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The popular E Street Café in Encinitas abruptly closed its doors last month. A lawsuit filed from the café’s former owner to the current one may have something to do with it. Photo by Aaron Burgin

PATRIOTIC PERCH Ean Schuchmann, 6, and Andrew Schuchmann, 5, both of Oceanside, have front row seats to the parade. Over 100 entries marched down Coast Highway on June 28. See full story on page A7. Photo by Promise Yee

Sand replenishments show beaches wider By Bianca Kaplanek

SOLANA BEACH — Thanks to two sand replenishment projects city beaches are wider now than they were about 20 years ago. That’s the good news. Without similar future projects, however, that increase could be washed away, according to a report at the June 25 council meeting from Greg Hearon of Coastal Frontiers, a coastal engineering firm. Hearon likened the situation to a bank account. “If you’re putting in more than you’re getting out, your balance grows,” he said. “Or in this case, your beach widths gain. Your sand volume increases. “But if you’re not putting in as much, more is leaving,” he added. Thanks to sand replenishment projects like this one in 2012, the shoreline in Solana TURN TO BEACHES ON A21

Beach, and especially at Fletcher Cove, is wider now than it was nearly 20 years ago. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek

ENCINITAS — Two weeks ago, the storefront on West E Street was filled with musicians, poets and coffee-drinking patrons. Today, the musicians are replaced with empty boxes, the poets with stacked up restaurant equipment, and the patrons are now just empty chairs. E-Street Café, once a bustling cultural hub in Downtown Encinitas, abruptly ceased operations last month. A sign in the window said the space would be reconfigured to its original orientation and leased as office space. Calls to George Gowland, who owns the property, were not returned. Patrons, city officials and downtown insiders have all asked the same question: what happened? The answer may lie in a 40-page lawsuit filed in January that pits the café’s former owner and co-founder Keith Shillington against current café owner Dominic Al-

corn. According to the complaint, Alcorn last fall defaulted on a $125,000 loan from Shillington for which Alcorn put up the business as collateral. Shillington, according to the suit, notified Alcorn that he would exercise his rights to collect the collateral by filing a financial statement with the California Secretary of State. Shillington, who owned E Street Café with life partner Robert Nanninga until shortly after Nanninga’s death in 2009, confirmed the active litigation this week, and said that he believes Alcorn abandoned the business so he could avoid paying him back. Alcorn, reached Tuesday, alluded to an issue with the former owners, but declined further comment on the topic, citing advice from his attorney Gregory Koehler, who also declined comment. TURN TO CAFE ON A21


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