PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID ENCINITAS, CA 92024 PERMIT NO. 94
THE COAST NEWS
MAKING WAVES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
NOV. 2, 2012
Organizer of race addresses concerns
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By Bianca Kaplanek
THISWEEK The Cothran-Bray family in Carlsbad knows how to take Halloween to a new level with the spooky scenes created in their yard. The decorations are on display now through the first few weeks of November. Photo by Rachel Stine
Haunted yard adds scares, spooks
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By Rachel Stine
CARLSBAD — The Halloween decorations started with just the skeleton chop shop. Four years ago, a skeleton butcher covered in gore waved his cleaver behind a table of stray limbs and organs from the Cothran-Bray family’s front yard. This year’s trick-or-treaters
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will find a few additions to the home on Segovia Way, like the graveyard monster spurting blood from its eyes, the winged demon breathing fog out to the sidewalk, and the decapitated head spitting blood into a pool on the front walkway, just to name a few. “When you have two boys, you always end up with blood and
guts for Halloween,” said Peyton Bray, who has been putting monsters in his front yard since 2008, and works as the Dean of School Life at Pacific Ridge School. He and his sons, Cosmo, 14, and Tennessee, 11, were tweaking blood flows and adjusting fog
SOLANA BEACH — In an effort to garner support for a race that will shut down Coast Highway 101 on a Sunday morning in 2014, the promoter, as promised, held an informational meeting Oct. 25 to better explain the event and address potential concerns. But only a handful of people attended and none of their questions focused on what the organizers and city officials expected to be the major issues — parking, noise and inconvenience from the closure of a main thoroughfare along the coast. In August, race producers Peter Douglass and Rick Kozlowski presented plans to Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas for the California 10/20, a 10-mile run along Highway 101 that would start and end at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 17, 2013. The route will include 20 bands along the way to motivate runners. Douglass, president of Turnkey Operations and co-creator of San Diego’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, received approval from officials in TURN TO RACE ON A27
TURN TO YARD ON A18
Newsletter provides project updates By Bianca Kaplanek
SOLANA BEACH — To update residents and area businesses about the Coast Highway 101 improvement project, the city will begin publishing a twicemonthly newsletter that will focus primarily on upcoming construction activity. The first publication was expected to be handed out to all businesses along the corridor and be posted on the city website Oct. 30. All future newsletters will be on the website and posted on the kiosk on Plaza Street. During his scheduled update
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at the Oct. 24 City Council meeting, City Engineer Mo Sammak said most of the median paving work is complete and median trees have been planted. In response to concerns raised by residents that some of the trees are planted too close together, Sammak said those installed will provide a canopy once they mature. He said they are too young to be trimmed right now. Eventually there will be a trunk and a canopy so the trees don’t impede traffic flow or block businesses. Sammak said night work is
MAGGIE’S VOICE FROM THE PAST... Maggie’s dying wish in a touching video was to endorse Lisa Shaffer
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Maggie Houlihan beloved Encinitas City Council member from the year 2000 until her untimely death Sept. 16, 2011
scheduled to begin in November but an exact date has not been set. The $7 million project began in June and is expected to be complete by about this time next year. Improvements will be made in three phases, beginning at Cliff Street and going south to Estrella Street, then moving to Plaza Street and finishing at Dahlia Drive. Phase one is just about done. The project will feature 11 community gathering places, or themed plazas, with low seat walls, benches and colored aggregate and TURN TO UPDATES ON A18
Solana Beach resident and race co-promoter Rick Kozlowski (standing) explains some of the details of the California 10/20 during an Oct. 25 public information workshop at Solana Beach City Hall. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
HER CHOICE FOR THE FUTURE Maggie Houlihan endorsed Tony Kranz in 2010
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