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Volume 32 Number 1
RSF resident selected to testify before Congress
Providing The Ranch with Three Decades of Quality Journalism
‘Murder by the Book’
Fields to urge lawmakers not to cut health care technology funds BY JOE TASH When Willa Fields testifies before Congress in a few weeks, she’ll have a simple message regarding federal funding to help doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals convert to electronic medical records: “Don’t cut Willa Fields the money because we’re making progress, guys.” Fields, 65, a Rancho Santa Fe resident, is a professor of nursing at San Diego State University and board chair of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a national nonprofit group that supports improving health care through information technology and management systems. She was chosen though a competitive interview process to serve on a panel of experts that will testify on the effectiveness of federal support for health information technology, specifically a $19 billion appropriation passed by Congress in 2009. The hearing will be conSee CONGRESS, page 18
Cheryl Giustiniano, Kim Smart, Jill Stiker, Sophia Alsadek and Neda Noorani attend ‘Murder by the Book,’ the Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild fundraiser Sept. 15 at the Morgan Run Club & Resort. See page 20. PHOTO: JON CLARK
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Inn renovations begin with blending of new, traditional BY KAREN BILLING Blending tradition with upscale upgrades is a challenge the new ownership and management team at The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe is taking head on. The beginning of September marked the start of renovations for the historic hotel, which was purchased by JMI Realty in April. The new ownership group, including local residents John Kratzer and John Moores, is passionate about preserving The Inn as a true community asset and they look to create a hub of activity for residents, enhance traditions and bring a whole new set of visitors in to experience Rancho Santa Fe. “This is a wonderful opportunity for both the new ownership group and the community,” said General Manager Gordon MacMitchell. “The ownership is injecting $12 million to bring luster back to the property, not taking away any of the historical integrity but adding so much more to it.”
MacMitchell said the property has such “great bones” that the real focus is on taking time to improve the interiors of the guest rooms — the front bungalows will carry a “starlit nostalgia” while the rest of the resort will have a perfect “country elegance.” “Every single aspect of the property is being touched,” said Pamela Devaney of The Inn’s public relations team Resonate PR. Construction work has already quietly begun at The Inn inside the Honeysuckle and Azalea suites and model rooms should be completed in about eight weeks. The renovation will also come with a spa, a resource that The Inn has never had before, with five to six treatment rooms. Devaney said that the spa will offer unique treatments and they have their eye on a spa director who will be a perfect fit for the community. The pool area will be refreshed See INN, page 18
Celebrate RSF resident’s controversial documentary attracting viewers Rancho Days Some of the investors in ‘2016: Obama’s America’ are from Rancho Santa Fe Sept. 28-Oct. 7! BY JOE TASH ical documentary, behind Obama’s Rage.” In an inter- ture.” film uses excerpts A controversial, harshly only “Fahrenheit 9/11” by view, D’Souza said 25 people For informa- critical documentary about Michael Moore, according contributed $100,000 apiece fromTheObama’s own book, “Dreams From My Father,” to raise the $2.5 to the film industry Barack Obama — which astion on the million he needed to advance D’Souza’s theory Deadline. serts the President holds website to make the film that the President holds anWord, anti-American com. festive commu- “Third and some of the in- ti-colonial views derived D i n e s h views” — has close ties to vestors are from from his father, a Kenyan Ranch and Ran- D’Souza, a wellnity events to Fairbanks economist, which drive him Rancho Santa Fe. known conservative cho Santa Fe. “These are to seek to diminish AmeriAs of mid-September, writer and combe held during [people] from my ca’s wealth and standing in “2016: Obama’s America” mentator who lives Rolodex… they like the world. Rancho Days, was playing on more than in Fairbanks Ranch “Obama would like to my work and find 2,000 screens in theaters with his wife and my arguments in- see a smaller, poorer Amerisee the insert across the country, includ- daughter, co-directDinesh teresting,” D’Souza ca with a shrunken footing many in San Diego ed and co-wrote the D’Souza inside said. “And they’re print in the world. He’s doCounty. It had raked in d o c u m e n t a r y , $26.2 million, the second- which is based on his 2010 concerned about the impact this paper. “The Roots of of Obama on America’s fuhighest total ever for a polit- book, See DOCUMENTARY, page 9 Li t s Ju
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