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VOLUME 29 NUMBER 11

March 14, 2013

Parents, DM school district staff grapple with budget cuts at town hall forum BY KAREN BILLING The Del Mar Union School District’s town hall budget forum on March 11 looked like a giant classroom in the Del Mar Hills Academy multi-use room as teachers, parents and staff members sat at a cluster of tables having difficult discussions, scribbling numbers on paper trying to come up with $2.5 million in cuts. The workshop format of the forum allowed for 59

participants and an audience of observers to provide the district with their last pieces of input before Superintendent Holly McClurg makes her final budget-trimming recommendations at the March 20 board meeting. “It is very important that the community play a role,” said Doug Rafner, board president. “We want to keep the lines of communication very much open.” Rafner said the forum

empowered people in the room and made them a part of the process. The district tapped Dr. Jennifer Jeffries to lead the forum, a former superintendent and now a private consultant and a professor at California State University San Marcos. “Three of my 10 years as superintendent were conversations like this,” Jeffries said of the challenging time the district is facing. The forum tables in-

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BY JOE TASH Elephant rides – a tradition at the San Diego County Fair for nearly 30 years – will once again be offered at this year’s fair, in spite of a renewed effort by opponents of the rides to have them banned from the fairgrounds. A dozen speakers urged the board of the 22nd District Agricultural Association, which runs the state-owned fairgrounds, to ban the ride at this year’s fair, which runs from June 8 through July 4. The board, however, voted

unanimously at its meeting on Tuesday, March 12, to approve a contract with Have Trunk Will Travel, which has operated the fair’s elephant rides for 29 years, to provide the rides at this year’s fair. The issue came up last in November 2011, when dozens of people spoke for more than two hours before the board, both in favor of and opposing the elephant rides. At that time, a motion to ban the rides failed to get the required votes, so a compromise was reached See ELEPHANT, Page 6

time. Her recommendations include $1.2 million in cuts subject to negotiation and $1 million not subject to negotiations, the biggest chunks being increasing class sizes in kindergarten to third grade to 22:1, resulting in $550,000 in savings and five furlough days at $682,500. In solutions not subject to negotiations, the biggest cuts proposed are five furSee FORUM, Page 6

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Elephant rides to be held at fair again this year

cluded 59 participants representing stakeholder groups across the district. There were 12 parents, 21 teachers, 21 classified staff members and five district office representatives. They met in three 25-minute rounds of both blended perspective groups and like peers. The groups were looking at budget recommendations that McClurg made at the Feb. 27 board meeting, her “best thinking” based on what she knows at this

BY JOE TASH A long-planned widening of the turf track at the Del Mar Fairgrounds received approval from the board of directors of the 22nd District Agricultural Association on Tuesday, March 12, in an effort to improve track safety and put San Diego County in the running for the prestigious Breeder’s Cup horse racing event. “This is a really big deal,” said board president Adam Day. The board approved the project, which is budgeted at $3.7 million, on a unanimous vote. Along with approving the project itself, the board also approved a “mitigated negative declaration,” an environmental document which spells out

steps the district will take to minimize or eliminate potential environmental impacts from the project. The California Coastal Commission also must approve the project, and that panel is expected to consider the turf track expansion at its meeting in April, said director David Watson. The 22nd DAA operates the state-owned fairgrounds. The property is home to the annual San Diego County Fair, as well as a horse racing meet operated by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. The fairgrounds currently has two horse-racing tracks – the turf track and a polytrack, which runs outside the turf track. The project approved by the board will widen the turf track by See TURF, Page 6

Fairgrounds board agrees to help Del Mar meet state affordable housing requirements BY JOE TASH The 22nd District Agricultural Association, which operates the state-owned Del Mar Fairgrounds, agreed Tuesday, March 12, to work with the city of Del Mar to help the city meet its state requirements for providing affordable housing. Under a resolution approved unanimously by the fair board, the agency will partner with the city to help Del Mar meet its affordable housing requirements. The fairgrounds currently has housing on its grounds for temporary workers during the annual San

Diego County Fair and horse-racing meet. However, that housing does not qualify under state affordable housing rules because the dormitory style units do not have their own kitchens and bathrooms, said director David Watson, who is working with the city on the housing issue along with director Lisa Barkett. The agriculture district is planning to replace its aging housing stock, said Watson, and the agreement with Del Mar calls for the city to pay the additional cost of See HOUSING, Page 6

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Meet your Del Mar Mayor: Sinnott uses customer service strategies to better Del Mar

Progress being made on long-planned Pacific Highlands Ranch park

BY CLAIRE HARLIN Charged with the daunting task of heading up customer service for San Diego Gas & Electric amid rate increases more than a decade ago, Terry Sinnott realized the importance of letting people have as much choice and control as possible — not being bureaucratic when things seems to be, well, bureaucratic. Serving as Del Mar’s Mayor since the turn of the new year and as a City Council member since 2010, Sinnott said customer service looks much the same when dealing with the residents of Del Mar. “Whether you are the customer of a utility company or city government, it seems there’s not a lot of choice because there’s only one entity to talk to,” said Sinnott, a Del Mar resident since 1976. “But that doesn’t mean all services are the same and they are not all mandated.” Sinnott successfully strategized how to provide a two-way street of communication between SDG&E and customers in order to target and improve weaknesses,

BY KAREN BILLING Pacific Highlands Ranch (PHR) is inching closer to finally getting its longawaited, fully-fundedsince-2008, much-delayed Gonzales Canyon Neighborhood Park. Residents whose children have played on asphalt for six or seven years might be able to unleash their kids on fresh park greens by late next year. Schmidt Design Group has completed a community-wide survey and drawn up three design alternatives for the park. It is the hope once the design is finalized it will go to the Carmel Valley Parks and Recreation Council for design review and city public hearings by

Del Mar Mayor Terry Sinnott with his Rhodesian Ridgeback mix Kai. Courtesy photo and he went on to start his own consulting company in which he continued to help organizations achieve their goals, mainly related to customer service-related and strategic planning. Sinnott said he hopes his experience with customer service can work to the benefit of Del Mar, and he’d like to implement some measures that proved successful during his career. At the top of that list is con-

ducting a survey of residents to gauge their perception of how the city is doing in the services it provides. “Real effective customer service is based on learning, and you have to interact with customers to learn what they are experiencing and what’s positive and negative, and from that information you can develop new skills and strategies to make it better,” Sinnott said, adding that, with the support of the council, he would like to see a thorough inventory of the city’s various services performed. As a consultant, Sinnott said he was generally charged with helping executives of large companies or organizations proceed with ideas or initiatives from the idea stage all the way to implementation. “The challenge is to figure out the strategy, set goals and help the organization understand the idea and know how to implement it,” he said. Similarly, issues or ideas presented on the City Council must be represented to the commuSee SINNOTT, page 19

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June. Beth Fischer, Pardee Homes division president, said they are committed to delivering the park by December of 2014. The Carmel Valley Parks and Recreation Council established a Gonzales Canyon Neighborhood Park ad hoc committee at its March 5 meeting, with the idea being to get planning into the hands of people who actually live in Pacific Highlands Ranch. The subcommittee’s intent is to build a dialogue so residents feel like the park represents what they want, according to Ken Farinksy, a CV Parks and Recreation Council board member who

will serve on the committee. “This has been one of the highest priorities of Pacific Highlands Ranch and we took it to a citywide vote in 2010 to make sure our community’s future happens. We want to make sure this park has the voice of Pacific Highlands Ranch so the new park committee includes five residents from PHR, including me,” said Manjeet Ranu, a Gonzales Canyon Neighborhood Park ad hoc committee member who is also the PHR representative on the Carmel Valley Community Planning Board. “We will be watching…There will be no more delays, this park is going to See PARK, page 19

Del Mar gun show draws large crowd BY JOE TASH A gun show held last weekend (March 9-10) at the Del Mar Fairgrounds attracted record crowds, two months after the board that oversees the state-owned fairgrounds declined to act on public requests to end future gun shows at the venue. Del Mar Fairgrounds General Manager Tim Fennell said Tuesday at the board’s regular monthly meeting that about twice as many people attended this event as have come to previous gun shows staged by Crossroads of the West, the company that

runs the shows under a contract with the fairgrounds. The company’s current contract runs for three more years. Fennell said people began showing up about 4 a.m., some five hours before the show’s 9 a.m. opening on Saturday, and that 5,000 to 6,000 people were in line by the time the show opened. Board president Adam Day said the number of law enforcement officers and private security guards has been increased at the gun show, following shootings at gun shows in other cities.

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SB volunteer and artist sends love of at least 1,000 to Newtown BY CLAIRE HARLIN Solana Beach resident Joel Harris’s big heart is known around San Diego, as he has for years volunteered his time conducting free art classes for kids, special needs adults and wounded veterans almost every day of the week. So it’s no wonder that his wounded heart after the Sandy Hook shooting led him to gather more than 1,000 signatures around the city on a 30-foot paper scroll. He asked Mayor Mike Nichols to offer the last signature before sending to the city of Newtown, Conn. in January. “Rather than just hold it inside, it’s important to be more active and do something to get it out,” said Harris, who was named “Volunteer of the Year” in 2012 by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. “I wanted to make a gigantic card, but then that just turned into a scroll and we kept adding and adding.” Harris began his effort with the 20 ASN (adults with special needs) students he teaches art to once a week at the Solana Beach Library, but then he decided not to stop there, and took the scroll to Earl Warren

Joel Harris paints his original artwork derived from his children’s books on the walls of a garden designed for kids at the VA Medical Center in La Jolla. COURTESY PHOTO Middle School for the students to sign. Harris then went to City Hall, where he spoke with city officials about his project, and before he even made it back to the library, he had received a message from Mayor Nichols praising the idea and letting him know the city could be sending out an eBlast to all

residents, letting them know they could go to the Solana Beach Library to leave their signatures. Harris didn’t stop there. He took the scroll to the Hispanic congregation of the North Coast Fellowship in Solana Beach to let parishioners sign it during their Christmas service. “Then I thought, ‘Why

not bring it to the Presbyterian Church?’” Harris said, “Then I took it to the fire station, I took it to Starbucks, I just kept going.” One of the most memorable experiences was watching a lady pace calmly for two hours at the library, formulating her thoughts before writing. But Harris said he never

read any of the messages, except for a select few that appeared in a YouTube video about the scroll (http:// w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=B6GUlDUwGxQ). “I didn’t want to intrude on people’s thoughts and feelings,” he said. “It was so private and sacred; I felt it came from their hearts and minds.” And where did Harris get all that paper and supplies? From the studio of the late Charles Emery, a well known local sculptor, which was willed along with all his supplies to Harris, a fellow Optimist Club member, when Emery passed away. A former NASA artist charged with making illustrations of the Earth to be used as visual aids on Apollo missions, Harris is passionate about sharing his love of art with others and using it as a therapy tool he believes deeply in. Having been paralyzed for four years at the age of 3, he said he honed is skills during that time and also developed a soft spot for those with physical disabilities, which have for years been the focus of his art therapy volunteerism. He likewise believes that “the armed services is the most

Students at Earl Warren sign a 30-foot scroll created by Joel Harris to send to Newtown, Conn. important job in the country,” and because his condition prevented him from serving, he said helping wounded veterans through art therapy at the VA hospital in La Jolla is his way of giving back. “I believe that everyone in this country should do their part somehow,” he said. “It’s my payback, and art really does heal the body and soul.” For more information about Harris’s weekly classes, contact the Solana Beach Library at (858) 755-1404.

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Local author’s debut novel looks at life ‘Between Boyfriends’ BY JOE TASH Like Jan Weston, the main character in her debut novel, “Between Boyfriends,” local author SárkaJonae Miller is single, grew up in San Diego and worked at various times as a pet groomer and massage therapist. But she doesn’t consider her novel autobiographical, because she doesn’t share her protagonist’s obsession with men and relationships, nor her self-centered view of the world. Rather, Jan is a composite of a number of people Miller met while earning a degree in magazine journalism at Syracuse University, and from her high schools days. While she and most of her fellow students focused on their classes and other aspects of their lives, Miller said, certain people spent all of their waking moments thinking about their current or future boyfriends. “That’s all they ever talked about,” she said. That got her thinking about what would happen to these young women if they just stopped dating

Sárka-Jonae Miller cold turkey, which is what Jan Weston does after suffering through a particularly traumatic breakup. The novel, which is available on Amazon.com as an e-book, chronicles Jan’s life as she works hard at staying away from dating and also to become financially independent when her wealthy parents cut off her living allowance. Miller, 31, sought to infuse her character’s exploits with humor as she encounters men she would certainly have dated in the past. “She’s like someone going on a diet and trying to

avoid fast food, and everywhere she goes is a fast-food restaurant,” said Miller. Over the course of the book, Jan, who is in her early 20s, begins to grow as a person and even strikes up a true friendship with a man, a first for her. “Something I was adamant about, it had to be realistic, she had to change and grow at a realistic pace and everything was not going to get resolved by the end of the book. But she makes a lot of progress and definitely becomes a more likeable person. She’s someone you’d want to be friends with by the end of the book,” Miller said. Miller considers her book to belong to the genre of “chick lit,” a branch of women’s fiction that includes such books as “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and “Confessions of a Shopaholic.” Books in the chick lit genre are light-hearted and humorous, but can also deal with serious subjects such as divorce, career issues and other life-changing situations, Miller said. The books often fall into the category

of beach reading, and the audience is mostly women in their mid-20s through mid-30s. The genre exploded in the 1990s, and then become overdone, leading publishers to shy away from chick lit, said a San Diego writer who goes by the pen-name of Juliette Sobanet. Self-publishing on sites like Amazon has led to a resurgence of chick lit in recent years, Sobanet said. “I think it’s gained a new bit of popularity,” she said. Sobanet’s first two novels, “Sleeping with Paris” and “Kissed in Paris,” were self-published as ebooks, but a publishing

arm of Amazon will reissue them this summer in print versions, part of a four-book deal she recently signed. Sobanet said her books — which are set in France — appeal both to Francophiles and chick lit fans, including some male readers. “There’s a huge audience for this type of book,” she said, referring to the chick lit genre. Sobanet and Miller came in contact in an online forum where chick lit writers support each other and exchange ideas. When she’s not writing novels, Miller said her “day job” is writing about health and fitness for a number of websites, including LiveStrong.com and NaturalNews.com. Miller is already working on a sequel to “Between Boyfriends,” in which her character travels to Thailand to learn Thai massage. The story will draw on Miller’s own travel experiences in Thailand, such as living in a religious center for several days, where she took the vows of a Buddhist nun and rose at 4:30 a.m. for prayers

and meditation. “Between Boyfriends” has climbed up the Amazon charts and was recently listed No. 9 for humorous fiction. Miller is hoping to land with a small or mediumsized publisher who can help her promote her book and develop her series of chick lit novels. “I have tons of books to write, I have tons of ideas,” she said. For more information about Miller, including how to enter an upcoming promotion in which she’ll give away 22 copies of her ebook, visit www.sarkajonae. com.

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Cricket team finds permanent home at Del Mar Polo Fields BY CLAIRE HARLIN While cricket may be one of the most-watched sports internationally, highly regarded for the strategy it requires and values it instills, it’s little known to people in the United States. Therefore, it’s not easy to start a youth cricket program that requires adequate fields, funding and facilities. That’s the challenge Rancho Santa Fe resident Gangaram Singh has been up against for the past five years, since the lifelong cricket player was asked by a local YMCA to start a team. He’s since moved the practice location twice and built a new batting cage, and he said vying for use of public fields is near-impossible when up against sports such as soccer and football. But Singh, who is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration, has still managed to train more than 100 kids through the program as it has evolved over the years. Now, many of the field challenges are gone as the Del Mar Polo

Bishan Singh Bedi, Gangaram Singh and Raj Singh Ghai. COURTESY PHOTOS

Kids practice cricket at the Del Mar Polo Fields. Fields last month became the regular practice location for the team, which meets each Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. “It gives us a home,” said Singh, of the team, whose members range in age from 6 to 17, “and more flexibility in terms of adding more days, if we wish.”

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FORUM continued from page 1 lough days for classified and management staff at $202,000; eliminating four utility worker positions at $271,000; and eliminating eight instructional aide positions for the English Language Learner program at $101,400. Possibilities for cuts (subject to negotiation) also included freezing step raises at $485,000; reducing salaries 1 percent for certificated employees at $230,000; and a mix of furlough days. “Somewhere between these lists has to come the $2.5 million magic moment,” Jeffries said. In an effort to be completely transparent, the input from participants and observers will be posted online. Through snippets of conversations around the buzzing room, it appeared that small class sizes is valued by both teachers and parents and is an area that

people would not like to see impacted. “No way,” said one parent adamantly about increasing class sizes. One teacher argued that the 22 number was a soft 22 and that it could be more like 24:1. Parents stated that increasing class sizes would set a precedent from which they could not return and it would represent a commitment to becoming a different district. Arguments were made that the solutions should be more temporary or reversible and as far away from a direct impact on the children as possible. Many believed there were creative ways to handle the furloughs, such as targeting days students are not in class, such as teacher prep days before the school year begins and days at the end of the school year. The furlough is basically like a salary reduction, some said, but is the lesser of those two evils. Restructuring the Ex-

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tended Studies Curriculum, which would result in a savings of $216,000 was reviewed. While the groups reflected that it would be a little less time in subjects such as art, science, technology, music and PE it would be a less disruptive solution than class size increases. Another possible solution subject to negotiation is suspending oversize class payment, a savings of $142,000. “I’ve already given that stipend up,” said one teacher. “There’s not one district in California that pays you extra for one kid…Teachers need to give.” The teacher said that in her five years in the district, the district could have saved over $700,000 in oversize class stipends. Another parent looked at one option — not subject to negotiations — of eliminating eight library media specialist positions that would save $250,000. “That’s a huge number,” the parent said and noted that the role of libraries is changing and will continue to change so the district has an opportunity to rethink what that position means. As a reflection of how difficult the decisions are, those at the table knew the names of the people who would be impacted by such a cut. The purpose: Attaching a face made it more than just a number on a list to tally up.

TURF continued from page 1 25 percent. Day said the primary purpose of the work is to improve safety for both horses and riders. But widening the track will also allow more horses to compete in each race, improving the track’s betting “handle,” and bringing in more revenue to the district. By widening the turf track, Del Mar will put itself in contention for hosting the Breeder’s Cup, an annual two-day horse racing event scheduled this year for Nov. 1 and 2 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. “It’s been described to me as bigger and better than the Super Bowl in terms of economic impact,” Day said of the Breeder’s Cup. If the project receives approval from the Coastal Commission, work is scheduled to begin on Sept. 5, the day after this year’s Del Mar race meet ends, Josh Rubinstein, executive vice president with the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, told the board. Construction is expected to take about eight months, and will be completed before the 2014 race meet begins in July, Day said. The turf that will be used to increase the size of the turf track is now being grown in the Coachella Valley, Rubinstein said.

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Shred-A-Thon and Free E-Waste Drop Off benefit to be held March 30 in SB A Shred-a-Thon and Free E-Waste Drop Off benefitting the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito will be held on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito, Harper Branch, at 533 Lomas Santa Fe Drive in the front parking lot. For more information about the Shred-a-Thon and Free E-Waste Event, please call (858) 793-7345. Boxes for your shredding materials can be purchased at the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito or brought by the day of the event.

Dr. Stuart Grauer launches book on ‘Renegade Educators’ at Warwick’s event Dr. Stuart Grauer, Head of School at The Grauer School in Encinitas, has been invited to participate in an author book-signing event and lecture at Warwick’s in La Jolla on Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. to launch the release of his book, “Real Teachers: True Stories of Renegade Educators” (publisher, SelectBooks, Inc.). The event will feature an acoustical guitar performance by The Grauer School’s Senior Casper Messmann and includes complimentary refreshments; it’s free and open to the public, however, seating is limited and reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and eligible for author signature exclusively with acquisition at Warwick’s. To register to attend the event, visit www.grauerschool.com/realteachers-warwicks/.

HOUSING continued from page 1 bringing the housing units into compliance with state affordable housing rules. The resolution said the fairgrounds will provide between one and 50 affordable housing units to help the city meet its requirements. The Del Mar City Council passed a similar resolution, to work with the 22nd DAA on the affordable housing issue, at its Feb . 19 meeting.

ELEPHANT continued from page 1 in which the board will reconsider the issue following the 2014 fair At Tuesday’s meeting, board members – even those who were in favor of banning the rides at the November 2011 meeting – said they wanted to stick by their earlier decision and take up the issue again after next year’s fair. In 2014, new guidelines from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums will take effect, advising elephant trainers to avoid all direct contact with elephants, and instead work with the animals through a barrier. The fair board voted in spite of pleas from ride opponents, including animal rights activists, who said the animals are subjected to cruel treatment by trainers, and that the rides pose a safety risk to children. “Not only are they cruel, unusual and inhumane, but they’re an accident waiting to happen,” said Melissa MacDonald.

Del Mar City Manager Scott Huth told the fair board Tuesday that Del Mar is seeking to provide affordable housing throughout the city, and the fairgrounds units will be one element of the city’s efforts to meet its affordable housing requirements. According to a city staff report, Del Mar is required to provide 71 new housing units, 22 of them considered affordable, between now and 2021.

“We’re wondering why the fairgrounds is continuing to play Russian roulette with the elephant rides,” Jane Cartmill of San Diego Animal Advocates. Board members, however, said they had not seen evidence either of abuse to elephants by Have Trunk Will Travel, or incidents in which children were injured on elephant rides. “I’m not convinced… that there’s been injury to children from riding elephants, at least in the last 10 years,” said director Frederick Schenk. Director Russ Penniman said there is educational value to allowing children to interact with elephants, because some children might not be able to see them at local attractions such as the zoo or safari park. He denied that the rides, which generated just under $13,000 for the fairgrounds in 2011, were a major revenue generator, as some ride opponents suggested “This is not a money issue,” Penniman said.

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Local Democratic Club to host international speaker Azim Khamisa •Kh amisa is also an award-winning author and president of the Child Safety Network On Thursday, March 28, from 6:30-8:30 p.m., the Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club will host Azim Khamisa as its featured guest speaker at the Lomas Santa Fe Country Club, located at 1505 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Solana Beach. All are welcome to attend. Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among youth, Khamisa became a social activist after his 20-year-old son, Tariq, was murdered in 1995 by a 14-year- old while delivering pizzas. Out of unspeakable grief, Khamisa was inspired to transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness and compassion rather than revenge. Believing there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Khamisa forgave the young man who killed his son and founded the Tariq Foundation to break the cycle of youth violence by saving lives, teaching peace and planting seeds of hope in their future. His anti-youth violence programs have reached millions

Azim Khamisa through international speaking, public and corporate workshops, video and audio recordings and four published books, including the award-winning “From Murder to Forgiveness” and the Random House book “The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit,” coauthored with Jillian Quinn. Khamisa has received over 65 humanitarian awards from people and organizations as diverse as the Dalai Llama, the White House, the Children’s Defense Fund, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Child Safety Network. This month Khamisa was appointed as President

to the Child Safety Network in CSN’s continuing mission to make America a safer place for children. He is also the founder and National Director of the Constant and Never Ending Improvement program. In June 2004, Khamisa participated in the Synthesis Dialogues, with His Holiness the Dalai Llama, held at the Pope’s summer residence in Castelgandolfo, Italy. A not-to-bemissed speaker, Azim’s profound work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, People Magazine, U.S.A. Today, Oprah Magazine, NBC’s Today Show, Nightly News, CBS’s Early Morning Show and KPBS’s Fresh Air. Autographed copies of Khamisa’s books will be available for purchase following his presentation. Members: $15. Guests: $25. RSF Democratic Club membership: $50 annually. For more information or to RSVP, please call Maria McEneany at 858-759-2620 or Maureen Sweeney at 619990-4748.

Families wanted to host students from Spain this summer A selected group of high school students from Spain will come to Del Mar in July 2013 to enjoy the best that San Diego has to offer. Live California will place the students with volunteer local families, like they have been doing for the past few years. Live California arranges all details, including English class and surf camp at 23rd Street for students and host family teenagers. “We keep the students busy, pick them up at home every day. We try to make it as easy as possible on the families, and the four weeks go by in a snap, “ says Director Alejandro Campillo. The students come in a small group and at their young age they are experienced in living abroad with a Host Family. Most of the participants have spent time in the United Kingdom and Ireland in previous summers. “It is normal for European kids to start travelling abroad to attend language programs in their early teens. This is an Old World custom that we wish to inspire here since Del Mar families are already frequent travellers,” said Lisa Campillo, the Head of Studies. “For our kids, hosting a student has been a great introduction to studying and traveling

“Understanding the Teenage Brain” is a popular family forum featuring a powerful presentation covering the most up-to-date research about the adolescent brain. The expert panel presentation will provide an overview of the adolescent brain and the maturation process, including how teens learn, retain information and create memories; learn about the reasoning process, and how the habits and addictions are formed. If you have ever questioned your teens’ thinking, this forum is for you! This family forum is free and open to the public. Middle school and high school students are welcome. The forum is sponsored by the Parent Foundation of San Dieguito Academy and will be held on Tuesday, March 26, from 6:30 – 8 p.m. in the Media Center at San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas (800 Santa Fe Drive, Encinitas, CA 92024). Spanish translation is available. Questions? Please contact Nancy Perry-Sheridan at nancypsheridan@gmail. com or 760-519-5877. Reservations required. Please rsvp to nancypsheridan@gmail.com.

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abroad. This has exposed them to another culture right here at home. We hope this will inspire our kids to travel,” said Mr. Mitchell of Solana Beach, whose family hosted Antonio from La Coruña, Spain last July. They have stayed in touch, and hope to visit him in Spain. Many host family kids, including the Mitchell’s, have participated in the summer camp with the visiting students over the years. “Our host siblings are an invaluable part of Live California; they learn first hand what studying abroad is like at an early age. They lead the way,” Campillo said. They practice their Spanish while enjoying their favorite summer activities. “We created a lifelong friend last summer through Live California and we plan to keep in touch with Antonio. Everyone in our family enjoyed the experience.,” texted Mitchell to Campillo. Live California is currently recruiting host families for July 2013 in Del Mar, Solana Beach Rancho Santa Fe and Carmel Valley. Contact: (619) 894-3957; lisa@livecalifornia.net; livecalifornia.net.

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Young pianist heading to Carnegie Hall BY ASHLEY MACKIN La Jolla Country Day fourth-grader, Ursula Hardianto, 9, loves to perform. She plays the classics on piano so beautifully that in March and April she will get to do so at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Occasionally unable to contain her giggling, Ursula said of the shows, “I’m really excited to actually walk on the stage.” Ursula entered two national contests for young musicians – the American Protégé International Piano Competition and the American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented International Piano Competition – and scored high enough in each to earn a spot in the Carnegie lineup. The top scorers in these competitions are heading to New York City. Ursula and her family will have their travel expenses covered through a gift from Masterbuilders SF, a San Francisco-based development company that sponsors young artists across California. After hearing Ursula play, the company agreed to cover the plane tickets and hotel accommodations. “I was quite shocked … but really happy and excited,” she said, again holding back laughter. Her sister, Priscilla, 13, (who plays violin) is sup-

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portive. “When I heard, I couldn’t believe it,” Priscilla said. “I was like ‘my sister is going to perform on the famous stage of America!’ So I was really excited for her.” Mother, Agatha Iskandar, also said she is thrilled for her younger daughter. “It was something I had dreamed about but never really thought in my wildest dreams that I’m actually going to see my own daughter on the stage of Carnegie Hall.” Lucky for Ursula, the piece she will perform is her favorite piece to play: Berkovich’s Variations on the theme of Paganini. She said the piece was originally written for the violin, but was rewritten for the piano. Iskandar said she grew up

playing music and wanted the same for her children. “I wanted to make sure they enjoyed the same gift I enjoyed all my life,” she said. “So I put them through music school and we found a really good teacher that Ursula had good chemistry with and who is able to develop her (skills).” That teacher is Ariel Yang with The Opus 119 School of Music. Based in Irvine, Iskandar and Ursula drive to the Opus School every weekend. Director Ethan Dong called Ursula a very honest and humble student. “She follows direction and knows if she works hard, she’ll get results in her performances,” he said, adding Ursula does work hard, which in his experience, is not easy for young kids to do. Despite the undeniable talent, Iskandar said she wouldn’t force her children into a musical career. “I just want them to pursue whatever is going to make them feel fulfilled,” she said. “At the end of the day, it’s still their life but I do hope they’ll always have music as an addon.” As this part of her life takes Ursula to New York City, there is one other thing she said she wants to do while she’s there: visit the famed toy store FAO Schwarz.

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BY ROB LEDONNE It might sound like a bit of a stretch, but 17 year-old Katie Fletcher first fell into what would become a lifelong love affair with soccer as a total fluke. “I played intramural soccer with friends at school for fun, but one day a friend of mine went to try out for the Rancho Santa Fe Attack club,” she remembers from her Solana Beach home. “I went with her and tried out on a whim and got placed on the best team; my friend didn’t.” Since those humble beginnings playing club soccer as a kid, Fletcher’s encountered startling success on and off the field. Just recently she played her last game as part of Torrey Pines High School, and upon graduating is jetting off to the East Coast to study and play collegiate soccer at prestigious Yale University, the Connecticut Ivy League school. “I’m just extremely excited I get this opportunity, because so many people don’t,” she realizes, noting “especially how competitive recruiting is.” Her path to Yale was no easy task, however, and it involved a significant amount of both hard work and luck along the way. Fletcher played with the Rancho Santa Fe Attack until she was 10, then between the ages of 10 and 17 she played for San Diego Surf, another club. All the while, she was playing soccer for Torrey Pines, sandwiched in between her sophomore and junior years attending and playing for Santa Fe Christian. Explained Fletcher about her grueling schedule, which involved both soccer and keeping her grades in top shape, “I was never bothered by the commitment. I was always the one choosing to do it so I didn’t

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even notice.” It took Fletcher changing clubs again, from San Diego Surf to Albion, to help her future take shape. “I wasn’t that set on playing college soccer, but I had worked so hard academically in high school that I knew I could use my grades to go where I wanted. One day the director of the Albion club and my individual coach, Noah Gins, asked me where I wanted to play after high school. I told him Yale was my first and only choice.” It just so happened that Gins had a friend who was the soccer recruiter for Yale, so Katie had a key “in,” and flew to Connecticut to check out the school and try out for its team. “After the tryout, they said they were going to call me in a few weeks to let me know their decision. So, I went home back to San Diego and he wound up calling me the next day and offered me a spot. I told him that I love the school, I loved the cam-

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Notre Dame Academy Science Fair Project Finalists On Feb. 27 , after months of preparation, the 7th grade students of Notre Dame Academy presented their Science Fair projects in the St. Therese of Carmel Parish Hall. Following the strict judging standards set by the International Science and Engineering Fair, a parent panel selected 11 of the 37 student submissions to be further evaluated by a judge from the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. Five of the students made the final selection, and will be representing Notre Dame Academy at the Fair on March 20 at the Balboa Park Activity Center. The Fair will be open to the public March 21-24 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (Saturday open until 4 p.m.). Admission is free.

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Del Mar, RSF residents join International Bipolar Foundation board International Bipolar Foundation recently announced that Peter Mossy of Rancho Santa Fe and Robin T. Nordhoff of Del Mar have joined its Board of Directors: Peter Mossy is president of the Mossy Automotive Group in San Diego. The group includes Toyota, Ford and seven Nissan dealerships. Mossy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin before joining the family business in Houston, Texas. Mossy is active in the San Diego community as a member of Nativity Catholic Church, The Lincoln Club, Rancheros, Rancho Riding Club, and the Young Presidents’ Organization (WPO). Mossy and his wife Sandy have four children: Travis, 26, John (died at 22), Blake, 19 and Charlie, 11. John’s bi-polar disorder thrust Mossy into the world of mental health and subsequently his desire to help other families who struggle. After more than 20 years practicing law, Robin Nordhoff retired and turned her attention to the needs of others. She has been involved as a volunteer, committee member, board member or chair of special events for a number of Civic and Charitable Organizations. These include the Preuss School, Old Globe Theater, Holiday Bowl, Voices for Children, Bannister House, Del Mar Planning Commission and the Del Mar Village Association. In addition, Nordhoff has been honored for her commitment to the community by the San Diego County Girl Scouts “Cool Woman” award, The Copley YMCA and the American Heart Association “Go For Red.”

County Supervisor to hold ‘face time’ open house March 15 in Del Mar County Supervisor Dave Roberts will hold an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. on March 15 at the Del Mar Community Building, 225 9th Street. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be provided. To RSVP for the March 15 open house, call (619) 531-5533.

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Peter Mossy Her interest in the International Bipolar Foundation is due to the ever-increasing number of people, both young and old, who have the courage to discuss their mental health issues openly. After seeing first hand how open discussion benefits more than just the individual, she is commit-

ted to increasing the awareness and education so that the stigma attached to bipolar disorder is ultimately eliminated in our society. The mission of the International Bipolar Foundation is to eliminate bipolar disorder through the advancement of research; to promote care and support services; and to erase associated stigma through public education. www.InternationalBipolarFoundation.org

The six-office Foley Corporate Center, located at 11943 El Camino Real, has been sold for $18 million to local pediatric dentist Kami Hoss, who unofficially calls himself “The Super Dentist” online. The building, which houses Comerica Bank and Fidelity Investment Group on the first floor, closed escrow around Feb. 8 at “a record” $529 per square foot, said Susan Sears of seller Foley Development. “It’s a good price on a beautiful building,” she said. “It shows the market is picking up and values are increasing considering all our economy has gone through.” — Claire Harlin; Courtesy photo

New blood donor center to open in Carmel Valley This spring the Carmel Valley Donor Center of the San Diego Blood Bank will open at 3880 Valley Centre Dr., Ste 210, in the Piazza Carmel Shopping Center in Carmel Valley (92130). A Grand Opening celebration is scheduled on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m.

Author highlights delirium at Brain Health Fair The American Academy of Neurology is sponsoring a free Brain Health Fair open to the public, with 30-plus exhibitor booths at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel (1 Park Blvd San Diego, 92101) Saturday March 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Health Fair includes free brain heath classes, dance therapy, available support groups, brain games for the kids and

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Kids Korps USA gets ready to Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll at the marathon; Runners, teams, sponsors wanted Kids Korps USA, the nonprofit youth organization based out of San Diego, has been officially approved as a Charity Fundraising Group for the Rock N Roll San Diego Marathon to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The event, part of the Rock N Roll Marathon Series, will take place on June 2. The Kids Korps F.I.T. Club Charity Team stands for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fundraise, Interact, and Train.â&#x20AC;? This fun and exciting new program provides participants the opportunity to fundraise for the organization and its partner agencies, to interact with other members of the Charity Team, and train hard to complete this challenging race. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are on the road to taking Kids Korps to a whole new level in our community. We are cultivating leaders of tomorrow, while making a direct impact today. Our participation in the Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll San Diego Marathon will help us raise funds and awareness about Kids Korps and its critical role in our community as a volunteer service organization that provides the human resources to local agencies helping tackle the toughest issues in our community,â&#x20AC;? said Ilia Dickey, Kids Korps board president. Kids Korps, now in its 18th year, engages youth and families in community service to the tune of 1 million service hours. Kids Korps volunteers assist over 350 nonprofit agencies behind the scenes, making a direct impact on the most important social issues facing communities today. Kids Korps is tackling hunger, supporting underserved youth and military families, as well as implementing environmental conservation and education efforts throughout the region. The Kids Korps F.I.T. Club Charity Team is currently looking for individual runners, corporate teams and sponsors to get involved in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event on behalf of Kids Korps USA. If you are interested, please contact Teresa@ismsports.net or 858-518-4202.

Del Sol Lions celebrate 3rd anniversary with thankful speeches by donation recipients Sentiments were tearful at times, jovial at others, and the overall mood at the Del Sol Lions 3rd anniversary celebration at Fletcher Cove Community Center was heartfelt thanks for the community work this organization has done for residents in Solana Beach and surrounding areas. More than 40 club members, local dignitaries and community leaders were on hand to commemorate the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work done in the North County coastal region. Three organizations, Casa de Amistad, St. James and St. Leoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical and Dental Clinics and the Mexican American Educational Guidance Association, provided detailed accounts about how the Lionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; philanthropic efforts have helped their causes. Nicole Mione-Green, director of Casa de Amistad, a K-12 tutoring and mentoring program in Solana Beach, thanked the club for providing financial support to help challenged students succeed in the classroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of our goals is to provide every student with two new books each

Nicole Mione-Green, director of Casa de Amistad, discusses her organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s K-12 tutoring and mentoring program at the Del Sol Lions 3rd anniversary celebration at the Fletcher Cove Community Center.

Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Friendâ&#x20AC;ŚAnd a Rotarian BY EMILY FIGUEIREDO, PUBLICITY CHAIR Rotarians bring their various vocational titles with them as they join the club. In a club meeting you may sit next to a corporate banker, interior designer, CFO, marketing director and a physician. But now the Del Mar Rotarians have a much more unique title to welcome at their tables: Assistance Dog. In February, Don Fipps and his canine companion in training, Jenga (right), were inducted into the Del Mar Rotary Club with their red badges. Don has been a Rotarian since 2004 in other cities, but has recently moved from the Sacramento area to take a job with San Diego Health System as a Laboratory Manager overseeing transfusions and transplantations. Along with serving in Rotary, a passion for Don and his wife Donna is to volunteer for Canine Companions for Independence, a non-profit organization dedicated to training and providing assistance dogs for children and adults with disabilities, free of charge. Jenga is a nine-month-old puppy in training for this valuable opportunity. She will be trained by the Fipps family until she is 18 months old, then entered into an in-

year. With the help and generosity of the Del Sol Lions, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to accomplish this goal,â&#x20AC;? she explained. Deacon Al Graff and Dr. Bob Bobbit from St. James and St. Leoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical and Dental Clinics explained how the Del Sol Lions fundraising ability helped secure a grant for a $37,000 dental X-ray machine to provide free examinations for families in need in the north county coastal area. Special guest Karla, a firstgeneration college student and the recipient of a Del Sol Lions scholarship through the Mexican American Educational Guidance Association, provided an emotional account of her ability to overcome lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggles with the assistance of the Del Sol Lions generous scholarship contribution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Del Sol Lions 3rd anniversary celebration opened a lot of eyes about the positive impact our hard work has on the communi-

t e n s i v e training with Canine Companions after which she will hopefully be matched with a child or adult with special needs. Sondra Thiederman from Canine Companions will make a presentation about the organization to the Del Mar Rotary Club on March 28. Jenga went through the new member induction ceremony and received her red badge with a warm welcome to attend weekly Rotary meetings along with Don, of course. To meet Don, Jenga and the rest of the Del Mar Rotarians, please join us for a meeting on Thursdays at noon at St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church. More information can be found at www.delmarrotary.org.

ty,â&#x20AC;? said Linette Page, president of the Del Sol Lions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our members are the key to this club making a difference. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve contributed more than 3,600 services hours and $42,655 to community causes. I would like to personally thank all of our members for their outstanding contributions. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come a long way in three years.â&#x20AC;? The Del Sol Lions are part of an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries serving those in need and youth in Del Mar, Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe, Fairbanks Ranch and Carmel Valley. The club meets the fourth Tuesday of the month from 6 -7:30 p.m. at the Fletcher Cove Community Center. Visitors and prospective members are always welcome. For more information, please go to www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/ delsol/.

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When not breaking records, swimmer inspires hundreds as instructor BY CLAIRE HARLIN When Solana Beach resident Grace Van Der Byl retired after swimming in the Olympic trials in 1996, she didn’t know if she’d find herself in the water again. But it only took one look at the ocean after moving to San Diego from Texas in 2007 to remind her that was exactly where she needed to be. “Swimming is my outlet; it’s where I dump everything,” said Van Der Byl, who went on from that point to set the record for swimming the Catalina Channel. She also became the first to complete the 120-mile 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, the longest competitive swim in the world. Her 10-year hiatus also didn’t stop her from winning five U.S. Masters Swimmers gold medals and earning a nomination for 2012 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. And last month, she garnered local recognition in the form of a proclamation from the City of Solana Beach naming a day in her honor. When Van Der Byl’s husband accepted a job at Sony and she moved to San

Grace Van Der Byl accepts a recent proclamation award from the City of Solana Beach. PHOTO/CLAIRE HARLIN

Diego from Texas, all she wanted to do was learn to surf, and that goal ended up turning into much more. Not only does she get to surf several days a week, but she swims at least six days a week, either leaving bright and early from Fletcher Cove for long-distance treks with the North County Paddlers or spending hours in the pool at the Boys and Girls Club of San Dieguito, where she trains swimmers ages 5 to 85. “It sounds cliche, but it’s truly a dream come true,” said 34-year-old Van

Der Byl, who’s training to swim the 28.5-mile Manhattan Island Marathon in June, which ranked third in the 2012 book, “The World’s Toughest Endurance Challenges.” But while Van Der Byl continues to win title after title, she dedicates most of her day-to-day focus on the hundreds of kids she coaches at the Boys and Girls Club, some of whom stole the show in late February with their resounding victory in the San Diego-Imperial Junior Olympics — the most prestigious honor in the county for a young swimmer. “This was our first championship,” said aquatics director Joe Benjamin. “When they announced the win, the kids were so excited they threw all the coaches in the pool.” Benjamin works with Grace as both a colleague and a coach at the Boys and Girls Club, which serves more than 1,300 students in its swim lesson programs and about 450 kids through its competitive swim program. Unlike many clubs and teams that rent space in multiple pools, the Boys and Girls Club is limited to one

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of coaching her in her U.S. Masters Swimmers training, but he can hardly call it coaching. “It’s more like collaborating,” he said. “She really owns her career but she likes being coached and likes being coached by me because I help her pull out the training ideas she has on her own … She is one of the most committed, dedicated and inspiring people that I have ever coached and coached alongside.” Benjamin said Van Der Byl caught the attention of city leaders after Boys and Girls Club board members decided to honor her achievements. He said the club’s CEO and board are not only incredible supportive of the aquatics department, but they “understand the importance of letting local parents and community members know that she’s not only a great coach, but achiever too.” This month marks the sign-up period for swim classes at the Boys and Girls Club, located at 533 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, and more information is available by calling (858) 755-9371.

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Local residents earn UCSD Faculty Excellence Awards Carmel Valley residents Clark Gibson and David Lake, and Del Mar resident Nicholas Spitzer are among the six University of California, San Diego professors who are recipients of Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards. The prestigious awards are presented annually by the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates donor group for excellence in teaching, research, community service and performing and visual arts. The recognition ceremony will be held Thursday, March 21, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Atkinson Hall, located at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) on the UC San Diego campus. “Each of the Faculty Excellence Award honorees is a truly remarkable faculty member,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “They are exceptional teachers, researchers, community leaders and campus citizens. I congratulate them on this much-deserved recognition and applaud their dedication to the university.” Award candidates are nominated by their academic peers, with final selection by a committee comprising Chancellor’s Associates donors. Criteria for selection are based on faculty member achievements, reputation and impact on students and the academic community. Since 1974, UC San Diego has recognized more than 100 extraordinary faculty members with Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards. About the three local honorees: Clark Gibson, Professor of Political Science Excellence in Graduate Teaching Known as a tireless instructor and mentor, Clark Gibson inspires his students and provides them with countless opportunities to learn through participation in research both here and abroad. He has built one of the top graduate programs in African politics in the country and leads a vibrant intellectual community of students and faculty interested in Africa. The work he is doing with his students, which includes innovative research using smartphones and citizen volunteers to detect and deter electoral fraud, has earned UC San Diego the reputation of being the leader in the study of the politics of emerging democracies. David Lake, Distinguished Professor of Political Science Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences David Lake is one of the most highly respected and visible intellectual leaders in

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Education Matters/Opinion The evolving vision of Canyon Crest Academy BY MARSHA SUTTON T h e first project at Canyon Crest Academy using n e wl y-a p p r o v e d bond monMarsha Sutton ey will t a k e place this summer, to pay for athletic fields and stadium work. Over the next two years, more field and stadium work will be done, costing $20 million. For a school that opened in 2004 with a stated focus on the arts and technology, spending a huge chunk of money to relocate and renovate sports fields seems an odd way to begin spending the district’s $449 million in bond funds. Yet the district says this expenditure is consistent with both the community’s wishes and appropriate use of public funding. I freely admit my bias against the over-emphasis on athletics, when taxpayer money could be used to better conditions in the classroom. I also acknowledge that this position is not altogether popular. When CCA first opened, I was cheered by the thought that at last there was a school with proper perspective on the athletics-academics dichotomy. In a column published in this newspaper Dec. 12, 2003, eight months before CCA opened, Rick Schmitt, now San Dieguito Union High School District’s deputy superintendent, said, “The new school is for someone who really loves the arts and technology” and that CCA’s “mission to provide a focus on arts and technology is an integral part of its overall curriculum.” Schmitt was principal at Torrey Pines High School in 2003 when it was suffering from serious overcrowding. He and CCA founding principal David Jaffe worked together the year before CCA opened to help parents and students differentiate between the two schools. Canyon Crest began as a school with less emphasis on athletics than Torrey Pines. And like San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas, there would be no football or cheerleading – a basic, and most welcome, tenet. “If you’re a football player, you don’t want Canyon Crest,” Jaffe said back in 2003, to my silent applause. Athletics were a part of the school certainly, but more minimally at first. The attraction for many CCA students was that they could play the

sport of their choice without stressful tryouts and the intense competition from superjocks. But Jaffe soon found that many parents and students wanted their sports, and athletics moved up in importance. “The question I get asked most often is whether a certain sport will be available,” Jaffe said later, to my silent groaning. “When Canyon Crest opened, athletics almost was an afterthought,” Schmitt said in 2010. “Families wanted sports and so they grew sports.” So athletic offerings gradually increased. By 2010, nearly 700 CCA students participated in athletic programs, according to current CCA principal Brian Kohn. In a dispiriting demonstration of support for athletes over scholars, that same year the school’s 8:15 a.m. start time was moved to 8 a.m. to accommodate students playing sports in the afternoon. A dismissal at 3 instead of 3:15 allowed student athletes to miss less of their fourth-period classes when traveling for games. Later start times, which allow exhausted teenagers to get more sleep, have been proven without a doubt through extensive research to improve not just academics but emotional health and social well-being also. “The research is real,” Schmitt said in a column in 2010. Yet, start times were moved earlier, a decision dictated by the needs of student athletes over academic considerations. In addition to the increasing presence of sports programs, school size has also grown. CCA was designed to be open to all students districtwide but with limited enrollment through a lottery system, like San Dieguito Academy. But the new bond measure includes a project at CCA to add another classroom building to expand capacity from its current 1,800 to a maximum of 2,250. Although class sizes, which sometimes approach 40, are the same at all schools, the feel of a smaller school campus is very different from a large school. Note how the district uses small size as a selling point to try to attract more students to under-enrolled Earl Warren over bulging Carmel Valley Middle School. So with Canyon Crest at 2,250 and Torrey Pines at 2,600, will there be that much

difference any more? Except football, of course. A unique, special school There’s a sense that the original vision of Canyon Crest has shifted – $20 million for sports fields, start times shifted to accommodate athletes, enrollment capacity increasing. How did we get here? The district maintains that CCA continues to be a unique, special school that has never veered from its focus on the arts and technology or its small school feel, and that athletics and adding a few hundred more kids doesn’t transform the school’s fundamental vision in any meaningful way. In a meeting Feb. 21 with Schmitt, SDUHSD superintendent Ken Noah and associate superintendent of business services Eric Dill, we discussed the perception that CCA has drifted away from its founding principles. “David [Jaffe] didn’t realize there would be as much interest in athletics, and it grew organically from the community,” Schmitt said. “It was a surprise to many of us.” Schmitt said early on CCA’s parents wanted “coaches, bigger teams, bigger leagues, better facilities.” Athletics at CCA grew, he said, “from internal pressure that David really didn’t anticipate.” Ken Noah said the district received feedback from CCA parents grumbling that the district promised better fields and hadn’t delivered. Athletics is now an integral part of CCA, but the district claims it’s been there from the early days. After opening in 2004, the vision statement for the school became a commitment “to academics, the arts and athletics sharing equal status and importance.” “I think it’s fair to say that CCA continues to have its focus in the curriculum on technology and the arts,” said Dill, “but the extra-curricular for students is in parity [with other schools] with the exception of football and cheer.” Schmitt said the school has never lost sight of its commitment to provide outstanding arts and technology classes, alongside traditional academic classes and sports programs. Schmitt said the school “has put a lot of effort, energy and staffing in the arts and tech more than any other schools” and has more arts and technology classes than the district’s other seven schools combined He provided a list of classes exclusive to Canyon Crest, including: Advanced Digital Imaging, Advanced

Fine Art Digital Photography, Exploring Computer Science, Robotics & Engineering Technology, Audio Tech & Music Recording, Recording Arts, and Stage Hand Technician. Learning in trailers When Canyon Crest Academy opened in the fall of 2004, 350 brave ninth-grade souls took a chance and invested their futures in a school that wasn’t even built yet due to developer, city of San Diego, and state bureaucratic delays beyond the district’s control. Urgency and creativity, however, joined forces, and the district managed to convince all involved agencies to allow portable buildings on the school site to house students during that first year of construction. The students came to learn in trailers on a dirt lot, with the promise of rare leadership opportunities and the ability to define the high school in ways that sounded almost spiritual. They became a foundational part of something outstanding and unique and were given the chance to build infrastructure and shape CCA’s identity and future. Situated on 55 acres of former tomato fields on barren Pacific Highlands Ranch land, Canyon Crest Academy officially opened with real buildings one year later. The cost was over $100 million to construct the 225,000-square-foot facility. Since that time, kids have voted with their feet, to make CCA a school in demand. At a long-range planning group meeting in late 2008, Ken Noah said members discussed expansion of CCA. “The long-range task force considered a cap of 2,250 because it met a growing demand in the community for access to that school,” Noah said. That the school was originally masterplanned to be larger than its current capacity of 1,800 was a compelling point, he added. Projected enrollment at CCA for this fall, according to district documents dated 1/17/13, is 1,868, up 17 from current enrollment. Torrey Pines enrollment for this fall is projected to be 2,645, up 26 students from current enrollment. Schmitt said although the projection for CCA is 1,868, typically about 40 or 50 don’t show up, so the district has learned to “overbook” like airlines do. To accommodate 400 more students, Canyon Crest will see the construction in 2019 of Building B classrooms, situated on the empty land between Buildings A and C. Including the $20 million for athletics fields, a total of $37.5 million will be spent, according to the district’s November bond ballot statement, on Canyon Crest renovations and new construction. Now in its ninth year of operation, Canyon Crest Academy is a high school that has quickly made its mark and established a fine reputation county-wide. Whether its vision has fundamentally changed over time or evolved minimally in healthy ways is probably moot. With all varieties of sports, a bustling campus environment, planned classroom expansion, wide selections of traditional course offerings, extensive opportunities for students in art, music, drama, theater, science and technology, and the highest API score of any comprehensive high school in the county, CCA is thriving. It’s hard to argue with success. Marsha Sutton can be reached at SuttComm@san.rr.com.

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Finding a solution to the Sequester BY CONGRESSMAN SCOTT PETERS I’ve been in Congress for two months now and something that still surprises me: How out of touch and political Washington is. I ran for office because I believed I could make a difference, and I still do. I am as tired as you are of partisan posturing, and a perfect example is the sequester. The sequester was crafted in 2011 to force legislators from both sides of the aisle to come to an agreement on a bipartisan budget. It was intentionally nonsensical, so that Congress would do everything in its power to avoid it. But Congress proved once again how broken it truly is. Two weeks before the sequester took effect, House leadership called a recess and sent us home. As a former Port Commissioner and City Council president, that was foreign to me. I could not believe, with the amount of work still to be done, that we were sent home. Even more frustrating was that we were sent home without being allowed to vote on a single alternative to the sequester because leadership didn’t agree with the legislation. This is not the democratic process that the United States is regarded for. The belief that the indiscriminate cuts from the sequester are minimal and won’t affect everyday people is unique to Washington. This is why I spent my time at See SEQUESTER, page 19

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SEQUESTER continued from page 18 home sending a message back to Congress. I enlisted the help of our port commissioners, scientific research community and maritime workers to tell Congress that San Diego will feel the negative effects of the sequester through layoffs, furloughs, stifled research and decreased GDP. [Recently], I spent every day on the House floor bringing attention to the sequester and urging Congress to work together. On Thursday, our last legislative day to avoid the sequester, I asked leadership to stay in session to find a solution. Leadership decided to adjourn the House, but my appeals did not fall completely on deaf ears. This week, since returning, I have heard from both Democrats and Republicans who want to find a responsible alternative to the sequester, and who believe these solutions can be accomplished in our upcoming budget negotiations. On March 27, the stopgap bill that Congress passed last year in lieu of a budget, called the “continuing resolution,” will expire. My colleagues on both sides of the aisle see an opportunity for us to stop the poli-

CRICKET continued from page 5 While Singh has seen great response from kids in his program, he has been hesitant to further develop or expand it until now — and he thinks the team is poised to flourish. Not only does the team have the support of a handful of volunteer coaches, which were hard to find, but he said donors have increasingly stepped forward to support the education of the sport, and the partnership with the polo fields serves as “the anchor” that the team needed, he said. Not to mention, one of the team’s coaches, Rancho Santa Fe resident Raj Singh Ghai, is a former professional cricket player from India — “the Babe Ruth of Cricket,” said Singh. Now that the team, which has usually consisted of no more than 10 players, is set for expansion, Singh hopes to add a more rigorous team for serious players, akin to “competitive” as opposed to “recreational” in the game of soccer.

March 14, 2013 tics enough to address our serious fiscal problems – including the sequester – with a responsible budget that raises revenues by closing tax loopholes and reins in our spending. I’m determined to do my part to get Congress working again. Since day one I’ve looked for partners on both sides of the aisle who have a similar mindset and determination to put aside political agendas and problem solve. I’ve found a group of lawmakers in my freshman class, known as the United Solutions Caucus, which I am proud to be a part of and look forward to working with. I have also joined a group of lawmakers who are not only freshman or members of the House. In February I joined No Labels, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both the House and the Senate who have been in office for a variety of years but who haven’t forgotten that they were sent to Congress to serve and get things done. This is just the beginning of a trying journey, but if we remember our purpose, this journey will also be rewarding. I thank you for the opportunity that you have given me to represent you in Congress, and I am working hard every day to make you proud.

Singh said he thinks that once kids — and especially parents — are exposed to the values that cricket instills in its players, the sport will have a chance of becoming more popular. Having grown up in Guyana and played cricket his entire life like many kids in other countries do, Singh said he thanks cricket for much of the success he has experienced today, as it promotes respect, fairness and good sportsmanship, among other values. “If somebody is cheating or doing something wrong, you will hear someone say, ‘That’s not cricket,’” Singh said. “The spirit of the game means you never cheat, you never disagree with the umpire, you respect your opposition and you respect your teammates. You are the ambassador of the game, and the game is bigger and more powerful than you. It’s unpredictable, just like life.” For information about the team, contact Singh at gsingh@mail.sdsu.edu.

PARK continued from page 2 happen.” The ad hoc committee will get busy on design details on Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the Pardee Homes offices at 6025 Edgewood Bend Court, San Diego, 92130. A second meeting is planned for April 16 before the preferred alternative of three tentative design plans is submitted in May. Any community member is welcome and encouraged to attend. City Council District 1 Councilmember Sherri Lightner was in attendance at the meeting, mentioning she first heard how important the park is to the community when she was first running for City Council in 2008. “We’re very excited about it and I’m glad it’s moving forward finally,” Lightner said. “Sooner is better but do it right.” JT Barr, senior associate with Schmidt Design Group, said they know how eager the community is to have the park and said Pardee Homes and the city is just as eager to get it done. “The focus is on getting the park delivered. We’re looking forward to working with you to make this park a reality,” Barr said. Schmidt did a survey to get feedback on the park’s design and Barr said it was one of the most highly responded to survey in his 12 years designing parks. They received more than 70 responses and the top 10 priorities were children’s play equipment (ages 5 to 12 ranked highest), shade trees, an open lawn, picnic tables, security lighting, swings, restroom buildings, shade structures, basketball and 2-to-5-year-old play equipment. “We got a lot of feedback, it was really great to see,” Barr said. Other community preferences were small group and barbecue areas, climbing walls, nature trails/garden, public art, exercise stations, a dog run and an amphitheater. The park will be located at the end of Pacific Highlands Ranch Parkway. It is a 5-acre site adjacent to the Solana Beach School District’s future Solana Ranch School, currently under construction for a fall 2014 opening. The park is right on PHR’s “urban amenity” trail and is about a seven- to 10-minute walk from the future Village Center on Carmel Valley Road. Barr said it’s important that the park play into PHR’s goals of being a walkable community. Barr said they also have an opportunity to draw the community’s character into the park design, such as the Spanish architecture and natural, draught-resistant landscaping seen on the community’s medians and throughout the neighborhoods. Gon-

zales Canyon will also figure into plans as it edges the park; Barr said there are great opportunities for view lookouts or to tell the canyon’s stories through interpretive panels. There are three preliminary alternatives being discussed. Alternative 1 is “inspired by the community” and features a meandering trail and a landscaped “swale” creek connection running through the park. Active uses, such as tot lots, basketball courts and picnic areas, are located on the western part of the park. The plans also show a 25-space parking area, a comfort station (restroom building) and a terraced amphitheater with Gonzales Canyon as a backdrop. A large open turf area separates the active uses from a passive use area on the eastern part of the park, the area closest to family homes. The passive-use area includes a native garden, a picnic area and “contemplative” areas to explore the canyon. Barr said he envisions the walkway could be stamped with etchings that tell a story about the environment. Alternative 2 is inspired by “Mission revival.” The park would have a very structured layout similar to the California mission style, with the western side of the park featuring a central plaza surrounded by the tot lots, a viewing plaza, sport courts, comfort station and a tree “bosque,” a gallery shaded by trees. Tree-lined paths would lead to the large rectangular turf area at the center of the park and the eastern edge of the park would have a picnic area and discovery garden. Alternative 3 is inspired by Gonzales Canyon itself, “balancing artistic expression in design with environmental sensitivity.” There would be a main, tree-lined promenade through the park, book-ended by a main entry plaza on the west and picnic area on the east. Other features would include tot lots, sports courts picnic areas and the comfort station, and the large turf area would have a series of canyon overlooks “We, as a group, tend to like areas where sports teams can practice or play,” said Ken Farinksy of the Carmel Valley Parks and Recreation board, noting Alternative 2 provides the most options for sports fields. With PHR planned for nearly 5,000 residences, there is going to be a need for children to have a place to play sports such as soccer, baseball or lacrosse. Carmel Valley’s fields are already “stressed to the max,” Farinsky said. “The more active use space for kids, the better off you’ll be in the long run in the neighborhood,” Farinsky said. Farinsky said residents

should keep in mind that more field space is coming for PHR in the future: Solana Ranch plans to have a sports field as part of its school; a 20-acre community park with a recreation center and fields is planned next to Canyon Crest Academy; the future San Dieguito Union High School District junior high school will have fields; and there are additional fields planned for CCA.

SINNOTT continued from page 2 nity as best as possible. “You have to use your head, make sure you aren’t overlooking something and consider the issue from all sides,” he said. “Once discussed in fullness, then the decisions the council makes are going to be much richer.” Before his 13 years as a consultant and 23 years as an executive at SDG&E — which flourished from his beginnings as a utility truck dispatcher during college — Sinnott grew up in Mission Hills and attended San Diego High School. Even then, he was a leader at heart, having served as study body president in high school, as well as at Pomona College, where he graduated with a history degree in 1967. The U.S. was on the brink of Vietnam War drafting, and having just missed the student deferment period, Sinnott applied and was accepted to the U.S. Navy Officers Candidate School in Newport Rhode Island. He then, at age 22, served one

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tour on the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) in Vietnam, and then returned to San Diego for one tour as an instructor at Fleet Training Center. He said the two years of standing bridge watches and steering the aircraft carrier up and down the Gulf of Tonkin wasn’t easy work, but it certainly contributed to his character. “One of the things the military does better than any organization in the country, is it takes young people and gives then a tremendous amount of responsibility,” he said. “You mature quickly.” Sinnott, a father of two and grandfather of three, became active in the Del Mar community around 2003 when he started attending the Del Mar 2020 workshops. He then successfully brought residents together to underground utilities in the Ocean View Pines neighborhood. He continued serving by applying for a seat on the city’s finance committee, and then got on the boards of Del Mar Community Connections and Friends of Del Mar Parks. He’s not sure if he’ll run again next year for City Council, but he said it all depends on if he does a good job — because that’s what makes it rewarding and satisfying. “This isn’t a political job,” he said. “It’s a community volunteer job.” For more information on Sinnott, visit http:// www.delmar.ca.us/Government/Pages/CouncilmemberSinnottbio.aspx.

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Undefeated 7th grade CVMS Bobcats win Championship CV Dons middle school lacrosse team wins Poway Face Off Classic The CV Dons middle school lacrosse team won the Poway Face Off Classic on March 3. The Dons came back from a 3-0 deficit in the Championship game to beat Pacific Ridge 6-5. Coaches Neil Scott and Chad Hadlock are not pictured.

The undefeated 7th grade Bobcats basketball team of Carmel Valley Middle School won the 2013 Boys and Girls of San Dieguito Big Eight Sports Conference Championship on Feb. 28. Pictured from left to right, bottom: Caleb Longley, Justin Shimizu, Aaron Acosta, Kevin Kampfer, Chad Bailey, Peter Nelson, Chris Koo. Top: Alex Cho, Jude Atiya, M.J. Metz, Ryan Langborg, Colin Springer, Coach David Alvarado.

Santa Fe Christian Schools names new head football coach Jon Wallace was named as the new Head Football Coach at Santa Fe Christian Schools today. Wallace has been an Assistant Coach since 2004 and Head JV Coach at SFC since 2007. “I am honored to be given the opportunity to serve as Head Football Coach at Santa Fe Christian,” said Wal-

lace. “I look forward to continuing the excellent tradition that has been established at SFC over the years. The boys have already been hard at work, and we look forward to another great season!” SFC Athletic Director Tom Seitz stated, “We believed it was very important to maintain the consistency of the program. Jon has been an integral part of the success of the program over the years and will have a tremendous influ-

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PAC swim team places 6th at Short Course Junior Olympics The Pacific Athletic Club swim team, which practices at the Pacific Sports Resort in Carmel Valley, recently participated in the local Junior Olympic Championship swim meet held at Poway Community Pool. This meet brings together all the areas teams and top swimmers to compete at the 14 and Under age groups. As a team the PAC placed 6th out of 27 scoring teams. Nearly every swimmer entered into the meet made finals (top 16) in at least one event per day — contributing points to the team score of 762 points (up 500 points from last years 12th place finish). Congratulations to the following swimmers who ranked in the top 8 overall in their age group: Jacque Wegner – 2nd; Cassidy Liu — 8th; Audrey Le — 8th; Anthony Kang — 3rd. These swimmers got 1st place in one or more event at finals: Alexandra Klis — 50 Back; Jacque Wenger – 100 Back, 50 Back; Anthony Kang — 200 Free 100 Free; Jacque Wenger and Cassidy Liu took 1st and 2nd place in the 100 and 50 back. Great swims by the PAC relay teams who scored 179

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Maggie Enloe, Lindsey Anderson,Carleigh Karen, Marci Vega points for PAC at the meet. The PAC Girls 11-12 medley relay raced it out to a 3rd place finish. The PAC swimmers who did not qualify for the Junior Olympic Meet had their championship meet March 8-10. The PAC team continues to train hard working towards the Far Western Championships in April, as well as travel meets to Ventura, Calif., in June and the summer Zone championships.

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Mustangs Rugby U18 eyes national title BY TIM PICKWELL Can 16 plus 25 equal 1? The Carmel Valley-based San Diego Youth Rugby Mustangs U18 boys team sure hopes so. The defending Southern California Club Champions have been invited to participate in the Boys High School National Invitational Championship in Elkhart, Indiana from May 1618. The Mustangs Club team is currently ranked No. 25 by Rugby Magazine, the bible for the sport in the U.S. But, the club team is really a combination of two great high school teams: the Torrey Pines Varsity, ranked No. 16 by Rugby Magazine, and Cathedral Catholic, No. 25. With the recent high school season complete, the best of both squads, along with a smattering of veteran players from La Jolla High, Westview and La Costa Canyon, are combining for the Club Rugby season. “We’re flattered to be ranked nationally,” said Head Coach, Matty Sandoval. “At the same time, we think that No. 25 might be a bit low. It’s a big honor for our club to be invited to Elkhart and the National Invitational, and we hope to put together a good showing and see how far we can climb.” The Mustangs began the season with a 70-0 thumping of Temecula on March 2 and will face a slate of six local clubs over the next few weeks, including home games Saturday, March 16, and Saturday, March 30, at Carmel Valley Middle School. On April 4 or 5, the club will host Concorde De La Salle, a perennial California high school football power, for an afternoon of rugby. Napier Boy’s High School from New Zealand’s North Island will visit for a “friendly” on April 26. Napier is the premier rugby high school in the premier rugby nation. Napier has 1,200 students. More than 600 play rugby. “We’ll have our work cut out for us,” says Sandoval. “But, we have to play top competition in order to prepare for the National Invitational.” Given the depth of the Mustangs squad, one of Sandoval’s biggest concerns is finding room for the talent. “We have three current or recent High School All-American’s on the team (Billy Maggs, Aaron Mitchell and Drew Gaffney) — none of whom even suited up for our first game. Our backs coach, Allen Andrews, took 18 boys from Torrey Pines and Cathedral and won two trophies in an international Rugby 7’s tournament last month in Las Vegas. Blending all these players together into a cohesive unit is our biggest challenge.” The HSNIC was created after USA Rugby decided not to host a high school championship. One of the nation’s premier clubs, the Moose of Elkhart, Indiana, worked with a committee of coaches and those close to the high school game to vet and select teams. The Mustangs had to apply and go through a rigorous screening process in order to be invited. The HSNIC committee looked at the strength of rugby clubs in a team’s area, the particular club’s historical performance, and other factors. The Mustangs are the only Southern California club in the tourney. They will compete in the “multi-school division” against Cathe-

Mustangs U18 Scrum Half Dillon Loyek (pitching ball), and teammates Grant McGahey (top), Jacob Neeley (headband, yelling), Alec Barton (ground) and others are all focused on the High School National Invitational Championship in April. Photo: Susie Talman. dral (Ind.), Grand Rapids (Mich), Danville (Calif.), Colorado Springs (Colo.), Westerville (Ohio), Broken Arrow (Okla.), United (Utah), Kansas City JR Blues (Mo.), Marin (Calif.), Charlotte Tigers (NC) and Brother Rice (Chicago). The team plans to combine their flight into Chicago with a side trip to South Bend, Indiana where the Notre Dame rugby coach will host a lunch. The club is looking for sponsors. A fundraising committee headed by Dan Talman — (760) 518-8002, dan@bankershillcapital.com — will be working to offset the cost of shipping 28 players and six coaches to Indiana.

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he Rancho Valencia Dressage Affaire was held March 7-10 at the Del Mar Horse Park. In addition, a U.S. ParaEquestrian Association Benefit Party was held on March 7 at Rancho Valencia Resort. The party was dedicated in large part to spreading the legacy of Paralympian Jonathan Wentz, who passed away in his sleep last fall at age 22 from heart complications, only months after competing at the Paralympics in London, England. The Texan lived with cerebral palsy and was a huge supporter of the Rancho Valencia Dressage Affaire, in which he competed in 2010 and 2011. Proceeds from the U.S. Para-Equestrian Association event will go toward a scholarship to fund the endeavors of other disabled riders, especially those with aspirations of representing the U.S. in international competitions. Visit www.dressageevents.com.

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