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Young Lego builders connect in CV
Del Mar revitalization plan gets council go-ahead • Measure to appear on November ballot
■ Accomplished eye surgeon devoted to family, medicine and sports. Page 4 (Above) Luna Jiang and Jayden Jiang, and (right) Mason Weaver and Carson Weaver test their skills at the Lego Builder Club on Aug. 3 at the Carmel Valley Library. See page B19. PHOTOS/JON CLARK
Solana Beach mayor will not seek re-election ■ Meet the men behing the campaign. Page 5
BY CLAIRE HARLIN After five, four-year terms on the City Council, Solana Beach Mayor Joe Kellejian will not seek reelection in November, he announced last week. He said is retiring from city government to dedicate time to other opportunities — both public and private leadership roles. Kellejian has been involved with local government since the early 1980s,
serving on the Town Council before Solana Beach incorporated. His first Joe Kellejian term on City Council began in 1992. “In the last 20 years I don’t think there has been a
day that I haven’t thought of how to make Solana Beach a better place to live,” he said. “I truly love this city.” Growing up in inner-city Los Angeles, Kellejian was a self-described “latchkey kid” who was exposed to crime and drugs. He had a gun pulled on him for the first time in 6th
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Plans to place antenna facility at CCA put on hold ■ Ovarian cancer survivor lives life ‘joyously’ while educating others about disease. Page B1
The San Dieguito Union High School District has put on hold plans to install a wireless communication facility atop a building at Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley, according to district superintendent Ken Noah. The issue has been removed from the agenda of the board’s Aug. 16 meeting, so it will not be discussed at that meeting as previously reported. Noah said the topic has been tabled indefinitely
at this time. However, when the issue is placed on a future agenda it will be for the board to decide whether it wants to establish a policy against the placement of any antenna facilities at a school site. If they decide to allow the placement of antenna facilities at school sites the district would discuss and establish rules and regulations for that process, Noah said. — Staff report
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BY CLAIRE HARLIN The Del Mar City Council on Aug. 6 gave its final approval of a revitalization plan that has not only been in the works for decades, but could dictate the next decades of development and drastically change the Village if it is approved by Del Mar voters in November. The unanimous approval and decision to place the Village Specific Plan on the general election ballot brings to a head an effort that has collectively cost the city more than $1 million over the years and has been the topic of dozens of civic meetings and public outreach events held by officials. The Aug. 6 meeting wasn’t the first time Del Mar residents packed council chambers and deliberated for more than three hours on the issue. Opposition to the plan lingers despite an intricate and interactive drafting process, which involved making significant tweaks to the draft plan since its release in March. City staff reduced the total development threshold in the Village from 600,000 to 500,000 square feet, and they also took the roundabout proposed for 15th Street out of
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Two plead not guilty in theft of cars BY KELLY WHEELER City News Service Two men accused of stealing three expensive cars over the past year — including a Ford GT worth at least $250,000 — pleaded not guilty Aug. 2 to 11 felony charges, including auto theft, grand theft and owning or operating a chop shop. George William Moore, 48, and Gabriel Castano, 30, each were held without bail because they were on probation at the time they were charged with the current offenses. Castano faces nine years and
eight months in prison if convicted. Moore — who has a 1984 conviction for burglary — faces 13 years and eight months if convicted, Deputy District Attorney John Philpott said. The defendants are accused of stealing the 2005 Ford GT from a home in Rancho Santa Fe and two Porsches from other residences in the past six months to a year, the prosecutor said. Police said the Ford GT disappeared over a three-week period in June and July.
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the project description, as directed by the council on July 30. To eliminate contention regarding building height, officials also chopped 4 feet — originally designated for roof articulation meant to add character — off of the proposed limit, raising it from 16 to 26 feet on the west side of Camino del Mar. “This is an extremely good plan,” said Terry Sinnott, who had been urging the council to postpone the vote to gain more pubic support. On July 30, a research firm hired by the city presented a survey that revealed only half of Del Mar voters favor the plan. “I don’t want to end up with a split community,” Sinnott said. “For the people who are concerned about the plan, I would just encourage you to have a little faith … in the people representing the community. I am sure that if this is approved we are going to take those concerns to heart and implement it in a way that’s the best for the community.” Most opposition to the plan surrounds the addition
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Donahue Schriber purchases Del Mar Heights Village Center Donahue Schriber, owner and operator of the Del Mar Highlands Town Center in Carmel Valley, announced Aug. 8 its acquisition of the Del Mar Heights Village Center. The center is located on Del Mar Heights Road west of Interstate 5, just a few blocks west of the newly renovated Del Mar Highlands Town Center. “We are very excited to add this new center to our portfolio,” said Pat Donahue, chairman and chief executive officer of Donahue Schriber. “With more than 20 years of experience in San Diego, we are the right team to improve the Del Mar Heights Village Center to ensure it continues to serve the community’s needs.” The shopping center will be managed by the management team of the Del Mar Highlands Town Center. The Del Mar Heights Village Center was purchased on July 19, 2012, from CW Clark, Inc. and is the third San Diego County acquisition for Donahue Schriber in the last fourteen months. The 107,846-square foot property has 31 tenants, including Del Mar Wine Company, O’Brien’s Bakery, Navy Federal Credit Union and Frames Del Mar, as well as individually-owned anchor tenants, Vons and CVS. “With our renovation of Del Mar Highlands Town Center, we have shown that we are committed to providing the best shop-
Donahue Schriber recently purchased the Del Mar Heights Village Center. ping experiences to residents of San Diego,” said Donahue. “In the future, we will be analyzing opportunities to enhance this shopping center to deliver the high quality shopping experience we are known for.” The Del Mar Highlands Town Center recently underwent a $20-million renovation that provided improved guest amenities such as improved gathering spaces and an increased variety of quality dining, shopping and entertainment options, in an effort to enrich the customer experience and meet the needs and desires of local shoppers. Donahue Schriber also owns and manages Poinsettia Village in Carlsbad and the Bonita Centre in South San Diego County, as well as manages Clairemont Town Square in San Diego. For more information, visit www.donahueschriber.com. –Submitted Release
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Car overturns in CV, several people injured BY LAUREN STEUSSY, NBCSANDIEGO.COM An accident in Carmel Valley trapped one person and sent several more to the hospital after a car flipped over on the road, authorities said. The car flipped on El Camino Real and Half Mile Dr. at about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 7, according to an official with the San Diego Police Department. One person was trapped inside the overturned car, but walked away from the accident unharmed. Three people in another car involved in the accident were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, police said. The driver of the car that overturned was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Officers provided traffic control in the area.
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The Coden family performing at the House of Blues. saw drug overdoses, prostitutes, gangbangers – we got to do everything,” he recalled. He also had his car stolen twice and found twice, he added. From there it was on to an internship at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. When it came time for the “match” to determine where he would do his residency, he got an envelope – it wasn’t computerized then, he noted – that said he was going to UCSD. “It was not one of the schools on the top of my list,” he said. But now, he looks back and realizes how lucky he was. He did a year-long fellowship in orbital, oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery at the famed Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital and considered an offer from his mentor to stay in New York City. Instead, he went back to Detroit for a year after their first daughter was born, thinking he would practice where
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BY KATHY DAY Dan Coden likes to tell people he’s the only eye surgeon in San Diego who can “handle a surgical scalpel and a baseball bat with equal skill.” Oh, and by the way, he also can play a mean rhythm guitar and showed off that talent at his son’s bar mitzvah at the House of Blues when the family treated guests to a band featuring son Ben — “a sick rock guitarist — on lead guitar and his wife and daughters as go-go dancers. With Dan adding vocals, and joined by a professional drummer, they rocked out to the Guns N’ Roses song “Sweet Child of Mine.” The native of Southfield, Mich., a “typical idyllic suburb” outside Detroit, who has lived in Carmel Valley since 1990, didn’t set out to practice ophthalmology in San Diego. In fact, he didn’t set out to practice ophthalmology at all. He wanted to be an orthodontist because he “loved straight teeth,” he said. But Lisa Nederlander Coden, then his college sweetheart at the University of Michigan to whom he has been married for 28 years, convinced him medical school was a better bet. (A devoted mother who has been involved in her children’s schools, their soccer leagues and the community, she became a Realtor a couple of years ago once their three children got older, he said.) So off he went to Wayne State University Medical School, which he said is “the largest medical school in the country … located in the dregs of Detroit.” Although he only had one week of exposure to ophthalmology while other specialties were given three months, he settled on it because “it was the only specialty where no one had to take their clothes off.” And then, with a bright sense of humor matched by his bright blue eyes, he added, “It suits me. I’m sort of obsessive compulsive, nitpicky and anal … it’s so detail-oriented and deals with numbers that it is a good fit.” Wayne State, he said, was “a great training ground. We
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‘Cool as ever’ — longtime partners are thriving ‘Ad Men’ at agency MeadsDurket BY CATHERINE KOLONKO Anyone who has lived in San Diego County for a while knows that the jingle “Where the Turf meets the Surf at ol’ Del Mar” indicates summertime horse racing is about to begin. The television advertisements feature the catchy tune that harkens back to earlier days when actor-singer Bing Crosby held court at the Del Mar Racetrack. To keep the campaign fresh but still consistent with its history, this year features a pretty blonde who recently posed nude in Vanity Fair Magazine. Yes and it’s even racier than you might think. In the TV commercial the model – fully clothed – sits atop a carousel horse, but in real life she is successful horse jockey Chantal Sutherland. (She raced opening day this year at Del Mar, riding filly Miss California to victory in the first race of the 75th anniversary season.) The commercial is part of an overall campaign dubbed “cool as ever” and conceived by MeadsDurket, an advertisement agency run by partners Gary Meads and Tony Durket, both 56. The pair have been working together for 24 years and were introduced to each other by their wives. Durket lives in Carmel Valley, Meads in Point Loma and their company is located in downtown San Diego. “We do different things and I think that’s one reason we have lasted so long,” Meads said of his partnership with Durket. Both Meads and Durket worked at Phillips-Ramsey, a large San Diego ad agency owned by McCann-Erickson, before buying remaining assets of Phillips-Ramsey and forming their own company in 2004. Meads is the front man of the operation and runs the account and business side of the agency. Durket is the creative director, which includes managing artists, writers, and other creative staff. Durket started his career as a writer and outside of work, enjoys writing screenplays. Durket and Meads became friends through business and their common love of advertising. Durket said his partnership with Meads is extremely important because their business is built around ideas. “He knows a good idea and that’s a very intuitive thing,” Durket said of his partner. “There’s a lot of people that just don’t. They don’t appreciate and they don’t see the val-
ue of it. I really respect the fact that Gary does and knows how to nurture it and knows how to develop it… “We both believe in the transforming power of idea. You know, all the companies we work with started as ideas.” Eight years ago, the duo adopted “Where the Turf meets the Surf” for the Del Mar race track ad campaign, said Meads. Bing Crosby wrote the song with John Burke and James Monaco in 1938, one year after Del Mar opened. “We took the original recording and remixed it with a variety of genres (rock, reggae, jazz, etc.) but always led by Bing Crosby singing,” Meads explained in an email. The genesis of this year’s campaign grew out of a theme of the classic pin-up girl, explained Meads. “Then we thought, ‘Well, who would be the perfect pin-up (model) and Chantal immediately came to mind because not only is she a beautiful woman but she’s also an athlete and she’s running at Del Mar,” he said. “It just seemed to make a lot of sense and we presented the idea to her and she loved See AD, page 17
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PLAN continued from page 1 of roundabouts and the decrease from four to two lanes on Camino del Mar. Opponents say the roundabouts will confuse drivers and increase cut-through traffic in Del Mar’s residential neighborhoods. Businesses also fear construction on the Village’s thoroughfare will be overwhelming and cause grave economic harm. Supporters say the plan follows through with the vision of the Del Mar Community Plan, which was adopted in 1976 and amended in 1985. That plan encouraged “a pedestrian-oriented, non-motorized community by developing a system of bicycle rights-of-way and pedestrian paths, and discouraging high-speed traffic along city streets.” It also suggested redesigning Camino del Mar to “accommodate low-speed vehicular
traffic,” and officials believe the roundabouts achieve this. Another priority of the Village Specific Plan — that was also a priority in 1976 — is renovating sidewalks along Camino del Mar to make them continuous. The City Council has heightened the priority of another major element of the revitalization plan — adding a public parking structure on the site of City Hall. Planning and Community Development Director Kathy Garcia said the parking structure has been “moved up to short-term action,” and if the plan is approved by voters in November the city would be able to begin studies on that new construction immediately. Several community members, including resident and business owner Fred Glassman, said they would like to see the city put in the welcomed parking structure before building the controversial roundabouts.
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Susan Baldwin, a planner with the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), praised the Village Specific Plan, saying it is in tune the “smart growth” concept that theoretically lessens sprawl by concentrating growth in compact, walkable centers. She said the plan will promote a more sustainable region and, if adopted, would make Del Mar eligible for more grant money. But residents like Blake Bowling, who’s lived in the city for 28 years, say they love Del Mar just the way it is. “I’m shocked that citizens are for this,” said Bowling, who has been involved in a number of local building projects. “Do we want to be another Encinitas? Del Mar is a quaint little town, similar to Carmel. Let’s try to keep it that way.” To read the full text of the Village Specific Plan, visit www.delmar.ca.us.
THEFT continued from page 1 Philpott said choppedup parts of the Ford GT, as well as one of the intact Porsches, were found in the back area of a business in North County. About two-and-a-half weeks later, almost all of the rest of the Ford GT was found at a storage facility about a block away from the other business, the prosecutor said. Information was developed that led investigators to a second stolen Porsche, Philpott said. Philpott said the theft of such a unique and expensive car — only 4,038 were manufactured in 2005 and 2006 — is rare. ``There’s not a whole large market out there for vehicles as rare as a Ford GT like this one,’’ the prosecutor said outside court. ``They’re not that easy to turn around and sell and you can’t really drive around the streets in them so that type of thing is something that we don’t see very often.’’ The defendants are also charged with being in possession of stolen property, other than the vehicles. A readiness conference was set for Aug. 15 and a preliminary hearing for Aug. 23.
MAYOR continued from page 1 grade, he said. When his daughters were young girls in elementary school in Solana Beach, he feared they would encounter similar experiences and that’s what first motivated him to get involved with cleaning up the community. “We worked with the Sheriff’s department to eradicate the drug problem we had at that time in the area,” he said. “It’s hard for kids to live in those conditions, whether today or back then.” Kellejian’s efforts carried on to public service and joining the board that eventually achieved cityhood in Solana Beach. He has since served on dozens of boards and commissions, and he wants to be able to dedicate
SURGEON continued from page 4 “The neurosurgeon called the ‘eye guy,” he said. “It wasn’t something you read about in a book, but there it was.” Coden made a small incision below the eye and “found the nail” but then had to ask what could be used to extract it. With a Kocher clamp – sort of like pliers — normally used by orthopedic surgeons, he got on top of the man and unscrewed the nail. “All of a sudden there was clear fluid (cerebral spinal fluid,” he said. “The neurosurgeon said, ‘Sew it up.” So he did, later repairing the fractured eye socket. Calling it an amazing case, Coden said the man had no brain injury, no vision loss and, in fact, had 20-20 vision when he was fully recovered. “If you see the X-ray, he should be dead or blind,” he added. In talking about changes in the science and practice of his specialty, the 54-year-old physician said, “I’m not that old” but he has seen advances more marked than in any other specialty. “The ability to do what we do now is so amazing.” The most exciting changes have been in cataract surgery, he added, giving a somewhat graphic description. It used to be that the surgeon made a 12 millimeter incision “and then squeezed the eye and it would pop out like a pumpkin seed.”
more time in the future to his participation on the American Lung Association Board, as well as the local Optimist Club. He’s a founding member of the Lion’s Club and wants to be more active there too, he said. He will also be serving in a private capacity on the board of Power Monitoring Services Inc., a corporation that makes energy-saving devices for companies. Last year, Kellejian traveled to his home country of Armenia and met with several mayors there, and he has served for nine years on the Junior Achievement Board of Armenia. He hopes his life after City Council will allow him more time to dedicate to international outreach. His accomplishments include helping to open the Solana Beach Library at Earl Warren Middle School, as
well as working to obtain the grade separation on Lomas Santa Fe Drive to lower the train tracks. He has served on a number of regional and state committees and boards, including the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), the North County Transit District and the League of California Cities. Kellejian has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, such as the American Lung Association “Clean Air Award,” the President’s Safety & Service Amtrak National Award, and the Boy Scouts Pacific Coast Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award. He has been married for 35 years to Mary Kellejian, owner of Polo Bay Interiors, located in the Cedros Design District.
“Fast forward 25 years and now we make a cut of less than 3 millimeters in diameter that is so small it seals itself and all the work is done through that tiny incision,” he explained. “In the old days we would hope the eye survived. Then, we hoped the eye would survive and see better. Now, patients can see better with the naked eye, and with multifocal lens implants we can make them see better at distances and near.” One of the newest improvements is the increasing use of laser technology, he added in a followup e-mail. “The FDA has recently approved a technology called LensX, which utilizes a laser similar to what we have been using to create LASIK flaps, to allow us to perform certain aspects of the cataract procedure with unprecedented precision. This will especially benefit our patients with astigmatism, and we are very excited to watch the future unfold.” As for laser vision correction, he said, “The growth has been explosive. When I started I never dreamed refractive surgery would evolve to what it is today. … (It) is an absolute life changer.” While Coden can talk a mean streak about eye surgery and why people should pay attention to their vision – especially after 40 – get him going on baseball and you’ll find out a lot more about how passionate he is about the sport. “I’d still be good if I played one game,” he said, but the next day and the next day, well not so good. He throws the ball around almost daily with his son, a baseball, soccer and football player at La Jolla Country Day, but it’s sharing tales about the six fantasy baseball camps he’s attended since he turned 40 that fires him up. He and his brother celebrated that birthday at a Detroit Tigers camp “with my boyhood heroes,” he said. On his brother’s 40th birthday, they went again. Since then, even though he’s not a Dodgers’ fan, he and a group of friends have gone to four of that team’s camps. “It’s a great way to have a whole lot of fun and a great way to get injured,” he said, without revealing any specific injuries of his own and preferring instead to talk about being fit in his 50s. “You play real baseball on a major league field, coached by ex-pros and major league umpires.” He also shared his love of the game – and other sports – through the years with his children. “I’ve coached everything for a zillion years,” he said. In those “zillion years,” he’s said taken heed of what a physician at Kaiser hospital told him were three pieces of a successful life: “Have one home, one wife and pay up your disability insurance.” “I’ve been privileged and lucky and blessed, he said. “They say it’s all about who you marry and where you live. … How lucky I am.” You can find Daniel Coden, M.D., F.A.C.S. at La Jolla Laser Vision & Eye Center, 9850 Genesee Ave., Ste. 310, La Jolla, (858) 457-3010.
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To Your Health: Get your kids ready for school BY ARNOLD E. CUENCA, DO, SCRIPPS HEALTH For many kids across San Diego County, August means back to school. For parents, it means making sure kids have everything they need for a successful start to the school year. Use the health and safety “checklist” below to ensure your kids are ready to go. Immunizations: Check that your kids have the recommended (and often required) immunizations before the school year begins. Under the California School Immunization Law, children are required to receive certain immunizations in order to attend public and private elementary and secondary schools, child care centers and other educational programs. Immunizations required to attend kindergarten include polio, DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), measlescontaining vaccine (e.g. MMR), Hepatitis B, and Varicella (chicken pox). Starting with the 2012-13 school year, all students entering into seventh grade will need proof of an adolescent pertussis (whooping cough) booster immunization (Tdap) in order to begin school. Pertussis is a very contagious respiratory disease that can be severe and last for months; although many children were vaccinated during early childhood, immunity wears off over time, leaving older students and adults susceptible. Ask your pediatrician or family physician which immunizations your child may need. Annual physical: It’s a good idea for all kids to have a yearly check-up with their physician to make sure they are in good health and receive vision and hearing tests. This can also be an opportunity for physicians to talk to kids privately about any health issue or questions they may have—often, kids may not be comfortable discussing certain topics with their parents present. Avoid backpack overload: Kids today carry a lot of stuff. A backpack that is too heavy, poorly constructed or worn incorrectly can injure the muscles and joints, cause neck or back strain, and lead to fatigue. Choose a lightweight backpack with two wide, well-padded shoulder straps, a padded back and a waist strap. Pull both straps tightly enough so that the pack fits snugly against the back but doesn’t pull on the shoulders. Distribute the weight of items within the pack evenly on both sides, and don’t overload it. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that backpacks not exceed 10 to 20 percent of the child’s weight. Get back on track: For many kids, summer break means staying up later and sleeping in. Do yourself and your kids a favor by gradually getting them back on their school schedules. Encourage them to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier for a week or so before the first day of class, and make time for a healthy breakfast, so that by the time school begins, they’ll be used to the change in schedule. Similarly, prepare kids to get back into the school routine after a carefree summer. Discuss when and where homework will be done, make after-school care arrangements if necessary (including a back-up plan) and determine how kids will get to extracurricular activities such as sports. Getting everyone on the same page will make it easier to juggle busy schedules. Keep schedules realistic: Sports, clubs and other afterschool activities are a great way to keep kids active and engaged, but too much can be unhealthy. “Over-scheduling” can lead to stress, fatigue and anxiety; over-training for sports can cause physical injuries such as stress fractures. Make sure your kids have enough “down time” to rest and unwind, and don’t pressure them to participate in activities they don’t enjoy. Make lunch healthy: If your child brings lunch to school, include fruit or veggies and a lean protein source such as chicken or turkey. Try to avoid processed foods or high-fat, high-calorie items. Substitute baked chips for fried and whole-grain bread for white. If the plan is to buy lunch, talk about how to make healthier choices. Provide important information: Make sure the school has current, accurate contact information for parents, emergency contacts, and your child’s physician. Let the school know of any medications your child takes both at home and at school, as well as any medical conditions such as diabetes, asthma, or allergies to bees, peanuts, latex, or anything else. Ensure the school knows what to do in case of an emergency. Talk it over. Take time every afternoon or evening to ask your child about his or her school day. Ask about lessons,
what they learned that was new or interesting, favorite and least favorite parts of the day, and so on. This is a good way to uncover possible problem areas and show your child that you care about how he or she is doing. Dr. Arnold Cuenca is a family medicine and sports medicine physician with Scripps Health. “To Your Health” is brought to you by the physicians and staff of Scripps Health. For more information or a physician referral, please call 1-800-SCRIPPS.
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Indian classical music maestro to lead three-day Master Class at St. Peter’s Del Mar Interested in learning more about Indian music, expanding your musical horizons, or developing your skills of improvisation? From Friday, Aug. 17, through Sunday, Aug. 19, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Del Mar is welcoming Raga: Rasa—the Kartik Seshadri Center for Indian, Classical and Improvised Music—for a three-day master class. Based in Cardiff, Raga Rasa is a nonprofit group focused on preserving and educating people about classical Indian music. Maestro Kartik Seshadri is a world-class musician, composer and educator; he started performing on the sitar at age 6 and was a protégé of Ravi Shankar. Today he also heads the Indian Classical Music program at
UCSD. The first day, open to the public, features conversations with Seshadri, introducing the realm of Indian classical music and improvisation, while days two and three focus on more intensive instruction. Day One is open to anyone in the public. All musical levels are welcome, but for beginning students, a short audition is encouraged. The second and third days begin at 11 a.m. and require registration and fees. For more information about Raga: Rasa, or to reserve a space, see www.ragarasa.org or call 760-753-2860. St. Peter’s is located at 334 14th St. in Del Mar Village; www.stpetersdelmar.net.
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Carmel Valley Library to hold ‘End of Summer Party’ Aug. 22 The Carmel Valley Library will hold an “End of Summer Party” on Wednesday, Aug. 22, from 4-5:30 p.m. At 4 p.m., the Reflections Choir will sing an original song, “Making a Difference.” A friend of Oprah Winfrey, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, will be presenting his inspirational message of overcoming one’s disability and believing in yourself. At 4:30 p.m., games, crafts, refreshments and the announcement of Raffle Prize winners will take place. The library is located at 3919 Townsgate Drive, directly behind the Del Mar Highlands Town Center; (858) 5521668; http://sandiego.gov/public-library/
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Change in leadership at the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito Doug Hall, president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito Foundation, is retiring after 47 years of dedicated service. Hall was the first executive director of the San Dieguito Boys & Girls Clubs in l966. The first club was opened in a former motel building on Highway 101 and A Street in Encinitas. The club opened with approximately 50 members. Today, the organization has seven branches, an Aquatics Center, a Montessori School, a Youth Arts Academy, Center for a Healthy Lifestyle, a BIG EI8HT Middle School Sports program, and serves over 20,000 local youth! Hall will still volunteer his services and continue to work with the scholarship program and relations with current and past contributors. He will also serve as president emeritus of the Foundation. Replacing Hall is Eric Nelte, who will take over the leadership for the Foundation. Nelte will be concentrating on fundraising for the Heritage Club and capital needs. He has been a volunteer at the club for some time and a member of the Foundation Board of Trustees for five years. Nelte is active in Del Mar Rotary and lives in Del Mar
with his wife, Jan. Doug Allred is stepping down as chairman of the Foundation’s board of trustees. Allred served as chairman of the board of directors from 1984 to 1991. He has served as chairman of the Foundation since 1992. Allred will serve as chairman emeritus of the Foundation. Because of his generous personal giving (major contributor to the swimming pool project and many others) and his outstanding leadership, the Allred Branch was named after him. He and his wife, Ann, live in Del Mar. Replacing Allred is Terry Lingenfelder as the Foundation’s new Chairman. Lingenfelder has been a board member since 1968 and chairman of the board from 1979 to 1981. He took the reins of the club again in 1998 and 1999. He was instrumental in financing the first swimming pool project and initiated the “Bucks for Boys” fund raiser. Lingenfelder is an outstanding promoter, supporter, and major contributor to all programs and activities. He and his wife, Dale, live in Solana Beach. For more information, visit www.positiveplacesd.org.
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Former Neurosciences venue now under auspices of Scripps Research Institute BY PAT SHERMAN The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is opening its 352-seat, acoustically superior performance auditorium — formerly under the stewardship of the Neurosciences Institute (NSI) — to commercial, corporate and nonprofit groups for the upcoming season, Oct. 1, 2012 through Sept. 30, 3013. Though TSRI owns the space, now renamed the Auditorium at TSRI, the Neurosciences Institute began leasing and operating the facility near UC San Diego in 1996, offering nonprofit performing arts and education groups regular, free access to the world-renowned concert venue. NSI’s lease on two adjacent research buildings owned by Scripps also expires Sept. 30. The organization’s research director, Dr. Einar Gall, said his organization would release information about its plans in the coming weeks. TSRI announced earlier this year that it does not have funds to allow arts organizations to continue using the auditorium for free. Moving forward, the rental
Booking info For more information about renting the auditorium at TSRI, visit auditorium.scripps.edu rate for businesses and special events is $3,000 per evening. Rental for qualified nonprofit groups, including performing arts organizations and educational groups that focus on science or aesthetic matters, is $1,500 per evening, plus any ancillary charges. These include the use of audio visual or lighting technicians, as well as caterers, which must be procured through TSRI’s list of approved vendors, who are familiar with the space and its equipment, Scripps Research Institute spokeswoman Stacy Rosenberg said. Several nonprofit arts organizations have already booked space for the coming season, including the La Jolla Music Society, the Mainly Mozart Festival and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Rosenberg said. Though some nonprofit
groups who previously used the space wrote TSRI saying they won’t be able to afford the $1,500 rental fee, Rosenberg said, “I think people understand the position Scripps Research Institute is in, in terms of being a nonprofit as well, why as a biomedical research institute we could not put money into this. ‌ We needed financial participation from users; we just couldn’t give it away.â€? Christopher Beach, president and artistic director of the La Jolla Music Society, said his organization will continue presenting its Discovery Series in the auditorium. The series brings the winners of classical music competitions from around the world to La Jolla. “That theater is incredibly important to us; I’m delighted that we’ll still be there,â€? Beach said, noting that he feels the $1,500 nonprofit rent is an “appropriate market rate.â€? “I can’t very well object, having been the beneficiary of so many years of (the Neuroscience Institute’s) largesse,â€? he said. “It’d be nice to get it for free forever, but
Mainly Mozart chamber musicians Steven Copes, Peter Wiley and Anna Polonsky performed last year in the auditorium formerly offered for free to the community by the Neurosciences Institute. PHOTO/KEN JACQUES everyone has financial challenges.� Rosenberg said that in the future TSRI hopes to invite some of the now excluded nonprofit groups back for free use, possibly through an endowment from someone “who understands what a beautiful facility this is and the important role that the auditorium plays for the performing arts.� “We don’t want to actively fundraise, because it conflicts with our mission as a biomedical research institute,� Rosenberg said. “We have so many generous supporters of the performing arts in our community and we would just love it if one day we’re able to restore the (free-use) program.� The auditorium is currently undergoing
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Local Girl Scouts seeking donations for care packages to help the homeless BY KAREN BILLING As part of their Girl Scout Senior Award project, three teenagers are tackling the issue of homelessness in San Diego. Dionne Rasquinha, Jaime Wisnia and Katherine Lauerman of Girl Scout Troop 1156 are spending numerous volunteer hours at local charities and are seeking donations to put together 150 care packages to hand out to those in need. Jaime Wisnia, Katherine Lauerman and Dionne All three will be freshRasquinha are collecting donations to build care men in high school in the packages for the homeless as part of their Girl Scout fall: Dionne at Canyon Crest Silver Award project. Academy, Jaime and KatherIn picking their service project, Katherine at Torrey Pines High. The ine and Jaime had first intended to try and girls have been visiting local dentists, hotels do a bookmobile for seniors, but they ran and grocery stores to ask for donations for into too many roadblocks for it to work out. their care packages. Dionne had a fulfilling experience volunDr. Christopher Hydo and Dr. William teering packing food for the homeless at her Rawlings, who have offices in Encinitas and church, St. Therese of Carmel, so the girls Solana Beach, donated 144 tubes of toothpaste. Dr. Thomas Kujawskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dental practice decided to join forces and do their project serving the homeless. also donated 45 toothpaste tubes, 15 toothâ&#x20AC;&#x153;We see homelessness in San Diego so brushes and 30 flosses. much and it looks pretty tough,â&#x20AC;? said Kathâ&#x20AC;&#x153;People are really willing to donate, erine. which is awesome,â&#x20AC;? said Katherine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I found out that in San Diego, if we They are also hoping that the commudonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help it will cost us a lot more money nity will help them out with donations. than if we do help,â&#x20AC;? said Jaime, referencing Items needed for their care packages include the costs to the entire community for the shampoo, conditioner, lotion, band aids, inhomeless accessing public services such as dividual pocket-size hand wipes, bottled water, granola bars, toothbrushes, hand sanitiz- healthcare and police. According to the Regional Task Force on er, socks, sunblock, soap, pocket-size Kleenthe Homeless, San Diego Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homeless ex, chapstick or Vaseline and small notepopulation is now at approximately 9,800, pads. representing an 8.6 percent increase from Collections for donations will be held 2011. on Monday, Aug. 13, and Saturday, Aug. 18, The Silver Award requires 50 hours of from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the parking lot in logged volunteer time. Places the girls have front of Solana Highlands School (3520 volunteered at so far include Bread of Life Long Run Drive, Carmel Valley, 92130).
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Porsche of San Diego’s Joe Allis brings a passion for the business that began in childhood BY KATHY DAY Watch Joe Allis interact with clients at Porsche of San Diego and you know he means it when he says he’s really in the hospitality business. “It just happens to be on wheels,” said the newly minted Rancho Santa Fe resident. Allis took over the Miramar Road dealership in a partnership with the Kuni Automotive Group when the Vancouver, Wash., group purchased Pioneer Centers’ three San Diego dealerships and two in Denver. The deal closed in December; in March, Allis landed in San Diego. He wants to be part of the community where he can “shake hands and kiss babies,” he said with a broad smile. “It’s nice for people to know that their new neighbor is a business owner.” Talk with him for even a short time and you’ll know that Allis is passionate about cars and how his customers are treated, so much so that all of his employees, from service to sales, attend Ritz Carlton management training classes. “They are our brand ambassadors,” he said. “You can’t give five-star service if
you don’t know what it means.” He describes himself as “the consummate maitre d,’ ” noting that his dealership “is a five-star dealership that happens to sell cars. … We cater to clients who understand the difference between what’s necessary and what’s valuable.” Allis says he’s “had the heart of a car guy since I was a little kid … I knew I would do something in the auto business.” Growing up in Queens, he would set up dealerships with his Hot Wheels and other toy cars. His sister, who would always complain about her role, would be his customer. He built models and would “do anything that had to do with cars,” including detailing neighbors’ cars at 12. He was 16 when his father decided to retire from the restaurant business. But they didn’t really have enough to retire on, Allis recalled, so three years later his dad started a new venture. “The closest car parts store was three miles away,” he said, so his father took the last of the family’s cash and went into the business,
recognizing it was something needed in their neighborhood. And his 16-yearold son went to work for him, learning all about parts inventory and customer care. Over the next 12 years, the business grew exponentially even though the senior Allis often had many customers “who were in over their skis” and owed them money. [My] reaction was to “go take it all back,” Allis said. “[My father’s] reaction was to tell me to go find out what they were doing wrong. … He was teaching them how to fish.” What he didn’t know then, Allis added, was that his father was giving him “the wherewithal to be a fixed operations manager.” Meanwhile, he said, his mom was the “eternal referee,” stepping into the fray in the middle of the night when the father and son would disagree about the business. There was a time while he attended St. John’s University, majoring in English and minoring in theology, when the auto business took a back seat, but now, he said, “If anyone around here
Joe Allis in the showroom at Porsche of San Diego. more meant,” Allis noted, wants help with a dangling adding that at that point in participle, I can help.” his life he didn’t have a conBut that passion for nection with affluent peocars took over and he got a ple. “My beginnings were rejob at a “mega dealership” ally humble.” on Long Island that sold His first car was a 1969 Mercedes, BMW, Rolls Chevy Biscayne, “with nothRoyce, Bentleys and Acura. ing, no AC, radio, nothing, “The place embodied but I loved it anyway. She what paying more to get
was my first love.” His second was a 1979 Toyota Celica with a Frank Frazzetta mural of the “silver warrior” emblazened across it. At that first job, he quickly made an impression on the owner who gave him his first true challenge. Faced with an Acura lot full of the first Legends on the market, the man — an Armenian immigrant who required people to remove their shoes before entering his office – took him into the showroom. “All of the sales people and manager were standing around,” Allis said. When the owner asked how many had been sold, the response was “none” and he turned to Allis and said, “Make these cars go away.” When he asked how he expected him to accomplish that, the man just told him to make it happen. “It was a Saturday afternoon. I went right to church and prayed for four hours,” Allis said. Within a 10 days they had sold 70 cars and in 12 days were out of Legends. “[The owner] said, See PORSCHE, page 15
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Solana Beach company addresses growing need for in-home senior care BY CLAIRE HARLIN When Josh Allen was a kid, his single mom started her own in-home senior residential care facility, opening the doors of their San Marcos home to five patients. “It was like growing up with five grandmas,” said Allen, who has followed in his mother’s footsteps as he now leads a senior care company. He works with Solana Beach-based Senior Resource Group (SRG), which owns Del Mar senior community La Vida Del Mar in addition to 17 other similar facilities across the United States. But more recently, the company has been tapping into an area of care that there’s a growing need for — home care. Allen is the director of a new SRG venture called InTouch At Home. InTouch At Home provides such services as personal care, chores and errands, medication reminders, transportation, memory support and more.
PORSCHE continued from page 14 Good job,” Allis said. “I said I had nothing to do with it. I just lit every candle in church.” His boss responded, “Well then you did have something to do with it.” He also had something to do with helping a woman one day. Noticing that she was wandering around and that no one was paying attention to her, he offered to help. She told him she had been to two other dealerships where she had also been ignored until he stepped up and helped her find the BMW she was shopping for. “I am the father of daughters,” he said with a smile. “I have been given a profound respect for wom-
“As the baby boomer population ages and gets in their late 70s and 80s, we know they are not all going to move into senior living communities. They will try to stay at home as long as they can,” he said. Since InTouch At Home started Justine Ortiz cares for an InTouch at last year, it has Home client. grown to operate senior care services is going in four cities — San Diego, to explode over the next 30 Los Angeles, Portland and years.” San Francisco — and the He said he loves having need continues to increase, the opportunity to provide he said. care for a generation that Having been in the in“has had profound impacts dustry his entire life, Allen, a on society,” he said. registered nurse, has had the “You saw the demand opportunity to watch the se- for baby food and diapers nior care industry evolve. when they were young, then “It’s gone from mom you saw the car industry exand pop to professionallyplode when they got older, managed companies,” he and now we are seeing a said. “To be perfectly honneed for healthcare.” est, I believe this is a really For more information, good career. Our population visit www.intouch-at-home. is aging and the demand for com or call (855) 448-8900. en.” The respect he showed that customer has paid off in spades. She returned a few days later with her husband who coincidentally was the manager of Audi of America. Telling him his wife had convinced him that Allis was “somebody special,” he gave him his business card and told him to call if he could ever be of help. A couple of weeks later, Allis inadvertently left a door open when he was supposed to be responsible for closing the dealership. That led to an incident with a service manager who swore at Allis as he was trying to help a customer who had come to pick up his new car. Unwilling to put up with the situation, he quit. And that business card led him to a general manag-
er position with a new concept dealership known as the Audi Forum at the corner of Park Avenue and Fourth in New York City, where Allis worked for the next 14 years. From there, he moved on to a dealership in Englewood, N.J., five and a half miles away from midtown Manhattan that had essentially the same clientele. He began running a Porsche dealership out of the service area for their Audis. For six years he ran it as if it was his own. And then in February of this year he was approached by Kuni, who he called the “quintessential auto concern” about coming to San Diego.” “Their initial candidate had backed out and they reached out to me,” Allis
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Coast Under-16s take home Junior Olympic Gold BY GIDEON RUBIN It was during team-building exercises earlier this year that the Coast Volleyball Under-16 team set a goal that couldn’t have been more ambitious. Before they’d even played their first match, their players set out to win a Junior Olympics gold medal, something few San Diego-area club teams have ever done. Medaling at one of the nation’s premier amateur volleyball events is itself a rarity. “I tried to talk them out of it,” Coast coach J.J. Van Niel said. “It wasn’t that I didn’t believe them, it’s just that it’s very difficult. So many things can happen, regardless of how talented your team is.” Everything happened for Coast. The team went on to post an 87-2 record (for a .976 winning percentage) on their way to fulfilling their goal. Their amazing season culminated with a victory over highly-regarded Skyline Dallas in last month’s championship game in Columbus, Ohio. “What I’m most proud of is the fact that they set out to win gold and they did it,” Van Niel said. They did it playing a brand of volleyball that was light on the crowd-pleasing flashy plays popular in the club circuit, and heavy fundamentals, emphasizing solid defense and precise passing to go along with what was probably the best serving in the tournament, Van Niel said. Coast’s blue-collar style came in such stark contrast to that of their elite opponents that a reporter told Niel that “other coaches who played or watched [Coast] don’t get how they win.” “My response was that we have a solid all-around team,” Van Niel said. “I think there were contributions from everybody throughout the season and throughout the tournament. “We just had a lot of solid players and everybody contributed and we played consistently good volleyball.” On a team that revolved around getting everyone involved, it was fitting that the tournament MVP was Coast’s Kelsey Horvath, a setter whose job is to get everyone involved. “A lot of times hitters are who people notice,” Van Niel said. “Sometimes people don’t notice setters.” Also getting noticed were all-tournament selections
Junior Olympic Gold Medalists: Coast Volleyball Under-16 team right side Brittany Abercrombie and middle blocker Alexandra Loitz, both of whom are 6-foot-2. Carmel Valley resident Cassidy Rooke the team’s smallest player at 5-3, was a big factor for Coast at defensive specialist/labero, Van Niel said. Rooke is no stranger to high-pressure competition. She was the starting labero as a sophomore last season on a La Jolla Country Day team that went to the Division IV state finals. “She’s one of our best servers and she made a lot of key defensive plays,” Van Niel said. “She’s really fast and she’s a really good defender. “She’s a great kid too.” Coast showed some resilience too. The team experienced their only loss of the tournament in their last game of pool play. The loss put the team in a tough position. Instead of getting a bye in the next round, Coast went into the championship round knowing that a single loss would end their
championship bid. But instead of panicking, Van Niel saw his players singing and dancing outside a room where they were studying video of an upcoming opponent during a break. “My first reaction was ‘are you kidding?’ “ Van Niel said, “but as I reflected on it I thought maybe that’s a good thing. I think it showed that they were relaxed, and that they were confident.” It turned out to be a very good thing. “From that point on we didn’t lose another set in the tournament,” Van Niel said. “We played very strong volleyball the rest of the way.” Just as impressive was how they carried themselves. After the tournament, former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer, whose daughter Maddie plays for the Northern California-based Vision club team that Coast faced, congratulated Van Niel on his team not just for winning. “He told me he was really impressed with how classy our team was and how much fun we seemed to have.” Van Niel said. Van Niel relayed the former Super Bowl champion’s message to his players shortly afterwards. “It meant a lot because he’s a former athlete at the highest level and it wasn’t just the congratulations for winning, it was really a comment on how classy our team was,” Van Niel said. Dilfer’s message was especially gratifying for a team that during the same team-building exercises before the season established what Van Niel said were the “pillars of success,” which included a mission statement for how to conduct themselves. “It meant a lot for others to see that,” Van Niel said. “I feel very fortunate to coach a team that showed a lot of class and had a lot of camaraderie.” As it turned out, it was the pillars of success the team started out with that they built a championship on. “I think we did a good job of being consistently good,” Niel said. “A lot of players contributed, and if one person was off it seemed like there was always another player that filled in. “There were teams there that ran fancier offenses and would do all kinds of tricky things but we toned it down quite a bit and we played really well when we had to.”
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cause a number of them are internal” and they have to do it the way they operate, Meads said. How a company can tell when it’s time to seek outside help varies among clients, but one thing is almost certain, said Meads, it doesn’t happen when a company is doing great. “Usually there’s a problem,” he said. “It’s like going to the doctor. Usually there’s a slippage in business, there’s a change in philosophy, there’s a change in personnel. Something triggers the contact of a company like ours,” Meads said. Typically a client believes strongly in its product but can’t figure out the best way to express its value to the market. The client needs a new way to talk about what the company does or what it sells — that’s where Meads and Durket offer their expertise. Solutions can be as simple as looking at past communications and realizing that more consistency is needed to present an understandable message to the public and potential customers. Other times it’s reacting to the new kid on the block who has changed the competition in the market, Meads said. “It’s absolutely honest and it comes from the client,” Meads said. “We’re not fabricating a philosophy on a client. We’re trying to uncover and understand what they are already doing really, really well and then articulate that.” What MeadsDurket provides “goes way beyond advertising,” explained Durket, with a central creative idea that drives all communication for a company. To bring
the brand alive Meads and Durket will collaborate with other companies who have various expertise, for example, in digital graphics or animation or videography. “One of our strengths has always been to pull together the best resources to execute our ideas,” Durket said. That’s why they chose photographer Michael Elins to work on the pin-up art done for the this year’s Del Mar Racetrack. “We basically sought out the number one pin-up artist (photographer), I would say, in the world and asked if he would be interested,” Durket said. “Usually if it’s a really good idea, they’re interested…We couldn’t have picked a better person.” The duo created familiar advertising campaigns in San Diego for clients that include utility company SDG&E, Pick Up Stix Restaurants, California Coast Credit Union and local auto dealers Honda and Jaguar Landrover in Carlsbad. Their vision for their own future is to be successful but not so much so that they lose touch with what they enjoy most. “We like being a little smaller where Tony and I can both be intimately involved with our clients,” Meads said. “So we don’t want to get too big. But on the other hand, we are always looking to grow and expand and find new interesting and creative opportunities.” To see an example of the Del Mar Racetrack campaign and other works by MeadsDurket go to http:// www.meadsdurket.com/.
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BY MARSHA SUTTON San Dieguito Union High School District’s plan – and the school board’s initial approval – to place cellular antennas at Canyon Crest Academy stunned many in the CCA community, some of whom were suspicious of the timing and the lack of notice. If not for a front-page story in this newspaper on July 5 that triggered protests from many quarters, Sprint/ Nextel’s agreement with SDUHSD to erect three arrays of four antennas each on top of classroom buildings at CCA would have been a done deal at the school board’s July 26 meeting. It was that close. It’s an uncharacteristic misstep for a school district that is generally regarded, justifiably so, as open and transparent, communicative and approachable. In two fundamental ways, the district and school board members failed the
community. First, by not informing stakeholders of the plan. Second, by treating this project as just another ordinary business deal, without regard for the safety of students and employees in close daily proximity to radiation emissions of undetermined consequence to human health. The lack of notification is most baffling. If it was not intentional deception, then incompetence is the only other explanation. Neither is admirable. Eric Dill, SDUHSD’s associate superintendent of business services, insisted this was no deliberate attempt to sneak it past the community. “I want to dispense with the notion that we were trying to hide or push something through during the summer because nobody would be around,” Dill said. “We’ve heard that accusation a couple of times in the last weeks, and nothing could be further from the truth.” Dill said all procedures were followed properly, including hosting a public meeting that was requested by the Carmel Valley Planning Board, which first reviewed the project on April 26. “From what I understand, this public meeting wasn’t even a requirement of moving this forward,” Dill said. “We enter into lots
of business arrangements where we don’t go out and notify the entire world.” John Addleman, SDUHSD’s director of planning and financial management, said a notice was placed in the May 23 issue of the North County Times, calling a public meeting at Canyon Crest Academy for June 1. Dill said the district chose the North County Times to reach a wider audience than just Carmel Valley. But since the overwhelming majority of students attending Canyon Crest Academy live in the southern portion of the school district where the North County Times is not widely read, the obscure notice did not serve to alert the community. The Carmel Valley Planning Board, in a letter to the district objecting to the project, called the North County Times “a newspaper with little circulation among the CCA community.” “The North County Times is the place where we put all those kinds of public notifications,” said SDUHSD superintendent Ken Noah last week. “But when I learned that there had not been information provided [to the Carmel Valley area], I think that was an error on our part. We should have.” Nevertheless, the June 1 meeting took place, led by Sprint representative Becky
Specific language needed for bond repayment strategy Editor’s Note: The following letter was submitted to the superintendents and boards of the San Dieguito Union High School District and the Del Mar Union School District. The letter was also submitted to this newspaper for publication. Dear Superintendent Noah, Superintendent McClurg, SDUHSD Board of Trustees and DMUSD Board of Trustees : I read with great interest the following article on the Voice of San Diego web site, which reports that Poway residents will end up paying almost 10 times the face amount (or close to a billion dollars!) of a bond residents approved a few years ago, apparently due to a financing method called a Capital Appreciation Bond (CAB): http://www. voiceofsandiego.org/education/article_ c83343e8-ddd5-11e1-bfca-001a4bcf887a. html?mode=story I also recently learned that the same Orange County financial consultant used by the Poway school district, Benjamin Dolinka, who apparently recommended this
outrageously costly repayment strategy, is being used by SDUHSD and DMUSD. This raises a huge red flag — are SDUHSD and DMUSD residents potentially at risk of repaying 10 times the face amount of the bond we’re currently being asked to approve in November? If not, what assurances do we have that the repayment amount and/or strategy won’t change after our vote? If the exact bond language has not yet been submitted for the November ballot, I encourage you to include specific language ensuring residents that the total debt service amount and repayment strategy for the bond are guaranteed for the future and if changes need to be made, another vote would be required. I would like this to be entered in to the record for the next SDUHSD and DMUSD Board of Trustees meetings. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Susan Miller Del Mar
Siskowski and SDUHSD’s Addleman, and attended by a grand total of three audience members, all CCA students. Besides parents, teachers and other staff members also were unaware of the project. One CCA teacher told the Carmel Valley Planning Board that he never knew about the issue or the June 1 meeting. CCA’s principal Brian Kohn never mentioned the project to his staff, perhaps because he thought the issue was “still in the discussion phase.” “I knew they were talking about it and that the project was out there,” he said. But he did not know in advance, he said, that the board was to approve a resolution of intent on June 21 to grant Sprint the CCA easement for the project. Nor did he know in advance that the board was to give Sprint final approval at its July 26 meeting. Although he was not told of the district’s past months’ progress on the matter, Kohn was reluctant to comment “because it’s hard to know where they were [in the process],” he said. Normally, those at the district office guiding the project “would probably at a certain point come to me and say, ‘Here’s what we’d like you to do and help us with the communication
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piece,’” he said. Except they didn’t. Nor were teachers informed by their union leaders, who also didn’t know in advance. Bob Croft, president of the San Dieguito Faculty Association, SDUHSD’s teachers union, said by email, “I have full confidence in Supt. Noah and our board that they would thoroughly discuss, review all relevant research, and seek the appropriate feedback before proceeding with any such option.” Except they didn’t do that either. Croft was diplomatic in his guarded statement but his confidence was misplaced, since district officials admitted they didn’t let him know, contending that notification to teachers for a simple “business decision” was not necessary. Ron Tackett, head of SDUHSD’s classified employees’ union, California School Employees Association, also was never contacted by the district to inform him of the plan to erect cell towers at CCA. “I’m surprised that I wasn’t notified,” said Tackett, whose association consists of non-certificated employees (non-teachers). “I would think with a sensitive issue like that, that the right thing would have been to
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TOWERS continued from page 18 notify all the stakeholders.” Tackett distinguished between a regular business decision and one that has the potential to affect the health of staff and students. Tackett said if he’d been made aware of the potential deal he would have notified his members so they could act on the information if they chose. “But the notification part, that certainly didn’t happen,” he said. Health and safety concerns In 2005, the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics confirmed that children are especially sensitive to all electromagnetic fields because their developing nervous systems are fragile, their brain tissues more conductive and their smaller skeletons more easily penetrated by the waves. The official position by the Federal Communications Commission is that evidence is inconclusive that cell tower radiation has negative health and safety effects. “Inconclusive” is the operative word. This is vastly different than saying there is conclusive evidence of no negative health effects. “Prudent avoidance” is generally advised by experts under such circumstances and is a risk management principle stating that efforts to minimize potential risks should be taken when the magnitude of the risks is unknown. The principle was proposed in 1989 in the context of electromagnetic radiation safety. Despite this, at the June 21 school board meeting a resolution passed 5-0, with little discussion by board members according to Dill, of the intent to grant Sprint an easement to erect and operate three sets of four antennas each “encapsulated within the exterior wall systems” at Canyon Crest Academy. The June 21 approved resolution was a first reading. The second and final reading was originally scheduled for the following month, at the board’s July 26 meeting, which would have sealed the deal. This nearly happened, and likely would have, had it not been for the efforts of a few members of the community, notably Laura Copic, CCA parent and member of the Carmel Valley Planning Board, who was alarmed enough to bring the issue front and center.
August 9, 2012 On June 28, the second time the issue came before the Carmel Valley Planning Board, the project was voted on and unanimously opposed. [see sidebar] Despite this, the City of San Diego approved the project on July 2. “Our review of the project is for compliance with the regulations of the Municipal Code, and based on the project’s compliance with these regulations, the project was approved,” said Alex Hempton, associate planner for the City of San Diego’s Development Services Department, in an email. Hempton referenced the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which prohibits cities from denying a wireless communication project based on health-related issues. (The travesty of this clause in such a far-reaching piece of legislation cannot be overstated.) The city’s approval grants Sprint a permit to “construct, operate and maintain a Wireless Communication Facility (WCF) consisting of 12 panel antennas mounted on an existing school building behind radio-frequency transparent screening with equipment located adjacent to the building,” according to the city’s permit for the project. The plan for the 12 antennas shows four antennas on the north side of the “F” building which houses classrooms, and eight antennas on the “G” building – four on the west side and four on the south side. The F and G buildings surround the students’ food court. Plans call for an equipment box installed next to the G building. Dill said the walls on both buildings extend above the roof line and the antennas would be mounted on top of the roofs but behind the parapet walls, so Sprint “won’t have to worry about putting up a fake tree, having the big ugly tower, those sorts of things.” The focus on aesthetics stems from the Telecom Act which allows government agencies to object to the placement of cell towers based on visual but not health impacts. Hence, such deep, heartfelt concern by providers for aesthetics. All this for only $2,800 per month, or $33,600 per year – about the price of half a teacher. With an automatic increase of 3 percent annually, Dill said the revenue would come to about $625,000, but over 15 years. Growing opposition
Carmel Valley resident and CCA parent Richard Kahn, in a letter to Noah dated July 13, objected to the proposed deal, saying, “It looks like a sneak attack from the public perspective. This behavior is not what would be expected from the San Dieguito School District who has in the past had a reputation of being highly respectful of the community and their sentiments.” Kahn, a professional in the field of customer protection and safety from products that emit various forms of radiation, said that FCC standards in the United States are “lenient compared to other countries where standards are up to 10,000 times stricter.” Citing growing opposi-
“My preference at this point, and what I’m directing, is I want it off the agenda for the time being.” — Ken Noah tion in the community, Kahn wrote, “We cannot understand the school district’s decision to push forward their project in defiance of unanimous opposition by [the] CV Planning Board.” Noah, according to Kahn, never replied to his letter until weeks later, when, unbelievably, Noah wrote, “I am baffled by your reference to ‘growing opposition.’ My question is, ‘To what?’” After recognizing at last that there was indeed “growing opposition” to the project as news spread, Noah backed off from the plan to present the final resolution to the school board at its July 26 meeting. It was tentatively scheduled to come back to the school board at its Aug. 16 meeting, but that too was delayed, this time indefinitely. Noah, who expressed surprise at the reaction of the community, said, “My preference at this point, and what I’m directing, is I want
it off the agenda for the time being.” The next step, he said, would be “to have a conversation with the board about whether or not pursuing an opportunity to put cell arrays or cell towers on campuses is something we want to pursue.” This discussion, he said, would be general in nature and not specific to any one school site. If yes, conditions for such projects and reviews of studies and scientific evidence examining health and safety risks would be discussed. If the board rejects the idea completely, “then that would come off the table for future consideration for a revenue enhancement for the district,” Noah said. Gosh, wouldn’t if have been nice for board members to have had this conversation before voting unanimously to proceed with the CCA/Sprint project? Although the revenue from this project was already listed in a board report Noah gave to trustees in June, it has now been removed. What’s frightening about this backpedaling is that it indicates that there was no discussion around health and safety considerations prior to this neardeal, given that the project has been in the works for two years and that the money was already being counted. Nevertheless, the matter will not be brought before the board again in the immediate future. Not exactly a mea culpa, but at least the district appeared to be embracing the precautionary principle of “prudent avoidance” regarding radiation emissions near children, and has promised to provide better notification to the community next time. Congratulations to all those who brought this project down. Score one for community activism. Marsha Sutton can be reached at SuttComm@san.rr.
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The planning board also recommended that the district install antennas “away from classroom buildings and well-trafficked parts of the school where students and teachers might encounter longterm low-level exposure.” Although cities and community planning boards cannot by law oppose such projects based on health and safety factors, “the school district is not prohibited from using good judgment in the prudent placement of these facilities on their own property,” read the letter. The letter referred to resolutions passed by the Los Angeles Unified School District that acknowledge “considerable debate and uncertainty within the scientific community as to the potential health effects to individuals, especially children, from exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic and radio-frequency radiation ...” Noah said the letter opposing the project from the Carmel Valley Planning Board carried “some weight” but “my concern is that the Carmel Valley Planning Board stepped out of its statutory lines of authority in terms of making the recommendation. They are supposed to rule on certain criteria, and they went to what they perceived to be a safety issue.” Carmel Valley Planning Board member Laura Copic, a leading opponent of the project, said the representative for Sprint was asked to consider placing the towers away from classroom buildings, on the far corners of the athletic fields. At Torrey Pines High School, for example, a cellular tower exists but is located by the tennis courts, well away from all classrooms. Copic was told that it was the school district that did not want to consider other locations. But Eric Dill, SDUHSD’s associate superintendent of business services, said it was Sprint that chose the classroom buildings, after rejecting the fields and the parking lot. The field area was eliminated, Dill said, because there is no power or existing buildings or stadium lights upon which to mount the towers, so towers would need to be constructed, camouflaged and powered. The parking lot was also rejected for height limitations and lack of sufficient power. “So they settled on their ideal location of being on top of the buildings,” Dill said. Primary reasons were the access to existing power and a building design that hides the equipment from view behind roof parapets. “That’s really a matter of aesthetics,” Dill said. “Those are things that the planning boards generally don’t want. They don’t want to see them.” Dill said the school district has been in discussions with Sprint for about two years on this project. “They’ve been looking at Canyon Crest Academy and where potential sites could be and where they would be most beneficial for the coverage that’s needed in that area,” he said. Although neither the Solana Beach School District nor the Del Mar Union School District have wireless equipment on their school sites, Dill said other school districts have accepted cell towers and antennas, including Poway. “We’re not breaking any new ground here,” he said.
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Carmel Valley hockey girls win summer indoor crown Powered by seven players from Carmel Valley Middle School, the Mystic Purple field hockey team won the San Diego County summer indoor league with a hard fought 4-2 win over TTown on July 27. Mystic went undefeated in the regular season, finishing with six wins and a single tie. Coached by Poway High School varsity head coach Cindi Lou-Villa, they went into the playoffs as the number one seed and favorite to take the title. But the victory wasn’t easy. The girls from Tierrasanta gave them all they could handle, keeping the game even until midway through the first half when Shannon Yogerst scored on a pass from Gabi Jimenez to put Mystic on the board first. Moments later, Gia Silahian scored off a dish from Meaghan Donnelly to make it 2-0. But TTown crawled back into the game on a goal with less than a minute left until intermission. Mystic also drew first blood in the second half when Lauren Whitney put back a rebound of a Yogerst shot off the goalie’s pads. Silahian notched her second goal of the game on a solo effort to make it 4-1. Although TTown scored again, Mystic keeper Jaden Watkins preserved the two-goal margin with a great save late in the game. Farah Farjood’s excellent defensive play and Dani Jackel’s hard work in the
Mystic Purple: Back row (left to right): Coach Cat Villa, Coach Cindi Lou-Villa, Lauren Whitney, Gia Silahian, Jaden Watkins, Dani Jackel, Meaghan Donnelly and Coach Mike Villa. Front row (left to right): Rachel Hsieh, Gabi Jimenez, Farah Farjood and Shannon Yogerst. midfield also contributed greatly to the victory. Mystic blazed through the regular season with impressive victories over other
leading high school feeder programs including a 5-0 win over the two-time defending champion Longhorns (Rancho Buena Vista HS), 3-0 win over Flyers Green (Scripps
Ranch HS), 3-0 win over TTown (Serra HS) and 9-0 win over Princess Stix (Vista HS). For six of the Mystic girls – Donnelly, Jimenez, Silahian, Yogerst, Jackel and Farjood – the win marked the end of an incredible 8th grade season during which they won three major local championships and a silver medal at the California state cup. Playing under three different team names (Bobcats, Falcons, Mystic) the girls amassed an overall record of 22 wins, one loss and five ties. All six of them will be playing their high school hockey at Torrey Pines starting in August.
In-demand TPHS football player working harder than ever to achieve his goals BY TIM PICKWELL Choices. Torrey Pines High School Senior Jacob Alsadek had the luxury of more than a dozen. He visited Cal, Vanderbilt, Boise State, Colorado, Stanford, UCLA and others. He agonized for weeks over which school, coach and football program was the best fit. And, then, after choosing to orally commit and accept a full-ride, Division I scholarship offer to play Pac 12 football at the University of Arizona, the biggest (6’ 7”, 332 lbs.) offensive line prospect in America (according to ESPN.com) could be forgiven if he put his size 16 custom-made football cleats up on the couch and relaxed for awhile. Instead, under the watchful eye of a personal trainer, Alsadek finds himself each day sweating and pounding the stairs at San Elijo State Beach with some Falcon teammates. Alsadek, 17, is not resting on his laurels, and is not cutting back on this football regimen. “I’m actually working out even harder now since I accepted the offer,” said Alsadek. It’s [head] coach [Rich] Rodriguez’s first year at Arizona, and he’s building a program. They told me that I have a chance to compete for a starting spot.” Media relations for the University of Arizona said that NCAA rules prevented them from commenting on any high school recruits until after signing day in February 2013. But, several recruiting websites, including ESPN.com, Scout.com and Arizonascout.com, noted Alsadek’s commitment to the university. Arizona has commitments from 23 players, and Alsadek was partly motivated to make the move because they had only two open recruiting slots left. “They are bringing in a great recruiting class,” said Jacob, “and I wanted to be a part of it.” The astonishingly strong high school student can bench press 360 pounds, squat 475 pounds, and run the 40yard dash in around 5.5 seconds. And, yet, he is still raw, having played only three seasons. Jacob and his family moved to Rancho Santa Fe when he was in the 5th grade. Jacob attended Rancho Santa Fe Middle School before moving on to Torrey Pines. As a fifth grader, Jacob was too large to play Pop Warner football (which has a 165-pound upper weight limit). His freshman season at Torrey Pines was the first time he put on pads. Falcon Head Coach Scott Ashby immediately saw the potential. “Jacob is exactly what you want in a football player,” says Ashby. “He has great feet, and moves very well. He is a very hard worker, and has an incredible inner drive. He is a great representation of Torrey Pines High School.” After his one season of freshman football, Alsadek started on the varsity offensive line as a sophomore. Continuity in the Torrey Pines program has also been helpful for Jacob. “I’ve had one line coach, Josh Mihalenic, the whole time. It has been nice.” Mihalenic was also the
Hard work in the weight room helped Torrey Pines Senior Offensive Lineman Jacob Alsadek land an offer to play football at the University of Arizona. Photo/Susie Talman. line coach when 6’ 1” 310-pound Daniel Murray (Torrey Pines, Class of 2010) earned a Division I scholarship to the University of Cincinnati. “Jacob has been a pleasure to coach,” says Mihalenic. “He has realized the importance of working hard not only on the field or in the weight room, but studying video of himself and his opponents. He constantly is asking me to watch video with him and then when we are at practice to watch and see if he is doing what he wants to work on. His passion for what he is doing has made it easy to help him accomplish his goals.” College scouts started visiting the Torrey Pines campus after Jacob’s freshman season. Dozens have come through Coach Ashby’s office the past three years to assess the young man. Ashby has phoned college coaches to discuss Jacob’s talents, while Jacob’s parents, Sophia and Louay, have taken him on recruiting visits or to college football camps. Despite it all, earlier this year Jacob felt he wasn’t getting any traction. He had one scholarship offer. He had a great recruiting visit at Boise State, but head coach Chris Peterson told him, the problem is that “we’re a passing team, and your high school is a running team.” Boise State had 20 minutes of highlight videos of Jacob pancake blocking defensive lineman. Peterson told Jacob, “we don’t have much video of you pass blocking.” The colleges weren’t sure if the young player had the tools to back-pedal into blind-side pass protection. At this point, some resources from the Torrey Pines Football Program came into play. Personal trainer Tommy Moring was introduced to the Torrey Pines football program
Falcon’s Senior Lineman Jacob Alsadek (78), one of the biggest (6’ 7”, 330 lbs.) recruits in the country, has accepted an offer to play football at the University of Arizona. Photo/Anna Scipione. last season when Coach Ashby brought him in to assist with weight training. Jacob credits Moring with “changing my whole mentality, and approach to what I do.” Ed Stansbury, a former UCLA and NFL fullback, runs Next Level Sports. Stansbury had previously been a speed coach for the Falcons, and he works with a number of players, including former Falcon lineman Murray. Conditioned by Moring, Jacob worked with Stansbury to put together a 5-minute Youtube “agility video.” The silent film shows the enormous young man skipping, hopping, moving laterally, jumping, and basically dancing his way around cones and pylons simulating the lateral movement and skills needed to pass block at the Division I level. “When coaches are looking at game film,” Stansbury explains, “they can see size and some technique. But, now many college coaches are taking things a step further. They want to see conditioning, work ethic, training, footwork, agility. There are so many different things that they are looking for that they can’t see in just a game film. That’s why we put the agility video together for Jacob.” Alsadek credits the video with helping resolve doubts that college scouts were having about his mobility. After the video was posted, the offers started to flow in. Alsadek took nine formal and informal recruiting visits. “It came down to Colorado, Kansas State, Arizona State, Vanderbilt and Arizona,” he said. “Arizona was close to home. Coach Rodriguez has a good resume. It felt like family when I visited. Everyone was real close.” Alsadek has some unfinished business before he gets to Tucson: his senior football season. Of the Falcons, he says, “We’re putting in a lot of hard work. We’re hungry for a championship.”
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PAC Swimming Top 10 at San Diego-Imperial Swimming Long Course Junior Olympics The following PAC swimmers competed in the recent San Diego-Imperial Swimming Long Course Junior Olympics: From front left, three rows: • Jacque Wenger: 8 & Under 50M Back, 38.13 Made finals for every race. Sets new San Diego Imperial Swimming record. • Cassidy Liu 10 & Under 50M Fly, 44.49 • Edward Zhang 10 & under 50M Back, 45.15 • Noelle Diamond 10 & Under 100M Breast 1:50.12 • Audrey Le 11-12 50M Fly, 33.79 • Ian Moore 10 & Under 50M Back, 45.25 • Lukas Marxer 11-12 50M Back, 1:18.13 5th in Finals • Maggie Enloe 11-12 100M Back, 1:22.81 • Evelyn Chou 10 & Under 100M Breast 1:44.20 • Katy Rhodes 11-12 50M Back, 36.11 4th in Finals • Coach Michael Galindo, San Diego-Imperial Swimming Coach of the Year
First row: Andrew Mitchell, Vismay Manoj, Robert Ronco, Coach Steve Hill, Goalie Alex Glynn, Santeri Arimo, Marc Begin. Second row: David Velediaz, Oliver Critchley, Dean Sandler, and Liam Kelly. Not pictured: Brian Hanson. And a huge thank you to all the siblings for cheering the boys on!
BU9 Manchester Academy team tops at Carlsbad Cup Championship The BU9 Manchester Academy team won again this weekend in the Carlsbad Cup Tournament. The team, coached by Coach Steve Hill, played an impressive tournament by scoring 16 goals and having only 4 goals against. Manchester defeated FC Heat in the final with a score of 5-1 to clinch the title.
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Former TPHS football coach Ed Burke seeks families to host members of Japanese football team Former Torrey Pines High School football coach Ed Burke is hosting the senior members of the Ritsumeikan Uji Panthers football team from Kyoto, Japan, and is looking for families that are interested in hosting a player. They will arrive the Friday evening, Aug. 17, and depart early Monday morning, Sept. 3. The team will be attending school and practicing at Torrey Pines during their stay, so most of the transportation needs will be similar to that of students attending Torrey Pines. They will be on campus from
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Clarification/correction In a July 26 article on the Solana Beach forum regarding the recent federal deferred action memo, it incorrectly stated that attorney Tammy Sumontha oversees the California Western Community Law Project. She is still part of the project but not in that capacity.
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Q&A: It’s all about people and connections for engineer Karen Brailean Karen Brailean is CEO of Barc, Inc., an Internet company enabling discovery and interaction. Its first product allows you to chat and post with everyone browsing the same website or Wi-Fi network. Previously, Brailean was the CEO of Perseus Wireless, and was marketing vice president of mobile video products for Alcatel, and for PacketVideo. She also held engineering and marketing positions with Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, and Eastman Kodak. She has eight mobile communications patents. Brailean received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University; an MSEE from University of Southern California; and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She served as board chair for the La Jolla Music Society, 2007–2009; as founding member/board chair of San Karen Brailean with Rollo Diego Social Venture Partners, and Maxwell. 2003–2005; and as a member of the San Diego Grantmaker’s Homelessness Working Group, helping to bring $13 million to aid the homeless in San Diego. Brailean was a 2004-2006 season sponsor of Moxie The-
atre; a member of the Society of Women Engineers; of Global Importune; of International Electrical and Electronic Engineers; of Eta Kappa Nu, and is a life member of the Society of Women Engineers. Who inspires you? My mother, who has fun every day and finds the time and energy to help people, too. If you hosted a dinner party for eight, who (living or deceased) would you invite? • Hedy Lamarr escaped an overbearing husband to become a major contract star of MGM’s Golden Age in the 1920s. Not just a pretty face, Hedy also invented a complex algorithm for computer communications that is used in most communications today, including technology from Qualcomm; • Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, arguably the most influential person in the world right now, making decisions about the future of the European Union; • Susan B. Anthony, who fought for women’s right to vote using grace and tenacity. She died a few years before we gained that right; • Sheryl Sandberg, CEO and member of the board of directors of Facebook. She’s credited with making Facebook profitable; • My husband, he is great company and has an amazing memory. He would remember everything everyone said. • Franz Liszt, an 1800s pianist/composer who was wildly popular. Women would fight for his silk handkerchiefs, which they kept as souvenirs of his concerts. He donated much of his fortune to charity; • Albert Einstein, he developed the theory of relativity, and wouldn’t it be amazing to hear his thoughts on physics, given what we now know? and … • Jesus Christ, I don’t think he needs an explanation.
Tell us about what you are reading. My reading taste is quite eclectic. Here are two examples. I am in the middle of reading “Robopocalypse,” by Daniel Wilson, a scary but oh-so-compelling science fiction thriller. On the other end of the spectrum, I recently finished, “Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling” by Ross King, it’s about the painting of the Sistine chapel. What would be your dream vacation? We are taking it in October to celebrate our 25th anniversary. We are going back to Italy, my favorite place to visit. What apps do you like? My five favorite apps are: 1) Barc. If you read my bio, you know I work at Barc, so I better love it, and I really do. Chat with everyone who is browsing the same website. It is a useful and fun tool. 2) Twonky. Full disclosure, this is my husband’s company’s product. But, again, I would love it even if I weren’t married to it. Enter a topic and Twonky finds all of the related videos for you. Simply click to display it on your TV. I’m watching interesting video about the Olympics from Twonky now. 3) Facebook. Of course. 4) Twitter. Tweeting more and more these days. 5) LinkedIn. It’s great for connecting with business friends and colleagues. What is your most-prized possession? That would be my family and friends, and my two dogs, Rollo and Maxwell. What is your motto or philosophy of life? Every day, each of us has the opportunity to choose our disposition. I choose to be happy.
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Rancho Santa Fe Review
August 9, 2012
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‘Iliad’ adaptation unfolds a tale of love and destruction
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BY DIANA SAENGER The overwhelming success in numerous theaters of Robert Fagles’ translation of “An Iliad,” adapted by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, has brought the play to the La Jolla Playhouse. The reenactment of Homer’s classic poem about the Trojan War is retold through The Poet whose stories are backed by the tones (and often odd sounds) of The Musician. Lisa Peterson (Playhouse’s “Surf Report” and “Be Aggressive”) also directs the play, a co-production with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The script centers on the gods and goddesses of its time who attempt to circumvent battle with love and a huge Trojan horse. From Agamemnon to Achilles and the Trojan hero Hector, Henry Woronicz (“The Winter’s Tale,” Broadway’s “Julius Caesar,”) immerses himself in many characters as The Poet, to tell the story of a lifetime with love, anger, surprise and deep passion. Brian Ellingsen, who plays The Musician, has garnered huge acclaim for his sensitive and on-the-mark talent on the double bass (an upright instrument also called a string bass).
Brian Ellingsen plays the Musician. The creative team includes set designer Rachel Hauck, costumer Marina Draghici, lighting designer Scott Zielinski and Mark
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Bennett providing the original music and sound design. The team received critical acclaim for its work on “An Iliad” at the New York The-
atre Workshop earlier this year. “Sound design” may be a vague term for some theatre patrons, but Bennett confirms it’s a major component of this production. “Music and theater have been married for thousands of years. Over my 25 years in this field, it’s been exciting to see the world of theater and audiences begin to appreciate the contributions of sound designers,” he said. Bennett has composed scores and sound for the American premieres of plays by Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Athol Fugard, Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill. His Broadway projects include “The Coast of Utopia,” “The Lion In Winter,” “A View From The Bridge,” and Playhouse’s “Most Wanted.” He has received numerous Obie, Bessie, Ovation, Robbie, and Garland awards along with 10 Drama Desk and two Lucille Lortel award nominations. But his work, he said, even on the same play, starts anew with each new venue. “There are always a certain amount of changes,” Bennett said. “I feel the coat a performer puts on and wears is his own journey. It
Music and sound designer Mark Bennett will add his awardwinning talents to ‘An Iliad.’ PHOTO/TERRI RIPPEE
If you go What: “An Iliad” When: Matinees, evenings, Aug. 11-Sept. 9 Where: La Jolla Playhouse, Mandell Weiss Theatre, UCSD campus Tickets: From $26 Phone: (858) 550-1010 Website: lajollaplayhouse.org affects the way he responds in subtle ways to phrasing and where the music starts. In this piece, it’s a dance between the actor and the musician, and what keeps it interesting for me. The beauty of it is that an entire world is created from one solo bass player and one actor and what each can bounce off the other.”
A sound designer has a number of jobs; most very technical. He is responsible that all of the equipment is hooked up correctly, tuned and balanced, and that the prerecorded sound effects are layered correctly to accompany the storyteller. “Sound designers function with a dual mind,” Bennett said. “The technical mind is about the equipment and the cueing of it. The artistic side is how to combine the sounds and install them in the right moment to deliver the content. Composition is pushing the notes on a page and working with the musician to create the melodies and textures of the musical underpinnings. So in this piece, the music and sound wind up very hand and glove.” Bennett, who worked on the music in the Playhouse’s 2010 “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” said working with the 21 piece chamber orchestra for that show was a pivotal moment in his career. Now he’s equally excited about working with an actor/musician. Brian Ellingsen has garnered much acclaim for his “sensitive” talents on the double bass.
CHECK OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING Flicks on the Bricks Under the Tuscan Sun TONIGHT—Thursday, Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Paired with vino toscano Join us on the Athenaeum’s outdoor patio for screenings of classic cinemas and delightful summer wine pairings. Lecturer and wine connoisseur Barbara Baxter will be speaking about her stay at Bramasole, the location of ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’. One fortunate guest will go home with a copy of “In Tuscany” signed by author Frances Mayes. TICKETS: $17 member/$22 nonmember Online: ljathenaeum.org/specialevents Telephone: (858) 454-5872
Green Flash Concert Series The Dunwells and The Heartless Bastards
La Jolla Music Society SummerFest
August 15: 5:30-9 p.m., Ages 21+ only
Tuesday nights of the Festival explore the music of influential Romantic composer Franz Schubert. Three concerts highlighting the breadth of his artistic genius featuring works for solo piano, chamber music and his celebrated lieder.
Enjoy live music, great food and drinks for purchase, and amazing sunset views from the aquarium's Tide-Pool Plaza. We welcome co-headliners The Dunwells and The Heartless Bastards. RSVP: 858-534-4109 or online at aquarium.ucsd.edu Pre-sale: $27 per person Walk-up: $32 per person
Now – August 24
Tickets: $65, $45
(858) 459-3728 www.LJMS.org
Monte Carlo On Screen SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 COCKTAIL RECEPTION > 6:30 PM DINNER > 8 PM AFTER PARTY > 9:30 PM Roll out the red carpet for Monte Carlo On Screen, the Museum’s 36th annual gala. This year we’re celebrating the incredible legacy of contemporary art and the silver screen. Get your tickets at www.mcasd.org/montecarlo. Monte Carlo committee members include Nancy Browar, Valerie Cooper, David Copley, Joan Jacobs, Gail Knox, Laurie Mitchell, Colette Carson Royston, Iris Strauss, and Sheryl White. 700 Prospect Street 858 454 3541 www.mcasd.org
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Del Mar’s Laura Parker at home
Del Mar home to the state’s most Earth-friendly house Local resident leads construction crew in building ‘timeless’ dwelling BY CLAIRE HARLIN When Del Mar resident Laura Parker finished building her first energy-efficient home, she had no idea that its LEED rating would add up to being the highest in the state. “We were platinum going into it, and being the highest wasn’t our goal really,” said Parker, owner of construction company Del Mar Restoration. “The goal was just to try to do everything right and the rating was a byproduct of doing everything the best we could.” The nearly $3 million, 2,600-square-foot home is located on 11th Street in Del Mar and was built by an alllocal team. Not only are the 10 guys that make up Parker’s construction crew all from the area, but even the architectural firm, Bokal & Sneed, is located on 9th Street in the heart of the Del Mar Village. The owner of the home, local bakery owner Jim O’Brien, hired Del Mar Restoration to build the home when he met Parker on the site of a different job. He gave her free reign over the project before putting the house on the market. The home has energyefficient features such as a ventilation system that refreshes the air every three hours, solar-heated water and radiant floor heating. Water from the home runs off into the yard, and even the driveway is made of pervious concrete that absorbs water into the ground. The home has a garage door that opens up the living room to the outside, and Parker rummaged through
salvage shops to find a lot of the building materials to add to the home’s character. For instance, there is a sliding barn door in the home, as well as antique pitchforks and shovels used as stair railings. “I’ve always wanted to do a modern house, I’ve always wanted to do a barn and I’ve always wanted to do a LEED home,” Parker said. Not only does Parker strive to have a business that “gives back,” she said, but she wants to add timeless structures to Del Mar — in other words, A look inside the Parker homes that won’t go residence out of style. “The whole premise is restoration instead of construction,” she said. “Everything we build, we want it to look like it has been here 100 years. I see so much value in a community’s character, and we want everything we build to be a showpiece that we can drive by years from now and it looks as license and I already knew a good as it does today.” lot about how to run a busiParker worked for more ness.” than a decade in marketing Finishing her LEED before making the switch to home in Del Mar was a great construction. When she upfeat for Parker, but it’s not graded the first Del Mar the pinnacle of her career. home she bought in 1997, Two weeks ago, she began she got a taste of the city’s construction on a LEED-cerstringent design review protified horse farm in Rancho cess, enticing her to get on Santa Fe. The property near the Design Review Board Lago Lindo is on 4-and-aherself. half acres and will be the “I won’t disparage it, first LEED home in Rancho but I wanted to make it betSanta Fe. ter,” she said. For more information Also in remodeling her on the 11th Street LEED home she learned a lot house, visit www.greendelabout construction and she marhome.com, and for realized she loved it. more information on Del “I was fascinated by the Mar Restoration, visit www. process of building a house delmarrestoration.com. and I realized I could do this,” she said. “So I got my
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Include Me Out tops at $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes A very determined Include Me Out held off a rally from Star Billing to win the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (Grade I) at Del Mar on Aug. 4 by a neck. The 4-year-old filly and her jockey, Joe Talamo, traveled 1 1/16 miles on the Polytrack in 1:41.96. Amani, a Chilean-bred champion who was making her first start in America, was 1 1/2 lengths back in third. Include Me Out is trained by Ron Ellis and owned by Jay Em Ess Stable. Photo by Kelley Carlson
Local couple to open Savory Spice Shop in Encinitas Savory Spice Shop recently announced plans to open a new location in The Lumberyard Shopping Center in Encinitas at 937 South Coast Highway 101, Suite C-110. Owner/operators and North County residents Jason and Stephanie Birn said they are thrilled to be joining the Encinitas community and to be bringing their passion for food and spices with them. Savory Spice Shop offers more than 400 fresh ground herbs and spices, 140 handblended seasonings, organic selections and gift sets. The product is ground and blended weekly to ensure superior freshness. Customers are encouraged to sample products and have packaged only the amounts they need, starting as little as half an ounce.
Jason and Stephanie Birn will be the first to introduce the brand to San Diego County. Savory Spice Shop opened its first store in 2004 in Denver, Colo., and then began franchising its concept in 2009. Today there are more than 20 franchise locations and four company-owned stores nationwide. Savory Spice Shop Encinitas plans to open its doors towards the end of this month. The shop will be located south of Encinitas Boulevard in the Lumberyard Shopping Center at 937 South Coast Highway 101, Suite C-110 in Encinitas. Please visit www.facebook.com/SavorySpiceShopEncinitas for more details regarding the store’s opening.
Upcoming regional concerts • Sat., Aug. 11 and 25, Zel’s Del Mar, 8-10 p.m. , Robin Henkel and Kellie Rucker play award-winning blues and jazz (guitar/vocals and harmonica, respectively), 1247 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar (858) 755-0076. Free, but purchase suggested — all ages • The Grand Del Mar’s “Summer Concerts At The Grand” eight-concert series runs every Sunday through Sept. 2 with doors opening at 6 p.m. and show times beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.GrandSummerConcerts. com or by calling 800-820-9884. • The City of Solana Beach and the Belly Up Tavern summer “Concerts at the Cove” events are held every Thursday from 6-7:45 p.m. For more information, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 858-720-2453. • The Del Mar racing season’s concert schedule can be found at www.delmarscene. com or www.dmtc.com.
Helen Woodward Center Surf Dog Clinics Helen Woodward Animal Center Surf Dog clinics help prepare pups for the Surf Dog Surf-a-thon. Taught by Kahuna Bob’s Surf School and pet expert Rob Kuty, from San Diego Pet Training, the classes and cost $45 per dog (one adult per dog), including the required life vests and surf boards. Each clinic is limited to 25 dogs per class and runs an hour in length. Registration is now open for all the Doggie Surf Clinics, scheduled Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Aug. 11, 18 and 25. For more information or to register, visit www.surfdog.kintera.org or call 858-756-4117 x 356.
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Blue Moon Celebrity Grill
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■ Patio Seating: Yes ■ Take Out: Yes
Menu
Chicken Parmesan Sliders consist of two small, crispy chicken breasts topped with smoked mozzarella, marinara and basil pesto on brioche buns.
■ 3rd floor Clubhouse, Del Mar racetrack, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar ■ (858) 755-6345, Ext. 1644 ■ dmtc.com ■ The Vibe: Casual, relaxed, trendy
■ Happy Hour: No
■ Signature Dishes: Brandt Beef Sliders, Brandt Hot Corned Beef on Rye, Chicken Parmesan Sliders
■ Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays; 2-5 p.m. Fridays; bar service through the eighth race; open racing season only, to Sept. 5
■ Open Since: 2011 ■ Reservations: No
Brandt Beef Sliders with tomatoes, Bermuda onions and smoked tomato jam on brioche buns.
The ‘Wedge’ Steakhouse-Style Salad with a side of olive bread.
Santa Barbara Smokehouse Oak Roasted Salmon Flatbread with arugula, pickled Bermuda onions, capers and a lemon-dill vinaigrette.
Dining at the track? Blue Moon Celebrity Grill is a good bet! BY KELLEY CARLSON t appears Del Mar racetrack visitors are finding that the venue’s Blue Moon Celebrity Grill’s patio views and unique menu are a winning combination. Even though the season is not quite half over, it has already been noted that the restaurant’s popularity has increased since last year (when it was simply known as Celebrity Grill) and that it’s gaining a following of “regulars,” according to manager Cristina Burns. Yet the establishment, which added Blue Moon to its name due to its new sponsorship, is not widely advertised. It’s not mentioned on the track’s website, nor is it featured in the racing program handed out at the gates. “This is a secret gem of a restaurant,” Burns said. One of the attractions is the view from the covered outdoor patio. Guests can study the horses being saddled in the paddock below and catch glimpses of the ocean just a short distance away, while enjoying sitdown food and beverage service. In the main dining room you’ll find a
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■ Blue Moon Celebrity Grill’s BBQ Chips glowing neon “Blue Moon” and stars ... Hollywood stars, that is. Original photos of celebrities who frequented the track when it was first opened by Bing Crosby and Pat O’Brien in 1937 grace the walls. A full-service bar on the west end of the establishment serves six draft beers, which naturally includes Blue Moon brands; wine and Champagne; and signature cocktails such as the Del Margarita and Red Bull-fecta. Even after the horses leave the paddock
A mural decorates the front of Blue Moon Celebrity Grill.
for the track, racing fans won’t miss out on the action. Nine TVs around the Blue Moon provide live simulcasts, and bettors have the opportunity to place wagers. It doesn’t matter where one sits, “you get the same fabulous service, outside or in,” Burns emphasized. And while most of the track’s public restaurants provide the same menu, Blue Moon Celebrity Grill’s offerings are different. There are four “starters” to choose from, including the Crunchy Tempura Green Beans with cusabi-ranch dip. Burns refers to these fried snacks as the equivalent of “healthy mozzarella sticks. They are handsdown amazing,” she said. Several “cold bites” are available, like The “Wedge” Steakhouse-Style Salad — baby iceberg lettuce, applewood smoked bacon, crumbled gorgonzola, tomatoes and Bermuda onions tossed together, with a side of Black Pepper Buttermilk Ranch dressing. All-Natural Brandt Beef Flat Iron Steak dusted with truffle salt can be added for a few extra dollars. The salad pairs nicely with a Blue Moon Belgian White.
Blue Moon’s full bar includes six draft beers, wine, Champagne and the racetrack’s signature cocktails.
The “warm bites” portion of the menu consists of sliders, flatbreads and sandwiches. One favorite is the Chicken Parmesan Sliders, with two small crispy chicken breasts topped with smoked mozzarella, marinara and basil pesto on brioche buns. For dessert, there is Del Mar’s Signature Carrot Cake with caramel sauce and Sky High Frozen Mocha Mud Pie with chocolate sauce. An important note about dining at Blue Moon Celebrity Grill: Customers must have paid Clubhouse admission to gain access to the third-floor eatery. Also, because seating at the Blue Moon is often in high demand (especially when the horses are in the paddock) guests are asked to stay for a maximum of 45 minutes. “Because the restaurant is open to the general admission public, we need to turn the tables over to service all our guests,” explained Sue Walls, director of catering and dining services for Premiere Food Services and Carriage Trade Catering at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Those who would like a table for the day may make arrangements through the Del Mar box office for a fee.
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Flower Hill cheese shop expands to add seating, classes BY CLAIRE HARLIN The packed little cheese shop in the Flower Hill Promenade that used to be a quick stop for savory samples and cheese to-go finally let its seams bust last month and moved into a new space. The step up in size will now allow them to serve lunch, beer and wine, giving guests plenty of seating to mingle and munch. Owner Gina Frieze said a major reason she embarked on the move is because her customers were asking when From left: Andy McNamara, Rebecca Gould, Gina Freize she was going to bring to Del Mar the well-attended cheese and Cat Charpentier in the new Venissimo cheese shop. PHOTO/CLAIRE HARLIN classes she holds at her flagship shop in downtown San specializes in importing cheese and is still a Diego. Sure enough, the Academy of Cheese partner of Venissimo. — “AOC” as she calls it — will find its place “This all came to be because I love in Del Mar starting this month. There will cheese,” said Frieze, who did marketing for be a kids’ cheese party on Aug. 13 at 2 p.m. companies for more than a decade before at the shop, as well as a mozzarella and finding her passion with cheese. ricotta cheese-making course on Aug. 16 and It all started on a wine tasting tour near a “Getting to Know Cheese” course on Aug. Sacramento, where she used to reside. 23. There will be three to four classes each “The light bulb went off and I said, ‘I month at various times, some of which will want to do a cheese shop,’” she said. “I also incorporate pairing and products from other wanted to live somewhere with perfect Flower Hill vendors. weather and there were no cheese shops Venissimo started about a decade ago as here in San Diego.” a small Mission Hills cheese shop with 50 She spent about a year writing her busitypes of cheese and it’s grown to hundreds ness plan, which she modeled after the traof varieties at Frieze’s four shops in San Diditional European cheese shops that were ego and Long Beach. The Del Mar shop was few and far between in the Unites States at the second in the chain, opening in 2007 at that time. Frieze’s mother is from Austria, the former site of Aniata Cheese Co., which and she remembers going to the European
delis as a child. “Every two years we would get to visit and those are such warm memories,” she said. The opening of Frieze’s first store didn’t come without a challenge. After pitching her idea to the owner of the space she found in Mission Hills, she got turned down. Not only did the landlord think a shop selling only cheese wouldn’t survive, but he didn’t wanted to split the rather large space into two smaller units as Frieze asked. “On top of everything, it was my very first business, and they just said ‘no,’” Frieze said. “It took six months and I was faxing them letters telling them what I could do.” Finally, Frieze showed up with a cheese tray when the owner was on site, and he was sold on the idea. The shop opened in 2004, and there was no looking back for Frieze. “My first cheese order was like $2,500 and I was panicking because cheese goes
bad,” she said. “I am so thankful for everyone who kept coming back.” Much of Venissimo’s success has been its business model that stresses “heavy sampling,” Frieze said. “Our whole thing is we want people to be able to try anything they buy,” she said. “We want it to be an adventure, like going to Europe without being in Europe.” Each cheese available to buy is labeled with the pronunciation, animal it comes from and pairing ideas. More recently, the shop added a designation for organic and raw (as opposed to pasteurized) to each cheese option. Since the move, the cheese boards offered at the shop have been popular, Frieze said. “Peope can either mix and match the boards or let us choose,” she said. For more information on the shop and to sign up for classes, visit www.venissimo. com.
A variety of regional events offered Spotlight on David Steinberg La Jolla Playhouse will host comedian David Steinberg as he develops a new oneman show, “David Steinberg: Still Disguised as a Normal Person,” that looks back and forward at his life in show business. Alan Zweibel, who helped develop “700 Sundays with Billy Crystal” at the Playhouse and on Broadway, will be involved in the process. The workshop production can be seen at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 16-25 in the Playhouse’s Shank Theatre. Tickets: $20. (858) 550-1010. lajollaplayhouse.org
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Renovated Prepkitchen Del Mar Your Family Matters: Getting back into school set to reopen in early September BY CLAIRE HARLIN Prepkitchen owner Arturo Kassel said he will never forget the morning of Oct. 2 when he got a call from his corporate chef telling him his Del Mar restaurant was on fire. “I was in a state of shock when it happened,” he said. “I know what someone must feel like after coming back to their home after a flood or tornado or fire. In some sense the restaurant is an extension of our home and it’s very personal for us.” The restaurant has been boarded up and vacant since then, but Kassel, the CEO of parent company Whisknladle Hospitality, announced recently that construction on the 40-year-old building is wrapping up and the community can expect an opening the first week of September. Not only that, the restaurant’s owners have made the most of their misfortune, taking the opportunity to totally revamp the interior. The 1,650-square-foot restaurant is amid a $750,000 renovation. “With the previous design, I think I didn’t do a great job in terms of func-
Prepkitchen Del Mar tionality,” Kassel said. “The kitchen was too small to service the volume we were serving. Now we have a kitchen that can handle the volume.” As far as the interior goes, Kassel said the change is going to be “night and day.” He said the style will resemble that of the Prepkitchen in Little Italy, which was nominated for the highly-coveted Orchid interior design awards. “We are pretty confident we will get the Orchid,” he said. “The space is really magical, something we are proud of.” The new design utilizes
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BY DR. KEITH KANNER It’s about that time of the summer when parents have to remind their kids that school will be starting again in about a month or you will likely be in for a rocky start of the new school year. Why? A con- Dr. Keith Kanner dition called Summer Learning Loss occurs each summer when kids do not exercise their brains by engaging in some sort of academic endeavor for the summer months, causing “shock” once they return to the classroom in the fall. Homework battles; resistance to get up in the morning; bad moods ; and depressed grades for the first reporting period of the new school year are all symptoms of Summer Learning Loss ( SLL ). The good news is that it’s not too late to get your kids to re-stimulate their neurons now before it’s too late. The bad news is that you, the parent, have to be the one who brings up the issue and your kids will not be happy with the news, or you. But, that’s our job as parents – looking ahead for our kids and also realizing that a little bit now will pay off a lot later and sometimes we have to take the hit, but it’s worth it in the long run. More good news. All you really have to do is get them to read. Reading is the sin-
gle best preventative measure to avoid coming down with SLL. Sure, doing some review of last year’s curriculum or jumping ahead to some concepts for the upcoming year might even be better, but reading a book is the equivalent of a treadmill for a child’s mind. And, why not read together? Make reading a family affair – make the trip to the library or a bookstore and everyone gets a book to read. Take it to the next step and take 5 minutes at the end of the reading period and share what you learned with the rest of the family. If you do this subtly, your kids won’t even know that you have introduced school to them. The statistics of the positive effects of summer learning on fall school performance are impressive. It is also not surprising that the statistics on the level of self-esteem for kids who feel and are prepared for the new school year are also equally so. And, how about the statistics on lower parental stress when kids adapt to school sooner rather than later? I know you all know the answer to that one too. So, what are you waiting for? Crack that book. Dr. Keith Kanner is host/anchor - Your Family Matters - WSRADIO; contributor to LifeChanger, Extra TV; a syndicated columnist; author of “Your Family Matters — Solutions to Common Parental Dilemmas” (in press); board certified & licensed clinical child, adolescent, & adult psychologist & psychoanalyst; Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; National Board Member - KidsKorps USA; and a father of three great kids.
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SPOTLIGHT on LOCAL BUSINESS Longtime local dentist Dr. Curtis Chan opens new office in Del Mar BY KELLEY CARLSON Dr. Curtis Chan, a longtime dentist in the Carmel Valley/Del Mar area, has something new to smile about. After being in a temporary location for the last year, Chan’s office has found a home at 12835 Pointe Del Mar Way, Suite C, in Del Mar (92014). The celebrating began Aug. 6 with the start of Patient Appreciation Week. People can drop in for tours of the facility and receive a gift. Those visitors who are patients of record will also receive a raffle ticket for a drawing to be held during the grand opening celebration, set from 5 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 9. Among the prizes will be an iPod, spa packages and family health care baskets. Although Chan is based in a new office, he is not a newcomer to the field. He grew up among health care professionals — his father was a physician and his uncle was an orthodontist. And of the five boys in Chan’s family, four became dentists. “I wanted to help and serve in the health care industry,” Chan said. He graduated from Loma Linda University, School of Dentistry in 1986. Shortly after relocating to the Del Mar area, Chan opened up a dental practice. When North City West — which is now Carmel Valley — began to be developed, he said he realized the need for quality dental services for the growing planned community. So in 1990, Chan relocated his office and opened up a new facility on Carmel Country Road, where he spent the next 20 years. However, after he failed to reach a new long-term lease agreement with the landlord, Chan found himself uncertain of the future. “It was a little unsettling to pick up the business (and move) ... we didn’t know what would happen,” he said. In August 2011, Chan temporarily moved his office to
Dr. Curtis Chan at his new location. Sorrento Valley. He noted that his patients, who are very loyal, followed him. Around the start of the new year, an opportunity arose to relocate to an office on Pointe Del Mar Way in Del Mar. “We saw the potential to build a brand-new facility and jumped on the idea,” Chan said. “It’s in a perfect location, has a beautiful view ... we could now really embrace new technology.” Chan and his team of four moved into the site a couple of weeks ago, and they are ready to continue providing the services that have drawn thousands of patients over the years. As a general and cosmetic dentist, Chan said he provides all the treatment modalities one would expect to have at a state-of-the-art dental facility. He offers teeth whitening, cosmetic dental bonding and tooth replacement treatment. In addition, he utilizes his experience and up-to-date techniques in treating those with TMJ problems and helping pa-
tients experience bite optimization. Chan noted that his new facility is equipped with an ultra-clean water purification system so patients can be assured that they are treated with the ultimate dental delivery systems. Furthermore, he uses the latest in dental technology, including digital X-rays, intra-oral digital cameras and computer imaging. Chan and his dental team continue to keep up their skills through continuing education and dental conferences. “We help people achieve lifetime smiles,” Chan said. He added that his office provides the best in patient comfort, as well. There are headsets that play music, and special personal video display glasses that allow people to watch their choice of movies from a library of 100 DVDs while having their dental treatment done. Along with building quality, long-term relationships with patients, Chan also values and maintains a strong presence in the local community through service. Each year, he holds a Great Candy Buyback program, in which he pays $1 for each pound of Halloween candy brought into his office, up to $5. The candy is donated to Operation Gratitude in Los Angeles, which sends care packages to military service men and women overseas who are in harm’s way. Also, Chan helped build a dental clinic for orphans at Grace Children’s Home in Tijuana. Meanwhile, he is looking forward to seeing all of his returning dental patients and welcoming fresh faces. “We’re open to anyone who would like quality dental care,” Chan said. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, and is closed one hour for lunch; hours are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. For more information, call (858) 481-9090 or go to www.curtischandds.com.
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The transformation of Lukasz Augustine — Winston School Headmaster’s Award recipient BY KARIN OLSEN College-bound Winston School graduate, The Headmaster’s Award recipient and drama standout Lukasz Augustine expected the worst when he first started attending the school for students with learning differences seven years ago. A self-described shy, and self-conscious 11-year-old, Augustine’s low self-esteem was compounded by an auditory processing disorder that made learning difficult. Feeling like an outcast at his previous schools, he said he was nervous and crying at the very idea of going to Winston as he couldn’t imagine how this new school would be different. “I had some friends, but not many and it was hard for me because the way I learned was different. It was difficult for me to get what teachers were saying,” he remembers. The first three or four months at the Winston School in Del Mar were a revelation. “I started to lighten up at the school and it was a great experience. I felt I could do the work and I get it. Once I got it, it came to me very easily. It felt great to finally get the work that the teachers handed to me.” Once he started doing well in school, Augustine still had one hurdle to overcome – shyness. In spite of or perhaps because of this, he said he felt he needed to move with the drama crowd but was skeptical. “After a couple of weeks I realized it was something I really enjoyed. Drama taught me no matter how foolish you look it’s more about being yourself and not about what other people think.” His first role was the police officer in the school’s production “And Then There Were None.” “I felt really good afterwards. It was different and it also helped me understand how to do a production and learn lines. It was fairly easy, not a cakewalk. I couldn’t get enough of it so I kept doing it.” English also became one of Augustine’s favorite subjects. A testimony to the power of good teachers, he said “I
Lukasz Augustine never really got what the subject was about until I met Mr. K (Jeff Kozlowski) and Mrs. (Mary) Sterling-Torretti.” He said he became more interested in literature after reading some of the classics and found the beauty of writing to be eye-opening. “I like the deep meaning behind some poetry and how poets expressed themselves. Shakespeare was an incredible poet and playwright. He had so much wit within his plays and there’s really a deep meaning behind them.” Musically inclined with a talent for playing guitar, violin and piano, Augustine has also extended his love for writing to lyrics. After three years in the Winston School’s storied arts programs, Augustine is inspired to study theater or music at Linfield College. “They are both pretty hard majors. I also have to think about what I’m going to do after college so I will have some stability when I get out.” Crowning his seven years at Winston, headmaster Mike Peterson recently awarded Augustine with The Headmaster’s
Award at the school’s graduation ceremony. The award is the highest honor given each year to the upper school student who best exemplifies the values of The Winston School. In his introduction, Peterson began by describing the recipient as “a young person whose keen intellect, creativity and love of learning are obvious to all who know him.” In front of the packed room, Peterson went on to say, “He participates in activities with enthusiasm and a sense of community spirit that is unique among his peers. At Winston he has done everything from star on stage to paint the school buildings. He is helpful to others, always remembering that his own path to success has held unanticipated challenges which he has met by drawing on all his own resources and the willing help of others. He is gentle in spirit, but never timid; impatient about seeing himself succeed but extraordinarily persistent. He is always striving to learn, to grow and to move forward in his life, but never at the expense of his own integrity.” When Peterson announced Augustine’s name, the audience cheered but wasn’t surprised. Many share Peterson’s sentiments about the shy boy who not so long ago enrolled in Winston thinking he “wasn’t good at anything.” Looking back on the last seven years, Augustine is melancholy at the prospect of leaving Winston. “The school is great, the teachers are great — everything about the school is great. I’m really going to be upset when I have to leave it’s not going to be easy. Winston really has helped me be a better individual and really helped me grow up.” His advice for everyone from students finding their way to seasoned students of life, “Be yourself. Don’t be afraid to express yourself, put yourself out there and take a chance.” For more information, visit www.thewinstonschool. com or call 858-259-8155.
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St. James Gift Shop hosts 12th Artisans Market Aug. 11-12 La Jolla event has â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;branched outâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from Latin America, coordinator says BY LONNIE BURSTEIN HEWITT At any time of year, St. James Gift Shop offers an array of unexpected treasures from around the world. But this weekend is really the moment for heading their way. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for their annual Artisans Market, where you can find arts and crafts from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Africa â&#x20AC;&#x201D; jewelry, pottery, textiles and more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We run the Market to coincide with SummerFest, so we draw some of the crowd from the museum across the street,â&#x20AC;? said gift shop manager Karen Fast, who has been in charge of the event and the shop for the past dozen years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first, we mainly did the art of Latin America, but then we branched out,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a nonprofit, we operate as an outreach center, and we really want to help artists all over the world show and sell their work. We want them to do what they do best, and we want them to stretch themselves, so we encourage them to come up with new ideas every year.â&#x20AC;?
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RSF Senior Scene: Mark your calendars for the Senior Center’s special programs and classes BY TERRIE LITWIN, RSF SENIOR CENTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Understanding Your Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease Medications: Wednesday, Aug. 22, 10 a.m. Learn from a certified geriatric pharmacist about what you can do to manage your diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol medications. Understand how to assist a loved one who is having difficulty safely managing their medications at home. Bring your medications with you, and speak with a pharmacist about your specific medication-related questions! Reservations are not required. Summer Lecture Series with Richard Lederer – Reservations are not required! •Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2 p.m. – Confessions of a Word Lover •Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2 p.m. — An Afternoon of Language & Laughter •Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2 p.m. – Conan the Grammarian Classical Music Appreciation: Sept. 17 at 2 p.m.: Instructor Randy Malin leads a class featuring classical music composers and the music that has endured through the ages. Classical music fans and individuals who are less familiar but want to learn more, will find this class informative and entertaining. Balance & Fall Prevention Exercise Class: Monday mornings at 10:45 a.m.: Licensed physical therapist Jim Prussack provides practical and useful exercise techniques to improve balance, strengthen muscles, and help prevent falls. A $5 charge for each class is paid to the instructor. Oil Painting Class: Bring your favorite photos to life with oil paints – from portraits to landscapes! This class is appropriate for all artists, from beginner to advanced and is taught by local artist Lynne Zimet — Thurs-
day mornings from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Watercolor Class: RSF Art Guild member and local artist Pat Beck will show students how to create beautiful works of art using watercolor paints. This class is for both Terrie Litwin beginning and experienced artists. Next series begins Friday, Sept. 7, at 10 a.m. Rancho San Café – French Discussion Group: A wonderful opportunity for those with intermediate and advanced French language skills to enjoy a cup of coffee while conversing in French. Conversations are facilitated by Philippe Faurie. The discussion group meets the first and third Thursday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Free Blood Pressure Checks: This service provided by San Diego Medical Services, is offered the last Thursday of every month from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Walk-ins are welcome. Acting Class with Monty Silverstone: Next session to be announced! Resource & Referral Program: In addition to the above programs and classes, the Senior Center’s Resource and Referral service is available Monday through Friday. Seniors and family members needing information about senior services can meet with staff to address a wide variety of needs. For more information about any of the Senior Center’s programs, events and classes or to be added to the mailing list, please call (858) 756-3041. Additional special programs will be announced as they are scheduled.
Solana Beach company addresses growing need for in-home senior care BY CLAIRE HARLIN When Josh Allen was a kid, his single mom started her own in-home senior residential care facility, opening the doors of their San Marcos home to five patients. “It was like growing up with five grandmas,” said Allen, who has followed in his mother’s footsteps as he now leads a senior care company. He works with Solana Beach-based Senior Resource Group (SRG), which owns Del Mar senior community La Vida Del Mar in addition to 17 other similar facilities across the United States. But more recently, the company has been tapping into an area of care that there’s a growing need for — home care. Allen is the director of a new SRG venture called InTouch At Home. InTouch At Home provides such services as personal care, chores and errands, medication reminders, transportation, memory support and more.
“As the baby boomer population ages and gets in their late 70s and 80s, we know they are not all going to move into senior living communities. They will try to stay at home as long as they can,” he said. Since InTouch At Home started Justine Ortiz cares for an InTouch at last year, it has Home client. grown to operate senior care services is going in four cities — San Diego, to explode over the next 30 Los Angeles, Portland and years.” San Francisco — and the He said he loves having need continues to increase, the opportunity to provide he said. care for a generation that Having been in the in“has had profound impacts dustry his entire life, Allen, a on society,” he said. registered nurse, has had the “You saw the demand opportunity to watch the se- for baby food and diapers nior care industry evolve. when they were young, then “It’s gone from mom you saw the car industry exand pop to professionallyplode when they got older, managed companies,” he and now we are seeing a said. “To be perfectly honneed for healthcare.” est, I believe this is a really For more information, good career. Our population visit www.intouch-at-home. is aging and the demand for com or call (855) 448-8900.
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as Patronas hosted its annual Jewel Ball event Aug. 4 featuring the 2012 theme “Passeggiata! (evening stroll)” For the evening, the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club was transformed into Italian scenes right out of “Roman Holiday” or “La Dolce Vita.” This year’s major beneficiaries include Alpha Project for the Homeless, American Red Cross, Greater San Diego After-School All-Stars, La Jolla Historical Society, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego Hospice, Senior Community Centers, and the Zoological Society of San Diego. For more information, visit laspatronas.com. PHOTOS/CAROL SONSTEIN
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Coincidence and Paranoia BY RW “PETE” PETERSON Coincidence seems prevalent in the world of investigation. Sometimes investigators become paranoid, probably as a byproduct of the work. However, sometimes the watcher becomes the watched. Our firm has experienced instances where the subjects have hired their own investigators and it became spy vs. spy. It can cause you to become very familiar with your rearview mirrors. It can also be very comedic. We’ve had cases that turned out to involve the same people, same houses (years apart with different occupants), or addresses next door to each other years apart. Subjects of former cases wanting to retain us. One such coincidence was a case in which I had been contacted by a Denver oilman who was concerned about his estranged son who they believed was in Springfield, Mo. They hadn’t spoken for several years and he wanted to know if we could locate the son and determine what his situation was. We didn’t hear back from the client for two weeks. Several days later a woman called us in Denver wanting to know if we could check on her husband who came to Denver several times a month on business. She thought he might be having an affair, she said she would call us back. Approximately a week later we received a call back from the oil man and he
RW “Pete” Peterson gave us a retainer to go to Springfield to see if we could locate his son. They knew through a friend that he was somewhere in the area, perhaps living on a farm. I went to Springfield and located the son on the first day. That evening after dinner I went to a local country western night club. I was sitting at the bar and an attractive lady who was at a table with her friends walked by on her way to the restroom. We struck up a conversation and I joined them at the table. While dancing I told her my occupation and she said “that’s interesting because I talked to a Denver investigator a couple of weeks ago about possibly checking on my husband when he went to Denver on business.” I remembered that call and told her that it was me that she had talked to. I had been involved in some fairly heavy criminal cases that year, one involving organized crime, and this conversation and chance meeting seemed very
coincidental. What was the chance of the “oil man” sending me to Springfield and my encountering her in the night spot? (She had entered the place after me.) As she told me more about her now legally separated husband, I realized that I had seen him months prior at a restaurant in Idaho Springs (just outside Denver where I had a house) several times when he was up in the mountains with his Polynesian girlfriend. I had noticed him because of his Corvette — I also had a Corvette. We had eaten several tables apart and had exchanged compliments on our cars. This was becoming more “coincidental.” I had my office run background on the husband and found that he had been indicted on loan sharking and bookmaking. We also found that he had had business dealings with our “oil
man” client. The lady and I spent the evening together and in the morning she told me that her husband was scheduled to fly to Denver in the afternoon. When she told me the airline and flight I realized that it was the same flight that I was scheduled on. On the flight I wore a cap and sat in a vacant seat far away from him. I didn’t want him to recognize me from Colorado. I was still trying to digest the whole scenario. When I related this story to people they said things like “that’s not possibly a coincidence” or “the odds of that coming together that way are out in the ionosphere.” After further investigation my conclusion is that it was, in fact, a series of coincidences. RW “Pete” Peterson has operated his investigative firm for 30-plus years. He can be reached at 760-443-0575; www.RWPeterson.com.
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Former TPHS football coach Ed Burke seeks families to host members of Japanese football team Former Torrey Pines High School football coach Ed Burke is hosting the senior members of the Ritsumeikan Uji Panthers football team from Kyoto, Japan, and is looking for families that are interested in hosting a player. They will arrive the Friday evening, Aug. 17, and depart early Monday morning, Sept. 3. The team will be attending school and practicing at Torrey Pines during their stay, so most of the transportation needs will be similar to that of students attending Torrey Pines. They will be on campus from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m each school day. If interested, please contact Ed Burke by phone at (760) 331-7412 or through email at edandloretta@sbcglobal.net.
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To Your Health: Get your kids ready for school BY ARNOLD E. CUENCA, DO, SCRIPPS HEALTH For many kids across San Diego County, August means back to school. For parents, it means making sure kids have everything they need for a successful start to the school year. Use the health and safety “checklist” below to ensure your kids are ready to go. Immunizations: Check that your kids have the recommended (and often required) immunizations before the school year begins. Under the California School Immunization Law, children are required to receive certain immunizations in order to attend public and private elementary and secondary schools, child care centers and other educational programs. Immunizations required to attend kindergarten include polio, DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), measles-containing vaccine (e.g. MMR), Hepatitis B, and Varicella (chicken pox). Starting with the 201213 school year, all students entering into seventh grade will need proof of an adolescent pertussis (whooping cough) booster immunization (Tdap) in order to begin school. Pertussis is a very contagious respiratory disease that can be severe and last for months; although many children were vaccinated during early childhood, immunity wears off over time, leaving older students and adults susceptible. Ask your pediatrician or family physician which immunizations your child may need. Annual physical: It’s a good idea for all kids to have a yearly check-up with their physician to make sure they are in good health and receive vision
and hearing tests. This can also be an opportunity for physicians to talk to kids privately about any health issue or questions they may have—often, kids may not be comfortable discussing certain topics with their parents present. Avoid backpack overload: Kids today carry a lot of stuff. A backpack that is too heavy, poorly constructed or worn incorrectly can injure the muscles and joints, cause neck or back strain, and lead to fatigue. Choose a lightweight backpack with two wide, wellpadded shoulder straps, a padded back and a waist strap. Pull both straps tightly enough so that the pack fits snugly against the back but doesn’t pull on the shoulders. Distribute the weight of items within the pack evenly on both sides, and don’t overload it. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that backpacks not exceed 10 to 20 percent of the child’s weight. Get back on track: For many kids, summer break means staying up later and sleeping in. Do yourself and your kids a favor by gradually getting them back on their school schedules. Encourage them to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier for a week or so before the first day of class, and make time for a healthy breakfast, so that by the time school begins, they’ll be used to the change in schedule. Similarly, prepare kids to get back into the school routine after a carefree summer. Discuss when and where homework will be done, make afterschool care arrangements if necessary (including a back-up plan) and determine how kids will get to extracurricu-
lar activities such as sports. Getting everyone on the same page will make it easier to juggle busy schedules. Keep schedules realistic: Sports, clubs and other after-school activities are a great way to keep kids active and engaged, but too much can be unhealthy. “Over-scheduling” can lead to stress, fatigue and anxiety; over-training for sports can cause physical injuries such as stress fractures. Make sure your kids have enough “down time” to rest and unwind, and don’t pressure them to participate in activities they don’t enjoy. Make lunch healthy: If your child brings lunch to school, include fruit or veggies and a lean protein source such as chicken or turkey. Try to avoid processed foods or high-fat, high-calorie items. Substitute baked chips for fried and whole-grain bread for white. If the plan is to buy lunch, talk about how to make healthier choices. Provide important information: Make sure the school has current, accurate contact information for parents, emergency contacts, and your child’s physician. Let the school know of any medications your child takes both at home and at school, as well as any medical conditions such as diabetes, asthma, or allergies to bees, peanuts, latex, or anything else. Ensure the school knows what to do in case of an emergency. Talk it over. Take time every afternoon or evening to ask your child about his or her school day. Ask about lessons, what they learned that was new or interesting, favorite and least
favorite parts of the day, and so on. This is a good way to uncover possible problem areas and show your child that you care about how he or she is doing. Dr. Arnold Cuenca is a family medicine and sports medicine physician with Scripps Health. “To Your Health” is brought to you by the physicians and staff of Scripps Health. For more information or a physician referral, please call 1-800-SCRIPPS.
EVENTS discuss her book, “El Caballero del Titanic,” which documents the story of Manuel Uruchurtu Ramírez, the only Mexican passenger aboard the ill-fated ship. Tickets: $18-$27. (877) 946-7797. sdnhm.org Sounds of Summer Swing to the sounds of Benny Hollman’s Big Band Explosion when La Jolla Concerts by the Sea presents the music, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 at Scripps Park, La Jolla Cove. The free concert is underwritten by concession sales. (858) 454-1600. ljconcertsbythesea.org SummerFest Going Strong: La Jolla Music Society’s chamber music concert series is in full bloom with free-to-the-public rehearsals and encounters, evening concerts and preludes through Aug. 24 at Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect St. This week you can hear the Tokyo String Quartet, pianists John Novacek and Ken Noda, the New-
continued from page B8 bury Trio, and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, among many others. Tickets: $50 and $75. (858) 459-3728. View the schedule at ljms. org Ballet for Beginners San Diego Civic Youth Ballet (the resident classical ballet school of Balboa Park since 1945) will present its fourth annual “Fairy Tales in the Park” with performances at 1, 3 and 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. The program is a whimsical, interactive dance event for families to introduce them to the art of ballet through familiar stories. This year’s will be “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Beauty & the Beast,” narrated by a professional storyteller and interpreted by student dancers and guest artists. The event takes place in the Casa del Prado Theatre, 1800 Village Place, in Balboa Park. Doors open 30 minutes before each 45-minute show. Tickets: $10. (619) 233-3060. sdcyb.org
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There’s more than one way to make a s’more, señor! The Kitchen Shrink
BY CATHARINE KAUFMAN Aug. 10 has been designated “National S’mores Day” in honor of this quintessential campfire treat. Creative culinary minds have tweaked the iconic recipe to make it even more fun and scrumptious (if that’s possible), while health-conscious chefs have re-jiggered the ingredients to make it more guilt-free. No one has really laid a solid claim to the invention of s’mores, although the first recipe for this novel sandwich appeared in a 1927 handbook, “Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.” The basic ingredients and Simple Simon con-
cept provided a portable and non-perishable treat for camping trips and cookouts. The name’s origin, probably apocryphal, is the contraction of “some more,” supposedly the garbled verbiage from a child scarfing down a mouthful of the treat and asking for a second helping. S’mores consist of three solid components: marshmallows, honey Graham crackers and chocolate bars. The former, the oldest and gooiest has been around for 4,000 years when ancient Egyptians blended honey with root extracts of the marshmallow plant to create a sore throat elixir. Millenniums later, French gastronomes refined the recipe by blending egg white meringues and rose water into the gummy root juices to create a frothy paste. Today’s marshmallow is completely void of the mallow plant juices, swapping them out for gelatin and corn syrup giving the confection its familiar pillowy shape. The second component is the Graham cracker named after the pioneer health food guru, Sylvester Graham who
S’mores Stuffed French Toast Ingredients ■ 2 slices of bread (Challah, Brioche are best) ■ 4 honey Graham crackers, crushed ■ 2 squares good quality dark chocolate ■ 4 marshmallows, toasted ■ 1/8 cup almond or coconut milk or half and half cream ■ 2 large eggs ■ 1 teaspoon butter or canola oil ■ 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract ■ 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Dash of salt Method: In a large mixing bowl whisk together milk, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon and salt. Soak bread in the mixture for a minute created the crisp, high-fiber flat bread from non-sifted whole-wheat flour in the 1820s. The final ingredient to complete is the food of the gods: chocolate. Cocoa entrepreneur Milton Hershey honed the blissful milk chocolate bar at his Pennsylvania
or two, then coat with crushed Graham crumbs. In a skillet, on medium, melt butter or heat oil. Assemble the s’mores French toast by placing the toasted marshmallows on one slice, topping with chocolate, and then place the other piece of Graham-crusted bread on top. Pan fry on both sides until golden and gooey. factory. He mass-produced and distributed the iconic Hershey bar for all wallets to enjoy. For s’mores galore here’s a gustatory line-up for those who want a break from tradition: • Amore, s’more: Make an Italian version with a ha-
zelnut chocolate spread like Nutella. • Aloha with a Hawaiian flare of toasted coconut and candied pineapple chunks. • Go Mediterranean with a sprinkling of sea salt and cayenne pepper. • South-of-the-border s’mores use Mexican chocolate and a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg. • The Blondie is made with organic white chocolate. • The Elvis uses the King’s favorite sandwich fixin’s — peanut butter and bananas. • The Grasshopper features mint chocolate. • The Turtle adds caramel and toasted pecans to the middle. • Tutti Frutti adds your favorite fruit to the mix, like blueberries, strawberries, peach slices or dried apricots. • Sustainable S’mores are a health-conscious, organic version with made-fromscratch Graham crackers and marshmallows along with high-octane, full-of-antioxidants bittersweet chocolate. • Vegans can buy kosher marshmallows sans animal by-products (gelatin) or seek
out a soy-based mallow spread. • Adult-only S’mores employ Martini of Smirnoff Marshmallow or cinnamoninfused vanilla vodka, chocolate liqueur and bitters. Around town, you can sample these concoctions minus the bonfire: The Gaslamp’s Saltbox offers Chef Simon Dolinky’s “Campfire S’more,” which marries house-made marshmallows and Graham crackers with a smoked chocolate drizzle; Sprinkles La Jolla does a s’mores cupcake combining Graham cracker cake filled with bittersweet chocolate ganache and marshmallow frosting; pig out with Gaijin Noodle + Sake House’s kitschy Bacon S’mores, mixing crisky nueske bacon drizzled with Hershey’s chocolate, toasted marshmallows and house-made Grahams. The US Grant’s Chef Chris Kurth monkeys around with vanilla marshmallows, Graham cracker ice cream and brown sugar bananas, drizzled with warm fudge. — For homemade marshmallow or graham-cracker recipes, e-mail kitchenshrink@san. rr.com
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LEGAL NOTICES Legals TS# 2910010 TO# 6516740 / (DARIEN MCDONALD) APN: 303100-24-00 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED DECEMBER 28, 2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NOTICE OF TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GALT HOLDINGS, INC., a California corporation, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust dated DECEMBER 28, 2007, recorded on JANUARY 2, 2008 as instrument #2008-0001786 of the OfďŹ cial Records of the County of San Diego, State of California, executed by: ALB PROPERTIES, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, under the power or sale contained therein, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at the time of sale) ON AUGUST 28, 2012, 10:00 AM AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE EAST COUNTY REGIONAL CENTER BY STATUE, 250 E. MAIN STREET, EL CAJON, CA 92020, all rights, title and interest conveyed to and now held under said Deed of Trust in the subject real property situated in said County and State and as is more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. In addition to Cash (lawful money of the United States of America), the Trustee will accept cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state of federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank speciďŹ ed in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this State. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimates costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $3,632,131.25. Said sale will be made, in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS-IS, WHERE-ISâ&#x20AC;? condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, all advances thereunder, with interest as provided therein, and the unpaid principal of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The beneďŹ ciary may elect, in its discretion, to exercise its rights and remedies in any manner permitted under Section 9501 (4)(A) II of the California Commericial Code, or any other applicable section, as to
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all or some of the personal property, ďŹ xtures and other general tangibles and intangibles more particularly described in the Deed of Trust, Guarantees, UCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and/or Security Instruments. The street address(es) and other common designation(s), if any, of the subject real property described above is purported to be: APN 303-100-24-00, 14747 ROXBURY TERRACE, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067; the legal description of which is attached hereto as Exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? and incorporated herein by this reference. EXHIBIT â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN IS SITUATED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, (UNINCORPORATED AREA), COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL 1: LOT 24 OF COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO TRACT NO. 4865, IN THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ACCORDING TO MAP THEREOF NO. 13355, FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, AUGUST 29, 1996. PARCEL 2: AN EASEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY FOR INGRESS, EGRESS, DRAINAGE AND PUBLIC UTILITIES OVER, UNDER, ALONG AND ACROSS LOT 28 OF COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO TRACT NO. 4865, IN THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ACCORDING TO MAP THEREOF NO. 13355, FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, AUGUST 29, 1996. PARCEL 3: AN EASEMENT APPURTENANT TO LOT 24 OF MAP 13355 IN THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY AUGUST 29, 1996 AS FILE NO. 1996-440494 OVER LOT 23 OF SAID MAP 13355, FOR CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF A RETAINING WALL AND RIGHTS INCIDENT THERETO WHICH INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE RIGHT FOR FOOTINGS AND SUBTERRANEAN SYSTEMS FOR THE WALL AS SHOWN ON THE FOLLOWING LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THAT PORTION OF LOT 23 ACCORDING MAP THEREOF NO. 13355 FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 29, 1996 AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 23; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 23 NORTH 76° 05â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 05â&#x20AC;? EAST, 43.00 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY LINE NORTH 76° 05â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 05â&#x20AC;? EAST 67.00 FEET; THENCE LEAVING SAID SOUTHERLY LINE NORTH 13° 54â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 55â&#x20AC;? WEST, 10.00 FEET; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG A LINE PARALLEL WITH AND 10.00 FEET NORTHERLY OF SAID SOUTHERLY LINE SOUTH 76° 05â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 05â&#x20AC;? WEST, 67.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 13° 54â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 55â&#x20AC;? EAST, 10.00 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. The undersigned trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The BeneďŹ ciary under said Deed of Trust has heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. August 1, 2012 GALT HOLDINGS, INC. a California corporation by: Paul T. Johnson, Vice President Sales Information: (760) 431-8988 x 4 GALT HOLDINGS, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, IS ASSISTING THE BENEFICIARY
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Willis Allen Realtor Linda Sansone to appear on Bravoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles on Aug. 15 Willis Allen Real Estateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Linda Sansone will appear on Bravoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit television series Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles on Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 6 p.m. Sansone appears on the show to highlight a $6.5 million Rancho Santa Fe villa that she has co-listed with one of the stars of the show, Los Angeles Realtor Josh Flagg. The 9,300-square-foot Rancho Santa Fe Covenant estate is situated on 2.87 richly landscaped, gated and fenced acres. The Tuscan-inspired main villa features a spacious, flowing floor plan with a grand foyer, five bedroom suites, five bathrooms, two powder rooms, chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, walnut-paneled library, family room, game room with professional granite-flanked bar and climate-controlled wine cellar, state-ofthe art theatre, and four-car garage. The large backyard offers an outdoor living/dining room that seamlessly opens from the family room. The outdoor living space feaLinda Sansone tures a summer kitchen, pool with three grottos and a spa, and a one bedroom guest casita (music studio) with living room and full bath. Modern amenities and exclusive finishes throughout the home include: distressed wood floors,
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Encinitas Lifestyles Fashion Show is Aug. 25 The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association (DEMA) recently announced that its 5th Annual Encinitas Lifestyles Fashion Show will be held on Saturday, Aug. 25, at 5:30 p.m. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, showcasing the diverse and unique fashions of local retailers, will be held in the cavernous garage of Encinitas Foreign & Domestic Auto Repair (901 2nd Street , at H Street). The evening begins with an adults-only outdoor reception at 5:30 p.m., featuring wine, beer, appetizers from nearby restaurants, and live music. The party moves indoors at 7 p.m., where the runway models will be accompanied by the music of DJ Gabe Vega and video by Tregtronics. Tickets ($25 general admission, $40 VIP) are on sale at the DEMA office and at www.encinitas101.com. All proceeds benefit the DEMA High School Scholarship Fund.
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Scott Appleby Kerry Appleby Payne 858.775.2014 tscottappleby@gmail.com Paseo Aspada, Carlsbad, CA., 92009. #2. Sam Wells, 3660 SeaďŹ&#x201A;ower Lane, Oceanside, CA., 92056. This statement was ďŹ led with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on 07/06/2012. Phil Barron. RF253, Jul. 26, Aug. 2, 8, 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012-019501 Fictitious Business Name(s): Sandras Sculpture Studio
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Hedy Goldman 858.504.2334 Windermere Real Estate So Cal www.HedyGoldman.com Eng. LJ1167, Jul. 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012-019432 Fictitious Business Name(s): Susan Stone Kummer Located at: 1175 La Moree Rd., San Marcos, CA., 92078, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 1175 La Moree Rd. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The ďŹ rst day of
business: has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Susan Stone Kummer, 1175 La Moree Rd., San Marcos, CA., 92078. This statement was ďŹ led with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 07/19/2012. Susan Stone Kummer. RF252, Jul. 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16, 2012
6183 Villa Pavrone, Bonsall CA Offered at $1,650,000 6200 Sq ft elegant Tuscan estate. 5 ac grove nets $25,000 yearly. Gorgeous home has everything the discerning homeowner wants...and more... 5B, 4.5 ba, Viking Kitchen, Master Wing, Amazing Views & Ocean Breezes! Discover Bonsall! â&#x20AC;˘ Quaint Country Village â&#x20AC;˘ Award winning schools â&#x20AC;˘ Horse ranches, vineyards, & groves â&#x20AC;˘ Surrounded by golf courses â&#x20AC;˘ 12 miles to ocean Fictitious Business Name(s): Better Than Mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Located at: 535 Broadway #205, El Cajon, CA., 92021, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 13465 Camino Canada, Ste. 106, PMB 427, El Cajon, CA., 92021. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The ďŹ rst day of business: has not yet started. This business is
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K. Ann Brizolis leads U.S. market Recognizing her incredible sales achievements from 2011, K. Ann Brizolis was recently named to The Thousand for 2012, a prestigious list compiled by The Wall Street Journal and Real K. Ann Brizolis Trends, Inc. Brizolis and her team ranked at the 102 position for their sales out of the top 1,000 agents in the U.S. “Ann’s commitment to ethical business practices has made her one of the nation’s elite agents,” says Herb Josepher, manager of Prudential California Realty’s Rancho Santa Fe real estate offices. A broker associate, Brizolis is currently a director of Prudential’s Luxury Properties Division. Having specialized in the marketing and sale of Rancho Santa Fe estates and fine homes throughout her 23-year career, she is known for her understanding of the complex local market and ability to deliver opti-
mal results for her buyers and sellers. Well-connected and thorough, Brizolis attributes her success to her innovative approach to marketing and her ability to collaborate with colleagues on behalf of her clients. “My team and I have always been committed to provide our clients with a superior standard of service and support,” says Brizolis. “Everything that we do is centered on this simple philosophy.” To exemplify her dedication to serving her clients, Brizolis recently hosted an invitation-only home tour and networking event to showcase three distinctive estates she listed for sale in the Covenant of Rancho Santa Fe. With attendance by some of the luxury real estate industry’s biggest names, who traveled from Los Angeles and Orange counties, the event provided each property with a tremendous amount of exposure. “Our goal is to provide our sellers with the maximum possible return on their investments, within the shortest time frame possible,” Brizolis said, “so we do everything that we can to accomplish that objective.” K. Ann Brizolis and Associates may be reached at 858-756-6355, via email at ann@ kabrizolis.com, or on the web at www.kabrizolis.com.
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Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (858) 205-3077 Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (858) 945-4595 Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (858) 442-9940 Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm J. Lawless Christ/hosts: B. & J. Campbell-Coldwell Banker (858) 449-2027 5154 Linea Del Cielo Sat-Sun 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm K. Ann Brizolis/C. Horn Prudential CA Realty (858) 756-6355 6619 La Valle Plateada Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Bill Talbott, The Sterling Company (760) 285-5137 6550 Paseo Delicias Sat-Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Gallagher & Gallagher, Prudential CA Realty (858) 259-3100 15852 The River Trail Sat-Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm J. Greene/hosts: S. & P. Linde-Prudential CA Realty (760) 585-5824 18011 Avenida Alondra Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm K. Ann Brizolis/host: D. Henry-Prudential CA Realty (858) 756-6355
Solana Beach $1,499,000-$1,850,000 124 Via De La Valle #3 3BR/2.75BA Gail Squires, Real Living Lifestyles $2,095,000 5BR/5.5BA
Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (619) 972-1510
565 Canyon Drive Sat-Sun 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm J. Greene/host: D. Williams-Prudential CA Realty (760) 585-5824
· Gated French Country Estate in the Hills of The Muirlands · Ocean View · Separate Guest Residence · Lot size 1.33 acres · Master Retreat with Spa Bathroom and Private Atrium · Formal Garden This home is currently offered for sale ranging between $5,275,000 and $5,925,000 Jim Hennessy · 866-625-2197 · www.jimhennessy.com Patton Properties
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August 9, 2012
Rancho Santa Fe Review
What Buyers are looking for in a Home Today? I try to hold many vacant homes ‘open’ a month to get a sense of what buyers are looking for in today’s market. I have said before: “Buyers decide in the first 45 seconds if a home is right for them.” This may seem unfair when we are talking about homes well in excess of 6,000 square feet, but it still holds true. In this article, I would like to address how to sell your home faster because this usually means a higher profit. Homes that sit on the market too long go through many price drops. No one wants to spend money remodeling their home and then move out. When I list a home, I go in and come up with ways to update without initiating a remodeling project. I look at it from the buyer’s perspective. Today, the hot button is Tuscan style homes. Spanish Style homes have always been number one and unfortunately there are few available. Buyers complain that homes have the exterior architecture of Spanish or Italian and the interior is nothing more than a box with contemporary elements. How can we change this without a major remodel? This is where a good stage becomes crucial. Sofas should be in the right proportion with the rooms and not dominate the space. Add large accent pieces, not small ones. Colors should be neutralized even in the kid’s rooms no matter how charming they may be. You can also accent with splashes of color that direct the eye and the person to follow to the better features of your home. Your home is your investment. When marketing your home, it is important to take the ego out of the design and appeal to the most buyers.
Your Home At Its Best! Shelley Linde - A Realtor ® with an Interior Design background to help you prepare the stage and market your home.
Since we are talking about 45 seconds here, the curb appeal and the entrance to your home are vital. Keep your landscape clean and fresh looking around the entrance. I like to create large impressive pieces in the entrance using floral arrangements, vases, art or tapestries depending on the style I am trying to achieve. If a home’s interior lacks interest, staging can create more drama. Furniture should not run horizontally in a manner that blocks the flow to the window in a living room. The eye should have a clear path outside where some color should mimic an interior accent creating the illusion of more space. Simple updating can be achieved by replacing gold and brass with the bronze tones that are popular today. Increase lighting with fixtures or consider a skylight in an area such as a dark hall or a bathroom. Skylights that open are terrific visual ceiling extenders in the bathrooms. If you don’t have a loggia, you can create an outdoor room using different elements. Today’s buyer wants outdoor living spaces. In addition to outdoor spaces and architectural style, buyers are also looking for hardwood flooring and deeper wood colors. Please give me a call if you are thinking about selling your home or purchasing another. I will do my best to make sure the experience is a great one.
Shelley Linde 760.585.5824 linde.shelley09@gmail.com
www.LindeProperties.com
CA DRE #01114392