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T he C oast News - I nland E dition August/September. The specific time is date to be announced. While aware of the state of California’s reopening plan on June 15, additional time will be needed to fill vacant positions due to a reduction in force as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. The center will continue providing meal pickup and deliveries and Friday weekend bags, and Out and About transportation.
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JUNE 11
RIDE TO THE FAIRGROUNDS
Starting June 11, North County Transit District offers the FUN Tripper to the fairgrounds and HOME•GROWN•FUN. Get tickets at sdfair.com/#tickets. For $12, you’ll receive a round-trip ride on NCTD’s COASTER, SPRINTER or BREEZE, plus admission to the fairgrounds. FREE PET LICENSES
San Diego Humane Society is waiving all fees, including late fees, for dog licenses throughout the month of June, 2021, during its A License to Love campaign. Dog owners can receive a free one-year license if completing the process before July 1, 2021. Licensing can be completed online, in person or by mail, with the promo code FREELICENSE. For details, visit sdhumane.org/license. VUOI PARLARE ITALIANO?
Interested in learning Italian? Well, the Italian Cultural Center is here to help. All levels welcome to sign up for classes. Classes are online using the Zoom platform. For more information and to register, visit http://icc-sd.org.
JUNE 12
FREE VACCINES
MiraCosta College and TrueCare will provide free COVID-19 vaccines to the North County community, ages 12 and older from 8 a.m. to noon June 12. Drive up to get a COVID-19 vaccine on the MiraCosta College campus, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside, Parking Lot: 3C. No appointments
JUNE 11, 2021 music from the Sea Monks and The Retro Rocketts. Come out every third Thursday June through September.
JUNE 19
MAKERS’ MARKET
The next Downtown Oceanside Makers Market is popping up on from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 19 at Pier View Way and North Tremont Street and in Artist Alley, Oceanside. Shop SUMMER JOBS AT THE FAIR handcrafted and artisanal Del Mar Fairgrounds goods while enjoying live has numerous seasonal job music. opportunities available including parking atten- SUMMER AT THE LIBRARY dants, traffic controllers, The Escondido Public security guards, ticketing Library offers a Summer attendants, janitors and ad- Virtual Activity Challenge ministrative positions. Join 2021: Tails & Tales, for all the team this summer at ages, June 19 through Aug. TO START GROWING vegetables in your home garden, pick HOME*GROWN*FUN and 8. Sign up at escondidoliup free seeds (chives, cucumbers, radish and more) starting apply online at delmarfair- brary.org/summer. Read for June 21 at the Escondido Public Library. File photo grounds.com. fun. Earn prizes. Free virtual events. necessary. Participants are JUNE 13 JUNE 15 to remain in their vehicle SUPPORT HWAC FAIR TICKETS ON SALE with a face mask on during SUMMER FLING Helen Woodward AniSan Marcos invites all the entire process. For quesTickets for mal Center’s Spring Fling to its Artisan’s Market and HOME*GROWN*FUN pre- Gala, Imaginarium returns tions, call (760) 736-6777. Summer Fling from 10 a.m. sented by the San Diego at 6 p.m. June 19 to the outto 4 p.m. June 13 at 251 N. County Fair are now on door venue at the Fairbanks LEARN TO ZERO WASTE I Love A Clean San Di- City Drive, San Marcos (off sale at sdfair.com. For the Ranch Country Club 15150 ego and the city of Encinitas Hwy. 78 and Twin Oaks Val- safety of patrons, tickets San Dieguito Road, Rancho invite San Diego County res- ley Road, near CSUSM). must be purchased prior Santa Fe. The evening inidents to a Zero Waste Fair It will include the week- to the event. All admission cludes drinking, dining and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June ly market plus artisans, tickets are $10 and children illusions. Seats are limited 12, including low-waste liv- crafters, food, clothing and 5 and younger are free of so a virtual streaming oping, composting, recycling, jewelry, natural bath and charge; parking is $12 per tion is also available. Visit environmental justice, food beauty products, pottery, vehicle. Guests must select animalcenter.org/springsystems, new technology custom home decor items, a preferred arrival time fling-gala to buy tickets. for organic waste. Regis- spring gifts and live music. at the time of purchase. ter at https://love.cleansd. The event is family friendly. HOME*GROWN*FUN will open each day at 11 a.m., JUNE 20 org/event/zero-waste-fair/ Free parking. close at 9 p.m. SWEET STRAWBERRY 5K e333725/register/new/seWRITERS’ COMPETITION lect-tickets. Register now for the The Escondido WritVista Strawberry Festival ers Group is sponsoring its JUNE 16 PRIDE FESTIVAL and Virtual 5K and then plan to join the in-person A Coastal Pride Festi- third annual Writing Com- PIRATES REUNION Oceanside High School Berry Sweet Market from 9 val will be held online at 2 petition for ages 12 and up. p.m. June 12, hosted by Am- Writers may submit fiction is ramping up for an All- a.m. until 1 p.m. June 20 in ber St. James with Butterfly or non-fiction (excluding Class Reunion from 9 a.m. downtown Vista. The Berry Luv Hugz, The day will in- poetry) writing entries un- to noon June 26 and from Sweet Market will continue clude an Equity Torch Re- til June 30. Competition 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 27 at until 5 p.m. lay and Virtual Drag Show. winners will be announced Heritage Park. There will Sign up to carry the torch in at the Escondido Writers be a $2 donation per person. your city and find out more Group meeting on July 20. This donation goes to the JUNE 21 Find more information at OHS Foundation and Her- GET GROWING at pridebythebeach.org. escondidolibrary.org / lo- itage Park to help us host Growing vegetables at cal-author-programs. these types of events. Please home? Get started by pickbring your own chair, food, ing up a randomly selected DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA? drinks, plates, eating uten- package of seeds at the EsThe deadline to enter sils and shade. Call Sandy condido Public Library Inthe third annual Entrepre- Hays Caskey (OHS Class of formation Desk, 239 S. Kalneurship Competition for 1965), if you have questions mia St., Escondido, starting Kids is June 13. Youngsters at (760) 505-6515. Visit ohs- June 21. The selection of ages 8 to 13 are I invited foundation.org/2021/04/20/ seeds includes tomato, to pitch their ideas to the all-class-reunion-is-back/. chives, garden beans, cuKids Idea Tank for a $1,000 cumber, radish, carrot, egggrand prize. Mentorship plant and Swiss chard. opportunities will be avail- JUNE 17 able for participants as well. CRUISE NIGHTS GOLF FOR A GOOD CAUSE Register at loweybundysiDon’t miss the EncinFriends of La Posada, chol.com/kids-idea-tank. itas 101 MainStreet Asso- an all-volunteer, non-profit ciation kickoff Encinitas Cruise Nights from 5:30 to JUNE 14 7:30 p.m. June 17. It will feaSENIOR CENTER TO REOPEN ture Secret Car Club, Little The Vista Senior Cen- Guys Car Club and North ter will be re-opening in County Cruisers with live
in Carlsbad ending homelessness, is hosting a golf tournament July 16 at Lomas Santa Fe Golf Course. Sign up at friendsoflaposada.org
role. “Prior to the hearing on arbitration, CSUSM and Dr. Kumar agreed to a 3-month unpaid suspension through the end of the spring 2021 semester. For the fall, he will be on an administrative assignment, which does not involve interacting with students. Furthermore, he is prohibited from ever contacting or attempting to contact the students involved in the investigations,” Chantung said. It is unclear what Kumar’s new role in the
university will be, but Chantung said that the university believes this is the best path forward. “For this case, based on recent arbitration opinions, there was deep concern that the arbitrator would overturn the termination at appeal. In this likely scenario, the faculty member would not have received any disciplinary action, nor would there have been official record of his misconduct,” Chantung said. Kumar could not be reached for comment.
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the findings to the Office of the Chancellor, which denied his initial appeal.” Kumar, according to the school’s website, is an associate professor of information systems in CSUSM’s College of Business Administration. He had been set to teach two classes at the university this fall, but after facing some backlash, including an online petition, CSUSM reassigned Kumar to a non-teaching
small talk jean gillette
Viva la pesca!
I
am trying to take the right attitude after my husband and son rolled in from a weekend south of Ensenada, Mexico, carrying their weight in yellowfin tuna. I waited anxiously for their return at midnight, secretly hoping they would report that they had a terrific time, but darn, the fish just weren’t biting. No such luck. They have apparently found the spot where all the fish, reportedly dwindling in other parts of the ocean, have gone to hide. It seems they come to dine on nutrients brought in a current from Alaska, yet somehow they can’t resist the fakey lures my family offers them. Try as I might, I have trouble getting enthusiastic over enormous quantities of any foodstuffs, except perhaps chocolate. My husband loves nothing more than a trip to the big box store where he can score 10-pound cans of sliced olives, 4 quarts of salad dressing, an industrial drum of dill pickle slices and a bag of rice that would sustain several Third World countries for a month. I see only two things when he struggles in with his terrific buys. I see my already limited pantry and refrigerator space vanishing, and I see me throwing out lots of mildewed olives, pickles, dressing and rice. Now I am seeing freezer shelves full of fish, daring me to hold a cookout for 500. At least they filleted it into tidy squares, but we will never consume all that fish even if we were to eat it every meal for several fortnights. Add to this equation the fact that neither of my children will eat fish at all. That leaves only one of the two fishermen and me to do the consuming. I suppose I can offer some to our friends and neighbors, but I fear that half of them will just take it to be polite and then all our garages will smell to high heaven until trash day. The cats in the neighborhood will go berserk. Our barbecue may well be working overtime. And think of the money we saved with all this free fish. Heck, all we really need are a few dozen baskets of cherry tomatoes, onions, peppers and squash to make a mountain of fish kebabs. Or several hundred dollars’ worth of shrimp, crab legs, clams and scallops to turn it all into a delicious cioppino. I wonder where I can find the number for the StarKist purchasing department.
