PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID ENCINITAS, CA 92024 PERMIT NO. 94
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VOL. 37, N0. 33
AUG. 25, 2023
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Beatrix “Bee” Eisenman, 7, is creating local buzz after launching a virtual art gallery and selling her art and jewelry in a Carlsbad boutique. Story on 18.
Leucadia.store files complaint after U.S. Bank closes account
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By Samantha Nelson
ENCINITAS — A plant and pottery shop RANCHO in Leucadia recently SFNEWS had its U.S. Bank account closed for unknown reasons, forcing the small business to miss payroll and bill payments. Since opening in 1985, The Madd Potter, a local pottery retailer and nursery, was a customer of Union Bank. In late September 2021, Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, the parent company of U.S. Bank, bought Japanese financial group MUFG’s Union Bank for $8 billion. But the multi-billion dollar acquisition wasn’t a smooth transition for some of Union Bank’s longtime customers, including the beloved Encinitas plant shop on Coast Highway 101. “We had to get new account and routing numbers, new deposit slips, new credit cards… it was all very sticky,” said Elly Sword, bookkeeper at The Madd Potter. Two months after making all the necessary changes for the merger, the shop received a startling letter indicating that the bank had closed its account. “Out of the blue, we received a letter from U.S. Bank which stated that they have elected to close all of our accounts,” Sword said. “No explanation at all.” The letter, dated July 24 and mailed to the Madd Potter’s post
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Phony Del Mar plastic surgeon pleads guilty By City News Service
Legendary ‘Hacksaw’ still talks the talk Lee “Hacksaw” Hamilton pioneered the sports-talk radio format on the West Coast. 12
DEL MAR — A man who posed as a plastic surgeon and saw patients at a Del Mar cosmetic surgery center he owned pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony and misdemeanor charges. Dario Moscoso, 70, was charged in 2019 with allegedly consulting female patients at the now-shuttered Del Mar Cosmetic Contouring Surgery Center regarding procedures such as “Brazilian butt lifts’’ and breast augmentations, despite not being licensed to
practice medicine. While he was initially charged with sexual battery counts regarding three of the four women listed as victims in a criminal complaint, those charges were dismissed at a Tuesday change of plea hearing. Moscoso pleaded guilty to felony counts of treating the sick/afflicted without a certificate and use of terms and letters falsely indicating the right to practice medicine, as well as a misdemeanor battery count.
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The San Diego County Farm Bureau has named Oceanside soil expert and avocado farmer Mary Matava the 2022 Farmer Care of the Year. Matava owns Agri Service and operates the El Corazon Comyour family post Facility in Oceanside, providing free compost canontrust mulch to residents. Story 5. Courtesy photo
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