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Street crews earn their keep on the streets of La Jolla By KAthy DAy kday@lajollalight.com tanding in the middle of a major street with a city crew filling potholes gives one new perspective on their job. There’s the dirt, the 350degree asphalt, the danger of standing in the middle of a street — and then there are the disrespectful drivers. As a team began working on North Torrey Pines Road on April 28 under the watchful eye of City Councilwoman Sherri Lightner, her aide Erin Demorest and two key city employees, most cars slowed down. But one driver, seemingly caught off guard by flashing lights on a truck several Sherri hundred feet Lightner away, the lights on a second truck and a long line or orange cones, floored his accelerator. As the car blew by the somewhat stunned group smoke pouring from its exhaust, Public Works Director Joe Castillo said that speeding cars and disrespectful drivers go with their jobs. He described one time someone spit on him. Then there was the time he was working on a drainage problem near the Torrey Pines Municipal Golf Course. Standing near the puddle that reached midway into the street, he said, a driver steered his car into the water and splashed the entire crew.
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Maneuvering starts over redistricting By KAthy DAy kday@lajollalight.com Joe LaCava is a man on a mission. Recently termed out as the chairman of the La Jolla Community Planning Association and a year out of his role as president of the Bird Rock Community Council, he’s trying to focus La Jollans’ attention on the current process of drawing new lines for City Council Districts. In addition to satisfying the requirement to redraw boundaries to balance population changes, this year the process includes adding a ninth council district as approved by voters in last year’s Strong Mayor measure. (Similar rebalancing must be done for the county supervisors and Joe congressional districts.) LaCava The city council district realignment is the subject of a public meeting set for 6 p.m. May 11 at the La Jolla Library, where people can have their say, and a three-week old push to get the word out about the impacts.
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Sealing the fate of the Children’s Pool Children’s Pool dog ban OK’d ■ See Page A5 Omar Santos keeps the asphalt flowing.
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Jeff Brown, left, joins Omar Santos and crew leader Mario escobar in spreading the asphalt. PHOTOS BY KATHY DAY
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I have to confess my husband implored me not to write about the seals. He works hard enough, he says, without having to come home to crosses burning on the front lawn. So let me start out by saying that it was incredibly generous of Ellen Browning Scripps to have donated the money for a breakwater at Seal Rock Point some 80 years ago as “a gratuity to children.” But in more recent years, WHAT children?
Maybe I just walked by at all the wrong times, but I rarely – pre-seals — saw many children at the Children’s Pool. In fact, most of the habitués in the last few decades seem to have been teenagers with group death wishes hanging out on the sea wall during storm surf. (They’re actually still there, same death wish, going for up-closeand-personal photo-ops with the seals.) I’m sorry, Ellen, because I know you were very well intentioned. And because in 1931, I’ll bet there weren’t that many backyard pools.
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