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Rita Garcia-Szczotka and designer Paige McCready Boer, wearing the 2015 spring collection at a recent launch party. Photo by Christina Macone-Greene

Couture launch party benefits nonprofitsBy Christina Macone-Greene

RANCHO SANTA FE — An afternoon of beauty captivated those who at-tended a private shopping event in celebration of the Paige California 2015 Spring Collection.

The two-day soiree was hosted at a historic La Jolla villa designed by re-garded architect, Carleton Winslow.

The backdrop to this exquisite outdoor venue had an obstructed view of the Pacific Ocean.

A percentage of the proceeds from the 2015 Paige California Spring Col-lection and accessories from LFR Designs were gifted to Miracle Babies and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Con-servation Research.

Miracle Babies was founded by Rancho San-ta Fe residents Dr. Sean

Daneshmand and his wife Marjan Daneshmand.

The host committee for this one-of-a-kind event included Susan McClellan, Rita Garcia-Szczotka, Paige McCready Boer, and Leslie Fastlicht Russo.

“Today is so special because it is the official California launch of Paige California,” said Rita Gar-cia-Szczotka. “It is truly a day of entrepreneurship of women coming together and paying it forward for the greater good. And I love that.”

For Garcia-Szczotka, the two-day event was about bringing women together in a collaborative effort by launching a vibrant fashion business and also helping two local nonprofits.

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RSF Senior Center enjoys humorous presentationBy Christina Macone-Greene

RANCHO SANTA FE — Recently, the Rancho Santa Fe Senior Center had the opportunity to listen in on a pre-sentation by Joseph Weiss, M.D. Also a clinical professor of medicine at UCSD, Weiss is the author of a few lighthearted medical books. His most recent is enti-tled, “To ‘Air’ is Human.”

He greeted the crowd, introducing himself as a gastroenterologist, admit-ting it was a strange field of medicine. He explained that “gastro” goes back to its Greek and Latin roots for the mean-ing of stomach, and entero, for intestine.

Weiss has a penchant for language. One undergraduate major was medieval English while the other was in astro-physics.

“I have an interest in everything. My interests are very, very wide, but probably about an inch deep,” he said.

Weiss went on to tell the attendees

The Rancho Santa Fe community gets a special opportunity to listen and meet with Ambassador Venkatesan Ashok, the Consul General of India at the Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club. Photo by Christina Macone-Greene

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— Members of the RSF Garden club were diverted to the former clubhouse to the RSF Golf Club for their quarterly meeting. As ev-eryone checked in, they had the opportunity to meet and greet their new executive director, Erin Browne.

First up at the podium was co-president of the RSF Garden Club, Fred Wasser-man. He started by telling the group he was delighted to see such a great turnout.

“One of the items that I want to talk to you about is we do have new executive director, Erin Browne and she comes to us from the Community Center,” he said. “You can talk to her any time.”

Wasserman went on to say that if a member has a friend who doesn’t belong to the Garden Club, now was the time to bring them to a meeting or a special event such as “Coffee in the Garden.”

Wasserman then ad-dressed how he knew that some members were con-cerned about membership after the Garden Club property sale.

“We’re over 75 percent retention which is phenom-enal, and we’re still getting renewals. So we’re going to be up probably around 80 percent,” he said. Wasser-man continued, “And then

we’re going to be adding new members so we’re real-ly not sure of the numbers. But we want to really try over the next couple years to increase the size of the club.”

He also wanted the members to know that they plan to increase the num-ber of activities including taking part in more com-munity involvement.

Wasserman then turned the microphone over to Browne. She told ev-eryone how excited she was to meet all the members. Additionally, she said she wanted to help create an organization that members would all really want to participate in.

What she needed in return were ideas on what

types of events members would like.

“If there’s a particu-lar workshop that you’re interested in having or you want to learn more about, I just need to know what you want to learn so I can make it happen,” she said. “The second thing that I wanted to mention is one of the things that I’ve re-ally pushed since I’ve been here is reactivating our Facebook page.”

She wanted everyone to know that that if some-one had a Facebook ac-count they could start fol-lowing not only the Garden Club, but also the Upscale Resale Shop since they had one, too.

She encouraged every-one to “like” the pages so

the Garden Club and shop could have more exposure.

Susan Glass, co-pres-ident of the RSF Garden Club, was next up sharing events which were already marked on the calendar.

“On April 15, we have a wonderful ‘Coffee in the Garden’ coming up,” she said, adding how it will take place in a fantastic garden located in the Ranch.

She also noted in mid-May, a floral arrangement class with a “Fresh Young Vibe” would be taking place. A new floral director from a noted La Jolla floral shop was going to champi-on this.

Glass said this gentle-man is creating “new ar-rangements” in interesting containers, while mixing different plants and foliage that people don’t usually mix.

Also on the schedule is another “Coffee in the Garden” May 20. And this residence will have a lovely succulent garden.

A week later, May 28 is the club’s annual meeting.

Glass also told mem-bers that she wanted them to let their new executive director, Browne, know what their interests were in potential programs so she could see it to fruition.

“Erin will get it go-ing,” said Glass, “that’s what she wants to do and I’m very comfortable with her abilities.”

Council upset with Kaaboo planning processBy Bianca Kaplanek

DEL MAR — After re-ceiving an update from the organizers of a three-day music event scheduled for September at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar City Council members are still concerned about noise and traffic impacts, and some remain upset at the way fairgrounds officials han-dled the planning process.

“We weren’t happy with the fact that we were learning about this through the media,” Mayor Al Cor-ti said. “Part of what we’re looking for is just trying to understand what these events are, understanding the impacts and how we’re going to deal with them.”

Knowledge about the events when they are in the planning process would be helpful, he added.

Corti likened the sit-uation to planning a large party.

“You kind of tell your neighbor and you plan for it,” he said. “To the extent we could know in advance it would be helpful. I didn’t get a sense that they (fair-grounds officials) had an obligation or thought that they needed to do that.”

Officials from Del Mar and Solana Beach learned about Kaaboo in January 2014, although it was un-named at the time and scheduled to take place in September of that year.

The announcement was made during a meet-ing of the Community Re-lations Committee, a group that includes representa-tives from the two cities and the 22nd District Agri-cultural Association, which governs the fairgrounds.

Although those meet-ings are not open to the public or media, the chair-man provides a report during the monthly 22nd DAA meetings.

According to the min-utes of the January 2014 meeting “the three-day music festival was also dis-cussed. The city represen-tatives all seemed recep-tive to the idea.”

The 22nd DAA board of directors approved a $950,000 contract for the event at that January meet-ing.

“And now it’s a big sur-prise?” fairgrounds Gen-eral Manager Tim Fennell asked.

The festival, including its postponement, was not mentioned again in meet-ing minutes. An article about the event — this time mentioned by name — ap-peared in a Jan. 6, 2015, ar-ticle in a local daily news-paper.

Fennell said Kaboo was brought up during the Community Relations Committee meeting that day but there is no mention of a discussion in the min-utes.

Fennell said he asked the organizers — Horse-Power Entertainment led by Bryan Gordon — to make a presentation to the Community Relations Committee during the Feb-ruary meeting but because

of scheduling conflicts that didn’t happen until March.

Meanwhile, the Kaa-boo website launched an-nouncing, among other things, that the gates would close at 3 a.m., leaving many to incorrectly assume that’s when the outdoor concerts would end.

During their presen-tation the organizers said outdoor music would end at 10 p.m. Comedy shows and a dance venue will be avail-able inside after that.

Kaaboo is described as an arts and entertain-ment “mix-perience” and an “adult escape” geared toward an older crowd.

It will include 100 bands on seven stages — the lineup features a va-riety of music genres with acts such as No Doubt, Kill-ers, Snoop Dogg, Foster the People and Counting Crows — upscale dining, an art fair, massages and hair and nail services.

Expected attendance is 40,000 people each of the three days. That would be considered a slow day at the San Diego County fair, which attracts about 66,000 daily, Fennell said.

Approximately 45,000 attend opening day of the horse races. Fairgrounds of-ficials noted they all come and go at pretty much the same time so staggered at-tendance at Kaaboo could ease impacts.

Del Mar officials didn’t see it that way.

“This event is three days in a row of 40,000 peo-ple and it’s not just from noon to 5 p.m.,” Corti said. “This is starting at 10 in the morning and there (is) going to be traffic going in and out of the fairgrounds at 2:30 in the morning. … It’s a magnitude of opening day at the races three days in a row.”

The situation has cre-ated tension in what was an improving relationship between Del Mar and the 22nd DAA.

“At least in the last few years we’ve been working hard to try to improve our relationship with the fair-grounds and identify ways we can work together,” Councilman Terry Sinnott said. “This is kind of a dis-appointment.

“They had an opportu-nity to get this coordinated well,” he added. “And I’m hoping it will get coordinat-ed well. Both groups and Solana Beach … we need to focus better on the impacts that the local community has.”

“We used to have a problem where the board was not very active and didn’t support Del Mar,” Councilman Don Mosier said. “We’ve made some real progress on getting the board to listen to us, but we still have problems with the management.

“The management should listen to the board, get board direction,” he added. “That hasn’t hap-pened. It’s the other way around and until we can

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RSF Garden Club Executive Director Erin Browne, left, and RSF Garden Club Board Secretary Pam Wasserman. Photo by Christina Macone-Greene

Alzheimer’s Association visits RSF LibraryBy Christina Macone-Greene

RANCHO SANTA FE — Alzheimer’s disease affects patients, family members and friends. For caregivers who take care of someone afflicted with Alzheimer’s, effective communication strategies can be helpful on a day-to-day basis.

Kelly Rein, MSW from a local chapter of the Alz-heimer’s Association visit-ed the Rancho Santa Fe Li-brary to discuss caregiver strategies.

Her goal, she told at-tendees, was to explain the communication changes that take place throughout the course of the disease, how to decode the verbal and behavioral messages delivered by someone with dementia and respond in ways that are helpful to the person, and to iden-tify strategies to connect and communicate at each stage.

One example in the early stages of the disease is when they may ask a caregiver for that “thing” on the table. That “thing” may be the remote control but they may communicate that need in a nonspecific way.

“They may talk around that word until they get to it or they’re offering up a suggestion,” she said, add-ing how the caregiver can help fill in the blank for that word. “What you may find is the conversations are taking longer because that person is trying to ask us that word or that

thought that they were talking about.”

An effective way to give a person the extra time they need is to wait 30 seconds and count to three, afterward. Rein also noted that a caregiver might want to start speak-ing more slowly and con-cisely.

In the early stages of Alzheimer’s, Rein said, a person may feel a sense of shame. They may also be wary of making a mistake.

“Oftentimes in their early stage, that person may be choosing to with-draw from a conversation because it’s difficult for them,” she said, noting how it’s important to in-volve them and draw them into a discussion.

Rein wanted everyone to know that caregivers should keep their sentenc-es, questions, and stories

straightforward and as concise as possible.

“You want to offer choices if necessary such as, ‘Would you like coffee or tea?’” she said, adding how being a caregiver can be a rollercoaster ride at times.

Rein went on to say that Alzheimer’s is a slow and progressive disease. There will be good days and bad days.

When someone is im-paired by this disease, she said, it’s everyone’s re-sponsibility to help make that person as successful as possible.

This means allowing them the time they need and including them in con-versations as much as pos-sible.

“Never talk as if the person is not in the room; and, always allow dignity and respect for that per-

son,” she said. Rein also acknowl-

edged how important it is for a caregiver to take care of themselves first. Care-givers must have an outlet such as a friend’s night out, helpline, or support.

“You cannot do this alone. No one anticipates developing this disease. No one really plans for it,” she said.

It’s estimated that more than 60,000 individu-als are living with Alzhei-mer’s in San Diego Coun-ty and there are roughly 150,000 caregivers.

Rein pointed out that the Alzheimer’s Associa-tion is there for caregivers every day of the week, 24 hours a day. Their Help-line is (800) 272-3900 and caregivers and family members can learn more about their programs and services at ALZ.org.

Kelly Rein, MSW of the Alzheimer’s Association gives a lecture about effective communication strategies between caregivers and people with Alzheimer’s. Photo by Christina Macone-Greene

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Will lawyer hiring lead to lower utility rates?

It’s now possible that mid-February will

be remembered years from now as a fateful time in the century-long history of the California Public Utilities Commission. That’s when, without offering any legal justification, the five com-missioners spent public mon-ey to hire a criminal lawyer.

If courts find this move was as blatantly illegal as it looks to some, they may soon cease treating this powerful but disgraced body that sets power and natural prices for most Californians with the extreme deference they tra-ditionally have evinced.

Should judges reverse this possibly illegal PUC decision, how long before they begin looking askance at some of the commission’s other dicey rulings favoring giant utility companies over their customers.

Right now, state and federal authorities are in-vestigating the commis-sion and its immediate past president Michael Peevey. Among tens of thousands of released emails are some showing inappropriate, po-tentially illegal, contacts between Peevey, at least one present commissioner, and high officials of regulated companies like Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co.

This was predictable from the moment Peevey joined the commission more than 12 years ago, first appointed by then-Gov. Gray Davis and later reap-pointed by ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. No one could reasonably expect Peevey, a former Edison president, to deal objective-ly with his friends and for-mer colleagues.

It was a classic case,

first noted here in 2004, of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.

The lawyer-hiring deci-sion shows that despite pious declarations from Peevey successor Michael Picker about how “decisions should be based on the record de-veloped in public,” things may not have changed much since Peevey departed as 2014 ended.

With criminal investiga-tions in full swing, commis-sioners signed a $49,000 con-tract with the Los Angeles law firm Sheppard Mullin, defense attorney Raymond C. Marshall of the firm’s San Francisco office in the lead role. Marshall is charging a “discounted” rate of $882 per hour. The $49,000 won’t go far at that rate.

The commission has also used Walnut Creek lawyer Katherine Alberts to stone-wall requests for records of PUC communications about a 2014 settlement forcing customers to pay $3.3 billion of the $4.7 billion cost for retiring the San Onofre Nu-clear Power Station, owned by Edison and the San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

But California Govern-ment Code section 995.8 says that a “public entity is not required to provide for the defense of a criminal action…” It adds that before hiring defense lawyers, an agency like the PUC must formally determine such a defense “would be in the best interests of the public entity and that (employees involved) acted...in good faith…and in the apparent interests of the public enti-ty.”

The PUC made no such determination and held no public hearings on hiring attorneys. Nor has it said whom its criminal lawyers will defend.

This spurred a lawsuit from former San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre and

his partner Maria Severson. They want the commission to reveal whom its new law-yer will defend and hold hearings on whether that’s in the public interest.

Aguirre said other commission decisions may have been made improperly, even criminally, including the San Onofre settlement. Another he cited was a rul-ing last November assess-ing a measly $1 million fine against multi-billion-dollar PG&E, also cutting its natu-ral gas rates by $400 million a year as penalties for its conduct around the after-math of the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion that killed eight persons. Even new commission president Picker, who voted for those penalties, now says the com-pany should pay much more.

Aguirre also questioned a $14 million settlement with SDG&E after a 2007 fire ignited by power lines downed because of poor maintenance. That blaze destroyed 1,500 homes in northern San Diego County.

The courts’ tradition-al deference to the utilities commission has never be-fore encountered criminal-ity in commission conduct of its business. Meanwhile, the commission refuses to answer questions about its legal authority for hiring outside criminal lawyers.

All of which means util-ity regulation in California has moved into a state of high flux.

Who knows? It might soon be open season on those other questionable decisions and more and that could lead to rolling back some of California’s sky-high utility rates, which are at just as onerous and compulsory as high taxes.

Email Thomas Elias at

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Community Commentary

Disappointed over building heightsBy Madeleine Szabo

Many residents are disappointed by the vote at the March 18 Carlsbad Planning Commission Meeting that recommends to the City Council an amendment to allow taller buildings in Carlsbad. Two hotels have requested permission to add a 4th floor (the Carlsbad standard is three floors) in a building with a 45-foot height (a height approval is also needed). By offering ocean view rooms on the fourth floor, the two hotel chains stated that they would then be able to obtain more revenue from these rooms.

We hope, when the final vote goes before the City Council, that the Coun-cil Members advocate for the residents of Carlsbad, not for the profit of the hotels. We hope they will uphold the scenic and unclut-tered beauty of our city and Envision Carls-bad’s defining attribute, “small-town feel of our beach-side community,” for all residents and visitors to Carlsbad.

With this amendment, Carlsbad will have FOUR floors of bright lights at night instead of three; thus, the resort will appear much larger and more noticeable than any other hotel in Carlsbad.

The residents were well served when Commissioner Scully (who cast the lone vote against the amendment) rightfully pointed out that, without the amendment, the two hotels can still build a beautiful quality ho-tel within three floors as all the other hotels in Carlsbad have done.

Now, with the approved additional floor, the resort will obviously impact the countryside.

At the meeting, the hotels claimed that four floors “will give more open space”. Re-gardless, the resort will be larger.

The argument of “more open space” could support requests to add floors to any commercial building in the city. Thank

goodness, the buildings in Carlsbad are only three stories, wider rather than higher and thus less obtrusive.

Thank you Carlsbad Council for gener-ally, in the past, not approving more floors, more lights, more obstruction of the pan-oramic views.

Each Commissioner mentioned a con-cern for setting a bad precedent, yet five Commissioners voted for the precedent-set-ting amendment. Other hotels (and com-mercial developers) will justifiably say that, if the Commission granted approval to these two hotels, then they too want to “im-prove their amenities” and gain “a view of the ocean” with more floors. They will cap-italize on this new amendment and could rightfully call it favoritism to specific hotel chains if they too don’t get amendments to achieve “better resort amenities.” In fact, at the meeting on March 18, the hotel man-agement company also pointed out a prece-dent that was set years ago. These two hotel chains want similar treatment given to an-other hotel in Aviara that exceeds the stan-dard height and number of floors. When will it stop? It won’t.

The Commissioners frequently said that they will be more vigilant in the future about more floors in tall buildings — why not now?

The fight for the residents isn’t over. Only the Planning Commission voted to ap-prove the additional floor within the addi-tional height.

It still needs to be approved by the Council Members who must continue to stand firm against the push for taller build-ings.... that have more floors to light up the sky.

Madeleine Szabo is a Carlsbad resident.

California foCusBy Thomas D. Elias

Letters to the EditorBoardwalk relocation

As part of the ongoing restoration of the San Die-guito Lagoon the time has come to restore the South Overflow Lot at the Del Mar Fairgrounds to its natural (or as natural as feasible) state.

Bisecting this site is a boardwalk. While support-ers of this boardwalk are well intentioned, the original Coastal Development Permit considered the future resto-ration project in issuing the placement of the boardwalk as an interim location until restoration takes place. It was a Special Condition granted temporarily until the resto-ration work started.

There has been much misinformation about the

relocation of the boardwalk. Claims have been made that the boardwalk will not be relocated, yet it is stated in the original Coastal Devel-opment Permit that it will be moved to the periphery of the restoration area. The reloca-tion of the boardwalk is the fiscal responsibility of the 22nd District Agricultural Association (22nd DAA).

While the environmen-tally sensitive habitat areas are currently disturbed, res-toration can only take place if the area is returned to a nat-ural state.

The boardwalk splits the area most in need of resto-ration and should be moved to the inland edge of the res-toration site to assure the res-

toration is effective.The importance of pre-

serving and restoring as much environmentally sensi-tive habitats as possible must be a priority before it is all gone.

While there may be a push to support the present location of the boardwalk the Coastal Act (the California Coastal Act is the one that as-sures you access to the beach, sand on the beach, protec-tion of sensitive habitats and coastal views to enjoy) does not support permanent place-ment of the boardwalk in an environmentally sensitive habitat area (ESHA).

Pamela Heatherington,

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— The incessant drought is compelling people to re-think how they view their water consumption, includ-ing their residential land-scaping.

The Rancho Santa Fe’s monthly Get Smart Series, a complimentary event, invited Kelly Fore Dixon ASLA, who is a local resi-dent and landscape design-er at Nature Designs in San Diego County.

Dixon provided a wealth of information in-cluding tips to reduce one’s water bill, how to pick and plant climate fitting plants, and more.

“We’re getting to our fourth year of drought, and the last two years have been record breaking high

temperatures,” she said, noting the Stage 2 water re-striction.

While there are two more levels of 3 and 4, she said, if the community ever got to Stage 4, there would be no water for irrigation.

“So the call to action is now to pay attention,” said Dixon, adding how the more scarce water become, the pricing will continue to rise. She continued on, explaining that 66 percent of potable water is for res-idential use; and, of that amount, about 53 percent is used for landscape.

A sobering statistic is that it takes about 35,000 gallons of water a year to keep a 1,000 square foot area of lawn looking green.

This is why a shift in higher water bills has oc-

curred. Landscaping doesn’t

have to be all about lawns. There are options to rede-sign a property, such as a desert landscape, that can still be lovely without using too much water.

A tip Dixon shared was when setting the irrigation timer, do so after midnight when the soils are cooler.

“You’re going to have less chance for mold growth and sometimes the winds have died down a little bit more in the evenings,” she said.

Another tidbit she had was to set the timers for five minutes of watering, wait an hour for the water to absorb, and set it again for another immediate water-

ing to avoid run off and en-hance optimal saturation.

A landscaped area should also have irrigation zones indicating what types of watering is necessary in certain areas such as native plants, succulents, shady ar-eas or direct sunlight.

“And if we are going to have rain, turn your irri-gation system off for three days prior to that,” she said. “Let’s take advantage of rain, and if you can turn your gutter spouts down towards your planting beds as opposed towards your paving, you’re going to take advantage of every single drop.”

Dixon also recommend-ed investing in a rain sensor as an inexpensive way to

make sure that one doesn’t irrigate during a rain when they are out of town or asleep.

If possible, Dixon said, it may be advisable to turn off the whole irrigation sys-tem and commit to watch-ing the plants and foliage every single day.

“What’s going to hap-pen is when you walk around your yard, there’s going to be a type of plant that’s going to be your thirstiest plant. Sometimes it’s a tropical. Sometimes it’s a hydrangea,” she said, adding how that is one’s cue on how often to water a par-ticular zone.

More mature land-scapes don’t require as much water.

Dixon recommends walking the property monthly to assess the needs of the yard and garden.

During the assessment, it’s important to check for leaks, broken sprinklers and spray heads.

When those irrigation heads start to wear out, she said, especially the rotary heads, they will start to just lose that grab before they turn.

“So oftentimes you’ll start to see spray on the driveway you didn’t have the night before. That’s an indication that you might need to change that head,” she said.

Dixon said the Ranch is paradise, so it’s import-ant to use the land wisely while taking into consider-ation the natural resourc-es, which are afforded, to everyone.

By Bianca KaplanekDEL MAR — More

than 150 people attended a March 21 rally in an effort to convince the Califor-nia Coastal Commission to change a March 11 decision to move a boardwalk cur-rently located on the perim-eter of an ongoing wetlands restoration project along the San Dieguito River.

“The Coastal Commis-sion, in my humble opin-ion, got it wrong,” County Supervisor Dave Roberts told the crowd. “And I have asked that they reconsider their decision. Factual in-formation was not provided to the full Coastal Commis-sion and they need to relook at this issue.”

The 1,200-foot struc-ture was built in 2007 by volunteers at a cost of about $354,000. Funding came from donations and San Di-eguito River Valley Coastal Conservancy and transpor-tation grants.

Officials from Del Mar, Solana Beach, the San Di-eguito River Park Joint Powers Authority, the San Dieguito River Valley Con-servancy and the 22nd Dis-trict Agricultural Associa-tion, which governs the Del Mar Fairgrounds, want the boardwalk to remain where it is.

They say it is an educa-tional and the meeting.”

Boaz said “ideas for mitigation are being nego-tiated” but she declined to comment further.

The request for a new hearing must be submitted by April 11.

“We are ready to do that,” Boaz said.

“We’re going to pull out all the stops to appeal this bad decision,” Del Mar Councilman and JPA Chairman Don Mosier said. “We’re hopeful that we’ll get back to the commission and we’ll have a full com-mission with all 11 mem-bers, and instead of a 5-5 tie vote we’ll get a 6-5 winning vote.

“The JPA felt that the commission totally ignored the years of contributions the JPA has made to restor-ing wetlands,” Mosier add-ed. “This is like we’re a vic-tim of friendly fire. … This is going to be a real fight. It’s a long shot but some-times the little guy wins.”

“There is no day that I come by here and do not see people using this trail,” for-mer Supervisor Pam Slat-er-Price said. “This trail is very, very much a part of the community fabric.

“There’s no reason to undo such a beautiful con-struct that was put here by the citizens,” she added. “This is built by the com-munity. It serves the com-

munity. It needs to be made available to the communi-ty because how can we get people and children to ap-preciate the environment if we do not expose them at an early age?”

“Boardwalks are a great way for human beings to interact with nature with-out disturbing nature,” Eric Lodge, vice president of the River Valley Conservancy said. “It’s absolutely no det-

riment to the wetlands, the wildlife or the vegetation. It’s a great way for people to enjoy it.”

“It would be an injus-tice to take this out,” Boaz said.”It’s a public board-

walk paid for by the people. It gives them an opportuni-ty to get close to nature.”

“These wetlands are the Yosemite of Southern

Supporters walk the planks to save the boardwalk

Rachel, Rylan, Delaney and Dylan Goddard, along with their dad, Andy, show they support leaving the boardwalk where it is. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek

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Names. Shake-speare pondered them. Spoiled

heiresses make the most of them. But surnames aren’t the problem. The real chal-lenges are the given names — first names, rather than last.

I suppose they are our personal mark in a crowded world, but I can’t shake the feeling that the search for individuality through one’s first name has spun wildly out of control.

Every time I see a new class roster or edit a sto-ry on a high school sports team, I get more and more puzzled.

The minute that test stick turns blue, potential parents seem to lose all sense of logic.

I strongly suggest you take an extra moment to consider the following things before you name your offspring.

Firstly, if a rude nick-name can be made from a name, some child will shout it loudly across the play-ground.

Remember that teach-ers, future bosses and

co-workers will have to be able to pronounce that name without any help from a phonetic guide.

Consider whether your child will want to go through life bearing some pretentious version of a perfectly pleasant, common moniker.

Remember people re-ally do need to know if your child is a girl or a boy without major research be-ing done. Remember that while you are a teenager, and sometimes well be-yond, what you want most in the world is to blend in, not stand out, and certainly not because your name is “spelled weird.”

If you still choose to go forward with something different, please coach you child from an early age to be gracious when it is mis-spelled or mispronounced. I know youngsters who get downright abusive if you garble their strange names. I tend to remind them that having a defensive atti-tude will not make anyone

try harder to spell or say a name correctly.

If you name your child Courtney, it is going to sound just like the other 12 Kort-nees in her homeroom class. It won’t matter if you spell it Koortney, Quart-knee, or, as I most recently saw it, Courtnae. And abso-lutely no one is ever going to spell it right. Ever. The same goes for Mikaela, Mi-chaela, Mikhaila, Mekeyla, Makayla or Mekaila. And then there’s Alyc.

I’d like to blame it on population growth or pos-sibly too much morphine during labor, but it seems there were renegades more than 60 years ago, going for that one-of-a-kind name. I had a high school, Gere, who was frequently pro-nounced “gurrr,” but was actually Jerry.

And there was my hus-band’s family. The woman didn’t even drink, but my mother-in-law — an oth-erwise lovely lady — took great pride in the fact that each of her four children

had names that were “un-like all others.” She meant well, but my husband, Lon (short for Lonel which he loathes), is frequently called Ron, Don and Lom. His twin was Landa and was assigned to a girl’s gym class almost every year. (He didn’t actually mind that so much.)

If you consider nothing else, consider the odds that your child’s name will be misspelled in the newspa-per.

There’s that front-page photo showing your pride-and-joy making that win-ning shot, and that clever name you constructed is spelled the old-fashioned way. If you have any plans of future fame for your kids, just name them Bob or Ann. Or is it Bawb, Bobb or Rob, Anne or Ayn?

Oh, never mind.

Jean Gillette is a freelance writer longing for a few com-mon spellings. Contact her at jeanhartg@coastnewsgroup.

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From left, Rancho Santa Fe Book Cellar chairman Terry Weaver, Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club Executive Director Erin Browne and The Country Friends Shop Manager Yvette Letourneau, gather to announce the tri-store Spring Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 2, making room for new donation and consignment items. Courtesy photo

Combined consignment stores want to give back

RANCHO SANTA FE — The Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club, The Country Friends and The Rancho Santa Fe Book Cellar join together to give the com-munity “reasons to give back.”

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 2, these organizations will all be making room for new donation and con-signment items by having a Spring Sale where shop-pers can find markdowns up to 50 percent off al-ready affordable prices. The sales from these local stores benefit many wor-thy causes locally.

You can be part of the difference in giving back to Rancho Santa Fe and San Diego when you donate, consign, or shop at The RSF Book Cellar, The Country Friends Con-signment Store and the RSF Garden Club’s Resale Shoppe.

The Book Cellar is

the only used bookstore in town, with a large variety of books.

The Country Friends Consignment Shop offers treasures of silver, crystal, objects d’art, china and upscale furnishings (clas-sic and traditional).

There are deals at The Garden Club’s Upscale Re-sale Shoppe where you can find gently used design-er clothing and jewelry, household items, furni-ture, tools, art, music and toys.

All three shops are located in Rancho Santa Fe Village between La Granada and El Tordo, all within walking distance from each other.

For details on spe-cific sale offers, vis-it rsfgardenclub.org, thecountryfr iends.org or rsflibraryguild.org/book-cellar/. Call Erin at (858) 756-1554 for more information.

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as Miracle Babies’ Miracle Circle president. The owner of the La Jolla Villa, Susan McClellan, has a seat on the Zoo Preservation Board.

“Susan is an extraor-dinary woman and has the biggest heart. She is so giv-ing and has really been a big part of the philanthropic so-ciety here in San Diego,” she said.

The feedback from the fashion event, Garcia-Szczot-ka said, was filled with rave reviews.

“Everyone is being stim-ulated by beautiful designs and fabrics, the views, and beautiful accessories to ac-cessorize the look,” she said. Garcia-Szczotka continued, “And they are developing some new friendships with other women that they hav-en’t met before.”

Designer Paige Mc-Cready Boer, described this two-day event as an “arriv-al.” She said that women are finding out how to wear these really gorgeous and ac-cessible gowns.

“They can be worn from breakfast on the terrace to cocktails in the evening,” said McCready Boer, adding

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Stem Cell therapy revolutionizes arthritis treatment during this ‘Human Age’This article is the third in a series

of educational pieces by Alexandra R. Bunyak, MD; she is the founder of the innovative regenerative medicine practice BOUNDLESS, a sports, spine, and arthritis care clinic in Encinitas.

We are in the midst of a stem cell revolution.

The media is flooded with news of the latest advances — a 3-D-printed liver; stem cells from our own skin used to generate other tissue for our bodies; and promises of cures for many currently incur-able diseases, from type 1 diabetes to ALS.

Professional athletes publicize their return from injuries following stem cell therapies. Closer to home, stem cell therapies are offering suf-ferers of arthritis an alternative to joint replacement, and a return to the activities they love. What fol-lows are answers to questions pa-tients are asking in my clinic.

What are stem cells? Stem cells are self-renewing cells that can rep-

licate themselves and differentiate into many different specialized cell types. As embryos, our stem cells were capable of creating any cell of the fetus.

As we matured, the cells differ-entiated into adult-type stem cells, each of which can become several, but not all, of our cell types.

Stem cells exist throughout our body, ready to assist in healing inju-ries, replacing aging cells, and help-ing adapt our tissues to new stress-es. It is these adult stem cells that are currently available in the clinic for regenerative medical uses.

What stem cells are used at BOUNDLESS and where do we get them? At BOUNDLESS, we use adult stem cells called mesenchy-mal stem cells.

These cells can create carti-lage, bone, muscle, tendon, and nerve; control excessive inflam-mation; assist in circulation; con-trol scarring; and act as a beacon, calling additional stem cells and supportive cells to the area in need.

They can be collected from your fat (through a mini liposuction) or bone marrow (through a bone mar-row aspiration).

We can also buy these cells from a company that collects them from donors. There are benefits and downsides to each of these sources and collection methods, and we work with each patient to create an optimal, personalized plan.

Does it matter where the stem cells come from? Although mes-enchymal stem cells from your fat are very similar to those from your bone marrow and from donor sourc-es in terms of how they look and the types of cells they can become, there are significant differences in the number of cells we can collect and how well the treatments work.

Fat offers 500 to 2,500 times more mesenchymal cells than bone marrow from a similar volume, and we are less limited in how much fat we can collect.

Fat-derived stem cells have been shown to proliferate (grow

and divide) better than those from bone marrow, and although stem cells in bone marrow decrease dra-matically with age, those in fat stay stable.

Since you need high numbers of high quality cells in stem cell therapy, fat-derived stem cell thera-pies (adipose) have the best results.

Do stem cell therapies work? Stem cell therapies, particularly fat-derived stem cell treatments, work suprisingly well for moderate to severe arthritis.

The most recent study on fat-derived stem cells looked at 1,128 patients with moderate to severe (including “bone-on-bone”) arthritis at the hip and knee. Nine-ty-one percent of patients improved by over 50 percent in symptoms and function at one year.

Patient X-rays and MRIs showed increased amounts of car-tilage.

Of the 503 patients who were candidates for joint replacement, only four chose to pursue a joint re-

placement after the treatment. Recent bone marrow-derived

stem cell studies also show im-provement, although less dramatic, with approximately 70 percent of patients improving by 25 percent or more. Regardless, the numbers are remarkable compared to those for other treatment options.

Are stem cell treatments safe? Stem cell treatments have been shown to be extremely safe in over 17,000 studies involving 2,700 clin-ical trials, 300,000 patients, and 600,000 units of stem cells.

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Jeff Moore, owner of Solana Succulents, talks about his book, “Under the Spell of Succulents,” to Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club. He said that collecting succulents actually began as a hobby for him. Photo by Chris-tina Macone-Greene

Succulent expert speaks at Garden ClubBy Christina Macone-Greene

RANCHO SANTA FE — When the owner of Solana Succulents asked members of the RSF Gar-den Club how many visited his shop, which has been in existence for more than 20 years, many people raised their hand.

Everyone was thrilled to have Jeff Moore as the guest speaker for their quarterly meeting since he has won numerous awards for his gardens at Home Shows and the San Diego County Fair.

His “under the sea” themed succulent and cacti gardens continually receive rave reviews.

Moore told everyone that collecting succulents actually began as a hobby. And the hobby not only

turned into Moore opening a successful business but it also catapulted into the cre-ation of his book, “Under the Spell of Succulents.”

Much of Moore’s pre-sentation was parallel to his book because succu-lents are quite comprehen-sive.

One of the most com-mon questions Moore gets asked at his nursery is, “What is the difference be-tween succulents and cac-ti?”

It’s a simple question but has layers of answers.

“The difference be-tween a cactus and succu-lents is if it’s real spiny, it’s probably a cactus and then there are succulents that are not cactus that are spiny. So you can’t go by that,” he said. “Think of

it as a world of succulent plants, plants that store water in their tissues and the leaves, and the roots or stems from desert to the dry climates.”

Moore said that this is a world of cactus within the world of succulent plants.

“So all cacti are succu-lents, but not all succulents are cacti; and, succulents are a description,” he said.

With a PowerPoint presentation, Moore took attendees through a jour-ney of his book, which showcased impressive and vibrant pictures of succu-lent and cacti variations, gardens, and spoke about the plant’s history and cul-tivation.

Afterward, Moore was on hand for a Q&A series and a book signing.

Ambassador talks vision in US, India relationsBy Christina Macone-Greene

RANCHO SANTA FE — The Rancho Santa Fe community had a spe-cial opportunity to listen and meet with Ambassa-dor Venkatesan Ashok, the Consul General of In-dia. Local resident, Linda Leong, hosted the event at the Rancho Santa Fe Gar-den Club.

Before introducing the ambassador, Leong told guests that she wanted to thank the new owners of the Garden Club, Bruce and Brenda Kleege, for their generosity in making the venue so affordable, Rob-ert Kenyon of First Cabin for the donation of an an-tique vase, and Coomber Family Ranch Wines for tastings before the event.

Leong also mentioned that any remaining pro-ceeds from the event would go directly to the Scuba Family Memorial Fund.

Ashok received a warm welcome and discussed the relations between the Unit-ed States and India and how these collaborations were providing an inspira-tion to his country.

“We have a vision and we need to push that vi-sion,” Ashok said.

According to Ashok, the India-U.S. relations have graduated to a glob-al partnership since they share similar democratic values, which reach both regionally and nationally.

The alliance Ashok was speaking of was mul-tifaceted which included defense, counter-terrorism and internal security, edu-cation, sustainable power and resources, economic trade, science and technol-ogy, health and more.

He also spoke of In-dia taking part in more manufacturing. In tandem was the implementation of freight and passenger corridors, infrastructure, clean water, sewage facil-ities, renewable energy sources, sanitation, and better public transporta-tion.

The United States, he said, is showing interest their Smart City Project.

“In fact, I attended a session in Berkley where students have been com-peting with each other to design suggested Smart City ideas,” he said.

India plans to start with five of these cities scattered in northern In-dia, south central India and west India.

The cities would be poised where the employ-ment is and offer afford-able and attractive hous-ing.

“We are trying to in-crease these five cities slowly in stages to a hun-dred cities so that we have a mesh of these Smart Cit-ies all across the land,” he said, noting how renewable energy would be utilized.

In reference to health-care, this spanned from the profession, medical diag-nostics, medical therapies, and to medical devices made available to people.

He went on to say that healthcare is a very critical area where they see a ben-efit coming.

“Today, the infant mortality rate which is the chance that a child will live beyond the age of five in India is not very good when you compare that to the world’s standard. We need to change this be-cause this is one of the rea-sons why our population is so high because people are never sure how many of their children will outlive them,” Ashok said. “In im-proving health standards, we’ll still see a significant drop in population when people realize the econom-ic value of smaller families which will live longer.”

And this will tie into the Smart City Project which focuses on hygiene, sanitation, clean water sup-ply and sewage treatment facilities. As well, these ar-eas would be addressed in the rural parts of India.

By improving these standards, Ashok said, the country would see an auto-matic reduction in disease, while improving longevity and quality of life.

“We sense a feeling of great optimism and will take it forward,” he said.

“Miracle” twin foals, Sunny and Angel cele-brated their fifth birthday on March 28 with Mom Lena at the Helen Woodward Animal Center, 6525 Helen Woodward Way Ran-cho Santa Fe. The duo and their mother Lena gained worldwide attention through streaming video nearly five years ago when mother Lena, a 9-year-old maiden registered Quarter Horse, went into labor with what was expected to be her first foal. Instead, Lena surprised everyone by giving birth to twins. The extremely rare twin birth signaled concern for doctors who knew that twins’ chances of survival were one-in-10,000. Courtesy photo

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The land of sunshine, celebs and mid-century modernism

It’s spring in Palm Springs and I couldn’t help thinking about

all those folks who spent the winter in Buffalo, Bos-ton and Bemidji battling blizzards, braving subzero temps and laying claim to snow-packed parking places with lawn chairs that won’t see better use for a long while yet.

Should I feel guilty or gloat?

I think of our mortgage payments and the cost of gas in Southern Cal and I decide to gloat. Ha! Just an-other day in paradise …

We are visiting friends Denny and Maureen, Wis-consinites lucky enough to be able to flee Midwest

winters and live six months a year in their pristine mid-century modern condo complex in the heart of Palm Springs. They are leading us through the beautifully manicured neighborhoods of Old Las Palmas and Vis-ta Las Palmas, where a multitude of past and pres-ent A-List celebs, authors, singers, musicians, entre-preneurs and movie moguls have lived/live.

The list is long and spans several generations. It includes Jackie Cooper, Cyd Charisse, Elvis Pres-ley, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, Carol Lom-

bard, Liberace, Sidney Sheldon, George Hamilton, Jay Leno, Mary Martin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Tomlin, Donna Reed, Bar-bra Streisand, Alan Ladd, William Powell, Rona Bar-rett, Kenny Rogers, Rudy Vallee, George Randolph Hearst, Kirk Douglas and Jack Warner.

Old Las Palmas and Vista Las Palmas, which sit in the shadow of the San Jacinto Mountains, are dis-tinguished by architecture and age.

Old Las Palmas fea-tures older, mostly expan-sive mansions fortified by ornate gates and/or exceed-

ingly tall, dense shrubs.“This neighborhood

fascinates me because it is so diverse,” explains guide Kirk Bridgman, who with his poodle Patrick, has been giving walking tours of Old Las Palmas since 2011. “The first home was built in 1925, and the last one to be built on virgin land was in 2008. The smallest house is 1,400 square feet — it has one bedroom — and the largest is 15,000 square feet and it’s just around the cor-ner from the smallest one.”

What do visitors like about Old Las Palmas?

“Most of my customers are boomers,” he says, “but I do get younger guests who love old movies and so know a lot of old celebrities. They are interested in the ce-lebrities, the architecture, and then they become fas-cinated by history of Palm Springs.”

Just west of Old Las Palmas is the Vista Las Pal-mas neighborhood, about 375 homes developed in the late 1950s and 1960s; hence, the plethora of mid-century modern homes, most built by the Alexander brothers, known for this style. The neighborhood has experi-enced a recent renaissance, starting in the 1990s. Prior to this, Vista Las Palmas de-teriorated as Palm Springs lost residents and business to areas of new growth in Rancho Mirage and other

desert cities. Then in the 1990s, the popularity of the mid-century modern style exploded, homes were re-stored to their original ar-chitecture, and their prices skyrocketed.

Today Vista Las Palmas is a main destination during Modernism Week, held each February. (It has be-come so popular that it has expanded to 10 days, plus a second event later in the year). Open-air tour buses with hundreds of visitors aboard cruise through Vis-ta Las Palmas and commer-cial areas where mid-centu-ry architecture dominates.

Bridgman prefers the Old Las Palmas neighbor-hood and he likes to see it on foot.

When you’re on a bus,

“You don’t get to see be-tween the gates and you don’t hear the silence,” he says. “We’re only two blocks off the main drag, but it’s so quiet. No wonder all these celebrities wanted to live here.”

Walking tours (maxi-mum four people) with Kirk Bridgman by appointment only. Visit ps-research.com/.

For van tours (maxi-mum six people) of mid-cen-tury modern homes and commercial buildings in Palm Springs, visit palmspringsmoderntours.com/

E’Louise Ondash is a freelance writer living in

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This mid-century modern home at 1350 Ladera Circle in “upper” Old Las Palmas was Elvis’ home for a year (rent: $21,000). He and Priscilla honeymooned here after their May 1967 wedding. The 5,000-square-foot home has four bedrooms and five bathrooms, and is built in “four perfect circles on three levels,” according to the real estate listing. As of late 2014, the house was for sale for $8.5 million, marked down from $9.5 million. Tours are held on the weekends by guides dressed as Elvis and Priscilla. Courtesy photo

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Residents of Vista Las Palmas like to get creative with their mailboxes. Courtesy photo

Jay Leno, in a nod to his long-time employer, NBC, had this peacock gate installed at his home in Old Las Palmas. The current owners dec-orate it for every season, according to local guide Kirk Bridgman. Photo by E’Louise Ondas


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the corner of Carlsbad Blvd and Carlsbad Vil-lage Drive, celebrated its 25th anniversary March 19. They still serve some of the original menu like the California Omelet and the Rancho Grande Greek Omelet. The owner, Bob Ruane, still has several of the original staff, as well. Both Bob and his wife Linda work there as well as their two daughters. Orig-inally, the restaurant was called the Deli News and changed to The Daily News Cafe after their first six months of ownership.

MUSIC OF BRAZIL The community is in-

vited to a free performance of Brazilian music and sto-ry telling at 7 p.m. April 11, at Fair Trade Décor in Del Mar, the 100-percent fair trade store at 1412 Camino Del Mar. The performers will be Nós de Chita, “we who wear Chita,” refer-ring to a fabric used in the clothes, accessories and home decor of the work-ing-class people of Brazil.

SCRIPPS IN 4S RANCH Scripps Health has pur-

chased a 131,000-square-foot office building that will centralize several business services in one place. The three-story building at 10790 Rancho Bernardo Road one mile west of Interstate 15. The building has been renamed Scripps Business Services, 4S Ranch, and will house about 675 staff members from Scripps Health Plan Services, patient financial services and medical foun-dation business services. These services are cur-rently in leased buildings in Sorrento Valley.

LPGA STAR IS AMBASSADOR

The SEAL-NSW Fam-ily Foundation announced that professional golfer

and Carls-b a d ' s Jen n i fer Johnson , one of the top r a n k e d American players on the LPGA t o u r ,

will become an ambassa-dor and spokesperson for the 501(c) 3 nonprofit orga-nization. The SEAL-NSW Family Foundation raises awareness and funds for special programs in direct support of the Naval Spe-cial Warfare (NSW) fami-lies on a local, national and global scale.

RUSTIC ROOSTER CLOSES

Mother and daughter team, Sally and Alexan-dra, creators and operators of the family-run Rustic Rooster Interiors, 930 S. Coast Highway 101, Enci-

nitas, announced they are closing their doors after 15 “fabulous” years. They will still be keeping the re-painting business and interior design services.

EARTH DAY PADDLE OUT

L'Auberge Del Mar's third annual Earth Day Paddle Out, in honor of ocean preservation, will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. April 22 at Power-house Park and will in-clude the sunset and “chef tasting” snacks on the beach afterward. bring their own boards or have the hotel concierge ar-range for a board rental from Del Mar's Fulcrum Surf.

ATKINS TO CUBAAssembly Speaker

Toni G. Atkins, who rep-resents Solana Beach, and Assembly Agriculture Committee Chair Henry T. Perea (D-Fresno) led a trade delegation of legisla-tors, academics, and repre-sentatives of the state’s ag-ricultural industry to Cuba from March 30 to April 3, during the legislative re-cess.

PROFESSORS HONOREDDel Mar resident and

UC San Diego Professor of Economics James Ham-ilton will be honored for excellence in research in humanities and social sci-ences, along with Del Mar resident and UC San Diego Professor of Music Roger Reynolds will be honored for excellence in the per-forming and visual arts the 41st Annual Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excel-lence Awards on April 2.

NEW GOLF COURSE OWNERSHIP

The Oceanside Cham-ber of Commerce invites the community to a grand reopening ribbon-cutting from noon to 1 p.m. April 10 at Emerald Isle Golf Course, 660 S. El Cami-no Real, Oceanside, with drawings, T-shirt give-aways, raffles and more.

April 11 will be a guest tournament shotgun at 8 a.m., a putting contest with a winner per hour, food and beverages throughout the day, "Neighborhood Golf" and Swing Tips host-ed by SCPGA Profession-als. April 12 will be The

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RSF Senior Center inspired by memoirsBy Christina Macone-Greene

RANCHO SANTA FE — Attendees had a treat chatting with Sid Shapira of “Stories Be Told,” a memoir writing service.

The goal for Shapira was inspiring those in atten-dance to start working on their own memoir because everyone has a unique story to share.

He started the talk with one of his favorite quotes: “Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.”

Following this “ice breaker” people in the room took turns sharing a little bit about where they were born and what brought them to San Diego County.

Afterward, Shapira wanted everyone to know that he was a San Diego based writer and corporate communications profession-al. He graduated from Ry-erson University in Toronto with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and began his career as a reporter.

While living in San Di-ego for more than 20 years, he worked in corporate communications with Qual-comm and the U-T San Di-ego.

He got the memoir-writ-ing bug shortly after mov-ing to San Diego.

“I met a gentleman named Jack Leonard who lived in La Jolla and he was an executive with Time Inc. for many years.

He was with Life Mag-azines, Sports Illustrated, and a really colorful guy with wonderful stories,” said Shapira, adding how

Leonard knew just about everybody.

Shapira went on to say how Leonard was a business partner with the Olympic great Jesse Owens, friends with the Kennedy family, Arnold Palmer and many more.

“It seemed like people gravitated to Jack,” he said. Shapira continued, “He grew up in a place called Pa-terson, New Jersey and one of his of good friends grow-ing up was a guy named Lou Cristillo who was a Golden Gloves Boxer. You might not know the name Lou Cristil-lo, but when he got a little older he changed his name and become half of a top of the line quality comedy team of Abbott and Costel-lo.”

Yes, it was Lou Costello.

As luck would have it, with so many stories to share, Leonard asked Sha-pira to help him write his life story.

And he did. The mem-oir is entitled, “The Time of my Life.”

Since then, while Sha-pira has been helping many people craft their memoirs he managed to sneak some time into writing a chil-dren’s book called, “Dan-ny Dog.” It also recently received the 2015 Family Choice Award.

While Shapira told his story, it naturally inspired many in the room wanting to learn more about memoir writing.

The most poignant piece of information he shared came from the ex-pression that a picture tells a thousand words. The first step was finding photos for a memoir.

So many people, he said, have a stack of photos buried away in a closet, cup-board, shoe box or even a photo album.

“And the thing is you want to put that into some

sort of story,” said Shapira, noting how adding words to pictures is a way to preserve those memories.

While some grandpar-ents from past generations may have never wrote any “historical stories” about themselves or their fami-lies, it’s never too late to start with the current gen-eration.

Shapira said the best place to begin is with one’s childhood. Collect the old-est pictures and start there working one’s way to the most current.

The oldest pictures will generate childhood memo-ries, recollections of the old neighborhood, unique and funny family members and much more.

The old pictures, work-ing up the newer ones will trigger anecdotes.

“You have this chance to share this with your fami-lies and with future genera-tions by putting your stories down on paper,” he said. “Future generations may not be able to touch you, but they can be touched by you.”

Sid Shapira encourages people to start working on their own memoir because he says everyone has a unique story to share Photo by Christina Macone-Greene


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APRIL 3FOREIGN FILMS

MiraCosta continues its free International Film Series with a screening of “Hannah Arendt” Germa-ny, 2012, at 7 p.m. April 3 in the MiraCosta College Little Theatre (Room 3601) at 1 Barnard Drive, Oceans-ide. English subtitles. APRIL 4

LUTE AND MORE Lutist Dominic Schaner and vocalist Amy Michele White will perform mu-sic of the early 16th and 17th centuries, at Del Mar Library at 2 p.m. April 4, 1309 Camino Del Mar. A past recipient of the Del Mar Farmers Market Scholarship, Schaner stud-ied at Boston University. For more information, call the Del Mar Branch Li-brary at (858) 755-1666. For information about San Diego County Library and other events visit sdcl.org.

ART FAIR Oceans-ide Days of Art committee continues its call to visual artists and artisans to par-ticipate in the 23nd annu-al Oceanside Days of Art, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 18 and April 19. Download the 2015 Artist Applica-tion Form, at ocaf.info/ or e-mail inquiries to [email protected].

NEW ARTIST IN RES-IDENCE Lux Art Institute will host Kingston-born artist Ebony G. Patterson April 4 through May 2. Vis-itors are welcome during Artist Studio hours: Thurs-day and Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday 11a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1550 El Camino Real, Encinitas. Patter-son’s work incorporates glitter, fabric silk flowers, jewelry, and more.

MEET THE ARTISTS Members of the San Die-guito Art Guild invite the public to an artists’ recep-tion from 1-4 pm, April 4, at the Encinitas Community

Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, Encinitas. Meet the plein air artists whose work is included in the “Capturing Reflections” exhibition. This exhibit is free and runs through May 13. For more information, call (760) 942-3636, or visit offtrackgallery.com.

THEATER PRE-VIEWS New Village Arts Theater presents “Lord of the Flies” with pay-what-you-can previews April 3 through April 10. The show runs through May 3. Tickets $23 -$42, at newvil-lagearts.org/tickets/plays/.

APRIL 7SWEET SOUNDS The

Quartetto Gelato will per-form at 7:30 p.m. April 7 at the Center Theater, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Es-condido Blvd., Escondido. Tickets are $10 to $35 at (800) 988-4253 or online at artcenter.org. APRIL 9

JACKSON BROWNE Jackson Browne and friends Jack Tempchin and Joel Rafael will host a benefit at 8 p.m. April 9, at the California Center For the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escon-dido, to assist the recovery of North County resident Cheyne Johnston. Tickets are through the California Center For the Arts, Escon-dido at artcenter.org.

APRIL 10FOREIGN FILMS The

city of Carlsbad’s Cultural Arts Office presents “Volv-er” (Spain, 2006,) as part of the free “Foreign Film Fridays” at 4 and 7 p.m. April 3 in Carlsbad City Li-brary’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium at 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad.

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Dieguito Academy Theater students and alum perform “Pain,” with a pre-show reception at 6:30 p.m. and curtain at 7:30 p.m. April 25 in the Clayton E. Lig-gett Theater. General ad-mission is $35 at seatyour-self.biz/sandieguito. As a fundraiser for SDA drama department, the evening includes an After-the-Per-formance gathering at 3rd Corner Wine and Bis-tro. Late night menu and drink pricing will begin at 10 p.m.

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Plastic in the oceans inspires documentaryBy Tony Cagala

ENCINITAS — While on a walk on the beach with his wife Maxine a couple of years ago, Philippe Carillo came across a plastic bag on the shore. By the end of their walk, they had filled the bag full with more plastic and trash.

Wondering where it was all com-ing from, the couple had decided to do some research. It was then they learned about a mass of floating gar-bage in the Pacific Ocean.

A short video clip from Capt. Charles Moore, who had discovered the floating garbage (what is now known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”) inspired the couple to make their first film, a documentary called “Inside the Garbage of the World,” to help make the issue more known than it is now.

The two filmmakers will screen the film and hold a Q&A session at the Seaside Center at 1613 Lake Dr. April 3 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Carillo, who was born in France and now lives in the U.S., spoke with The Coast News about his experience making the film.

Was there anything that you learned during the filming that particularly alarmed you about the situation?

Yeah. When we started to work (on the film) the scientists…ocean-ographers and doctors and medical doctors, it became very alarming that there were other things that we didn’t know about, for instance, the leaking of the chemicals from the plastic. Also, we went to a…beach in Hawaii…just to videotape what we can over there. So we get there, and the sand was not sand there anymore. It was plastic.

What message does the film ultimately leave the viewer with?

Well, the message is, if we don’t do anything about it, the human race is gone. And just with one thing, and there are other things as well, of course, like radiation, global warming. But just think — plastic — as a human race, we are killing ourselves. Already in a garbage patch in the middle of the ocean, 36 percent of the fish have plastic in their stomach compared to 10 years ago, only 6 percent… And nobody really realizes it because the ocean is

far away. It’s like, ‘Oh, OK well, you know, blah, blah, blah,’ but actually it’s a real concern because when it is going to come to the shore, it will be too late.

How fixable do experts see this situa-tion to be?

To be honest with you, we have to stop using plastics now — yesterday.

You say change begins on the shore. What kind of change will be necessary to help stop this problem?

The thing is everybody realizing that we are killing ourselves. We have to stop using plastic. The big companies are not going to do anything. Changing the law is going to take too long. We have only 10 years before something is going to happen very bad…When people see this film, they change their habits. They say, ‘Oh my God, wow. I didn’t know about that. I didn’t know that my plastic is going in Hawaii and it’s going to be killing animals.’ People are changing; they’re changing their minds…People have power. They can just vote with their pocket book, say no to plastic anymore. And then that will be the change.

Filmmaker Philippe Carillo, pictured, and his wife Maxine will be at the Seaside Center in Encinitas to screen their documentary, “Inside the Garbage of the World” April 3. Admittance is free but a $10 donation is welcomed. Courtesy photo

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In celebration of our 25� anniversary, we welcome � e entire community to our campus. We’ve planned a day long schedule of events and activities for attendees of all ages!

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First Thursdays kick off spring

Encinitas 101 MainStreet fol-lows its mission and mantra:

“Downtown Encinitas — a place to Live, Work, and Play,” in presenting First Thursdays, a free month-ly community evening of food, art and entertainment along Coast Highway 101.

Originating a few years ago as a means of drawing residents and visitors to eat, drink and shop on High-way 101 on week nights, First Thursdays have been evenings when shops and restaurants along the 101 strip stay open late to offer entertainment and special discounts.

Beginning April 2, En-cinitas 101 MainStreet’s new Executive Director Thora Guthrie shakes things up with an explosion of visual and performing arts.

With an infusion of fresh vitality, the reener-gized monthly event is not to be missed.

Guthrie, who just weeks ago took the reins at Encinitas 101 MainStreet, comes from a strong artistic perspective.

An artist in her own right, the recent member of the Encinitas Commission for the Arts brings her ex-tensive background in de-sign as well as communica-tions, marketing and public relations.

With First Thursdays, Guthrie focuses on local artists and performers gain-ing exposure.

She has assembled an exciting lineup of visu-al artists and musicians paired with local business-es to kick off the new and improved series of events.

Guthrie says enthu-siastically, “Connecting our prolific art community with the public in a fami-ly-friendly atmosphere will be dynamic, valuable for everyone and make this an event that people will look forward to every month.”

On April 2 at the En-cinitas 101 MainStreet of-fice, located at 818 S. Coast Highway, Marvin Free and his Jazz Trio “Endangered Speciez” perform, while the E101 Gallery hosts a recep-tion for artist Cathy Carey whose bright paintings are on exhibit.

In the nearby Lumber-yard’s central plaza, origi-nal indie rock band Tricer-atropical entertains the crowd, while attendees visit with artists such as Judy Salinsky at the Off Track Gallery, and other artists at Movin’ On Shoes. Ballet Folklorico de San Dieguito performs in the same plaza at 6 p.m.

Ironsmith Coffee, new-comer to the 400 block of the Coast Highway, collabo-rates with Arnette Eyewear to host printmaker Jason Markow and live music by folk rock duo "Profession-al Friend," rotating with creative acoustic guitarist

Katya Brown from Fine Tune Academy.

The Roxy Restau-rant features renowned local jazz musician Peter Sprague, while Art N Soul (633 S. Coast Highway 101) hosts an artist reception featuring refreshments.

Bliss hosts a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception for lo-cal photographer/mixed media artist Laura Cun-ningham.

Artists will guide youth in painting a mural on the

Wade Koniakowsky’s “Light Waves” (18x36” oil on canvas). The world famous artist appears at Hansen’s during First Thursday on April 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. Image courtesy Wade Koniakowsky

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— Tickets are available now for this year’s Village Youth fundraising dinner and auc-tion event, at the Village Church Community The-ater, 6225 Paseo Delicias.

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State San Marcos cele-brated the ceremonial groundbreaking of its 2,200-seat on-campus arena last week.

Athletics officials, school administrators and students hailed the forthcoming $11.4 mil-lion Cougar Sports Cen-ter as a huge achievement for the campus as it tran-sitions from the National Association of Intercol-legiate Athletics to the NCAA.

Crews will complete construction by August 2016, in time for the 2016-17 women’s volley-ball season.

“The Sports Center is a game changer, literally, for all of our 300-plus stu-dent-athletes, coaches, the department of athlet-ics, and mostly our uni-versity,” athletic director Jennifer Milo said. “The impact will be felt imme-diately.”

Cal State San Mar-cos’ court sport programs — volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball — have had a successful run in their four years of existence, including nine conference cham-pionships and an unde-feated “home” record for the highly-touted men’s basketball team over the past two seasons.

This success, how-ever, has come with sac-rifices for the nomadic teams, which play most of their games in front of sparsely attended crowds at local gymnasiums, in-cluding Pacific Ridge and Escondido high schools and MiraCosta College.

“I don’t think people understand how hard it is not having a home gym,” said MacKenzie Harnett, a senior on the women’s basketball team. “We play mostly in front of family and friends, but it is hard to get students out there.”

Andrea Leonard, the

head women’s volleyball coach, said the new arena would be transformative for the entire university community, both for mo-rale and from a recruit-ing standpoint.

“This will be our true home court advan-tage where our student population can easily ar-rive from class to cheer on their team, parents and families arriving with ease and our teams raising those champion-ship banners to the sea of blue,” Leonard said.

The arena is also a necessary step for the university to complete its transition to NCAA Divi-sion II athletics. The ath-letic programs will begin playing NCAA Division 2 schedule and are expect-ed to fully transition to Division II by the 2017-18 school year.

The 25,000-square-foot arena, which is be-ing paid for primarily through student fees, will seat 1,400 for athlet-ic events, but has a maxi-mum capacity of 2,200 for other events.

Cal State San Marcos President Karen Haynes

likened the arena’s im-pact to the student com-munity to that of the uni-versity student union and the health and counsel-ing student services cen-ter, which have helped boost the school’s profile.

The Sports Center, she said, has the poten-tial to be a huge regional draw.

“The Sports Center will tie our university closer to the region we serve, as a new destina-tion for, not just exciting sports action, but also large-scale entertain-ment and educational programming,” she said. “Indeed, this will be a new rallying point of pride for our region.”

For Harnett and oth-er seniors, the new are-na will arrive well after their departure from campus, but they plan on returning for its opening, and many other games to come.

“I’m pretty bummed I’ll be gone long before

it’s done,” Harnett said. “But I will be back for alumni games and things like that. I am just glad they are taking this step, because it shows that the university is really tak-ing athletics seriously.”


— While the Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club turns heads with its recent recognition from the Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club as “2014 Out-standing Facility of the Year,” by the United States Professional Tennis Associ-ation (USPTA), it’s also re-ceiving kudos for its various Junior Programs.

The RSF Tennis Club Junior Programs are cham-pioned by its tennis director and head pro, Derek Miller, a three time USDSHS CIF Champion and USDHS Hall of Famer.

Under the umbrella of the Junior Programs are the toddler, middle school and junior club levels.

According to RSF Ten-nis Club Board President, Dave Van Den Berg, the junior club boasts 53 grad-uates who moved on to play in NCAA collegiate tennis. Currently, they have more than 18 players ranked in the top 40 in the nation.

A closer look shows that 9 of these players are ranked as top 10 in the na-tion and 5 are the top 50 players worldwide.

“There is a lot of liveli-ness and fun here,” Miller said. “It’s intense from the first warm-up ball to the last ball struck. Everybody is competing, working their tails off, and more impor-tantly, working with each other.”

Van Den Berg said their junior club program is one of the most heavily at-tended in the country.

With that said, in what-ever way it can, the RSF Tennis Club gives back to promote kids and the sport.

“The Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club donates courts for the training of these high performance tennis athletes and highly ranked junior competitors so they can be the stars of the fu-ture,” Van Den Berg said.

Miller pointed out how their Rancho Santa Fe Mid-dle School Program, with

its team moniker, “The Ea-gles,” has been highly suc-cessful. From four years ago, they have grown from 12 participants to 63.

In addition to tennis, the kids take part in oth-er social activities such as gymnastics at Sky High, La-ser Tag, beach parties and more.

The Middle School Program is complimentary through its foundation for kids attending the RSF school district. It gives pri-vate lessons to children after school on Mondays through Thursdays.

“I don’t know if there’s any other program like that in the country where kids can get that level of tennis from this level of profes-sionals four days a week,” he said.

Van Den Berg is quick to point out that Miller has the type of energy and per-sonality which is magnetic to children.

“The kids all love to be around Derek,” he said. “He’s taught my son how to be disciplined, work hard and have fun at the same

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Cal State University San Marcos officials make the ceremonial groundbreaking on their new sports com-plex last week. Photo courtesy Cal State San Marcos

From left: Christian Groh, Kalman Boyd, Erik Elliot, Shauna Morgan, Frankie Van Den Berg, and Derek Miller of the Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club. Photo by Christina Macone-Greene

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Calling All Soccer Players! Get ready for Fall ATTACK Recreational Soccer

Online Registration is now open for those wish-ing to sign up for Fall Rec-reational Soccer through the Attack Recreational program at www.rsfsoccer.com. The program has been developed for children ages 4 to 18 and is uniquely de-signed to build upon indi-vidual skills so that each player can grow and im-prove throughout the sea-son.

The program empha-sizes fun while learning the game of soccer and the meaning of sportsmanship. Attack annually serves close to 500 children in their Recreational pro-gram. Players who register by May 2nd online or at our Walk-In Registration will be able to request a certain coach or team and will be guaranteed the opportuni-ty to play.

The Attack Rec teams play against each other and the other local clubs (such as Solana Beach, Cardiff and Encinitas). Games are held on local fields on Sat-urday’s during the fall with practices during the week.

Registration for fall soccer can be completed online or the forms can be downloaded from the web-site.

All forms must be com-pleted and new players must include a copy of their

birth certificate or pass-port. Walk-in Registration is being held on Saturday, May 2nd at the Rancho San-ta Fe/R. Roger Rowe Ele-mentary School from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

Coach and Team Re-quests will only be ac-cepted through May 2nd. Forms will be available at the walk-in registration or you will need to bring the signed forms that you can download from the online registration. This year we are offering a $25 discount to volunteer coaches that sign up to coach by May 2nd.

The Attack Recreation program is volunteer driven and relies on parents and other adults to coach and sponsor the different teams. This program has been in existence for more than 30 years and is committed to providing a high quality youth soccer program for all children. Over the years we have strived to keep the registration fees afford-

able for all players through our Sponsorship Program. These tax deductible spon-sorships go towards the cost of running our quality program by helping with uniforms, fields, referee fees and in providing assis-tance to children who want to play but do not have the financial resources to do so. We offer different levels of sponsorship starting at $500. To review our Spon-sorship options, check out our Rec Sponsorship Pack-age on our website.

Registration for our Summer Camps is now available online, as well. You can sign up for the camps at the time you regis-ter for the Fall program, or register separately by going to the Camps and Clinics page under the Recreation-al program on the website. All campers will receive a customized ball and t-shirt and we do take walk-ins.

Attack also has a Youth Soccer Referee program for children 10 and older. Training is provided and these young referees are used in the fall to referee games on Saturdays.

You can find more in-formation about the Attack Recreational Program or the Youth Referee Program on the club website at www.rsfsoccer.com or by calling the office at 760-479-1500.

Online Registration

for the Fall Rec Program is now OPEN!

Summer Day Camp at Del Mar Pines School is open to all school age children (grades K-6) in our community.

SESSION I: JUNE 22 — JULY 9 SESSION II: JULY 13 — JULY 30Our program offers a wide selection of

classes that create a fun and enriching ex-perience for your child. You can design a stimulating, creative summer that accom-modates your schedule and your child’s unique needs.

We offer morning and afternoon pro-grams Monday through Thursday.

Visit our website www.delmarpines.com for course descriptions, schedules, and regis-tration forms. Please call (858) 481-5615 to confirm space availability.

Del Mar Pines 25th season of Summer Discoveries!

• Theater/ Broadway• Monart Mixed Media• Clay & Ceramics• Understanding Science Through Art• Math Games• Math Problem Solving • Engaging Math

• Mad Science Robots• Mad Science Anatomy• ThoughtSTEM Minecraft Modding 1 & 2• Sports Medley• Super Soccer Stars• Cheer Fit• USA Jump Rope Stars• Chess

• Keyboarding• Jumpstart Readers• Reading & Writing Explorations• Reading & Writing Workshop• Response to Literature

COURSES INCLUDE:

SIGN UP TODAY!

Junior Lifeguards open to all levels of athletic abilitiesDEL MAR — With sum-

mer fast approaching, beach and ocean safety are on the minds of parents every-where. The Del Mar Junior Lifeguard and Little Tur-tle programs offer peace of mind for parents and fun and useful skills for children ages 7 to 17.

Programs take place at 29th Street in Del Mar and include a variety of age-ap-propriate activities and edu-cation including CPR, First Aid, sun safety, surfing, boo-gie boarding, paddle board-ing and body surfing.

Some of the skills taught include teamwork, leader-ship, self-esteem building, physical fitness, and lifesav-

ing and rescue techniques with lifeguard equipment.

Additionally, partici-pants learn appreciation of the beach and ocean envi-ronment. Amidst all of the learning are plenty of fun and games.

The Del Mar Junior Lifeguard instructors are all ocean lifeguards. Many of the instructors are Junior Lifeguard alumni. Each in-structor strives to pass on

their excitement about the ocean, their sense of disci-pline and integrity along to their students in a fun learn-ing environment.

Xtended Program is available for the morning sessions to remain at the beach supervised by Del Mar Junior Lifeguard staff for more fun until 3:00 p.m. There are two- and four-week sessions available.

Family discounts now available for 2015 - 10% dis-count given during checkout to qualifying families.

Find out more about Del Mar Junior Lifeguard and Little Turtle programs at delmarjg.com or by emailing [email protected].

The Del Mar Junior Lifeguard instructors are all ocean lifeguards.


APRIL 3WHAT’S NEWS? The LIFE

Club @ San Elijo presents “The Future of Journalism in San Di-ego” at 1 p.m., # 201 MiraCosta College, 3333 Manchester Ave, Cardiff. Kent Davy, former editor of the North County Times, will outline the state of the local press, talk about the UT takeover of the North County Times and the pro-posal by Malin Burnham to turn the UT into a non-profit entity. Parking is $1. For information vis-it, mailto: [email protected]

LIFE LECTURES MiraCosta College LIFE Lectures features MiraCosta faculty member Steve Torok discusses the jazz music of Horace Silver, at 1 Barnard Drive, Admin. Bldg. #1000. Purchase a $1 parking permit in lot 1A. Check speaker schedule at miracosta.edu/life or call (760) 757-2121, ext. 6972 with any questions.

APRIL 4CARDIFF EGG HUNT The

community is invited to an Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. April 4 at Glen Park. 2149 Orinda Drive, Cardiff-by-the-Sea.

HOP ON OVER Easter week-end at Flower Hill Promenade of-

fers an Easter egg Treasure Hunt from noon to 3 p.m. April 4. Get a picture with the Easter Bunny from noon to 2 p.m., and hear live music from Clint Perry of The Boo Hoo Crew. Check in at Geppetto's Toys.

TREASURE HUNT Join the Easter Egg Treasure Hunt at the Carlsbad Premium Outlets from 12:30 to 4 p.m. April 4 at 5620 Paseo del Norte, Carlsbad, Meet the Easter bunny from 1 to 4 p.m.

SPRING FESTIVAL Sola-na Beach will host a Children’s Spring Festival and Egg Hunt from 10 a.m. to noon April 4 at La Colonia Community Park, 715 Valley Ave., with an egg hunt for third-grade or younger. Bring your own basket. For more infor-mation, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at (858) 720- 2453.

CARDIFF EGG HUNT The community is invited to an Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. April 4 at Glen Park, 2149 Orinda Drive, Cardiff-by-the-Sea.

FIND THOSE EGGS The city of Encinitas Easter Egg Hunt Fes-tival runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 4 at Encinitas Community Park, 425 Santa Fe Drive, Encini-tas. Egg hunt times are 10:15 a.m. for 2 years & under, 10:45 a.m. for 3-year-olds, 11:15 a.m. for 4- and 5-year-olds and 11:45 a.m. for 6 & up. Bring your own basket or bag.

BIG BOOK SALE Friends of

the Encinitas Library Bookstore will host its “Big ½-Price” sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 4 at 540 Cor-nish Drive, Encinitas. For more information, visit encinitaslib-friends.org

EASTER CELEBRATION Lighthouse Christian Church invites the community to a free Easter egg hunt from 10 a.m. to noon April 4 at 4700 Mesa Drive, Oceanside, for ages 2 through fifth grade, April 4. Enjoy age-graded egg hunts, crafts, jumpers and food. For more information call (760) 726-0590 or visit lightcc.org.

APRIL 5EASTER WORSHIP Holy

Cross Episcopal Church and Spirit Harbor Lutheran Church, in Bres-si Ranch will hold a 9 a.m. tradi-tional Episcopal communion wor-ship and a children’s Easter Egg hunt, childcare provided. There will be a Contemporary Commu-nion worship and Easter egg hunt at 6 p.m. with Spirit Harbor Lu-theran Church, also at 2510 Gate-way Road, Carlsbad. For more in-formation, call (760) 930-1270 or visit holy-cross-church.org.

IN THE VILLAGE The Vil-lage Community Presbyterian Church will hold Easter services with sunrise worship at 7 a.m. and traditional worship with a Chil-dren’s Jubilee at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., 6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe. Call (858) 756-2441 for more information.

EASTER SERVES Carlsbad Community Church will have a 10:15 a.m. service Easter Sunday, April 5 at 3175 Harding St., Carls-bad. For more information, visit 3c.org.

APRIL 6GREET CARLSBAD The

Carlsbad Visitors Center, 400

Carlsbad Drive, is seeking volun-teers to meet and greet visitors three to four hours per week. The hours are flexible and duties in-clude sharing knowledge of the area, answering phones and other light projects. Call Lee at :760-434-6093

HELP FOR CAREGIVERS Reservations are needed by April 6 for the seminar on “Finding the Balance in Caregiving” held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 8 at So-lana Beach Presbyterian Church, 120 Stevens Ave. RSVP by April 6 to (800) 827-4277 or sharp.com/classes. Free onsite respite care provided with previous registra-tion.

APRIL 7San Diego North Coastal

WomenHeart Support Group meets at 10 a.m. April 7 at Tri-City Wellness Center, 6250 El Camino Road, Carlsbad, in the Executive Board Room. For more informa-tion, contact Marilyn at (760) 438-5890.

APRIL 8NEW FRIENDS The Catholic

Widows and Widowers of North County is a support group for la-dies and gentlemen who desire to foster friendships through various social activities, will meet for hap-py hour at Firefly Grill and Wine Bar, Encinitas April 8. Members will play golf at Reidy Creek Golf Course, Escondido. April 9. New members are welcome. For reser-vations, call (858) 674-4324.

APRIL 9COLLEGE AND CAREER

Local high school students are invited to the Vista College & Ca-reer Expo from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. April 9 at the North County Re-gional Education Center 255 Pico

Ave. San Marcos. This event will provide college options, STEM ca-reers, financial literacy, soft skills training, professional communi-cation skills and more.

STRANGE SURFBOARDS The Surfing Heritage and Culture Center in San Clemente, showcas-es the exhibit, "What Box? Think-ing Outside Traditional Lines of Surfboard Design," through mid-April at 110 Calle Iglesia, San Cle-mente. For more information, visit surfingheritage.org

WALK & BIKE The city of Carlsbad, Circulate San Di-ego and the San Diego County Bi-cycle Coalition host a Walk + Bike Carlsbad at 5 p.m. April 9 from Coolest Shoes, 2984 State St., Carlsbad to the lagoon and back. For more information, visit meet-up.com/Carlsbad-Walks.

MARK THE CALENDARPUT ON YOUR DANCIN’

BOOTS The Oceanside Depart-ment of Parks and Recreation is holding a senior dance from 2 to 4 p.m. April 12 at the El Cora-zon Senior Center, 3302 Center Drive, Oceanside. Billy Harper’s Dance Band will provide live mu-sic. Seating is at round tables so you can join or make new friends. Refreshments served at the ta-ble. For more information call El Corazon Senior Center at (760) 435-5300. Admission is $5 at the door.

HORSES GALORE The Del Mar National Horse Show runs April 16, through May 3, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Arena.

The three weeks feature: Western Week - April 16 through April 19; Dressage Week - April 23 through April 26 and Hunter/Jumper Week - April 28 through May 3. For more detailed informa-tion go to delmarnational.com.

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Encinitas Councilman Tony Kranz and Encinitas Mayor Kristin Gaspar don their best “Star Trek” outfits in front of City Hall on Thursday for the proclamation of Spock Block week.. Photos by Tony Cagala

By Tony CagalaENCINITAS — Vulcan Avenue: The not-

so-final frontier. Fans of Leonard Nimoy had the chance to voyage a block of the avenue — between D and E streets — during a week-long mission to celebrate the life of the actor — the most prominent of Vulcans.

Encinitas Councilman Tony Kranz intro-duced the idea of a “Spock Block” to honor Nimoy for a week, which wrapped up April 1, on the avenue and to encourage more visitors to downtown Encinitas.

The idea for the Spock Block was ap-proved unanimously by the City Council on March 18.

On Thursday, (Nimoy’s birthday), Mayor Kristin Gaspar, dressed in her best Star Trek regalia and a jet-black wig, issued a special Trekkie proclamation, declaring the area “Spock Block” for the week.

“Creativity and having fun is the main objective. Something that would appeal to the human side of Mr. Spock,” Gaspar said.

Nimoy, who passed away in February, portrayed the character of Spock from the planet Vulcan in the “Star Trek” TV series and movies.

Several businesses and restaurants in the area offered discounts during the week.

Jim Wang and Patricia Williams turn out for the Spock Block proclamation on Thursday.

Nori Nakajima gives the Vulcan salute.Marcia Mercurio with her stuffed Spock teddy bear at the proclama-tion event for Spock Block on Vul-can Avenue in Encinitas.


Educational opportunitiEs

Facebook gives Carlsbad parents tips on good ‘digital citizenship’By Ellen Wright

CARLSBAD — Near-ly 200 parents attended a Facebook safety seminar Thursday evening, hosted by Pat Bates, the California Senator from District 36, the Carlsbad Unified School District and the Sheraton Carlsbad Resort and Spa.

The event was held in response to a safety threat that was posted to Insta-gram in early January.

Carlsbad High School was closed for a day and a half because a 15-year-old girl posted a picture stating she was going to “shoot up” the school.

“Sadly social media has become the latest vehicle of choice for delivering those threats. Nine out of every 10 threats made on school campuses are a hoax. No school in America wants to experience the real one,”

Senator Bates said.The girl was arrested

but because she is a minor, the punitive measures have not been made available.

Carlsbad Unified Su-perintendent Dr. Suzette Lovely said the school and law enforcement were able to respond quickly to the threat and learned the iden-tity of the anonymous Ins-tagram user through GPS tracking.

Lovely said an officer spoke to students after the incident to caution about the serious ramifications of posting threatening content to social media.

The most severe pun-ishment the school district can administer is expul-sion, and in some cases, can ask for financial restitution.

The seminar was held to educate parents on mon-itoring their children’s on-line activity and to deter other possible hoaxes.

It’s the responsibility of both the schools and the parents to educate children on Internet use, Lovely told the crowd.

“As parents, I would say we are responsible for all of our children’s behav-ior until they turn 18. We are responsible for monitor-ing what they do online,” Lovely said.

Juan Salazar, associate manager of state policy at Facebook, gave tips on mon-itoring teen’s use.

Children younger than 13 years old are not allowed to sign up for Facebook or Instagram, so Salazar said, it’s important to discuss digital citizenship before that age.

“Having that conversa-tion early really sets them up for understanding what they’re going to use social media for,” Salazar said.

He advised parents to teach their children that what is said online should be reflective of who they are offline and parents should help them understand pos-sible ramifications of their online activity.

He advised helping young teens set up accounts and discussing who they’ll interact with online.

“That conversation is about building trust with them. You want to commu-nicate with them where they feel like they trust you and are willing to share this information with you,” Salazar said.

He said it’s helpful for parents to join the sites, if they haven’t already, to keep tabs on their kids.

Tiffany Herndon, a teacher at Fusion Academy in Solana Beach wasn’t im-pressed with the advice.

She said she’s seen kids set up fake accounts to show their parents and then make a duplicate account with a similar name so they can use Facebook without parental monitoring.

This is against Face-book policy and Salazar said users should flag fake or imposter accounts so staff can take them down.

Herndon also said stu-dents will leave their phone at a location so the GPS on their phone shows they are where they’re supposed to be.

“Really for parents, none of this, no putting GPS on your kid’s phone,

no blocking things, no re-quiring them to give their passwords is going to take the place of solid parenting and open communication,” Herndon said.

Lovely told the crowd that often times parents hear about things before school staff and urged par-ents to always call district officials if they become aware of a threat or suicidal post.

In the January inci-dent, a student alerted a parent of the Instagram threat and that parent called the district.

The school was put on lockdown before break to give law enforcement the opportunity to interview students and learn the iden-tity of the poster.

Juan Salazar, associate manager of state policy at Facebook, spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 parents about online safety practices. Photo by Ellen Wright

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Food&Wine

A Taste of Leucadia celebrates food & music!

A few months back, I met up with Leucadia 101 Mainstreet

Executive Program Director Carris Rhodes to talk about how we could work together to promote this year’s event outside of the standard inter-view or listing of participat-ing restaurants.

The brainstorming be-gan and the topic of partic-ipating bands came up and that made me think of the music episode of Lick the Plate on KPRI where I talk music with my guests includ-ing their first concert, dream concert lineup, and memora-ble shows through the years.

Somewhere out of that the idea hatched to get bands that are performing in the Taste to perform songs about performing restaurants.

A great idea but the task of selecting, contacting and coordinating bands to par-ticipate seemed a daunting task given both of our busy schedules.

That’s when it’s great to have a Leucadia 101 board member like Michael Schmidt, who is a concert promoter extraordinaire and very connected to the partic-ipating bands. Michael made a few calls and the next thing we knew we were good to go.

Next thing I know we had four bands lined up to record over the course of an afternoon at my home studio and I was about to be blown away by what was coming my way.

First up was local icon Semisi from Semisi and Fula-Bula and also accomplished solo performer. I’ve seen Se-misi perform dozens of times over the years, most notably at the old Calypso Café and it was always a joyful perfor-mance that got people danc-ing immediately.

Semisi arrived with his guitar and launched into his ditty about Le Papagayo that is still stuck in my head…in a good way.

You will notice that’s a common theme among these songs.

The wildly talented Sis-ter Speak that consists of Sherri-Anne and Lisa Viegas who hail from Vancouver, British Columbia but have made San Diego their home.

They arrived with a

guitar and various percus-sion instruments and sang a beautiful song called “Down at the Pannikin” that truly captured the essence of our local treasure.

I could seriously see this song as a full-length track on their next album.

Leucadia local and im-mensely talented Cleopatra Degher showed up with her acoustic guitar in hand and a song she had penned a song about Fish 101 that just about brought a tear to my eye.

Not so much because it was a sad song, she was sing-ing about the joys of fresh fish, but because her deliv-ery was so heartfelt and pas-sionate. A line that stuck out went: “Come with me hon’, to Fish 101.” You will have to check out the full version as she totally kills it.

So, one of requests as the originator of this concept was that I wanted to collabo-rate on a song with one of the bands about a participating restaurant.

And not just any restau-rant, but one with plenty of soul, character, and funk, because remember folks, Keep Leucadia Funky is a ta-gline that goes way back and that must be included in any plans for beautification and gentrification. Well Captain Keno’s sure fit that bill and I was teamed up with Tim Flood and we began out col-laboration.

That’s the beauty of working with really talented musicians, you can throw a very loose concept their way and they run with it.

My initial email to Tim was along the lines of, OK, here are the elements that come to mind to me for Kenos. Chicken fried steak, $2.99 spaghetti, cheap drinks, hipsters and locals, the song Ride Captain Ride, can you work with that? Well work with that he did and the result was outstanding.

Those sessions were what Taste of Leucadia is all about.

An eclectic group of folks coming together over music, food, the ocean and our little slice of paradise. You can check out all the songs at lick-the-plate.com.

So on to the details of the event.

A wide array of Leuca-dia restaurants, San Diego’s best craft breweries, winer-ies and local musicians make up the Taste this year.

Festivities start at 5:30 p.m. and last until 8:30 p.m., with many attendees

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Top 10 Tastes:

The first three months of 2015

This year my wine journey began like most, signifi-

cant discoveries at venues both new and familiar. There was the memorable meeting with Napa wine pioneer, now in his 90s, Mike Grgich; and a road show get-together with the wineries in the Monterey and Santa Lucia Highlands wine country.

But dominating my time were the doctors and surgeons of Scripps Hos-pital, who reconstructed my left shoulder and arm, promising that I would again be able to hold a full glass of wine with that arm soon.

Thank heavens we have two arms and I hav-en’t missed much of my dai-ly wine tasting. One thing I did discover though, doc-tors enjoy their wine, lots of aged premium wine, perhaps that only they can afford. We’re still in re-covery, so it will be awhile before resuming my wine travels.

Our top 10 wines fea-ture many from the highest quality wineries known. The wines chosen are not their most expensive, but are from their value brands, similar in taste and structure but much less in cost. All 10 selections are

equal in excellence and value. The list is alphabet-ical and does not indicate any ranking.

• Castello Banfi Bel

Nero Tuscany, Italy, 2011. $24. A significant mem-ber of the royal wine fam-ily of Banfi, created in the Montalcino Hills of Tus-cany. Mostly Sangiovese grape whose homeland is Tuscany, flavored with a cu-vee of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Bel Nero is an intensely flavored cherry/plum palate-pleaser with hints of coffee and vanil-la. The rich, red wine then is barreled 14 months in French oak.

• Cline Ancient Vines

Mourvedre, Contra Cos-ta Calif., 2013. $17.

Mourvedre should be a wider produced grape va-rietal: smooth, mild, very pleasant. Origin is the

Rhone Valley of France. This Cline Mourvedre

OPEN EASTER SUNDAY! Easter Bunny will be at the market with toys, not candy, in his basket!

frank mangio

taste of wine

The Castello Banfi estate in Montalcino, Italy. It’s globally recognized as the quintessential leader of Italian style wines. Photo courtesy Castello Banfi

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Masters Pool and Viewing Party.

DEVANEY JOINS FIDELITY

Encinitas resident Pa-mela Devaney joins Fideli-ty National Title’s National Commercial Services Di-

vision in San Diego. Dev-aney will service title and escrow transactions across the country for investors, commercial brokers, lend-ers, attorneys, owners, and developers, with a focus on the hospitality sector.

SURGEON HONOREDScripps Clinic ortho-

pedic surgeon William Bugbee, M.D., was honored

at the 2015 meeting of the American Academy of Or-thopaedic Surgeons, by the Kappa Delta Sorority and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation for outstanding clinical re-search related directly to musculoskeletal disease or injury, with the ultimate goal of advancing patient treatment and care.

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paper-clad south-facing wall of Detour Salon at the corner of E Street and Coast Highway, which will also be the site of future First Thursday live paintings and graffiti paint-outs.

Across the street in the Small Mall, artist Michelle Gonzales performs face painting and displays her artwork, accompanied by acoustic guitar/singer song-writers Nicole Burns and Ja-cob Mobley, both from Fine Tune Music Academy.

In front of Bier Garden (641 S. Coast Highway), art-ist Jolee Pink of Wabisabi Green displays her coastal themed creations including textiles, ceramics and tiles,

which are for sale along with her recently published Liv-ing Coastal book, featuring table décor and recipes by local artists and chefs.

At the northern end of the Lumberyard, Lobster West offers complimentary snacks while Hula hoopers perform at Soulscape.

The SAID Space Gal-lery features an artist re-ception and “Lazy Left” ex-hibit preview, featuring art by noted designer and edgy artist Dustyn Peterman (aka “Dusty Dirtweed”).

Wade Koniakowsky, one of the nation’s leading ocean-inspired artists, dem-os his painting techniques while displaying his artwork at Hansen’s (1105 S. Coast Hwy 101), accompanied by Norbert Wild and friends

playing folk and Hawaiian slack key guitar.

Additional artists and musicians will be added to the roster for this and fu-ture First Thursday events throughout the year.

Happy Hour prices and discounts are available during the event at Union, Roxy, the Lumberyard Tavern, and Blue Ribbon Pizza when guests mention First Thursdays.

Come downtown Enci-nitas April 2 from 5 to 8 p.m. for an evening full of art, en-tertainment, food, drinks and special offers not to be missed.

For more information on First Thursdays and an updat-ed guide of participating art-ists and merchants call their office at (760) 943-1950 or go to encinitas101.com/events/first-thursdays/

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continuing the merriment at our local bars and restau-rants once the event is over. They have a record number of tastes and beverage sips available to ticket holders, with 18 local restaurants par-ticipating and 13 San Diego craft breweries and wineries sampling the finest of what they have to offer.

Those without tickets are welcome to come down and enjoy the live music, which is free at several loca-tions along the culinary trail,

plus live poetry in Leucadia Roadside Park.

Taste of Leucadia Tick-ets are $20 in advance ($25 event day), and tickets with Sip Stops (craft beer/wine tasting included) are $33 in advance ($40 event day).

This year the event will be eliminating waste by giving each Sip Stop tickets holder a commemorative tasting cup that they can take home as a souvenir. Additional green elements include an eco shuttle that runs on biofuel, which will transport attendees from the upper parking lot of the En-

cinitas City Hall (505 S. Vul-can) to the heart of the event.

The shuttle also elimi-nates a parking hassle, and they highly recommend tak-ing advantage of it! Call (760) 436-2320; buy tickets at Leu-cadia101.com.

Lick the Plate can now be heard on KPRi, 102.1 FM Mon-

day - Friday during at 4:10 and 7:10 p.m. David Boylan is founder of Artichoke Creative

and Artichoke Apparel, an En-cinitas based marketing firm and clothing line. Reach him at david@artichoke-creative.

com or (858) 395-6905

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hangs on some of the old-est vines in California. A sublime expression of a lus-trous grape from the south of France.

• Dr. Loosen Blue Slate Riesling, Mosel, Germany, 2013. $15. Ungrafted vines averaging 60 years old in some of Germany’s best-rat-ed vineyards. Crop size is minimal for most intense flavor. TheMosel River has steep south facing slopes for the perfect climate for Riesling. The grapes rip-en slowly with these cool conditions, while retaining bright acidity.

• Ferrari-Carano Sie-na, Sonoma County, 2012. $24. Siena is one of those mid-range wines at a great price, that is produced by a winery whose premium wines are respected around the globe. This one is strawberry jam, plum and blackberry, from a blend of mostly Tuscan Sangiovese, with small amounts of Malbec, Petite Sirah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Goes perfectly with Italian cui-sine, pork & lamb.

• Grgich Hills Estate Zinfandel, Napa Valley, 2011. $35. Mike Grgich knows Zin, almost as much as he knows Chardonnay. As a kid, he was in the Cro-atian vineyards, growing their version of Zin. This varietal is grown at Mike’s residence in Calistoga. Ev-erything is farmed natu-rally without artificial pes-ticides. A concerted effort is being made to keep the alcohol content down. This Zin is made with 14.5 per-cent alcohol.

• Holman Ranch Es-

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California,” Roberts said. “A lot of money went into the restoration. This board-walk is critical for people to see what true working wet-lands look like.”

“It’s a no-brainer to me,” Solana Beach Mayor Lesa Heebner said. “The boardwalk needs to stay where it is.”

Not everyone agrees. Four San Diego residents attended the rally, holding signs that support moving the boardwalk.

“You can’t fully re-store the wetlands with this (boardwalk) here,” John Heatherington said. “This is paradise. We want to re-store as much as we can.”

“We want them to keep the boardwalk and just move it,” Pam Heather-

ington said. “There needs to be a full restoration.”

Geo Heatherington said the structure was “well-in-tended but ill-engineered.”

The next Coastal Com-mission meeting is April 15, 16 and 17.

Visit the San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy website for updates, more information and a QR code to sign a petition to keep the boardwalk.

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get a stronger board in place we’re not going to be able to change this kind of behavior. It’s pret-ty ingrained.”

“What’s the point of a Community Relations Committee if they work on something this ma-jor for a year and don’t bother to tell us about it until these level of com-mitments are already made?” Councilman Dwight Worden asked.

He said Kaaboo will be very different from the fair, where people leave at 11 p.m. or midnight.

During Kaaboo they will be “coming and going all night long,” he said. “They’re partying in the facility. That will have profound impacts on us.

“I don’t know what the fairgrounds was thinking,” Worden said. “Tim Fennell just decid-ed, ‘Wow, we’re going net a million bucks so I sign here and let’s just run with it.’”

“I just decided,” Fen-nell said sarcastically. “That’s how we work.

“It’s unfortunate that some people have those views,” he added more seriously. “That’s not how it works. I work for the board of directors. I have a fiduciary responsibility to the people of San Di-ego, and I take that very seriously.

“There are always some folks who would prefer there were no events here but that’s not the mission of the ag dis-trict,” Fennell said.

“I understand the

regional benefit,” Corti said. “We’re very in favor of a lot of these events. It brings a lot of benefit to the community at large, but we’re trying to deal with what the specific im-pacts are in our commu-nity.

“The message that I tried to get across to the committee was that I hope we can do a better job of communicating this stuff in advance,” he added.

Del Mar council mem-bers said they are hopeful their former colleague, Lee Haydu, who was ap-pointed to the fair board Feb. 27, will be added to the Community Relations Committee.

“That will help,” Mosier said.

Haydu was appoint-ed to the committee on March 25.

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time. And that’s really the key to his success.”

Van Den Berg said their co-junior program director, Christian Groh, is an ATP coach who has trained many of the top professionals on tour in-cluding Tommy Haas and other pros who are ranked the top 100 in the world.

Groh played college tennis at San Diego State and was named their num-ber one player and earned

a top 10 spot in Europe in his junior year.

Between Miller and Groh, Van Den Berg said, they are attracting great players.

“The kids are enthusi-astic, they are having fun, and are very serious about the game,” he said.

Van Den Berg also noted how appreciative he was that the coaches in-still in the kids not just the sport but what it means to be a good citizen.

The kids must be po-lite and kind.

The toddler program is to show the kids the “fun” of tennis so they can enjoy really themselves.

For Van Den Berg, the primary goal of all their Junior Programs is to help build character through tennis and social activi-ties.

To learn more about the Junior Programs, in-cluding its complimentary Middle School Program for kids in the RSF Dis-trict, call the club at (858) 756-4459 or Miller direct at (619) 889-1469.

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that as a child he failed second grade and never did graduate from high school.

He made a beeline for the university at 15 and went onto medical school at an early age and has been in the field of medicine for more than 40 years.

His book, “To ‘Air’ is Hu-man,” was also his presenta-tion describing it as a play of words.

“The way I’m interpret-ing it is that people pass gas,” he said. “People burp, belch, have bloating and pass gas and no one ever talks about it in a formal, intelligent way.”

As a physician going through medical school, in-ternship, residency, and fel-lowship in his specialty of gastrointestinal disorders, he said, there was not one single talk about intestinal gas.

“It was not spoken about.

But I’ll share with you,” Weiss said.

And he did. He spoke of Le Péto-

mane, the French flatulist who appeared on stage in the 1890s.

The audience at the se-nior center laughed from one anecdote to the next.

Toward the end of an en-thusiastic presentation and re-action from the crowd, Weiss switched to a more serious tone: colon cancer awareness.

“Excuse me for bringing this up, but I’m a gastroenter-ologist, and it is critically im-portant that you pay attention. Colon cancer is out there. It is one of the most common can-cers in this country,” he said. “Guess what, ladies? It affects women more than men, slight-ly more about 52 percent of cases of colon cancer are wom-en, not men. Women are just as much at risk.”

While a colonoscopy is recommended as the primary

screening, Weiss added there is also a virtual colonosco-py and new advances being made in the months and years ahead.

Weiss said the one warn-ing sign of colon cancer is a family history.

But it’s preventable, he said, when a polyp is found be-fore it becomes cancerous.

Other high risk factors in-clude inflammatory bowel dis-ease such as ulcerative colitis, familial polyposis syndromes, and lynch syndrome. There are genetic markers, which also help indicate a high risk factor.

“But unfortunately there are no warning signs or symp-toms until late,” he said. “It’s one of those diseases which are a silent killer, and un-fortunately, it is a killer. But remember, it is absolutely pre-ventable.”

Following Weiss’ presen-tation, he was on hand for a book signing.

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By Ellen WrightCARLSBAD — At 9:30

a.m. every morning for nearly a decade, Perry Carr led stretches in his office at the 24 Hour Fitness on Palo-mar Airport Road.

He also made sure to greet each one of the 30 em-ployees every morning.

After 24 years at 24

Hour Fitness, Carr has re-tired.

His tenure there rep-resents a successful pair-ing for Partnerships With Industry (PWI), a nonprofit that teams with local busi-nesses to offer employment to people with developmen-tal and other disabilities.

Since 1985, PWI has matched more than 12,000 people with intellectual or developmental disabilities with jobs throughout San Diego.

They partner with busi-nesses like Home Depot, the Omni Hotel, Legoland and the San Diego Zoo, as well as cities like Vista and Solana Beach.

PWI President and CEO Mark Berger said since many of the jobs are entry level they usually have a high turnover rate.

Clients of PWI tend to stick with jobs for an aver-age of four-and-a-half years, which helps businesses.

“They want reliable people that will be there and that they can count on,” Berger said. “We’ve met that need.”

He said they often partner with the hospital-ity sector and some of the jobs include, hotel porters, cleaning jobs, food service and administrative work.

Nora Conner, supervi-sor at 24 Hour Fitness, said that while Carr did admin-istrative work for the com-pany, he meant a lot more.

When the company

first introduced the stretch-ing program, Conner said people weren’t extremely enthusiastic.

“The problem was, people didn’t get up and do it but because he was asking everybody to come up and stretch, everybody was more willing to get up and stretch because he was the one leading it,” Conner said.

He was so successful with leading the stretches the company eventually asked him to go to differ-ent departments to lead the stretches.

Conner said it became an important community builder.

“At 9:30 a.m., he brought everybody togeth-er. There’s people in other cubicles that we may not

talk to all day but we were able to socialize with each other for 10 minutes every-day so it helped us (get to) know each other better,” Conner said.

Since Carr retired two weeks ago, his co-work-er Jeff Lee took over the stretches. Lee is also a PWI client.

Berger said part of the reason the nonprofit has

such longevity in the com-munity is because they lis-ten to their clients.

“We try to understand the needs of the people we serve,” Berger said.

“Everything we do is about the client’s choice.”

PWI just opened a doc-ument destruction service in San Diego and he said workers who don’t want to leave PWI can choose to work there or continue in one of their training facili-ties.

They also offer job coaches who work with cli-ents like Carr, at no cost to the hiring business. In the beginning, coaches work with the client full-time or nearly full-time.

Then as the new em-ployee becomes more com-fortable, the coaching ta-pers off.

While PWI has been successfully operating for 30 years, Berger said state funding cuts are proving difficult for the organiza-tion.

“We’ve been sustaining 10 percent cuts since 2008. Each year our rent and in-surance go up,” Berger said.

To make up the differ-ence they fundraise.

PWI is also spurring new business activity for additional revenue streams. The document destruction facility is in its second year.

“It’s now profitable and we hope to be employing new workers as that pro-gram grows,” Berger said.

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Sophia Ceja, 3, of Oceanside, shows off a handful of eggs she found. Four city egg hunts are

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Two commercial structures at Carlsbad’s La Costa Towne Center will

be demolished to make way for a revamp that includes the addition

of retail and apartment buildings. The larger new building, shown

above, would include 48 apartments, a courtyard for residents, and

retail. Courtesy renderings

Carlsbad retail center to be revamped with apartmentsBy Rachel StineCARLSBAD — With it’s primary storefront empty

for five years, the 33-year-old La Costa Towne Center at

the corner of El Camino Real and La Costa Avenue is at

last getting a revamp.The owner of the property gained approval to de-

molish two commercial structures in the shopping cen-

ter and replace them with buildings that are half retail

and half apartments from Carlsbad’s Planning Commis-

sion on April 16.Planning Commissioners praised the owners for

coming forward with plans to redevelop the dated shop-

ping center that they said currently lacks signage, de-

sign, and a main tenant.“(La Costa Towne Center is) just this big long white

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said Planning Commissioner Hap L’Heureux. “This cen-

ter has been long overdue.”Commissioner Aurthur Neil Black called the little

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By Jared WhitlockENCINITAS — The council took another step toward acquiring the Pa-cific View site on Wednesday night.

Council members voted 3-2 in favor of a $50,000 deposit and other conditions spelled out in a memoran-dum of understanding for the proper-ty. That document paves the way for a final purchase agreement, which the council majority hopes to approve by the end of May. But the agenda item sparked a

long debate over whether the council should have even agreed to pay $10 million to acquire the site from the Encinitas Union School District.

Resident Jeff Eddington said he’s excited at the prospect of the city owning the site, but worried the coun-cil is getting “bamboozled.” “The city offered $4.3 million for

the property in the not-too-distant past, and is now offering more than

2.3 times that price.” Eddington said. Councilman Tony Kranz, an ad-

vocate of the purchase, said the $4.3 million figure was based on the prop-erty’s current public zoning. And it was only intended as a first offer.

Additionally, Kranz said he vot-ed in favor of upping the price know-ing that EUSD had a strong rezoning case, which would have made the land much more valuable. The city could have tried to fight

the district’s rezone request, but that would likely have resulted in an ex-pensive court battle, Kranz added.

Last month, EUSD was due to auction Pacific View with a minimum bid set at $9.5 million. With the clock ticking, the city submitted an offer just before the deadline. EUSD has delayed the auction by two months as a safeguard, in case the deal with the

Pacific View Elementary, which closed a de-

cade ago. The council approved a memoran-

dum of understanding at Wednesday night’s

meeting, bringing the city closer to acquiring

the site. Photo by Jared Whitlock

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Center to be part of housing projectBy Promise YeeOCEANSIDE — The

announcement that an Ur-banLIFT grant will fund building the Kay Parker Family Resource Center at the planned Mission Cove affordable housing project bought applause for two reasons.

Community members were glad to have a family resource center as part of the city’s low-income hous-ing project, and equally pleased the name of the center will honor the late Kay Parker, a beloved, fair housing advocate.

Kay’s husband Dick Parker helped accept the grant at the City Council meeting April 16. He said the honor of naming the re-source center after his late wife was well deserved.The Mission Cove

affordable housing and mixed-use project on Mis-sion Avenue is being devel-oped through a partnership between the city and Na-tional Community Renais-sance nonprofit developer.The project will break

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One Paseo opponents submit petition for referendumBy Bianca Kaplanek

REGION — With the de-veloper of a proposed Carmel Valley project and its oppo-nents accusing each other of misrepresentation and de-ceptive tactics, a group trying to overturn a San Diego City Council decision approving the complex submitted a pe-tition March 25 to the Regis-trar of Voters with what they believe are more than enough signatures for a referendum.

City Council President Sherri Lightner, whose dis-trict includes Carmel Valley, and Councilwoman Marti Em-erald opposed One Paseo in a 7-2 vote on Feb. 23 that chang-es the zoning to allow Kilroy Realty Corporation to build an approximately 1.4-million-square-foot mixed-use project on the 23.6-acre lot.

Previous zoning allowed 510,000 square feet of office space on the site, located on the corner of Del Mar Heights Road and El Camino Real.

Lightner was on hand to turn in the petition with more than 61,000 signatures. For a referendum, 33,224 signa-tures representing 5 percent of registered voters were needed.

In a separate campaign, Kilroy reported that nearly 30,000 people submitted re-quests to have their names removed from the petition.

All signatures must be verified by April 24 before any action can be taken. If enough are valid, the project will again be presented to the City Council.

Members can reconsider the issue and either overturn the approval or let voters de-cide the project’s fate during a special election or the June 2016 primary.

Following the February City Council vote a neighbor-hood coalition of residents, community planners, tax-payers and small businesses known as Protect San Diego’s Neighborhoods began gather-ing signatures for a referen-dum.

They accused Kilroy of trying to thwart their efforts by circulating a phony Char-gers‐related petition outside of San Diego city limits to draw signature gatherers away from locations in the city and deploying signature blockers to intimidate and ha-rass circulators and signers.

They also said Kilroy

launched a rescission cam-paign intended to trick voters into removing their names from the referendum petition.

“Kilroy’s attempts to torpedo our efforts and ma-nipulate San Diego voters are despicable,” Jeff Powers, spokesman for Protect San Diego’s Neighborhoods, said. “More importantly, however, these extreme actions show that Kilroy is desperate. The company knows that if our ef-forts succeed and One Paseo is placed before voters, it will be soundly defeated.”

According to a press re-lease, there are documented abuses that include blockers spitting in the face of refer-endum circulators, cursing at petition signers, surrounding petitioners’ tables to separate them from the public and verbally harassing and in-timidating shoppers at stores where circulators are located.

Two cease-and-desist or-ders were presented to Kilroy.

“It’s been unprecedent-ed,” Powers said. “I’d be sur-

prised if we ever see some-thing like this in San Diego again.”

Powers stressed that his group is not opposed to devel-opment.

“Our group is not about killing growth,” he said. “We support and advocated for an 800,000-square-foot develop-ment on the site. We are for responsible growth.”

In a press release Kilroy accuses Protect San Diego’s Neighborhoods of using a “highly deceptive referen-dum signature-gathering effort to overturn the City Council approval.”

They said the effort was bankrolled by Orange Coun-ty-based Donahue Schriber, the owner of an adjacent re-tail center.

Kilroy claims Donahue Schriber’s referendum sig-nature-gatherers made false statements such as One Paseo being built with taxpayer dollars on a wetland or that it threatens endangered spe-cies.

Other untrue statements include that the project will destroy an existing park and prevent the city from being able to afford a Chargers sta-dium.

“The irony in these mis-representations is that One Paseo will be the most envi-ronmentally sustainable proj-ect ever built in San Diego,” Rachel Laing, spokeswoman for One Paseo, said.

“This project will trans-form a vacant graded lot into acres of public open space, provide affordable housing, create thousands of jobs and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity — all via private investment.

“Clearly, San Diegans in large numbers felt compelled to withdraw their signatures from the referendum peti-tion once they learned more

about One Paseo,” Laing said. “We’re thankful so many San Diegans chose to listen to and consider the facts about this important and iconic smart-growth project and took the time to rescind their signa-tures if they felt they’d been misled.

“The fact is, the more people know about One

Paseo, the more inclined they are to support it,” Laing said.

Powers said he is confi-dent a sufficient number of signatures will be verified for the referendum.

“We’re just very pleased,” he said. “The num-bers speak for themselves about what the community thinks about this project.”

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