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VOLUME 27 NUMBER 3
JANUARY 20, 2011
CDM students raise funds through JOG-A-THON
Carmel Del Mar students recently took part in the school’s annual JOG-A-THON, which benefits the Del Mar Schools Education Foundation. See page B11 for more photos. Photo by Jon Clark.
Carmel Valley: A decade in review This is the second part of a series titled Carmel Valley: Decade in Review. Look for more in upcoming issues. 2005 • Solana Beach School District fired superintendent Karen Walker less than one year after she was hired. The board said Walker just wasn’t a good fit for the
district. Leslie Fausset was hired as Walker’s replacement in August. • Then seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong rode through Carmel Valley as part of the Tour of Hope cross-country bicycle tour. San Diego Jewish Academy raised funds for the tour and to support fellow student Matthew
Beaver, who was undergoing treatment for cancer. Beaver got to meet Armstrong on the SDJA campus. He would lose his battle with cancer in 2009 at age 17. • The former University of San Diego High School’s new $50 million
See DECADE, page 3
City reps say Carmel Mountain Road on-ramp solution in the works By Karen Billing District 1 Councilmember Sherri Lightner visited the Torrey Hills Community Planning Board meeting Jan. 18 to address the issue of the flooded Carmel Mountain Road on-ramp to Interstate 5. The frustrating flood has kept motorists off the ramp every time it has rained during this particularly wet winter—board members joked it was their new community swimming pool or a potential new home for the La Jolla seals. Joking aside, the city has known about the problem since October and a quick fix appears unlikely. While the storm water and transportation department is still trying to figure out the scope of the collapsed storm drain causing the flood, early estimates for the repair are $450,000 to $500,000—money the city does not have. “I completely understand your frustration and the time it’s taking to get resolved,” Lightner said, noting she has
UCSD, Scripps executives looking to future By Kathy Day Staff Writer If you get the sense there’s competition between UCSD Medical Center and Scripps Health, you’re right, although the CEOs won’t actually say it in as many words. Both of San Diego’s major medical providers are in the midst
of major expansions and have CEOs who contend their facilities are the best around. Chris Van Gorder says Scripps is aiming to continue the legacy of Ellen Browning Scripps who donated money 86 years ago for Scripps Memorial Hospital and the Scripps Metabolic Clinic as a “compassionate place of caring”
for the ill and injured and as a place to “to research new and promising treatments.” His counterpart at UCSD, Tom Jackiewicz, says the goal at UCSD is to “hold ourselves out as the best on the planet.” One can just picture them walking through their neighboring sites off Genesee Avenue —
been in daily contact with the storm water department. “A project of this size and cost will take time to fix and we appreciate your patience and confidence that the problem will be resolved.” Bill Harris, the spokesperson for the storm water and transportation department, said that Lightner was not exaggerating about daily contact. “(Torrey Hills) is very, very well represented on this issue,” Harris said. On Jan. 19, the storm water department planned to inspect the pipe to find out exactly how much will need to be repaired. Harris said the pipe, about 25 feet underneath Carmel Mountain Road, was made of corrugated metal, which is known not to be durable. “We have failure of corrugated pipe all over the city, some of them massive,” Harris said.
See RAMP, page 6
Sage Science Fair
each wondering what cutting-edge piece of equipment or patientfocused feature the other is including. There, adjacent to UCSD’s Thornton Hospital, work is set to start in 2012 on the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center with its three hospitals. Just to the north, at Scripps
See FUTURE, page 6
Eye on Science: People to watch in 2011 Sandra Ann Brown
Editor’s note: Keep an eye on the following people in the world of science this year. By Lynne Friedmann Contributor Sandra Ann Brown starts 2011 as the newly appointed vice chancellor
for research at UCSD. She will be responsible for promoting, facilitating and supporting the university’s complex and growing research mission which in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2010 amounted to more than $1 billion in funding.
The Office of Research Affairs at UCSD fosters research across disciplines and is charged with creating opportunities, enhancing the research experience, developing tools and
See SCIENCE, page 6
Nicole Douglas shows off her project ‘Volcanos’ at the Sage Canyon Family Science Fair. See page B10 for more. Photo by Jon Clark.