2-23-2012 Rancho Santa Fe Review

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Fairgrounds legal disputes may soon be settled

British General talks history

Agreements ‘monumental,’ fair board president says

BY JOE TASH Two contentious legal issues that have dogged the Del Mar Fairgrounds for years — one an allegation of Coastal Act violations by the state officials and the other a lawsuit filed by neighboring jurisdictions over plans for redeveloping the fairgrounds — may both be on the verge of settlement.

The proposed settlements were announced Wednesday night (Feb. 15)

by Adam Day, president of the board of directors of the 22nd District Agricultural Association, the entity that runs the state-owned fairgrounds.

According to Day, the board voted unanimously in closed session to approve two settlement agreements, one with the California Coastal Commission and the other with the cities of Del Mar and Solana Beach and the San Dieguito River Park Joint Powers Authority.

The 22nd DAA has agreed to spend about $5 million over the next five years on a series of environSee DISPUTES, page 22

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RSF Association taking stronger stance on late payments Membership privileges suspended, liens initiated

Above, Rev. Jack Baca greets guest speaker Gen. Graham Hollands at the Viewpoints event held Feb. 19 at the Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe. Hollands discussed D-Day and the Normandy invasion. Viewpoints is co-presented by The Village Church and the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation. See page 14 for more.

Left, Luc and Catherine Montgrain enjoyed the event. PHOTOS: JON CLARK

PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAID RSF, CA PERMIT 1980

BY KAREN BILLING The Rancho Santa Fe Association is being more aggressive about late assessment payments. At its Feb. 16 meeting, the Rancho Santa Fe Association Board of Directors suspended membership privileges for delinquent members and moved to place liens on properties when members are only one payment late rather than two. The stronger stance is a reflection of the number of people who are late on their assessment payments for

2011-12. As of last week, 39 property owners are delinquent on their first payment.

“It’s a larger number than experienced in the years past,” said Steve Comstock, chief financial officer.

“We’re still maintaining a nice approach but we’re being very firm.”

Comstock credits the accounting department staff with bringing that number down in the last month; three weeks ago, 114 members were delinquent.

Assessments for the first installment of 2011-12 were due on Nov. 1 and considered delinquent on Dec. 5, 2011.

Twelve of the 39 delinquent members are members See PAYMENTS, page 22

RSF resident spearheading statewide initiative John Cox seeking to remove special interest money from politics

BY JOE TASH John Cox moved to Rancho Santa Fe from his native Chicago last year for the golf, tennis and great weather. But he’s also trying to put his stamp on California politics.

Cox, 56, bought a home in the Rancho Valencia resort, and gets out on the court and the links as

much as possible. “It ain’t hard to figure out why I’m here,” said the attorney and CPA, who also controls a $150 million real estate portfolio and provides financial advice to wealthy clients.

When he’s not running his business, slamming tennis balls or swinging a golf club, he’s stumping for a

statewide initiative that would remake the California Legislature. According to Cox, his plan, which he calls the “Neighborhood Legislature Reform Act,” is based on New Hampshire’s 400-member state legislature, and would take special interest money out of California politics.

So far, Cox said he has

spent $100,000 of his own money on the effort, and is willing to spend another $200,000. The initiative has been filed with the California attorney general’s office and is qualified for signature gathering, the next stage in the process.

Cox’s plan would diSee INITIATIVE, page 22

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RSF Association briefs, Feb. 16 meeting; Parking enforcement, re-sealing project update and volunteers needed

BY KAREN BILLING Parking enforcement appears to free up spaces Increased parking enforcement by the CHP (California Highway Patrol) has begun in the village. While official statistics won’t be known for the a few weeks, anecdotally, Association staff say they have noticed that some of the vehicles that were frequently parked in violation of time limits have now moved to other non-timed street segments.

Staff members said they have also been out in the Village during some peak times and observed several open spots.

Road re-sealing project on target for spring Patching work has been completed on several roads scheduled for re-sealing in the Ranch. Re-sealing will be completed in April or May on the streets of Mimulus, Las Planideras, Los Morros, Rambla de las Flores and Via de Fortuna.

Covenant Administrator Ivan Holler said that while doing preliminary work on Lago Lindo the county discovered that a section of the road, from Avenida de Acacias to Via de la Cumbra, was too badly damaged to re-seal so it will be repaved entirely. The

work on Lago Lindo will be completed later than the April/May date given for the other five roads.

Holler said it was a bit of good news/ bad news that the road will take longer to fix, but the good news is that it will be fixed in the way it should be.

Volunteers needed for Road and Planning Committee The Association’s Road and Planning Committee is looking for volunteers. The Traffic Committee and Planning Committee merged in 2010 and due to the combination, all but one of the members’ terms ended on Dec. 31, 2011. Although a posting was made in October, there were an insufficient number of applications to re-establish the committee.

Covenant Administrator Ivan Holler said there are still important issues to review: the EIR for the roundabouts is scheduled to come out this year and a number of roads are due for radar recertification. The committee can also discuss parking issues.

If interested in applying for the committee, contact the RSF Association at (858) 756-1174.

Tom Chino resigns fairgrounds board seat

BY JOE TASH Citing his frustration with certain practices of the state agricultural district that oversees the Del Mar fairgrounds, and his inability to enact reforms, fair board member Tom Chino has resigned from his seat.

Chino announced his decision Tuesday, Feb. 14, in an email to fellow board members and district staff. The decision came a month after Chino’s fellow board members questioned at the district’s regular meeting whether his relationship with a local attorney constituted a conflict of interest.

In the email, Chino cited what he called improper payout of funds to employees — a buyback program for leave hours which was criticized in recent state audits of the fairgrounds — and “the distribution of thousands of dollars of free tickets, concert admissions, free meals and the like to board members and others without proper record keeping…”

Chino went on to write that his efforts to address issues raised by the audits, and to assure that board committee meetings and other meetings with state and federal officials be open to the public, did not win sup-

port by the board.

“The message was clear that this board is not interested in pursuing these issues that I feel must be addressed. Instead of addressing these serious issues some board members embarked on a personal attack on me and my personal attorney implying that I was leaking confidential closed session information about lawsuits in which the district is involved,” Chino wrote.

Chino denied at the board’s January meeting that he had ever discussed confidential district information with Dwight Worden, his personal attorney, and also denied the allegations in his resignation email.

Chino and four others were appointed to the fair board in August by Gov. Jerry Brown. His resignation leaves the ninemember panel with seven members.

The board members are unpaid and appointed by the governor. The terms of board president Adam Day and members Russ Penniman and Ruben Barrales are expired.

The board oversees the operation of the 22nd District Agricultural Association, which in turn runs the state-owned fairgrounds, including the Del Mar racetrack.

Beach & Country Guild New Member Brunch is March 7 The Beach & Country Guild, which is celebrating its 43rd anniversary this year, will hold its annual “New Member Brunch” at the Rancho Santa Fe home of Sue Hoffmeister on Wednesday, March 7, at 10 a.m.

Each year, the current Guild honors the outgoing board and invites a select group of new, hardworking and dedicated ladies to join their group in support of United Cerebral Palsy of San Diego.

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RSF’s Robin Parsky co-chairs USET Foundation’s record-setting fundraising benefit ‘An English Country Evening’ On Friday, Jan. 27, the United States Equestrian Team Foundation hosted a benefit event at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida. Rancho Santa Fe resident Robin Parsky, a USET Foundation board member, co-chaired the benefit along with Jane Forbes Clark and Bruce Duchossois.

With over 500 guests in attendance, “An English Country Evening” featured honorary chairs NBC Today show host Matt Lauer and his wife Annette. The evening included award presentations, an elegant dinRobin and Gerry Parsky. ner, and a lively auction, which raised over $1 million.

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In attendance were the owners, riders, trainers and supporters of the USET Foundation from all over the United States. The dinner was under an exquisite tent that resembled an English country garden, with colorful flowers in abundance and topiary trees, all designed by Reed Mcllvaine of Renny and Reed, NYC. The live auction really started to rock when Bruce Springsteen, who was in attendance with his wife and daughter Jessica, surprised the guests with a late addition of 20 VIP tickets to any of his concerts in the USA, signed Fender guitars, and a personal backstage tour. Two separate families purchased this special opMatt and Annette Lauer. portunity to be with “The Boss” at his concert. Other auction items included Olympic tickets, Kentucky Derby seats and a yacht trip to the Bahamas. Guests danced late into the night to the music of the “Soul Survivors.”

The benefit proved to be wonderfully successful for the USET Foundation with a record-setting $1.3 million raised thanks to the generosity of the guests and auction donors.

The funds will be used to help support United States Equestrian Team riders and horses as they prepare for and ultimately compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.

Robin Parsky, owner of Buena Vista Farms in Rancho Santa Fe, is currently in Wellington, Florida, for the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) with her international show jumping

horse BLUE ANGEL. Ridden by Lauren Hough, a former Olympian from California, BLUE ANGEL, is a 10-year-old English bred mare that will be competing in the U.S. Olympic Selection Trials in March.

In 2011, BLUE ANGEL won three major Grand Prix under Parsky’s ownership; in Dublin, Ireland, in Spruce Meadows, Canada, and in Caen, France. BLUE ANGEL is currently ranked in the top 10 of United States show jumping horses.

BLUE ANGEL with rider Lauren Hough.

Join bestselling author Lisa See for special luncheon event at the Del Mar Country Club Bestselling and internationally-acclaimed author Lisa See will be the guest speaker at the Del Mar Country Club on Tuesday, April 17, from noon-2 p.m.

The event will include lunch, champagne, author talk and a book signing.

See is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Shanghai Girls” and the recent “Dreams of Joy.” Cost is $55 per person, which includes the book “Dreams of Joy.” Reservations are required. Contact Kristy at kkielborn@delmarcountryclub.com; 858-759-5500, ext. 274, by Friday, April 13.

Check in is at 11:30 a.m. The Del Mar Country Club is located at 6001 Clubhouse Drive, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, 92067.

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Author/former Reagan White House staff member to speak at RSF Garden Club On Thursday, March 1, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., the RSF Garden Club will host an evening with local author Karna Small Bodman (see profile on page 8), titled “Turning White House Experience into Political Thrillers.”

Bodman served in the Reagan White House as Senior Director of the National Security Council. She was the highest-ranking woman on the White House staff. She was also on the air for 15 years as a TV news anchor and reporter. Now she is the bestselling author of political thrillers, Checkmate, Gambit, Final Finesse. She will tell stories about working in the White House and how she has woven many of them into the contemporary novels she is writing today.

The charge for this event will be $30 for Garden Club members and $45 for non-members. The price includes a signed copy of one of Karna’s thrillers.

To register for this event please visit the Garden Club website at rsfgardenclub.org.

Solana Santa Fe students earn Citizenship Award Solana Santa Fe students were recently given a Citizenship Award for “Always Being Respectful.” One child from each classroom was chosen to receive this honor.

(Above) Front Row: Grant Michelsen, Molly Sullivan, Isabella Balikian, Anthony Campos, Daniel White, Mae Lombardi, Oli Chine, Annika Nordstrom and Brandon Hoyman; Back Row: William Finlay, Max Pidgeon, Steven Chang, Paige Harris, Chloe Gubbay and Noe Cervantes. Not pictured: Kendra Banks, Noah Gaines and Ilana Goldklang. — Stacey Phillips

Rancho Valencia named #1 Tennis Resort in Southern California Tennis Magazine’s annual travel issue, highlighting the “Top 50 Tennis Resorts of 2012,” recently hit news stands and Rancho Valencia in Rancho Santa Fe was named the #1 Tennis Resort in Southern California.

Currently, Rancho Valencia is undergoing a $20 million, property-wide expansion and refresh that will be completed this summer, just in time for the Del Mar racing season.

Among the enhancements include resurfacing the 18 plexi-pave championship courts in a magnificent garden setting, along with refreshed amenities, furthering the resort’s position as one of the premiere luxury destinations in Southern California.

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RSF Garden Club to host Floral Arrangement Workshop 101 The Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club is offering a workshop in floral arranging for beginners on Wednesday, March 21, at 9:30 a.m. at the Garden Club, located at 17025 Avenida de Acacias, Rancho Santa Fe. “If you have ever wanted some guidance in how to do basic floral arranging this is the workshop for you,” says Laverne Schlosser, Garden Club board member. “The workshop is entitled Floral Arrangement Workshop 101 and will be taught by Elma Garcia, who is a Master Judge and awardwinning floral designer. So many community members have beautiful gardens, but when they want to bring some of their glorious florals inside they don’t know exactly how to make it work. Just like anything else, floral arranging requires the some basic techniques, the right tools and an under-

standing of the plants and flowers you are using. Add to that your own sense of style and creativity and you can be bringing your garden inside all year long.”

The cost of the workshop is $30 for Garden Club members and $45 for non-members. All materials will be provided. Just bring you own clippers. You will go home with a finished arrangement. Reservations are a must and space will be limited so that the workshop teacher will be able to give all of the participant’s individual attention.

To register, make your check payable to RSF Garden Club, and mail to PO Box 483, RSF, CA 92067. For more information, contact event chair Laverne Schlosser at 858756-4529 or laverneschlosser@yahoo.com.

Or click the Upcoming Events section on the Garden Club website at rsfgardenclub.org.

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Research Report: Old theory pinpoints new targets to breast cancer

BY LYNNE FRIEDMANN Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biolog- Lynne Friedmann ical Studies have studied organ development in mice to unravel how breast cancers develop in humans. What they found were striking similarities between genetic signatures found in certain types of human breast cancer and those of stem cells in breast tissue in mouse embryos.

These findings suggest that cancer cells subvert key genetic programs that guide immature cells to build organs during normal growth.

Stem cells in a healthy developing embryo have a “GPS system” to alert them about their position in an organ. The Salk finding points to a GPS system that is broken during cancer development. This may explain why stem-like cells are detected in breast cancers.

Next step is to characterize the stem-like cells in certain forms of breast cancer to arrest their growth.

The findings appear in

the journal Cell Stem Cell. http://bit.ly/AygIjG Engineers build “nowaste” laser Researchers from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering announce two noteworthy achievements in laser technology: the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date and a highly efficient, “thresholdless” laser that funnels all its photons into “lasing” (the operation phase when laser light is produced) without any waste.

The two new lasers require very low power to operate, an important technological feat since lasers usually require greater and greater “pump power” to begin lasing as they shrink to nano sizes. Furthermore, the nanolaser designs appear to be scalable, meaning that they could be shrunk to even smaller sizes – an important feature that makes it possible to harvest laser light from even smaller nanoscale structures. The small size and extremely low power of these nanolasers could make them useful components for future optical circuits packed on tiny computer chips.

The work is reported in the journal Nature. News release at http://bit.ly/w5NdTf

Heart hormone helps shape fat metabolism In addition to exercise, a study at Sanford-Burnham suggests that the heart plays a role in breaking down body fat. According to the research, hormones released by the heart stimulate fatcell metabolism by turning on a molecular mechanism similar to what’s activated when the body is exposed to cold and burns fat to generate heat.

The metabolic effects caused by these heart hormones (so-called cardiac natriuretic peptides) depend largely on the ratio of two different kinds of receptor s— message-receiving proteins — on the surface of fat cells.

In addition to providing a better understanding of the breakdown of fats, more information about how this system works could also give hope to patients suffering from cardiac cachexia, a severe body wasting that can occur in chronic heart failure. High levels of natriuretic peptides are characteristic of heart failure and are used as diagnostic markers of the severity of the disease.

The findings appear in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. http://bit.ly/ A7cjMQ. — Lynne Friedmann is a science writer.

Scripps Research alumnus wins International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge FROM LOCAL REPORTS A powerful 3D animation tool created

by Graham Johnson at The Scripps Research Institute has been selected as the winning video in the ninth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.

The competition, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, is designed to celebrate and encourage the visual communication of science for education and journalistic purposes.

This year, 212 entries were received from 33 countries, representing every continent except Antarctica. For the first time this year, the public participated in the voting process, selecting their favorite images as People’s Choice winners.

Johnson’s entry — the result of a collaboration with Andrew Noske of the National Center for Microscopy & Imaging Research and Bradley Marsh of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland — was selected as a first-place winner in the video category by both the judges and through People’s Choice.

To create the winning entry, Johnson, Noske, and Marsh worked to create a prototype of Marsh’s long-term goal of visually simplifying the complex 3D data sets collected in his lab through an imaging technique known as tomography.

Their winning video, “Rapid Visual Inventory & Comparison of Complex 3D Structures,” illustrates the tool that enables scientists to compare and contrast multiple

parameters of complicated structures, like those found in whole-cell tomograms, at a glance. The video shows how the tool can morph beta cells into simplified geometric versions to enable the visual comparison of the organelle volumes of a single cell and how it can compare relationships between four beta cells collected by Noske, Marsh, and colleagues under different physiological conditions.

“Scientists and general audiences alike can learn a great deal about biology by comparing the internal structural differences between cells harvested from different environments, say from different parts of your body or different lifecycle stages,” said Johnson, an alumnus of the Scripps Research Institute’s Kellogg School of Science and Technology and a newly appointed QB3@University of California San Francisco Faculty Fellow.

“Morphing the cell from the complicated native model to the simplified version and back gets general audiences excited about the subject matter and reminds even expert audiences of the complex interplay of randomness and specific interaction that enables life to exist.”

Johnson, Noske, and Marsh’s video and other winning entries appear in the Feb. 3 issue of Science www.sciencemag.org as well as on the NSF website www.nsf.gov. It can also be viewed on YouTube a http://www. youtube.com/ grahamj21?v=Dl1ufW3cj4g&lr=1

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CCA Raven Wishes Night celebrates Envision The award-winning Canyon Crest Academy Envision program will be featured at the upcoming Raven Wishes Night on Tuesday, March 6, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the Del Mar Hilton (Jimmy Durante Blvd and Via de la Valle).

The CCA Foundation invites all parents and CCA supporters to meet with teachers and administrators, learn about the programs and their needs, and make a donation to the Canyon Crest Academy Foundation for needed items. Any size donation small or large is appreciated. Admission is free. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and parking will be provided.

Raven Wishes Boards will be on display featuring items that are needed in the Envision day classes and Conservatories. The Envision Raven Wishes Night will feature all of the CCA Envision departments which include all classes that come under Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Theater, Dance, Digital/Fine Art, and Cinema.

The extensive Envision program includes classes in Performing Arts, Acting,

CCA Envision Director Anne Whattoff rehearsing at the piano with choir students.

Drama, Musical Theater, Stagehand Technician, Symphonic Band, Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Recording Arts, Digital Composition, Rock Band, Choir, Dance, Jazz Modern Dance, Ballet, Dance Choreography, Drawing & Design, Painting, Sculpture, Art for New Media, Seminar in Art, AP Art History, AP Studio Art, Imaging, Digital Photography, Photo Imaging, Digital Media Production, Video Film, Advanced Video Film, and Conservatory.

For those unable to attend the event, online or mail-in donations are welcome. To make a donation or to view the Raven Wish lists in advance, please visit www.canyoncrestfoundation.org.

RSF’s Jason Rojeck makes the Dean’s List at Gonzaga University RSF resident Jason Rojeck has earned placement on the Gonzaga University Dean’s List for fall semester 2011. Students must earn a 3.5 to 3.69 grade-point average to be list-

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Gonzaga University is a humanistic, private Catholic University providing a Jesuit education to more than 7,500 students. Situated along the Spokane River near downtown Spokane, Wash., Gonzaga is routinely recognized among the West’s best comprehensive regional universities. Gonzaga offers 75 fields of study, 25 master’s degrees, a doctorate in leadership studies, and a Juris Doctor degree through its School of Law.

(Left to right) Robi Bhattacharjee, TPHS senior; Daniel Teng, TPHS senior; Robert Burklund, CCA sophomore; Henry Maltby, CCA senior; Anson Kahng, TPHS senior; Alex Kahng, TPHS sophomore; Brandon Zeng, CCA sophomore; Sarah Hermann, LJHS junior.

TPHS, CCA and LJHS combine forces to win Stanford Math Tournament A team of local advanced math students recently traveled to Menlo Park for the annual Stanford Math Tournament, a prestigious international competition of over 500 high school mathematics scholars held on Feb. 18 at Stanford University.

Canyon Crest Academy senior Henry Malty and Canyon Crest sophomore Robert Burklund competed in the Algebra and Calculus categories; Torrey Pines High School senior Anson Kahng and Canyon Crest Academy sophomore Brandon Zeng competed in the Algebra and Geometry categories; Torrey Pines High School sophomore Alex Kahng and La Jolla High School junior Sarah Hermann competed in the Advanced Topics and Algebra categories; Torrey Pines

High School senior Robi Bhattacharjee competed in the Advanced Topics and Geometry categories; and Torrey Pines High School senior Daniel Teng competed in the Geometry and Calculus categories. Following individual subject test competitions, the TPHS-CCA-LJHS students participated in both the Team Test and the Power Round competitions.

Beating out teams from China, the East Coast, and all over Northern California, the joint TPHS-CCA-LJHS team placed first in overall competition with a score of 1,500. Second place in the overall category went to the Bergen County Academies team, a magnet school in the New Jersey-New York metro area, with 1,441 points, while the third place score of 1,385 points went

to Lynbrook High School, a Santa Clara, Calif., high school with an API of 938.

In the individual rounds of competition, the first place General Winner was Brandon Zeng, a sophomore from Canyon Crest Academy. Henry Maltby, a senior from Canyon Crest Academy, won first place in the Calculus category.

Rounding out the team’s collective wins was Torrey Pines High School senior Robi Bhattacharjee’s tie-breaker third place win in the Geometry category.

Although final college selections haven’t yet been made by the seniors on the cooperative team, they’ve been accepted to universities such as MIT, CalTech, and Harvard.

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Local woman makes life a little better for kids with cancer

BY CLAIRE HARLIN editor@delmartimes.net For critically ill children, it’s hard enough being hospitalized. The changing numbers and constant drip of the bedside IV monitor can only add more stress to a traumatic experience.

“These objects are cloth and thread, but they mean more than that. They are a symbol of someone else’s love, time and effort — and that’s magic.”

STEVE BARBOSA HEAD COUNSELOR, CAMP REACH FOR THE STARS

Audrey Eller crafts these IV pole covers to make hospitalization easier on kids living with cancer.

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That’s why Audrey Eller, a longtime member of the Del Mar-Solana Beach Optimist Club, came up with something to make things a little easier for kids. A little thread, two straps and some bright, cheery fabric, she found, would do the trick in making an IV pole cover that’s enjoyable to look at.

She calls the endeavor Covers With Love, and she’s given well over 100 cloth covers to Rady Children’s Hospital.

In addition to the pole covers, Eller has designed a fleece blanket that fits per-

fectly over a child’s lap when sitting in a wheelchair.

“They can take it with them when they go to therapy and there is a pocket on top that can hold a book or a journal,” she said.

Eller has made about 50 of the blankets for kids at Rady, many of which will be used in Rady’s “Camp Reach for the Sky,” which is geared specifically for kids with cancer. At the camp, headed

by Steve Barbosa, each child will be given a blanket with a flashlight inside the pocket.

Audrey Eller displays a blanket she made as part of her Covers With Love effort. She’s given more than 50 similar blankets to Rady Children’s Hospital. PHOTO: CLAIRE HARLIN Barbosa gave a moving presentation of thanks to attendees of the Feb. 15 Del Mar-Solana Beach Optimist Club meeting. He said kids are often easier to treat than adults because they have faith and still believe in magic.

“When patients are loved that helps with the healing process,” said Barbosa, who has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and said he studied the magic different cultures have embraced in objects, such as

crucifixes.

He asked Eller how long it takes to construct one blanket, and she replied, “about an hour and a half.”

“That time and energy doesn’t just float away,” he said. “Fundamentally, these objects are cloth and thread, but they mean more than that. They are a symbol of someone else’s love, time and effort — and that’s magic.”

Eller’s idea to make the pole covers sprung from her own traumatic hospitalization experience.

“I remember the drip, drip, drip and it was terrible,” she said.

Rady spokeswoman Dawn Ivy said Eller has also helped make more than 300 baby caps and booties for hospital patients.

“The kids who receive these gifts in the hospital really cherish them,” she said.

“When we see patients 10 years later, they still have them.”

For more information or to drop off cover donations, visit www.coverswithlove.com; 760-510-9535; email: audrey@coverswithlove.com

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Carl J. Rossi Jr., M.D. Renowned radiation specialist named medical director of Scripps Proton Therapy Center

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BY ARTHUR LIGHTBOURN Dr. Carl J. Rossi, Jr. is a wiry running enthusiast who clocks 30 to 40 miles a week, a private pilot who has logged 4,000 flying hours, and a radiation oncologist who has treated 9,000 prostate cancer patients with “state-of-the-art” proton radiation over the past 20 years, more than any other physician in the world.

Rossi, 49, is also the newly-recruited medical director of the $220 million Scripps Proton Therapy Center being built in Mira Mesa and scheduled to open in spring 2013.

When completed and fully-staffed, the 102,000-square-foot facility, the second such hospitalbased facility in California, will be able to treat up to

2,400 patients annually.

The construction is on schedule; the building is almost 90 percent complete, and the giant cyclotron and other equipment have been installed.

“What’s going to take the next year is finishing up the construction and “commissioning the machine, turning it on, making sure it works as designed and begin doing a lot of physical measurements in the treatment rooms so we know what radiation dose is being delivered under certain circumstances,” Rossi said.

Rossi’s job at the moment is to brief insurers on the treatments that will be available, and talking to local physicians and radiation oncologists to find ways they can be involved with the center, and starting to

Quick Facts Name: Carl J. Rossi, Jr., M.D. Distinction: Dr. Carl Rossi, who has treated more than 9,000 prostate cancer patients with proton radiation — more than any other physician in the world — is the newly-appointed medical director of the $220 million Scripps Proton Therapy Center being built in Mira Mesa and scheduled to open in spring 2013.

Born: Anaheim.

Education: B.A. in biology, Claremont McKenna College, 1984; M.D., Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine, 1988; internship and radiation oncology residency, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 1988-1992.

Military service: Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, 1990-95; Lt. Cmdr., Medical Corps, U.S. Navy Reserve, 1995-2007.

Marital status: Single.

Interests: Running, cycling, flying, physics, travel and literature.

Physical regimen: Runs 30 to 40 miles a week and cycles.

Recent reading: “The Hills Beyond,” a collection of short stories by Thomas Wolfe.

Favorite getaway: Montaña de Oro State Park, near Morro Bay. Favorite film: “Breaker Morant,” a 1980 award-winning Australian film about the court marshal of three Aussi soldiers accused of murdering prisoners during the Second Boer War in 1901.

Philosophy: As one of his favorite authors, Jack London, said: “I would rather be ashes than dust….The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

recruit oncologists that will staff the center.

Prior to joining Scripps, Rossi, for 20 years, served as chief of genito-urinary and lymphoma radiation oncology services at Loma Linda University Medical Center and director of the first and currently the only hospitalbased proton therapy center in California.

Currently, there are nine proton therapy patient treatment centers in the U.S. and only 37 worldwide.

The high cost of the cyclotron, the powerhouse behind proton technology, and its sophisticated supportive equipment, has restricted wider use of proton therapy throughout the world since it was first conceived for use as a cancer fighting therapy in 1946 and first used to treat patients in 1954.

The Scripps proton treatment center is being developed by Advanced Particle Therapy (APT), LLC, of San Diego. APT has arranged the financing to build and equip the center. APT will also manage the building and maintain the equipment.

Scripps Clinic Medical Group (SCMG) is overseeing the medical services at the facility and Scripps Health will provide its clinical management services.

Proton therapy is considered one of the most advanced methods of treating cancer tumors because of its ability to accurately accelerate a beam of high dosage radiation, in the form of protons, positively charged atomic particles, to the DNA of cancer cells, ultimately causing their death or interfering with their ability to proliferate, while sparing more of the surrounding healthy tissue than does traditional X-ray radiation therapy.

Cancerous cells are particularly vulnerable to attacks on their DNA because of their high rate of dividing and their reduced abilities to repair DNA damage.

We interviewed Dr. Rossi in his office at the Scripps Annex building on Campus Point Drive in La Jolla.

A major advantage of using protons, Rossi said, is its beam goes into a patient’s body in a low dosage, peaks and delivers a high dosage deposit on its target and

Dr. Carl J. Rossi Jr. Photo/Jon Clark Children’s Hospital have already announced plans to make the center available to treat Rady’s pediatric cancer patients.

Proton therapy is generally preferable to conventional X-ray radiation for child cancer patients whose growing organs are highly sensitive to radiation.

In contrast, Rossi said, the accuracy of proton beams with fewer side effects are ideal for pediatric patients and have been successfully used with children for more than 20 years.

Rossi was born in Anaheim, Calif., and was raised in the city of Orange. His dad was a chemistry professor for 20 years at what is now Chapman University.

His mom was an elementary school teacher of English.

He has one older sister.

“My dad — before he became a college professor — worked in the aerospace industry — and got frustrated with the boom and bust cycle of the industry.”

So, he encouraged his son to enter a profession in which he would have more control over his destiny.

Rossi eventually chose medicine, selecting a special-

stops; whereas traditional Xray beams go in one side of the patient’s body, attack cancerous tissues, and continue on through healthy tissue until they exit out the other side.

Construction of the Scripps proton center began in October 2010. Installation of its 90-ton cyclotron, the driving force of the facility, began last October. The cyclotron will accelerate protons to speeds of 100,000 miles per second before the proton beam is channeled to a patient’s treatment room.

Being built on seven acres at 9577 Summers Ridge in Mira Mesa, the center will include five treatment rooms, 16 patient exam rooms and offices for 14 physicians.

The center is being built as a community resource to bring together patients, physicians and researchers from various providers in the fight against cancer, said Scripps Health President and CEO Chris Van Gorder.

Patients will be able to access the treatment through a referral to a specialist credentialed by the center.

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ty — radiation oncology — in which he would be working directly with patients but would also have control over his time to pursue other interests.

At Claremont McKenna College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, Calif., he majored in biology and ran cross-country track, but also thoroughly enjoyed his liberal arts, non-scientific studies — particularly, he recalls, a course in 19th century English literature and a course in the history of Rome.

He earned his medical degree from Loyola University’s Strich School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill., in 1988, followed by his internship and residency in radiation oncology at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, Calif.

During his residency, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a lieutenant in the medical corps for five years and subsequently as a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve for an additional 12 years.

Loma Linda opened its proton therapy treatment center in 1990.

Rossi, while a resident, was involved in the proton therapy treatment of the facility’s first prostate cancer patient in 1991.

As director of the facility from 1993 until he joined Scripps recently, he went on to treat, he estimates, more than 9,000 prostate cancer patients.

“It was really being in the right place at the right time,” he said. “At Loma Linda, we would average several hundred prostate cancer patients a year. It’s a common cancer and I would treat the majority of them.”

In total, Loma Linda treated more than 250 types of cancers in addition to benign non-cancerous tumors with proton radiology.

The freedom from reoccurrence of prostate cancer after 10 years in patients with early-detected, low-risk cancer treated with noninvasive proton therapy was over 90 percent at Loma Linda, Rossi said.

The best part of his work of his work as a radiation oncologist, he said, are his patients who have been able to resume normal, active lives as cancer survivors.

“That’s pretty cool,” he said.

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The Nativity School’s ‘Noche de Fuego – Fire and Ice’ will illuminate the night on May 12 Get ready to party at this year’s Nativity School Gala in Rancho Santa Fe! Every year The Nativity School hosts an exciting, themed gala for parents, parishioners and everyone who wants to have fun while giving back. This year’s gala “Noche de Fuego – Fire and Ice” will be held Saturday, May 12, at the school’s Holy Family Activity Center. The funds raised by the event go to support programs and specialty projects that impact the whole school and how it affects student learning.

This year marks the 16th Gala event for The Nativity School. Although it’s a labor of love to plan and execute a fabulous party each year, it is the highlight of the school’s fundraising activities. This year’s Event Chair, Karla Ishino Banning, has envisioned an upscale, VIP cocktail party with lounge seating and ethereal red and white décor. The party’s “Noche de Fuego” theme hints at the Mexican cultural undertones provided by the food and entertainment. Banning’s commitment to detail and Mexican ancestry lends itself to making this a truly memorable and entertaining event not to be missed. Guests will be treated to dinner, drinks, dancing, a silent and LIVE auction.

Advance tickets are $100 per guest and are available at the school or through the website. For additional information or if interested in sponsoring the event, please call (858) 756-6763 or visit www.thenativityschool.org.

Spring/Home Garden Show returns to DM Fairgrounds March 2-4 Now in its 27th year, the Spring Home/ Garden Show returns to Del Mar Fairgrounds for a three-day extravaganza of inspiring displays and home-product sales booths, real gardens, hands-on demonstrations, educational seminars, and face-to-face consultations with top experts—all with the convenience of one-stop shopping for everything pertaining to home and garden, inside and outside.

Produced by Westward Expos, the event takes place March 2-4.

The show focuses on San Diego-area experts, services, products, and businesses. Visitors find everything they need to save time

and money improving, refreshing, or remodeling their home and outdoor surroundings—from the latest in appliances to garden lighting, from fencing to security systems, from baths to sunrooms.

Show hours are: Friday, March 2, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, March 3, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Sunday, March 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Admission: $8; children under 12 are free.

Seniors: only $1 on Friday. After 3 p.m. daily, all tickets $6. Discount tickets on the show’s website are $6.00. For more information, visit: www.springhomegardenshow. com or www.delmarfairgrounds.com.

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RSF residents among those to be honored at Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary’s 47th Annual Women of Dedication Luncheon The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary will present the 47th Annual Women of Dedication Luncheon. “Philanthropy by the Sea” will be held on March 28 at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina - Grand Ballroom, 1380 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego, CA 92101. Sue Kalish and Maryl Weightman, are co-chairing the 47th annual event, which will honor the 15 women chosen by the Auxiliary who best exemplify the selfless volunteers who donate their time or resources to help others in need. The 2012 honorees are Joye Blount, Lucy Kable Means Borsenberger, Deirdre Carlson, Rebecca Charles, Sharon Culver Considine, Terry Cooper, Becki Etess, Susan Kazmarek-Biddick, Gladys Kohn, Elizabeth Ravenis, Jan Reital, Julie Howell Sarno, Jane Scher, Rita Solberg and Muffy Walker.

“Philanthropy by the Sea,” will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a reception, silent auction and boutiques. Lunch, mini-live auction and the presentation will follow at noon.

Pat Brown, 10 News weather anchor, will emcee the event. Auctioneer is Steve Hamann.

Music will be provided by Bryan Verhoye. Entertainment by Chris Allen, pianist, and the San Diego Master Choral who will sing personalized songs for each honoree.

Registration is $95 per person and all proceeds will benefit the Door of Hope Restoration Project. The Salvation Army is pleased and grateful to announce its $1 million challenge matching gift for new facilities at the Transitional Living Center Door of Hope from the Joan T. Waitt Family Fund.

Donations to this important transitional living program for homeless mothers and children will be matched dollar for dollar. This project will double the capacity of families helped as the need is so great.

To register or for more information, contact Pamela Lennen at 619-446-0273 or pamela.lennen@usw.salvationarmy.org.

Village Church Community Theater presents ‘A Little Piece of Heaven’ “A Little Piece of Heaven,” a comedy drama at the Village Church Community Theater, 6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, will be presented on Friday, March 9, 16, and Saturday, March 10, 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 11 & 18 at 2 p.m. The play takes place in a curiosity shop called “A Little Piece of Heaven” where people find things they have lost and the impact on their lives.

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Horizon Prep 1st Grader Jack Carroll, is ready to take on the day while fueling up at the Horizon Prep Dads Pancake Breakfast.

How about a little pancake with your whipped cream? Nigel Paxton starts the day happy for Brooklyn Briscoe at the Horizon Prep Dads Pancake Breakfast.

(Clockwise from top left) Second grade students at Solana Santa Fe sang during the Patriotic Performance; Solana Santa Fe’s music teacher Mrs. Royster; Andrew Siffert; Sarah Waldman.

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Solana Santa Fe second grade Patriotic Performance Second grade students at Solana Santa Fe put on a Patriotic Performance for parents, after learning about their culture and heritage in class. During the performance,

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Luke Mitchum breaks all the breakfast rules with Mom, Carolyn, looking on with laughter.

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Horizon Prep Dad Jason Elliott, gets a hand from daughter, Hannah, as they serve up sunshine in a cup at the Horizon Prep Dads Pancake Breakfast.

Horizon Prep Dads Pancake Breakfast Ask any kid and most of them will tell you, breakfast is more fun when Dad’s in charge! That was certainly the case for the Horizon Prep Dads Pancake Breakfast. Everyone enjoyed pancakes hot off the griddle, fresh strawberries, orange juice and Pancake House bacon. It was hard to tell who was having more fun: the students chowing down, or the Dads serving with style!

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BY KATHY DAY Tucked away in a neighborhood of San Diego that many North County residents likely have never visited sits a small school that’s having a big impact on students from some of the city’s less fortunate neighborhoods.

Despite the distance, Nativity Prep Academy has more than 250 people from Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Solana Beach and Carmel Valley who support the middle school on 55th Street either with their time or money. Some pitch in from a distance by sponsoring a student’s tuition or an activity; others tutor or mentor, while others organize fundraisers.

Jamie Carr of Rancho Santa Fe is one of those.

She’s been involved for six years and last year became a board member. Solana Beach resident Julie Bishop, their volunteer coordinator, is another.

Then there’s La Jollan Mike Daniels, the school’s president and longtime board member, who has gone all in.

A founder of the Monarch School, which serves San Diego’s homeless youth, he said as that program grew he wanted to put his talents to work in another start-up situation that was results-oriented.

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When he learned about the school, which serves low-income families in Southeast San Diego, he knew where to focus that passion. Now he’s on campus about two-

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and-a-half days a week and boasts shamelessly about how well the program is working – two classes of its graduates are now in college.

The school enrolls sixth-, seventh- and eighthgrade students who show potential for success. But they don’t just enroll them – they cover their full tuition and transportation needs and provide tutors and mentors.

On top of that, they continue the financial commitment to the students into high school, Daniels said. That means paying for them to attend prestigious private high schools, such as Grauer, Bishop’s, Francis Parker and Cathedral Catholic, or support them at charter high schools like High-Tech High.

In 2010, Nativity Prep moved from a commercial building on Market Street to Holy Cross Catholic Church, which had closed

its own school. With classes limited to 20 and only 180 students, the setting is oldschool in more ways than one.

Students greet visitors with a handshake and a smile as they introduce themselves. Teachers are smiling, even as active students tend to raise the volume a bit while they study together.

And there’s a strong ethic aimed at “spiritual, moral, and emotional development of students as well as academic, physical, and social needs,” as outlined by the Nativity/Miquel Network of schools, of which the San Diego campus is one of more than 60.

Those values are instilled through being on campus 10 hours a day, 10 months a year – and attending a required summer program that includes a week at a YMCA camp. They also have P.E. classes, sports teams, art and music, field trips, and computer and science labs.

Many of the teachers have been there for seven or eight years, including principal Brendan Sullivan who started in the school’s second year.

Bishop, the tutoring coordinator who taught for years in area Catholic schools, said she got interested in Nativity Prep after hearing founder David Rivera speak at her church. But it wasn’t until she “kind of retired and her kids were moving along” that she

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he Village Church and Rancho Santa Fe Foundation featured British Gen. Graham Hollands at their Viewpoints event Feb. 19 at the church Fellowship Center. Hollands, said to provide “a soldier’s insight and an unmatched knowledge of history,” gave a lecture on D-Day and the Normandy invasion. Hollands lectures regularly on the Queen Mary 2 and has appeared on the Discovery Channel and the BBC as an expert commentator on D-Day and the Battles for Normandy. The goal of the lecture series is to inform, inspire and impact by providing a forum in which individuals, renown in their field, share their knowledge, wisdom and experience with members of the Rancho Santa Fe community. www.villageviewpoints.com PHOTOS: JON CLARK

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Torrey Pines boys soccer teams enjoy winning seasons The 2011-2012 season has been a huge success for the Torrey Pines boys soccer program. All three levels have experienced winning seasons while playing very attractive soccer.

The freshman team has outscored all of their opponents every game and maintained one of the best defensive records in the county. There was a stretch of 9 games where they never even conceded a goal. After winning the Poway invitational they blasted through the Palomar League comfortably handling all of their opponents.

The Junior Varsity team had an equally impressive season finishing with a 24-1-1 record. Having won the Santana tournament they fought a tough contest in the final of the Poway invitational losing on PK’s. The Palomar league gave them a platform to go undefeated and show a style of soccer that any soccer fan would love to watch.

The Varsity team has had an outstanding season winning both the Santana tournament and the Southern Cal Invitational tournaments. They started 2012 with a very difficult schedule to help them prepare for the weekly battles of the Palomar league. They clinched the Palomar League Title with a win against Ramona on Feb. 16.

“I am very happy with the level of commitment and excellence from all of the players at each level. The players and coaches have done an excellent job of playing the game the right way while still having success. It can be a fine line between sacrificing your style for results and I feel we never had to and that is a good place to be,” said Head Coach Andy Hargreaves.

Please come out and support Torrey Pines this Friday, Feb. 24, at home, for their first CIF game.

TPHS Varsity Team: Front Row: Etai Sherabi, Rui Adachi, Alex Mejia, Tristan Bodmer, Ramsey Sutton, Chandler Bleakley, JT Esquibel, Parker Klein, Austin Freel, Jason Burton, Mikey Reed, Sam Horton, Jeremy Dinkin, Jake Heilbrunn; Back Row: Dean Meltz, Ryan McKee, Patrick Davis, Eddie Bazua, Colin Brown, Scott LaBeau, Johnny Chorbajian, Max Grust, Brett Sampiere, Garrett Heine, Parker Radford, Justin Liu, Chris Smith Scott Skinner, Lucas Dousette, Coach Andy Hargreaves

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BY GIDEON RUBIN Boys basketball: Canyon Crest Academy extended its winning streak to seven games as the Ravens reeled off two more decisive wins to close out the regular season with a share of its second consecutive Valley League title.

The Ravens defeated San Dieguito Academy 78-48 on Feb. 16. The victory followed a 74-35 win against Orange Glen the previous day.

Akira Tachiwana scored 21 points and J.P. Chenevey added 13 points to lead the Ravens in the SDA game. Dylan Osetkowski contributed 10 points.

Tachiwana scored 19 points to lead the Ravens in the Orange Glen game. Justin Rapoport added 11 points and Scott Patterson contributed nine points.

The Ravens improved to 9-1 in league and 14-12 overall for the season, sharing the title with Valley Center. ***** After experiencing consecutive losses for the first time this season, Cathedral Catholic bounced back with a decisive 57-54 victory over La Jolla in a regular season finale for both teams on Feb. 16.

The victory followed a 72-68 loss to Lincoln on Feb. 10 and a 63-58 setback at the hands of Mission Bay on Feb. 7. The Dons had won 12 consecutive games and 23 of their first 24 games before the two-game skid.

Xavier Williams scored 14 points and had eight rebounds to lead the Dons, and Brendan Reh contributed nine points and 12 boards.

The Dons improved to 10-2 in league and 24-3 overall for the season. ***** Torrey Pines extended its winning streak to six games with a decisive 79-52 Palomar League victory over Ramona in a regular season finale for both teams on Feb. 17.

The victory followed a 69-63 league win against Rancho Bernardo three days earlier.

Joe Rahon scored 29 points and Garrett Galvin added 24 points to lead the Falcons in the Rancho Bernardo game.

The Falcons improved to 8-2 in league and 18-10 overall for the season. ***** San Diego Jewish Academy had its three game winning streak snapped in heartbreaking fashion, as the Lions lost narrowly to Tri-City Christian, 41-40 in a Pacific League finale for both teams on Feb. 16.

Jacob Katz scored 23 points and had 12 rebounds for the Lions, who were playing for a share of the league title.

Adam Sloane had 10 rebounds and Rick Saxe contributed five steals.

The loss followed a 66-46 league victory over Pacific Ridge the previous day in which Ryan Marchetti and Ilan Graubart each scored 16 points to lead the Lions and Katz added 14 points.

The Lions fell to 12-10 overall for the season. ***** Santa Fe Christian defeated Bishop’s 5752 in a Coastal League game Feb. 15 for their fourth win in five games.

But that victory was followed by a 4946 loss to Francis Parker two days later in a league finale for both teams.

Grant Corsi scored 19 points to lead the Eagles in the Bishop’s game. Justin Byrd added 16 points and Cole Needham contributed 11 points.

Byrd led the Eagles with 17 points in the Parker game and Byrd added 12 points.

The Eagles fell to 4-6 in league and 1610 overall for the season.

Girls basketball: Santa Fe Christian put the finishing touches on a perfect Coastal League North campaign with two more decisive victories.

The Eagles defeated Escondido Charter 80-34 in a regular season finale for both teams on Feb. 17. They defeated Calvin Christian 76-20 two days earlier.

Erin Moody scored 19 points and Megan Franke added 17 points to lead the Eagles in the Escondido Charter game.

Lindsey Almquist and Maile Burtech each added 13 points.

Bekah Askew contributed eight rebounds and Erin Moody had eight steals and four assists.

Franke and Burtech each scored 18 points to lead the Eagles in the Calvin Christian game and Moody added 12 points.

The Eagles improved to 10-0 in league and 14-10 overall for the season. ***** Canyon Crest Academy defeated San Dieguito Academy 49-38 in a Valley League game on Feb. 16 as the Ravens won for the sixth time in seven games.

The victory followed a 52-38 league win against Orange Glen the previous day.

Stephanie Bieler scored 16 points to lead the Ravens in the SDA game and Julia Brew added 11 points and nine rebounds.

Bieler scored 14 points to lead the Ra-

TPHS JV Varsity Team: Front Row: Brian Graybill, Jake Heilbrunn, Erik Mejia, Hunter Willoughby, Brandon Liu, Aaron Levis, Charlie Duckett, Alex Baracchini, Patrick Koeneke, Jordan Katz, Jack Dempsey, Tyler Valdes, Luke Sampiere, Jonah Besquin; Left Row: Coach Danny Berthiaume, Connor Hargreaves, Claudio Ghetti, John Roussos, Elliot Patrick, Tyler Laird, Brian Ko, Austin Nicholson, Erik McKee, Uri Bialostozky, Thomas Mackey, Brandon Bettig, Louie DeFrancesco, Eli Bessudo, Tyler Elwell

TPHS Freshman Team: Top row, left-right: Coach Adam Meltz; Kale Thompson; Eren Esner; Noah Levinson; Brandon Wright; Alec Turner; Mathew Moldenhauer; Blake McAtee; Mathew Botsford; Mathew Coughlin; Robin Elihu; Michael Poulos; Bottom row, left-right: Cameroon Brantz; Ben Engfelt; Arvon Oskoui; Bailey Buckley; Cole LaPolla; Brandon Hong; Jagger Havlik; Ryan Friedman; Liam Kelly; Simon Ilko; Allen Katz vens in the Orange Glen game and Brew added 11 points and eight boards. Kathryn Brandos contributed 10 points.

The Ravens improved to 7-3 in league and 15-11 overall for the season. ***** Torrey Pines rebounded from a three-game skid with two wins to close out the regular season.

The Falcons defeated Rancho Bernardo 66-42 in a Palomar League game on Feb. 14, and then beat Ramona 50-42 three days later.

Alex Helfrich scored 23 points and Mia Gallo scored 22 points to lead the Falcons in the Rancho Bernardo game. Sarah Lawrence added 11 points.

Lawrence and Helfrich each scored 13 points to lead the Falcons in the Ramona game.

The Falcons improved to 4-6 in league and 13-14 overall for the season.

Boys soccer: Torrey Pines defeated Ramona 3-1 in a Palomar League game on Feb. 16.

Parker Klein scored one goal and also had an assist. Falcons goalie Dean Meltz had seven saves.

The Falcons improved to 7-2-1 in league and 18-5-3 overall for the season.

Girls soccer: Cathedral Catholic defeated Coronado 1-0 in a Western League finale for both teams on Feb. 14.

Betsy Muirhead scored the game’s only goal off an assist from Tamara Gomez.

Lizzie Stabile had two saves, combining with Hanna Macaulay for the shutout.

The Dons improved to 5-1-2 in league and 14-6-5 overall for the season.

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Kids Korps Super Star Gala 2012 — A Night at the Royal Ascot Kids Korps USA will bring a taste of British sporting heritage and tradition this year to San Diego through the annual Super Star Gala, “A Night at the Royal Ascot” scheduled for Saturday, April 28, at the Del Mar Country Club. A fundraising event inspired by the elegance, mystique, sporting competition and style of the Royal Ascot.

All proceeds will go directly to help fund Kids Korps USA, a nonprofit organization that engages youth ages 5-25 and their families in hands on volunteer service, addressing the needs of more than 350 organizations in our community. The organization strives to instill in America’s youth the spirit of giving while providing valuable education in leadership and responsibility — developing leaders for life through youth volunteerism.

Upon arriving, guests will receive a royal “equine welcome” which will set the stage for the evening. Guests can peruse the silent auction tables and ‘place their bets’ while they partake in additional pleasures of recorded horse races, shown on large screens. Once the auction tables are closed, guests will then transition to the elegant dining area. Culinary sensations are what this event is known for and guests will delight as they dine on delicious menus, champagnes and wines.

During dinner, guests will have the opportunity to raise their paddle for Kids Korps’ key signature programs as well as a number of exciting live auction items. The evening will end with dancing to the eclectic music of Barry Minnifield, one of Los Angeles’ top bands.

Every year, Kids Korps USA is pleased to honor those who exemplify our values of community service through our National Leadership Award. This year’s Super Star Gala Leadership awardees include the Rancho Santa Fe School, the Bobileff family, the Lichtenberger family, and the Scafidi family.

Tickets for “A Night at the Royal Ascot” range between $350, $500 and $1000 each with a 10 percent discount available for those who purchase before March 15. Ticket and sponsor seating will be determined by level and date of purchase. Guests can purchase tickets online at www.kidskorps.

tance of kindness and patience in their own character development. Kids Korps has developed several new partnerships within City Heights where we host monthly student-driven service projects (such as the University Care Center), to ensure students are able to directly impact their own neighborhoods and address issues close to home. The organization will be rolling out several more youth empowerment opportunities over the next several months through a new program entitled “Hugs 4 Kids” which focuses on self leadership, character development and heath & wellness (www.

Hugs4Kids.info).

Continuing the kindness and character development theme for February, Kids Korps USA has challenged its members to complete one act of kindness everyday through the end of February. Each good deed is added as a link to our Kids Korps Kindness Chain, with a goal to have 500 links by the month’s end! We are getting close to hitting that goal, and will be posting updates on our website. Email your good deeds to info@kidskorps.org to have them included on the Kindness Chain, and help Kids Korps spread the love through a “chain reaction” of good deeds throughout the month!

P.S. Combine your good deeds through service to others—check out the Kids Korps project calendar for hundreds of volunteer projects throughout San Diego County: http:// www.kidskorps.org/member-center/project-calendar/

Kids Korps Urban Outreach program participants help their senior buddies show off their handmade Valentine’s crafts following a fun afternoon of visiting the University Care Center. org or by calling McFarlane Promotions at 619-233-5008 or kidskorps@mcfarlanepromotions.com.

Kids Korps Kindness Chain Students from the Kids Korps’ Urban Outreach Program have been busy spreading kindness to seniors in local nursing homes during this February “Month of Love!” Young volunteers have paired up with their new friends to create lovely Valentine’s crafts, while learning about the impor-

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‘Legends of Golf’ — Honoring Chuck Courtney, pro emeritus of Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club The members of RSF Golf Club hosted a “ROAST” for Chuck Courtney at the RSF Golf Club on Saturday, Feb. 11, celebrating Courtney’s professional golf career, his 21 years as RSF’s head pro and eight years as pro emeritus. The festive party, “Legends of Golf,” also celebrated “Chuck’s Team,” who are still working in key positions at RSFGC: Scott Johnson, head pro, Terry Collins, assistant pro, and Sandy Bertram, golf shop merchandiser. “Roasters” were John Schroeder and Allan Skuba. Schroeder was on the PGA tour with Courtney; also former head pro at The Farms and once a part owner of Cobra Golf.

Skuba is former mayor of Escondido and has served as membership chair at The Farms and, currently, Big Horn Golf Club.

In addition to the Roast, there will be Chuck Courtney Signature Clubs put on permanent display in the Players Clubhouse,

ermilk on guitar and Rhythm Express. Cocktail hour music was provided by the La Jolla H.S. Jazz quartet, from Courtney’s alma mater. (More photos of this event were published in the Feb. 16 issue of the RSF Review. To see the photos online, visit www.rsfreview.com — click on “Life” section and scroll down).

San Diego Koi Club’s 25th Annual Koi Show at DM Fairgrounds Feb. 25-26

Jack McRoskey, Chuck Courtney, Chef Larry Abrams.

Photo/Jon Clark

plus a bronze plaque at the entry to the short game area as prideful recognition of Courtney’s success and the club’s history, all costs supported by members.

A surprise announcement was made that there also is being established a Chuck Courtney/RSF Golf Club scholarship fund. Bob Baker contributed the seed money with challenges for matching funds. More details will be released in the spring during ceremonies unveiling Courtney’s Plaque.

Rhythm Express entertained during the dinner hour.

The evening was topped off with a performance by Grammy Award winner, Paul Overtreet, accompanied by Mike Loud-

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The event will feature more than 40 vendors: Koi pond design, Koi sales (babies to big), pumps, solar equipment, filtration, patio & landscape, Koi art, Koi shirts, and more. See the Naruwan Taiko Drummers perform at 9:30 a.m. Sat. The San Diego Koi Club maintains the Koi pond at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park. Members keep back yard Koi ponds all over San Diego County. Plenty of advice for starting your own pond. Fun for the whole family.

For times and more information, visit www.delmarfairgrounds.com or www.koiclubsandiego.org.

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TPHS celebrates student athletes

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orrey Pines High School celebrated student athletes at a “college signing� luncheon Feb. 16. Students who attended the inaugural Next Level Falcon Award Lunch have signed a letter of intent to compete in their sport in college.

PHOTOS: JON CLARK

Barbara Lee, Taylor Lee (UC Berkeley softball), Theresa Filicia, Lauren Filicia (Fairfield University softball), Lauren Hynes (Boston University softball)

Gary Thornton, assistant principal for athletics, presents a Next Level Falcon Award to Lauren Hynes.

Principal Brett Killeen, Assistant Principal for Athletics Gary Thornton, Athletic Director Chas Doerrer

Erica Cohen (UC Davis field hockey), Hannah Bettencourt (Pacific field hockey), Molly Bettencourt (Pacific field hockey)

Mitch Friedman, Jackie Friedman (Dartmouth soccer), Diane Friedman

The luncheon

Candy Brolson, Bill Rennie, Brennan Dean

Jim Boyd, JP Boyd (USD tennis), Julia Johnson

Jacob Johnson (UC Santa Barbara tennis), Julia Johnson

Reed Mason (Northwestern baseball), Arjun Kumar (Washington University cross country/ track and field), Luc Rennie (Ball State baseball), Michael Mullen (Purdue baseball)

Joe Cohen, Ricki Bettencourt, Alan Bettencourt

Nicole Sherwin (Northern Arizona soccer), Nicole Skaggs (Naval Academy swimming)

Hunter Rittgers (USC soccer), Jackie Friedman (Dartmouth soccer)

Principal Brett Killeen tries on his high school athletic jacket.

Gary Thornton presents a Next Level Falcon Award to Taylor Lee

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De Anza Essay Contest Awards Hearts and homes extended to rescued hoarder animals winners announced in RSF On Saturday, Feb. 4, De Anza Chapter DAR held its annual American History Essay Contest Awards Ceremony and Colonial Tea at The Nativity Church in Rancho Santa Fe. The chapter selected the chapter winners from the first place classroom winners. The following students won at the chapter level: 1st Place: Olivia Mott, St. James Academy; 2nd Place: Kathleen Boyle, Saint John the Evangelist School; 3rd Place: Claire Burke, Saint John the Evangelist School; Honorable Mention: Kristin Sondys, Nativity School and Honorable Mention: Michael Hall, Saint John the Evangelist School. Certificates of Award were given to each chapter winner. De Anza also gave Olivia Mott a bronze medal and a check for $100. 74th District Assemblyman Martin Garrick’s Field Representative, Michael Hedland, presented Olivia a framed Certificate of Recognition from the California Assembly and a lucite paperweight with the official California seal and Rep. Garrick’s name imbedded. Rep. Garrick also sent a CD by David Barton titled, “Faith, Character and the Constitution.”

The title for the essays was “Young America Takes a Stand: The War of 1812.”

Five eighth grade classrooms from four schools participated. In addition to a certificate, each winner was handed a ribbon-tied scroll containing the story of the battle in Boston Harbor between Captain James Lawrence’s USS Chesapeake, and the HMS Shannon, which was blockading the harbor.

Captain Lawrence’s historical dying words to his crew were, “Don’t Give up the Ship,” which became the motto for the War of 1812. Commander Oliver Perry used that motto on his battle flag at the Battle at Lake Erie. Students received small flags with the motto. Non-winners received certificates of participation.

The following students won at the classroom level: The Nativity School, Mrs. Dixon, teacher: 1st, Kristin Sondys; 2nd, Amanda Ashline; 3rd, Erin Berg; Honorable Mention (HM) Julia Lamp and HM Sarah Scherer.

Saint John the Evangelist School, Mrs. Janae Smith, teacher: 1st, Kathleen Boyle; 2nd, Michael Hall; 3rd, Preston Stebel; HM, Kerry Kuhnert and HM, Abby Schlehuber. Saint John the Evangelist School, Mrs. Amy Sohaey, teacher: 1st, Claire Burke; 2nd, Michael Ingel; 3rd, Patricia Rivero; HM, Avery Spicker and HM, Ryan Michaels. St. James Academy, Mrs. Beswick, teacher: 1st, Olivia Mott; 2nd, Amanda Wright; 3rd, Alyssa Carroll; HM, Tessa York and HM, Catlin Ryder.

The Rhodes School, Mrs. P. J. Stanley, teacher: 1st, Gunner Oury; 2nd, Riley Austin No-

De Anza Chapter winner Olivia Mott, an 8th grade student at St. James Academy, looks at the framed Certificate of Recognition from 74th District Assemblyman Martin Garrick. lan; 3rd, Reilly Madison Tiglio; HM, Thomas Mikaelis Arrizza and HM, Adela Tiffany Koenig.

The awards ceremony and tea was the culmination of eight months of preparation by the committee chaired by Joanne Dudek, Kathleen Loftman and Martha Gresham.

They organized the announcing of the contest to the schools, gathered the essays, assigned judges, arranged for donations of homemade cookies; obtained the San Diego Sons of the American Revolution for the honor guard; planned the tea and printed the award certificates and the event program.

De Anza members live in Cardiff, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Leucadia, Rancho Santa Fe, Solana Beach and other nearby areas. Located in Encinitas, the De Anza Chapter was founded in 1934 and is named for Juan Bautista de Anza, an early explorer of California.

A woman 18 years or older is eligible for membership who can prove direct lineage from a patriot who gave service during the American Revolution. De Anza’s active lineage committee helps prospective members with their applications. For more information, call Bettybob Williams 858-344-6233 or visit http://www.deanzadar.org.

Work at Home Business Expo coming to DM Fairgrounds The Work at Home Business (WaHB) Expo is returning to San Diego for the second straight year, featuring a wider range of business model opportunities and offering participants expert advice on the ins and outs of starting and running their own home-based business. Attendants of this year’s expo will have the chance to meet with dozens of home-based business exhibitors and hear from some of the region’s best business minds.

The WaHB Expo will be held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Saturday, March 3, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, March 4, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Purchase your tickets online in advance to receive a discount price of $8. Tickets will also be available at the door for $10, or a two-day pass for $15. Active duty military with ID and children under 12 receive free admission.

For more information, visit www.wahbexpo.com, or contact show producer Derek Romo at Derek@wahbexpo.com.

Helen Woodward Animal Center has seen its fair share of unique rescue stories.

Each day new animals arrive at the Center with distinctly different tales of abandonment, salvation, tragedy or triumph. It is a very rare day, however, when over 35 animals arrive at once…and even rarer still when all are rescued from one home.

“The house had no electricity and no running water,” explained an independent animal welfare worker who was alerted of the tragic circumstance occurring in the Los Angeles area. “The woman was hoarding these animals but had no way to care for them.” The rescues, including 29 puppies, two dogs, three cats and four kittens, were nearing starvation, unvaccinated and had never been neutered or spayed. “The woman was very sad to see them go,” continued the worker who transported the rescues to Helen Woodward Animal Center for care, “but ultimately she knew that she was doing them more harm than good.”

Extraordinary circumstances are one thing, but perhaps the most amazing piece of the story lays in the heartwarming actions of multiple individuals who came forward with open hearts and homes. The rescue animals who traveled by van in over 15 carriers had a happy ending to their road trip. By the time they arrived, Denise Clark, foster coordinator at Helen Woodward Animal Center, had already found foster homes for each and every one. “Our fosters are incredible,” stated Clark. “We couldn’t do the work we do without them.”

Due to age requirements necessary to spay or neuter rescue animals, it will take some time to place this group in their forever homes. For this reason, the foster families

More than 35 animals recently arrived at the Helen Woodward Animal Center at once. of Helen Woodward Animal Center are a crucial part of providing warm, loving, safe environments for these animals as they to begin their lives again. “It must be getting close to Valentine’s Day,” stated Clark.

“There’s just so much love in this building.”

With 80 percent of Helen Woodward Animal Center’s adoptable animals (including pregnant females and newborn puppies and kittens) arriving from overcrowded facilities unable to provide the care that these animals require, foster families are an absolute necessity The foster time period generally ranges from two-four weeks. Helen Woodward Animal Center provides its foster families with all the supplies necessary, including food, bowls, toys, crate, etc. as well as training to care for new foster animals. The adoptions department has a full-time veterinarian and medical staff and any medical needs, checkups or health issues are taken care of through Helen Woodward Animal Center. Contact Helen Woodward Animal Center Adoption Department at: 858-7564117 ext. 313, visit www.animalcenter.org or stop by at 6461 El Apajo Road in RSF.

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Event chairman Dave Roberts reviews guidelines for the student speech contest with student speakers Aisiri Murulidhar, a ninth-grader at Torrey Pines; Elijah Granet, an 11th-grader at Canyon Crest; and Robert Roberts, an 11th-grader at Torrey Pines.

Earl Warren Spelling Bee winners

Del Sol Lions host student speakers

Students at Earl Warren Middle School recently displayed their considerable skills at the school’s Spelling Bee. The annual San Diego County Bee will be held on Wednesday, March 21, from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Hall of Champions at Balboa Park.

The Earl Warren Spelling Bee winners in the photo above are: Jessica Schwabach (3rd place), Tasia Mochernak (3rd place), Colby Hester (1st place), Daniel Magnuson (2nd place), Dani Levie (3rd place).

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he Del Sol Lions took part in the 75th annual Student Speakers Contest sponsored by the California Lions of Multiple District 4. The event was held Feb. 11 at Fletcher Cove Community Center. Student speakers had 10 minutes to discuss “What Could the America of Yesterday Teach the America of Tomorrow?” PHOTOS: JON CLARK

Community invited to lunch featuring Qualcomm Founder Dr. Irwin Jacobs David Cain, timer; Dave Roberts, event chairman; Mary Jane Boyd, judge; Alex Oliver, timer; June Olson, timer; Nicole Mione-Green, judge; Judy Strang, judge; Kathleen Behrens

San Diego Self Storage sponsors Bocce Ball fundraiser in Del Mar San Diego Self Storage (SDSS), the organizational entity of Smart Self Storage of Solana Beach, announced recently that it is the “Major Sponsor ”of the 16th annual Del Mar Solana Beach Sunrise Rotary Turf Bocce Ball Family Day and Tournament, to be held at the Del

Mar Horse Park on March 4.

This event will benefit three beneficiaries: Voices for Children, Just in Time and Community Resource Center. In addition to the local beneficiaries, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to international projects, such as eradicating polio,

providing clean water, and assisting with the education of children in many parts of the world.

For more information, visit www.dmsbBocce.com; please call (858) 909-0090 or visit www.SanDiegoSelfStorage.com.

Coastal Community Foundation invites community members to lunch with Dr. Irwin Jacobs. He is co-founder of Qualcomm in 1985 and has served as CEO, chairman and a member of the Board of Directors. Jacobs led the successful development of CDMA technology, which is used in cellular phones by over 1.2 billion subscribers. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ernst & Young Lifetime Achievement Award and the Marconi Society Fellowship and Prize, 2011.

Jacobs will kick off the Foundation’s 25th anniversary year celebration as the guest speaker at a lunch on Feb. 29 at the Lomas Santa Fe Country Club in Solana Beach. He will speak about “Qualcomm – Memories from the Early Days, Today and Thoughts on the Future.” Check in begins at 11:30 a.m. and the lunch and presentation will be noon to 2 p.m.

Ticket cost is $65 per person.

Proceeds from the event will support the Foundation’s nonprofit technical assistance program, training workshops and grantmaking that benefits community projects, education, and a wide variety of services and community programs in philanthropy.

For more information, contact Sharon Omahen at (760) 942-9245 or by email Sharon@ coastalfoundation.org. Register online at www.coastalfoundation.org or mail a check to Coastal Community Foundation PO Box 230415, Encinitas, 92023.

Text4baby birthday event highlights infant health North Coast Symphony presents ‘Distinctly Dvorak’ The Text4baby San Diego Coalition is hosting a birthday party to celebrate the second anniversary of the national Text4baby program, including a health fair and baby clothing/accessory swap meet, on Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Thornton Hospital Pavilion on the UCSD Medical Campus, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend free of charge (UCSD parking fee of $4) and bring gently used baby items to exchange or donate.

Text4baby is a free mobile health (mHealth) information service that provides pregnant women and new moms with information via text message on their health and their baby’s health and connects them with health resources. Expectant and new parents can enroll in the free text service by simply texting “Baby” (English) or “Bebe” (Spanish) to 511411. The program is free regardless of the mobile phone provider or plan.

For additional information on the Text4baby project, visit, www.sdcmsf.org or call (858) 300-2777.

Golf Digest Hot List Tour 2012 coming to Carlsbad Golf Center Come out for one of just seven national stops on the “Hot List Tour 2012,” a golf demo days and custom clubfitting event. This free event is an opportunity for golfers of all ages and skill levels to range test all the latest equipment from 15-plus of golf’s leading manufacturers, as well as participate in free contests, get free instructional tips, and enter to win prizes.

Additionally, fourth-time host Carlsbad Golf Center will feature a huge pro shop and sidewalk sale, a club trade-in booth, and 10-20 percent discounts on most of the featured equipment brands. Sign-ups for free clubfitting appointments recommended.

The free event will be held March 10 and 11, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., each day.

Carlsbad Golf Center is located at 2711 Haymar Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92010. Map/directions or more information: 760-720-GOLF (4653) or www.carlsbadgolfcenter.com.

The North Coast Symphony, under the direction of Daniel Swem, presents “Distinctly Dvorak” on Sunday, March 11, at 2:30 p.m. and Tuesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Seacoast Community Church, 1050 Regal Road, Encinitas.

Enjoy the well-loved “Symphony No. 4 in G Major,” “The American Suite,” and “Humoresque.”

The suggested donation is: general $10, students/seniors $8, family $25 maximum.

More information is available from the church office, 760-753-3003, or from the orchestra website www.northcoastsymphony.com.

Fred Hall Outdoor Show coming to DM Fairgrounds March 22-25 The Fred Hall Show, the ultimate outdoor experience will host over 500 exhibitors March 22-25 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The event will feature the hottest trends in boating, fishing, camping, hunting, water sports and international travel.

Attractions and interactive activities include: the Kid’s Fish Free Trout Pond, the high flying dock dogs, fly casting, air gun, archery and stand up paddle board lessons. This fourday event is second largest boat show in California and the premier event for outdoor enthusiasts.

For more information, visit www.fredhall.com or www.delmarfairgrounds.com

31 TPHS students named National Merit Scholarship finalists Torrey Pines High School’s 31 National Merit Scholarship finalists included: Benjamin Y. Bai; Robi C. Bhattacharjee; Priyanka K. Bisarya; Benjamin P. Bulow; Tyler J. Chi; Rebecca R. Du; Noah Daniel Friedman; Margaret G. Guo; Kelly Xin Huang; Anna Grace Irwin; Kyle B. Joyner; Anson Han Kahng; Alyssa SooJung Kim; Elissia Kim; Jesse Yang Li; Joanne Li; Andrew Y Liao; Connie K. Liu; Eric Shuo Liu; Winnie Ma; Nathan J. Manohar; James M. Papadopoulos; Jeanne J. Qiu; Jesse Ren; Amanda F. See; Justin Song; Rebecca Su; Chloe A. Warehall; Mike Hongfei Wu; Daniel Y. Xie; Tia Zhao.

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CCA holds ‘No Place for Hate’ week

BY TESS WALLENSTEIN What began as one teacher’s mission to encourage an accepting school environment has quickly evolved into a growing movement at Canyon Crest Academy, a movement that only gained momentum with last week’s “No Place for Hate Week.”

No Place for Hate Week was the first event of one of CCA’s newest clubs, SLATE, which stands for Students Learning Acceptance Through Education.

Led by AP World History and Psychology teacher Tracy Bryant, this group of 20 dedicated students aims to eradicate discriminatory language and action on CCA’s campus.

The week was kicked off when CCA students were encouraged to sign Resolutions of Respect during lunchtime. The resolution calls upon students to “speak out against all forms of prejudice and discrimination” and to “recognize that respecting individual dignity, achieving equality, and promoting intergroup harmony are the responsibilities of all people.”

Other events included a lecture from guest speaker and CCA Audio Tech teacher Vikas Srivastava about the definition of diversity and a contest for

NATIVITY continued from page 11 reached out through the Ignation Volunteer Corps.

Now she works one day a week at Nativity Prep, supervising and matching 14 volunteer tutors. She also leads small group language arts sessions for students in need of additional help and also helps with reading comprehension and writing programs. Her husband, son and daughter also have pitched in as mentors.

“This is a wonderful age,” Bishop said, adding that the school is a wonderful place doing amazing things for the students. “They do more for me than I do for them.”

Although the school picks up most of the costs for the students, parents must pay $100 a month, which Daniels noted “doesn’t seem like much but to these families it can be a significant amount.” They must also commit to attending three parent teacher conferences each year and help with fundraisers.

For him, a landmark moment was at an event when he was sitting next to an

students to create a logo for SLATE. SLATE began one day during Bryant’s third period World History class when she told her students about the branch of SLATE that she had started at her former workplace in Colorado. Upon hearing about the club, her third period students rallied around the cause and under Bryant’s leadership, created their own branch of SLATE at Canyon Crest. “[Canyon Crest] is the most accepting high school of all of the high schools I have worked at,” says Bryant, “Our club is not designed to get rid of a problem, but to celebrate what we have and show how great our school is.”

While Canyon Crest’s branch of SLATE may still be in its infancy, Bryant has big plans for the club’s future.

“We want to get the 11-year-old student that he hadn’t met before.

When he asked if she had thought about her goals, she answered that she wanted to attend The Thatcher School, a preparatory boarding school in Ojai where every student is assigned a horse to care for, and then to go to Harvard.

“When you have a conversation with an 11-year-old living in poverty who gets it, it’s awe inspiring,” said Daniels.

“We hope and believe they can get to a four-year university,” he added, noting that because they continue support into college, that prospect improves.

To support that belief, they back their financial commitment to their graduates’ high school education by providing “college counselors” after they leave Nativity Prep.

Volunteers monitor the students’ grades, have held parenting classes to help explain the college application process, and recently sponsored a motivational speaker. They also help with paperwork – college and exam applications, financial aid forms — and pay admission fees and test fees.

Support comes from fun-

whole school involved,” says Bryant. To meet this goal, SLATE is in the process of planning a peer workshop focusing on anti-bias education and they hope to dedicate each remaining month of the school year to celebrating a different kind of diversity. For example, SLATE will be working with Canyon Crest’s Gay Straight Alliance Club this April. “[CCA] has religious diversity, a lot of first generation Americans, and students who speak different languages,” says Bryant. “We have more diversity than we give ourselves credit for.”

Signing Resolutions of Respect marks the first step in the process of getting Canyon Crest designated as a No Place for Hate School by the Anti-Defamation League. Before CCA has this honor, the SLATE club must organize and complete three more events aimed at promoting respect.

Bryant expects that these events will be completed by the fall of the 2012-2013 school year, at which time Canyon Crest Academy will become the first school in the San Dieguito Union High School district to be a No Place for Hate school.

draising events and donations by people like Carr, who attended one of the school’s monthly lunches that introduce potential supporters to the school and students.

She’d been active in Ranch schools that her children attended and the RSF Children’s Hospital Auxiliary.

But she said she wanted to do something that would make a bigger difference. That was six years ago; now she’s on the board and planning the March 6 “Breakfast of Champions” at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Although the event – designed to inform North County residents about Nativity Prep — is free, they gladly accept donations, Carr said.

“Most of these kids wouldn’t be headed in the direction they’re going without the opportunities they are getting here,” she added. “It gets them focused and raises the bar… We don’t drop them when they leave us. They still have someone to cheer them on.”

To learn more about how Nativity Prep aims to do that, go to nativityprep.org or call (619) 544-9455. The school welcomes visitors and volunteers.

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DISPUTES continued from page 1 mental measures to settle its dispute with the Coastal Commission which spans more than a decade, said Day. Details of the lawsuit settlement have not yet been made public.

In an interview, Day characterized the potential settlements as “monumental,” and said they indicate the fair board’s willingness to set aside past differences and establish better working relationships with other governmental agencies.

“I’m hopeful this will be the start of the new era of close collaboration and cooperation between our district and the Coastal Commission and surrounding cities and residents of the region,” Day said. “This new board wants to start fresh, and with these actions, we’re putting our money where our mouth is, literally and figuratively.”

The nine-member, unpaid 22nd DAA board is appointed by the governor.

Last year, incoming Gov. Jerry Brown dismissed five board members and appointed five new members.

Wednesday’s vote on the settlements came one day after new board member Tom Chino resigned, citing his inability to pass reforms in the operations of the fair board to make its work more transparent and open to the public.

The proposed settlement with the Coastal Commission was negotiated over the past six weeks by Day and fair board member David Watson, working with Coastal Commission staff, said Day. The Coastal Commission is scheduled to consider the proposed settlement at its March 8 meeting in Chula Vista.

Among the actions agreed to by the fair board

PAYMENTS continued from page 1 at the RSF Golf and Tennis Clubs and will have their privileges revoked. All delinquent members lose the right to vote in Association elections, serve on committees, lose dining privileges at the club and will incur late charges and interest.

At the RSF Association’s April 5 board meeting, liens will be placed if the 39 delinquent property owners have not yet paid.

as part of the settlement are: • Restoring the entire south overflow lot at the fairground to wetlands, meaning a loss of about 1,500 parking spaces during major events such as the San Diego County Fair and Del Mar horse races.

• Restoring a 100-foot wetlands buffer along the southern edge of the south and east overflow lots and the golf driving range.

• Construction of a portion of the Coast to Crest Trail (which is planned to run from the beach at Del Mar to the mountains near Julian) and a buffer along the southern and western edges of the fairgrounds property.

• Removal of concrete rip-rap from the north shore of the San Dieguito River and restoration of the area.

• Paying the River Park JPA $20,000 per year for five years to maintain the newly restored wetlands and buffer areas.

The proposed settlement also calls for the 22nd DAA to provide complimentary booth space during the fair for public education on coastal conservation issues, install interpretive signs along the restored areas, organize an annual river park cleanup and take other steps related to outreach and education.

The lawsuit was filed against the district in May by the two cities and the river park JPA. It alleges deficiencies in the environmental impact report prepared for the 22nd DAA’s new master plan, including analysis of traffic, lighting, noise and pollution.

The master plan approved by the fair board in April includes replacement of two 50-year-old exhibit halls, widening the turf track used for horse racing, and adding a health club, parking garage and an electronic reader board sign visible from Interstate 5. The

board scratched controversial plans to build a hotelcondo on the property.

Day said all four parties have agreed to “settlement points” regarding the lawsuit, and the next step will be for attorneys representing the entities to draft a formal agreement. Once that is completed, the agreement will be presented to the court, and it is anticipated the lawsuit would be dropped, Day said. He said he hopes the agreement can be finalized within the next 30 days.

Del Mar Mayor Carl Hilliard said two months ago, his city and Solana Beach put forward a proposal to settle the lawsuit, and he said it appears the fair board has accepted that proposal. But he said he had not seen the proposed settlement approved by the board.

“Until we see the details, we won’t know if we have an opportunity to settle this or not,” Hilliard said.

“It certainly seems promising.”

Solana Beach Councilwoman Lesa Heebner said the council is scheduled to discuss the lawsuit in closed session at its meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 22 (after presstime for this newspaper), and that approval of a settlement could be announced at that time.

Dick Bobertz, executive director of the River Park JPA, said he was instructed by attorneys not to discuss the lawsuit, or a potential settlement, until both sides sign a final agreement. But he did confirm that the lawsuit was discussed by the JPA board at its meeting Friday morning (Feb. 17) and the board gave instructions to its attorney. The board also authorized the attorney to settle the lawsuit if its conditions are met, without an additional board vote.

“We’ve found it’s a very effective collection tool,” RSF Association Manager Pete Smith said.

Historically, the board has opted not to release the names of delinquent homeowners, although the board has the ability to do so.

Board director Ann Boon said that maybe they should consider posting names at the post office.

Director Roxana Foxx said she wasn’t sure they have to be that “punitive,” but director Eamon Callahan said that it might be some-

thing to consider if payments are still not being made after liens are placed.

In 2011, liens were placed on 12 homes, down from 17 in 2010.

Comstock said that they are hopeful that this year’s 39 delinquent assessments will diminish before the liens have to be placed.

The second installment of assessments is due on March 1 and a notification is posted at the post office.

Members will be considered delinquent if payment is not received by April 20.

INITIATIVE continued from page 1 vide each of the existing 40 state Senate districts and 80 state Assembly districts into 100 “neighborhood districts.”

Under the initiative, Californians would elect 8,000 neighborhood assembly members and 4,000 neighborhood senators, who would in turn elect 80 assembly and 40 senate working group members. The working group would function similarly to existing Legislature.

Because neighborhood senators would represent only 10,000 constituents, and neighborhood assembly members would represent 5,000 residents, Cox said, they wouldn’t need to raise or spend a lot of campaign money to get elected.

“When you don’t have to raise campaign money, your motivations for getting into office are completely different,” Cox said. “You get people that aren’t bought by special interests.”

The working committees would introduce and debate bills, and the neighborhood legislators would vote up or down on bills before they could be sent to the governor. As drafted, the initiative would amend the state’s Constitution.

State Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Carlsbad, whose 38th District includes Rancho Santa Fe and Solana Beach, said Cox’s initiative has a “great goal.”

“It certainly would bring more accountability and bring government closer to the people, and that’s always good,” Wyland said, noting that he would have to study the proposed initiative more closely before deciding if he would support it.

But he said the state’s current rules for putting initiatives on the ballot create an ironic twist in the case of Cox’s proposal.

Once an initiative is qualified for signature gathering, Wyland said, proponents have 180 days to gather the necessary signatures. And gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures over six months costs several million dollars, which generally requires special interest money.

Wyland said he plans to introduce a bill this

month that would allow initiative supporters to take up to two years to gather the necessary signatures, which means they wouldn’t need to raise so much money to put a measure on the ballot.

“My goal is to make the initiative process what it’s intended to be, to allow people to get something into law they want and the Legislature has failed to do,” Wyland said.

Cox said he needs to gather 800,000 signatures

by June 1, which he has been told will cost $2 million to $3 million, money he hopes to raise from donations.

So far, he has garnered support from leaders of such disparate organizations as the Tea Party Express and Common Cause.

The plan calls for neighborhood legislators to be paid $1,000 per year, while working group members would be paid $30,000. (Currently, legislators are paid $95,291 per year.) According to the state Legislative Analyst, California would save $180 million per year on legislative costs under Cox’s proposed initiative, but county election costs would rise “potentially in the range of tens of millions of dollars initially and lower amounts annually thereafter.”

Cox, however, said he doubts local election costs would be so high, because the neighborhood districts would be built from existing precincts.

Cox said he first got into politics in 2000 after establishing a successful business career, and ran for Congress and the U.S. Senate in the early 2000s, once debating health care and education policy with then-Sen. Barack Obama.

He also ran for president as a Republican candidate in 2008.

He has four daughters and lives with his wife, Sarah, and youngest daughter in Rancho Santa Fe. “I’m a voice in the wilderness, maybe,” he said, but insisted, “I’m no nut case.”

He believes the concept of his initiative could work in other states and even the U.S. Congress.

“If California can do this, I think it’ll sweep the country, it’ll be like a wild fire,” he said.

For more information on the initiative, visit www.rescuecalifornia.org

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Q&A

Promoting San Diego earns Howard Hian kudos from hoteliers Howard Hian was born and raised in St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from Washington University with a BSBA. He married Susan Rosensweig in 1966 and they have four children and four grandsons.

Hian was recently honored as the San Diego Hotel Motel Association’s “Allied Member of the Year” for his ongoing contributions to the San Diego’s tourism inHoward Hian dustry through his hotel consulting activities and award-winning travel writing.

What makes this area special to you?

It’s the weather, beach and casual outdoor lifestyle coupled with family and friends.

Who or what inspires you?

I was lucky to have three business mentors in my early career and, now, someone who is my North Star to keep me grounded.

If you hosted a dinner party for eight, whom (living or deceased) would you invite?

My dad died when I was 20, so he’d be my first choice in order for him to meet my wife, our four kids and four grandsons.

He’d be fascinated that I have a home office and a 30-year-old hotel consulting business.

Please let me host 10.

What are your five favorite movies of all time?

In no special order, “The Godfather,” “The Maltese Falcon,’ “The Princess Bride,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles.”

What is your biggest extravagance?

Tough one, but we like to travel and, as a travel writer, there are lots of opportunities.

What is your most distinguishing characteristic?

Balance. My work, play, wife/family

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February 23, 2012

What’s cookin’ at San Dieguito Adult School A wide variety of classes, including a popular course in Indian cuisine

BY KAREN BILLING At Torrey Pines High School, the learning continues long after the last bell tolls. On any given night, the San Dieguito Adult School uses the facility on most nights for adults looking to better themselves and learn a variety of subjects — there’s Chinese in one room, Italian in the next, Spanish and French down the hall. Lately, the home economics classroom has been the home for people learning about the Indian culture through its food with classes taught by Carmel Valley resident Ritu Singla.

Singla had always loved teaching and used to teach children in her native India. She wanted to be a part of the San Dieguito Adult School after taking a few classes there to try different things and meet new people. Singla saw quickly that there was no Indian cooking class in the program.

“All my friends kept telling me they’d love to learn to cook Indian food,” said Singla, thinking that the class might make a good addition to the program.

Singla, who works in real estate, doesn’t have a cooking background, save for cooking for her family for the last 10 years. Singla has only lived in the United States for nine years and has recipes from both sides of her family— her brother is even a chef.

“When Ritu walked in my door I was ecstatic because people are really interested in Indian cooking,” said adult school principal Denise Stanley.

Singla started teaching her class in January and her January and February classes both had waiting lists.

“I didn’t know that I would get such a good response,” Singla said.

She loves that people are so interested in learning about her culture and food. The class is also popular for vegetarians as most of India is vegetarian— the class helps spice up their menus.

In the two three-hour classes, students cook in groups, gathering ingredients and all take part in prep work.

They learn to cook four to five dishes and then eat the food together at the SEE COOKIN’, PAGE B20

Teacher Ritu Singla helps a student in her Indian cooking class.

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To your health: Bath Salts: The newest designer drug

BY NANCY KNOTT, M.A., SCRIPPS HEALTH Imagine someone using meth, cocaine, LSD and ecstasy (MDMA) at the same time, and you’ll get an idea of the effects of the latest synthetic or “designer” drug to become popular with adolescents and young adults: bath salts.

Don’t let the name fool you. These aren’t the fragrant granules you sprinkle in bath water to soothe tension. Sold as “bath salts” or “plant food” to evade drug laws, these products are actually synthetic versions of cathinone, a naturally occurring amphetamine that comes from the leaves of the Catha edulis plant. Among the amphetamine-like derivatives commonly found in bath salts are pyrovalerone, methylone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and mephedrone. When smoked, injected, snorted, or mixed with food or drink, they act like stimulants in the brain. Like amphetamines, they can produce effects similar to that of several powerful street drugs—including methamphetamines (meth), cocaine and ecstasy—combined. Users have described feelings of increased energy, euphoria, heightened libido, and empathy.

However, the risks far outweigh any perceived benefit. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, bath salts have been linked to an alarming number of ER visits across the country, and poison centers have reported increasing numbers of calls related to these products. In addition to the elevated blood pressure and heart rate often linked to stimulant drugs, bath salts have been shown to cause agitation, increased blood pressure, rapid heart rate, chest pains, hallucinations and paranoia. Mephedrone in particular is associated with a high risk for overdose.

Another concern is suicidal behavior.

There have been reports of several suicides linked to MDPV use, even several days after the drug has worn off.

Because these products are relatively new on the streets, there is limited knowledge about their short and long-term consequences. Currently, no tests are available to detect these drugs, so emergency medical personnel must rely on users to self-report whether they have taken them.

Given the significant risks and dangers

of bath salts, why have they been able to be sold and purchased legally? It’s all about labeling. Because the product labels state that they are “not for human consumption,” they avoid being subject to drug laws, even though they are clearly intended for that use. These products are widely (and legally) available online, in drug paraphernalia stores and even in many convenience stores under a variety of names, such as “Ivory Wave,” “Purple Wave,” “Red Dove,” “Blue Silk,” “Zoom,” “Bloom,” “Cloud Nine,” “Ocean Snow,” “Lunar Wave,” “Vanilla Sky,” and “White Lightning.”

In October of 2011, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) exercised its emergency scheduling authority to control three of the synthetic stimulants commonly used in bath salts: mephedrone, MDPV, and methylone. This temporary action made possessing and selling these chemicals or products that contain them illegal in the United States, and will remain in effect for at least one year. Further studies will be conducted to determine whether these chemicals should be permanently controlled.

However, this shouldn’t be considered a final solution to the problem. One of the greatest challenges to law enforcement is that drug makers continually create new combinations of chemicals for these substances, so that as soon as one is outlawed, a new version becomes available.

The more parents know about these ever-changing designer drugs, the more they can recognize the signs of use and take action. Scripps Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, located on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, offers free, educational intervention seminars every Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Parents and family members can learn about the current drugs of choice, signs and symptoms, and resources available if they suspect their child may be using drugs.

Nancy Knott, M.A., is an interventionist and counselor with Scripps Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center. “To Your Health” is brought to you by the physicians and staff of Scripps. For more information or a physician referral, please call 1-800-SCRIPPS.

World-famous musicians to appear at CCA Music Festival A dazzling music and dance extravaganza, Gamelan Festival 2012, will be held on Friday, March 23, at 6 p.m. at Canyon Crest Academy.

A gamelan is a traditional Indonesian orchestra that features tuned metal percussion instruments that are used to accompany puppet plays and classical dances. This Center for World Music Indonesian performing arts Festival will feature the six Javanese and Balinese gamelan orchestra groups in San Diego. The musicians and dancers performing have trained with their esteemed Indonesian leaders, Djoko Walujo and Ade

Suparman, both of whom are distinguished master musicians from Java, Indonesia. The Gamelan Festival 2012 is a cultural and artistic extravaganza that the entire family can enjoy.

Canyon Crest Academy is located at 5951 Village Center Loop Road, San Diego, 92130.

Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/210125.

For more information, contact: John Gabriel, Center for World Music at (760) 845-9480 or john@centerforworldmusic.org

‘Women helping Women’ event to be held on health and fitness Three female experts in the field of women’s health and fitness will address the needs of women who like to work out at a special event to be held on Friday, March 2, from 6-9 p.m. at BL Bike and Sport, 211 N. Highway 101, Solana Beach.

RSVP to 858-792-0118.

The event will feature raffle prizes, food,

wine, 15 percent off women’s clothing and accessories, and more.

The experts leading the event are Chiropractor Dr. Kellee Rutley, Acupuncturist Rebecca Underdown and “No Core without the Floor” Kathleen Pagnini.

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‘The Car Plays’ — Out of The Playhouse and into the parking lot If you go

Local talent

What: ‘The Car Plays: San Diego’ When: 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday; 3, 4:30, 7 and 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sunday; Feb. 23-March 4 Where: La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, UCSD campus Tickets: $25 Box Office: (858) 5501010 Website: www.LaJollaPlayhouse.org/

• Moxie Theatre’s Artistic Director Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg directs ‘The Carpool,’ by Jennifer Barclay (UCSDMFA 2009, now a lecturer in playwriting) where workers gang up on a bad, bad boss.

• Lisa Berger, USD assistant theater professor, directs ‘We Wait,’ a tale of two faithful incar-cerated dogs.

• The REP’s Artistic Director, Sam Woodhouse, directs ‘Reveille,’ about a dad and his son who is leaving for boot camp.

• Mo’olelo Artistic Director Seema Sueko directs ‘Skipped,’ by David Myers (UCSD-MFA 2012), about a boozedup teen who meets his match in a wised-up cabbie.

Diego,” the Playhouse commissioned four new pieces

by UCSD-MFA playwriting students, asking them to create plays with local settings to add to the Moving Arts mix. They also invited seven local directors to step into the drivers’ seats.

Though the plays are all short-shorts, their subjects are far from skimpy. Themes include family conflicts, couples’ issues, sex, loss, secrets, drinking, and loneliness, not to mention dogs’eye-views of life and a strange encounter with La

Coming to La Jolla Playhouse for two weekends, starting Feb. 23: Moving Arts’ The Car Plays: San Diego. PHOTO: JAY PG PHOTOGRAPHY Jolla’s seals.

Lisa Rose Kaplan (UCSD-MFA 2008) who now teaches playwriting at UCSB, wrote the seal play, “Selkies.”

“Part of my writing process was taking walks by the water,” she said. “And the seals always seemed so peaceful and magical, so I thought that would be a good place to start.”

“Car Plays” creator Paul

Stein, who will act as artistic producer here, shows off his comedy-writing chops in “Disneyland,” and his more serious side as director of “Dead Battery.” Both are solo performances; Stein, who now works for Comedy Central, also directs a lot of solo shows.

About “Car Plays,” he said: “It’s almost like an amusement park meets live theater. The actors do each

play five times an hour, 15 times a night — 20 on Saturday and Sunday! And audience members seem to really embrace the chance to watch actors at close range.

Sometimes they talk back to the actors and join in the show.”

There are 15 plays in all; one ticket gives you access to a row of five, what Paul Stein calls “the full palette,” including a drama, a come-

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dy, a thriller, at least one local playwright, and a seat change.

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BY LONNIE BURSTEIN HEWITT Last September, the La Jolla Playhouse kicked off its outside-the-box WoW (Without Walls) program with the hugely successful “Susurrus,” an audio play in San Diego Botanic Garden.

This month, WoW No. 2 takes over a Playhouse parking lot with “The Car Plays,” a collection of intimate 10-minute pieces that will keep viewers carhopping, vehicle to vehicle, with all the action taking place just a seat away from the audience of two.

“The Car Plays” is the creation of Paul Stein, former artistic director of Moving Arts, a small theater company in Los Angeles that performs in assorted venues.

Motivated by the loss of their downtown theater space, he came up with the idea of performing inside parked cars, a nice touch for a venue-challenged troupe in a car-obsessed culture.

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Rancho Santa Fe Review

Popular Solana Beach sub shop is all in the family

BY CLAIRE HARLIN editor@delmartimes.net Patrick, Dave and Kevin Kenny grew up four miles away from the first-ever Jersey Mike’s Subs, which has served the Jersey Shore community of Point Pleasant since 1956.

“We ate there every day,” said Kevin, a 37-year-old triathlete. He said he used to order the “giant No. 7 with turkey and provolone,” and identical twins Patrick and Dave, 36, used to split the club supreme.

“Sandwiches were big in our life,” Kevin said. “My mom had five boys so it really helped her.”

That sandwich shop was such a big part of the brothers’ lives that they eventually decided in 2010 to open a Jersey Mike’s at 915 Lomas Santa Fe, and the franchise is a near West Coast replica of the original. Both are situated right next to an Einstein Bros Bagels and about a mile from the beach. They are both run like a familyowned “mom and pop,” with customers returning time and time again — some

even daily. The brothers not only greet regulars by name upon entering the shop, but they often remember their sandwich of choice.

KEVIN KENNY “We run the Co-owner, Jersey Mike’s Subs place like it’s the original store,” said enchise last month. ergetic Kevin, Kevin said the shop’s high who runs and swims every numbers are a result of their morning, and stayed standrelationship with the coming and moving during a remunity — they love their cent morning interview at customers as much as the the shop. “It reminds us so many kids’ sports teams and much of where we grew up, nonprofits they donate food and we treat it like a mom to — and their efficiency. and pop deli.”

Kevin said the collaboraAnother striking similarity tion between him and his to the Point Pleasant locabrothers is like that of a tion, which serves a high inwell-oiled football team. flux of vacationers, is vol“I’m always at the slicer, ume. In 2011, the Solana which is like the quarterBeach location broke the reback, Pat’s the sprinkler and cord as being the busiest JerDave’s at the register,” said sey Mike’s location — out of Kevin. The “sprinkler,” he 525 shops. The success has said, is the one who dresses been so great for the Kenny the sandwiches. brothers that their brother On any given day at Chris joined them in San Dilunchtime, visitors to the ego to open a La Jolla fran-

“We’ve been working every day together our whole life. We are in sync — we don’t have to ask each other anything. We just react.”

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shop can witness the method to their madness and move through the packed line in a matter of a few minutes. Kevin said the brothers build about 900 sandwiches on a busy day, most between noon and 1 p.m.

“We probably do about 200 an hour during the rush,” he said.

The red-headed brothers, who all live together in Del Mar, attribute their cohe-

siveness and work ethic to their many years of working together. From a young age, they all worked together at their family’s pharmacy.

Kevin moved to North County about a decade ago so he could train year-round for the Iron Man triathlon, and the twins sold the pharmacy and joined Kevin in San Diego only a few years ago. The three were thrilled to have their brother,

28-year-old Chris, join them in March — just in time to help open the La Jolla shop.

The brothers work every day of the week, sometimes well over 10 hours a day, and they wouldn’t have it any other way, Kevin said.

“We’ve been working every day together our whole life,” said Kevin. “We are in sync — we don’t have to ask each other anything.

We just react.”

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February 23, 2012

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Traveler touches local communities in cross-country mission

BY CLAIRE HARLIN editor@delmartimes.net If you were out on the coast just west of Rancho Santa Fe recently you might have noticed a pale blue school bus covered in inspirational messages parked along Camino Del Mar. Or maybe you met the driver, Bob Votruba, a mid-50s man on a mountain bike decorated with signs honoring fallen servicemen and promoting a prevailing message — be kind.

Votruba and his Boston Terrier, Bogart, have been traveling the country for more than two years in what he calls the “Kindness Bus,” urging people he encounters to make a pledge to commit one million acts of kindness in their lifetime.

“That’s 50 a day every day for 55 years. Or it can be 100 a day for 27 years,” said Votruba, who documents his travels at www.onemillionactsofkindness.com.

“There are the physical acts, like holding a door, helping someone out, saying ‘thank you’ or ‘good-bye.’ Or it can be kindness from the heart, like wishing goodness and wishing great things happen

to the people around you.

Doing that all day, along with the physical acts, you can certainly reach one million acts.”

In addition to promoting the underlying message of kindness, Vortruba has focused his trips around particular causes. In this trip, for example, he is riding from Santa Monica, where he set off on Jan. 21, to Jacksonville, Fla., where he plans to arrive on June 21. His bike carries signs reading “Riding 4,000 miles for heroes”; “Riding for wounded warriors”; “Police and firefighters killed in the line of duty”; and “These heroes deserve our respect.” In his last cross-country trek, he focused on raising awareness about domestic violence and child abuse, suggesting that the more people accept kindness, the less the world will suffer from violent acts.

He drives his bus from town to town and rides his bike around the town, spreading his message and passing out flyers and stickers. He averages about 26 miles a day on bike, he said.

In Del Mar on Feb. 2, Votruba attracted the attention

A crusade

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Bob Votruba and his dog, Bogart, have been traveling the country for more than two years in “The Kindness Bus” and “The Kindness Bike.” Above: Locals stop Votruba and share kudos on recently during his passing through Del Mar.

and praise of many passers-by, who shared questions, handshakes, high-fives and donations. He visited the Del Mar Fire Station and visited with Capt. Patrick O’Neil, he said.

“He said he has so many nieces and nephews and they all need to have this lesson, knowing who our heroes are,” Votruba said.

Votruba also spent time in Encinitas, where he visited the firehouse and San Dieguito Academy. He spent the day in Solana Beach at the Cedros Avenue Farmers’ Market on See MISSION, page B20

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Urban Plates

■ 12857 El Camino Real, Del Mar Heights ■ (858) 509-1800 ■ www.urbanplates.com

■ The Vibe: Energetic, Casual ■ Signature Dishes: Grilled Urban Steak Salad, BBQ Turkey Meatloaf, Macaroni and Cheese, Organic Mashed Potatoes, Hormone Free Turkey Noodle Soup, Raw Kale Salad, Asian Chicken Salad, House Roasted Hormone Free Turkey Breast and Cranberry Sandwich

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Turkey Meatloaf with sautéed green beans, oven-roasted vegetables and grilled organic focaccia. PHOTOS BY KELLEY CARLSON

■ Open Since: 2011 ■ Reservations: No ■ Patio Seating: Yes ■ Take Out: Yes ■ Happy Hour: No ■ Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Asian Chicken Salad is a combination of free-range chicken, wild arugula, organic carrots, green onions, Mandarin orange sections, spicy roasted peanuts, bean sprouts, wontons, cilantro and spicy Thai peanut dressing.

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Smart prices and products behind new dining concept at Urban Plates

BY KELLEY CARLSON rban Plates, whose motto is “farm to plate and won’t break the bank,” offers a wealth of culinary choices in a vibrant atmosphere.

Zac Lennox, executive chef and general manager, noted that the restaurant — often referred to as UP — has elements similar to an open-air market, with fresh, organic food bought from local farmers. And just about everything is made from scratch.

“Young and old, (Urban Plates) appeals to everybody,” Lennox said. “We want the kids to be healthy, and the older people want to stay healthy.”

Upon entering the establishment, customers stand in line and select a “station” from which to choose their meal — from soups and salads to entrees and braises -- and watch its preparation. The food goes directly to the patron’s plate; then it’s time to pay, sit down and enjoy.

Dishes, which change seasonally, are priced at $10, although they can be upgraded with sides and a la carte items.

Stop at the Mix UP station for a salad such as the Raw Kale, topped with dried cranberry, tofu, toasted almonds, mandarin orange sections, pickled red onions and champagne orange vinaigrette.

Pile UP features sandwiches such as BBQ Turkey Meatloaf on grilled ciabatta.

Down the line is Carve UP, where customers can order free-range chicken, hormone-free turkey, and the Grilled Marinated Wild Ono, soaked in cilantro-ginger. There is also the 4 UP, a choice of any four sides. These options range from the house-made Organic Stuffing to Quinoa and Edamame. Vegan and glutenfree items are available.

At Stir UP, guests will find braises served

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Zac Lennox is the executive chef and general manager of Urban Plates.

Roasted Organic Butternut Squash Soup, a puree of roasted organic butternut squash, organic apples, onion, garlic, cinnamon, nutmeg, smoked paprika and whipped crème fraiche garnish, served with grilled focaccia.

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■ This Week: Urban Plates’ Turkey Salad over rice. Among them is the Vegetarian Curry, with carrots, zucchini, tofu and garlic simmered with ginger, onions and red peppers in a curry coconut sauce.

Finally, there are soups, including Roasted Organic Butternut Squash, and several types of Urban Pizzettes.

There are about a half-dozen menu selections for kids, priced at $5. The entrees consist of a choice of sandwiches, salad or pizza.

Before paying at the register, customers won’t be able to miss seeing the desserts — the Gluten-Free Chocolate Flourless Cake and the Ginger Peach Tart may be among the delectables on display. There are also several types of cookies — the Cowgirl contains oatmeal, currents, sunflower seeds and dried cranberries -- and handmade chips.

Don’t forget a beverage; there is wine, beer on tap, and organic sodas made with cane sugar and syrups that don’t contain red dye

No. 5. Urban Plates also makes its own Organic Lemonade, and Green Tea that is sweetened with agave.

If you’re unsure of what to order, Lennox suggested figuring out what your favorite meal was that mom made. “I’d guess somewhere in here, you’d find an iteration of it,” he said.

After receiving the food, the next step is to find a seat, whether it’s in the main dining room, or on one of several patios. The main area has an urban warehouse feel, with recycled wood, large windows, and stamped iron chairs from the late 1950s. Droughttolerant plants and flowers decorate some of the furniture, including a community table.

An eight-seat fire-pit table is the prominent feature on the front patio. Across the way, a green awning with the “UP” logo provides shade for customers.

Lennox said that the flow of guests going through the line, sitting and eating “turns like a wheel,” so turnaround is quick.

The beginning of the week, at opening, tends to be slow, but by Wednesday, it’s busy right off the bat, according to Lennox. He added that there’s often a little lull between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Patrons who don’t want to sit have the option of walk-through takeout, walk-up takeout through phone orders, and curbside service. These customers may order “takeaway” family meals for four, which come with a protein, salad, sides and bread for $35.

Lennox said Urban Plates’ Del Mar Highlands location would be the flagship site, as more are being planned. “We want a fun place for people, but not artificial fun,” he said. “A good, wholesome experience is what we’re after -- not just food, but the whole thing.”

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Rancho Santa Fe Review

Man and marine life continues to connect at Birch Aquarium

BY DAVE SCHWAB Toasting its 20th anniversary on Expedition Way with a year-long celebration in 2012, Birch Aquarium at Scripps’ mission of interpreting ocean research by presenting it in educational (and entertaining) ways continues.

The aquarium will mark Year 20 with an admission discount for local residents and plans for a new exhibit exploring the deep-ocean. “We take the complex, scientific evidence and discoveries occurring at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and translate it into exhibits, programs, and other accessible vehicles for the public — everyone from preschoolers to elders,� said Debbie Zmarzly, aquarium science specialist.

Birch’s executive director Nigella Hillgarth noted that the aquarium’s mission is threefold: education, conservation, and connecting people with ocean science via interactive programming.

Birch has been a major San Diego attraction during its 20 years at Expedition Way. Visitor surveys and interactions suggest the favorite aquarium exhibits are the Kelp Forest, the

Tide-Pool Plaza and “There’s Something About Seahorses.� “Parents with small children rave about the Boundless Energy exhibit, too, because it’s a place for kids to expel their ... well, energy,� said Jennifer Crawford, aquarium communications director. “The water tables have also always been a huge hit with parents/children.�

Zmarzly talked about the difference between the old Scripps Aquarium-Museum that served the Institution for 40 years, and the new facility on Expedition Way which opened in 1992. “It was very much an Oceanography 101 textbook,� she said of the old aquarium. “Now the building is sort of the gateway to the SIO, showcasing the most cutting-edge types of research they’re doing.�

Hillgarth added that the old aquarium didn’t connect the public with the

actual kind of research Scripps scientists are doing today. “Now we’re educating the public on the impact humans are having on the environment — and the oceans are a very large part of that.�

Hillgarth said that lack of understanding causes a disconnect between people and their environment. “Most people don’t know that 40 percent of the Earth’s oxygen comes from the oceans, and that damaging our oceans is going to directly affect us,� she said. “They don’t realize the actual air they breathe is impacted by how we treat the oceans.�

Zmarzly said the aquarium’s job is to “reconnect� people with the ocean by revealing the co-dependent relationship. “We thought the ocean was a limitless environment we couldn’t possibly impact because of its enormity. Now we’re showing the impact we are having,

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SPOTLIGHT on LOCAL BUSINESS Amighini Home Décor & Architecturals The European lifestyle is full of passion and traditions preserved with centuries of deep-rooted families, generations of rich culture, iconic architecture, and inspiring design. European design is varied, and when done correctly, transforms ordinary into timeless design that is appreciated for years.

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Amighini Home Décor & Architecturals has Italian- and Spanish-inspired décor, along with rare architectural elements at its Southern California locations. Unique furnishings made by artisans using reclaimed architectural materials, such as salvaged wood and iron, are one-of-a-kind pieces that make you feel like you’re living in the heart of Northern Italy. Linen with monochromatic Earth tones or vintage-distressed leather combined with the rich wood tones are ideal to carry out a rustic ambiance throughout your interior.

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Grauer School offers educational summer classes and camps The Grauer School is offering a diverse, accredited Summer School curriculum for college and high school-bound students seeking to accelerate and deepen their studies. In addition, a wide variety of Summer Camp options have been added for students in middle school. This year’s summer sessions are scheduled to run from June 25 through July 13 and July 16 through Aug. 3.

Standard enrollment begins April 16 and closes June 15; priority enrollment opens March 12 and includes a 5 percent reduction in tuition. Curriculum details, fees, transfer credits, prerequisites and enrollment application can be located at www.grauerschool. com. Open to all students in grades six-12, Grauer Summer School offers week-long enrichment programs and classes that are UC approved and fully accredited.

Providing the lowest student to teacher ratio of any San Diego private college prep school, core classes will be presented in math, history, government, economics, English, biology, chemistry, physics, Spanish, French and ASL with camps in art, music, science, creative writing, computer arts and study skills. Classes are teacher-lead with a defined pace of completion. A full semester is condensed into three weeks, therefore demanding personal motivation and autonomous work capabilities on behalf of the student in order to successfully complete each course. A number of the courses offer content blended with independent, online sources for students to work on outside of school.

According to Clayton Payne, summer school principal and independent studies director, “Selecting the appropriate summer school program for your child can make the difference in the overall academic selection process when your child applies for entrance into a college or university of their choice.

Summer classes are often the best way to

Grauer School teacher Patricia Young with 9th grader Floris Messmann. balance a student’s normal academic year to maximize learning and success.

The Grauer School is able to offer UC approved classes that will not only serve to educate the students enrolled in our classes but also expose them to the in-depth oneon-one attention that only the Grauer School can offer. As long as students are willing to commit at least one to three hours of homework daily for UC accredited courses, they will successfully graduate from our summer program. In addition, virtually all summer school classes can be offered in a one-on-one independent studies format.

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Southern Caregiver Resource Center Gala a success

Barbara and Max Dykmans, SCRC Executive Director Lorie Van Tilburg and Jeff Tierman

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Roberto Velasquez, SCRC director of development and multicultural services, Beth Alitt-Berkowitz and Dr. Alan Berkowitz

Southern Caregiver Resource Center (SCRC) celebrated its 25 years in service to family caregivers in San Diego and Imperial counties with a ‘Dancing Under the Stars’ fundraising bash on Feb. 11 at the San Diego Marriott Del Mar. The fundraiser marks the largest in the organization’s history, raising more than $128,000 that will go toward meeting the direct service needs of family caregivers in San Diego.

There were more than 250 guests who attended the event.

10News anchors Kimberly Hunt and Steve Atkinson were the emcees for the evening and Honorary Chair Rosalynn Carter gave a special video presentation. Author, photographer and Alzheimer’s advocate Judith Fox received a standing ovation for her honest and poignant keynote speech on the challenges Alzheimer’s disease presents to both patients and caregivers. For more information, visit www. caregivercenter.org Photos/Rob McKenzie

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Wanted: Donations of clothing, prom dresses, shoes and more for young women in need

Local student heads to Cedarville University on volleyball scholarship

My Girlfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Closet, a local 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, along with the San Diego chapter of the Princess Project, will be collecting clothing, prom dresses, shoes and accessories during the months of February and March at the Westfield Shopping Center â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Horton Plaza.

Both organizations have teamed up so they can increase the amount of clothing they can collect, as they both donate the clothing to foster and underprivileged teenage girls and young women ages 12-22.

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Santa Fe Christian senior Alyssa Barkley has accepted a scholarship from Cedarville University in Ohio where she will play Division II Volleyball for the Yellow Jackets. Barkley has grown up around volleyball, her father was a coach at SFC and both he and her mother Maria established the Solana Beach Volleyball Club in 1997, which Alyssa has played for the last nine years.

Playing on the SFC varsity squad since the middle of her sophomore year, Alyssa has been the recipient of the Perseverance, Team Heart and Coaches Awards for each year, respectively. Named to the Union-Tribune All Academic Team, Barkley looks forward to the challenge of competing at the collegiate level playing the sport she Santa Fe Christian loves.

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Meet the Chefs of Del Mar set for April 22 Nineteen chefs from Del Mar’s finest restaurants — with partners such as Young’s Market Company, Venissimo Cheese and Silver Oak Cellars — will wine and dine guests at the 16th Annual Meet the Chefs of Del Mar event, Sunday, April 22, 1-4 p.m. at the Hilton Del Mar, 15575 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar. The event benefits Casa de Amparo, a San Diego leader in the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect. “April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month,” said committee chair Laura McPhee.

“Guests love being able to sample signature dishes from Del Mar’s finest restaurants all in one place complemented by premium wines. Best of all, the event supports a great cause and a great organization that has made such a difference to children and families in our community who are affected by or at risk of abuse or neglect.”

“We are so grateful for the many volunteers who make Meet the Chefs of Del Mar so successful,” said

Concordia College choir sings March 3 at local church

René Clausen conducts the Concordia College Choir.

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Front Row from left: Tiffany Stanonik, Marit Campbell, Gyneth Gonzalez, Trina Godwin; Second Row: Keely Tidrow, Arlene Hourdajian, Vicki Thein; Back Row: Tabitha Skoglund, Ray Girulat, Elizabeth Chennamchetty, Marie Girulat, Susan Castellanos, Laura McPhee, Heather Smith. Not Pictured: Elise Breton, Laura Brown, Stephanie Crognale, Gerri Dobruskin, Claudia Gramm, Marie de la Rosa Hruby, Amasa Lacy, Irma Mayo, Mikki Pilgrim, Mary Schulmar, Jen Steiger, Christy Stevenson

Keely Tidrow, development manager. “Our committee alone is over 20 energetic and enthusiastic supporters who are already hard at work and, of course, it’s our wonderful chefs and partners who make this such a much-anticipated event each year.”

Tickets for Meet the Chefs of Del Mar are $150 per person. A special VIP Reception kicks off the event from 12:15 to 1 p.m. Tickets at $200 include admission to the Chefs Food & Wine Tastings.

Tickets are available at www.casadeamparo.org or by calling 760-754-5500 or email ktidrow@casadeamparo.org.

2012 NKBA Kitchen + Bath Home Tour to be held March 10 The San Diego Chapter of the National Kitchen and Bath Association will host its annual Kitchen + Bath Home Tour, Saturday, March 10, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. This selfguided tour will be showcasing the talent and vision of 10 local National Kitchen and Bath Association members in 12 homes throughout San Diego, two of which are in Carmel Valley.

Tour participants will see artistic solutions brought to life and be given opportunities at each home to win several valuable prizes. A portion of this year’s proceeds benefit Veterans Village of San Diego. Tickets, project locations and additional information can be obtained at www.NKBASanDiego.org in advance for $20 or 2 for $30 or $25 at the door on the day of the event. Questions can be asked of Karen L’Heureux, AKBD, at NKBAsdTreasurer@gmail.com or call Donna Tran, AKBD, at 619-793-7096.

Silver Bay Kennel Club Dog Show is Feb.The24-26 Silver Bay Kennel Club Dog Show, one of the largest in the United States, will be held Feb. 24-26 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds (O’Brien, Bing Crosby and Exhibit Halls).

A dog agility competition also will be part of the show on Saturday and Sunday.

Only dogs that are participating in the show are allowed. Please do not bring pets. For times and more information, visit www.jbradshaw.com or www.delmarfairgrounds.com.

Experience the remarkable Grunion Run with Birch Aquarium Join Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, for a must-see ocean adventure. From April to early June, observe the mysterious grunion spawn on the beaches of La Jolla.

On certain spring nights following high tides, hundreds of the small, silvery fish ride the waves onto shore for this remarkable mating ritual, which only happens in Southern California. While on the beach, female grunion bury themselves half-way in the sand to lay eggs, while males wrap themselves protectively around the females to fertilize their eggs. Both catch a wave to return to sea.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps naturalists will guide participants through an unforgettable night, starting with a presentation on grunion, followed by a rare opportunity to witness grunion eggs hatch before their eyes. The unique experience continues with

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Grunion runs do not take place at Birch Aquarium. Reservations must be received in advance online at http://aquarium.ucsd.edu or calling 858-534-7336.

The internationally-known Concordia Choir that sang to a packed audience here several years ago is coming to Calvary Lutheran Church for a return engagement Saturday evening, March 3.

The 72-voice a cappella group – made up of students from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. – is on a 17city tour that will take it through Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and California.

Since it was formed in 1920, different variations of the choir have sung in major halls throughout the United States and Europe. It recently released a recording with the Grammy Award-winning King’s Singers, and it has performed several times with Garrison Keillor.

The group will sing spirituals and hymns during its 2012 tour, which will include stops March 4 in Palm Desert, March 6 in Thousand Oaks and March 7 in San Luis Obispo.

The only local concert will be held March 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Calvary, 424 Via de la Valle.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and can be purchased online at www.ConcordiaTickets. com or by calling (800) 8383006. They will also be sold at the door.

Renowned composer René Clausen will conduct the choir. He has written more than 100 commissioned compositions for ensembles around the world including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 national tragedy, he conducted his composition “MEMORIAL” in Lincoln Center, New York City.

Concordia College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It offers more than 60 majors, including 18 honors majors and 12 pre-professional programs.

Ugly Dog Contest is March 11 at DM Fairgrounds The 17th Annual Ugly Dog Show – once again includes contests for the ugliest dog, cutest dog, best trick, dog that most looks like its owner, the best costume and much more will take place on Sunday, March 11, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, registration/check-in is 10 -11 a.m. Show begins at 11:15 a.m.

Presented by the Del Mar Kiwanis Club and the San Diego Coastal Chamber of Commerce, the contest is open to the public, and over 400 dogs are expected to bring their adult and child owners from all over San Diego County, and compete for valuable prizes.

In addition to the contests, there will be lots of fun for everyone in the family.

Stop by the face painting table for some festive spirit.

All proceeds from the event will benefit local San Diego County nonprofit organizations: Rancho Coastal Humane Society Safehouse Program, which provides shelter for pets of domestic violence survivors; Helen Woodward Therapeutic Riding Program, which offers the fun and benefits of horse riding to people with disabilities and the Kiwanis Club of Del Mar. Pre-sale tickets are available online at www.uglydogcontest.com.

Plastic surgery practice welcomes Vicki Maierle-Foss The plastic surgery practice of Smoot, Sadrian and Hollan recently announced the appointment of permanent make-up artist Vicki Maierle-Foss to the Laser and Skincare Center located at their skincare facility at the Ximed Medical building on the campus of Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla.

Maierle-Foss is president and CEO of “The Pink Icing on the Cake,” a permanent make-up enterprise that provides expertise in the area of permanent applications for eyebrows, eyeliner, lips and restoring pigment color to breasts after breast reconstruction surgery. She has completed advances courses in the tattooing of the areola and nipple area for Breast Cancer Survivors and has become a referral source for Su-

Vicki Maierle-Foss san G. Komen for the Cure and the American Cancer Society.

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through enhancing their positive image on the esthetic aspect of restoring cosmetic features to the breast area.

Through these permanent cosmetic measures, women who have undergone breast reconstructive surgery emerge with a regained positive self-image. I was particularly drawn to working with the Smoot, Sadrian and Hollan medical team in part by the renowned breastwork of Dr. John Smoot; he is highly regarded within the plastic surgery industry and also serves as Chief of Plastic Surgery for Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla. It is an honor to be invited to join his staff.”

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A variety of regional events offered, including theater, exhibits, concerts and more French classics The Timken Museum of Art in Balboa Park will feature “Object Lessons: France in the Golden Age,” a concentration of French 17th century paintings on view through June 3.

The grouping comes with the loan of Nicolas Poussin’s “The Holy Family Returning to Nazareth” from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Poussin’s painting has been sent to San Diego in exchange for the Timken’s Rembrandt, “Saint Bartholomew,” which is part of the major exhibition “Rembrandt in America” on view in Cleveland until May 28.

The Timken has arranged for the work to be shown alongside four paintings by Poussin contemporaries: “Christ Healing the Blind” (1655-60) by Philippe de Champaigne; “Pastoral Landscape” (1646-47) by Claude Lorrain; the San Diego Museum of Art’s “Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy” (1635) by Simon Vouet; and “The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist in a Classical Landscape” (1645) attributed to Nicolas or Pierre Mignard and lent from a private collection in San Diego.

The Timken is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. (619) 239-5548. timkenmuseum.org Film artist exhibit The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present the West Coast debut of Isaac Julien’s immersive nine-screen video installation, “Ten Thousand Waves,” Feb. 25-Dec. 1 in the Farrell Gallery downtown.

The work poetically weaves together three stories linking China’s ancient past and present, and explores the movement of people across countries and continents, meditating on unfinished journeys.

Through formal experimentation and a series of unique collaborations, Julien, who is known for his arresting films, as well as his dynamic gallery installations, seeks to

engage with Chinese culture through contemporary events, ancient myths, and artistic practice.

Following ideas surrounding death, spiritual displacement, and the uniquely Chinese connection with “ghosts,” the film links the Shanghai of the past and present, symbolizing the Chinese transition towards modernity and affluence.

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Fateful Journey Ever wonder what life was like aboard the R.M.S. Titanic 100 years ago? Well then, make your way over to the NAT in Balboa Park. From now through Sept. 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition,” showcases such items as perfume from a maker who was traveling to New York to sell his samples to perfectly preserve china and even pieces of the ship.

View recreations of the staterooms, learn the stories of those who perished when the ship sank on April 15, 1912, and get your replicaboarding pass when you enter. Tickets $12$27 at tinyurl.com/7qwz6ob or (619) 2323821.

Hike Lake Hodges Take a walk around the east arm of Lake Hodges in Rancho Bernardo with the NAT’s Canyoneers, 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25. A naturalist will lead the easy, 4-mile hike that will climb to 200 feet along varied terrain and past a waterfall. You’ll learn how the Kumeyaay used plants from the area as you trek the trail. Take I-15 to West Bernardo Drive and park in the dirt lot on the right.

Meet at the Bernardo Bay Natural Area. area. tinyurl.com/7ubjzta or call (619) 232-3821, select Option 4.

Dark Side of Life North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Off Nights series brings back “Film Noir Un-

scripted,” 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27. The Impro Theatre gives new life to tough-talking private eyes and femme fatales through unpredictable staging, improvisational wit and verbal dexterity, according to the theater’s website. 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. Tickets $15-20. (858) 4811055 or www.northcoastrep.org Concert Time La Jolla Music Society goes from a string quartet to piano concert with two weekend events. The first, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at MCASD’s Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., puts the Takács Quartet in the spotlight of the Revelle Chamber Music Series. The award-winning group is based at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Tickets: $25-75.

At 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, the focus shifts to the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., for the Discovery Series with Russian-born pianist Daniil Trifonov, who in 2010-11, won the International Tchaikovsky Competition. His performance will be preceded at 2 p.m. by a

presentation by San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory students. Tickets: $530. (858) 459-3728 ljms.org Classical Music The San Diego Symphony brings chamber music to La Jolla at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 28 when cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Orion Weiss join members of the symphony for a program that includes Brahms’ first piano quartet. Neurosciences Institute Auditorium, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive Tickets $30. (619) 2340804. sandiegosymphony.org Piano Man Mainly Mozart’s Winter Series presents pianist John Lill in concert 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24 at the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive. Lill, who has been performing for more than 50 years, has selected a program that includes Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann. Tickets: $55. (619) 239-0100, ext. 2. mainlymozart. org.

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American Girl Fashion Shows to benefit Ask the Plastic Surgeons Isabellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s Giraffe Club at UCSD Medical Center, Infant Special Care Center Instilling self confidence in young girls is the goal of the American Girl Fashion Show, now in its fifth year in San Diego.

Striving for a non-competitive environment, Scripps Performing Arts Academy (SPAA) will host more than 100 local costumed girls and their dolls who will walk the runway during the Annual American Girl Fashion Show staged at the elegant Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall on Saturday, March 10, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, March 11, at 2 p.m.

Historical and contemporary fashions for girls and their dolls are on display each year during the clever and colorful American Girl Fashion Show in San Diego and various cities across the U.S. Since 1992, the American Girl Fashion Show has raised more than $24 million for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charities around the country. Locally, the show proceeds will benefit Isabellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Giraffe Club, a non-profit organization committed to providing emotional and educational

Mia Harris at a previous American Girl Fashion Show. support for parents with infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UCSD Medical Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are so happy to have so many local girls participate in our fifth American Girl Fashion Show and watch them confidently take to the runway in their beautiful costumes with their favorite doll,â&#x20AC;? said Angela Amoroso, founder of SPAA and Isabellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Giraffe Club.

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The local girls were chosen from a series of auditions held earlier this year.

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A. Stratticeâ&#x201E;˘ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix is an innovative, soft, natural product from LifeCellâ&#x201E;˘ that is designed to reinforce weak or inadequate tissue and to support growth of your own tissue. Derived from porcine dermis, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strong, flexible and sterile product. Porcine products have been widely used for the repair and replacement of damaged tissues in a variety of surgical procedures, such as heart valves, for many years in the United States.

LifeCell tissue matrices have had a long history of success; in 2002 for breast reconstruction for post-mastectomy cancer patients, and have also been used to treat surgical, trauma and burn patients for over 10 years. By reinforcing weakened tissue and supporting tissue regeneration, biologic tissue matrices can help to alleviate the following conditions: to reinforce breast support (helping to hold the breast pocket in the desired location); uphold and position breasts in a desired position; redefine the fold location by supporting the fold repair; adjustment after breast augmentation such as correction of capsular contractures or hardening of implants, bottoming out and fold malposition. Additionally, this procedure reinforces thin tissue in the presence of ripples and wrinkles.

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Dr. He Said, She said: How the economic downturn affects relationships Dear Dr. He Said, Dr. She Said: I am having a very difficult time with my husband’s lack of presHanalei Vierra, Ph.D. ence in our (Dr. He) and M’Lissa lives because of Trent, Ph.D. (Dr. She) his job. He feels that I have no empathy for him and his stress level given the economic downturn and his fear of losing his job. I understand that he is under stress, but it is costing our family in the sense that he is never home and when he is, he is checked out emotionally. I’m sure he feels I don’t appreciate him, but I don’t even feel connected to him. How can we see each other’s side of this?

Emma, Rancho Santa Fe

Dear Emma: Your husband’s stress is a result of his unchecked and fundamental fear. Try to remember that he is scared out of his mind — as you yourself must also be — that his family won’t survive. For a man who may not be very emotionally aware of himself, that survival fear is the primary motivator of his life and is what drives most of his behavior.

This lack of emotional awareness (unfortunately) keeps him clueless about the effect his fear-based behavior has on his family, as well as keeping him cut off from those exact relationships. This is how he “justifies” his behavior in his own mind. His survival system is wired to focus mostly on quantity (i.e., make sure my family remains alive to see tomorrow and the next day) and to ig-

nore quality (i.e., I’m too busy to consider the value and worth of my relationships).

Obviously he needs to remember that the quality of his relationships with his family members are as important as their physical survival. But that also puts you both in the same boat and gives you something to empathize with each other about. Talk to him about your own worst financial fears these days--including how scared out of your mind you must be about possibly losing your marriage!

As we have talked about in our columns many times, communication is the key here.

Setting aside time to talk about where you are each coming from and what you each need is very important. Understanding each other’s worlds is the most important connection you can make during this very stressful time. The opportunity here, Emma, is that a financial crisis can pull you and your husband together through this time of adversity and compel you both to learn some much-needed conflict resolution skills, as well as how to be partners on the same team. You both seem very clear that things have to change moving forward, so resetting priorities and spending habits together can become a united goal that you both support one another to achieve. You both can also see this as an opportunity to get creative about how to spend quality time together that doesn’t cost much money.

Point out to him that if the financial pressure he feels now is so all-consuming, that the cost of a divorce would skyrocket his stress right through the roof. Many couples these days who want to divorce each other are continuing to live in the same house because they simply cannot afford the added expense of a physical separation.

Whatever differences you both have in terms of spending, saving, and accounting

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for money can be re-negotiated and agreed upon to create a sense of not dealing with this stress alone! That is the big reminder that he needs, Emma. Despite his internal wiring that has convinced him that he has to manage all this pressure by himself, he needs you to send a very clear message that that approach will blow up your marriage. He has a willing team player and partner in you, and as you remind him of that, maybe he will be able to open up and hear your concerns a bit better. You also need to remind him of the value of the connection in the relationship with you and the children. That connection can help him manage his stress better, and it seems like he has forgotten that for the moment.

You say it yourself at the end of your letter: he needs to feel appreciated, and you need to feel connected. As partners, your ability to navigate this kind of quid pro quo is crucial to learn because that is what will keep the team forever functioning well. Sit down together and ask him what he needs in order to feel more appreciated. Then tell him what you need in order to feel more connected.

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TPHS celebrates Chinese New Year Torrey Pine High School held its first Chinese New Year’s celebration and performances on Feb. 2. More than 600 students and teachers were scheduled to attend the event.

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Bethany Yeap, Ashley Chau and Jennifer Peng

Teacher Jeffrey Kwong and San Dieguito Union High School District Superintendent Ken Noah with the Lion dancers.

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Nutrition and you: Gluten-free and heart health

BY PEGGY KORODY, RD, CLT February is American Heart Month and, unfortunately, most of us know someone who has had a heart attack or stroke. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the Peggy Korody, RD, CLT leading cause of death in the United States; in fact one in every three deaths is from heart disease and stroke, equal to 2,200 deaths per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Also, more women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer combined, and CVD is the most common cause of death in patients with celiac disease.

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food.

It can be difficult to detect, for example some of the symptoms can include: bloating/gas, diarrhea and/or constipation, fatigue/lethargy, joint pain, and headaches, all of which are common symptoms for many of us! But if you have one or more of these symptoms this does not mean you have a sensitivity to gluten or celiac disease. If you suspect that you have Celiac disease, you may want to get tested. It is important to note that one needs to be consuming gluten for accurate results. The first step would be to have a blood test to test for certain autoantibodies, which is a protein. If you test positive, an intestinal biopsy would need to be performed to confirm the diagnosis. Celiac disease is hereditary, so if a family member has been diagnosed, you may want to get tested too. Internationally, one-percent of the worldwide population has celiac. On the west coast of Ireland and Sub Sahara (Ethiopia) the statistics are slightly higher with 1 in 65 being diagnosed, and Northern China and India have a higher rate than the rest of Asia.

Recent findings show inflammation is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation (Afib), an irregular and often rapid heart rate, and there is a positive correlation between celiac and Afib, in both before and after diagnosis.

Therefore, patients with celiac disease have an increased risk of Afib. If you have been diagnosed with celiac disease you are at a 19% increased risk for coronary heart disease, which is the narrowing of the coronary arteries. The reason for the inflammation and increased risk for celiac patients is unknown. One theory is that the increased risk may be related to poor dietary compliance.

A gluten-free (GF) diet is not an easy diet to follow, unless you love to cook all your own meals! Let’s look at some of the issues with the GF diet.

Typically a wheat-based diet is naturally high in fiber and B-complex vitamins, and it offers great taste, variety and palatability.

Wheat based foods are required by the FDA to be enriched or fortified with iron, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin and folate. Specialty gluten-free products on the other hand are not required to be enriched or fortified, and these products do not typically offer all of the nutrients the body requires. GF products use starches that are dry, which causes foods

to crumble; therefore the manufacturers add fat, sugar, salt, and palm oil to compensate for texture. So, compared to wheat-based products you receive an increase in fat and calories, and a decrease in fiber and B-complex vitamins, leading to nutrient deficiencies, increased risk of heart disease, and weight gain.

So if you have celiac disease or are sensitive to gluten I would suggest using a “food as medicine” approach to your diet. You should focus on WHOLE foods versus highly processed GF-free packaged foods, use nutrition-dense alternative ingredients, and learn some culinary skills for cooking with GF-free foods. Here are a few grains you may want to add to your GF diet. Buckwheat, a great source of protein, is high in fiber and a good source of B vitamins. Use it in soups, hot cereal, and pasta dishes (it has a nutty taste).

Millet, which is one of the oldest grains, is high in magnesium, vitamin A, B-complex, and fiber (good as a side dish). If you can find millet flakes, you can eat them as a cereal or use for baking. Another great grain is quinoa, which is high in protein. In fact, it is very similar to the protein you get from milk. Also, quinoa is a good source of fiber, B-complex, and iron. Quinoa can be used as a side dish, in salads, for baking, and with pasta.

February is the month to focus on heart health. As you can see, if you have celiac this is even more of a challenge. I suggest you visit the CDC website at www.millionhearts.hhs.gov and take the “Million Hearts™ pledge”, which includes being physically active for at least 30 minutes most days of the week and knowing your ABCS. Ask your doctor if you should be taking Aspirin every day. Find out if you have high Blood pressure or Cholesterol, if you do, get effective treatment. Finally, if you Smoke, get help to quit. Everyone should strive to eat a heart-healthy diet, especially if you have celiac. This would include being aware of you calorie intake, including fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, and limit your sodium and trans fat intake. Also remember, if you need help with how to make these changes look for a Registered Dietitian, who is the best source of practical, affordable and credible food and nutrition information!

February Charity Event: Purchase Peggy’s new cookbook, Little Hands in the Kitchen, and/or an embroidered apron during the month of February and 25% of profits will be donated to the Angels Foster Family Network. For more info, visit my website at: http://rd4health.com/little-hands-in-thekitchen/ March Book Signing Event! Join me at Warwick’s in La Jolla. I’ll be signing copies of my new cookbook, “Little Hands in the Kitchen,” on Saturday, March 10, from noon – 2 p.m. I’ll also have aprons to match the book for sale. Hope to see you then.

Peggy Korody is a registered dietitian and owner of RD4Health Nutrition Counseling, LLC in Rancho Santa Fe. She is also a Certified LEAP Therapist, helping people who suffer with food sensitivities which can lead to IBS, migraines, fibromyalgia, and other inflammatory conditions.

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Jump for joy; it’s time to celebrate our ‘Leapling’ friends The Kitchen Shrink

CATHARINE L. KAUFMAN This February has 29 days, a phenomenon that occurs every four years with some quirky exceptions.

Called a bissextile or Leap Year, swelling the calendar to 366 days, it means different things to different folks.

For most of us it is trivial, we have to cook an extra three meals a year, it delays the arrival of summer by one day, and we have to go to work (or school) for an additional day.

For 187,000 Americans and 4 million others worldwide who were actually born on Leap Day (Feb. 29), that’s another matter. According to astrologers, Leaplings are Pi-

MISSION continued from page B5 Jan. 29, and the previous week in Escondido he performed a school program — which he does often — fit with a puppet show, motivational talk and reading of his published picture book about Bogart. After Del Mar, Votruba made a visit to the Naval Medical Center in Balboa Park and then to Phil’s Barbecue, the owner of which happens to be his nephew.

Votruba’s mission to honor those who have been in either military or public service follows his crusade against domestic and child abuse, which started on May 14 in Coney Island and culminated on Dec. 19 in Malibu. He said the idea came about when he began to notice how widespread the problem is and how little it is talked about.

“When I am passing through on the bus, people know I’m anonymous,” he said. “I’m here and then I’m gone and I find people tell me their problems, things they wouldn’t tell their friends or family. I kept hearing things about domestic violence and child abuse, so I wanted to target those issues.”

Bob’s lifestyle is the result of his discontent with

sces endowed with exceptional talents and personalities that reflect their special calendary status, such as opera composer Gioacchino Rossini, singer Dinah Shore, bandleader Jimmy Dorsey and rapper Ja Rule.

A friend born on Feb. 29, 1964 has been lording it over me for years that she’ll be celebrating her 12th birthday although she is actually turning 48. Her lucky family only has to buy her a cake and presents once every four years. But growing up must’ve been traumatic for my Leapling friend, whose real calendar birth date vanished for three consecutive years, reappearing every fourth. That’s why many moms who give birth

Free cupcakes For Leap Day this year, Sprinkles Cupcakes, 8855 La Jolla Village Drive, will give one dozen free cupcakes to anyone whose birthday is on Feb. 29.

They must present a valid ID showing their birthday.

the direction of the world. It was 9/11 that pushed him to start a website and campaign “Sow Only Seeds of Love” almost a decade ago, and the stickers he passed out with that motto began circulating worldwide. The overwhelming positive feedback made him realize not only the power of the Internet, but the fulfillment that comes from spreading a message on a large scale.

He said the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre was the tipping point that led to him divesting himself of all his material belongings and dedicating himself to bettering the world.

“I watched for days as it unfolded in the news and I couldn’t wrap my head around it,” he said. “I thought, ‘Maybe the answer is down there in Blacksburg, Virginia,’ so I drove from Cleveland to Blacksburg and stayed four days, just giving out stickers and hugs. I’ve never witnessed so much grief and sorrow from so many people. I realized that there are kids out there who are not getting the right messages and not being taught core values. Many are born into a world where nobody is paying attention to them.”

Votruba began traveling the country promoting kindness as a way to combat hatred and violence. Before

shortly after midnight on Leap Day beg their OBGYNs to re-jigger the time of birth, pushing it back to Feb. 28 so their kids won’t be shortchanged. The real burning question is: How many candles do you put on a Leapling’s cake?

How’d it come to this?

The ancient Roman calendar gremlins tinkered around with the days and months to harmonize the universe with the planets.

Back in the day of Numa Pompilius in 700 B.C., the skinny calendar had only 10 months until February, the month of purification, was added to the end of the year.

Later, February was sandwiched between January and March. But it was mighty Julius Caesar and his astronomer, Sosigenes who lay solid claim to creating Leap Year.

Julius randomly added days to assorted months (making July, the month named after himself a hefty 31 days long) so the Romans could consistently celebrate festivals the

same season each successive year.

In 45 B.C. he fattened the calendar to 365 days, and every fourth year following the 28th day of Februarius, added an extra day making it a Leap Year. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII further tweaked the calendar so that leap day would occur only in years divisible by 4 – giving the Leap Year a powder three times every 400 years. Go figure. So now our Gregorian calendar represents balance and harmony between the seasons and our method of timekeeping.

Throughout history, Feb. 29 has been designated as the day for romantic equality.

Women were given the green light to propose to men in marriage.

Legend has it that in 5th Century Ireland when St. Bridget complained to St. Patrick about fair ladies having to patiently wait for men to pop the question, he did the saintly deed and slotted Feb. 29 as a day when it was proper for women to propose.

Eight centuries later in

setting off, he sold his construction and cabinetry business.

“I could have retired to really bad golf or really bad tennis,” he joked. “This is my job now.”

At first, he visited primarily college campuses, where he said his message was very well received. He now gets so many invitations from schools and various organizations that his schedule stays full.

One of the highlights of his journey happened two weeks into his domestic violence tour, when he got a call from the White House — specifically Lynn Rosenthal, top advisor to the president on violence against women.

“She wanted me to come in and talk. I was thinking 15 minutes, but she set aside an hour for me.

I had to get secret service clearance and everything,” he said. “She wanted to know what I was doing and

how she could make my travels easier along the way.”

He said Rosenthal contacted the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) and let each state’s agency know when Votruba was headed that way.

“They just made the call and it happened,” he said. “So flipping’ cool.”

Votruba offers a “Kindness Certificate” on his website, www.onemillionactsofkindness.com, which can signify one’s pledge to commit one million acts of kindness. He said the document is “a contract with yourself, the most important document you will sign in your life.”

“Put it in a frame and hang it on your wall,” he said. “When I talk to people about it I say, ‘Please don’t take it lightly; know it’s something you want to do your entire life.’ I would rather them not sign it if they aren’t going to take it seriously.”

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My wife gets a lot of credit for that, plus we’ve had a successful 45-year marriage.

What is your philosophy of life?

It’s directly from my mom who died last year – be a saver. Live below your means and you won’t get into trouble. Her advice rings especially true in these financially difficult times.

continued from page B1 and study keep me happy, fulfilled and interested in a wide range of subjects.

Describe your greatest accomplishment.

That’s easy. Raising four good, hard-working, talented, responsible kids.

Leap Year Cocktail My contribution to Leap Day is a famous concoction by mixologist Harry Craddock to kick off the 1928 Leap Year celebrations in London for the Savoy Hotel. With a wave of refreshing orange, floral undertones and a lemony pucker, this lifechanging cocktail has been credited with shaking inhibitions so people will take the “leap” into getting hitched.

Ingredients 2 ounces of gin ½-ounce Grand Marnier ½-ounce sweet Vermouth

¼-ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice Method: Shake all the ingredients with crushed ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon zest twist.

For additional celebratory recipes, please email kitchenshrink@san.rr.com or check out www.FreeRangeClub.com.

Scotland, Queen Margaret continued the concept declaring that on Feb. 29 women could propose to any man of their druthers. If he refused, a penalty would be imposed in the form of a kiss or a gift of a silk dress or pair of gloves to be gifted to the rejected fair maiden.

An American tradition

continues in Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner” cartoon strip; Sadie Hawkins Day honors “the homeliest gal in the hills.”

When Sadie and all the other girls were given the blessing to pursue the hottest bachelors in Dogpatch, this day became synonymous with Feb. 29.

COOKIN’

Carmel Valley’s library, recreation center and other schools.

There are 30 locations in all, offering classes in everything imaginable from art to mortgage and finance.

The classes available include a class on preparing to climb Mt. Whitney to one on building a greenhouse.

The school offers classes for people from preschool age on up to age 92 — last year a 92-year-old came back to earn his high school diploma. A high number of people take the school’s classes, especially seniors and those enrolled in the ESL program.

“I always call it a vibrant community of adults,” said Stanley, who has been principal of the school for the last 12 years. “This community is very active in adult education, in putting themselves out there to keep on learning…The more you keep going and learning, the better off you’ll be.”

A brochure for the spring term should be arriving in mailboxes soon and the first day of registration for the spring term is March 9. Register online at www. sdadulted.com. To register for the March Indian cooking classes with Ritu Singla, call (760) 753-7073.

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Last week, the class learned how to make samosas, lentil soup, palak paneer (a spinach and cheese dish) and chai Indian tea.

“People always say they come back to the San Dieguito Adult School’s cooking classes because they’re hands-on classes and you actually get to make things rather than just watch a demonstration,” Stanley said.

The experience has been rewarding for Singla.

“It allows me to do something related to cooking, de-stress and have a good time with people,” Singla said. “My students are all so fun and so interested in learning about Indian food and the different spices.”

The San Dieguito Adult School has been around for over 50 years, starting at Earl Warren Middle School as just English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. The school’s programs have grown tremendously over the years, utilizing the different campuses throughout the district, as well as partnering with the city of Solana Beach’s facilities and at

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LEGAL NOTICES Legals FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012-003892 Fictitious Business Name(s): Solana Garden Cab Located at: 679 Valley Ave., #H, Solana Beach, CA., 92075, San Diego County.

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 354, Solana Beach, CA., 92075. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The ďŹ rst day of business: has not yet started.

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LLC., 1250 Prospect Street, Suite 200, San Diego, CA., 92037. State of Incorporation/Organization: Delaware. This statement was ďŹ led with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 02/03/2012. Michael Stone, RF217, Feb. 16, 23, Mar. 1, 8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012-003238 Fictitious Business Name(s): Freestyle Capital Located at: 1250 Prospect Street, Suite 200, San Diego, CA., 92037, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The ďŹ rst day of business was: 01/01/2012.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012-003417 Fictitious Business Name(s): Gluten Freedom Baking Company Located at: 8597 Spectrum Lane, San Diego, CA., 92121, San Diego County. 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: Stephanie Moceri, 17376 Calle Mayor, Rancho Santa Fe, CA., 92067. This statement was ďŹ led with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 02/06/2012. Stephanie Moceri, RSF216, Feb. 9, 16, 23, Mar. 1, 2012

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PETITION OF: Ngoc Thi Le on behalf of Benjamin James Le, minor for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Ngoc Thi Le ďŹ led a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name Benjamin James Le to Proposed Name Benjamin Quang Le. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if

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A copy of this Order To Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, Rancho Santa Fe Review. Date: Jan. 31, 2012.

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A scene from San Diego Surf Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Board Shortsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film festival.

Surf Ladies present first short films fest Saturday at The Loft FROM LOCAL REPORTS San Diego Surf Ladies will host its first annual short film festival Saturday, Feb. 25 at The Loft at UC San Diego as part of its eighth anniversary celebrations.

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by Julie Cox, director of the California Surf Museum and Ira Opper, founder of The Surf Network. Following the screenings, there will be a Q&A with filmmakers, panel members and notable surfers. Dinner and drinks will be available all night from Zanzibar.

Linda Benson, five-time World Champion and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surf icon since the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s, will host the event. Guests can expect to see films from men and women in Southern California, plus international surprises, including work from the winner of the best short film at the New York Surf Film Festival.

Sharing the stoke, the San Diego Surf Film Festival will select one of the films for screening at its inaugural festival May 11-13. (See related story, page B17) The night will also showcase new work by artists Susan Wickstrand and Christine Brailsford, plus designs from the surf swimwear company, Seea.

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About Linda Benson A native of Encinitas, Benson started surfing when she was 11 years old.

In 1959, at the age of 15, she became the youngest contestant ever to enter the International Championship at Makaha. She won.

That same year she became the first woman to ride Waimea, when she borrowed a board from the shortest guy surfing with her, paddled out and caught a couple of waves.

Using the equipment of the early 1950s, not to mention a goofy-foot in a time when most spots surfed were rights, she still managed to hold her own and gain respect for her fearless big wave riding and her ability to charge.

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Rounding out the soiree will be a raffle to benefit San Diego Surf Ladies and

Winning more than 20 first-place surfing titles from 1959 to 1969, Benson still found time to act as Annette Funicelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surfing double in the Beach Party films, and as Deborah Walleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Surfing double in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gidget Goes Hawaiian.â&#x20AC;?

Benson also received publicity by surfing in John Seversonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s films.

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San Diegoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coastkeeper. Expect a heap of great prizes from local sponsors, including a surfboard by Gary Linden.

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If you go What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Board Shorts,â&#x20AC;? a festival of short surf films by SoCal artists, inspired by women When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 Where: The Loft at UCSD Tickets: $5 at www. boxoffice.ucsd.edu Website: sandiegosurfladies.com

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prehensive assistance. To deliver positive results for her buyers and sellers, she carefully researches all of the details associated with each transaction, creates innovative marketing campaigns, and shares her extensive community knowledge. Gerke has even been known to arrange for her sellersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pets to go into day care during open houses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patti applies the same effort to the goals of her clients that she does to successfully run marathons,â&#x20AC;? said Herb Josepher, manager of Prudential Rancho Santa Fe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She visualizes the finish line at every step of the way.â&#x20AC;?

Motivated to constantly enhance the level of representation she offers her clients, Gerke earned the Certified Relocation Specialist designation, as well as several other designations pertaining to real estate. She has assisted a variety of clientele, from seasoned investors and relocating executives to first time home buyers and sellers of estate properties.

Patti Gerke can be contacted through Prudential California Realtyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rancho Santa Fe Village office, at 760-525-7269, via email at Patti@PattiGerke.com, or on the web at www.sdrelocationspecialist.com.

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For the fourth consecutive year, Prudential California Realty agent Patti Gerke has earned San Diego Magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;FIVE STAR: Overall Client Satisfactionâ&#x20AC;? award.

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Researchers contracted by the magazine surveyed more than 31,000 recent home buyers and subscribers to identify San Diego Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading professionals in real estate.

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