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VOL. 27, NO. 32
OCT. 25, 2013
Council members Lesa Heebner and Dave Zito were chosen Oct. 23 by their colleagues to serve on an ad hoc committee. In the event there’s a special election to determine a use policy for the Fletcher Cove Community Center, the committee will draft a competing ordinance. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
Ad hoc formed to draft competing initiative
The 128-year old Hotel Germania plays host to the 13th annual Haunted Hotel presented by Boy Scout Troop 2000. See more photos on page A10 Photo by Daniel Knighton
Ex-Army Navy admin pleads not guilty when they were students at the three boarding schools Barton has been employed with. Barton has worked at ANA for the past 18 years. He resigned from his position as Head of Schools in June when the police investigation began. The school, at the time of his resignation, stated that he was leaving to pursue other career interests. Barton was arrested at his Oceanside home on Oct. 17 shortly after 5 p.m. and is being held in the Vista Detention Facility. The investigation is ongoing to Jeffrey Barton enters the courtroom for his initial identify other possible victims and arraignment hearing on Oct. 22, sitting in the witnesses. windowed box reserved for defendants within the Vista Courthouse. Photo by Rachel Stine
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Despite residents calling out against another cell tower going up, the San Marcos City Council voted to approve it. B4
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A World War II veteran and Encinitas resident receives a thorough welcome home after participating in an Honor Flight. B1
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the building is directly adjacent to a residential community. Zito said outright adoption of the initiative is “not right or fair to all parties involved,” and the best way to avoid a special election that will cost the city more than $200,000 “is to come up with a plan that is amenable to the parties involved.” That seems unlikely since stakeholders tried unsuccessfully for the past two years to work out a compromise. He encouraged his colleagues to continue to “try to find other solutions to the dilemma that we’re in,” but said the primary purpose of the ad hoc is to “come back with ideas with what a competing initiative would look like” so voters have options. Mayor Mike Nichols also volunteered to serve on the committee, but Heebner threw her name in because she was one of two people who initially supported alcohol consumption during private events. Zito and Nichols did not. “There was a split on this council before it got to this point where some of us were for protecting the neighborhood in different ways,” Heebner said. “I don’t want the perception that the ad hoc committee might be
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VISTA — Former Army and Navy Academy (ANA) administrator Jeffery Barton entered pleas of not guilty to 16 counts of forcible sex acts with minors at an Oct. 23 hearing at the Vista Courthouse. The current charges represent the latest of several child sexual abuse accusations against Barton from over the past 30 years, according to the prosecution. The present investigation was opened in June when a victim, now an adult, reported to police that Barton had sexually abused him while he was a student at ANA. Since then, six other victims have come forward with claims that Barton sexually abused them as children
SOLANA BEACH — Council members agreed at the Oct. 23 meeting to form an ad hoc committee to evaluate, analyze and potentially draft a competing ordinance to be submitted to the voters should a special election be called to determine a use policy for Fletcher Cove Community Center. Lesa Heebner and Dave Zito volunteered and were chosen to serve on the committee that by law must be limited to two council members. When council members failed earlier this year to create a use policy for the renovated, bluff-top facility on Pacific Avenue, a group of residents launched a campaign to let voters decide if private celebrations and other special events could take place there. They gathered enough signatures for an initiative but turned the petition in earlier than necessary, forcing City Council to ultimately either adopt it as written or call for a special election. Many residents want the community center to be available for private celebrations that include alcohol consumption. Others say those events will lead to traffic and noise problems as well as public safety issues related to overconsumption of alcohol, especially since
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