LA JOLLA LIGHT
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Vol. 99 Issue 26 • June 30, 2011
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Torrey Pines Road project inches forward ■ Chevys shine on
Girard Avenue Page A5
BY DAVE SCHWAB daves@lajollalight.com After public debate and a plea by Councilwoman Sherri Lightner to “move this process forward,” La Jolla Traffic & Transportation Board members approved a plan June 16 for improvements along Torrey Pines Road. After Lightner warned further delays could “prevent this project from ever being completed,”
the vote was 5-1-1 in favor of starting with the segment between La Jolla Shores Drive and Little Street, the first of four proposed segments to de done in the $26.5-million redevelopment the corridor. Dan Courtney cast the sole dissenting vote, noting he felt public safety should be the top priority — not which segment gets done first.
Councilwoman Sherri Lightner addresses the crowd. DAVE SCHWAB
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treats for the summer Page B1
adorns Whale Tails packaging Page A7
SEE ROAD, A6
Celebrate Elite basketball July 4th — school sets up La Jolla style
■ Seven tempting
■ Wyland art
Orrin Gabsch, past owner of Burns Drugs, abstained in the vote after earlier expressing fear about the Torrey Pines project hurting business. “This could be an absolute disaster for the community,” he warned. “Downtown is suffering right now and with this project I’m just afraid this will give
Gary Trousdale led Westwind Prep Academy (Phoenix) to back-to-back top 10 national high school rankings.
BY PHIL DAILEY phildailey@lajollalight.com La Jolla has never been known for producing elite college basketball players, but that may be about to change. San Diego native Gary Trousdale, who spent the past four years running the nationally ranked basketball program at Westwind Prep Academy in Phoenix, said Thursday he has set up shop in La Jolla with a basketball-only school that will be known as the La Jolla Prep Waves. Trousdale led Westwind, a charter school, to back-to-back top 10 national rankings the past two seasons and has produced 33 college players during the past three years. Twenty of those athletes have gone on to play at the Division I level,
La Jolla Fourth of July Fireworks show is a go and there will be plenty of paid parking available in nearby parking garages for those who can’t find a space on the street. ■ Fireworks will start at 9 p.m. ■ Road closure: Coast Boulevard at Prospect Street will be closed to a short distance past Ellen Browning Scripps Park from 6 to 11 p.m. ■ Paid parking available ($5 to $20): Among the garages with available spacea are those at 1200 Prospect St., 888 Prospect St., Prudential Building at 1299 Prospect St., Coast Walk garage at 1298 Prospect St., the open lot at 1251 Cave St., the Union Bank lot at the corner of Herschel Avenue and Silverado
SEE WAVES, A10
SEE JULY 4TH, A2
‘Real World’ Watch: Let us know what you know We’re hearing bits and pieces about the crew and cast of “The Real World” showing up around town. If you spot the ‘Real World’ folks — or any other celebrities around La Jolla — please e-mail us and send us a photo at editor@lajollalight.com. We’ll be keeping our eyes out too! Here’s a little of what we’ve
learned in the past week: ■ For one, Extreme Pizza has delivered orders to the Chelsea Avenue house in Bird Rock on several occasions and we’ve heard that some businesses have reached out and welcomed them to the neighborhood. There’s apparently a tight lid on those who have “official” relationships with the production company, but Kevin
Smith, owner of Extreme Pizza, had no hesitation in noting that “they love our food.”
Acknowledging that if he lived near the house where the show is being filmed, he might “have a different view,” he said he feels that anything that promotes La Jolla or the greater San Diego area and brings people here is good for business and helps keep people employed. ■ Meanwhile, the first official word about the show came from
GREG NOONAN
MTV on Thursday in the form of a press release. We didn’t learn much that we haven’t already reported, but here are excerpts from it: “Following the incredibly successful season of “The Real World: Las Vegas,” MTV begins production on its 26th cycle of the network’s longest running, hit reality
SEE REAL WORLD, A11
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