Volume XV, Issue 50
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Dec. 8, 2011 Published Weekly
Forum addresses possible creation of arts council BY CLAIRE HARLIN editor@delmartimes.net Could San Diego someday join the other metropolitan areas of California in forming its own county arts council? That was the question of discussion Dec. 1 at a community forum held at Solana Beach City Hall. Hosted by Art Pulse, an arts services organization with a mission to support the health of the arts countywide, the forum featured two arts council veterans — Arts Orange County executive director Richard
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A Cedros wonderland
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Stein and former Arts Council of Long Beach grants director Ed Fosmire — who shared the models that made those arts councils successful. “We don’t have to invent anything,” said Art Pulse Executive Director April Game. “There are working models that we can implement here.” San Diego County is the only metropolitan area in the state that doesn’t have
SEE ARTS, PAGE 12
DM supports off-leash hours at Shores park
As costumed puppeteers stilt-walked up and down Cedros on Dec. 3, Mango and Dango performed acrobatics and fire-juggling, and the robot-clad Steam Powered Giraffe musical group put on sidewalk acts. The attractions were all part of the annual Cedros Holiday Carnivale. For photos see page B12, and visit www. delmartimes.net or www. facebook.com/ SDSunNewspaper to see an exclusive video from this event. PHOTOS: CLAIRE HARLIN
BY CLAIRE HARLIN EDITOR@DELMARTIMES.NET
The conflict regarding use of Del Mar Shores Park has dragged on close to a year, and the Del Mar City Council hopes to finally resolve — at least until a more permanent city master plan is put in place — the issue on Jan. 9 with the implementation of off-leash hours to promote shared use between sports teams, dog
owners and other park-goers. After directing city staff on Oct. 17 to explore a plan put forth and funded by the Friends of Del Mar Parks, which would involve the erection of a fence around the baseball diamond, officials shifted their direction on Dec. 5. The majority of the council now supports
SEE OFF-LEASH, PAGE 6
Local resident now a U.S. presidential candidate ■ Local residents part of Barefoot Doctors’ aid effort in Myanmar. Page B1
BY JOE TASH The newest candidate for president of the United States has never run for office before, is not affiliated with any political party and does not plan to spend money on lawn signs, bumper stickers or negative campaign ads. Meet T.J. (Terry) O’Hara
of Rancho Santa Fe, who wants your vote for president in the November 2012 election. O’Hara, 59, spent 30 years in the business world, working as a CEO and corporate turnaround specialist. He and his wife, Kimberly, live with their three dogs at the Morgan Run Club and
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Resort. From his home office, O’Hara spends his days reading voraciously and writing about national affairs, and he said he’s concluded that the U.S. political system is broken. Politicians, he said, “have become so distracted by the political process and winning that they aren’t
performing their essential function… serving the people.” The two major parties will spend some $1.5 billion on the 2012 presidential race between them, O’Hara said, a sum that could support 33,000 average Ameri-
SEE CANDIDATE, PAGE 6
T.J. O’Hara
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