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‘Main Street’ meeting Sept. 24 A community-wide forum will be held to discuss Kilroy Realty’s One Paseo project planned for El Camino Real and Del Mar Heights Road on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 9 a.m. The meeting, at Ocean Air School, will allow Kilroy to explain its project and community members to ask questions and make comments and suggestions. One Paseo is being called a “Main Street for Carmel Valley,” a mixed use project that will be about 1.7 million square feet and will require a community plan amendment, as it is currently entitled to only 500,000 square feet and zoned for office use. The project will include residential units, shops, restaurants, office buildings, a boutique hotel and a movie theater. To learn more about the project, visit onepaseo.com. Ocean Air Elementary School is located at 11444 Canter Heights Dr., San Diego, CA 92130.
Sept. 8, 2011
Bomb scare stirs up DM No explosives found at L’Auberge BY CLAIRE HARLIN Staff Writer L’Auberge Del Mar, located at 1540 Camino Del Mar, was evacuated and streets were shut down for about five hours on Friday night, Sept. 2, following a bomb threat at the
resort hotel. San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said a call came in to L’Auberge just before 4 p.m. on Sept. 2 warning that a bomb would go off in two hours. As of 8 p.m. on Friday, Caldwell said there were no suspects, and she declined to provide more details about the call other than that the caller
seemed to be male. Sheriff’s authorities arrived and the hotel had already begun self-evacuation, with hotel guests and employees flooding into the streets, the beach and Seagrove Park. Harbor Police — the only nearby authorities equipped with bomb-sniffing dogs, See BOMB, Page 6
The corner of 15th Street and Camino Del Mar was blocked off for about five hours on Sept. 2. PHOTO: CLAIRE HARLIN
9/11: Former firefighter recalls the search for victims — including his colleagues
Duck and cover
Ian Chartrand takes advantage of a powerful south swell hitting Del Mar on Sept. 4. For other event photos, see pages B14-B15.
Dan Noonan is a longtime resident of Carmel Valley and a former member of the New York City Fire Department. Below, he shares his experience searching for victims of the 9/11 attack. For more memories of 9/11, see page B20. For 9/11 anniversary events, see page 7. BY DAN NOONAN My phone rang at 5:55 a.m. on a promising September morning. I rolled over, fought through layers of sleep, silently cursed whoever it was calling at that ungodly hour, knowing it had to be family or friends from the East Coast — it was 8:55 in New York. “This better be good,” I grouched into the phone. “Put on the TV,” my brother Mike said from Florida. “Know what time it is?” “A jet just hit the World Trade Center.”
Dan Noonan (at far right). This photo was taken in the sector that was the south tower. “What?” I slid from bed, padded to the living room, and See FIREFIGHTER, Page 14
PHOTO: JON CLARK
San Dieguito Watershed tests ‘better than most,’ according to Coastkeeper BY CLAIRE HARLN Staff Writer As part of the largest volunteer-based water quality monitoring program in the state, Coastkeeper tested waters recently and their results for the San Dieguito
Watershed show local oceans are in relatively good condition compared to other areas of San Diego. The San Dieguito Watershed includes Del Mar and stretches north to Solana Beach and east to State
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Route 79. “The watershed shows some problems typical of urbanization, such as slightly elevated concentrations of some nutrients,” said Coastkeeper spokeswoman Nicole Lee. “This is typical
of irrigation of agricultural land or overwatering of lawns.” The local sites tested are downstream from agricultural land and gold courses, which could be the reason for the elevation in
nutrients, she said. However, she said, these levels are only slightly elevated, she said, and “mostly do not exceed the standards set in the San Diego region basin plan.” One particularly note-
worthy data point was in on the Del Dios Highway next to the fruit stand, she said. There, low levels of dissolved oxygen were recorded. The dissolved oxygen levels were 4.60 mg/L, See WATERSHED, Page 6
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