La Jolla Light
Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913
Vol. 100, Issue 27 • July 5, 2012
Online Daily at www.lajollalight.com
Residential Customer La Jolla, CA 92037 ECRWSS PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAN DIEGO, CA PERMIT NO. 1980
Congressman introduces largely symbolic bill to save La Jolla post office
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Stingray Alert
Biz roundup: What’s in? What’s out? A9
Swimmers warned to watch their steps By Pat Sherman s coastal waters warm and the tide recedes, the flattened bodies of stingrays lie stealthily on the sandy shoreline, waiting for a small crustacean or fish to snack upon. Instead, what they often encounter is a human foot. Invariably, the summer influx of beachgoers means a spike in stingray injuries, which, though not fatal, are extremely painful and could lead to infection if not treated properly. On Sunday, San Diego lifeguards reported 39 stings off San Diego’s coastline, including five at Black’s Beach and 12 at La Jolla Shores. “La Jolla Shores is a classic place for them (to gather),” said Nigella Hillgarth, executive director of the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. “In recent years we’ve seen an increase there. It’s a fairly sheltered, sandy beach. The gradual, sandy slope (provides) a nice place where
A La Jolla Pop Warner gears up for start of season, A18
By Pat Sherman San Diego Congressman and mayoral candidate Bob Filner (D-51st) introduced legislation on Thursday, June 29 that would allow the La Jolla Historical Society the right of first refusal to purchase the La Jolla post office building at 1140 Wall St. Since January, when USPS announced its intent to sell the Wall Street building and relocate postal services elsewhere in the Village, a group of community activists, historians, architects and preservationists known as the Save Our La Jolla Post Office Task Force has been working to save the post office. Strategies include finding a Bob Filner sympathetic buyer, such as the historical society, to purchase the building and keep postal operations there. The new owner might then lease unused portions of the building to nonprofit community groups or a compatible business to help pay the mortgage. The task force has approached legislators such as Filner and fellow Congress members Susan Davis (D-53rd) and Brian Bilbray (R-50th) to have language inserted into the 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2012 (S.B.1789) that would
See Stingray, A15
See Post Office, A8
Vons to the rescue! Summer concerts saved! Ukulele tunes: The music of summer, B1
Volunteers tackle Children’s Pool clean up, B12
By Shelli DeRobertis Free summer concerts begin Sunday, July 15 in Scripps Park at La Jolla Cove, and the show will go on thanks to help from the neighborhood Vons, which has agreed to wash the dirty hotdog pots after each concert. This year marks the 29th season that the group, Concerts By The Sea, has presented summer entertainment, which also includes concession stands selling hotdogs, chips, ice cream, popcorn and sodas. The proceeds from the sale of some 500 hotdogs per concert are used, in part, to fund the shows. But this year, during a pre-concert inspection for the annual permit, county health officer Laura Costello found that the single compartment sink used to wash the pots — and the temperature of the hot water — were out of compliance. The organizers were operating under the wrong type of permit all those years
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Music Schedule ■ Showtimes: 2-4 p.m. Sundays,
Last summer The Heroes opened the concert season at the Cove, this year they are the closing act on Sept. 2.
Ellen Browning Scripps Park, 1180 Coast Blvd. ■ J uly 15: Big Time Operator, swing ■ July 22: Bill Magee Blues Band ■ July 29: Theo & the Zydeco Patrol, Cajun blues ■ Aug. 5: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, country/Americana ■ Aug. 12: Benny Hollman’s Big Band Explosion, big band jazz ■ Aug. 19: Rockola ■ Aug. 26: Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra ■ Sept. 2: The Heroes, rock ‘n’ roll past; their permit was for pre-packaged foods only. The news, sent via a health department notice, came as a shock to the concert organizers just weeks before the first show and sent them scurry-
ing for a remedy. “All we have in the way of dishes are three hot pots and two sets of tongs,” said Shirleymae Davis, president of Concerts By The Sea. “We’ve been washing them carefully for 28
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years and no one’s ever gotten sick.” Davis said there’s a large sink in the storeroom at the park that was built by the group.
See Concerts, A15
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