PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID ENCINITAS, CA 92024 PERMIT NO. 94
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MAKING WAVES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
VOL. 23, NO. 28
JULY 10, 2009
THISWEEK
Citizens question contract for trash
STUDENT TO SOLDIER
Students at Santa Fe Christian go one step beyond volunteering and start their own charity group to send packages to soldiers overseas A7
By Promise Yee
HIGH NOTES
OCEANSIDE — A heated discussion led up to a 3-2 council vote approving a oneyear extension to the Waste Management trash-hauling contract with the city on July 1. Speakers questioned whether the approval was legal, as it bypassed public input and recommendations from Integrated Waste Commission, which works year-round to review city waste management issues. “I’m very upset at being on this dais,” Mayor Jim Wood said. “This is unbelievable that the acts on the largest (city) contract circumvented public input. The rest of the waste providers can say they’ve been left out.” Wood and Sanchez voted against adding a year to the present 12-year, multimilliondollar contract with Waste
Winners of the Del Mar Fair’s contest Musicpalooza open up for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts A10
GONE TOO SOON
“Small Talk” columnist Jean Gillette reflects on the untimely death of a local teen B1
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TURN TO CONTRACT ON A13
Summer officially kicks off with the Independence Day weekend and the most crowded day of the year. Above, Moreno Valley residents Ally Hatch and Ivy White play in the sand in Oceanside on the Fourth of July. At left, crowds flocked to the beach in Oceanside to beat the heat and celebrate the holiday. Photos by Daniel Knighton
La Paloma shows SoCal premiere of film By Promise Yee
ENCINITAS — La Paloma Theater showed the Southern California premier of “Dear and Yonder,” a unique documentary film about women who surf and their personal connection to the ocean, July 2. “We tried to avoid comparing it to men’s surfing,” filmmaker Tiffany Campbell said. “Women are doing something different that’s amazing and they’re open to telling their stories.” The film begins with a brief history of women’s surfing, starting with 1778 Hawaiian surfing, the 1956 story of Gidget, and moving on to 1998 surfing legend Lisa Andersen and present day professional surfer Kassia Meador. Linda Benson, winner of the U.S. Championship in Huntington Beach in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964 and 1968, recalls how women have gained a respected presence in the sport of surfing. “The turning point came in 1998, with board shorts and Lisa Andersen,” Benson said. “We really had something of our own.” While there were few
North County DUI arrests on the rise By Randy Kalp
said. “You go out get the wave, and get what you get. Sixty percent is a documentary, where women tell their stories.” The film gives personal
COAST CITIES — A total of 21 people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on North Countyarea freeways and rural roads over the Fourth of July weekend, three more than last year, a Highway Patrol spokesperson said July 6. Despite the slight rise in DUI arrests by the California Highway Patrol in the North County, there were no traffic fatalities on CHP-monitored roadways during the holiday weekend throughout the San Diego-area, Officer Eric Newbury said. Countywide, the CHP made 88 DUI arrests, 66 fewer than last year, according to the Highway Patrol. In addition to the Highway Patrol’s maximum enforcement period, which ran from 6 p.m. July 3 through midnight July 5 and assigned 80 percent of its available officers to local regions freeways and unincorporated roads, North County law enforcement agencies also staffed
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TURN TO DUI ON A13
WATER WARRIORS Lisa Anderson, winner of four World Titles from 1994 to 1997, and Linda Benson, winner of the U.S. Championship in Huntington Beach in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964 and 1968, await the premier of “Dear and Yonder,” a documentary film about women’s surfing. Photo by Promise Yee
women surfing in the 1950s, today women of all ages are cutting up the waves. “Women surfers are getting recognized and respected,” Benson said. “They have proven themselves in their ability.”
“Dear and Yonder” took three years to shoot and two years in postproduction said Campbell, who worked as the director, editor, producer and writer. “Forty percent is a traditional surf movie,” Campbell