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MAKING WAVES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

VOL. 25, NO. 30

OCT. 14, 2011

Political star power fights homelessness

THISWEEK

By Wehtahnah Tucker

TAKE PRIDE

North County celebrates diversity, acceptance and more at Pride on the A5 Beach.

Solutions for Change

LEARNING TO FLY 17-year-old Waverly Giannotti is earning her B1 wings.

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By Wehtahnah Tucker

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The organization was founded on the principle that family homelessness can be solved. Executive Director Chris Megison, who founded the organization in 1999 with his wife Tammy, said the families that enter the organization’s “university” are given the tools to succeed in life rather than a temporary fix. In that time, the organization has saved taxpayers more than $28 million by helping families permanently solve their homelessness. “There is a difference between containing homelessness and solving it,” he said. While seasonal shelters are valuable, they don’t get to the root problems that lead to homelessness, Megison said. Over a decade ago when TURN TO SOLUTIONS ON A17

Council approves pilot program

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, now a professor at Stanford University, gave the keynote address at the North County Solutions for Change gala Oct. 8. Photo by Wehtahnah Tucker

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RANCHO BERNARDO — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to a sold out crowd to benefit North County Solutions for Change and help achieve its goal to solve family homelessness in the region on Oct. 8. The star-studded event held at Rancho Bernardo Inn raised an astounding $1.3 million, far surpassing the organizers’ goals of $250,000. “An Evening to Remember” was part of the organization’s “Finding Our Way Home” initiative, whose goal is to lead 200 families and their 400 children out of homelessness within three years. More than 600 families have successfully completed the Solutions program, with several of those families present at the gala.

Memorial for councilwoman set for Oct. 15 ENCINITAS — The community is invited to the celebration of Maggie Houlihan’s life and numerous contributions at 11 a.m. Oct. 15 at Cottonwood Creek Park, 95 N. Vulcan Ave. on the corner of Vulcan Avenue and Encinitas Boulevard. There is very limited parking at Cottonwood Creek Park but additional space is available at the Coaster Train Station and also at City Hall,

505 S.Vulcan Ave. Planners rec- influence.These will need to be ommend that guests arrive brief speeches as planners early. The memorial will start expect that a number of people will want to address the promptly at 11 a.m. gathering. After a program of This event is open invited speakers there to all members of the will be an “open mic” public and planners are opportunity for resilooking forward to a dents,friends and memfond remembrance of a bers of the public person who had a posito share their MAGGIE tive impact on so many personal recollections HOULIHAN lives. of Maggie’s life and

ENCINITAS — Being green just got a little easier as the City Council voted unanimously Oct. 12 to enter into an agreement for a pilot project to host a charging station for electric cars. The agreement is part of a nationwide effort, known as the EV Project, partially funded by an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The city will work with San Francisco-based ECOtality to facilitate the construction and maintenance of a “Blink” electric vehicle charging station.The unit will be installed as soon as possible with the agreement running through April 2013. Several potential sites were identified according to Deputy City Manager Richard Phillips. However, the commuter parking lot on Vulcan Avenue and E Street was the most feasible, Phillips said. The lot is leased by the city from the North County Transit District and would require that entity’s approval before construction begins. The project assumes and

aims to encourage the increased use of electric and hybrid vehicles. The availability of charging stations is often the lynchpin in deciding whether to purchase an electric vehicle. “If I lived in a city that had at least a third of the charging stations as it did gas stations, I would consider buying an (electric vehicle),” said Leucadia resident Simone Parry. “It’s in the beta stage right now,” she said, adding that “they put (electric) cars on the market without building the infrastructure to support them.” Deputy Mayor Jerome Stocks said the city of San Diego plans to build 300 charging stations within the next year. The owner of an electric car himself, Stocks was enthusiastic about the possibility of using a charging station to lure visitors to the city. “I’m glad we’re open to advertising,” he said. “I don’t want to keep this a secret. I want to market Encinitas.” Councilwoman Teresa Barth said she hoped to TURN TO COUNCIL ON A15


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