La JoLLa Light
Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913
Vol. 99 Issue 36 • September 8, 2011
Reflections of
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Local retail markets face own challenges By JoE taSh Positive signs are evident in both the La Jolla and Del Mar central business districts, although the two villages are still feeling the effects of the 2008 recession. In La Jolla, the vacancy rate among restaurant, office and retail buildings is down from a year ago, said veteran commercial brokers familiar with the village, although advertisements for vacancies still adorn windows on many blocks. Meanwhile, to the north in Del Mar, sales tax revenue is up — as it is in La Jolla — and occupancy of retail storefronts appears to be relatively stable.
■ La Jolla students
back on campus Page A4
■ UCSD tours,
guidebook tout marvels on campus Page B1
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■ La Jollan wants
all to ‘Hear Freedom Ring’ Page B9
La Jolla native Erik Skoldberg painted this image to recall the first responders who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. It was sold to help raise funds to renovate La Jolla’s Fire Station 9, www.kindtonine.org. COURTESY
Area residents reveal how the acts of terrorism affected their lives By DavE SchwaB daves@lajollalight.com or many, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were life changing. Whether they were directly impacted or just felt the emotional tug from afar, people moved forward with memories indelibly etched in their souls. We asked local residents to share their stories.
F ■ La Jolla schools
open football season Page A21
■ Mary E. Woodall The event was cataclysmic
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for La Jollan Mary E. Woodall, mother of Brent Woodall, a 1988 La Jolla High grad who died, along Brent with 66 cowoodall workers, in the terrorist attacks. A minor-league- baseballpitcher-turned-equities-trader, he was working at his job
in the World Trade Center that day. “It definitely changed our family dynamics,” she wrote in an e-mail to the Light. “Brent’s daughter, who is almost 9 ½, says that her daddy is in heaven; she will never know him, but fortunately has a wonderful ‘daddy’ as her mom remarried a few years ago. Brent’s nieces and nephew
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■ Events to honor
those lost on 9/11
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■ Ways to donate,
remember victims
Page A9
LJHS student to sing Anthem at Padres game SpEcIaL to thE LIght Vaill D’Angelo, a 15-yearold sophomore at La Jolla High, remembers seeing her first Padres game with her grandparents when she was just 3 years old. She remembers vaill hearing The D’angelo National Anthem being sung on the field and the crowd showing SEE SIng, a14
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