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MARCH 11, 2022
Assistance League event helps students
Average price of gas jumps nearly 12 cents
By Staff
REGION — Last year, the Assistance League of North Coast was able to give $50,000 in scholarships to graduating seniors in Carlsbad, Vista and Oceanside. It also provided high school students with clothing shopping trips to JC Penney, and 124 students were able to experience realistic parenting skills with infant simulators for the realities of caring for a baby with the Chapter’s program “Baby Real Deal.” Now students and teachers are giving back to ALNC in a very special way. The organization is holding a fundraising event titled, “Enduring Stories” at the Oceanside Art Museum March 26 and art teachers from both Oceanside and Mission Vista High Schools will donate 100 4-inch-by4-inch “mini masterpieces” to be sold. If you would like more information or to register for the ALNC fundraising event, go to alnc.org. To apply for a scholarship, go to http:// a l ncsc hola rsh ips.com. One scholarship is awarded to seniors from each of the high schools in Oceanside, Carlsbad and Vista. This year there are three additional special scholarships, two $2,500 for students who are committee to careers in STEM or business and the third is a $5,000 Meredith Fellows Future Teacher Scholarship. Applications are due on or before April 8, 2022. You can also contact the school counseling office or the scholarship chairperson at scholarships@ alnc.org. When Kriss Stewart, the philanthropic program chairperson, asked Mr. Sly at Oceanside High School if his students would like to participate and perhaps provide 25 canvases for the event, he said, “Sound like fun, I think I could get 100. My art club would be awesome at this.” Jane Kluck, of Mission Vista, wanted to know if the art classes at her school could donate more than 100. She also shared her own “Enduring Story,” having received a scholarship from the Assistance League of Capistrano Valley when she graduated from Dana High School in 1998.
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market.” Councilman Peder Norby said while the program is great, he would like to see a more robust program to allow home sellers more flexibility with a home’s equity plus more stock. He also said it may be wise for the city to reinstate a pro-
By City News Service
OCEANSIDE POLICE Department is currently headquartered in a strip mall on Mission Avenue, but the city is looking for a long-term home for law enforcement. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram
O’side council pushes for new police HQ Council halts construction of new fire stations By Samantha Nelson
OCEANSIDE — The Oceanside City Council on Feb. 23 halted the construction of any additional fire stations with the exception of Fire Station No. 1 until the city has made more progress on finding a new home for the police department. The council's decision was made immediately after approving a more than $1 million agreement with STK Architecture, of Temecula, to design a new Fire Station No. 8, which is currently leasing a building in 1935 Avenida Del Oro, Suite F. Though the council unanimously approved the agreement, Councilmember Peter Weiss added a second part to the motion declaring that the city would not enter into a construction contract for Fire Station No. 8 until plans and financing are in place for a new police station. “Whatever we’re going to do with the police station, we need to advance that and I’d like to see (the police station) have an opportunity to compete for funding versus having another fire station,” Weiss said. Mayor Esther Sanchez was the only council member to oppose the second part of the modified motion. “I don’t feel comfortable splitting public safety this way,” Sanchez said. The decision to halt further construction of new fire stations does not apply to Fire Station No. 1’s construction, which is set to begin once the project’s final permits are obtained. gram where they help cover closing costs. Norby said when he bought his first home, the city helped cover those costs making it easier for him to get into the “housing ladder.” Currently, the city splits a home’s equity with the home seller, although it’s on a case-by-case basis, Melander said.
The current police station headquarters is located in a strip mall in the 3800 block of Mission Avenue. The department began occupying the location in 1999 on a 10-year, temporary basis, however by the time 2009 rolled around the city didn’t have funds for a new police station. The recession, at the time, further delayed the station’s construction, which is now 13 years overdue. A big issue with the police department’s current location is the lack of space, despite nearly a dozen remodels of the station’s interior to maximize space as much as possible. According to Terry Gorman Brown, an analyst in the City Manager’s Office, the department’s secured, gated lot is too small for all of its vehicles, resulting in some of them being parked in front of the facility within the common parking area of the strip mall. Some other vehicles are parked at the City Operations Center and fire stations as well. Lack of police vehicle storage isn’t the only problem with the use of space for the department. “The Department’s firearms range, evidence and property storage facility, arrest and control training space, and force options simulator are all located in separate areas of the city,”
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Brown said via email. “This leads to restricted hours in which training can take place, inefficiencies in use of staff time, unnecessary wear and tear on vehicles due to the need to travel to the offsite facilities, and ultimately, inefficient use of taxpayer resources compared to what a purpose-built and fully centralized facility would provide.” Measure X is funding the current police headquarters expansion and relocation study. As for Fire Station No. 8, the plan is to build a new location on city-owned property bound by Old Grove Road to the north, Trestle
Street to the west, Rocky Point Drive to the south and the Front Wave Credit Union to the east along College Boulevard. The building will be either one or two stories high with approximately 15,00018,000 square feet of space and will house a four-person ladder truck, a three-person engine and a battalion chief vehicle with accommodations for 10 fire personnel. The city’s Water Utilities Department will share the property with its construction of a 2.5 million-gallon, prestressed, concrete, recycled water storage reservoir on the southerly portion of the site.
REGION — The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County recorded its second-largest increase since July 14, 2015, on Wednesday, rising 11.9 cents to $5.602, its 20th record in 22 days. The average price has risen 15 consecutive days, increasing 85.8 cents, including 10 cents Tuesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 70.7 cents more than one week ago, 90.8 cents higher than one month ago and $1.797 greater than one year ago. “The situation at the pump is awful, but Americans have the power to reduce consumption and lower price,” tweeted Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, which provides real-time gas price information from more than 150,000 stations. Oil industry analysts attribute the price spike to the possibility of a supply shortage because traders, shippers, insurance companies and banks are avoiding Russian oil transactions for fear of running afoul of Western sanctions.
