5-3-2012.Ramona Sentinel

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VOL. 126, ISSUE 11

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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012

Inside 20 Bluegrass Fest Musicians and music lovers are heading to the ROCC pavilion for the Ramona Bluegrass & Old West Fest this weekend...................5

Lifetime Memories Students in Ramona High’s NJROTC took the trip of a lifetime and spent Spring Break at Pearl Harbor........24

Index

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Youth News..................6 Opinion......................8 Our Town...................13 Sports........................25 Classifieds.................27 Obituaries.................36 Coupons...................38

Supervisor returns street extension to drawing board By KAREN BRAINARD San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob said she has sent the plans for the Ramona Street extension “back to the drawing board” after visiting the site of the controversial road project. “The trip out there opened my eyes,” she told the Sentinel after her Ramona Revitalization Steering Committee meeting on April 27. About 15 residents attended the meeting — more than usual — along with county staff and law enforcement officials. Resident Jim Cooper, who would not be impacted by the road project but has taken a stand against it, read from prepared material about the history of de-

sign changes for the extension, the problems it could cause, and the amount of money spent and projected to complete it. “What problem does this extension solve?” Cooper asked. The Ramona Street Extension or “completion” as some refer to it, would construct about one-third of a mile of new road to extend Ramona Street from Boundary Avenue to Warnock Drive. The design is in its fourth iteration and was scheduled by the Department of Public Works (DPW) to be completed this spring. “This is a difficult road to build,” said Jacob. The topography in that area and an aqueduct See JACOB, page 14

Officials investigate a death at Terrace Estates San Diego County Sheriff’s homicide detectives were investigating the death of 94-year-old Jean Eskridge Freeman in her home in the Ramona Terrace Estates on Tuesday afternoon. Ramona/Cal Fire Capt. Don Davis said the fire department responded to a medical alert alarm at the home in the 1200 block of H Street but Freeman was

beyond help when they arrived. Circumstances related to her death appeared suspicious, so the sheriff’s department was contacted. Officials cordoned off the area and did not release any information to the public by the time the Sentinel went to press. Freeman’s family memSee INVESTIGATION, page 18

Sentinel photos/Karen Brainard

MISS RAMONA AND TEEN MISS ARE CROWNED—Judges for the 2012 Miss Ramona Scholarship Pageant and Teen Miss Ramona Pageant, held Saturday evening, name Kilyaahwii Linton, second from right, Miss Ramona, and Chersten Sandvik, second from left, Teen Miss Ramona. Brianna Abarca, right, is Miss Ramona runner-up, and Shannon Singleton is Teen Miss Ramona runner-up. Linton also won the Miss Interview Award and Sandvik earned the Spirit and Teen Speech Awards. Abarca won the Miss Speech Award and Singleton was the recipient of the Teen Interview Award. Also receiving awards were: Alexis Herrera for Miss Photogenic, Melissa Skinner for Miss Congeniality, Emily McCubbin for Teen Photogenic, Teen Congeniality, and Staff/Directors Choice Award, and Ava Anderson for the Charlotte Austin Memorial Essay Award. Herrera also was the winner of the People’s Choice Award. The pageant was held at the Ramona Outdoor Community Center. Below, Miss Ramona 2011 Grace Woolley, left, and Teen Miss Ramona 2011 Andrea Proctor wave farewell as their reigns end and the 2012 winners are about to be announced.


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