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JULY 17, 2015
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Summer Boger, left, discusses the recently passed State Bill 277, at a Town Hall meeting in Carlsbad on Tuesday. Photo by Ellen Wright
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. Vaccines mandate a concern for parents
Showing how it’s done
By Ellen Wright
Surfer Nathaniel Curran gets some instruction on form from his 4-year-old nephew Oliver following a heat during the Bro-Am surf contest at Moonlight Beach last weekend. See more photos from the annual Switchfoot Bro-Am event on page B10. Photo
by Tony Cagala
Contract awarded for Solana Beach entry sign By Bianca Kaplanek
SOLANA BEACH — Visitors driving into Solana Beach from nearly every angle will soon have no doubt they are entering the city. At the July 8 meeting, council members unanimously awarded a contract to Greenfield Fence Inc. to construct an entry sign at the intersection of Lomas Santa Fe and Highland drives. The city’s fourth entry sign will soon be added to this median at The artistic monument the intersection of Lomas Santa Fe and Highland drives. Photo by was planned as part of re- Bianca Kaplanek
cently completed traffic calming improvements in the area east of Interstate 5. That project created a new median on Lomas Santa Fe that was considered an excellent site for the city’s fourth entry sign. The other three are located on the north and south ends of Coast Highway 101 and on Valley Avenue, at the Eden Gardens pump station, just north of TURN TO SIGN ON A15
CARLSBAD — Dozens of vaccine opponents filled the community room at Calavera Hills Community Park Tuesday night to learn more about recent California laws regarding vaccines. Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 277 into law, which eliminated parent’s options of using personal or religious beliefs as a reason to avoid getting their child vaccinated. Starting July 2016, children can only use an exemption for a medical condition. Organizers of the event Thursday admitted the issue is “emotionally charged.” “This is an emotionally charged subject. I don’t care where on the spec-
trum you fall, said the organizer’s Public Outreach Coordinator Heather Hawkes. “There is no per-
There is no person that you can engage in a discussion about vaccines who is indifferent.” Heather Hawkes Public Outreach Coordinator
son that you can engage in a discussion about vaccines who is indifferent,” TURN TO VACCINES ON A20
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