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As far as San Diego Superior Court is concerned, the time for talk on UCSD's Ché Café may be past. COURTESY PHOTO
TEACHABLE MOMENT By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN GETTING THE DROP Those crazies at UCSD will use any excuse to party – especially when it involves a Halloween tradition, like the annual Pumpkin Drop, set to take place this afternoon at the school's Muir College. The ritual (shown here in a photo from the past) involves dropping a humongous pumpkin from the college's upper floors; inside is an assortment of individually wrapped candy that students scurry to claim. This year's colossus, donated by grower Jon Berndes, weighed 500 pounds. The pumpkin's splat is measured for posterity each year; the largest occurred in 1995, when a 398-pounder exploded over 100 feet. The drop is the focus of Muir College's Halloween Carnival. COURTESY PHOTO
SD Jewish Book Fair 2014 is not your father's By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN If there's such as thing as a Golden Age of Jewish literature, it probably had its start 60 years ago, when authors like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow unstintingly declared the Jewish presence in American society. Nobel prizes would eventually follow for both men, and soon, works reflecting the uniquely Jewish experience were part of the mainstream book trade. That was then, and this is now. To say that Jewish literature has kept pace with today's 24-hour news cycle is to understate the burgeoning presence of Jewish book fairs, seminars and websites. Recently, the San Diego Jewish
Book Fair has become a major factor atop this landscape — and if you set aside some time on Nov. 8 to 10 and Nov. 13 to 16 for points in Cardiff-by-the-Sea and University City, you'll have fun in your trek through a genre that's singularly impressive in its own right. Events take place at Cardiff's Temple Solel the 8th and 10th and UC's Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center for the second installment — and Marcia Wollner, director of literary arts and education at the community center's Center for Jewish Culture, said the Cardiff venue reflects one growth phase as
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By the time you read this, a San Diego Superior Court judge may have issued a written notice of her Oct. 21 finding – that UCSD owns the property on which its Ché Café sits and that the eviction notice the school issued the vegan eatery and music venue last summer was sufficient. Bryan Pease, attorney for the Ché, said on Oct. 20 that he thought Judge Katherine Bacal would the following day sign the university's written notice of her decision, after which the Ché would have five days to vacate its premises at 1000 Scholars Drive, just east of La Jolla Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Forum Studio. At the moment, Bacal hasn't signed whatever notice the university may issue, and at least one representative of the student-run
Ché said that Bacal's decision was not the end of the café's road. A recent note on the venue's website (checafe.ucsd.edu) demanded that the university roll back the eviction procedure in the interest of the democratic process; the venue's blog announced an Oct. 28 rally in the venue's support and that the collective allegedly has 14,000 favorable petition signatures it intended to present to university Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. Khosla wasn't available to receive the supporters, but the latter have said they will seek an audience with him again next week. About 100 demonstrators attended the Oct. 28 event.
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TIMELY REMINDER Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on Theater journalist Eddie Shapiro will have J*Company to watch his back at the 20th annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair. COURTESY PHOTO
Sunday, Nov. 2. Be sure to change your clocks back when you go to bed Saturday.
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Suit says pupping-season beach ban violates state constitution In the ongoing tug-of-war over shared use of La Jolla’s Children’s Pool, beach-access proponents have “yanked back” with a lawsuit challenging the recent Coastal Commission decision to ban human access to the beach during the seals’ upcoming pupping season. Friends of the Children’s Pool filed a suit in Superior Court Oct. 10 alleging city mismanagement of the pool and violation of constitutionally protected ocean access. “We have a constitution in California that the city of San Diego cannot circumvent,” said Friends spokesman Ken Hunrichs, adding that California’s constitution “guarantees coastal access and fishing rights.” There are other, legal, justifications for the lawsuit, Hunrichs said. “The land was transferred in a tideland grant, and they (government) have violated the right to fish and for access,” he said. Hunrichs said Friends is asking for the Coastal Commission’s decision banning human contact with the beach to be “set aside.” “We want to enjoin the city from enforcing or enacting (restricting beach access) making it a crime to be on the beach,
believing this violates our Constitutional right to access on the coast.” “Our office has received the complaint and it is under review,” said Gerry Braun, director of communications for the City Attorney’s Office, responding to the lawsuit. Overriding objections by beachaccess proponents, the California Coastal Commission on Aug. 14 unanimously endorsed a five-year ban on people accessing La Jolla’s Children’s Pool from Dec. 15 to May 15 to afford greater protection to harbor seals during their pupping season. In rendering its decision, the Commission also directed that ways of cleaning Children's Pool and making it accessible for the disabled need to be addressed when the matter returns to them for review in five years. The suit was the latest twist in a series of back-and-forth developments over several years defining the relationship between seals and human recreational users — swimmers, fisherman, divers, et cetera — who access the ocean via the protected pocket beach. Paid for by La Jolla philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps and created as a safe wading area for children, the pool was deeded
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Beach-access proponents are challenging a state action that bans humans from La Jolla Children's Pool beginning Dec. 15. COURTESY PHOTO
to the city in 1931. During the 1990s, the manmade breakwater became increasingly overrun by seals, who turned the pool into a haul-out site and a rookery. In 1997, the pool was closed to human contact by the county health department because of high bacteria counts from seal waste buildup in its shallow
waters. Signs there continue to warn that water contact could pose a serious health risk. In its suit, Friends alleges the City deliberately avoided alternate management proposals that would allow shared use to work at Children’s Pool. ”We are asking for the ability of citizens,” Hunrichs said, “to con-
tinue sharing the fraction of shoreline accessible to them that is legally upheld per the state Constitution. This right needs to be re-established before other beaches, where seals or sea lions have decided to land, are summarily and unnecessarily closed to make life easy for city administrators.”
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Children’s Pool cleansing favored as ban nears La Jolla community park planners advocated promptly cleansing Children’s Pool while favoring keeping at least a portion of Ellen Browning Scripps Park open during special events. Those were the highlights of La Jolla Parks and Beaches, Inc.’s (LJPBI) October meeting. The advisory group’s agenda also included an item offered by proponents of a limited off-leash beach area that was withdrawn and tabled indefinitely without comment. Overriding objections by beachaccess proponents, the California Coastal Commission Aug. 14 unanimously endorsed a five-year ban on people accessing La Jolla’s Children’s Pool from Dec. 15 to May 15 to afford greater protection to harbor seals during their pupping season at the pool. Coastal commissioners, however, attached conditions to seasonal beach closure. When the mea-
sure sunsets in five years, the city of San Diego was directed to return with updates on the feasibility of providing the disabled access at the pool's beach as well as an evaluation of possible methods for cleansing the pool’s seal wastecontaminated sand and water. Longtime La Jollan and park planner Melinda Merryweather urged that action to study cleaning Children’s Pool ought to be done sooner rather than later. “The Coastal Commission,” Merryweather said, “has decided seals get the pool for five months and children for seven months, and I would hope they have the decency to clean the pool for those seven months, whether they use a rake and shovel or bring down a bulldozer or open the sluiceways (in the pool’s crescent wall), whatever it takes.” Noting the city has created “a toxic situation” by having allowed
seal waste buildup in the pool without cleanup for many years, Merryweather said, “It’s disgusting, it’s a cesspool.” Merryweather said the time to clean the pool is now. “The city doesn’t have the means to do it (right away),” replied group chair Dan Allen. “They would have to get permitting and get Coastal Commission approval. “Why can’t we take it out of the city’s hands and do it (cleanup) ourselves as a community?” asked committee member Debbie Beacham, adding, “There are smaller steps you can take with shovels and rakes and scooping up the sand and not allow that (pollution) to happen.” The city has told LJPBI that previous periodic community cleanups of the pool are no longer allowed. — Dave Schwab
Sea lion dies at SeaWorld following gaff injury A male sea lion died at SeaWorld San Diego after being rescued Oct. 26 from La Jolla Cove with a 10-foot gaff pole lodged in his shoulder. After receiving several calls, SeaWorld veterinarian Todd Schmitt and his team set out to rescue the 200 pound male, quickly throwing a net over him and sedating him before manipulating the hook out of his back. Schmitt said the hook was lodged about three inches into the sea lion's shoulder. “He responded right away,”
Schmitt said in a published report. “Once we got the gaff out... of his shoulder... he was relieved. You could tell this was definitely causing some pain.” The animal was recovering until he suddenly died the morning of Oct. 30. Schmitt said the injury was most likely caused by a fisherman who used the gaff after the sea lion got too close to its catch. "When the nets are pulled in, it's like a dinner bell,” Schmitt said. “The sea lions know where the fish can be found, so they
know probably to go to the boats.” This marks the third gaff injury that Schmitt has seen in the past year and a half. He also has treated nine sea lions with gunshot wounds over that same time period, two of which were euthanized last week. “I understand a lot of livelihood may be based around it,” he said, “but these animals have a right to be there as well, so it is very disturbing when animals are hurt in that process.” — Ch. 10, KGTV
UCSD, other priority hospitals unprepared for Ebola, nurses reveal Registered nurses at University of California medical centers, including those from UCSD, want the public to know that they are not prepared to handle Ebola cases. Five California hospitals designated as priority Ebola virus treatment facilities lack proper training and equipment, said the California Nurses Association on Oct. 29 at a news conference at UCLA. Similar protests have already occurred at UC hospitals in San Diego and San Francisco. “There needs to be more hands-on training where you have an opportunity to raise your hand and ask questions,” nurse Michael Jackson said at a news conference Tuesday outside the UCSD hospital. On Oct. 24, the hospital system told the California Department of Public Health the facilities were ready for patients. Union representatives disagreed and are asking for full-body hazardous-materials suits with a special respiratory device in addition to more training. To date, staff training has included emails, online material and a town hall-style meeting, a union representative said. The union, which represents 12,000 registered nurses at the five hospitals and is part of National Nurses United, said there are similar shortcomings at all five UC facilities. UCLA held an Ebola preparedness exercise on Oct. 17,
observed by the Los Angeles County health department officials. The event included protocols for transporting patients through the hospital, disposing of trash and waste, dedicating equipment for Ebola patient use only, setting up a mobile laboratory, acquiring specialized personal protective equipment and staff training. “The safety and health of patients we serve and all those who care for them is paramount in everything we do,” Robert Cherry, chief medical and quality officer for UCLA Health System, said. “This includes providing personal protective equipment that meets the latest guidelines, leaving no skin uncovered and requiring extensive training for how to put on and remove this equipment for those who would care for a possible Ebola patient. Every day, we add to our knowledge by staying in touch with other institutions and government agencies and by listening to and acting on suggestion from our staff in order to optimize our readiness.” Los Angeles County’s top health official said he is satisfied that UCLA’s hospital has strong training and sufficient available equipment — even if it would have to borrow from other area hospitals. “In terms of training … they’re very far ahead,” said Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the county’s interim health officer. — Staff and contribution
Plan group creates trustee seat amid city compromise
This 2012 Fisker Karma is similar to the auto that hopped a La Jolla curb on Oct. 29, coming to rest at The Comedy Store. COURTESY PHOTO
Man drives rare auto into Comedy Store building The driver of a rare luxury hybrid struck a building in La Jolla after colliding with two other cars and a scooter on Oct. 29. The incident was reported at 5:45 p.m. near the intersection of Pearl Street and Girard Avenue. The Fisker crashed into the building that houses the Ferrari of San Diego showroom before coming to
rest against the Comedy Store nightclub. Witness Austin Gilbert spoke to the driver, in his 70s, saying that the man said he hit the gas pedal instead of his brakes and swerved into the building. Inspectors have been called to the scene to check on the building's structural integrity.
No one has been cited in the crash, and no injuries were reported. The Fisker was built by Anaheim's Fisker Automotive, producer of one of the world's first hybrid plug-in vehicles. In 2012, the first year of their sale to the public, Fisker autos retailed at around $102,000.
Resolving a longstanding election dispute, a majority of the membership present at a special meeting called by La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) voted at a special Oct. 29 meeting in favor of a compromise solution to establish and fill a 19th trustee seat until April 1, 2015. Forty-three of the approximately 80 members present voted in favor of the compromise following a presentation by Sherri Lightner, First District Councilwoman and Council president pro tem. Lightner said the compromise solution involves LJCPA’s amending its bylaws from now through March of 2015 to create the trustee position, seat disputed candidate architect Michael Mor-
ton in that seat and clarify the group’s bylaws in the future regarding election-related issues, including the eligibility of writein candidates. Not everyone agreed the compromise was the best solution. “LJCPA does the work of the city council; we are an extension of the City Council,” argued LJCPA trustee Rob Whittemore. “This meeting is ill conceived. Bylaws are our constitution, and the bylaws state trustees shall be elected by (LJCPA) members.” Whittemore noted a threat of the planning group's decertification in the face of a “no” vote, but he said that's theissue. “If you respect your own vote,” he said, “do not create a 19th trustee. You have to elect them.” — Dave Schwab
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Realty agent's assailant guilty in crime spree
'Back Door Bandit' pleads guilty in robberies
A jury on Oct. 21 convicted a man of four burglaries and three armed robberies, one of which involved accosting a La Jolla real estate agent with a rifle and firing shots that injured a homeowner. The eight-woman, four-man jury found David Allen Grub, 45, guilty of all charges following five hours' deliberation after hearing closing arguments on Oct. 20. The San Diego Superior Court trial began Oct. 9. Sentencing was set for Nov. 19 by Judge Melinda Lasater. Deputy District Attorney Dennis Panish said Grub, who remains in jail, faces a prison sentence of more than 30 years. Grub was convicted of robbing real estate agent Peggy Chodorow, confronted Aug. 1, 2012 after showing a La Jolla home for sale on Hillside Drive. He was also convicted of robbing the homeowner, Jay Hawley, who testified he was wounded by pieces of pavement after
Grub fired several warning shots into asphalt. Grub was also convicted of burglarizing a home on Loring Street in Pacific Beach on May 24, 2012. Homeowner Stephen Miller testified he saw Grub carrying out a drawer containing jewelry and leave in a black car. The jury also found Grub guilty of burglary at a house in the 7100 block of La Jolla Scenic Drive on April 19, 2012. Panish told jurors Grub got inside by throwing a rock through a window. Grub accidently left his backpack and gloves inside the home, and his DNA was recovered from those items. Grub was also convicted of burglarizing two homes in Rancho Bernardo in 2012. In those burglaries, Grub cut himself and left blood behind; the prosecutor said the blood contained Grub's DNA. Grub was also found guilty of robbing a housekeeper at a
home in Rancho Santa Fe on Dec. 20, 2012. The homeowner, Jay Weinberg, testified more than $200,000 worth of jewelry, Sterling silver and clocks were taken along with his wife's purse.. Grub’s attorney, Raymond Aragon, told jurors the eyewitnesses in the case were mistaken. He blamed Grub’s ex-girlfriend with writing a letter to sheriff ’s deputies about the crimes because “he took up with another woman.” The letter identified Grub with his address in Alpine. Sheriff ’s deputies searched his home on Feb. 28, 2013 and found stolen property that included the purse taken in the Rancho Santa Fe robbery. Grub did not testify, and his attorney presented a physician as the only defense witness.
A second member of the “Back Door Bandits” has pleaded guilty to multiple robbery charges and is awaiting sentencing for holding up restaurants in La Jolla and elsewhere. Duran Montiq Caldwell, 24, will face up to eight years in state prison, said Deputy District Attorney Jalyn Wang. He pleaded guilty to six counts of robbery, including multiple hold-ups of employees of the Smashburger restaurant on Prospect Avenue in La Jolla on Aug. 4, 2013. Sentencing was set for Dec. 1 by San Diego Superior Court Judge Charles Rogers. Caldwell remains in the South Bay Detention Facility without bail. Wang said no customers were held up in the incidents. She said the charges against Churchill represent 14 incidents at different stores. The group got its name from entering and exiting out the back doors of restaurants, such as when they held up the Smash-
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The aquarium has announced that Birch educator Deborah Zmarzly replaces Steven Schindler, who was appointed to the same post in June. At the time, Schindler had said he'd expected to stay about a year to give operator Scripps Institution of Oceanography a chance to find a permanent replacement. Schindler replaced Nigella Hilgarth, who left in May to become chief executive of the New England Aquarium in Boston. Scripps officials declined to estimate the potential length of time it could take to find a permanent manager.
An Oct. 26 videotape of the exterior of Michael Klein's home revealed a woman stealing Halloween decorations, walking off to allegedly commit the act at several more residences. Klein at first thought the theft was a child's prank — but after seeing the grown-up in the tape, he immediately sent the record of the incident to neighbors, some of whom said the same thing has happened to them. “When it's your neighborhood and it's your house,” Klein said in a published report, “it can get a little creepy.”
Man dies after surfing off La Jolla coast A Clairemont resident died the morning of Oct. 22 after going surfing off the La Jolla coast. Stephen Saburo Fujii, who had been seen entering the water around 7 a.m., was found in Bird Rock's Calument Park by two passersby who found him lying unconscious next to his surfboard. The men found a doctor, who started CPR after calling 911 around 7:15. Paramedics could not revive Fujii at the scene. A fire department spokesman said that Fujii, 67, likely died of natural cause — U-T San Diego Birch Aquarium names second interim manager La Jolla's Birch Aquarium has appointed its second interim manager in less than six months.
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— KGTV-TV — Staff and contribution Halloween decorations stolen from Bird Rock homes This isn't exactly top of mind for San Diego police, but the residents of Bird Rock find it a little scary.
U.S. signs environmental document on trolley project The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) reported that the Federal Transit Administration signed the current federal environmental document on the area's Mid-Coast
Trolley project on Oct. 15. The approval of this review fuels plans to extend trolley service to the northern part of San Diego. The final statement will be available on the project website, sandag.org/midcoast, in early November. The next step will be for the SANDAG board of directors to certify the state environmental review, anticipated for November. As an extension of the trolley’s Blue Line, the Mid-Coast project is designed to provide a one-seat (no transfer) ride from the international border and communities south of Downtown to University City. It is projected to increase daily transit ridership by 21,000 people. Slightly more than 95 million patrons rode the trolley last year, up 11.5 percent from the year before. Construction on the Mid-Coast Trolley is anticipated to start in late 2015, with service beginning in 2019.
burger for $4,000. The alleged ringleader, Ryan Patrick Churchill, 23, is set to stand trial on Dec. 2. He is charged with committing 29 counts of robbery, attempted robbery and conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty and remains in the Vista Detention Facility on $500,000 bail. Two Rigoberto’s taco shops and the El Cotixan restaurant in La Jolla were among the restaurants robbed. The others are located in Clairemont and Rancho Peñasquitos. The getaway driver, Thomas Abel Nelson, 23, has pleaded guilty to robbing the Smashburger restaurant. He is free on $50,000 bond and is awaiting sentencing on Jan. 8. He could receive a prison term or some jail with probation, as there is no sentencing agreement with the District Attorney’s office.
— Neal Putnam
— Staff and contribution California Tower at Museum of Man to reopen After an 80-year closure, California Tower at Balboa Park's Museum of Man in Balboa Park will reopen to the public on Jan. 1. The 150-foot tower, which offers sweeping views of San Diego and can be seen from many points in the city, was closed after the second Panama-California Exposition in 1935. Like many structures in the park, it was built for the first Panama-California Exposition in 1915. Museum officials said no records exist that adequately explain why the tower was sealed off. The structure has undergone a seismic retrofit and might need another in 2016. The museum also announced a campaign to raise $3 million to
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GUEST COMMENTARY: The time is right for home purchase If you have a job, life is good. Interest rates are a little lower again, and the Fed is not raising them immediately. But let's review the story behind the story — the one not reported on the nightly news that nonetheless comes from credible sources. What I'm about to tell you is verifiable from Joseph R. John, who has proven to provide reliable commentary on military and government affairs.
Mainstream media report only part of the story. We have heard enough, and can all agree, that there are about 44 million unemployed Americans on food stamps. Meanwhile, did you know that our president, Barack Hussein Obama, plans to allow into the U.S. about 11 million additional illegal aliens under age 31 from our southern border, with plans to give them work
authorization cards equivalent to work permits? This is under the DACA program for child arrivals. Did you know it has been publicized that Obama further intends to furlough 90,000 U.S. returning troops to compete for jobs with the aforementioned? Who will end up paying for all this? Further, it has been reported by knowledgeable sources that our jails have been somewhat purged
of illegals by releasing many into our society. You already know many who had been arrested were let out and transported to other states. You were told they were nonviolent, low-level criminals. Do you know that violent offenders have also been ordered to be released into our society? It’s been reported that order came from our commander in chief. Follow the real stories. Investigate for your-
self. Don’t take my word for it. I’ve been to the White House recently, but not to discuss policy. Truthfully, it’s a good time to refinance or buy a home. Interest rates are low again, and you can probably still qualify. In fact, the strict qualifying guidelines are starting to loosen up once more. Deja vu all over again. Nancy Gardner La Jolla
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Free service may save elderly drivers' lives and those of others By NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ Natasha Josefowitz writes the column “Doing It Better” for the San Diego Community Newspaper Group. I was surprised last week when I renewed my driver’s license after five years that I was not asked to actually drive. All I got were vision and written tests. After all, I’m 88 today, Halloween. A 94-year-old friend of mine just got her license renewed without any tests. I just lost another inch, so now I’m now under 5 feet tall, and when I sat down for my test, the table was up to my nose, and the computer was floating somewhere above me. I was given a pencil and told to mark the circles with the rubber tip. I could barely make out the text and flunked. When I complained I had trouble with the computer, I was told that those in my age group could have the paper
Melissa Bonney Ratcliff, 45, was killed on Oct. 7 by a 91-year-old driver. COURTESY PHOTO
test. That was much better, and I only missed one. I now have a new driver’s license, good for another five years. I will be 93. On Oct. 7, a 91-year-old woman
meant to go forward on Girard Avenue but instead backed up and killed San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce vice president Melissa Bonney Ratcliff, 45, and had no idea what she had done. A friend of mine happened to be standing there and asked her if she was OK. She said she didn’t know what happened and hoped no one got hurt. She had no idea that she had just killed someone. As we age, we become less focused; this is normal. We get confused; this is normal. But it is not reasonable to continue driving under these circumstances. We all tend to do more than we are qualified to do; our strong desire for continued independence causes us to deny the truth. I assume that due to lack of DMV personnel and the agency's budgetary constraints, very few people must take the behind-the-
wheel test when renewing a license. I suggest more self-monitoring for us older drivers. Try driving with a younger friend whom you trust to evaluate your driving without worrying about your feelings. If they have concerns, take them to heart. If you squint to see street signs, have trouble turning your head over your left shoulder to bypass your blind spot, run red lights, stop at green lights, drive too slowly, have dents and scratches on your car or get confused in familiar surroundings, stop driving. These are signs of impending accidents. You may save your own life and somebody else’s too. If you have a parent, grandparent, or friend who you believe is unsafe behind the wheel, ask to have a serious conversation. It can be difficult and even traumatic to get someone to stop driving. This task often falls to younger family
members who must ask a parent or grandparent to give up their car keys. This might cause a confrontation with an older driver who is reluctant to give up independence. In this case, the DMV can be asked to give the person a driving test. For many people, taking public transportation is difficult, and taxis are expensive. There is a free transportation solution for older adults available with a one-time membership fee of $20; it is donation-based, your choice. On the Go, at (858) 637-7320, picks seniors up at the time they’ve requested (they usually need a few days' notice) and delivers them free of charge to their destinations, so seniors can stop driving without giving up their independence and possibly save lives — theirs and others. Do it.
Amid controversy, UC residents join recent death-with-dignity conversation By SANDY LIPPE Earlier this year, a beautiful 29year-old woman was diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma mutiforme, an exceedingly fast-growing brain cancer whose victims usually die within a matter of
months. Brittany Maynard chose to move from San Francisco to Portland, Ore. to take control of her final choice — to swallow her terminal medication in early November, after husband Dan Diaz's 43rd birthday on Oct. 26.
Jenna C. Reboli, 40 of Del Mar, CA Born November 6, 1973 passed away on Friday, October 3, 2014.
ƒ Jenna was born in Port Jefferson, LI, NY, to the late Joseph Reboli and Beverly Gibson Strozier. Jenna received a BA in Business from University of Southern California in 1997. Jenna relocated permanently with her beloved daughter, Virginia, to San Diego in 2003. She worked as a Senior Financial Analyst for various companies in California. Jenna was passionate about her adopted state and explored its many beaches and hiking trails with her daughter and many friends. Jenna was an advocate for the rights of parents and grandparents and had many friends across the country seeking her guidance. Jenna worked actively with many organizations attempting to place stray cats in permanent homes. Jenna was beautiful, she was smart, and much too young to be taken from her loved ones. Jenna is survived by her daughter, Virginia Reboli; her mother and step-father, Beverly Gibson Strozier & John Strozier; her sisters, Anna Reboli-Johnson, Kate Reboli, Katie Strecker; brother-in-law Tord Johnson; step-sister, Jenifer Strozier-Adams; her many Aunts, Uncles and cousins; and her sweet cat, Bella, who now resides with Virginia. There will be a memorial service in November for close family and friends. Her ashes will be scattered as she requested.
And Maynard, who reserves the right to change her mind, is partnering with Denver-based Compassion & Choices to authorize death with dignity in her home state of California and other states nationwide. In 1994, Oregon legalized death-with-dignity statutes that allow patients to have options: comfort care, hospice, pain control and prescriptions for a lethal cocktail if the patient so chooses. This law was tied up in court for several years even after its implementation in 1997. An energized conversation about Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit group endorsing deathwith-dignity laws, took place Oct. 22 at the University City home of Debbie Olstad. Only women (who in many cases are the major caretakers of seriously ill family members) showed up; however, many men are involved as staff and volunteers in Compassion & Choices. Several invitees discussed the memory of someone close to them who had suffered greatly before dying. The image motivated them to seek out a group like Compassion & Choices to help move legislation to legalize death with dignity in California. One guest pointed out the fact that aging Baby Boomers will change this conversation and that the time is ripe for California to reintroduce a death with dignity law. Death with dignity, Olstad said at the meeting, “is the last act of love you could give a family member ... We put our pets down. Would God want us to suffer?” In May of 2013, a Gallup survey showed 70 percent of Americans supported the physician-
Brittany Maynard and her friend Charlie snuggle for the camera. PHOTO COURTESY COMPASSION & CHOICES
assisted ending of a terminally ill patient's life by painless means. The patient was required to be mentally competent and to have been given six months to live. Under the Oregon law, physicians and patients discuss end-oflife options in great detail. Patients may then choose to take end-oflife medicines themselves, thereby allowing patients to control the process from beginning to end. In 2013, 122 Oregonians had prescriptions written for medication to end their dying process. Seventy-one (59 percent) took the medication, representing less than 0.2 percent of all deaths statewide. 97.2 percent of deathwith-dignity patients died at home, and 85.7 percent were enrolled in hospice. According to Compassion & Choices, without this law, many patients turn to self-induced, premature and violent deaths rather than face an agonizing end of life. Washington, Montana, New
Mexico and Vermont have passed the death-with-dignity laws. Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey are considering similar bills to authorize and regulate aid in dying. So far, the idea has not gained momentum in California, but Compassion & Choices is campaigning to get this issue on the ballot within five years. In 1988, a ballot signature effort failed. After Oregon passed its law, California modeled its bills after the Oregon statute, intending to declare that competent adults expected to die in six months could request medication to hasten the ending of their lives. The California law was never passed. If you are interested in learning more on this topic, contact Compassion & Choices at compassionandchoices.org or toll free at (800) 247-7421. If you would like to get involved on the local front, contact Olstad at eaglisle@san.rr.com.
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For Bishop’s player, there’s more to field hockey than the game By ED PIPER Tori Tran, co-captain and leader of this year’s Bishop’s School field hockey team, could run fast, but she wasn’t “athletic” before she started playing the game in the seventh grade. Then, in the ninth grade, she and four classmates fell under the tutelage of Marcia Harrod, at that time the junior varsity coach. “[Harrod] really knew the sport,” senior Tran said in anticipation of her final year of play with the Lady Knights. “and it was much less rigorous to have someone with so much experience (to learn it from).” Things were “much less rigorous” in the sense that Harrod could help direct without a lot of wasted energy, all the while demanding in her expectations for conditioning and training. As Harrod’s November induction into the San Diego Coaches Hall of Fame nears, Tran fondly recalled her former coach’s “quiet” manner, while being “the rock of the team.” Harrod, during her service as varsity coach at Bishop’s until the late 1990s, led her teams into the CIF playoffs 27 times in 28 years, winning 11 league titles and ending up CIF runner-up once.
She later was called back to Bishop’s to help rebuild the program and serve as junior varsity coach. In that capacity, she coached Tran and four of her teammates as freshmen, her last colleague of whom are to graduate as seniors this year: left midfielder Tran, goalie Nadine Bradbury, left back Shanelle Chen, right back Adeline Shin, and center back Daphne Lin. Harrod became the mentor to Tran and her teammates that Harrod herself, growing up in upstate New York, never had. Harrod played field hockey prior to the implementation of Title IX, the early 1970s federal statute that mandated equal opportunities for girls in academic institutions. “I played field hockey growing up,” said Harrod, who substitute teaches at Bishop’s and attends games periodically, “but you didn’t have organized sports for women.” Meanwhile, Harrod has furnished Tran a role model as well as counsel for living. “Coach H was also a great person,” said Tran, who is looking at eastern colleges, including Brown and Wellesley, to attend next year. “It was great to connect with her in the classroom and on the field. Even now, I would go to her.”
Gary Hendrickson, current Bishop’s varsity field hockey coach and an English teacher at the school, views Harrod as a kind of Renaissance woman, pursuing the ancient Greek ideal of balance between the physical and the aesthetic. “(Harrod) is a reader and a writer,” he said. “She is as much a scholar as an athlete. That’s what she’s all about as a coach. She’s a very educated, cultured person. She is one of the people I admire the most in my life. And it has been that way since I met her.” Regarding coaching philosophy, Harrod said, “I certainly was much more interested in the process than the immediate [outcome] or the record. So I wanted the girls to play hard and take pride in what they did.” At 5’2”, Tran uses her speed and ball awareness to help connect the defense to the offense. Harrod chimes in with Hendrickson on Tran’s intangibles, which include “being a very giving person when she’s out there,” not something you always hear of athletes trying to make their mark. This total package of technical skill, teamwork and leadership earned her All-CIF Second Team honors as a junior..
Tori Tran (left) recalls Marcia Harrod's experience as a key to Tran's progress as a player. PHOTO BY EILEEN MAHLER
UCSD women's soccer coach Brian McManus is (almost) at the top of the heap UCSD's Tritons women's soccer team completed an incredible four-game road swing last weekend with a pair of 1-0 triumphs. The Tritons thus went 3-0-1 without conceding a single goal in 380 minutes of play during a
four-match stretch away from home. That's a typical weekend for head coach Brian McManus, who is in his 28th season in charge of the UCSD women's soccer program. With a career record of
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missed a CCAA championship, having qualified for 13 straight after joining the conference. Meanwhile, the CCAA has made changes to its regular-season and tournament formats in men's and women's soccer for the 2014 season. The six-team, two-division alignment is no more, now with just one 12-team league table. Rather than a 16-game regular-season schedule with two matches against divisional opponents and one against out-of-division foes, each team faces one another once, for a total of 11 CCAA contests. The top six teams in the final standings advance to the CCAA championship, up from four in prior years. The first- and secondplace finishers get first-round byes, with those two games held at campus sites of the higher seeds. The venue for the 2014 CCAA championship semifinals and final has been announced as Warrior Stadium, on the campus of Cal State Stanislaus in Turlock, for the second year in a row and the fifth time in the last six years. The winner on the women's side will once again gain automatic entry into the NCAA Championship.
Education
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IN MEMORIAM The Children’s School, a private La Jolla learning center for toddlers through eighth graders, has announced the completion of Maria’s Dream Playground, a permanent tribute to the work of late kindergarten teacher Maria D’Orio. The outdoor learning environment was one of D'Orio’s goals for the school's prekindergarten and kindergarten students. The elements of the playground, including a castle tree house, pump station and fairy garden, are designed to inspire wonder and creativity and to promote the students' physical and emotional growth. D'Orio (inset) died in May at age 42. To learn more about the school, visit tcslj.org. COURTESY PHOTO
Country Day sophomores get lesson in service, and happiness, with annual trip to Dominican Republic By MELISSA WILLIAMS NETHERTON
La Jolla Country Day School sophomores Natalie Boyer, Julian Davis and Helen Day saddle up to two Dominican children on their recent trip. COURTESY PHOTO
A simple game of stickball with some kids in a park held an important lesson in perseverance for La Jolla Country Day School sophomore Brennan Goring, especially considering the place he learned it. Goring was one of 36 Country Day sophomores who traveled to the Dominican Republic in September for an annual community service trip designed to make a difference in the lives of elementary schoolchildren. In partnership with charity organization Outreach360, the students taught English to the children at JFK Elementary School in Monte Cristi, a city of about 110,000 in the country's northwest, near the republic's border with Haiti. Teaching two morning and two afternoon classes each day allowed the students to spend a good deal of
time with the Dominican children – but the real bond, and Goring's take-away lesson, came during the stickball match at recess. “Due to the lack of materials the kids had,” Goring explained, “they used the end of a broomstick with tape on one end in place of a bat. I really enjoyed that part, because they didn't let life's obstacles get in the way of what they love to do.” Chaperon and school community service coordinator Susan Nordenger has her own fond memory. As the Country Day group approached the school gate, the children ran toward them, shouting, “Teacher! Teacher!” This affirmation, Nordenger explained, was a great reinforcement of the difference the students were making and the appreciation the Dominican chil-
dren felt for their service. The Dominican Republic offers free and compulsory primary education for children between 3 and 17. Those who live in isolated areas have limited opportunities for education amid financial hardships. The average dollar-equivalent wage in the Dominican Republic is about $240 a month. A command of English is an important skill for employment, but a lack of teachers makes this a hard goal to obtain. But the low wages are no match for the students' passion about baseball, and the Country Day students know that. Throughout the year, the school's baseball team collects gear to send on the trip — and this year, the baseball fun kicked off with a USA versus Dominican Republic game, with the gear
presented to the coaches. All in all, the team had 39 duffel bags of equipment to leave behind. Adding to the excitement, Ozzie Virgil, the first major league baseball player from the Dominican Republic and born and raised in Monte Cristi, came to the game to support and thank the students. The trip was sometimes a lesson in true happiness as well. “This trip,” student Neda Fashandi said, “was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It was so special being able to help and inspire the kids and the JFK School. All the kids would look up to you and were always so happy to see you. “One thing that really stood out to me during this trip,” Fashandi continued, “was the overall attitude of both the locals and our group from school during the week in the Dominican. The people in Monte Cristi didn't have much, yet they were happier than some of us here in the U.S. have ever been. They appreciated life and their friends and family rather than material things, like out culture does.” Student Julian Davis, who also made a video of the experience, said, “The trip was an amazing experience. The kids that we taught were so nice and had so much potential for learning. It is great that they get this opportunity to learn English with the help of Outreach360.” Outeach360, located in Peoria, Ariz., oversees volunteer-cultural exchanges in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Under its auspices, a group of Country Day sophomores will next year get to experience the joy of helping others, making a difference in the world and caring for those less fortunate than themselves.
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Fun kid's guide features La Jolla as a destination By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN Kids are the best natural marketers in the world. Unlike adults, they instinctively know the likes and dislikes of their own demographic, and they're not shy about letting the rest of the world in on them. The cover of Eileen Ogintz's “The Kid's Guide to San Diego” hints as much, with its colorful local landmarks scattered about like toys and a big white sailboat inside a big blue circle probably meant to reflect the world's oceans. It's true that the county has a planetful of stuff for children to do and see, like SeaWorld San Diego's Splash Zone and Pets Ahoy! stage shows or Legoland's city models made out of those indispensable interlocking blocks. Kids, in fact, had a lot of input into Ogintz's choices of fare — and one of her 10 chapters includes several La Jolla destinations, some of which even the neighborhood's grownups might not be aware. We big guys, for example, know about the kids' legendary hiking trails at Torrey Pines State Reserve and the volleyball-friendly atmosphere at La Jolla Shores. While Ogintz spends adequate time on such staples, she's careful to dot her material with reminders on lesser-known local activities. Let your kid's imagination take wing at Torrey Pines Gliderport, with its legion of paragliders and hang gliders at one with the sky. Instruction is available, as are tandem flights with certified pilots, and the richness of the views is a foregone conclusion. The address is 2800 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive; the number is (858) 452-9858, or visit sandiegofreeflight.com. For kids more comfortable closer to the ground, there's La Jolla Underwater Park and Ecological Preserve, which includes two sunken artificial reefs that attract shorebound marine life, two underwater canyons and a kelp forest amid 6,000 acres of tidelands. This is a perfect place to nurture your child's budding love of sea life and his desire to protect it. The park is off La Jolla between La Jolla Shores and Ellen Browning Scripps Park. Look it up on sandiegocoastlife.com. Ogintz, a Westport, Conn. resident and veteran travel writer who dispenses travel-specific advice on national television, says that the family's travel experiences are richer if the kids lead the way. The bulk of the 2014 vacation season is over, but there's always next year — meanwhile, this guide will hip local kids to several venues they didn't know were in their own backyards. Visit Ogintz at takingthekids.com.
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15th Asian Film Festival extends to 4 La Jolla venues About 20,000 people are expected to attend the 15th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF), which begins Thursday, Nov. 6 and runs to Saturday, Nov. 15, with four participating venues in La Jolla this year. As San Diego's largest film festival and the largest exhibition of Asian cinema on the West Coast, SDAFF will premiere more than 140 films from 21 countries. “We’re actively trying to make UCSD our second home base in North County beyond our traditional home base at UltraStar in Mission Valley,” said Brian Hu of Pacific Arts Movement, the media organization behind SDAFF programming. “Not only do people not really want to leave North County, but La Jolla is a really exciting place because of the campus and how global the village has become,” Hu said. As Pacific Arts Movement artistic director, Hu screens and selects films for the SDAFF. “We pick the best films in each genre,” Hu said, “everything from ‘Venus Talk,’ a romantic comedy in Korea, to ‘Yasmine,’ the first narra-
tive feature film produced in Brunei. The cornerstone of our mission is to create a community through film.” The festival opens with “Revenge of the Green Dragons,” by producer Martin Scorsese, on Nov. 6 at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15. The crime drama centers on gangs in New York’s Chinatown during the 1980s. “This festival is not just for Asians,” Hu said. “Asians have become fascinating to people, whether it’s martial arts, animation or Gangnam style. So our mission is to provide cultural context and social meaning to things to help make people become more global citizens.” For those who have never attended the festival, Hu recommends the closing night film “Meet the Patels” on Friday, Nov. 14, at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St. in La Jolla. This crowd-pleaser is a true-life romantic comedy starring Ravi Patel, who will be attending the screening, and is directed by the Indian-American actor’s sister, Geeta. The eccentric documentary follows Ravi as he searches for a wife
with the help of his parents. The museum is also hosting a shorts program, “Moonlight Represents My Heart,” on Nov. 14. Images from modern China will be brought to life in four shorts, shown consecutively, ranging in length from 8 to 28 minutes each. “With 140 films,” Hu said, “that’s 140 opportunities to surprise people. There’s something for everyone, but not everything is for everyone — people should look through the website and see what films might speak to them.” UCSD’s Visual Arts Presentation Lab will be holding a retrospective titled “Remembering Queer Korea,” showing a history of queer images in Korean film from the 1970s to today. Five films will be played over three nights — Thursday, Nov. 13, through Saturday, Nov. 15 — and will be the first series of its kind shown outside South Korea. Also on campus, UCSD’s Calit2 Atkinson Hall Auditorium is showing “9-Man,” the namesake of an intense sport popular among Chinese-American men that’s similar to volleyball, on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Friday, Nov. 7, through Sunday,
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“Kano,” centering on an underdog baseball team's tenacity, is part of a three-day schedule of Taiwanese fare at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, running from Nov. 6 to 15. COURTESY PHOTO
No. 9, the auditorium is holding a Taiwan film showcase that includes “Kano,” a three-hour baseball movie portraying the tenacity of an underdog team. “Kano” director Umin Boya is scheduled to attend the screening and subsequent reception. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, ArcLight Cinemas La Jolla will be showing
“My Life in China,” a documentary that deals with the challenges of migration, and “Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats,” a Japanese romance. Festival tickets can be purchased online or at the respective venues one hour before show time. For film descriptions and show times, visit festival.sdaff.org.
Westgate collection: There's nothing like a Dame Fashion Files
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International British designer Dame Zandra Rhodes brought her latest entries direct from London to San Diego on Oct. 23 for a glamorous fashion show, themed The Royal Dame Collection, at the Westgate Hotel. The installment began with a champagne hour and then moved into the Versailles Ballroom for an exquisite luncheon created by La Jollan Jeanne Jones, the international food consultant and cookbook author. As the guests enjoyed their luncheon, Rhodes narrated the stylish fashion show. The models, including Amber Mesker from U-T San Diego and Kimi Evans from San Diego 6, showed off the latest royal threads from London. The designs included extraordinary textile prints that can be worn day or evening. One of the illustrated trends featured pleated tops, skirts
and dresses with an emphasis on the midriff. The garments were in bold prints and beautiful colors, especially cobalt blue. Queen Elizabeth II recently recognized Rhodes for her work in the fashion and textile industry, bestowing the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. How exciting for us to have this International treasure in our own backyard! Rhodes is the founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. The museum's current exhibit is Knitwear: Chanel to Westwood. Proceeds benefit The American Friends of the Zandra Rhodes Museum. For more information on Rhodes, visit zandrarhodes.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS FRIDAY, NOV. 7: KENNETH BARLIS FASHION SHOW 2014 at the Lafayette Hotel from 6 to 9 p.m. This will debut the Men & Women’s 2015 Spring/Summer Couture Collection. For tickets, visit eventbrite.com and scroll down.
SATURDAY, NOV. 8: FASHION GALA presented by Heels2Heal, exclusive runway show with designer Nicole Miller, located at the private La Jolla estate of Alex and Laleh Roudi in La Jolla, from 5:30 to 11 p.m. The event benefits San Diego Youth Services. heels2heal.org THURSDAY, NOV. 13: 10 BEST DRESSED AWARD presented by Leonard Simpson of Fashion Forward and Dress for Success San Diego. This event will feature an awards ceremony, a formal seated dinner, a theatrical show, dancing and an auction and will be located at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines beginning at 5:30 p.m. leonardsimpson10bestdressed.com /tickets/.
— Diana Cavagnaro, a nationally recognized hat designer and milliner, has been operating a fashion business for 30 years, the last 20 years in downtown San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter. She has been teaching in the fashion department at San Diego Mesa College for 20 years. \
Dame Zandra Rhodes is flanked by two models at her Royal Dame Collection show. PHOTOS BY GEORGE BATES
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Faith, intellect are in play in North Coast’s ‘Freud's Last Session’ BY CHARLENE BALDRIDGE Thea-tah
Just up the pike at North Coast Repertory Theatre, readers may wish to have the extraordinary (faux) experience of being in the same room with Sigmund Freud and C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis. Through Nov. 9 only, North Coast artistic director David Ellenstein stages Mark St. Germain’s offBroadway two-hander, “Freud’s Last Session” (see Martin Jones Westlin's dullard review below). The play is set in 1939 London. Suffering terminal cancer, noted atheist and father of modern psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, having fled Vienna and the Nazis a year earlier, requests a visit from Lewis, a former atheist soon to achieve fame with “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “The Screwtape Letters.” Two noted classical actors, Bruce Turk (Lewis) and Michael
Santo (Freud) are the sparring partners of faith and intellect. Turk presents an engaging, selfpossessed and compassionate Lewis, who would have been 41 at the time. Santo is heartrending as the 83-year-old Freud in the extreme phase of his disease, almost too proud to ask for help. This 11thhour scene redeems St. Germain’s play emotionally, but it remains largely cerebral. If such a dialectic engagement, beautifully acted, designed and directed, is your cup of tea, “Freud’s Last Session” will delight you at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987-D Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach, $44-$48, northcoastrep.org or (858) 481-1055. Broadway in La Jolla
Moving from the sublime and the
trivial to Broadway: At 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 and 18, The Athenaeum presents “The Best of Broadway’s Best,” a musical performance and lecture series with musician and storyteller Bruno Leone. Yon in the theater world
“Disgraced,” Ayad Akhtar’s 2013 Pulitzer prize-winning drama, opened Oct. 23 at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre. Fans recall that La Jolla Playhouse premiered Akhtar’s “The Who & the What” last season. At the time, he and and noted author Reza Aslan (“No god but God” and “Zealot”) engaged in their own discussion of Islam and Christianity.
son with Gustav’s 5th Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD. Music director Steven Schick conducts.lajollasymphony.com or (858) 534-4637. Schick and composer John Luther Adams received lots of New York Times ink August 22 for their Mostly Mozart appearance. Schick, who performed of Adams’ 75-minute, 2002 work “The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies,” was cited for his “deft, nuanced touch,” but we already knew he had that. Nov. 21 to 23, San Diego Sym-
phony assays Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 under the baton of music director Jahja Ling, actively engaged in performing all Mahler symphonies. The only obstacle is money. sandiegosymphony.org or (619) 235-0804. In other diva news, soprano Joyce DiDonato hit the New York Times sports pages Oct. 20 because she was not on the initial docket to sing the National Anthem at a Kansas City Royals game, this after having garnered the most votes in the Royals’ public vote. Outrage!
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Arguably, North Coast’s ‘Freud's Last Session' is a hit BY MARTIN JONES WESTLIN It’s ironic (and cool) that “Freud’s Last Session,” currently at North Coast Repertory Theatre, is set in the northwest London of September 1939. For some, man then stood at eternity’s door as World War II would inexorably unfold, fueling debates about the afterlife and indeed whether there was such a thing at all. Atheist Sigmund Freud and converted Christian C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, two of the 20th century’s titanic men of letters (they never met in real life), are rapt in each other’s worldviews while air raid sirens herald the specter of the blasts that could end their discussions once and for all. Playwright Mark St. Germain takes Lewis’ side, but he leaves it up to us to discover that amid his subtle anecdotal touches. For that reason, this is a very good show; for several others, it’s excellent. Meanwhile, don’t go expecting either man to hit you over the head with a theist’s bouquet or a nonbeliever’s brickbat. There aren’t any epiphanies here, and that’s just as well amid the passionate, unusually civil debate. Both men are in a fairly good humor upon their meeting, although each is unshaken in his disposition on God, life and love. Oxford don Lewis, in his early 40s here and on the brink of literary success, had once espoused atheism as he allegedly slathered himself with beer and booze years after his mom’s death, for which he almost never forgave himself; at 83, preeminent psychiatrist and
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Your Homecoming Checklist Begins with Religious figurines clutter a desk as Sigmund Freud (Michael Santo, left), mixes it up with C.S. Lewis (Bruce Turk). PHOTO BY AARON RUMLEY
legendary cigar-chomper Freud had a debilitating jaw cancer and had lost a daughter to illness. These diametric lives are no match for the men’s intellects and powers of reason; the quips come eagerly even as the radio in Freud’s study stands at the ready with evil tidings about the Nazis’ invasion of Poland. Bruce Turk’s Lewis is a thoroughly stageworthy foil and father confessor, whose mental toughness bests Freud’s when it has to, with none of the excess to which protagonists often fall prey. Michael Santo’s Freud is as unimaginably stoic in his illness (his jaw prosthesis wraps him in pain if he talks too much) as in his atheism. In one scene, Lewis comes to his aid amid overwhelm-
ing discomfort; Santo is masterful as he reveals the first hint of a crack in Freud’s veneer. In his book The Question of God, Harvard Prof. Armand Nicholi Jr. unwittingly gives rise to the idea behind the play, noting that Freud and Lewis agreed on things like great writing and the coolness of dogs. He further says that the two placed fundamental importance on the notion of God’s existence — maybe that’s what helped define each man’s abiding respect for the other. Director David Ellenstein and his cast and crew sense that admiration and have mounted their play accordingly. As Lewis notes, the men’s conversation won’t yield any answers — and quite correctly, Ellenstein and St. Germain say it doesn’t need to.
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A TASTY ATTRACTION Customers swarm the window at Mr. Frostie Tastee Freeze on a regular basis. PHOTO BY DAVE SCHWAB
Mr. Frostie still a cool tradition in PB Soft-serve ice cream has been a soft sell for John and Debbie Conca, who own and operate the Mr. Frostie Tastee Freeze in Pacific Beach. Location is everything in real estate. That goes double for ice cream parlors like the Concas’, which have benefits from ample foot traffic at the crossroads location at 1470 Garnet Ave. Mr. Frostie is ice cream central, situated in the middle of town, threequarters of a mile from Crystal Pier. The Concas also have the benefit of longevity — 65 years, to be exact. “I don’t know for certain if it is the oldest business in PB, but it definitely is the oldest food-related business,” said John during a recent busy October afternoon. Mr. Frostie has been in business at the same location since 1949. It was built, recalls John, by a developer who operated it originally for only 10 months before selling it. “I’ve been involved with it for 43 years,” said John, noting he essentially inherited the business. “I worked here as a teenager when my parents owned it from 1964 to 1971,” he said. “Then I was in the Army, went to college and was up in Los Angeles. My mother asked if I would like to be back in the business when my dad passed away, and I said, ‘Yeah, sure.’ I got in with my mom as a partner until she retired from the business in the early 1980s.” Mr. Frostie remains a family affair, as John and Debbie, who is a Pacific Beach Planning Group member, have run the establishment ever since with their two sons. “We’ve got the fourth generation coming into this business; my two grandkids, the twins,” said John. “They (twins) like to come in here and stand on the cooler and wait on customers,” said Debbie. The Concas had a ready answer when asked what they liked most about the soft-serve ice cream busi-
ness. “I enjoy the contact with the people and I see multi-generations of families that have been coming here. It’s kind of nice,” said John. “We enjoy catering to families and the public in general,” said Debbie. “We’ve made a lot of friends with our customers over the years.” John had an equally prompt response when asked what was most difficult about his ice cream business. “It’s like being a farmer — you do it every day,” he said. “One stretch I went 14 years without a vacation.” John said the prime-time period for his soft-serve business is April through October. Winter months, typically, are slow. But that can change unexpectedly. “I was here one time by myself in the wintertime and I had two tour buses drive up with about 70 people waiting to be served,” said John. “Then, another time, a guy walked up about 5:30 p.m. and wanted 13 banana splits for his baseball team.” John said he’s seen long lines at Mr. Frostie’s that have gone out the door and around the corner and down the alleyway in back. John said people ordering ice cream typically fall into three categories: cones, shake and sundae lovers. What’s his top and most costeffective seller? “Probably the cones,” John said. “But everything is set up so it’s pretty equal.” His lowest-profit item is the food — sandwiches, chili, hot dogs and the like. “That’s my greatest expense,” said John. John said the tourist trade adds 20 to 30 percent to his bottom line during the peak spring and summer seasons. He said he gets a lot of European travelers, especially from Italy, France and Germany. He also gets a fair amount of Asian travel-
By DAVE SCHWAB
MAKING IT HAPPEN John Conca and his wife, Debbie, own and operate the Mr. Frostie Tastee Freeze in Pacific Beach. The establishment has been operating at the same location on Garnet Avenue since 1949, making it the oldest food-related business in PB. Though it’s not completely clear, it may even be the oldest operating business in Pacific Beach overall.
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ers from China and Japan at various times. Debbie said it’s been very interesting over the years to see the developments and changes in Pacific Beach. Asked what’s most different, she replied, “The biggest change is probably the density. When we first came here, it was a sleepy little beach town. Everything’s grown.” When asked what she’d like to see more of, Debbie responded, “Maybe a little more green. Maybe a little more bike traffic. PB is always going to be a beach town, which is nice. I’ve always enjoyed it.” Though John said he is “not getting rich,” he acknowledged he’s in a safe place, unless summertime business stops coming or people suddenly lose their taste for ice cream. “We’ve stayed in business and it’s been worthwhile,” said Debbie. “We don’t plan on retiring anytime soon. We’re going to keep going for a while.”
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Wake up and ‘Swell’ the Coffee! A few months ago, The Patio Restaurant Group formed a partnership with the Mission Beach-based Swell Café to bring customers the best, locally roasted coffee in San Diego. Don’t just take our word for it; Swell Café was voted “Best Coffee in San Diego” by San Diego Magazine this year. The Patio on Lamont Street currently features a signature blend of coffee from Swell containing a mix of Colombian, Guatemalan and Ethiopian beans. It’s called the “Piazza” blend. It’s available at the restaurant for purchase or at The Swell Café. If specialty coffee drinks are more your style, look no further. The Patio is serving up cappuccinos, lattes and mochas for $4. Or, if you’re in the mood for something more adventurous, try our a Faux-Tella Coffee, made with Hazelnut Bailey’s, Godiva Milk Chocolate, coffee, whipped cream, and hazelnut. It’s perfect for fall as the nights grow cooler! The Patio on Lamont Street is currently open every day at 9 a.m. Stop by for breakfast and experience the coffee everyone is talking about!
SAVORING THE TASTE More than 400 guests, including these guests at Jose's Restaurante Mexicano, took part in the 14th annual Taste of La Jolla, a benefit for programs at La Jolla High School. Twenty-five of the neighborhood's bests eateries participated, and the organizing Foundation of La Jolla High sends a colossal thanks to sponsors Chase Bank and Copy Cove. COURTESY PHOTO
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Orangetheory Fitness in La Jolla is celebrating its one-year anniversary
“Wow, how time flies,” said owner Billy Borja. "We have so many members who have embraced our studio and the workout program we offer. Lives are being changed every day at our studio, and our members love the workout." If you haven't been by to check out our studio, you should make a point to stop in and see what we're all about, said Borja. “Initially,” he said, “we saw mostly women coming into our studio, but as time passed and the word got out that this is for everyone, we saw a big increase in the amount of men that have been coming in and joining. We have seen women bring in their husbands, businessmen bring in their business partners, and guys bringing in their buddies. We have really created a great culture at the studio with our members." Orangetheory Fitness specializes in five-zone heart-rate interval training, utilizing the technology of heart-rate monitors, and is based on the science of EPOC, or Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumption. The goal for each mem-
ber is to try to get 12 to 20 minutes' total in the fourth zone, otherwise known as the Orange zone and fifth zone combined, which is the metabolic zone. If the member achieves this after a 60minute workout, then the science behind the program says that he or she has ignited metabolism and will continue to burn calories from fat up to 36 hours postworkout, creating the “afterburn.” “This is a very efficient workout that simply works,” said Borja. “I want to personally thank all of our members who voted for us as the Readers Choice for their fitness studio of choice,” said Borja. “We are so grateful!” Orangetheory Fitness is located at 7734 Girard Ave., Suite C, between Kline and Silverado streets and is open seven days a week, 364 days a year. Classes begin at 5:15 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and 7 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Contact us by phone at (858) 551-8750.
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Your skills, not your passions, are more important to your success The following was submitted by DeHart & Company, a Hickory, N.C. public relations firm. Ben Carpenter is the vice chairman of CRT Capital Group, a 300-person institutional broker-dealer located in Stamford, Conn. He resides with his wife Leigh and three daughters in Greenwich, Conn. These days, career advice encourages young people to “follow their dreams” and “feed their passion.” And sure, it sounds good. Who wouldn’t want to make money doing a job that doesn’t really feel like work? Who wouldn’t want to turn a lifelong dream into a reality? But if you’re hoping (or holding out) for your dream job, Ben Carpenter is here with some tough love: What you’re good at should trump what you’re passionate about. “Instead of asking yourself what you love to do, ask yourself what someone will be willing to hire you to do,” says Carpenter, author of the new book The Bigs: The Secrets Nobody Tells Students and Young Professionals About How to Find a Great Job, Do a Great Job, Start a Business and Live a Happy Life (Wiley, $25). “In the real world, those two things are often very different.” Carpenter feels that too many young people are unwittingly given bad advice by parents and teachers who naturally care about them and want them to be happy and fulfilled. But for a variety of rea-
sons, he stresses, it’s best for job seekers to do plenty of research and ask themselves some hard questions: What are my talents and skills? What careers match up with them? In what fields might they be most in demand? “I know it can be difficult to sacrifice your greatest passion for what’s actually viable in the cold light of day,” Carpenter says. “Though I started my career on Wall Street in sales, I always thought I would be a great trader. As it turned out, though, I just wasn’t suited for that particular niche. Sales was what I was good at, and once I realized that, I was able to be a true leader, which was the catalyst for my future promotions. “Sure, some people are lucky,” Carpenter continues. “Their passions align with what they’re good at and can still provide them with a living they can... live off of. But for many others, that won’t be the case. I recommend pursuing a career path that you’re reasonably sure will pay dividends rather than placing a shaky bet on being able to beat the odds.” If you’re not convinced, Carpenter offers reasons to focus, first and foremost, on using your skill set. It’s not exactly news that the current economy is as unforgiving as any in history. Still struggling to emerge from the long shadow of the Great Recession, today’s job
market is incredibly tough and exhausting. In fact, around 40 percent of recent college graduates are underemployed. What that means, of course, is that most companies won’t be willing to go out on a limb for unproven job candidates. After all, they can have their pick of the most qualified free agents in the field! Ies, Carpenter acknowledges that choosing a career you can do well, rather than one that seems fun and exciting, might sound unappealing. (Seriously, who believes that a job in sales is more fun than singing on a Broadway stage?) That’s why he challenges you to look at job-related concepts like “fulfilling” and “appealing” from a different angle. “‘Dream’ jobs often have hidden drawbacks to which your initial enthusiasm blinded you,” Carpenter says. “The very fact that you feel fortunate to be allowed ‘in’ makes it more likely that you’ll leap before you look. On the other hand, if your strategy is to match your skills to a job, you’ll probably put more thought and research into your search, and your perspective will be more balanced. “I promise you,” he adds, “if you build a firm professional foundation for yourself, you’ll still have room in your life for your passions — and you’ll also have the means and peace of mind you need to truly enjoy them.”
NO TRICK TO THIS TREAT Pizza is a big deal no matter the season – accordingly, the folks at Amici's East Coast Pizzeria put their heads together and came up with a Halloween special designed to scare you and fill you up at the same time. It's called Creepy Crawlies, and it's topped with black and green olives, pepperoni and bell pepper strips in the shapes of some nasties you've come to know and love this time of year. The special is available this weekend and is limited to the venue's small pizza, which is still plenty big at 10 inches; in the further spirit of the season, it'll run ya $10.31 Amici's is located at 811 Prospect St.; the number is (858) 729-9988. COURTESY PHOTO
Healthy Lifestyles Doing it Better By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. This is part four of a five-part series, The Seven States of Loss and Healing. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Reinvention Looking at Men I caught myself looking at men I have not done that in seventy years then it used to be boys now it’s older men in my age group I look and wonder whether they’re married I would like to go out with a male companion for a quiet dinner perhaps a movie that we can talk about later I have women friends why isn’t it the same? I’m somehow not sure I am allowed to feel this way
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Toward the New Normal he died just over two years ago is it too soon for me to wish for couplehood? am I being disloyal to him and his memory? I feel guilty for catching myself looking at men
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Amazing Today I have decided that I am not half a couple mourning the one that’s gone for I have integrated him within me and so I am a whole person standing on my own two feet independent and strong there is nothing I cannot do for there is nothing I can’t imagine I have no fears not of living nor of dying I am doing the first the best I know how until the second stops me hopefully in my tracks I feel the wisdom of my years a learning that I can use well to make it easier for others’ journeys as mine draws to an end I savor the moments
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in ways new to me a quietness has taken hold like a new distance, a perspective an understanding I know not exactly of what a comfort in my place a knowing of my time the word may be “serenity” it exists even in new adventures in willingness for risks in shoulder shrugs at failures in smiles at foibles and secret laughter at the amazingness of it all Through reinvention, you have morphed into an OK single person. You have arrived at the next and final state: “the New Normal.” You are not half of a couple — but a whole woman or man — less needy and able to experience life with all its pleasures and pitfalls. I am not saying that you don’t miss your spouse, but you are really living again instead of just surviving. Now life can be good again, and new adventures are not only possible but also enjoyable. In this state you are able to form new friendships that are
meaningful and enduring — friends to go out with, share a meal or travel with. You may be alone, but you are not lonely. Home is a refuge, not solitary confinement. You feel like a complete person, grounded, and secure in your ability to manage your life. Because of the particular age group I interviewed (60 to 90), romance is a very remote possibility, and the large majority said they would not be interested in sharing life again with someone — companionship yes, love affair no. This is more true of widows than of widowers, who frequently find companionship and marriage with a younger woman. Single men in this age group are at a premium, and we joke about the casserole brigade: women who come bearing food and end up with the man. — Natasha Josefowitz taught the first course in the U.S. on women in management and is the author of 20 books. She lives at the White Sands in La Jolla.
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La Jolla business leaders among philanthropy awardees Three La Jolla business leaders were among nine local honorees at the 42nd annual National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon, held Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. National Philanthropy Day is in its 42nd year and is organized by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, San Diego Chapter (AFPSD). This year’s theme is “Celebrating Philanthropy: Gifts of Time, Talent and Treasure.” Committed to celebrating the rich diversity in the region, National Philanthropy Day recognizes the critical role philanthropy plays in our community and honors those who do it best. “National Philanthropy Day is a special day because we get to celebrate all the amazing contributions – time, talent and treasure – that make such a difference in our community,” says Pam Becker, director of major gifts and planned giving at Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and chapter president of AFPSD. “Every year it’s difficult to select the honorees because we receive so many nominations from so many organiza-
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The relationship between the Ché and UCSD, in fact, has been fairly uneasy over the last several years. Arguments about rent and insurance nonpayment, allegations of UCSD's attempt to decertify the collective that administers the Ché, the “holdover” status in the Ché's rent agreement and various safety concerns date to at least 2006, when UCSD and the Ché last signed a lease. Two years later, the venue didn't renew, and it's been operating on a month-to-month extension since then. When it opened as a campus hub for all-ages concerts, inexpensive food and unencumbered sociopolitical discussion, it came with a certain historical sentiment, reflected in its name. “C-h-é” stands for Cheap, Healthy Eats, but the eatery's namesake is Argentine theorist and Marxist revolutionary Ernesto (Che) Guevara, who in the 1950s and '60s rebelled against the capitalist establishment amid the misery he experienced as a medical student.
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pay for remodeling of the tower, safety improvements and a longterm tower fund and for investments in other parts of the institution. — City News Service Mission Valley bike path funding adjustment OK'd A $1.8 million budget adjust-
tions. This day gives us the opportunity to celebrate the impact of philanthropy in our community. It reminds us of the difference one person or organization can make in the lives of so many.” More than 100 nominations were submitted this year for review by the National Philanthropy Honorary Committee. The following La Jolla-area business leaders and their recognitions are as follows: Ernest and Evelyn Rady are recognized as Outstanding Philanthropists and were nominated by Jewish Community Foundation San Diego, Jewish Family Service of San Diego, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego Zoo Global and UCSD for their dedication to the community. The Radys encourage others to support causes by contributing lead and challenge gifts. They also volunteer their time and remain involved with the people and organizations they support. Barney & Barney Foundation is recognized as Outstanding Philanthropic Orga-
nization and was nominated by Rady Children’s Hospital, Neighborhood House Association, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association, Voices for Children and Walden Family Services San Diego. The Barney & Barney Foundation was formed in 2009 to celebrate the company’s 100-year anniversary and formalize its longstanding commitment to community involvement. In five years of operation, the foundation has awarded more than $1 million in grants to more than 60 nonprofits in San Diego, Orange County and the Bay Area. Kristin Bertell, MA, CFRE, has been named Outstanding Development Professional and was nominated by UCSD and Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. With more than 25 years of experience, the La Jolla resident's career includes working with fundraising programs such as UCLA Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Salk Institute and the J. David Gladstone Institute.
CUTTING REMARKS A ribbon-cutting ceremony dedicating the grand opening of the Kellogg Park North Comfort Station, memorializing John G. Watson, was held Oct. 30 on a picture-postcard day in La Jolla Shores. Thanks go out to Friends of La Jolla Shores, a nonprofit supporting the coastal park and La Jolla Shores Surfing Association. A total of $500,000 for design and construction for the new restroom facility was provided by the John G. Watson Foundation at the direction of Gillian & Michael Ison, John’s sister and brother-in-law. A native of Great Britain, Watson found a new home at La Jolla Shores, describing his morning ocean swims there as “delicious.” PHOTO BY DAVE SCHWAB
nomination period. “Any individual, organization, company, or local, state or federal agency involved in historic preservation is eligible to be nominated,” its website says, without reference to age. “Eligible nominees will have made significant contributions over time to the advancement of historic preservation and/or the preservation of historical resources in California.” However, the site says, “Projects shall have been completed (or, for large-scale, phased projects, had a substantial portion completed) within the last three years.” Repairs to bring the Ché up to snuff would cost $700,000. Diane Barclay, the office's outreach and communications coordinator, added that “the Governor's Historic Preservation Awards would not be able in any way to help in a situation like that. Efforts on the nominated projects have been made on behalf of historic preservation. Its focus is in a totally different direction.” The past can't argue in the Ché's favor, and the present is too mired in the legal process to care. Maybe the anonymous historical society
lady has the best suggestion of all. An equitable solution, she said, might lie in existing resources only steps from the café itself. The university's business-oriented Rady School of Management; the vegan-oriented culinary resources at the school's Center for Integrative Medicine; the Jacobs School of Engineering's savvy in structural integrity: UCSD, which U.S. News & World Report recently ranked 18th best in the world, is loopy with means to address the questions within and outside Bacal's ruling. A sense of studentinspired internal enterprise – the stuff of the successful educational process – might mean the difference between the venue's closure and a new commitment to an icon of music, art, free expression and cheap, healthy eats. The courts have noble advantages, but they're no match for innovative thought and solution; meanwhile, the friction between the Ché and its parent campus has been escalating since the middle of the last decade. A few more days, as even Bacal might agree, won't hurt.
NIH gives Scripps $6.6 million to study Lassa fever The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Scripps Research Institute team $6.6 million to study the most common hemorrhagic fever virus in Africa. Researchers in the United States and Sierra Leone, a West African nation currently battling an Ebola outbreak, will study the immune system's reaction to Lassa fever in — City News Service, KPBS patients who survive. The virus,
which is found in about 5 percent of house mice in the United States, kills as many as 40,000 Africans a year, about 15 percent of the total infected. The World Health Organization reported that as of Oct. 25, 4,922 West Africans have died of Ebola. Brian Sullivan, a Scripps scientist on the grant, will work in La Jolla and Sierra Leone, which has a hospital currently collecting victims' tissue samples. — U-T San Diego
Dirk Sutro, UCSD arts communications manager and an ardent supporter of the Ché, took the historical context a step further. There's a local legacy here, Sutro wrote in a July letter to La Jolla Village News, which on June 27 had published my editorial calling for the Ché's closure. “The murals at the Ché,” Sutro wrote, “are an essential part of the venue's history and ongoing value... They depict Chicano history, and they were painted by prominent artist and activist Mario Torero — who also did murals in [San Diego's] Barrio Logan... I am certain that if Torero were a member of the white/Euro art mainstream, UCSD and community leaders would be bending over backwards to preserve the Ché and Torero's murals. “The Ché,” Sutro continued, “occupies one of the few remaining buildings from the days when the UCSD campus was Camp Matthews, a Marine base. As such, it represents the kinds of modest and functional buildings which were the predominant centers for education in the campus’ early years... These old and unpretentious buildings illustrate how an
important university is often born with innovation and creativity, not with fancy architecture. A few UCSD faculty were here in the late '60s, and they fondly recall those days of creating a new university from scratch on the West Coast, in a setting very different from the East Coast Ivy League.” But “Ivy League” indeed has its age connotations, and maybe – just maybe – state historic preservation is one of them. One unidentified California Historical Society staffer, however, said the idea won't wash as a means of keeping the Ché's doors open. Her organization, she explained, grants preservation status only to buildings at least 50 years old (the Ché opened in 1980). Rental disputes and overdue repairs, she added, would weigh into the balance of negotiations, as would the fact that Guevara (who died in 1967) has no historical place in the university's direction. Neither does the state Office of Historic Preservation have an answer. It presents its Governor's Historic Preservation Awards every November following an extensive
ment to help pay for a safer pathway for bicyclists who wish to ride between Mid-City and Mission Valley was approved Oct. 24 by the board of directors of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG). The regional planning agency is developing the $14.5 million State Route 15 Commuter Bike Facility Project to include a one-mile path along the side of the freeway between Adams Avenue and Camino del Rio South.
If funding comes through, the path could open to cyclists by January of 2017, according to SANDAG documents. Currently, the only bike routes between Mission Valley and nearby neighborhoods such as Talmadge, Kensington and Normal Heights are on Fairmount Avenue and Texas Street. Final approval of the project could come in January, according to a SANDAG timeline.
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HEY, SLOW DOWN Foothill Boulevard resident Jeffrey Rosan points to the recently changed speed-limit signs bumping the speed from 25 mph to 30 miles an hour, despite the fact that neighors successfully petitioned the city for the just the opposite about 20 years ago. PHOTO BY DAVE SCHWAB
Foothill Blvd. residents look to slam brakes on speed hike By DAVE SCHWAB There’s a real feeling of déjà vu for Jeffrey Rosan and other neighbors along Foothill Boulevard in Pacific Beach. About 20 years ago, they spearheaded a successful petition drive to reduce the posted speed in their neighborhood from 30 miles an hour to 25 miles an hour along the windy stretch of Foothill Boulevard north of Beryl Street. Fast-forward to a couple of weeks ago, when the speed limit, allegedly without any kind of notice, reverted back to 30 miles an hour with predictible results, some neighbors said. “In 1987 through about 1994, the posted speed limit on Foothill Boulevard was 30 miles an hour and really horrible accidents were occurring with a great deal of frequency,” said Rosan, noting a school bus was struck turning left on Opal Street, a vehicle landed (sideways) in his driveway one night and another neighbor was nearly killed when he was T-boned backing out of his driveway. “Have you ever tried backing out of your driveway when platoons of cars are coming at you from both directions at 7 a.m. with the sun in your eyes or dew on the car window blinding their approach?” asked Rosan in a letter he’s widely distributing. “How about adding to that scenario, even under perfect conditions, backing out of your driveway when you can’t see those cars until they are right on top of you because of upward slopes in the roadway and cars parked on the street which create blind spots?” City traffic engineer Gary
Pence said the city is required by state law to conduct an engineering study and a speed survey every seven years for all streets classified as a collector or above. “The purpose of the study is to determine the appropriate speed limit for the street,” said Pence, noting low-volume streets classified as residential are all posted at 25 miles an hour. “The speed survey for higher-speed streets is the key element of the study because it measures the prevailing speeds on the street and determines the 85th percentile speed.” The 85th percentile is the speed motorists are driving at or below on that thoroughfare. “State law requires that the speed limit be posted at or near the 85th percentile in order to be enforceable by radar,” said Pence. “Speed limits posted too low (not near the 85th percentile) are called speed traps and cannot be enforced.” Once the engineering study and speed survey are completed, that speed is compared to the existing speed limit. “Sometimes the speed limit can be lowered, sometimes it needs to be raised, and sometimes it stays the same,” said Pence. “In the case of Foothill Boulevard, the speed survey resulted in an enforceable speed limit of 30 miles an hour. We informed the community planning group and they did not indicate that they wanted to vote on the item, so we proceeded with raising it from 25 miles an hour to 30 miles an hour. “After we posted the street to 30 miles an hour, the community planning group indicated that they will be voting on the issue at their next
scheduled meeting,” Pence said. If the community group decides to vote against raising the speed limit, we will change the speed back to 25 mph, but it will not be an enforceable speed limit again and the police will not enforce this roadway.” Neighbor Tom Coat, who lives at 5031 Foothill Blvd., agreed with Rosan’s assessment. “The speed limit on Foothill Boulevard was raised a couple of weeks ago from 25 to 30 miles an hour,” Coat said. “Since that time, at least two accidents have occurred, including a multi-car injury accident on Oct. 13,” Coat said. He added he’s been trying for years to get the speed limit enforced with no success. “Because of the lack of enforcement, speeds have increased significantly on the street, which is curvy, dangerous and cuts through a neighborhood with young families, elderly people, bike riders, dog walkers and has many driveway entrances/exits,” he said. Coat said he wants the speed limit on Foothill Boulevard again reduced to 25 miles an hour and “regularly enforced.”
He offered three reasons to support the change. “Enforcement is happening only when I see officers actually out on the street on a regular basis,” he said. “Increasing the speed limit is only going to encourage speeds to be even faster. And the windy nature of Foothill Boulevard makes even 30 miles an hour much too fast for public safety.” Coat said he has another neighbor — a young mother — whom he said will not turn left on Foothill to go to PB, but rather goes all the way up to Kate Sessions before turning left to head to PB because she’s “terrified of pulling out of my driveway.” Rosan said city traffic engineers, when assessing the safety of posted speed limits on streets like Foothill Boulevard, ought to be considering people’s penchant for pushing the envelope with speed. “The reality is people tend to drive 10 to 15 miles an hour above whatever the posted speed limit is,” Rosan said. “So, if it’s 25 miles an hour, you have people going 35 to 40 miles an hour, and so on. Where does it all end?”
REPERCUSSIONS This shot taken by Rosan shows a car that ended up sideways in his driveway several years ago along Foothill Boulevard as a result of excessive speed. COURTESY PHOTO
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I am retired and fortunately have adequate resources. I just don’t believe in spending SHARONANN HAMILTON money if I don’t have to, and it is not hard, because I have chosen to live a simple life for many years now. I do have my estate documents in order: trust, will, health care directive and power of attorney for financial matters should I be unable to act for myself. Here is the situation: I want to make a couple of small changes in beneficiary recipients. Someone told me I could just handwrite a codicil and put in in my trust documents. Is that true? Attorneys are pricy these days, and if I can do it myself without risk, I will. Sigh – Pennywise! Dear Pennywise,
A MOMENT IN TIME His face graced Time magazine in the spring of 1954, when his groundbreaking polio vaccine spelled hope in combating a major global cause of paralysis and muscle weakness. Jonas Salk, who realized a dream in creating La Jolla's Salk Institute for Biological Studies and who would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 28, was the first to successfully create a remedy for the dread poliomyelitis – since then, the institute has continued his work with colossal advances against diseases such as cancer, diabetes and AIDS. Amid world renown, Salk died in La Jolla at age 80 in 1995.
You are wise to choose a simple life and to be frugal with your money. Most of the time, not spending is a good idea. However, in the case of making changes in your estate documents, we need to grasp the rest of the saying, “Pennywise, pound-foolish.” Robert Burton (English scholar and author, 1577-1640) wanted to
show how trying to save money could be very costly in the long run. A wrong decision could disastrous for your family down the line. A little clarification of terminology: We amend a trust and/or add a codicil to a will. Thinking ‘it is just a simple change anyway so why shouldn’t I do it myself and save money‘ is natural, but it's misguided in this matter. Research sums up attorneys' observations: • Doing it yourself will likely make more money for attorneys in the long run to fix the problems resulting from your unintended goofs. • Harming your family may be your unfortunate result. Handwritten documents and changes are the basis for many lawsuits among family members and other beneficiaries. • Crossing out someone’s name is not a way to disinherit a person in a will even if signed and dated on the document – so no handwritten changes if you want them to stick. In addition, a California appellate court ruled that handwritten changes were not protected by a no contest clause. • Handwriting a codicil to your will or an amendment to your trust may be valid, but it is the riskiest action you can take. • Ruling in California: Heirs and beneficiaries are entitled to a complete copy of the “Terms of the
Trust” – your trust and your amendments. So if you strike off your son’s name because he took up with a floozy then added it back when he fell in love and married a “nice” girl, years later this information would be available to the heirs (possibly the nice girl who is now your daughter-in-law, your grandchildren, et cetera). Do you know that too many amendments make the intentions hard to decipher and prepare the way for disputes? If a previous trust is entirely replace by a restated trust, then the previous trust is not available for heirs and beneficiaries to read, helping keep peace in the family. Working with a professional attorney and staff means they will be available as witnesses to your true intentions and mental capacity if someone challenges the validity of the amendment. In brief, spend the money now and be fondly remembered when your estate serves your family for generations ahead!
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Trendy kale looks just about as good as it tastes Kale (Brassica oleracea) is in vogue right now and is considered to be a superfood for its nutritional package of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Since kale is not a fan of hot weather, the cooler months of autumn are the perfect time to plant and harvest it. In fact, cooler weather produces a less bitter, better-tasting crop. A member of the family of plants that include collards, broccoli and cabbage, kale is rich in vitamins A, C and K and is filled with antioxidants and anti-inflammatory and cholesterol-lowering benefits. There are many different varieties of kale to choose from, and they range in colors from green to purple. My favorite kale to cook with is Lacinato kale, also known as Tuscan or dinosaur kale. Its deep bluish green leaves are slightly sweeter and more delicate as compared with other varieties. Curly kale has beautiful ruffled leaves that can come in hues of green and purple and mixtures of these colors. It has a tougher texture and stronger flavor than Lacinato. Ornamental kale, or flowering kale, can actually be eaten, but the texture of the leaves is very tough, and it is grown for its color and not for taste. Kale in general is an attractive plant that can
be used in flower and vegetable gardens. Plant kale in well-drained soil and in a sunny area. Feed this hearty plant with a balanced organic fertilizer, such as Dr. Earth's Vegetable and Herb Fertilizer, and watch it grow. Check for aphids, and if they appear, just spray them away with a good blast from your garden hose. Slugs and snails will flock to kale, so keep the area around them baited with either crushed eggshells or a safe snail bait. Kale can also be successfully grown in containers. If planted from seedlings in sixpacks, kale can be harvested about a month after planting. Picking off the leaves of the plant will encourage it to produce more; however, do not pick off the central top portion of the plant, which will cause it to stop it producing. Harvest leaves when they are about the size of your hand for sautéeing or adding to soups. Tender baby leaves can be used in salads. After experimenting with kale over the years, I find that the entire central rib of the leaves should be removed. Unlike the ribs of chard, the kale rib is very chewy and bitter. After you remove the central rib, either thinly slice the leaves or roughly chop them. A simple
Hearty kale, left, is a superfood that goes well with holiday color schemes.
preparation for kale is to sautée chopped leaves in a little extra-virgin olive oil along with garlic, chili flakes and a nice splash of balsamic vinegar. Last year we had so much kale that I experimented with making kale chips, which turned out to be an easy-to-make healthful snack. To make kale chips, remove the
central rib from the kale leaves, cut the leaves into bite-size pieces and make sure they are completely dry. Toss them with a very small amount of olive oil and roast the leaves on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 8 to 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Check them often, and do not let the leaves burn. Toss the leaves with sea salt and let
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What's old is new: Plan to morph Green Dragon OK’d By DAVE SCHWAB What was once the historic Green Dragon Art Colony in La Jolla is now one major step closer to becoming a mixed-use retail venue with condominiums as the La Jolla Planning Commission voted 5-1 Oct. 23 to approve permitting and deviations for three detached residences, to be built at 1241-1249 Coast Blvd. “Though the design of the project was superb, I felt the applicant could have been more prepared for the presentation,” said Commissioner Anthony Wagner in explaining his no vote. Commissioner James Whalen was absent. The project proposes permitting to construct three detached residences on a developed site with existing commercial buildings at 1241, 1245 and 1249 Coast Blvd. Project deviations include construction of three new driveways added to an existing driveway along Coast Boulevard. Also proposed is ground-floor residential (no retail) on the lot fronting Coast Boulevard, where retail uses are
required for a minimum of half the gross ground floor area and 75 percent of the structure’s street-frontage length. “We were quite pleased,” said Paul Benton of Alcorn & Benton architects about the redevelopment project, named Jack O’Lantern. “Commissioners showed a lot of insight and a sense of how permitting and design elements could be woven into a new and modern design.” Benton noted the Jack O’ Lantern project “is not a reconstruction, a re-creation or a put'em-back situation, and the Coastal Commission recognized that.” David Heine, who co-owns Brockton Villa next door, testified he was concerned that one of the project’s dwellings would overlook his restaurant’s patio. “It’s hard to visualize, but that (project) balcony would actually be at a lower elevation than his patio,” responded Benton. Benton added that a memorial plaque discussing the Green Dragon Colony’s historical significance
has already been made and will be placed in a prominent location onsite. Anna Held Heinrich, governess to attorney Ulysses S. Grant Jr.'s children, developed a collection of 12 cottages scattered along the hill down to the ocean in 1894. She reportedly named them the Green Dragon Colony. The cottages were built between 1895 and 1906 during a Bohemian movement during which composers, actors, authors, architects and others came to spend time and practice their crafts while enjoying the La Jolla scenery and ocean view. In 1981, the city designated the colony historically significant. In 1989, San Diego City Council voted 6-2 against a plan to condemn the one-acre site and then sell it to the Chart House restaurant chain. The remaining four cottages were ultimately demolished in 1991. Today, the 12 Green Dragon Buildings occupy a loose collection of galleries and boutiques in La Jolla’s downtown Village.
One Miss Held assiduously tended to the watering at Green Dragon Art Colony in 1908. PHOTO FROM SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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157th birthday bash to fete iconic Kate Sessions, her many contributions The annual birthday celebration for Kate Sessions, unofficially known as the Mother of Balboa Park and the official namesake of a school and a public park in Pacific Beach, will be held Saturday, Nov. 8 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Marston Home and Gardens, 3525 7th Ave. The free celebration marks what would have been the 157th birthday of Sessions, co-founder of the San Diego Floral Association. “A horticulturalist and business owner, Kate Sessions greatly influenced the beauty of San Diego and Southern California, introducing many plants now common to the region,” said Barbara Clark, floral association spokeswoman. “She was widely celebrated throughout her life and continues to be recognized for her advocacy for Balboa Park.” The event will include fun facts about Sessions, and representatives of Kate Sessions Elementary School will remember her with a birthday cake and punch, a free plant to elementary school-age children and a free voucher for an opportunity to win raffle prizes as well as a photo opportunity with horseless carriage cars, waltz and foxtrot dance demonstrations and discount tours for the Marston home. Event parking is free along Sixth
Kate Sessions stands among the horticulture she loved so much. COURTESY FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN ARCHIVE
Avenue and Balboa Drive. Born in 1857 in San Francisco, Sessions, an American botanist, horticulturalist and landscape
architect, was closely associated with San Diego and Balboa Park until her death in March of 1940. Sessions earned a degree in nat-
ural science from UC, Berkeley in 1881 and, at the request of a friend, moved to San Diego in 1883 to work briefly as an eighthgrade teacher and vice principal at Russ School (now San Diego High School). Once in San Diego, Sessions quickly moved on to her true interest, the cultivation of plants. In 1885, she purchased a nursery. Within a few years, she was the owner of a flower shop and grew fields and nurseries in Coronado, Pacific Beach and Mission Hills. In 1892, Sessions struck a deal with the city of San Diego to lease 30 acres of land in Balboa Park (then called City Park) as her growing fields. In return, she agreed to plant 100 trees a year in the mostly barren park as well as 300 trees a year in other parts of San Diego. This arrangement left the park with an array of cypress, pine, oak, pepper trees and eucalyptus grown in her gardens from seeds imported from around the world. She planted virtually all the older trees that can still seen in the park. Sessions is credited with importing and popularizing the colorful jacaranda, now very familiar in the city. She also collected and introduced many California native plants to the horticulture trade and into gardens.
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5 • Free salsa dance, 8:30 p.m., La Jolla Marriott, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive. Free admission, DJ Bachata and salsa lesson, lots of street parking available. (858) 587-1414, marriott.com.
THURSDAY, NOV. 6 • Asian Film Festival, Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St. Closing night film, “Meet the Patels,” is a real-life romantic comedy about love, tradition and identity. Screening to be followed by a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers and subjects. The festival, in its 15th year, will showcase more than 140 films from 21 countries at nine venues in San Diego from Nov. 6 through 15. Schedules and ticket information, festival.sdaff.org/2014/.
FRIDAY, NOV. 7 THE ART OF ATHLETICS Martin Lawrence Galleries' La Jolla venue, at 1111 Prospect St., is a proud sponsor of the San Diego-based Challenged Athletes Foundation – accordingly, it's set to hold its annual auction, wherein a painting is raffled and the proceeds given to the organization. The event is Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m., and guests include NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton, who will draw the winning ticket. Pictured from last year's event are renowned sportscaster Dick Enberg, Walton, art consultant Richard Sertucha, Paralympic champion Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Brooke Eldridge. More than 200 attended last year's event. To learn more, see martinlawrence.com.
• La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, 7 to 8 p.m., Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD. La Jolla Symphony and Chorus will hold its second annual Young People’s Concert, featuring selected movements of Gustav Mahler’s popular Symphony No. 5, conducted by Steven Schick, a great introduction to the symphony for school-aged children. Schick will provide engaging commentary from the stage during the concert. sandiegoreader.com/places/mandeville-auditorium-ucsd/
Sessions co-founded the San Diego Floral Association, the oldest garden club in Southern California, in 1907.The garden club was influential in teaching San Diegans how to grow ornamental and edible plants at a time most San Diego landscaping consisted of dirt and sagebrush. She never married, died at 82 and is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery. Kate Sessions Elementary School in Pacific Beach bears her name, as does Kate O. Sessions Memorial Park on Mount Soledad, located less than a mile from the school and constructed only a few years later. A bronze statue of Sessions, dedicated in 1998, is situated in a prominent location in Balboa Park in the southwest corner of Sefton Plaza, near the Sixth Avenue entrance to the park. It is the only full sculpture in San Diego of a nonfictional woman. In 2006, the Women’s History Museum of Southern California inducted Sessions into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame under the title of Trailblazer. For more information about the birthday bash, call (619) 2325762 or visit sdfloral.org.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 8 • La Jolla Symphony and Chorus season opening concert, 7:30 to 10 p.m., UCSD Mandeville Auditorium, Two works of sharp contrast open the group's 60th anniversary season. Steven Schick conducts one of the mightiest symphonies – Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. David Chase opens the program, conducting the chorus and four percussionists in the world premiere of “a Sound uttered, a Silence created. $15-$29. (858) 5344637, lajollasymphony.com.
SUNDAY, NOV. 9 • La Jolla Open Aire Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., La Jolla Elementary School, on the corner of Girard Avenue and Genter Street. Weekly farmers market offers the best in local produce and arts and crafts by local artisans plus a food court and live entertainment. lajollamarket.com/.
MONDAY, NOV. 10 • The Comedy Store stand-up acts, doors open 6:15 p.m., 916 Pearl St. Ahmed Ahmed headlines. $20, 21 and up, two-drink minimum. (858) 454-9176, thecomedystore.com.
TUESDAY, NOV. 11 • Live concert, rap duo Run the Jewels, UCSD, Porter’s Pub, 9500 Gilman Drive. porterspub.com.
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 • La Jolla Village Merchants Association (LJVMA) board meeting, 8:30 a.m., Cuvier Club, 7776 Eads Ave. Business Improvement District representing the Village of La Jolla meets to promote La Jolla’s business district and to discuss issues of concern to the community, lajollabythesea.com.
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the book fair marks its 20th installment. “It's our movement into North County,” Wollner said. “Almost half of the book fair is up in North County, with Temple Solel. We have events at [North County retirement community] Seacrest Village and one at [Rancho Santa Fe], so we're
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music historian James Grymes' “Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour”; food authority Daron Joffe's “Citizen Farmers: The Biodynamic Way to Grow Healthy Food, Build Thriving Communities, and Give Back to the Earth”: They're all parcel of an author conclave whose command of Jewish themes is as formidable as their command of the language, their colossal work ethic and their unique worshipdriven take on secular life. “Jewish literature is growing,” Wollner confirms. “In the past, you could only talk about a few authors, but now there are so many. [Holocaust] and [secondgeneration] survivors still have the opportunity to tell their story and their parents' stories. That's one small piece of what's available at the book fair. We want to make sure that all those legacies and testimonies come to life,” thus sanctioning a future for an indispensable part of American society. For more on the fair, see sdcjc.org/sdjbf.
and “Bird on the Wire” – Leibovitz's talk will include a dash of live Cohen tunes. “We're just trying to round it out a little more,” Wollner said. “That's something we've really made the effort to do this year.” Enter Eddie Shapiro, whose Nov. 15 talk will be backdropped by members of J*Company Youth Theatre. They'll perform Broadway medleys and vignettes to color his talk on his “Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater.” Shapiro's loaded with stories about 20 Broadway performers, like 81year-old Chita Rivera's seven decades in show business, Angela Lansbury's five Tony Awards, Carol Channing's impromptu concert at an L.A. hotel (“Carol's crazysmart,” Shapiro said) and the changes the art form has seen over the decades. Laura Silver's cooking-based “Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food”: biographer Kai Bird's intrigue-driven “The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames,” which chronicles the CIA operative's 1983 assassination in Beirut;
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