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Forum to address RB’s lack of recycled water
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BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK
Westwood Elementary in Rancho Bernardo will hold its annual welcome fair from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. The event includes community organization and business booths so the school’s families can obtain information. For-profit booths are $25 or a silent auction item donation. For details, contact PTA President Habiba Mabene at habibaissa85@ mabene.net.
Artists needed The Rancho Bernardo 50th anniversary celebration planning committee is looking for artists to display their work at the Sept. 22 festivities. Contact Patti Hall at 858414-3950 or phallhomes@ gmail.com.
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There will be a forum next week to discuss possible ways to bring recycled water for landscaping to Rancho Bernardo. The event will be 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 at Bernardo Heights Country Club, 16066 Bernardo Heights Parkway in Rancho Bernardo. To RSVP contact Michael Spayd at mspayd@ bhcc.net or 858-487-4022.
The organizers — including resident Jim Denton — are with Bernardo Heights Country Club and Community Association of Bernardo Heights. Both have extensive green areas that need water to maintain their appearance and have been exploring for a few years how to get less expensive water for landscaping, Denton said. “Initially, we thought the two of us together could find a way to do this by using a self-contained waste water
processing system capturing run-off and storm water at our pond on the 12th hole of the golf course,” Denton said. “As a result, we elicited a water processing consultant to review our needs and the likelihood that we could accomplish our objective on our own. ... (The conclusion was) wells were not an option and there was not a good enough source of waste water to meet our needs. ... (Therefore,) the only rationale and feasible solution for us was
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Buy a rubber duck for a chance to win $500 BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK A rubber ducky race will be part of Rancho Bernardo’s 50th birthday party next month. The race, set for 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 in the Webb Park lake, will have up to 500 rubber ducks “racing” toward the finish line. The winning duck’s owner will win $500. Bob Wells, a party committee member, said proceeds from the race will help offset the community party’s cost. The event marking the 50th anniversary of Rancho Bernardo’s formation will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Webb Park. Ducks are being sold for $5. Of the 500 ducks available, a couple hundred have already been sold at community events. To purchase, send a check written to “RBBA” along with the entrant’s name and phone number to P.O. Box 27951, San Diego, CA 92198. The winner need not attend the race. Ducks can also be purchased via credit card by calling Wells at 858-229-9053. He said if all are not sold prior to Sept. 22, they will be sold at the party on a first-come basis until the race.
to get recycled water to our area.” Among forum panelists will be RB’s former City Councilman Brian Maienschein, its City Councilman-elect Mark Kersey, RB Planning Board Chairwoman Terri Denlinger and RB Community Council President Robin Kaufman. They and others will talk about the community’s need for recycled landscaping water, possible solutions and the process to get the See WATER, Page 16
BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK
During Rancho Bernardo Business Association’s Aug. 7 mixer Bob Wells sold $5 entries in “The Great Rubber Ducky Race” that will be held during Rancho Bernardo’s 50th birthday party on Sept. 22. Photo by Elizabeth Marie Himchak
The brief pause in campaign literature filling mailboxes is about to close now that the Nov. 6 general election candidates are were finalized on Friday. All local voters will be casting ballots in the Poway Unified School District, Palomar Community College and Palomar Health board races. The rest are community specific. There will also be several run-offs between the top two candidates from June primary contests. In the Poway Unified School District Board of Education race, three seek election to two seats. Kimberley Beatty, a PTA board member, is challenging incumbents Andy Patapow and Linda Vanderveen. See ELECTION, Page 16
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