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Oceanographer Walter Munk lectures at Riford Center, A5
Meet two more Congressional candidates, A8
Farmers Insurance Open comes down to the wire, A18
Vol. 100 Issue 5 • February 2, 2012
La Jolla group still pushing for secession from San Diego By Pat Sherman hough La Jolla has its own mailing address, it is not, as some people who live here still believe, its own city. It is, as one group of La Jollans is well aware, part of the city of San Diego — and that group has long been irked by what they view as San Diego officials’ shoddy stewardship of their “Jewel by the Sea.” “Our sidewalks are appalling, our streets are appalling and our alleys are appalling — and it doesn’t have to be,” said Melinda Merryweather, a founding board member of Cindy Independent La Jolla, a group working to see La Jolla Greatrex, President secede from San Diego and Independent incorporate as its own city. “Cities are just becoming La Jolla too big,” Merryweather said. “I think if you have 22 children, somebody’s going to go to bed without dinner.” Merryweather and other Independent La Jolla members look toward neighboring independently governed cities, like Solana Beach and Del Mar, as examples of what La Jolla could be. They say the city of San Diego is not properly maintaining La Jolla’s beach facilities and has a disregard for its historic properties. “When I drive through Del Mar, which has only 4,000 residents, it’s immaculate — not a pothole, the trees are trimmed,”
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Saving ‘our’ post office
Task force meets to explore options
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See Secede, A13
■ Save the La Jolla Post Office rally with Councilwoman Sherri Lightner, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 at Wisteria Cottage, 780 Prospect St.
Representatives from various La Jolla institutions have come together to find ways of keeping the historic post office building on Wall Street from public sale. PHOTOS BY DAVE SCHWAB
n See the story on page A6 and related editorial on page A14
Construction at UCSD to yield four new structures in 2012 Women host special documentary for moms, daughters, B3
The new Southwest Fisheries Science Center will be located on the north side of La Jolla Shores Drive. courtesy
Bill Gaylord 3160 Camino Del Rio South Suite #217, San Diego CA 92108
Branch Manager NMLS# 680603 858.776.6830 bgaylord@gatewayfunding.com
By Pat Sherman Four major construction projects at the University of California, San Diego are slated for completion this year, in addition to a $2.1 million facelift of the La Jolla Playhouse grounds.
Sam Hansen
n Phase II of the Rady School of Management should be finished in April. The $47.2 million, 80,000 square-foot project was funded through $27.1 million in state funds and private gifts from Ernest Rady
Branch Manager NMLS# 632837 858.442.1232 shansen@gatewayfunding.com
and the Rady Family Foundation, Wells Fargo bank and other sources. The west campus building, designed by Ellerbe Becket of San Francisco and HMC
See UCSD, A7
Main Line: 858.259.8700 www.gaylordhansen.com
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