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POWAY DIGEST Corps meeting The Poway Neighborhood Emergency Corps will meet 7 p.m. Thursday (tonight) at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 14211 Twin Peaks Road. Neighborhood coordinators are still needed to represent their area. For details, call 858-7486703.
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Hoop Shoot The Poway Elks Hoop Shoot, contest, open boys and girls 8-13 (by April 2012), will be 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7 at the Poway Boys & Girls Club, 12988 Bowron Road. For details, go to: www. elks.org/hoopshoot.cfm or call 858-748-2543.
HOLIDAY HOME TOUR — Helping to decorate a home for this weekend’s National Charity League Home Tour are, from left, league members Belinda Fitzgerald, Asia Chapman and Shannon Spragg. See page A13 for complete story. Photo by Beverley Brooks
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BY STEVE DREYER A wide array of proposed changes to Poway’s sign ordinance will be discussed by the City Council at 7 p.m. Tuesday. A staff report prepared for the council’s “workshop” session calls for changes in rules for everything from temporary banners and wall signs to political signs and sign colors. Among the staff recommended changes to the sign code are: • Temporary banners. Increasing the time
allowed from 52 to 100 days a year. Flag banners along the street would be conditionally allowed. • “Sandwich board” signs — Now forbidden, they would be allowed. One sign for each business, near the business’ entrance, within a center. Such signs would not be allowed along streets. • Temporar y outdoor product display signs — Currently only auto dealers can use them and only on Fridays, Saturdays and See SIGN, Page A15
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Coordinators and volunteers with the Interfaith Shelter Network are gearing up for two-week rotating shelters in Poway, Rancho Bernardo and in other communities as well. Director Rosemary Johnston said this week that four facilities, three churches and a synagogue in the PowayRancho Bernardo area, have locked in their dates, preparing to welcome “guests” who have no place else to go. Those who are homeless due in large part to the economy, must first be screened by Interfaith Community Services in Escondido. During the 2010-11 winter season, 39 people were sheltered in Rancho Bernardo and Poway shelters, according to Johnston. Faith-based volunteer groups are already prepared to take their turn by offering a shelter in the rotation schedule, which begins locally with Temple Adat Shalom on Sunday, Dec. 18. The temple’s Executive Director Jeffrey Frankel said this is the second year his temple has provided space
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SECOND of three parts LAST WEEK — food THIS WEEK — shelter NEXT WEEK — gifts for cots and a place to sleep for about 12 people. The Interfaith Shelter Network, which also coordinates rotation shelters in other areas of San Diego, provides cots and bedding to faith-based shelters, according to the nonprofit’s director, Rosemary Johnston. The need, however, is for more faith-based groups to offer shelters, Johnston added. To help, leave a message for her at 619-702-5399. Frankel said his facility has no showers, typically a prerequisite to host a shelter. “We worked it out with Interfaith Community Services in Escondido,” he said. “We transported everyone (last year) to ICS for showers at their Escondido facility, while we do the rest — provide a safe place to be, bedding and meals here at the See HOMELESS Page A20
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