The Coast News, Dec. 11, 2009

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DEC. 11, 2009

Recall effort fails

THISWEEK

By Promise Yee

OCEANSIDE — The Dec. 8 election to recall Councilman Jerry Kern failed with a 63 percent no vote.The results from the mail-in ballots posted right after the polls closed at 8 p.m. showed that number remained steady through the final count of all 60 precincts. City Council chambers was “election central” with vote counting machines on sight and precinct updates posted online every 15 minutes and displayed on a big screen. It took approximately two dozen San Diego County Registrar of Voters workers, 177 poll workers, and eight volunteer ballot counting machine operators to process ballots on site. The process allowed voters to observe the

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Children at Park Dale Lane Elementary worked together to earn money by recycling to help Toys for Tots A9

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Holidays are here

Thousands lined the streets when the city of Encinitas hosted the annual Encinitas Holiday Parade Dec. 5, heading south along Coast Highway 101 from D Street to J Street. The theme of this year’s parade was “Season’s GreeNings.” Festivities kicked off with a tree lighting ceremony in the Lumberyard Shopping Center courtyard. Above, Carlsbad resident Victoria Dondanville warms up before the pardade with her horse Orca, representing the Southern California Icelandic Riding Club. Left, Cardiff-by-the-Sea residents Samantha Lamirh and Sarah Schwab take a break while preparing for the parade. See more photos on Page A21. Photos by Daniel Knighton

VISTA — Derlyn Ray Threats should be executed for the brutal murder of a 24year-old housewife in her Vista home, a Vista jury recommended Dec. 4. After six days of deliberation, the panel returned on the morning of Dec. 4 with their final verdict in Threats’ case, in which they found that the 28-year-old man should be sentenced to death for the murder of Carolyn

Rebecca Neville four years ago in her Vista home. “Yes, yes, yes … yes,” each of the 12 jurors answered as Superior Court Judge K. Michael Kirkman pulled the jury. As the panel answered, Threats sat motionless with his head cocked to the left side and looked away from the jury. Unlike other times when the jury entered and exited the courtroom, Threats who wore a khaki

pants with a white button down shirt and a tie, didn’t stand. Threats also denied a request by Kirkman to have his sentencing hearing scheduled outside the three-week window defendants are granted as their right to speedy proceedings. Kirkman set a sentencing date for Jan. 5. Threats was convicted in November of one count each of murder in the first degree

By Bianca Kaplanek

with special circumstance allegations, residential robbery and residential burglary. The panel, eight men and four women, also found true the two special circumstance allegations — the murder was committed during the robbery or burglary, and the murder involved torture. Outside the courtroom,

DEL MAR — A Dec. 2 special meeting called by the Del Mar Union School District board of trustees turned out to be an example of some of the issues board members hoped to settle. Katherine White, board president, said she called the meeting to address rumors and misinformation that surfaced during previous meetings and in newspapers, including a lack of textbooks to start the school year and the allocation of school improvement program, or SIP, funds. White said she planned to speak to those issues during an agenda item listed as “discussion regarding state of

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TURN TO SCHOOL ON A21

Jury recommends death for ex-Marine By Randy Kalp

Troubles continue at school district

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