef
and cook, including how cooking can improve one’s love
life.
“Women are very appreciative to be fed by a man,” he
said. “And you can ask any
woman, they’ll agree.”
Smith talked about the
book, and how changing his
diet helped change his life.
changed your life?
Basically I got healthier
as I started to eat better, feel
healthier, feel stronger; I got
to feel a little more empowered…when your body feels
better, your mind gets better
— it all works together.
and didn’t know much more
than how to boil water. How
difficult was it for you to
make the switch from that
lifestyle to cooking your own
meals?
I think a lot of it had to
do with the fact that I cooked
in a kitchen, so my profession
made me aware of cooking. I
learned a lot of tricks and
things because my profession
was now being a cook and
then eventually a chef.
What was it that made you
decide to change?
I was under a lot of
stress. I went through a
divorce, and I had a child and
that was all part of it, not
What was it that you saw that
being able to be with my son.
made you think this cookbook
(His son is now a chef at
was needed?
Palomar Pomerado Hospital.)
I went back to college and Chef Gordon Smith co-wrote his first cookbook this year, “Save The
It’s always a win when
Describe how it was that food was very involved with my Males: A Kitchen Survival Cookbook.” Courtesy photo
you start something, you want
to finish it. I started this a
long time ago, and with the
school, and I was working, and to be a sort of an art. And I help of my co-author
I had a really full load. And liked it as an art. I really enjoy Reparata Mazzola, she helped
then when I finally started creating food and having peo- me finish it, because she’s got
learning to be a cook, every- ple eat it and watching them talent (for) writing that I
smile. That really worked for don’t have.The two of us did it
thing changed.
That made a big differ- me. That changed my life.
and finished it together.
ence. And once I started cooking, I started to really like it. In the book you talk about For a first time cook, what
To me, I found that being a how when you went back to would you advise is the best
cook, and especially being a college you were eating a lot dinner to start out with?
chef in the business, I found it of fast food or frozen dinners
It’s probably a pasta
dish…I write about pasta, I
write about rice, I write about
potatoes, these are all the big
staples… First learn how to
make a good rice; learn how
to make pasta; learn how to
make good potatoes, and then
you can make variations. And
that’s the key to learning to
cook. First master the basics;
really learn how to do the
basics, and then you do variations of it, and then you can
start creating and
that’s
when
it
really
gets to be fun.
$20,000 will be used to
fund 12 scholarships at San
Dieguito Academy.
The
scholarships,
Nichols said, will be awarded to those students that
are “trying.”
“They want to go to
college also, they might
not be A students, but they
might be C and B students,” he said.
“These are kids…that
are trying to make a difference in their school or in
their community; they’re
actively engaged at school
with other students, and
they’re trying,” he added.
The
scholarship
awards will be presented
in
May
during
the
“Academy Awards.”
A total of $8,000 was
used as prize money for
the race winners, and the
remainder went towards
merchandise and marketing the race, according to
Nichols.
Already the nonprofit
is planning for the second
annual run slated for fall.
Their goal next time
around is to raise more
money and they’ll again
turn to the participants for
how the money will be
spent.
The event looks to be
bigger, too, with more
activities, including an art
exhibit, sand castle building contest and swim contest along with the 5K/10K
race.
There are talks of
expanding the Surfing
Madonna Oceans Project
board, Patterson said.
“Because there’s a lot of
great expertise out there
that can help us make a
difference.”
There are 10 board
members,
including
Patterson, Nichols, Megan
McCarthy, Chip Conover,
Sheryl
Bode,
Bill
Cavanaugh, Terry Van
Kirk, Bill Caylor, Gordy
Haskett and Polly Rogers.
partner.
City Attorney Celia
Brewer proposed the e-cigarette ban in Carlsbad out
of concern for enforcement, potential health
risks, and possible influences on youth.
At the Dec. 3 meeting,
she explained to Council
that due to lack of comprehensive studies from the
U.S. FDA (Food and Drug
Administration), no one
knows if the chemicals
used in e-cigarettes could
cause harm to people’s
health.
She also stated that
with flavors like candy and
bubblegum, e-cigarettes
could be appealing to
youth and become an introduction to smoking.
Carlsbad Police Chief
Gary Morrison pointed out
that law enforcement has
no way of knowing what
people are smoking out of
the devices. He said that
under current regulations,
officials cannot stop peo-
ple from smoking what
might be illicit drugs out of
the devices.
Several
community
members echoed these
sentiments at the Dec. 3
meeting and no one spoke
in opposition to the ban.
City Council unanimously supported the ban
on Dec. 3, citing concerns
about e-cigarettes’ appeal
to young consumers.
After listening to the
vape shop owners, e-cigarette users, and some
speakers who supported
the ban on Dec. 17, City
Council voted without discussion and unanimously
approved the ban.
The San Diego County
Board of Supervisors will
consider e-cigarette regulations
sometime
in
February. Many cities in
the county are considering
bans beforehand, and
some, including Del Mar
and Solana Beach, have
already
banned
the
devices in public places.
chickens, ducks, and quail,
along with some peacocks
and turkeys…and some
store locations…and their goats too for eventual
pets. One of the cool things cheese!
about the Oceanside Store
is that a few local places You also have a new Stone
will actually have their Brewing Co. World Bistro
waitresses or waiters run & Gardens in Liberty
the food over to the store if Station. How does that one
you call and tell them differ from Escondido?
you’re at Stone!
To start it is much bigger;
currently the largest
Stone even has a farm,
how did that come to be restaurant in San Diego
and what are you growing? County at over 23,000
square feet under roof, and
Stone Farms was the it does have items on the
former location of La menu that you cannot get
Milpa Organica, and they up in Escondido. Not to
were one of many local mention we do have a sepfarms Stone Brewing World arate brew house down at
Bistro & Gardens was buy- Liberty Station and they’re
ing produce from when we able to brew a lot of unique
started. Then a few years beers that are often only
ago it was brought to our available down there!
attention that the former
owner was going to get rid Any new product line
of or sell the farm, so we announcements you have
stepped in and took it over. coming soon you can share
We all felt it was the right with readers?
thing to do, and gave us the
If you’re traveling anyopportunity to have our time soon out of the newly
own farm and grow the remodeled Terminal 2 at
things we want. Such as the San Diego Airport,
kale, lettuce, Swiss chard, don’t miss stopping at the
rhubarb, tomatoes, pep- new Stone Brewing locapers, citrus, eggplant, tion there! The much anticherbs, and more. We also ipated Stone Hotel will be
have a lot of egg-laying taking shape in 2014, with
a hopeful opening in 2015,
and then of course we have
a ton of other fascinating
and amazing projects coming down the road that will
continue to show that
Stone Brewing Co. is still
leading the way in the
craft brewing world!
MOSAIC
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Nichols said. “Believe it or
not, you get porpoises a
couple of times a year that
find themselves stranded
h e re … b u t … s o m e t i m e s
they come up on shore,
they beach themselves.”
This will be the first
ever porpoise stretcher for
the Encinitas Lifeguards.
The nonprofit will use
$8,000 to begin a recurring
Surfing Madonna Oceans
Awareness walk, a free
guided tour, which is looking to begin sometime next
March or April, Nichols
said. During the summer
they’ll
also
host
a
Moonlight Beach movie
night free for families.
Another $3,000 is
going to the YMCA special
needs program.
And in July they’ll be
fully funding a surf school
for special needs kids.
Nichols said that
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been researched. She
argued that the long-term
effects of using cell phones
have not been established
either, but the city is not
proposing to ban the use of
cell phones.
“My concern is that
less people will know
about (e-cigarettes) and
more people will die of
cancer,” said Dan Daniel.
He is a part owner of Mix
Vapes on Carlsbad Village
Drive.
He added that his
store helps the local economy as well because it
attracts customers who
would not otherwise come
to downtown Carlsbad.
“Now we have a product that does the same
thing (as cigarettes), but
without carcinogens and
the stuff that’ll kill you. It’s
odd that people wouldn’t
be behind it,” said Ben
Farrell, another Mix Vapes
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for Thanksgiving.
“It just makes you feel
so good to know that people
will come together to do
this,” Joanne said. “Every
year we looked forward to
see what the neighbors
would do.”
The pair kept checking
on the tree from their
kitchen window together,
even through the recent
decade
when
Emery’s
dementia
gradually
advanced.
Joanne and Emery met
when their best friends set
them up on a blind date back
where they grew up near
Boston.
“We couldn’t stand each
other at first,” Joanne
recalled.
The two went to a hockey game, a sport that neither
of them knew anything
about.
She remembers that he
wanted to get home early so
he could be at work on time
the next day.
“I told my mother that
he would make someone a
wonderful husband, but he
bored me to death,” she said.
But they gave it another
go with a second date, and
suddenly they clicked.
Emery became her wonderful husband when the couple
married eight months later
in 1956.
Inspired by their first
date, Joanne and Emery
remained true to the Boston
Bruins throughout their 56
years of marriage. They traveled the world together and
had one daughter.
Joanne said that for
their family, “Christmas was
always very big, even during
the years when we didn’t
have much.”
She always loved looking
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rics. Otherwise, they would
face fines or eventually
even the loss of their
license.
At the meeting, the
public also weighed in on
how enforcement should
play out and which bars
should be covered under a
deemed-approved program.
John DeWald asked if
the program would allow
residents who don’t like a
particular bar to level false
complaints.
“How do we make sure
this isn’t a witchhunt or
vendetta against a specific
bar?”
DeWald asked.
City Planning Director
Jeff Murphy said that once
a complaint is filed, a
Sheriff’s deputy or city
code enforcement officer
would investigate the matter.
There would have to be
clear evidence that beer
bottles, for example, were
left near a business to consider the complaint.
“If it was somewhere
down the street, there’s no
way of knowing or pinpointing that a beer bottle
belonged to this particular
bar,” Murphy said. “In that
case, it’s unlikely we would
move forward with any citation.”
If the City Council and
public are in support,
Encinitas could also have
Joanne Smith re-hangs a strand of beads that had fallen from her neighborhood Christmas tree. Photo by Rachel Stine
at the house lights and
mangers displayed in nearby
yards.
Emery loved their grand
Christmas dinners, especially Joanne’s “Politician’s
Dessert,” a chocolate pudding and cool whip concoction given its name “because
it’s so rich.”
In Encinitas, the park
tree became part of the
Smiths’ holiday traditions.
They always brought their
grandchildren over to admire
the work.
Joanne
remembers
going out with her husband
last year to admire the tree
for the last time together.
She and a caregiver
brought her husband out in a
wheelchair to the dazzling
tree. They marveled at every
glimmering piece of tinsel,
the oddly cut snowflakes
hand-made by local kids, and
the wreaths that had been
hung on the tree with care.
Emery was hardly talking then, but Joanne remembers him smiling.
“You could tell he was
enjoying it,” she said.
Emery passed on Feb. 2.
Today the tree is over a
dozen feet tall, but Joanne
still calls it “the little tree.”
Just when Joanne started to think the neighbors
had forgotten, over the past
weekend some people came
by to adorn the tree.
Thanks to them, every
piney branch sparkles with
red and green orbs, strands
of beads, and fuzzy stockings.
“It’s like someone threw
up or vomited Christmas decorations all over it,” Joanne
said with a laugh.
On Wednesday morning,
she walked around the tree,
admiring each and every holiday piece and pointing out
the ones she has hung over
the years. She was sure to
leave ornament hangers for
anyone who wanted to hang
more.
“It really lifted my spirits since this is my first
Christmas alone,” she said.
“The tree is absolutely glorious. It’s the most beautiful
it’s ever been.”
the Sheriff’s Department
visit bars on a proactive
basis to enforce the ordinance, Murphy noted.
By a show of hands,
most residents at the meeting agreed that bars should
receive a warning for a first
offense, rather than jumping straight to an administrative hearing.
But if an establishment
doesn’t comply, a citation
and then eventually an
administrative
hearing
should follow, they said.
Cities like San Luis
Obispo turned to a deemedapproved program in recent
years to place tighter controls on bars.
A complaint hasn’t
escalated to the hearing
process in that city yet,
according to city officials.
Encinitas could apply
the ordinance to all of the
city’s 111 alcohol-serving
establishments, the 34
establishments that serve
alcohol after 10 p.m. or the
48 businesses that were
grandfathered in before
current regulations were
put on the books, city staff
members said at the meeting.
Resident Tim Cavalli
said the ordinance should
include bars and restaurants that offer alcohol
from 10 p.m. on, because
those are the ones causing
the issues.
About 50 percent of the
people at the meeting sup-
ported that view, while the
other half said the program
should cover all of the bars
and restaurants with alcohol.
City staff members will
note the public’s recommendations when the ordinance goes before the City
Council.
Residents also wondered if an ordinance would
stop “morphing,” when a
restaurant offering alcohol
transforms into a late-night
bar.
Murphy said the ordinance doesn’t prevent
extending an establishment’s hours if its liquor
license states it can stay
open until 2 a.m.
“Neither the city nor
ABC (Alcoholic Beverage
Control) has the ability to
change the conditions of
those permits,” Murphy
said.
But the business would
still be subject to the standards of a deemedapproved ordinance, he
added.
This summer, the City
Council voted to make
liquor license applicants
complete a plan with information about noise mitigation and occupancy limits.
Failure to comply with
terms in the plan could
result in fines.
A moratorium — a
freeze on new liquor licenses — was also floated, but
never passed.
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SOUP TO NUTS by Rick Stromoski
By Bernice Bede Osol
FRANK & ERNEST by Bob Thaves
THE BORN LOSER by Art & Chip Sansom
BIG NATE by Lincoln Peirce
MONTY by Jim Meddick
ARLO & JANIS by Jimmy Johnson
THE GRIZZWELLS by Bill Schorr
ALLEY OOP by Jack & Carole Bender
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2013
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A pair of lion cubs born on Dec. 6 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park cuddled Monday morning in their play area at the animal care center. The brother and sister, whose mother,
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Here’s to a peaceful 2014
JOE
MORIS
Baby Boomer Peace
Today is a special day.
Not so much for anyone else
but for my family it is.
My daughter is marrying her sweetheart today.
They could have waited and
had their relationship solidified with God and self
tomorrow, Dec. 28, but had
they waited it would have
just been a date on the calendar.
It’s hard to believe that
72 years ago our parents
were forced into World War
II.
My mom and dad had
been dating just three
months when Japanese
bombers strafed Honolulu
and ushered us into a world
war.
Two Saturdays later,
sweethearts around the
country ran to their local
churches and recorders
offices and laid down their
nuptials not knowing how
long they would eventually
live their lives together.
Not only did my parents
get married on Dec. 27,
1941, but so too did my
daughter’s grandparents on
her mother’s side.
That date may become
a tradition in the Moris,
soon to be Bolanowski, family.
I know my daughter
and Jeff won’t need it, but
with all the divorces that
have taken place within the
baby boomer generation,
there is hope that my
daughter’s generation will
find it in their hearts to
overcome life’s hassles and
learn to live through them
and learn to stay together,
much as our parent’s generation did.
Heaven took my dad
way too soon at the age of
71, but at least my parents
worked through their adversities despite only knowing
each other for three months,
and stayed married to the
end, 48 years.
Christmas has just
passed and now we await
the glee of throwing out the
old and bringing in the new.
2014 is now upon us.
It seems like yesterday
that we were fretting over
the calamity called Y2K.
Remember that?
We were all worried
about moving from 1999 to
the year 2000. That was 14
years ago.
What happened to all
the “ought” years? It’s all a
blur now.
The years just seem to
blend
together
now.
Remember when it seemed
like it took eternity to get
through high school?
Those four years seem
to be indelibly plastered
into our psyches for some
reason.
It was a time of innocence growing into adulthood. In our generation, 18
was the age baby boomers
left the nest and struck out
on their own.
Now it seems to be age
26. After all, that is what our
government believes is the
age where we move from
being children to adulthood,
a time when one, by law, is
mandated to buy their own
health insurance.
My how times have
changed.
If I had told my dad so
many years ago that I would
be sucking off his wages
until the age of 26 he would
have said, “You wanna
bet?”
I would have received a
swift size 10 and a half up
the backside.
Oh, how our country
has changed.
But we forge into a new
year with renewed hope and
at the same time we can
glance back on everything
we should be grateful for.
God gave us this life to
do something with, and
there is never a better time
than on the anniversary of
another year passing to look
to our left and to our right,
behind us and right in front
of us and say, “This year I
will make a difference.”
Maybe it is this New
Year that will take me out of
my comfort zone and learn
to help others in need.
For not all have the
good fortune to live in one
of the greatest places on
earth.
We are all so fortunate
to have traversed another
year and yet still live in a
most idyllic part of our
earth.
Imagine having to wake
up to 30 below zero temperatures where just defogging
the windshield and moving
snow off the driveway is a
feat in itself.
We could have been
born as Bushmen in the outback of Africa or the deltas
of China.
But we weren’t. We have
been blessed. We have much
to be grateful for and when
it comes time to reflect on
our lives, despite the hassles, we can categorically
say that we are lucky.
My daughter Marisa
and her new husband Jeff
are lucky.
They found each other,
weathered the initial years
of courting each other and
are now ready to become
“one” and bring new grandchildren into their parents’
lives.
I wish them both the
greatest of success in their
marriage and pray that
their children will be born
into a world of freedom that
their great grandparents
fought and died for.
We are still the greatest
country in history and it will
be up to our grandchildren
to make sure it stays that
way.
I wish all of you a belated Merry Christmas and a
Happy Hanukkah. And, may
we all be blessed with a
most happy and prosperous
new year.
May peace be with you
throughout 2014.
Joe Moris may be contacted at (760)
500-6755 or by email at
[email protected].
B15
B16
DEC. 27, 2013

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