Residential Customer Del Mar CA, 92014 ECRWSS
Volume XV, Issue 30
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July 21, 2011 Published Weekly
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New luxury theater opening at DM Highlands Town Center July 22 BY KAREN BILLING STAFF WRITER Imagine a movie theater where, as you’re reclining in a leather chair to catch the last “Harry Potter” movie, you can order up sushi or chocolate-covered popcorn at the press of button. That unique, elevated movie-going experience is here now in Carmel Valley with Del Mar Highlands’ new Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas, opening this Friday, July 22.
■ After the Finish Line rescues and cares for former racehorses. Page 20
Close to $7 million was plugged into the former UltraStar Cinema to bring it up to the luxury level, a new concept for the United States from Cinepolis, a Mexican theater chain. “We’re here to become part of the community,” said Carlos Wellman, Cinepolis managing director. “We’re very happy to start a new team and adventure out here.” “We hope the community re-
ally embraces it,” echoed Cinepolis partner Adolfo Fastlicht, who noted that the new theater created more than 70 jobs. Cinepolis opened its first theater in Mexico in 1947 and has since become the largest movie chain in Latin America and fourth largest in the world. Cinepolis developed its“VIP” luxury experi-
SEE THEATER, PAGE 6
And they’re off ...
Pickens’ passion: Saving mustangs DM homeowner hopes to create Nevada preserve for wild horses
■ Local woman celebrates 110th birthday. Page 10
Opening Day at the Races once again kicked off the racing season in style on July 20. Live racing will be held five days each week on average — Wednesdays through Sundays, with the exception of a Labor Day Monday card — through Sept. 7. For more information on the season, visit www. dmtc.com. (Above, l-r) Emilee Wilson and Kathy Wilson. Photos/Jon Clark
■ Psychologist calls subliminal therapy ‘treatment of the future.’ Page B1
BY JOE TASH CONTRIBUTOR As a child growing up in Iraq, Madeleine Pickens watched American Western movies and dreamed of immigrating to the United States. Among the images of the Wild West spirit that etched into her memory was that of mustangs roaming on the prairie. Later, as an adult, Pickens learned of the plight of wild horses in the modern American West – rounded up and confined to government corrals, or even sent to the slaughterhouse. “The idea of them running free and being gathered
up by helicopters in such a traumatic style, being disposed of or warehoused by the government was such a sad thing for me,” said Pickens, a businesswoman Madeleine Pickens and philanthropist, and wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens. “So I got involved.” Pickens, a Del Mar resident who owns the Del Mar Country Club, founded Saving America’s Mustangs, a nonprofit foundation. So far, she has purchased two ranches in northeast Nevada totaling more than 18,000
SEE MUSTANGS, PAGE 6
$4M awarded to South Coast Marine Protected Areas Program A Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher and several others from the San Diego area are among those who will be working on a program to collect baseline information and initial monitoring of the
newly designated South Coast marine protected areas (MPAs). The Ocean Protection Council has awarded $4 million to support the projects, which will collect information for up to three years in-
side and outside the protected areas in the South Coast region from Point Conception in Santa Barbara County to the California/Mexico border, according to a press release. The California Fish and
Game Commission adopted the South Coast MPAs in December of 2010, as a step toward establishing a statewide network of MPAs, as required under the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act. The MPAs are scheduled to take
effect on Oct. 1, 2011. Kevin Hovel, San Diego State University; Ed Parnell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; Doug
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