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POW DIGEST Help Grad Nite Poway High School will hold a Spring Craft & Business Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14 in the school parking lot. Purchase crafts, jewelr y, ceramics, candles, purses and other items to support Grad Nite.
Rummage sale Team Survivor San Diego, which provides free fitness programs for female cancer survivors, is holding a fundraising rummage sale 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at 15587 Garden Road, Poway.
Titanic artifacts A display of pieces recovered from the Titanic is at the Poway Ultra Star Cinemas 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 13.
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The Poway Valley Garden Club is celebrating 50 years of beautifying the city this year, coinciding with the 34th annual Standard Flower Show and Plant Sale, which is being held 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at Old Poway Park. The theme of this year’s show is “Celebration,” aptly, and will include a sale of reasonably priced plants and flowers in the gazebo, alongside the flower show itself. The flower show competition will feature a number of categories, including roses,
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Poway Valley Garden Club members, circa 1965. irises, succulents, fruits, vegetables and berries, annuals, biennials, perennials, and trees and shrubs. There is also a design competition, of which the favorite category is miniature
design, where competitors have to design 3.5-, 5- and 8-inch designs, including containers. The Poway Valley Garden Club began in the fall See FLOWERS, Page A12
SPIRIT DAY SATURDAY
The annual spring Poway Street Fair is returning 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15, with lots of fun for the whole family. The fair will take place on Midland Road, between Poway Road and Hilleary Place. “We’re really excited that the rain will be gone Saturday morning,” said Luanne Hulsizer, president and CEO at the Poway Chamber of Commerce, which has put on the fair for over 20 years. Hulsizer is hoping the nice weather will draw a large crowd to the fair. Attendees will have plenty to see and do, with over 150
Volunteers are still needed. Story on Page A3 vendor booths available for shopping, browsing and information, everything from solar power companies to ar ts and crafts, including handmade jewelry. There will be several political booths as well, where you can meet candidates for Congress and Senate. Don’t forget to check out the News Chieftain’s booth, where you can enter a drawing for prizes and meet some of the staff. Food has always been a See FAIR, Page A12
Redevelopment dissolution now in hands of oversight panel
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Meeting for the first time Tuesday morning, a new board charged with overseeing the disbanding of Poway’s redevelopment program took a collective deep breath and approved using $34.4 million in collected property taxes to pay program expenditures through June 30. The seven-member board, representing public agencies re-
ceiving property taxes within the city, took what was essentially a leap of faith based on a detailed report prepared by city staff that had been previously approved by the City Council. The panel also approved a report declaring that the redevelopment agency’s total outstanding debts and obligations through 2033 — the scheduled end of the redevelopment project — is $422.7 million. These were the first of many
big decisions the state-mandated “oversight board” will be making in the next two to three years as it fulfills its obligation to wind down the affairs of the redevelopment agency (RDA). The Poway agency, along with about 400 similar RDAs across the state, officially went out of business on Feb. 1. Governor Jerry Brown and the state Legislature took the action on the theor y that property taxes that for many
years had been retained by the RDAs would be better used to fund state services. Eventually, the board will decide how best to dispose of up to 78 properties that had been owned by the RDA and have since been placed in the custody of either the city or the new Poway Housing Authority. The Oversight Board will be required under state law to maximize profits See BOARD, Page A21
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