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Costs to buy water will rise next year for Solana Beach water district

Middle school students detonate bottle bomb in Carmel Valley

County to move ahead with plans to form joint powers authority for Fairgrounds

BY JOE TASHA dry winter and an expected

increase in water costs from its sup-pliers means that the Santa Fe Irri-gation District’s costs for buying water will rise by about $1.5 mil-lion next fiscal year, according to a budget presentation at the district’s Thursday, April 18, board meeting.

For now, the district is plan-ning its budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 without building in a rate increase for customers. In-

stead, the budget relies on an infu-sion of $1 million from reserves to cover rate increases charged by the district’s suppliers, the San Diego County Water Authority and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

The district could decide to raise rates later this year or early in 2014, after it completes a planned “cost of service study,” which will

BY KAREN BILLINGThree Carmel Valley Middle

School students set off a homemade bottle bomb near the Boys & Girls Club located next door to the school before school started on Monday, April 22.

As the school had a late-start day, one seventh grader and two eighth graders went to the store to purchase the supplies and the over-pressure device they made went off around 10 a.m., according to Mau-

rice Luque, San Diego Fire Depart-ment spokesman.

“This is a stupid thing to be doing anytime but especially now when there is a heightened sense of awareness in light of the Boston bombing,” Luque said.

No one was injured in the inci-dent. The boys were detained after an unrelated fight occurred on campus later in the day and one of

BY JOE TASHCounty supervisors vot-

ed unanimously April 23 to move ahead with plans to form a joint powers authori-ty with the state board that oversees the Del Mar Fair-grounds, which could lead to the formation of a new, 14-member board to man-age fairgrounds operations.

The county has been in

talks with the 22nd District Agricultural Association, which currently manages the state-owned property in coastal North County, to create a new governance model that provides more local control over the facili-ty.

More than 40 people, including elected city and state officials and their rep-

resentatives, spoke in favor of the proposal at the meet-ing, which was held at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego, versus a handful of speakers who criticized the proposal or sought to delay a decision. Supervisors also declined requests from the cities of San Diego, Del Mar and Solana Beach to make

them voting members of the new board.

Instead, Supervisor Dave Roberts, a former member of the Solana Beach City Council, requested his colleagues consider adding “ex officio,” or non-voting, seats to the new board for the three cities, whose boundaries either include portions of the fairgrounds

property or are adjacent to the fairgrounds.

“Some people are going to lynch me in my district for saying that,” said Rob-erts, who was elected to the Board of Supervisors last No-vember.

Both county officials and members of the 22nd DAA board — who are ap-pointed by the governor — said state law allows the

BY JOE TASHThe San Diego City

Council decided Monday, April 22, to take another try at passing an ordinance al-lowing medical marijuana dispensaries within city lim-its after listening to more than three hours of public testimony on both sides of the issue.

Opponents of the pro-posed ordinance said they were worried that allowing the dispensaries will lead to more marijuana use by teen-agers, while supporters said the storefronts are needed to provide safe access to mari-juana for people suffering with cancer and other mala-

dies.The council’s unani-

mous vote comes about a year and a half after the last attempt to enact a medical marijuana ordinance failed. The council passed an ordi-nance in 2011, only to re-peal it later in the year when opponents of the law found it too restrictive, and gath-ered enough signatures to place the issue before voters.

At Monday’s meeting, the council considered a proposed ordinance put for-ward by Mayor Bob Filner that would have expanded the areas within the city

SD council to pursue ordinance allowing marijuana dispensaries

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See COUNTY, Page 7

Supervisors decline cities’ requests to have voting members on new board

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San Diego County Su-pervisor Dave Roberts has appointed seven citizens from his district to review County Community En-hancement Grant applica-tions.

Roberts said he created the first-of-its-kind panel, “to add openness and trans-parency to the process of awarding county funds to non-profit organizations that through their services enhance the quality of life of the citizens of San Diego County.”

The panel will make

recommendations to Rob-erts for the allocation of more than $500,000 in tax-payer money. The money is restricted to funding for non-profits. Roberts asked the mayors of the cities of Del Mar, Encintas, Escondi-do, and Solana Beach to each nominate two residents for the panel. These four cit-ies are located in Roberts’ su-pervisorial District 3. He also asked San Diego City Coun-cilmembers with portions of their district in District 3 to recommend names.

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BY KAREN BILLINGThe new Gonzales Can-

yon Neighborhood Park in Pacific Highlands Ranch has a park design. The ad-hoc committee to the Carmel Valley Recreation Council fi-nalized design plans on April 23 in an effort to stay on a tight schedule of ap-proval by the council in May and approval by the city parks and recreation council by June to kick off construction as soon as pos-sible. Pardee Homes is com-mitted to delivering the park for play by December 2014.

“I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out,” said Manjeet Ranu, commit-tee chair, of the final design.

Taking cues from input received through surveys and past sub committee meetings, Schmidt Design Group came up with a plan that included all of the ame-nities everyone was looking for.

“They did a great job incorporating our feedback,” said committee member An-jali Gupta. “It looks like a very appealing park and place to visit.”

The 5-acre park off Pa-cific Highlands Ranch Park-

way will be anchored by a tree-lined promenade, a 12-foot wide walkway framed by the largest trees the bud-get can afford.

The plan includes a large community gathering space, designed as a bosque with picnic tables under a cluster of trees, a secondary shaded picnic table area, 10,000 square feet of tot lot space for both younger and older children, a comfort station, a sloped, grassy am-phitheatre space, a half bas-ketball court and maximized playing field space. The large turf area is 595 feet long and 155 feet wide.

As requested by the committee in March, a walk-ing loop of about a quarter mile long has been incorpo-rated into the plans, linking to both the promenade and the urban amenity trail that surrounds the park.

There are also “passive discovery areas” and con-templative areas along the northern, canyon- edge of the park for people to find a quiet spot away from the more active uses.

A much-discussed issue at the last subcommittee meeting was the parking

that the park will require. Since that meeting, a survey was sent out and of 53 re-sponses, 70 percent pre-ferred no parking at the park. JT Barr of Schmidt De-sign said the city accepts the community’s position of no parking and the designers in turn pursued a plan without parking.

There are stalls on the street and during off-school hours, park visitors will be able to utilize the 60 parking spaces at the future neigh-boring Solana Ranch School.

Committee member Michelle Strauss said she still had concerns about the lack of even a small parking lot as she has wanted to make it easy for people who may be coming to the park with ex-tra bags, equipment, etc. and small children when the school lot might not always be available.

“I accept where the community has fallen, at least the people who wanted to weigh in, and hopefully it will work out and won’t come back to bite us later,” Strauss said.

Ranu said if it becomes an issue they could work

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Her father has been a teacher in the district since before she was born; Samantha served as the Torrey Pines High School football team water girl at age 7; she attended SDUHSD’s Oak Crest and La Costa Canyon schools; and has now come full circle to teach physical science at Earl Warren Middle School for the last six years.

“I was so inspired by the teachers I had,” Samantha said of wanting to come back to the district she grew up in to teach. “I received e-mails from former teachers when I was named Teacher of the Year. My high school biology teacher said that he couldn’t imagine a better ambassador for our district. For people who believed in me when I was in high school to still believe in me and think I have something valuable to say is really inspiring.”

Samantha found out about the honor earlier this month with a visit from SDUHSD Superintendent Ken Noah. Noah came with a bouquet of flowers, laughingly tell-ing the school board at its April 4 meeting that many of the students mistakenly thought he was coming to propose.

Samantha’s extremely proud father Simeon Greenstein, who teaches social science at Torrey Pines High, was also in attendance. Samantha was surprised and a bit humbled by the honor.

“I feel like I’m getting paid to do my dream job as it is,” Samantha said of working in beautiful Solana Beach — where they can have surf and skate PE. She also said she loves working with amazing families, dedicated staff and great students. “That’s all reward enough. …Teachers are in-trinsically motivated, all we want is for our students to learn and grow so to be recognized is a little bit weird.”

After graduating from La Costa Canyon, Greenstein went to Occidental College for her undergraduate degree and earned her teaching credential at UCLA. She taught for two years in Los Angeles before making her way back to her

San Dieguito Union High School District Teacher of the Year happily comes full circle to teach at Earl Warren

San Dieguito Union High School District Teacher of the Year Samantha Greenstein, of Earl Warren Middle School, with her father, Torrey Pines High teacher Sime-on Greenstein. Courtesy photo

home district.Science is a subject that

Greenstein always liked but she admits it wasn’t always an easy subject as a student. She challenged herself by majoring in science in col-lege.

“I liked the idea of hav-ing a lab to go to and engag-ing with the subject instead

of just going to a lecture,” Greenstein said.

As a teacher, she went into the science field as it gave her the ability to plan those really hands-on les-sons that require her stu-dents to engage with the subject matter, problem solve, collaborate. She has

the ability to make the learning experience fun.One fun activity her students do in her lab every year is

an aluminum foil boat contest in which they try to build a boat that can hold the most pennies as possible without sinking, competing against their fellow students.

At the end of every year, her students launch model rockets out on the field — another crowd pleaser.

Samantha is going with the flow of how education is changing and how much of a role technology now plays in the classroom. Thanks to generous donations from the Earl Warren Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA), she now has Chromebook laptops to use in her lab.

“I’ve been encouraging my students to bring their own devices so I integrate technology a lot more in my class-room,” Samantha said.

Her students have been building websites, creating vid-eos and presentations about what they have learned this year. Using those tools helps her students build the skills they will need in high school and to be competitive in the job world. Samantha said she’s very grateful for the parent support she has.

“I never imagined the community could be so support-ive,” Samantha said.

At a time when school budgets are stretched thin, she said it’s nice to see that the parents are so willing to step up and get teachers what they need.

Samantha said she really enjoys teaching middle school age students as they are right in the midst of forming their identities. She likes being there for them as they go through different experiences and as they make decisions for them-selves.

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BY KAREN BILLINGDel Mar Heights Elementary School kindergarten teacher Gina Vargus has been named

the Del Mar Union School District Teacher of the Year, praised for her dedication as a “cre-ative teacher who thoughtfully guides her students to reach their optimal potential.”

Vargus found out about her honor at a surprise staff meeting with District Superinten-dent Holly McClurg, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Tim Asfazadour and Principal Wendy Wardlow.

“I was really shocked, I didn’t expect it all,” Vargas said. “There are so many amazing teachers in this district and I was blindsided by it.”

She came back to her classroom with a bouquet of flowers and her sweet kindergartners thought the flowers were the prize.

Vargus has been a teacher for 23 years, spending all but one year of her career in the Del Mar district. She taught her first year in Pemberton, New Jersey, before moving to San Diego.

At Del Mar, Vargus started in the childcare center at Del Mar Hills Academy and then went on to teach kindergarten and first grade at Del Mar Heights, Ashley Falls and back to the Heights again.

Vargus really enjoys teaching the kindergarten set because of the students’ love of learn-ing at that young age.

“Every day they’re excited to learn something and they’re so enthusiastic,” Vargus said.Vargus’ classroom, which enviably comes with an ocean view from the back window, is

stuffed with activities — books, blocks, outfits for dress-up. A unicycle was parked in front of the colorful carpet last week — no Vargus doesn’t ride, she just brought it in as a prop to teach the letter “U.”

Her favorite thing to teach in kindergarten is reading.“Kids come in still learning to identify letters and letter sounds, and at the end of the

year they’ve unlocked the key to reading and understanding that letters make words,” Var-gus said. “It’s just fascinating. You’re giving them all the tools and their minds make all the connections and that’s just amazing.”

In Vargus’ classroom, she also places a heavy emphasis on character development.“It’s equally as important to send really nice, kind children to first grade as it is to send

good readers and children with grasps of mathematical concepts,” Vargus said.She also stresses the development piece — giving children the freedom and the time to

learn at their own pace, to be independent and to enjoy the occasional afternoon dress-up

DMUSD Teacher of the Year Gina Vargus helps students reach their ‘optimal potential’

Del Mar Union School District Teacher of the Year Gina Vargus with her students at Del Mar Heights. Courtesy photo

session.“It’s important for parents to remember to let children make mistakes and grow from

them. I think it’s our inclination to do for children what they could do for themselves,” Var-gus said.

She points to a sign on the back door of her classroom that says “fostering indepen-dence” and reads that after the 100th day of school, children are expected to unpack their own bags and ready themselves for the day without their parents’ help.

She encourages her children to be independent — explore, discover, try things, go ahead and make a mistake.

“Mistakes are just an opportunity to try again,” Vargus said, noting there is much to be learned in the experiences of mistakes, good advice for people of any age.

In addition to her teaching duties, Vargus has also taken on a leadership role this year as the president of the Del Mar California Teachers Association (DMCTA). She’s held the title since February and it has been a busy few months.

Vargus, who served as vice president last year of the DMCTA, said it’s important that the teachers understand the bigger picture, from the district’s standpoint and not just the teachers’ viewpoint from the classroom.

“The teachers and the district all have to work together as a team to educate kids,” Var-gus said. “We all need each other.”

Vargus said she is very happy to be teaching at the Heights, even if she never slows down enough to sit at her desk and enjoy the view. She especially enjoys working with the “kindergarten team,” a group that has worked together for about 10 years and Vargus says runs like a well-oiled machine. They all bring their individual strengths to form a strong team that is constantly collaborating.

“Del Mar Heights is an amazing place, I feel like they’re my second family. The staff is so supportive of each other and so positive,” Vargus said. “The district, as a whole, everyone is very, very dedicated to excellence and it’s an atmosphere of everyone wanting to continue to learn the craft of teaching and to keep growing as learners and teachers.”


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help determine where the district’s rates should be set for the next three years to cover the cost of operations and capital projects.

The five-member board will have to weigh all factors before setting the rates for next year and beyond, said board president Michael Ho-gan in an interview. From his perspective, Hogan said, rates should reflect the in-creases charged by its suppli-ers.

Over the long term, he said, the district can’t keep dipping into reserves.

“You may get by on (re-serves) one year but you find you’ve dug a deeper hole… it catches up to you,” Hogan said.

In recent years, the dis-trict has cut programs and staff, and maximized its use of local water to reduce its operating costs.

“We’re all trying to keep (rates) down as low as we can,” Hogan said.

Water customers in San Diego County have been hit with a series of rate increase in recent years, as wholesale water prices have spiked up-ward. The Santa Fe district has imposed annual rate in-creases for the past six years totaling 74 percent, includ-ing a 6 percent increase that took effect Jan. 1.

The district’s operating budget for the next fiscal year is projected at $22.6 million, a $1.5 million in-crease from the current year.

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However, due to a dry winter this year, the district is projected that it will only be able to meet about 30 per-cent of its needs from local supplies in the coming bud-get year. That amount could drop as low as 15 percent, the report said.

In addition to its operat-ing budget, the district plans a capital improvement bud-get of $8.4 million, which in-cludes replacing or upgrad-ing district infrastructure such as pipes, valves and its treatment plant, as well as equipment and vehicles.

While the district could cover the increase in water costs from a corresponding increase in revenue due to this year’s rate increase, the district would be unable to fully fund its capital im-provement budget, said Jeanne Deaver, administra-tive services manager. There-fore, the budget includes the $1 million transfer from a rate stabilization reserve fund.

The district’s labor costs are budgeted at $6.1 million next year, a 1.59 increase from the current year, result-ing from increases in health care costs, as well as a new la-bor agreement, said the re-port.

The Santa Fe district serves a population of about 19,400 in Rancho Santa Fe, Solana Beach and Fairbanks Ranch. Its water supply sys-tem includes some 150 miles of pipeline.

Following this month’s budget preview, the board will receive a full budget doc-ument at its meeting in May. A public hearing will be held on June 20, after which the board could vote to approve next year’s budget.

where dispensaries would be allowed. Instead, the council directed City Attorney Jan Goldsmith to draft a new or-dinance “nearly identical” to the one that was repealed in 2011.

“I think it’s a good place to start and we might as well not reinvent the wheel,” said Ninth District Councilwom-an Marti Emerald.

What the council should not be debating, Emerald said, is whether marijuana is beneficial to people with cer-tain medical conditions, such as those undergoing chemo-therapy treatment for cancer.

“We must make a com-mitment to compassionate use. This debate is over in California,” she said, referring to a measure approved by the state’s voters in 1996 that le-galized marijuana for medici-nal use.

Council President Todd Gloria praised the mayor for bringing the issue forward, and said he thought the last ordinance approved by the council was too restrictive.

“I do think it is far past time for us to do something in this direction,” Gloria said.

Filner’s proposed ordi-nance would have expanded the zones where dispensaries are allowed from only indus-trial areas to community commercial zones, which in-clude small neighborhood shopping centers.

Filner said his proposal sought to balance access to medical marijuana with pro-tecting public safety, a diffi-cult task.

“We have tried to both increase the access for those who are suffering and in-crease protections for those who need them, mainly our children, and quality of life,” Filner said.

But First District Coun-cilwoman Sherri Lightner said four of the six communi-ty planning groups in her North City district opposed the mayor’s expansion of per-mitted zones for dispensaries.

Among the changes they opposed, she said, was a change to a different kind of permit that would not have allowed community input.

“They are not supportive of the revisions,” Lightner

the students involved told school officials about the bomb going off and named the students involved.

The police and the fire department’s Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) were called in to investigate. The investigators decided to be lenient on this case, Luque said, but he stressed that set-ting off such a device is ille-gal and could have serious consequences.

“I encourage their par-ents to impress on them the seriousness of what they did and how lucky they are that they didn’t go into juvenile hall and weren’t prosecuted on this which they could have been,” Luque said.

In 2009, an 18-year-old student who set off five bot-tle bombs at San Ysidro High was charged with mis-demeanor charges of posses-sion of a destructive device and possession of materials to make a destructive device. He spent five days in jail and was sentenced to three years probation, losing a scholarship to the Air Force Academy.

“It’s just not an intelli-gent thing to be doing,” Luque said.

Luque said kids should make good choices and do the right thing but said par-ents need to be supervising how their kids are spending their idle time, how they’re spending their money and what they’re looking at on-line.

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said.The council’s motion

called for a study of all po-tential dispensary sites, to determine if the original version of the ordinance was so restrictive that it amounted to a “de facto ban,” as critics charged.

The council also re-quested a list of changes from the original ordinance:

• Dispensaries would have to be located at least 1,000 feet from “sensitive uses” such as schools, child-care centers, rehabilitation centers and other dispensa-ries, and at least 100 feet from residential zones.

• The mayor would be requested to identify the city departments responsi-ble for issuing permits to dispensaries and enforcing their rules of operation.

• The mayor and city at-torney would review issues related to fees or taxes that could be charged to dispen-sary operators.

Passions were strong on both sides of the issue as dozens of speakers came to the podium.

Marci Beckett of Pacific Beach said that if Filner’s or-dinance were approved, dozens of new dispensaries will open up shop.

“It’s a bad message for our kids,” said Beckett. “The issue is not about sick people getting medicine. These dispensaries are mak-ing huge profits by selling to healthy recreational users.”

“Marijuana is not a medicine. I don’t think we should normalize it and try to sell it in storefronts,” said Nancy Logan.

Ken Cole, who runs the One-On-One Patients Cen-ter, a dispensary in down-town San Diego, said access

is needed for people like himself, who have diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

“I’m telling you there are a huge number of peo-ple out there suffering from a wide variety of problems,” Cole said. “This is not a joke, this is not recreational, this is not lying around a park.”

“We are trying to pro-duce something that will change the lives of people, give them quality of life,” Cole said.

The Torrey Hills Com-munity Planning Board considered the proposed or-dinance at its April 16 meet-ing, voting to oppose allow-ing dispensaries in commu-nity commercial zones such as the Torrey Hills Shopping Center.

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Thesing of Tierrasanta, Ed Muna of Rancho Bernardo and Frisco White of Carmel Valley.

“Panel members repre-sent District 3 communities from the coast to my inland cities,” Roberts said. “These are community leaders I trust to weigh in on the needs of their neighbor-hoods.”

Competition for county dollars is stiff, Roberts said. “The economy has made it even tougher for local non-profits to secure funding,” he said, “and we have a lim-ited amount of money to award.”

This fiscal year the total amount requested by a long list of non-profits is $8.4 million. Each supervisor awards $536,000 to worthy organizations. There are five supervisors. That leaves close to a $6.4 million short-fall between the amount available, and requests.

Applicants range from organizations that provide services ranging from fight-ing domestic violence, pro-moting youth sports, orga-nizing public community concerts, to education and children’s health programs.

The seven-member pan-el will make recommenda-

tions to the supervisor at a meeting on June 12 at the Rancho Bernardo Library from noon to 5 p.m. The li-brary is located at 17110 Bernardo Center Drive. Rob-erts said the meeting is open to the public. “I think it’s important that the public have the opportunity to at-tend a meeting in which recommendations are made to award funding to com-munity groups,” Roberts said. “This is their govern-ment. This is a good chance for citizens to monitor the process.”

Roberts said that if a member of the panel is a board member of a nonprof-it that has made an applica-tion to the county, or has an immediate family member employed by an applicant, they must recuse themselves from weighing in on that applicant’s request.

“I will review the Com-munity Enhancement guidelines with panelists be-fore discussions about the merits of the requests be-gin,” Roberts said. “I want to fund organizations that pro-vide the best return on the tax payers’ investment and assist the greatest number of citizens.”

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with the city once the park is open to establish a load-ing zone on the street near the park’s entrance.

Strauss stressed that overall she was very happy with the park’s design and the committee.

The committee ap-proved the plan with only the conditions that the de-signer make the half-court basketball area bigger and that as many picnic tables as possible could be shaded.

One resident in atten-dance shared concerns about the comfort station being an open building so

close to the canyon and its potential to become a safety issue if used by the transient population.

Barr said they designed the comfort stations to be centrally located; to make them highly visible and well lit which tends to deter un-wanted activity. Although the bathrooms will be open 24 hours a day, according to Sarah Erazo, parks and rec. area manager, they are cleaned once a day typically in the mornings so any issue would be discovered.

Ranu also checked with officers at the San Diego Po-lice Northwestern Division and found they do not have crime issues in Carmel Val-ley associated with those fa-cilities.

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22nd DAA to form a partner-ship with the county, but not a city.

“Unfortunately, that’s not allowed under existing state law,” said Supervisor Greg Cox, who, along with Supervi-sor Ron Roberts, brought the issue forward to the full Board of Supervisors last fall.

While acknowledging that the three cities want full representation on the board, Cox said the plan approved Tuesday will increase regional representation on the board that oversees the fairgrounds.

“I hope we don’t lose sight of the possible in pursuit of the perfect,” Cox said.

Supervisors on Tuesday directed their staff to work with the 22nd DAA to draw up an agreement for the new board, which will come back before the Board of Supervi-sors in about 60 days.

If the partnership is even-tually formalized, the new board would be made up of the current nine members of the 22nd DAA board, plus five new members appointed by the county supervisors. Each supervisor could nominate ei-ther him or herself for the new joint powers board, or a representative.

San Diego Mayor Bob Fil-ner asked supervisors to put off a decision for 30 days to al-low more discussion, and to create seats for the three cities.

“We want to be in-volved,” Filner said.

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Don Mosier, and Solana Beach Councilwoman Lesa Heebner also spoke, asking that their cities be represented, because of the impacts the fairgrounds has on their communities.

Supervisor Ron Roberts said it was never his objective to gain control over the fair-grounds.

“It was not our intent to control, rather it was our in-tent to have regional influ-ence,” he said. “I think what’s before us today is a good start.”

The issue of governance of the 340-acre fairgrounds — and the 65-acre horse park property to the east — came to the forefront in 2010 when former Gov. Arnold Schwar-zenegger agreed to sell the property to the city of Del Mar for $120 million. The propos-al generated intense opposi-tion, including from the 22nd DAA, and Schwarzenegger’s successor, Jerry Brown, killed the deal.

However, state officials have encouraged the county-22nd DAA partnership as a way of giving the local com-munity a greater voice in run-ning the fairgrounds.

Adam Day, president of the 22nd DAA board, initiated the talks in an October letter to Supervisor Ron Roberts.

Day has strongly support-ed the proposed partnership, saying that it will increase ac-countability and transparency in the fairgrounds’ operation, and provide protections to fairgrounds employees, who are now state employees.

The proposal now under discussion calls for allowing current workers to either re-

main on the state payroll, or become employees of the new joint powers authority, or JPA. New hires would work for the JPA.

Day said after the meet-ing that the next step is to draft an agreement between the county and the 22nd DAA, which would ultimately have to be approved by the boards of both agencies, as well as by state officials.

As for adding non-voting seats to the new board for Del Mar, Solana Beach and San Di-ego, Day said Supervisor Dave Roberts’ comments were the first he’d heard of the sugges-tion. “I’m open to discus-

sion,” he said.Del Mar Councilman

Mosier said he and his council colleagues had considered the idea of “ex officio” seats.

“It’s not my favorite op-tion, but it’s better than no seat at the table,” Mosier said.

He added that attorneys for both Del Mar and Solana Beach disagree that state law prohibits a partnership be-tween the 22nd DAA and lo-cal cities. If necessary, he said, state legislation could be writ-ten to allow it.

Del Mar still wants repre-sentation on the fairgrounds board, Mosier said. “We’re go-ing to continue to press for it.”

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The College of Business Administration at San Diego State University (SDSU) announced recently that Peter Zahn and Da-vid Menashe have joined the college’s board of directors.

Zahn, a local business attorney and member of the Solana Beach City Council, is the president of the Moxie Foundation whose mission is to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. The Zahn family and the Moxie Foundation established the Zahn Center for Technical Innovation at SDSU to serve as a business incubator for the university’s students, faculty and alumni.

“As a member of the board, I look forward to engaging my fellow entrepreneurs and industry veterans as we offer our stu-dents the opportunity to pursue new business ventures in addi-tion to their academic entrepreneurial education,” said Zahn.

“David and Peter’s outstanding business insight and con-siderable experience in fields of entrepreneurship, business law and finance will be of great value to the College of Business’ board,” said Dr. Michael Cunningham, dean of the College of Business Administration. “Their passion for excellence will sig-nificantly influence on our faculty, our college and our stu-dents.”

Menashe, a 30-year veteran of the financial services indus-try, is currently the senior vice president of investments at the Merrill Lynch affiliate located in Rancho Santa Fe. He is also a Director’s Cabinet member of the SDSU Athletic Department.

Menashe and Zahn’s tenure with the board starts May 21, 2013.

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TPHS Foundation Rummage Sale is April 27The annual Torrey Pines High School Founda-

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Brooks, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2006 Civil War novel “March,” read an entry about Caleb Cheeshahteau-mauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. She did a double-take when she realized the young man had graduated in 1665, and not 1965, as she had origi-nally supposed.

“That just raised so many questions in my mind,” said Brooks, a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who was the featured author for the Thursday, April 18, meeting of the Rancho Santa Fe Literary Society. The meeting was held at The Grand Del Mar in Carmel Valley.

Brooks began to research the story, as she has for three previous historical novels, but found little about the young man’s life to satisfy her curiosity. So, she decided to build her own story around the fact of Caleb’s academic achieve-ment, which turned out to be the novel “Caleb’s Crossing,” published by Viking in 2011.

“It’s important to me to follow the line of fact as far as you can and imagination fills in the voids and silences,” said Brooks in an interview before her talk.

Brooks set her novel in Martha’s Vineyard, which in the 1600s was occupied by Puritans, the white settlers who had emigrated from England, and several Native American tribes. Her first-person narrator was Bethia, the teenaged daughter of a preacher, who forms a friendship with Caleb.

“Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we ourselves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?” Bethia wonders.

In researching her book, Brooks said, she learned that girls of Bethia’s time were taught to read, so they could read the Bible to their children, but not to write, because that

was a skill reserved for males to communicate outside their families.

“(Bethia) longs to be a scholar herself but of course those doors are closed to her,” Brooks said. “She’s trying to do what she’s supposed to do, but it’s not sitting well with her.”

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She was hired by the Wall Street Journal, and first as-signed as Australia correspondent, before moving on to cov-er conflicts in the Middle East, Bosnia and Africa.

Being a wartime journalist, she said, is “the easiest re-porting job there is. You don’t have to look for the story, you’re standing in it.”

However, after being arrested while covering protests against a military dictatorship in Nigeria — then being re-leased after three days — she decided she wanted to stay in one place and begin raising a family. A year later, her first son was born, and she tried her hand at fiction.

Brooks and her husband, writer Tony Horwitz, have two sons, Nathaniel, 16, and Bizuayehu, 10. The family lives in Martha’s Vineyard.

Before speaking to the Literary Society, Brooks met with a group of juniors and seniors from Pacific Ridge School, ex-plaining that she usually writes each day while her children are in school.

Each of her books so far has started with a piece of in-formation that she found compelling, and used it as a core to build her story and characters around. For example, her first novel, “Year of Wonders,” was about a village in Eng-land struck by the plague in the 1600s. Her interest in the topic was piqued by a plaque she saw about a “plague vil-lage” while traveling in the English countryside.

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being paid to fly a helicopter, his biggest passion. Campos was recently named the pilot for KFMB CBS Channel 8 Chopper 8, the only news helicopter in the city.

“To be up in the air, especially in a helicopter hovering, that’s the ultimate. In an airplane you take off and it can ba-sically fly by itself. In a helicopter, you can’t take your hands off the controls,” Campos said.

He enjoys the extra challenge of piloting a helicopter and can’t help but gush when he talks about his amazing opportunity.

Flying the news helicopter is only a part-time job as Campos has worked full time for Qualcomm for 18 years as a staff engineer/manager.

Campos first started flying in 1998 in commercial and multi-engine airplanes. He always thought it would be cool to fly a helicopter and did some introductory flights at Civic Helicopters at Palomar Airport in Carlsbad.

“I was addicted,” Campos said.He received his private pilot license and commercial pi-

lot license at Civic and did his instrument ratings at Heli-class in Van Nuys.

In addition, Campos was also trained to fly the Bell Jet Ranger 206B3 at Bell Helicopter Training Academy in Fort Worth, Texas. That advanced training helped Campos to be competitive as a pilot as the Bell certificate carries a lot of weight in the field. The training also made him feel ex-tremely confident at the control of a helicopter.

Campos’ first news helicopter gig was with Sky10, KGTV 10 News.

Due to the high expense of helicopters, all of the news stations recently got together and determined that they would all use one helicopter to provide live feeds for all sta-tions. Campos was hoping that he and his “talent” reporter Phil Konstantin would be the crew selected to fly the one helicopter but the decision was made to go with Channel 8.

Campos lost his helicopter job for about a month and a half until the position opened up again.

April 9 was his first day back, reunited with Konstantin.

Local resident thrives in avocation as a news helicopter pilot

Ruben Campos flies the Sky 10 chopper over the ocean. Photo by Dan Megna Photography

Local resident Ruben Campos was recently hired as the Chopper 8 pilot. Courtesy photo

“It was really cool to get to fly together again,” Campos said.

With Chopper 8, Campos has to be awake by 3:30 a.m. to be up in the air by 5 a.m.

“To me it’s no big deal because I know I’m going to fly,” Campos said of the early call time. “When I’m up there, see-ing the sunrise over the city, to me it’s all worth it. Literally, it’s heaven.”

Campos flies to get “beauty shots” for the news, at all different parts of the city, from Vista to the Mexican border. The chopper then does typical live traffic shots and will handle breaking news.

“You’ll never forget your first car pursuit,” Campos said.His first car chase was exciting because he was able to

get up in the air just as the chase was starting. They fol-lowed the car for about a half an hour with the entire sky to themselves as the other news chopper was not in service and the police helicopter was not up either.

The chase eventually ended in Mira Mesa and the po-lice instructed them to stop following the car and Campos had to fly off to his next assignment — from a high-speed chase to shooting the high surf at La Jolla Shores.

Flying over such a scenic city is nice perk for a news chopper pilot, Campos said.

“I love flying downtown over Coronado Bridge. My dream would be to fly underneath the bridge but you can’t do that,” Campos said. “Flying over the beaches is nice and I especially love flying over the water because you can fly as low as you need to as long as you’re not a hazard to people or property.”

Campos wishes he had the time to do more flying on the Electronic News-Gathering (ENG) force and his ultimate goal would be joining his two jobs and flying for Qual-comm.

For now, he is living his dream of being able to be up in the air. While he loves flying, he gets a kick out of his chil-dren Miranda and Sebastian (“my treasures,” he calls them) thinking he has the coolest job of all.

“For them to be proud of me, that is priceless,” Campos said.


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Mayor Filner’s proposed pot shop plan for our community would be very harmful and is bad policy. The Carmel Valley News recently reported that our area could be home to four pot shops. Why on earth would Carmel Valley need four pot shops? We don’t need any. There is a well-funded and powerful pot shop lobby working on behalf of pot shops owners to try and convince locally elected officials that storefronts selling pot are somehow desper-ately needed — and completely benign to communities. So far the pot shop lobby has been unsuccessful, as all 18 cities in our county wisely prohibit them; but they have found a friend in Mayor Filner.

Unlike every other mayor and city council in our county, somehow Mayor Filner has fallen for the pot shop lobby’s pleas and lies about “patients” not having enough access to pot and foolishly believes pot shops would be a good idea in any commercial center.

There are hundreds of “medical” pot delivery services; they advertise all over the Inter-net (just Google it) and in print media like the San Diego Reader and CityBeat. These deliv-ery services, while still illegal, operate 24/7. You call and place an order and they deliver to your door. So why do we need pot storefronts? Could it be the large amounts of profits these shops make? Pot shops are about making profits, which is why we have such an aggressive pot shop lobby down at City Hall.

Pot shops are illegal, magnets for crime, and easily abused by perfectly healthy teens. No thank you.

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I would like to respond to Robert Scott’s letter to this newspaper regarding giving One Paseo a chance. I have some random thoughts:

1. Carmel Valley already has a community character. We are demonstrating this charac-ter by challenging a developer who wants to get a better return on his investment at our ex-pense. Kilroy is not building a park here; they are building a traffic disaster and a monolith to greed.

2. Mr. Scott challenges us to “Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir one’s blood.” I take offense to that. The City of San Diego made no little plan. They created North City West, now Carmel Valley, to attract vibrant people who wanted to create a vi-brant community with great schools, a great community center, public parks and a location that is central to all. That is the character we are defined by. We have a “sense of place,” and it is not defined by a supermarket, restaurant or theater.

3. Mr. Scott says that without One Paseo, we will likely get an expansion of Del Mar Highlands Town Center. I’m sorry. Isn’t One Paseo the same as Del Mar Highlands Town Center, only denser and with shopping on both sides of the street?

4. He argues that the retail, restaurant and cultural/entertainment traffic is going at dif-ferent hours and in opposite directions. I guess he doesn’t get out at noon much, as that is already a peak traffic time, almost as much as the morning and afternoon commutes.

5. Any building will provide revenue and capital improvement. Overbuilding will pro-vide more, but at what cost. As soon as all these new shoppers find out what a problem it is to get in and out of the new project, they will abandon it to get out of CV ASAP.

6. Mr Scott is right about one thing: One Paseo will have a profound effect on our com-munity. As it exists in Kilroy’s collective mind, that effect will be disastrous.

Lynwood Lary

One Paseo will have a profound — and disastrous — effect on community

Anyone urging a green light for the One Paseo project may not be aware of three im-portant facts.

1) The zoning allowed for that land parcel in San Diego’s Community Plan is 510,000 square feet. Kilroy, developer of One Paseo, first proposed a four-fold density increase (over 2 million square feet). After Carmel Valley’s outcry and the environmental impact negative re-port, Kilroy scaled it down to a three-fold increase.

2) This proposed project is over 10 times as dense as the Ralph’s shopping plaza directly across the street (Del Mar Highlands Town Center). If allowed, One Paseo will be bigger than the entire Westfield/UTC shopping center in La Jolla.

3) The increased traffic from One Paseo will be more than five times greater than al-lowed. The nearby I-5 entrance is already jammed during commuting hours, and access would be a nightmare for Carmel Valley and Del Mar residents.

I live directly across the street (Del Mar Highlands development) from the proposed One Paseo, and our 200-plus homeowners are overwhelmingly opposed to this project’s three-fold density increase. We would not mind a project that accepts the allowed zoning. We will oppose one that is three times larger than allowed.

Juliet Saltman Carmel Valley

Keep One Paseo within allowed zoning

I attended the March 28 Carmel Valley planning board hearing on the traffic that One Paseo will generate if ap-proved at its proposed size of 1.4 million square feet (which is five times the size of the Del Mar Highlands Town Cen-ter). Like many at the meeting, I was astonished by the rosy predictions offered by the city planners in response to the questions they were asked. They offered precise-sounding calculations to suggest that travel times would not be im-pacted much by this gargantuan project, or that they would be shortened. However, these figures were unrealistic and do not hold up under further scrutiny.

The planners contended that the impact of this over-sized project can almost entirely be “mitigated” and that traffic may be even better with it than without it. Their ar-guments rested on two ideas: (1) lengthening “pockets” (the dedicated lanes that lead onto the 5, just west of High Bluff) will mitigate some of the congestion; and (2) adoption of the traffic-light-synchronization system used by the City of San Marcos will mitigate the rest.

Let us be clear: When the planners (and Kilroy) talk about “mitigation” by “lengthening pockets,” what they mean is ripping out the trees and landscaping that cushion houses in Alta Mar, East Bluff and other developments from Del Mar Heights Road and the 5. Longtime residents, who bought their homes under the existing rules, should not find themselves thrust onto the road because a developer wants to build a project that is vastly out of scale with the neighborhood. Mitigation is only needed because of the otherwise-massive traffic jams the project will bring. “Miti-gation” should not be another way of saying “harming Car-mel Valley residents.”

Second and more importantly, the planners’ character-izations of how well the traffic synchronization system works in San Marcos were divorced from reality (I know this only too well, having commuted to San Marcos from Carm-el Valley for 13 years). One of the city planners maintained that, if this system is imported to Del Mar Heights Road by Kilroy, it will reduce traffic by 30 percent. She also stated that, as far as she knew, everyone in San Marcos loved this system. Yet under questioning from planning board Chair Frisco White, she conceded that she got her data from a website and that she had not been in touch with the City of San Marcos. In a follow-up email to the planning board after the meeting, after she finally contacted the City of San Mar-cos, she shrunk her assessment of how the system improved traffic down to “an average 10 percent improvement in trav-el time.” Yet even the idea of a 10 percent improvement is misleading, since the system only improves traffic at some off-peak times of day. It has actually become worse on some portions of San Marcos Boulevard at peak hours since the system was installed. The figures that the city planners of-fered at the planning board meeting were thus erroneous, based on faulty assumptions about San Marcos traffic.

In real life, San Marcos Boulevard is a nightmare at rush hour. Traffic backs up from Highway 78 onto San Marcos Boulevard, and drivers often wait several cycles at the same traffic light to get through. My co-workers and I all jam onto side streets to avoid San Marcos Boulevard. This is exactly what the planners insist will not happen in Carmel Valley, even though we have the same conditions (a neighboring freeway that will back up and mess with even the best-de-signed traffic-light synchronization). My neighbors in Alta Mar are particularly concerned with Kilroy’s proposal to have two left-turn lanes off of Del Mar Heights Road going north at High Bluff (thus dumping traffic in front of Solana Highlands Elementary School and onto our quiet residential streets, as residents who live farther east try to avoid the traffic mess generated by One Paseo). At the 3/28 meeting, the city planners insisted that no one will cut through our neighborhood because traffic will flow beautifully on Del Mar Heights Road. This defies logic, as well as the real-life experience in San Marcos.

One Paseo is just too enormous for our beautiful com-munity. We do not need traffic jams on Del Mar Heights Road that are far worse than what we already have. We do not need commuters flooding residential streets and endan-gering schoolchildren’s safety. We do not need emergency response times lengthened, so that a developer can exceed its zoning limit. Residents need real facts we can rely on from our public servants. I heartily applaud the dedicated members of the planning board who asked thoughtful, skep-tical questions at the March 28 meeting. I hope they will continue to listen to residents’ real and deep concerns about the project.

Alyssa Sepinwall

One Paseo just too enormous for community

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If Del Mar and Solana Beach were to have a child, I think it would be named Carmel Valley. Master planned from its inception, Carmel Valley has been growing up for the past 35 years to become one of San Diego’s most desired communities for young professionals to raise their families.

So, why are some residents worried that Carmel Valley needs to be “saved”? Saved from what?

I have attended a few of the last Carmel Valley Planning Board meetings to find out for myself, and it seems there is fear about the effects of a proposed multi-use project called One Paseo that includes office buildings, residential units and a high-end shopping center with community venues such as a movie theatre with a stage and an upscale entertainment arena for bocce ball and bowling. The proposed One Paseo project is located adjacent to the Del Mar Highlands shopping center, complementing the established businesses and restaurants there with a “Main Street” for Carmel Valley.

Kilroy Realty owns the land, and in my opinion, wants to do more than just develop of-fice buildings and make business — they want to make a positive impression on our upscale community by giving Carmel Valley a heart and providing an expansion to our favorite place to congregate for pleasure — at the corner of Del Mar Heights Road and El Camino Real.

So, why are so many worried that Carmel Valley needs saving from more of a good thing? I’m confused.

Carmel Valley is in its final stages of growth, and it is only fitting for those on our plan-ning board to exercise caution when granting blessings for development. The planning board, comprised of a solid variety of Carmel Valley residents, represents the community on all issues related to growth and development and truly seems to care. But, unfortunately, the decision to grant Carmel Valley the proposed Main Street at One Paseo is out of their hands. The real decision maker on this project is the City of San Diego.

At one of the meetings I attended with my son, I heard a stern message from Supervisor Dave Roberts, a resident of Solana Beach, and a dramatic speech from Mayor Filner — both political leaders opposed without reservation, the project based solely on principle of square footage development. I was stunned. To my grateful heart, our council representative Sherri Lightner took the rightful stance of “non-opinion” until she hears the planning board and community desires and recommendations. At the same meeting, residents were divided into two groups — one there to “save” Carmel Valley from the development and one in favor of building the One Paseo project.

We have come a long way as a community, and I would argue that Carmel Valley un-derstands the meaning of change more than most. Since 2000, I have witnessed developer Pardee build prime residential projects and contribute to the construction of five new schools, a fire station and various community parks. Residents have worked together to iron out the wrinkles of constant growth by becoming involved at their local schools and estab-lishing organizations to support Carmel Valley’s infrastructure with road signage, traffic lights and more. Together, we have proven to ourselves that change and growth, while not always pleasant, can be successful if we work together for improvement. Do we really need “saved” from growth and more progress? Don’t we deserve it to ourselves to allow the last bit of our Master Planned community to be something that unites us further? I believe that the residents of Carmel Valley have the experience and education to evolve gracefully.

What I also learned is that Kilroy could simply build their office buildings and call it a day — they have the permits. But, they are taking a look at the macro view of our beloved Carmel Valley by thinking outside of the box of corporate buildings and offering our com-munity a crown jewel that complements the rest of what we have to offer ourselves. From what I can tell, they are hoping to enhance Carmel Valley and provide a project the whole town can be proud of.

Traffic is the major concern, as with any new development, but the city is working with Kilroy to insure that our traffic signals, road design and signage is state of the art and will be cohesive with the imminent I-5 freeway expansion. Questions regarding traffic were ad-dressed at the last meeting I attended, and while the questions and answers were somewhat belabored, I was satisfied that our master planners are asking good questions and those ques-tions are being addressed — many with Kilroy’s dime.

I have raised three children in Carmel Valley alongside many thoughtful parents. To-gether, we have worked to create a protected “paradise” where we look out for one another and desire the best opportunities, sports and education money and effort can buy. We are not afraid to get our hands dirty or challenge the “norm” to make it better. This is why I be-lieve that the message of “saving” Carmel Valley is misleading. Let’s save Carmel Valley by acknowledging that with a Main Street — a heart — we will be enabled to grow up and stand alongside other established communities.

Comischell Bradley-Rodriguez

What will really save Carmel Valley?

The arguments put forth by Tim Pick-well of Solana Beach in his letter to the edi-tor of April 18, “Plastic bag ban wrong on several counts,” are basically the same as I put forth regarding the banning of smoking on the public sidewalks and at the super-air-conditioned beach in Del Mar.

I quoted a German citizen during the Nazi era who didn’t object when they came for the Communists because he was not a Communist, ditto the Jews because he was not a Jew. But when they came for him, there was no one left to speak out for him.

Similarly, Pickwell had no objection when they banned smoking on the beach in Solana Beach because he was not a smoker; nor did he speak out when they banned bot-tles on the beach, and then his favorite light bulbs.

“But now,” he pointed out, “the gov-ernment has come for my plastic bags and there is no one to speak for me. One can dis-like plastic bags yet feel that government

has no business criminalizing the use of one.”

Thus, my objections on principle (as a non-smoker) to the smoking bans on public property have been advanced to other gov-ernmental bans, just as I predicted.

Thank you, Mr. Pickwell, for making that so self-evident with your irrefutable ar-guments against the plastic bag bans in par-ticular, and governmental bans against mat-ters of personal choice in general.

What has happened to the cherished rights that our inspired founders worked so diligently to guarantee every American citi-zen? The liberty and freedom of the individ-ual that has been totally unique throughout the world?

The answer is increasingly and alarm-ingly obvious.

Big Brother is becoming bigger and bolder by the day.

Jim Donovan Del Mar

Big Brother becoming bigger, bolder by the day

In 2008 the Del Mar City Council approved an ordinance known as “in lieu parking fees,” but a dollar amount for that fee was never set. At the March 18 City Council hearing, the council decided to move forward with gathering more information to determine what that fee should be. At that hearing, Kathleen Garcia, the city’s planning director, said: “The new fees could come back before the council and go into effect within next couple of months.”

A good place to gather this information regarding the appropriate dollar amount for an in-lieu parking fee is Del Mar’s Sidewalk Café Ordinance No. 810, adapted in August 2008. This ordinance, which is now paragraph 23.30 of the Del Mar Municipal Code, rents the public sidewalk to restaurants for $2.03 per square foot per year, or 17 cents per square foot per month.

This 17 cents per square foot includes not only rental of the public sidewalk, but it in-cludes the in-lieu fee for waiving the 1:90 parking requirements for outside dining as well. Thus the city’s job of determining the appropriate yearly in-lieu parking fee boils down to determining what portion of the $182.70 per year for allowing outdoor dining on 90 square feet of public sidewalk applies to rental of the sidewalk, and what portion of this amount ap-plies to the in-lieu parking fee. George Conkwright

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One Paseo, the Community Plan and smart growth In monitoring community reaction to the One Paseo proposal, a common theme often

emerges: that Kilroy should abide by the Carmel Valley Community Plan and underlying zoning regulations for the property. As a city planner, I’ve had the opportunity to analyze and update several community plans and zoning ordinances. I have also taken the time to review the Carm-el Valley Community Plan myself. Today I provide an overview on community plans and zon-ing, offer historical context to the Carmel Valley Community Plan, and discuss innovative plan-ning concepts such as smart growth and neotraditional planning.

Generally, a community plan is a long-range policy document that guides the overall devel-opment patterns for a community. It talks about community values, goals and objectives; land uses; and development controls. A community plan typically has a shelf life of around 15-20 years for the simple reason that, despite our best efforts to read the “community crystal ball,” things get built and conditions change. The plan needs to be monitored, revisited and readjusted over time to respond to current conditions, regional influences and updated planning para-digms. A community plan is never intended to be a fixed, static document.

The 1975 Community Plan for Carmel Valley is 38 years old, which is about 20 years past its expiration date. Yet it still contains meaningful policies and remains the guiding “contract” by which all development shall be judged. It was created at a time when Euclidian zoning was the model for how communities were planned and developed. At its core, Euclidian zoning separates all land uses (commercial, residential, institutional, etc.) into distinct zones. We see evidence of that planning concept in Carmel Valley where residents have to jump in their cars to access goods and services located in separate and distinct commercial areas.

Since the 1990s, new land use planning paradigms have taken hold for mixed-use, transit-oriented development, going by names like neotraditional planning, new urbanism, and smart growth. These principles offer more compact land use solutions to help avoid urban sprawl into outlying areas. Fundamentally, three key components characterize the concept of smart growth: a mix of land uses (e.g. commercial and residential uses in one development area), increased densities and transit options. Successful local examples of smart growth principles can be found in Little Italy, La Jolla and downtown Encinitas.

So what does all this mean to One Paseo? Because the Carmel Valley Community Plan is a general policy statement document, the plan can be interpreted to support arguments either for or against this project. I found two notable goals from our Community Plan to illustrate my point that relate directly to the One Paseo proposal: the need for a centrally located “town cen-ter” and a community transit system connecting the town center with individual neighbor-hoods. Objectives for the Community Plan state that the town center should meet the “social, cultural, and recreational needs of the community as well as the shopping function.” It goes on to say that “design which emphasizes vertical development as well as mixed uses is desirable and should be encouraged.” Regarding transit, Community Plan objectives state that “development of an interior transportation system for the town center, linkages from the town center to the residential areas, and the provision for a transit station site are necessary.”

In my opinion, the Del Mar Highlands Shopping Center has fallen short in achieving the vi-sion for a town center. While centrally located, it is an upscale strip mall surrounded by asphalt. One Paseo has the possibility of providing a Main Street heart of the community, with public uses areas, walkable streets and a “sense of place.” The One Paseo project does not currently have a public transit component; however, the city can (and should) mandate the use of a pub-lic/community shuttle that connects One Paseo with surrounding neighborhoods and to transit centers (bus and Coaster stops) in Sorrento Valley, Del Mar and Solana Beach.

I urge our community to embrace the conceptual idea of One Paseo as an opportunity for a mixed-use town center development with increased densities. From there, we can send a strong message as to what town center public benefits and amenities the community demands to be built into the project. Instead of opposing One Paseo on a Community Plan inconsistency find-ing, let’s find a way to come together to see what this project can do to fulfill our Community Plan’s vision and provide the most benefit to our community.

Robert ScottRobert Scott, AICP, LEED AP is an award-winning land use planner and LEED for Homes Green Rat-

er who founded his consulting business in 2006. He is not in any way affiliated with Kilroy Realty and has been a Carmel Valley resident since 2003. Bob can be reached at (858) 480-1098; www.rjsplanning.com.


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The last issue of this paper ran a letter from a land use planner asking our commu-nity to “Give One Paseo a chance.” While I applaud his stated intentions, Mr. Scott would be well advised to (1) do research in-dependent of that provided by his potential client, (2) focus on the real issue rather than brushing it aside, and (3) as a professional in the field, actually propose a creative option that addresses the interests of all parties.

To the first point, Mr. Scott contends that the impact of a 50 percent increase in the daily traffic between the freeway and our community’s major intersection will be largely mitigated by the differing traffic pat-terns of the project components. This is straight from the Kilroy PR playbook. Had he actually read the 4,000-plus-page draft EIR (not that I blame him for skirting this) he’d know that it identifies seven intersec-tions and road segments that would suffer from significant, unmitigatable impacts, with expected waits of up to 28 minutes in some places. And he’d likely be as skeptical as most of the attendees of the last planning board meeting were at the questionable as-sumptions and tortured logic employed by Development Services representatives to as-sure us that the developer’s proposed mitiga-tion measures would produce sufficient ca-pacity expansion, and perfect synchroniza-tion of all these separate points, all day, ev-ery day (including Del Mar fair and racing seasons) to keep this vastly pumped up traf-fic volume flowing freely.

The real issue however is Kilroy’s strate-gy, alarmingly successful with Mr. Scott and others, of insisting that there are only two alternatives to developing this key site: building the 550,000 square feet of entitled office space or setting aside that entitlement altogether and escalating all the way to a 1.4

million-square-foot mixed use development. This is not the case; there is another alterna-tive that addresses everyone’s goals.

In doing its purchase due diligence, Kil-roy undoubtedly discovered that the under-lying zoning on several of its parcels pro-vides for converting approximately 70,000 square feet of its office entitlement to retail use. In other words, under its current enti-tlement Kilroy already had access to two of the three elements necessary to build the mixed use project it envisioned. The appro-priate course then would have been to go to the Community Planning Board and pro-pose (1) converting that portion (or possibly more) of their office entitlement to retail, and (2) adding 150-200 residential units to fill out the mixed use concept.

The resulting One Paseo would look something like 450,000 square feet of office, 70,000-plus square feet of retail (about the size of Del Mar Plaza, which would easily ac-commodate a Trader Joe’s and additional Main Street restaurants and shops), and 150-200 residential units. By working within their entitlement rather than casting it aside, Kilroy would be proposing a mixed use, community-serving development that could be supported by the entire communi-ty, as well as most land use planners. Not only would it produce employment and tax base enhancements similar to those its larg-er scale project purports but also augment the social amenities Mr. Scott emphasized: a building scale more consistent with neigh-boring developments and a larger Main Street core and central gathering area to “create our community character.”

This approach would produce a “win” for Kilroy, too: a 50 percent-plus increase in building entitlement, many millions in sav-ings by doing a single-phase build-out, plus

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Give Carmel Valley a chance even more savings in lobbying, public relations and legal expenditures.

The way to make this project work for the community, as Mr. Scott exhorts us, is to work within the flexibility afforded by the current site entitlements. It’s not only a viable al-ternative to the two presented, it’s the preferable one by creating a winning outcome for both the community and the developer. Rather than continue a campaign that polarizes the community into those for and against their current proposal, Kilroy should unite the com-munity by collaborating with the planning board to expand its current entitlements as sug-gested. This would achieve a One Paseo with a scale and amenities that both retain and en-hance the character of our community, but without sacrificing so much of the livability we currently enjoy. Both the community and its planning board would welcome this approach.

Robert Freund Carmel ValleyRobert Freund is a 30-year veteran of the commercial real estate industry, having previously

served as a senior vice president of Colliers International and chief operating officer of Voit Real Es-tate Services. He can be reached at 858-792-2597 or [email protected].

Why has the neighborhood of Del Mar become so overwhelmed by governmental problems?

In the ’50s, Del Mar was a neighborhood in the county, like Rancho Santa Fe. Then there was an effort to annex to the City of San Diego as a neighborhood, like La Jolla.

But most residents voted to incorporate as a city in 1959, under the “Lakewood Plan,” in order to keep our neighborhood small and control our own destiny. The “Lakewood Plan” was named after the City of Lakewood, Calif., which contracted out all public func-tions to other jurisdictions and companies. The Del Mar water and sewer utilities were pri-vately owned by Sam Fraser, one San Diego County planner was assigned to Del Mar, fire services were supplied by the California Forestry Department, police were contracted with the county sheriff, and the government offices and council chambers were all located in the building now occupied by Rusty (surf shop) at 15th and Stratford. Del Mar government was really simple! Today, there are more costs and regulations of cities and counties than for individual neighborhoods.

Today, Del Mar is still the same small neighborhood, but we don’t control our own destiny! Somebody higher up tells us how many houses, including affordability, we have to have — because we are a city, not just a neighborhood. For some reason, our same small neighborhood requires a whole lot more employees, negotiating with council neighbors, not individually paying, wages and pensions that are overwhelming our resources — be-cause we are a city, not just a neighborhood. Our small neighborhood has to pay for parks, beach maintenance and lifeguards for the whole world to use — because we are a city, not just a neighborhood. No wonder the city is always talking about not financially making it as a city.

Other small neighborhoods — like Rancho Santa Fe, La Jolla and Fallbrook — seem to be controlling their own destiny without having all the problems and costs required of be-ing a city — by just being a neighborhood in a larger jurisdiction.

Maybe we should give up trying to be a city. It’s costing us too much to not really con-trol our own neighborhood destiny.

Maybe it’s time to discuss the issue. Ralph Peck, Del Mar

Maybe it’s time for Del Mar to stop trying to be a city


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Torrey Pines Head Varsity Football Coach Scott Ashby recently announced that a Fresh-men Falcon Football player orientation night will be held on Wednesday, May 1 , from 6-7 p.m. in the Varsity Football locker room. All interested current 8th graders and future Fal-cons football players are highly encouraged to bring their parents for an hour of discussion on the Summer Weight Lifting and Conditioning Program, summer practice schedule, the fall game schedule, and the expectations and dedication that is required to be a member of the Torrey Pines Football Program.

The Varsity Locker Room is located at the far southeastern corner of the Torrey Pines High School building and is accessed from “The Patch,” the field beyond the Right Field fence of the Torrey Pines Varsity Baseball Field. This will be a fun and informative evening for all those future Falcons yearning to get on the gridiron!

Meeting for prospective TPHS Freshmen Football Players is May 1 Former TPHS football coach looking for families to host Japanese players this summer

Former Torrey Pines football coach Ed Burke is hosting a high school football team from Japan in August and is looking for families to help out by hosting a player in the home. You would be asked to provide lodging, meals, and transportation to and from school during their stay.

The team is comprised of 19 senior boys and two senior girl trainers. They will arrive on Saturday, Aug. 17, and de-part early Tuesday, Sept. 3. The team will be attending school and practicing at Torrey Pines during their stay, so most of the transportation needs will be similar to that of your own family members attending high school.

Most of the meals will be breakfast and dinner types, al-though there will be times when the team will be attending special events where the meal will be supplied. A daily sti-pend of $15 to help offset your food and gas expenses will be provided.

This will be the seventh year that the senior members of the Ritsumeikan Uji Panthers football team selected Tor-rey Pines to be the host school for their “required” senior trip. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to get to know stu-dents from another culture, and to enjoy an experience that will provide lifetime memories for you and your family. Having done this six previous times with Falcon football parents, Coach Burke guarantees that it will be one of the best experiences of the year for you.

In order to insure that the players are in an English speaking environment, Ritsumeikan Uji is requesting that each student be housed separately.

If interested, please contact Ed Burke by phone at (760) 331-7412 or through email at [email protected].

Ravens Girls Basketball Summer Camp to be held at CCARavens Girls Basketball is holding a summer Ravens Girls Basketball Camp at Canyon

Crest Academy, the largest all girls basketball camp in San Diego. Campers of all ages and skill level are welcome for a week full of fun and friendship while learning and improving one’s skills in the game of basketball. The camp is for girls entering grades 3-12, and two ses-sions will be held: June 17-21, and Aug. 19-23.

The camp is run by CCA Ravens Girls Basketball Head Coach Mike Ramel, his coaching staff, and CCA Varsity players both past and present. The staff is excited to work with anoth-er great group of campers this year.

They will be covering the fundamentals of shooting, passing, dribbling, rebounding, pivoting, and man-to-man defense. There will also be portions of team offense and defense stressed daily. Individual instruction will be organized by each campers skill, size, age as much as possible. Cost is $150 per camper.

To register or for more information, visit: www.ccaravensbasketball.com; email: [email protected] or call 845-649-4193.

Ravens Girls Basketball is holding a summer Ravens Girls Basketball Camp at Canyon Crest Academy, the largest all girls basketball camp in San Diego.

There are still spots available at the Torrey Pines Field Hockey Clinic on Sat-urday, May 11 (8:30 to 11 a.m.), in Falcons Stadium on the Torrey Pines campus.

Designed for 3rd through 8th grade girls, the clinic will focus on the game, rules and basic skills of field hockey. It’s a great way for new players with no experience to try the sport for the first time, but is also a chance for those who played in junior high to sharpen their skills before high school tryouts in Au-gust.

Participants need to bring shin guards, mouth guard, water, sunscreen and a field hockey stick. If you don’t have a stick, one will be provided. Tennis shoes, turf shoes or cleats are okay. The cost is $50 per player.

Besides head coach Katy Moyneur – who played on an NCAA championship team at the University of Michigan – the coaching staff will comprise members of the Torrey Pines varsity team. The Falcons have won the San Diego CIF champi-

Torrey Pines Field Hockey Clinic for girls to be held on May 11

onship twice and sent more than 20 girls on to play NCAA college hockey.

To register please click onto the Torrey Pines Field Hock-ey website (http://tpfieldhockey.com) download the clinic form. Questions can be directed to Coach Moyneur at [email protected].


“Shrek, The Musical” tells the story of a swamp-dwelling ogre who goes on a life-chang-ing adventure to reclaim the deed to his land. Throw in a donkey who won’t shut up, a vil-lain with a short temper, a cookie with an attitude and more than a dozen other fairy tale misfits and you’ve got a situation that calls for a real hero. And who might that be? Shrek, of course. Auditions are April 27 from 2-5 p.m. and April 28 from 2-4 p.m.

Performances on July 19-28. Open to ages 8-20. To schedule audition go to www.act-sandiego.com or call 858-777-9899.

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Canyon Crest Academy Foundation to hold May 11 ‘Shoot for the Stars’ Celebration & Auction at the San Diego Air and Space Museum

Canyon Crest Academy Foundation will hold its largest annual fundraising event, “Shoot for the Stars” Celebration, at the San Diego Air and Space Museum on Saturday, May 11, from 6 - 10 p.m.

The Foundation raises the money that helps make the difference between an ordinary high school experience and the exceptional educational opportunities available to all Can-yon Crest students.

The event on May 11 is open to the community. Tickets are available at $75 per per-son. Guests will have full access to the Air and Space Museum exhibits during the event. Several teachers will be attending as well, representing all areas of Academics, Envision Arts, and Athletics. The proceeds of this event will support the immediate education needs of the 1,800+ students at CCA, which are not covered by the San Dieguito Union High School Dis-trict. Your support is needed to make this year’s event a success.

You can find more information about the event at http://ccagala.com or contact Teri Naftalin, Chair, at [email protected], Kelly Hughes at [email protected] or Erin Pynes @[email protected]. A North Shore 10U team (above) recently played an all-star 10U team from UC Del Sol

to kick off the 2nd Annual Larry Yandel Memorial Softball Tournament. Larry died from cancer two years ago and his wife Dawn now holds an adult coed softball tournament in memory of Larry and to raise funds for local charities and youth sports teams in the UC area. Larry was a coach and board member of youth baseball, basketball and football for many years.

The game went down 3-0 early but North Shore 10U battled back to tie the game in the 3rd inning. The teams went scoreless in the 4th but North Shore 10U put up 5 runs in the 5th and shut the other team down to seal the victory 8-3. Keke Ramsayer had the big hit with a bases clearing triple to right field.

Ashlyn Bowman, Lila Browne and Keke Ramsayer combined to only give up 3 runs in 5 innings. The girls played great defense and had some timely hitting.

North Shore 10U team members include: Ashley Alarcon, Sydney Ang, Taylor Ang, Ashlyn Bowman, Lila Browne, Sally Mueller, Jenna Remick, Keke Ramsayer, Halle Wood-hall, Caitlan Woodmansee.

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Del Mar Foundation and Del Mar Library to bring ‘Fancy Nancy’ to Del Mar April 28

The Del Mar Foundation, in partnership with the Friends of the Del Mar Library, will present a Fancy Nancy Parade Adventure with New York Times bestselling children’s illustra-tor Robin Preiss Glasser on Sunday, April 28, beginning at 1 p.m. The event will start at the Powerhouse Community Center, 1600 Coast Boulevard, Del Mar, 92014, and will continue with a parade up 15th Street to the Del Mar Plaza.

Join the party dressed in your Fancy Nancy finery and enjoy the Fancy Nancy activities offered by the Del Mar Library and the San Diego bookstore The Yellow Brick Road. After the activities, Glasser will delight her fans with a fun, interactive reading, after which she will lead Fancy Nancy fans and their families on the first-ever Fancy Nancy Parade along a short route through the streets of Del Mar.


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BY KAREN BILLINGWhen their daughter Natalie was

born six weeks premature in December 2002, Rancho Santa Fe resident Marjan Daneshmand considers herself “blessed” that she was as well equipped as one could be for such an unexpected and stressful birth.

Her husband, Sean, is a perinatolo-gist (a high-risk obstetrician), all of her family lived in San Diego for a solid sup-port system and they had the financial means to deal with the unexpected costs of a premature baby and a stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

For many families though, a prema-ture birth can come with overwhelming physical, mental and financial challeng-es. With Sean knowing firsthand what some families go through in his experi-ences with high-risk pregnancies and Marjan having gone through her own scare, the couple founded the nonprofit Miracle Babies in 2009.

The organization aims to provide support and help families meet their ba-sic expenses and avert financial disaster due to a stay in the NICU. Miracle Ba-bies is able to help — on average — 25 families a month, serving a population that is unfortunately growing.

More than 500,000 babies are born preterm in the United States and the number of preterm births have in-creased by 30 percent since 1980.

Due to her hus-band’s spe-cialty, Marjan knew she could go to Sean whenever she felt anything that seemed weird. On one such occasion, where she was feeling weird contrac-tions at 30 weeks, her husband suggest-ed they check her out with an ultra-sound.

“I will never forget the look on his face,” Marjan said. “I could tell he was scared and that it was something seri-ous.”

Marjan was admitted to the hospi-tal for 12 days due to a placental abrup-tion, a very rare condition that can be fatal for the baby. She was closely moni-tored until she went into early labor with Natalie and had to undergo an

emergency C-section.“It was pretty traumatic,” Marjan

said, of the neo-natal team waiting to immediately put Natalie on a breathing tube.

Fortunately, Natalie only had to spend one day in the NICU and Marjan spent five days in the hospi-tal.

“I was lucky that when the baby was born she was at my side and I was able to hold her,” Marjan said.

She knows many mothers are not able to hold their child when they are born premature and even though she experienced the NICU just briefly, she saw how emotional it can be and how helpless a parent can feel about that “lit-tle life.”

An extreme financial hardship can be loaded on top of the emotional stress of having a child in the NICU.

Medical costs through the first year of life are approximately 11 times high-er for a preterm versus a full-term baby. A baby can spend up to three months in

the NICU and if a working parent has to miss work to be with their newborn, they might not be able to afford their usual living expenses.

Miracle Babies programs include family assistance for necessary items such as medical equipment, prescription medicines and formula, supplies, sibling childcare, living expenses and transpor-tation.

Daneshmand recalls one mother who lived in Temecula and was only able to visit her baby once a week be-cause she couldn’t afford gas.

One story that Daneshmand can “never forget” is Miracle Babies mother Veronica Pacheco, who became ill with the H1N1 virus ( Swine Flu) and went into a coma while pregnant. The baby was delivered 10 weeks before full term through an emergency C-section. Pache-co’s son, Noah, weighed less than 3 pounds.

When she awoke, Pacheco didn’t even realize she had the baby and feared the worst. Her family was able to have a little breathing room financially and be

Miracle Babies born from experience

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Sean and Marjan Daneshmand, who founded Miracle Babies in 2009, are seen here with their daughter Natalie, who was born six-weeks premature. COURTESY

Local couple’s nonprofit offers support to families with critically ill newborns

Girl Scout organizes concert fundraiser

Moriah Seymann at the recent concert.Courtesy photo

BY KAREN BILLINGLocal Girl Scout Moriah Seymann, 11, recently or-

ganized a concert to benefit the Monarch School for homeless children as part of her efforts toward the Girl Scout Silver Award. Moriah, a sixth grade student at the San Diego Jewish Academy, held her “Song of the Butterfly” concert on April 13 to raise money for a mu-sic program for kindergarten through third grade stu-dents at the downtown school.

“I think it’s important to help them because the kids don’t have a lot of things special to call their own and I think music is a good thing to have as part of their lives,” said Moriah, who enjoys playing piano.

Moriah, a member of Girl Scout Troop 1706, spent close to three months planning the show. It was a huge undertaking, making some 30 cold calls to ven-ues and wading through rejections before pinning down the C3 Performing Arts Center in Mission Val-ley.

It also took some time to find the performer and sponsors. She selected the FanFaire Foundation’s Kids Playing for Kids program as her performers. Of the young performers in the show, two were Carmel Valley students: Christine Chen, a Canyon Crest junior on French horn, and Michael Chen, a Sage Canyon sixth grader on piano.

She found a sponsor in TakeLessons and orga-nized a silent auction for the event.

“My favorite part was seeing all the people that cared about me to show up and enjoy themselves at the concert,” Moriah said.

Around 70 people attended the show and she even received donations from people who were unable to attend but wanted to support her cause.

The funds raised will be used to buy recorders, music books and help pay for teachers.

The goal of the Silver Award is to create a project

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BY CLAIRE HARLINThere’s a unique tropical forest along the Peruvian bor-

der called the Cazaderos in southwest Ecuador that’s home to numerous species found only in that ecosystem, includ-ing the highest concentration of endemic bird species in South America. It’s rainy for half the year and dry for the rest, making it the perfect climate to produce corn — a crop that’s boomed over the past decade since the U.S. govern-ment has been offering subsidies to increase its production for use in biofuels. That’s also part of the reason such forests have been greatly reduced, and the 19,317-acre Cazaderos, which is of major biodiversity importance and has luckily remained unharmed, is at the top of the world’s conserva-tion list.

But the Solana Beach community, in conjunction with a small grassroots conservation group started 15 years ago by longtime local resident Ivan Gayler, has played a major role in preserving the Cazaderos while offsetting its own car-bon footprint. Since 2009, residents of Solana Beach alone have raised more than $24,000 to save about 500 acres of the rare deciduous forest. That equates to about 48,000 tons of carbon, considering the average person is estimated to use about 11 tons a year and there’s an estimated 100 tons pro-vided per acre of forest, said Solana Beach City Council-member Lesa Heebner.

Heebner came up with the idea behind the carbon off-set program after a moving speech by Gayler about his orga-nization, the Del Mar-based Nature and Culture Internation-al (NCI). NCI has helped save more than 9 million acres of rainforest since Gayler, also known in the community for developing the Del Mar Plaza, founded the organization in 1997.

“After hearing Ivan speak the first time, I was moved. Most people who were there were in tears,” said Heebner. “It just hit me that Solana Beach would be a great sister city. I wondered if we could buy acreage the size of our city.”

After approaching Gayler with the idea right after his speech and then presenting the idea to the City Council, the city gave the carbon offset initiative two thumbs up and a campaign followed.

While the city has successfully offset its estimated car-bon footprint, it wants to keep raising money as a symbol that people continue to use more and more carbon, year af-

Successful carbon offset program only part of Del Mar organization’s global conservation efforts

Charles Smith and Ivan Gayler present a recent lecture. Courtesy phototer year, as rainforest continues to disintegrate. And Gayler said he thinks the city’s efforts thus far are nothing compared to what they could be.

“It shows how much impact a community can have,” he said. “But that was not even a huge campaign … If we went door to door in Solana Beach we could conserve many times what we’ve already done. If we could get all the high school kids involved, we’d be shocked at how much we can conserve … It’s just a joy for this to happen so close to home.”

Gayler, who has lived locally for 55 years, has employed conservation methods that set NCI apart from many much larger conservation groups and have astonished major players in the environmental realm for years. NCI board member Charles Smith, for example, used to do reforestation work with the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and when he met Gayler and learned of NCI’s efforts in 2007, he said he and Edward Wilson, who is often called the “father of sociobiology,” were “flabbergasted at how effective Ivan was being with NCI.”

With a staff of only five in its Del Mar office but dozens more in its 11 offices through-out South America, NCI employs South American conservationists who know the ins and outs of buying land and using political influence to create reserves in place such as Peru, Co-lumbia and Ecuador. That’s what sets NCI apart from many other U.S. conservation groups.

“Our conservationists are leaders in their communities,” said Smith. “They can make deals and put in large reserves through political influence with no monetary cost … It would be impossible if you sent down Americans to do that. It’s their area and it’s they who have

to preserve it.”Smith grew up in Ran-

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“Conservation is one of the great tasks of the 20th century,” said Smith. “We have problems in education, healthcare and poverty, and not that those aren’t impor-tant problems, but the prob-lem of conservation has an end date on it. NCI will not be able to do what it does in 20 years … Conservation is not a problem that’s been around for hundreds of years, and we are running out of time.”

For more information on the Solana Beach carbon offset project, visit www.so-lanabeachappeal.org and for more information on NCI, visit www.natureandculture.org.


BY KELLEY CARLSON

F rom the ocean floor and straight to its door, Sally’s Seafood on the Water serves fresh catch from the local docks.

Located on the Manchester Grand Hyatt property with one of the largest downtown waterfront patios, the restaurant is conveniently just around the bend from the Chesapeake Fish Co., which has access to 90 vessels and processes seafood daily.

“We want you to have the best quality, the best food you can get,” Chef-de-Cuisine Laura De Martin said.

Sally’s offers California/Mediterranean-style cuisine in an upscale-casual environment that is suitable for most, whether it’s couples on dates or families from out of town.

The upper-and-lower dining rooms are spacious with an industrial-yet-modern design. Large, vibrant, original paintings by artist Craig Kindel grace the walls, and floor-to-ceiling windows allow for plenty of sun by day.

In the evening, the lights dim and candles glow atop classic marble tabletops. Servers constantly traverse the marble-and-stone floor to check on guests and deliver dishes that are of high standards.

“Nothing goes out that’s ‘OK’ — it’s perfect or it’s not (going out to the table),” De Martin said.

The fare is made with sustainable, organic ingredients that are obtained as locally as possible; the menu changes seasonally in reflection of ingredient availability.

As guests sit at the table and peruse the menu, they can nibble on warm slices of Lemon Thyme Ciabatta, served with sweet butter and a mixture of sea salt and pink peppercorns to sprinkle on top.

To further whet their appetites, there are starters such as the creamy Smoked Bay Scallop Chowder with black pepper creme fraiche, and Shiitake Chicken Spring Rolls that can be dipped in a cilantro sauce. There are also several types of salads, including California Greens, with long cucumber slices, chunks of tomato and a light lemon-herb dressing.

Sally’s has a variety of entrees — including meat, vegetarian, and gluten- and dairy-free — but naturally, seafood is among its specialties. There’s the homemade Dungeness Crab Pasta, a unique combination with oven-dried tomatoes, corn gremolata, soft shell crab and bottarga; the tender Pacific Ahi Tuna on a bed of purple mashed potatoes in miso-mustard sauce; and delicate Diver Scallops in a miso-mustard sauce with thyme roasted carrots and sautéed broccolini.

A staff-recommended wine that will pair with pretty much anything on the menu is

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To close out the meal, there are a number of desserts. Among them are the sweet-and-salty Crème Fraiche Pana Cotta, topped with black bowfin caviar and salted caramel sauce; Creamsicle Gelato; and Banana Trifle, featuring layers of banana mousse, chocolate cake and caramelized banana.

Children have two menus from which to choose: one designed by Alice Waters that consists of organic foods, and the other based on Sally’s entrees.

Lunch and dinner are served daily, and breakfast is offered during weekends.

For a special group dining experience, there’s a Chef’s Table next to the kitchen. Patrons can experience the sounds and sights of the chefs in action while dining from a five-course tasting menu that’s tailored to specifications with an optional wine pairing.

Those who are seeking a more laid-back setting can venture into the bar to catch the latest sports and news coverage on TV while nursing a local draft or a specialty cocktail, such as the carbonated Blueberry Mojito garnished with lime.

But to truly get the essence of Sally’s, General Manager Chris Reid recommends sitting on the heated front patio for al fresco dining. The waterfront views are great for people watching, he said, and it’s dog-friendly. Live music from local bands nearby can be heard during the weekends, and as the weather warms, guests will also detect sounds from Summer Pops concerts at the nearby Embarcadero Marina Park.

The patio is the perfect spot to nosh on Crab Cakes with tomato relish and avocado aioli, Reid said. He also suggests sampling the unusual Kazoo Roll, a mixture of salmon, mango, avocado, red-leaf lettuce and rice inside a soy wrap and topped with crushed pistachio.

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■ Signature Dishes: Crab Cakes, Baja Cobb Salad, Fish and Chips, Lobster Pot Pie (seasonal), Dungeness Crab Pasta

■ Open Since: 1992 ■ Reservations: Yes

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The dining room features large windows with views of the marina. PHOTOS BY KELLEY CARLSON

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“Like the legendary French pig that can sniff out the se-cretly hidden, highly-prized truffle, we at the French Nose sniff out the very best of French-made products and French-inspired items throughout the world and bring them to you,” Morgan said.

The store ranges from the whimsical, like a flying pig statue, to the one-of-a-kind find — a Sohmer baby grand pi-ano from the early 1900s with an intricately carved wood body and keys made of real ivory.

Morgan combs flea markets and estate sales for her vin-tage pieces, but also has lots of contemporary and new items from decorative pillows to roomy ceramic mugs for café au laits.

“I’ve always had a love of French items, a love of design and décor,” said Morgan, who has lived in the Rancho Santa Fe area for 26 years.

She has been a Francophile since she spent time at La Sorbonne in Paris in the 1970s, studying art history while working as an au pair and relies on her discerning nose to find the best items to fill her new store.

The French Nose has come together in a dizzying three-month time span, said Morgan.

It wasn’t until the holiday season last year, she started thinking seriously about the possibility of opening her own store.

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Andrea Morgan opened The French Nose on Via de la Valle on April 21. Photo/Karen Billing

She had been working at Lo Lo Callisto in Del Mar Highlands but also had a back-ground in real estate, design and business, designing a makeup kit that sold on QVC in the 1990s.

A girlfriend offered to provide financial backing for The French Nose and on New Years Day 2013 she set out looking for the location.

As Morgan frequently shopped at Albertsons, she saw that the storefront next door had been vacant for about a year. With its huge 40-foot tall window spaces in front, it was a per-fect showcase for a furnishings store, she said.

Since taking over the space, she painted the walls a Parisian blue and put in Venetian tile flooring and a faux fireplace. For each section of the store, she designed different pat-terns for the tile flooring — from herringbone tiles to hexagon — to denote a different area of the home.

Currently on display is a pair of vintage scroll metal chairs from the 1960s with black and white herring-bone covers and a duo of leopard print French empire chairs that she scored at an estate sale in Beverly Hills.

Morgan was “blessed” to find a full dining set at an estate sale — a 10-foot-long Avignon double pedestal dining table that pulls out to 14 feet with nine chairs, a bench and matching con-sole and display case from the late 1800s.

“Everything has its own little story,” Morgan said of the vintage and antique finds, giving a pair of lion statues a pat on the head.

In addition to furniture, the store will also carry soaps and candles, linens, coffee table books, coffee, teas and chocolates — items Morgan said will make per-fect gifts to be picked up in her very convenient loca-tion.

Morgan hopes to hold a Grand Opening party in May. The store also does consignment items, offering 75 percent back to the con-signee. For more informa-tion, call (858) 759-1761.


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Solana Beach to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style on May 4The Solana Beach Cinco de Mayo Community Fiesta will be held on Saturday, May 4,

from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at La Colonia Park, 715 Valley Avenue. This alcohol-free community event will offer many exciting cultural opportunities for the whole family.

Highlighting the entertainment stage schedule will be the festive sounds of Mariachi Orgullo de San Diego (1-3 p.m.), followed by a performance by a professional Ballet Folklori-co dance group (3-4 p.m.). These traditional and colorful Mexican heritage performances will be sure to inspire a cultural appreciation of Mexico.

Fun activities for the whole family will include: Piñatas; game booths with prizes; Mexi-can craft booths; face painters; and fun jumps for the kids.

Authentic Mexican food and beverage favorites will be provided.Free vision and health checks will be provided by the Del Sol Lions Club.Come join the City of Solana Beach in celebrating Cinco de Mayo while enjoying au-

thentic Mexican food and family entertainment!Community sponsors include: The Boys and Girls Club of San Dieguito; Solana Beach

Parks and Recreation Commission; St. Leo’s and St. James Youth Dance Groups; Public Arts Advisory Commission; Don Chuy Restaurant; Rudy’s Taco Shop; Tony’s Jacal Restaurant; Del Sol Lions Club.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the city web site at www.cityofsolanabeach.org or call the Parks and Recreation Department at 858-720-2453.

Cinco de Mayo party to be held in Pacific Highlands RanchThe Pacific Highlands Ranch Neighborhood Watch group and the Arabella Men’s Club

will host their fourth annual Cinco de Mayo Block Party on Saturday, May 4, in the PHR neighborhood of Arabella.

The party will be held at the corner of Cornflower and Cape Jewels Trail from 2-8 p.m. Fun activities for the kids include face painting, a jumpee, and crafts. For the adults there will be margaritas and a tequila bar. There will also be a jalapeño-eating contest and a guaca-mole contest.

Admission is $5 for adults and kids under 12 are free. A portion of the proceeds will go to the San Diego Crime Victims Fund.

Del Mar Rose Society 2013 Rose Show on exhibit at Del Mar Library April 26-27

Hundreds of locally grown roses will be on exhibit for public viewing at the Del Mar County Library Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27. This exhibition consists of entries by members of the Del Mar Rose Society for their 2013 Rose Show.

Jean Friedman, president of the Del Mar Rose Society, and Kathy Reed, chairperson of the DMRS 2011 Rose Show, invite the public to view this annual rose show at the Del Mar Library. The library and the Del Mar Rose Society further the goals of their public educa-tional charters by sharing this rose exhibit with the community. The library has graciously offered to keep these beautiful, locally grown roses on display for two days (April 26 and 27), which will enable the public to view a wide assortment of beautiful specimens that are grown in the San Diego area.

The DMRS membership has expanded over the years, and visitors to the show will be amazed at the different roses that are grown. For anyone who is interested in adding to their own gardens, this is the perfect opportunity to see what is available, whether it is an old favorite or new introduction.

Included in the exhibit will be a section with the winning entries from the many cate-gories for both novice and experienced rose growers. Among the categories will be: hybrid teas, floribundas, shrubs, climbing roses, old garden roses, miniatures and mini-floras. Artis-tic classes will include “spring bouquet” and “picture frame.” Another popular category de-voted to “fragrance” will be judged by DMRS members. The show will be judged by accred-ited ARS horticultural and arrangement judges, Walt and Diana Kilmer. Judging will take place the evening of Thursday, April 25.

The Del Mar County Library is located at 1309 Camino del Mar, in Del Mar. The library will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 26 and 27 for public viewing of the roses.

Solana Beach Garden Club to hear the “A-Z’s” of raised gardens May 1

Next Wednesday evening, May 1, at 7 p.m., garden specialist Andi MacLeod will give a hands-on demonstration of all you need to know about raised gardens. MacLeod is a Master Composter and garden teacher. She will share soil building techniques which she has used to enhance the gardens at El Camino Creek and Cardiff Elementary schools, the Boys and Girls Club gardens in Solana Beach and private residences in the area. She will address pest prevention, irrigation and planting of the beds and says her garden secrets may be used for both raised beds and in-ground beds. The public is invited to attend. The Garden Club meets at 533 Lomas Santa Fe Drive at the “Little Yellow Cottage.”

Tickets now available to Del Mar’s Summer Solstice eventDel Mar Village Association is celebrating the arrival of summer with its annual Sum-

mer Solstice event on June 20, a festive affair featuring live music, a silent auction, wine and beer tasting, and culinary creations from Del Mar’s finest restaurants. The event takes place just steps from the beach at Powerhouse Park, giving guests front-row seats to sunset views. Early bird tickets can be purchased for $55 to ensure entrance to this exciting event, which has sold out the past two years. After May 1, ticket prices become $65. For the ultimate Sum-mer Solstice experience, VIP tables are available for $800 for parties of 10.

Summer Solstice provides guests with the unique opportunity to socialize, listen to mu-sic, eat, drink, and partake in a silent auction, all while celebrating near the beach. The ocean-view backdrop makes for a delightful ambiance, perfect for welcoming the start of summer. Upon entrance, guests will receive a stemless glass to sample wines and beers from over 15 wineries and breweries. More than 20 local restaurants, will be serving signature tastes, while Semisi & FulaBula plays live steel drum music. The Summer Solstice Silent Auc-tion is one of DMVA´s largest fundraisers. It features items from local businesses and DMVA sponsors. Proceeds from the event benefit the Del Mar Village Association, a non-profit orga-nization dedicated to enhancing the vitality of the historic Del Mar Village.

Summer Solstice will be held on June 20 from 5-8 p.m. at Powerhouse Park. The park is located at 1658 Coast Boulevard, Del Mar, CA 92014.

Don’t miss out on this year’s festivities by ordering tickets here: http://www.silentauc-tionpro.com/onlineticketpurchase.php?groupId=271. Or visit the Del Mar Village Commu-nity & Visitor Center at 1104 Camino Del Mar, Suite 1 to purchase your tickets today!

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On Wednesday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m., Warwick’s and Words Alive will present “Khaled Hosseini in Conversation.” Warwick’s and Word’s Alive are pleased to welcome back Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” as he discusses his newest novel, “And the Mountains Echoed,” with Martha Barnette, the co-host of radio’s A Way with Words. The event will be held at the Museum of Contempo-

rary Art San Diego, 700 Pros-pect St., La Jolla,

This is a ticketed event. Tickets are $32 per person and are available only through Eventbrite at http://khaledhosseinisd.eventbrite.com. Tickets include a copy of “And the Mountains Echoed.”

“And the Mountains Echoed” is an unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children, but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hos-seini explores the many ways in which families nur-ture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one anoth-er; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Fol-lowing its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe — from Kabul to Paris to San Fran-cisco to the Greek island of Tinos — the story expands gradually outward, becom-ing more emotionally com-plex and powerful with each turning page.

Words Alive is a non-profit reading advocacy or-ganization that inspires a commitment to reading and develops shared reading ex-periences for children, youth and adults. To learn more, visit their website at http://www.wordsalive.org

‘The Kite Runner’ author to discuss new novel at local event

Photo Video West to be held April 27-28 at DM Fairgrounds Photo Video West, the West Coast’s largest educational photo and video show, will take

place April 27-28 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Photo Video West serves as a forum for professional photographer and videographers to

see the best brands, source for deals on equipment and gain valuable education from some of the best-known names in the industry. The two-day event also puts a greater emphasis on videography, offering educational seminars and how-to instruction on various video top-ics. Advance tickets for Photo Video West are $20 for a weekend pass and $12 for single day admission. For more information on Photo Video West and to purchase tickets, visit www.photovideowest.com.

La Jolla Art Association presents ‘Capture the Light’The La Jolla Art Association will feature the talent of plein air artists in the San Diego

area in their next show, “Capture the Light.” This is a juried show with awards including a $200 First Prize. The show date is from May 7 to June 2. On Saturday, May 18, there will be a Gala Opening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The La Jolla Art Gallery is open free to the public from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. It is located at 8100 Paseo del Ocaso in La Jolla, near the La Jolla Shores. The phone number is 858-459-1196; www.lajollaart.org


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San Diego’s Family Law experts are making it easier than ever for our men and women in uniform to get quality legal help. The partners at Moore, Schulman, and Moore are offer-ing a 10 percent discount on legal fees and a free 30-minute phone consultation for new cli-ents in the military. “We want to make sure our servicemen and women can afford superior legal services when they need help with legal issues ranging from Estate Planning to Family Law. Our men and women in uniform sacrifice so much for our community and our coun-try, we want them to know we are there for them as well,” says founding partner Peggy Moore. Because of the time servicemen and women spend on deployment their divorce and family law issues can take longer to resolve which can cause their legal costs to escalate. Moore, Schulman, and Moore understands the challenges that come with a divorce involv-ing a member of the military and can use their decades of experience to get them through the process as quickly as possible. The family law firm has former military members on their staff so they are sensitive to the needs and challenges service members face. Each of the partners has been selected and recognized by the Daily Transcript as a Top Attorney for Fam-ily Law in San Diego County. Peggy Moore was selected as one of the top 25 female attor-neys in San Diego by the New York Times. Visit www.msmfamilylaw.com; www.facebook.com/msmfamilylaw

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Santa Fe Christian Schools recently announced its summer program schedule for 2013. Registration is now open for Santa Fe’s Extended Studies Program, serving all San Diego area students, with 60 course selections for pre-school through 12th grade. A variety of academ-ic, athletic and enrichment opportunities are available and include camps and clinics de-signed to explore new interests, develop new athletic skills or get a jump-start for the next school year. Athletic camps include basketball, lacrosse, water polo, volleyball and sports conditioning. Musical theatre, video production, Legoland robotics and keyboarding are a few of many enrichment courses offered and academic courses in math and history are also available. For more information or to enroll online, please visit www.sfcs.net.

CCA Ecoclub to hold e-waste recycling event April 25, 26The Canyon Crest Academy Ecoclub is holding an e-waste recycling event (no batteries

or lightbulbs) on Thursday, April 25, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Carmel Valley Farmers Mar-ket and on Friday, April 26, from 2-4 p.m. at Canyon Crest Academy, next to the Prosceni-um Theater. The Farmers Market is located on the blacktop at the northwest end of the Can-yon Crest campus, just to the right of the main entrance. Canyon Crest Academy is located at 5951 Village Center Loop Rd, San Diego, CA 92130.

Summer Extended Studies Program open at Santa Fe Christian Schools

San Diego Musical Theatre recently announced its second production of the 2013 sea-son, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” running May 10-26 at the Birch North Park Theatre.

Carmel Valley performers in the production include: Katelyn Katz (Brigitta von Trapp); Jonas McMullen (Friedrich von Trapp); Debra Wanger (Sister Margaretta).

For individual or group tickets contact the Administrative Office at 858-560-5740 or visit SDMT online at www.sdmt.org. Birch North Park Theatre is located at 2891 University Avenue, San Diego, 92104.

Local residents to perform in San Diego Musical Theatre’s ‘The Sound of Music’

The Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve Docent Society and Torrey Pines Association present the fourth annual Art in the Pines to be held Saturday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Festival is free and open to all and will be held at the Reserve just south of the Lodge.

Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is located between La Jolla and Del Mar, north of San Diego. From Hwy 5, exit on Carmel Valley Road and drive west for about 1.5 miles till you reach the Coast Highway 101. Turn left and proceed along the beach for about a mile. The park entrance is on your right just before the highway begins to climb the Torrey Pines grade. The street address is 12600 North Torrey Pines Road, San Diego, 92037.

For more information: 858-755-2063, [email protected], artinthepines.org

Art in the Pines Spring Art Festival & Sale is May 4-5

Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 4, as the Del Mar Heights PTA invites you to the “Living in Paradise” Home Tour and Sunset Cocktail Party. This year’s Home Tour will feature six exquisite homes designed by prominent local architects Brian Church, Dean Meredith, Jenni-fer Boyln, Doug Austin and Ione Stiegler. Come take a peek inside these spectacular homes showcasing the various home styles this “paradise” has to offer.

Additionally, local artist Betsy Schulz has invited participants to explore her tranquil back-yard and art studio. Be prepared to be amazed! The Home Tour will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by the Sunset Cocktail Party at the Del Mar Plaza Ocean View Terrace. Come join the Del Mar Heights PTA for an eventful day, followed by an evening of delicious food, festive drinks, music, and a silent auction. Del Mar Heights families and supporters love this town and school, so come and celebrate this special day.

Prices are $35 for the home tour, $45 for the party, or $75 for both. For more information and to purchase tickets online, visit www.delmarheightspta.com. All of the proceeds from these events will go directly to support and enhance the learning of the children in our community.

Del Mar Heights PTA Home Tour Fundraiser to be held May 4

Upcoming April events at Del Mar Fairgrounds include Horse Shows; Kids Expo, Wine Show and more

The following events will be held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in April: • Del Mar National Horse Show Dressage WeekApril 25 - 28; For more information, visit http://www.delmarnational.com • San Diego Kids Expo & FairApril 27 - 28; For more information, visit http://www.SanDiegoKidsExpo.com • The San Diego Wine ShowApril 27 - 28; For more information, visit http://www.sandiegowineshow.com


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BY DIANA SAENGERFamily secrets can either tear a family

apart or bring them closer together. That’s the theme of playwright Jon Robin Baitz’s 2011 “Other Desert Cities,” directed by Richard Seer and opening April 27 at the Old Globe Theatre. The play went to Broad-way only months after it premiered and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Dra-

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a well-to-do couple in Palm Springs ex-cited that their chil-dren are coming home for Christ-mas. After a few days of tennis and humorous conver-sation, their joy of being together be-gins to unravel. That’s because Brooke (Dana Green) has an-nounced she’s writ-ten a memoir that she won’t show her parents.

“It seems to be an indictment of the parents over

their treatment of Brooke’s older brother and the event of his running away and eventually, suicide,” said Robert Foxworth, Old Globe Associate Artist who plays Ly-man, Brooke’s father. “At one point, Brooke had a mental breakdown and Lyman and her mother spent a year back East as part of her rescue.”

Drama builds in this home where ev-eryone has an iconic past. Her younger brother (Andy Bean) is a reality show pro-ducer; her dad a former movie actor turned politician; and her mother (Polly-Kanids) a 1960’s-era comedy writer turned socialite. Brooke’s sister, Silda, (Robin Pearson Rose), freshly out of rehab, is also at home for a visit.

Revelations in Brooke’s memoir changes the dynamics of the family, especially for her dad.

“They’ve been very close historically,” Foxworth said. “But she has a memory of her dad with the older son that she writes about negatively in her book. It’s a disas-trous slap in the face to her father because he’s been very caring of her.”

The family’s politics also fuels the gath-ering. Movie actor dad became involved

with politics and was a friend of the Reagan family, head of the Republican National Committee, and at one time, an ambassa-dor.

“Parents on the right, the children very much on the left (so naturally), they are in disagreement about the war in Iraq,” Fox-worth said. “Everyone sees the same event from a different perspective.”

Foxworth said with the play’s over-arch-ing dark tones, patrons will have lots to think about after leaving the theater.

“Many will realize, we’re not alone,” he said. “We all have problems, many with-in our families, and to some degree, even those who might seem immune because of status or power. There will be questions about where we stand in terms of how we tell the real story of our families without hurting people. Politics will also be on peo-ple’s minds, especially concerning how par-ents’ politics can affect a family.”

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Pacifica Del Mar’s catering menu offers a variety of delicious recipes.

One of San Diego’s most celebrated restaurants, Pacifica Del Mar, has ex-panded its passion for sea-sonal food and fresh seafood by offering it beyond the walls of its renowned Del Mar Plaza location. Pushing the culinary envelope in the event market, Pacifica Cater-ing & Events offers an in-spired and tasteful culinary experience that will leave guests wanting more. The talented culinary team led by chefs Chris Idso and Stephanie O’Mary Berwald fuel the creativity behind the menus, bringing the best from their kitchen to each event.

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to fit every occasion. Pacifica Pick-Up offers a simple solu-tion for events requiring ready-to-serve items, while their Cocktail Party menu is perfect for those seeking a more so-cial gathering. Table Service menus give guests the ultimate Pacifica experience, featuring multi-course selections ac-companied by professional catering staff. In addition to their delicious and personalized fare, events can be paired with the city’s best florists, and décor and rental companies to create memorable affairs. From private dinner parties to weddings and galas, the best times happen in good compa-ny and with Pacifica Catering & Events.

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Congratulate your senior and support Dollars for Scholars with a sign and balloons

Do you know any seniors graduating from Torrey Pines High School? Make them smile by giving them a “Congratulations TPHS Grad” yard sign and balloons. “Congratulations TPHS Grad” is a 18 X 24 yard sign and gold mylar balloons. The sign and balloons will be delivered and placed in the front yard during the week before graduation. All proceeds go to support TPHS Dollars for Scholars Senior Scholarships. To place your order, please visit www.tphsdfs.org.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was recently held by the Solana Beach Chamber of Com-merce at Real Food & Spirits.

The restaurant of-fers something for every-one — a robust salad menu and light wood-fired pizza, artisan-style pizza that’s great for take-out, gelato for the kids, and house-ground burgers with applewood smoked bacon in the meat.

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All are invited to a special engagement on Wednesday, May 8, with Dr. Benjamin Carson, a neurosurgeon, motivational speaker, philanthro-pist, and author. The event will be hosted by the Tri-City Tea Party.

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For the second consecutive year, The Grand Del Mar, San Diego’s Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond resort, has earned the City of San Diego’s “Recycler of the Year Award” for its ambitious recycling and conservation programs.

Awards were given to San Diego busi-nesses during the 21st Annual Waste Reduc-tion and Diversion Awards Program, present-ed by Mayor Bob Filner and the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department, on Earth Day, April 22, at the San Diego Inter-national Airport. Each year, these awards pay tribute to innovative companies that have im-plemented successful waste reduction, reuse, recycling and recycled product procurement programs.

According to Tom Voss, president of The Grand Del Mar, the resort has continued its keen focus on conserving natural resources by expanding its conservation programs and hir-ing a full-time sustainability manager during the last year. “We are continually looking for ways to reduce our energy consumption and

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carbon footprint, as well as encouraging our staff to be aware and make lifestyle chang-es,” said Voss. “We are especially proud that we have partnered with San Diego Rescue Mission to donate excess materials to those in need.”

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Last week, management from The Grand Del Mar assisted with its annual “Plant the Preserve” habitat restoration event within the 4,100-acre Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve. Pictured left to right: Kenan Simmons, executive director of sales & marketing; Nenad Praporski, executive director of rooms; James Tosh, sustainability manager


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On Franz’s watch, the five-star-rated center has re-ceived several national quality awards and was recently honored with the US News and World Report rating of a “Best Nursing Home.”

As National Nurse’s Week approaches, May 6-12, and Nursing Home Week closely follows, it’s timely to cele-brate the successes of the center.

“This is the time of year that we spotlight our staff and thank them for the tremendous job they are doing,” said Franz.

Half of the facility is devoted to rehabilitation. For ex-ample, a patient who has fallen and broken a hip will be admitted to stay a short time during recuperation. In con-trast are those patients in the long-term stays, some who have no family, or they require so much medical care, or have Alzheimer’s disease or dementia-related disorders, that they are unable to stay at home, said Franz. There are over 100 staff members and several part-timers who pro-vide around-the-clock care.

“We have one staff member for each bed in the facili-ty,” Franz explained.

Setting the center apart from other nursing and reha-bilitation facilities is its out-patient license. “You don’t have to be a resident here to get award-winning therapy. Before you need to go to the hospital we can get you tuned up,” said Franz.

The center prides itself on providing top-rated medi-cal care, respect, a commitment to quality and comfort, and security for its residents. But it’s not only the medical care that is outstanding, the center’s activities program, headed up by Christy Floyd, is innovative and fun.

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Award-winning Encinitas Nursing and Rehabilitation Center considered ‘a family serving families’

In partnership with St. James Academy, the center welcomes its students to visit one Friday each month. Each child is engaged in a variety of activities and art projects with their adopted “grandparent.” San Dieguito

Academy high school students also earn community ser-vice hours by volunteering doing one-on-one activities with residents.

There is a karaoke singing happy hour program each week and once a month residents and their guests are treated to themed dinners. The last two years have had a theme of trips around the world, with dinners featuring specialties from far-flung places. The Director of Dietary Services, Danilo Lee, is famous for his “floral bouquets” crafted with vegetables that enhance the fancy dinners.

This year’s dinner theme is murder mystery with staff acting out the murders and the residents having to guess who did it, said Franz. “One of the staff will be laying on the floor with ketchup smeared on them, supposedly stabbed in the back with scissors. It’s very entertaining.”

Franz came to nursing via an administrative route. Af-ter his undergraduate years at Brigham Young University, studying business, he then earned an MBA from the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh. He worked in the Human Resources department of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for four years. Then 10 years ago he took a night job in a nursing home — as a nurse’s aid — to see what it was like. The learning experience was invaluable, said Franz. “I un-derstood fully what it was like to be on the front lines.”

When Franz got the position of executive director at Encinitas Nursing and Rehabilitation Center any story that the staff would tell him, he could match, he said. “And if I ask them to do anything they know that I’ve done it before. But I’m a better manager than I am a CNA, (Certified Nursing Assistant)” he joked.

Despite the challenges brought on by the current changes in health care and the decline of the nuclear fam-ily, the center — considered a family serving families in a home-like setting — remains a vital source of compassion-ate, dignified care. “Nursing homes aren’t what you think they are, anymore!” Franz said.

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Ashley Falls School families and supporters enjoyed a festive afternoon April 21

at the school’s Spring Carnival.The event featured new at-

tractions such as a game truck, laser tag, go carts, rock climbing wall, remote control cars, ham-ster balls (inflatable human spheres), and many fun carnival games.

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Members of the North Country Dance Arts compe-tition team won multiple awards at the recent Count Down National Dance Com-petition Tour event held re-cently in Fallbrook. Over seven studios competed with some from as far away as Anaheim and Temecula. The venue includes some of the most competitive perfor-mances in the country. Var-ious Carmel Valley residents were amongst the dozen dancers from NCDA who participated and placed. The categories included so-loist and group acts in the areas of tap, jazz, lyrical and contemporary.

Melanie An, a sixth grader at Ocean Air Elemen-tary School, performed a tap dance to “I Wish.” Jacob So-ble, a seventh grader at Car-mel Valley Middle School, tapped to “Fishtrap.” Both placed in the Top Ten for their division. Other win-ners included Rosemarie Marabella with a Scholar-ship Award, Christine Mara-bella, Melissa Schneider, Zackary Sommer, Lilah Hor-ton, Neekon Fooladi, and the NCDA Jazz Line group also performed and placed.

The dancers were all ex-cited to have fared so well amidst the fierce competi-tion. Melanie said, “This was a fun and challenging competition but, what makes it extra special is hav-ing our dance teacher Louis McKay with us back stage as we prepare to perform. He helps us prepare mentally which is just as important as knowing the dance routine.”

With over 20 years in Carmel Valley, NCDA is one of the most established and well known dance studios in the area. It was started by husband and wife duo Louis and Tanya McKay who are both dancers with extensive backgrounds. Louis was choreographer and lead singer to Debbie Reynolds traveling with her show for eight years in the early 1980s. Tanya is a classically-trained ballerina in the Va-ganova style. The current lo-cation is the last of what at one point included four stu-dios for the dancing couple who still teach various class-es.

When asked how he de-scribes the studio atmo-sphere, Louis replied, “Home, we are all like a family with a true sense of caring. Our motto has al-ways been ‘When Love and Art Come Together, expect a Masterpiece.’ As owners, in-structors and choreogra-phers, we take pride in

(Above) Count Down competition winners Melanie An, Jacob Soble, Melissa Schneider and Rosemarie Marabella; (Right) North County Dance Arts ownersTanya and Louis McKay with student Melanie An.

Dancers at local North County Dance Arts studio win at competition

bringing a passion for dance into the studio every day.” He adds, “It’s the loving environment that we, our staff and our stu-dents create that makes North County Dance Arts desirable. The studio has always been a happy and healing place for us and our dancers. Our goal is to continue to create excel-lent dancers and people.”

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Canyon Crest Academy’s Envision program recently held a landmark musical produc-tion of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, directed by Principal Brian Kohn. Look for a story and more photos on this unique event in the next issue of this newspaper (May 2). (Above) Vocalists David Ahmadian and Justin Verity warm up before the show. Photo/McKenzie Images

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Skyline Elementary School stu-dents in one of the fourth-grade classes recently created a

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Those desiring to be heard in favor of, or in opposition to, this item will be given an opportunity to do so during such hearing or by writing to the City Council at 1050 Camino del Mar, Del Mar, CA, 92014. Attention: City Clerk. On any correspondence, please reference the hearing title and date.Under California Government Code 65009, if you challenge the nature of the proposed action in Court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing, described in this notice, or written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. CONNIE SMITH-BALLDeputy City ClerkDATE: April 23, 2013PHNT.5.6.13. Apr. 25, 2013. DM918

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-010600Fictitious Business Name(s):Eat the StreetLocated at: 13227 Holly Tree Lane, Poway, CA, 92064, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: A Married Couple. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1. Jeremiah M. McLeod, 13227 Holly Tree Lane, Poway, CA 92064#2. Jessica L. McLeod, 13227 Holly Tree Lane, Poway, CA 92064This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/09/2013. Jeremiah McLeod. DM917. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011957Fictitious Business Name(s):Gennesse Cleaning ServicesLocated at: 3408 Cowley Way #2, San Diego, CA, 92117, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 01/29/13. This business is hereby registered by the following: Maria De Jesus Serrano Hernandez, 3408 Cowley Way #2, San Diego, CA 92117. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/22/2013. Maria De Jesus Serrano Hernandez. DM915. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011977Fictitious Business Name(s):T-Light ProductionsLocated at: 752 Sonrisa St., Solana Beach, CA, 92075, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: A Married Couple. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1. Gayle Morrison, 752 Sonrisa St., Solana Beach, CA 92075#2. Scott Morrison, 752 Sonrisa St., Solana Beach, CA 92075This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/22/2013. Scott Morrison. DM916. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011135Fictitious Business Name(s):Cal Republic Co.

Located at: 700 Garden View Court #L, Encinitas, CA, 92024, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 2658 Del Mar Heights Rd. #200, Del Mar, CA 92014. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was June/01/1974. This business is hereby registered by the following: Patrick T. Miller, 2658 Del Mar Hts. Rd. #200, Del Mar, CA 92014. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/13/2013. Patrick T. Miller, Owner. DM914. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011529Fictitious Business Name(s):a. Ta Dah Designsb. AB Designs by Ta DahLocated at: 3231 Avenida Aragon, Carlsbad, CA, 92009, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 143 S Cedros Ave. #D, Solana Beach, CA 92075. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 04/01/2013. This business is hereby registered by the following: Lynda Linnea Maddox, 3231 Avenida Aragon, Carlsbad, CA 92009. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/17/2013. Lynda Linnea Maddox. DM913. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011109Fictitious Business Name(s):Particle PubLocated at: 4572 Bancroft St., San Diego, CA, 92116, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: Co-Partners. The first day of business was 4/8/2013. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1. Jennifer Guerra, 4572 Bancroft St., San Diego, CA 92116#2. Mark Wright, 4572 Bancroft St., San Diego, CA 92116This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/13/2013. Mark Wright. DM912. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011293Fictitious Business Name(s):Mission Cleaning ServicesLocated at: 322 Garrison Street #91, Oceanside, CA, 92057, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. The first day of business was 04/15/13. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1. Arturo Salazas, 322 Garrison Street #91, Oceanside, CA 92057#2. Mitzy Ruiz, 3811 La Campana Ct., San Marcos, CA 92078. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/15/2013. Arturo Salazas, Owner. DM911. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-010350Fictitious Business Name(s):Mtz Cleaning ServicesLocated at: 767 Woodland Av., Chula Vista, CA, 91910, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 767 Woodland Av., Chula Vista, CA 91910. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 03/18/2013. This business is hereby registered by the following: Mauricio Martinez, 767 Woodland Av., Chula Vista, CA 91910. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County


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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-010023Fictitious Business Name(s):Out & About CommunicationsLocated at: 702 Ash Street, Unit 1100, San Diego, CA, 92101, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Lauren Hong, 702 Ash Street, Unit 1100, San Diego, CA 92101. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/05/2013. Lauren Hong, Founder & Owner. DM902. Apr. 11, 18, 25, May 2, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-009572Fictitious Business Name(s):

Plantingfield PartnersLocated at: 6142 La Flecha, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, 92067, San Diego County. Mailing Address: PO Box 33, Del Mar, CA 92014. This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1. Kevin E. Meier, 6142 La Flecha, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067.#2. Amy K. Meier, 6142 La Flecha, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067.This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/02/2013. Kevin Meier. DM901. Apr. 11, 18, 25, May 2, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-009307Fictitious Business Name(s):a. Neuro Serenityb. San Diego Neuro SerenityLocated at: 2810 Camino Del Rio South #104, San Diego, CA, 92108, San Diego County. Mailing Address: P. O. Box 882021, San Diego, CA 92168. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not

on 04/08/2013. Mauricio Martinez. DM910. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAMECASE NUMBER37-2013-00043658-CU-PT-CTLSUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO220 West BroadwaySan Diego, CA 92101 PETITION OF: ANGELA ANNE BESONEN and PETER JOHNSON COLVIN for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name a. ANGELA ANNE BESONEN to Proposed Name ANGELA ANNE COLVONEN and Present Name b. PETER JOHNSON COLVIN to Proposed Name PETER JOHNSON COLVONEN.THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing Date: May 24, 2013. Time: 8:30 am Dept 46. The address of the court is 220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101.A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Del Mar Times.Date: Apr. 11, 2013.Robert J. TrentacostaJudge of the Superior CourtDM909. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-011469Fictitious Business Name(s):Bensimon ModelsLocated at: 5629 Shasta Daisy Tr., San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 5629 Shasta Daisy Tr., San Diego, CA 92130. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 03/01/2013. This business is hereby registered by the following: Le Petit Monde d’Ursula Bensimon, LLC, 5629

Shasta Daisy Tr., San Diego, CA 92130, CA. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/17/2013. Ursula Bensimon. CV458. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-010578Fictitious Business Name(s):a. Wilcorp Enterprisesb. Wilcorp Mobile ApplicationsLocated at: 6969 Schilling Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92126, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Patrick Wilcox, 6969 Schilling Avenue, San Diego, CA 92126. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/9/2013. Patrick Wilcox. CV457. Apr. 25, May 2, 9, 16, 2013

City of Del MarNOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NOS. 880, 881 and 882Ordinance No. 880: An Ordinance of the City of Del Mar, California, amending Del Mar Municipal Code, Title 5 Business Licenses, Chapter 5.08 Definitions, to amend the Definition of Gross Receipts, and to add a definition for Coin and Bullion Dealers. Ordinance No. 881: An Ordinance of the City of Del Mar, California, amending Title 9 of the Municipal Code to establish a new Chapter, 9.26, regarding Mobile Vending Operations in the City of Del Mar. Ordinance No. 882: An Ordinance of the City of Del Mar, California, amending Title 6 of the Municipal Code to establish a new Chapter, 6.50, regarding the permitting of Mobile Vending Operations within the City of Del Mar. The above referenced ordinances were adopted by a unanimous vote by Mayor Sinnott, Deputy Mayor Haydu, Council Members Corti, Mosier and Parks on April 15, 2013. A full copy of the ordinances may be reviewed in the City Clerk’s Department. ORDAD. 4/25/13. DM908

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-009342Fictitious Business Name(s):a. SDPHPb. Ultigive.comLocated at: 4120 Via Candidiz Unit 126, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The first

day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Diego Dev Group, LLC, 4120 Via Candidiz Unit 126, San Diego, CA 92130, California. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 03/29/2013. John R. Congdon, CEO. CV456. Apr. 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2013

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAMECASE NUMBER37-2013-00043847-CU-PT-CTLSUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO220 West BroadwaySan Diego, Ca 92101 Central DivisionPETITION OF: VIPUL SUBODHCHANDRA DALAL for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: VIPUL SUBODHCHANDRA DALAL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name VIPUL SUBODHCHANDRA DALAL to Proposed Name VIPUL SUBODH DALAL.THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing Date: May 31, 2013. Time: 9:30 am Dept 52. The address of the court is same as noted above.A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Carmel Valley News.Date: Apr. 12, 2013.Robert J. TrentacostaJudge of the Superior CourtCV455. Apr. 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2013

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAMECASE NUMBER37-2013-00034527-CU-PT-CTLSUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO

330 W. BroadwaySan Diego, Ca 92101 Central DivisionPETITION OF: ETHAN LE HOANG for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ETHAN LE HOANG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name ETHAN LE HOANG to Proposed Name SHEL DE HOANG.THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing Date: May 24, 2013. Time: 8:30 am Dept 52. The address of the court is: 220 W. Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101.A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Carmel Valley News.Date: Apr. 12, 2013.Lisa C. SchallJudge of the Superior CourtCV454. Apr. 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-010807Fictitious Business Name(s):redberrygirlLocated at: 8380 Miramar Mall, Suite 228, San Diego, CA, 92121, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Stephanie Poolos Koresaar, 8380 Miramar Mall, Suite 228, San Diego, CA 92121. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 04/11/2013. Stephanie Poolos Koresaar. CV453. Apr. 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-008549Fictitious Business Name(s):Casa Sol y MarLocated at: 12925 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: Attn: Mike McLaughlin, 4133 Taylor St., San Diego, CA 92110. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Casa Sol y Mar, LLC, 4133 Taylor St., San Diego, CA 92110, California. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 03/22/2013. Diane Powers, Casa Sol y Mar LLC. DM905. Apr. 11, 18, 25, May 2, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-009740Fictitious Business Name(s):OmniPresentsLocated at: 10897 Caminito Alto, San Diego, CA, 92131, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following:

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BY CATHARINE KAUFMANEach year nature’s per-

fect “candy,” raisins, are cele-brated with a pair of national holidays: National Raisin Day on April 30 and National Rai-sin Week, which kicks off May 1.

As a child I was deprived of this sweet, nutrient-packed treat, as raisins were then ma-ligned for causing cavities (and my mouth was full of them). Times they are a-changin,’ and this precious little package is now celebrat-ed. Here’s why.

Nothing new under the

sunRaisins were discovered

serendipitously in ancient times (circa 1400 B.C.) when farmers stumbled upon grapes shriveling on a vine. Hundreds of years later vine-yards were developed and cultivators in southern Spain were producing the finest Muscat raisins. Meanwhile, the Greeks were growing tiny, seedless currants. Dur-ing the 18th century Spanish missionaries living in Mexico (also adept viticulturists) came to California to teach farmers how to grow grapes for wine production. In the late 1800s California’s first raisin crop was produced as a result of a fluky heat wave scorching the Joaquin Valley grapes before harvest (most dried on the vine before the farmers could pick them).

Soon after, a Scottish im-migrant, William Thompson, began growing a seedless grape variety that he found ideal candidates for raisins. These events launched Cali-fornia as a commercial block-buster for raisin production, the majority made from Thompson seedless grapes.

Raisin rewardsThese high-fiber, gluten-

free, energy powerhouses are rife with iron to pump up red blood cell formation to pre-vent or treat anemia, as well as stress-relieving B-complex vitamins and potassium and magnesium to neutralize acid attacks. Phenolic phytonutri-ents in raisins put out fever

fires by fighting viral and bacterial infections, while the Boron in raisins builds bones and absorbs calcium to pre-vent postmenopausal osteo-porosis, and Vitamin A and Beta Carotene boost eye health and ward off age-relat-ed ocular diseases. Raisins also contain the mighty res-veratrol (although in lesser concentrations than fresh grapes), a powerful antioxi-dant phytochemical that has been found to lessen stroke risks, lower blood cholesterol levels, and have a protective effect against heart disease and certain cancers. Finally, those sexy little morsels are nature’s Viagra, igniting the libidinal fires with Argenine, an amino acid that tinkers with the romantic wiring in the brain. In India an age-old custom on nuptial night in-cludes the bride and groom sharing a potion of boiled milk with raisins and saffron for fortification, amongst other benefits.

The seedy side of raisinsOne word of caution:

some raisins (especially gold-en varieties) are treated with sulfur dioxide, which could cause a reaction to those with asthma or sulfur sensi-tivities. Standing advice: read labels carefully.

Heard it through the grapevine

• California grows half of the global raisin supply, and 95 percent of the U.S. supply.

• The etymological root of the word “raisin” comes from the Latin “racemus,” meaning “a cluster of grapes or berries.”

• It takes four pounds of fresh grapes to yield a single pound of raisins.

• A grape basks in the sun for two to three weeks to morph into a raisin.

• Raisins comprise 30 percent of California’s grape production, snagging second place only to wine.

• Ancient Roman physi-cians lauded raisins for their

miraculous curative powers, from alleviating mushroom poisoning to putting the skids on aging.

The revered raisin transformed into barter cur-rency (two jars traded for one slave).

Something to smile about

No longer the evil tooth monster, raisins on the contrary have been found to actually prevent tooth decay thanks to the presence of a phytochemical called oleanolic acid, a mighty warrior against the bacteria responsible for causing cavities and gum disease. In fact, it is the stickiness in raisins that pro-vides an added protective oomph giving the oleanolic acid more staying power. Also, loaded with calcium, raisins strengthen teeth and enamel.

So go ahead, pop a handful of plump, dark Thompsons, golden Sultanas (dried white grapes) or cur-rants (dried red grapes), or toss them in your oatmeal, granola, muffins, pancakes, scones, zucchini and carrot cakes, baked apples or apple strudel. Whip up a Mediter-ranean quinoa tabouli with dried apricots and raisins, a rice pilaf, egg noodle, raisin and ricotta casserole, sweet and sour cabbage rolls, rice and raisin pudding or this blissfully spicy rum and rai-sin sauce to enliven every-thing from ice cream to chicken, pork and vegetarian dishes.

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The following general partner has withdrawn: Alison J. Bucher, 12547 Heatherton Court #189, San Diego, CA 92128. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.): Alison J. Bucher. This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk, Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., of San Diego County on 03/26/2013. DM898. Apr. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-008326Fictitious Business Name(s):Hoop Motion AcademyLocated at: 12547 Heatherton Ct. #189, San Diego, CA, 92128, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 12547 Heatherton Court #189, San Diego, CA 92128. This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. The first day of business was 3/20/13. This business is hereby registered by the following:#1. Sarah J. Bucher, 12547 Heatherton Ct. #189, San Diego, CA 92128#2. Alison J. Bucher, 12547 Heatherton Ct. #189, San Diego, CA 92128 This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 03/20/2013. Sarah J. Bucher, Hoop Motion Academy. DM897. Apr. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-008132Fictitious Business Name(s):Camp OnwardLocated at: 15684 Lyons Valley Road, Jamul, CA, 91935, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 4295 Crestview Drive, La Mesa, CA 91941. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The first day of business was 3/9/13. This business is hereby registered by the following: Struggling Wren LLC, 15684 Lyons Valley Road, Jamul, CA 91935, California. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 03/19/2013. Alea Parker, Member (Struggling Wren LLC). CV452. Apr. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Monday, the 20th day of May, 2013, at 6:00 p.m., or soon thereafter as practicable, in the Del Mar Communications Center, 240 Tenth Street, Del Mar, California, the City Council will a public hearing under State of California Government Code Section 37420 et seq. on the following:

the proposed sale of the City-owned property consisting of Assessor Parcel Number 301-

301 Hidden Pines Road.

Those desiring to be heard in favor of, or in opposition to, this item will be given an opportunity to do so during such hearing or by writing to the City Council at 1050 Camino del Mar, Del Mar, CA, 92014. Attention: City Clerk. On any correspondence, please reference the hearing title and date.Under California Government Code 65009, if you challenge the nature of the proposed action in Court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing, described in this notice, or written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. MERCEDES MARTIN, City ClerkApril 22, 2013PHNT.5.20.13, 4/25/13. DM882

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2013-007694Fictitious Business Name(s):Susana House KeepingLocated at: 4454 Estada Dr., Oceanside, CA, 92057, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 08/08/98. This business is hereby registered by the following: Susana

Leal, 4454 Estada Dr., Oceanside, CA 92057. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 03/14/2013. Susana Leal. DM895. Apr. 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMEFile No. 2013-008964Fictitious Business Name(s) of Partnership:Hoop Motion AcademyLocated at: 12547 Heatherton Ct. #189, San Diego, CA, 92128, San Diego County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 3/20/13, and assigned File No. 2013-008326.


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The Science Olympiad Team at Torrey Hills took part in the Southern California State competition at Anaheim. Torrey Hills was the only elementary school competing among 26 schools from Los Angeles, Anaheim, Riverside, Irvine and Imperial Counties.

Torrey Hills placed 12th overall and took home a 2nd place medal in Rotor Egg Drop; 3rd in Science Crime Busters; and 5th in Write it Do it. Congratulations to all members of the team.

Torrey Hills Science Olympiad Team shines at Southern California State competition

their names on the list when they are 4 years old!” Some of the senior participants say it teaches responsibility as they catapult into college. Tara Aftahi, a senior at Tor-rey Pines High School, has been dancing at the studio since she was 3 years old and currently staffs the re-ception desk. She says, “Be-ing a desk girl is something I have been looking forward to since I started dancing at NCDA. It’s a blessing to be at the studio as a role model for the young dancers.” She says she considers Louis and Tanya her second set of par-ents.

Many local talent per-sonalities have been groomed at the studio, in-cluding actor Mario Lopez. Actresses Taryn Manning and Jolie Jenkins also stud-ied at NCDA before making it big in the entertainment world. The studio will be holding its annual showcase recital at the Mandeville Au-ditorium on the UCSD cam-pus July 27 at noon and 6 p.m. More information can be found at the website www.northcountydancearts.com

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Spring Wine, Cheese & Chocolate Tasting benefit is May 4 Local conservation group, Primate Connections, in conjunction with the Primate Res-

cue Network, will host a “Wine, Cheese & Chocolate Tasting Celebration” at the Pacific Sports Resort (formerly known as the PAC) in Carmel Valley. The event, open to the general public, will be held on Saturday, May 4, beginning at 5 p.m. and feature some of the best wines, cheeses and chocolate from around California and beyond. Tickets to the event ($20 RSVP/$30 at the door) may be purchased at: www.SavingWildThings.org


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Vay Ashby of Prudential Cali-fornia Realty is now a five-time winner of San Diego Magazine’s “Five Star Real Estate Agents” award. A residential specialist based in Prudential’s Torrey Hills office, Ashby was rated on her perfor-mance by a panel of clients, peers and industry experts.

The judgment criteria included customer service, communication, marketing, integrity, negotiation, market knowledge and overall sat-isfaction. “I am very honored that my clients voted for me, and I would like to thank them for their support,” says Ashby.

A Certified Relocation Specialist, Ashby has built rela-tionships with her clients by communicating in an open and honest manner, and by providing them with valuable insights about the local housing market. She explains, “My role as a Realtor is a huge responsibility, and I take it very se-riously. If I can educate my clients along every step of the transaction, then they can be confident in the decisions they make.”

Ashby gained an understanding of property valuation and negotiating techniques from buying and selling a num-ber of personal residences over the years. She entered the in-dustry eight years ago to combine her interest in real estate with her affinity for working with people.

Ashby is a previous recipient of the Gold Service award. One of Prudential’s highest honors, the award is informally known as the award that honors the agent that agents would choose if they needed someone to represent them during a personal transaction.

Vay Ashby can be contacted through Prudential Califor-nia Realty’s Torrey Hills office, at 760-815-5370, or via email at [email protected]. Visit her website at www.VayAshby.com.

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there for their child. “Miracle Babies made

it possible for me to kiss my soon goodbye every night and it is because of them that I could lay my head down at night and sleep,” said Pacheco.

“They are an incredi-ble family,” said Danesh-mand. “When she talks about what they suffered, what they went through, I have tears in my eyes when I listen to it.”

Miracle Babies also places a focus on preven-tion with a new program called Healthy Women for Healthy Children, a part-nership with the YMCA. The program provides weight education and management to help miti-gate the risk factors and negative consequences of obesity on both the moth-er and child.

“We’re very excited to be a partner with this pro-gram. My husband is very concerned with health and healthy eating,” Danesh-mand said.

In addition to being a mother and a philanthro-pist, Daneshmand also has a legal career. Daneshmand and her family moved to

San Diego from Iran in 1982. She attended Torrey Pines High School, UC San Diego and earned her law degree from California Western School of Law and for the past 15 years has been a practicing attorney at the Bankruptcy Legal Group, specializing in bank-ruptcy law and debt negoti-ation.

In 2005, the Danesh-mands also opened a medi-cal spa, Ageless and Beauti-ful, in Hillcrest. Sean, who works primarily at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital, serves as the medical director for the spa and Marjan handles the day-to-day manage-ment of the business.

“I’m busy but I really enjoy what I do. I love be-ing an attorney but at the same time, work is not ev-erything. It’s important to be able to give back to the community,” Daneshmand said. “Miracle Babies is real-ly my passion…My hus-band and I couldn’t have imagined Miracle Babies would become as big as it has become.”

Miracle Babies has also created a family network, where families who have spent time in NICU can connect, create friendships, offer support to one anoth-er and raise awareness

about the NICU experience.To help these families, Miracle Babies relies on dona-

tions and community support. Their two biggest fundrais-ing events are a Miracle Babies 5K and a Casino Night in August.

The first year of the 5K they had 1,000 attendees and it has grown every year. This year’s Moms 5K for Healthy Babies will be held on May 11 at Embarcadero Marina Park South.

Daneshmand has taken on the busy task of chairing the walk for the past four years but this year has handed it off.

“I’m going to be able to actually walk it this year, I’m excited,” Daneshmand said.

Her hope is that there will be Miracle Babies chapters all over the country (already there is a chapter in Atlanta) and they will reach a point when they are all walking on the same day.

In this tough economy, applications for help from Miracle Babies has grown. They went from about five ap-plications in one month to now reviewing 50-60 applica-tions every month.

“We worry about making sure the funding is there to be able to help these families,” Daneshmand said. “My goal is to get more support from the community to help us expand.”

To donate, get involved or sign up for one of the up-coming events, visit miraclebabies.org.

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that is lasting and it is Moriah’s hope that the music pro-gram will be able to continue and grow at Monarch. Already the FanFaire group is talking about renting a piano to hold a concert at the school and possibly make it a combination re-cital with the new music students.

Moriah would like to hold a clothing drive so the music students can have something nice to wear for their recital. “I want the children to really feel that they have a gift that they can share,” Moriah said.

To continue to support the music program, donations can be made at YouCaring.com/SongoftheButterfly2013

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