Residential Customer Del Mar CA, 92014 ECRWSS
Volume XV, Issue 34
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Aug. 18, 2011 Published Weekly
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DMUSD staff has new digs District to start school year in Torrey Hills office ■ CCA student volunteers in Guatemala. Page 9.
BY KAREN BILLING Staff Writer The Del Mar Union School District is starting the new school year with a new district office. The district office closed for five days in July
to accomplish the move from 9th Street in Del Mar to its new Torrey Hills office on 11232 El Camino Real. The move went smoothly and district superintendent Jim Peabody joked that they don’t miss the mold, mildew, lead paint and cold water of their old digs. “We’re very happy here,” said Peabody on a tour of the new facility on Aug. 8. “It’s
great to be in a nice, professional place to do business.” School district board pres-
SEE DIGS, PAGE 6 DMUSD President Comischell Rodriguez and Superintendent Jim Peabody in Associate Superintendent Tim Asfazadour’s office. PHOTO: KAREN BILLING
Dinner benefits jockey fund ■ Travel writer always on lookout for adventure. Page B1
How did 9/11 affect you? Most of our readers can vividly recall where they were on Sept. 11, 2001. As the decade anniversary of that worldchanging event approaches, we are asking “How did 9/11 impact your life?” We invite you to submit an essay of not more than 300 words for possible publication in this newspaper and online. Also, if you are holding an event in memory of the 10th anniversary, we would like to hear about it. Submissions can be sent to: editor@rsfreview.com. Please include a color photo of yourself, sent as a jpeg attachment. The deadline to submit is Aug. 26 and Sept. 1.
Dr. Clay and Patti Cooke, Kathy Paulin, Tim Conway and Joyce and Craig Grosvenor enjoy themselvers at the 14th annual Pamplemousse Dinner Party to benefit the Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund at Pamplemousse Grille. See page B12 for more. PHOTO: JON CLARK
Thousands lack proof of whooping cough booster BY MARSHA SUTTON Senior Education Writer As students in the San Dieguito Union High School District prepare to return to school on Aug. 30, a new requirement for admittance has only been met by half the district’s students. Assembly Bill 354,
signed into law September 2010, requires all incoming seventh- to 12th-grade students to show proof of having received a whooping cough booster shot (also called Tdap) by the start of the 2011-2012 school year.
SEE BOOSTER, PAGE 15
City: Ramp could relieve fair traffic, but timing critical BY CLAIRE HARLIN Staff Writer The Del Mar City Council could make plans within the next six months for a direct-access ramp from Interstate-5 to the fairgrounds, dependent on securing funding for a traffic and environmental analysis. Such a project would coincide with the already planned widening of I-5 to eight general purpose lanes, plus four managed lanes to accommodate the projected increase in traffic in the
North Coast Corridor. “The time crunch is caused by the planning window for the I-5 expansion, which is about six months long,” said Del Mar Deputy Mayor Carl Hilliard. Alan Kosup, the California Department of Transportation’s I-5 Corridor director, said the widening will involve removing the existing undercrossing at Via de la Valle and replacing it with another bridge.
SEE RAMP, PAGE 6
Plans proceed for new middle school BY MARSHA SUTTON Senior Education Writer A San Dieguito Union High School District Facilities task force has recommended that the district exercise its option to purchase land in Pacific Highlands Ranch adjacent to Canyon Crest Academy, for a new middle school, the district’s fifth, to accommodate 1,000 students.
District data for the two existing middle schools in the southern half of the district show that, in October 2010, there were 1,469 students enrolled at Carmel Valley Middle School and 704 at Earl Warren Middle School. Preferred capacity is 1,000 at CVMS and 500 at EWMS. This puts the district over preferred capacity
by 673 students. Long-range projections indicate that, without a third middle school, CVMS will hit enrollment of 1,675 and EWMS will see 803 students – nearly 1,000 students over capacity. The task force recommendation, based on housing projections showing
SEE PLANS, PAGE 6