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Volume I • Issue 38

Community

■ Encinitas executive named to lead second phase of Scripps Hospital fundraising effort.

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Lifestyle

■ American Ballet Theatre signs Encinitas dancer.

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March 6, 2015

Highway 101 being eyed for first segment of Encinitas rail trail

BY JARED WHITLOCK The first leg of Encinitas’ coastal rail trail, which would run from Chesterfield Drive in Cardiff to E Street in downtown Encinitas, could go on Coast Highway 101.

Earlier plans had called instead for placing this segment east of the train tracks alongside San Elijo Avenue.

Planned for years, the rail trail would be a separated path, with the aim of getting more people biking and walking.

Last week, Chris Carterette, an active transportation planner with SANDAG who is heading the design, gave the Encinitas City Council its first public update on the project in more than a year. He told the council that putting the path next to San Elijo Avenue would probably be “significantly over budget.”

That’s because San Elijo Avenue, from north of Verdi Avenue to Cornish Drive, is too narrow for the rail trail because of the bluffs, he explained. To accommodate the trail, a 2,000-foot-long retaining wall would have to be built near Montgomery Avenue.

“As a project manager, I have the responsibility of bringing a project concept forward that we can afford to build with our budget,” Carterette said.

SANDAG’s regional biking Early Action Program includes $5.1 million for the Chesterfield-Drive-to-E-Street leg.

After the meeting, the SANDAG project team in charge of the rail trail said the retaining wall, along with required fencing and curb and gutter improvements, would cost $4 million. The price tag for the entire plan would then be as much as $9 million, according to an estimate.

So SANDAG is eyeing Highway 101 for the trail from Chesterfield Drive to E Street.

There, the rail trail would be separated from the road by a short physical barrier. In addition to the trail, a northbound and southbound bike lane, delineated by paint, could also potentially be installed.

To fit the rail trail and bike lanes, one option is to remove a northbound Highway 101 car lane on certain parts of the Chesterfield Drive to E Street segment. Another alter-

This stretch of San Elijo Avenue is too narrow for the coastal rail trail, according to planning officials. They’re proposing to put the path on Coast Highway 101 from Chesterfield Drive to E Street. Photo by Jared Whitlock native calls for also taking out a southbound car lane to allow wider lanes. In areas where Highway 101 is already one car lane in each direction, the car lanes and center median could be narrowed to make room for the trail, according to the SANDAG project team.

Carterette said any lane reductions would have to be supported by a traffic study.

Besides being less expensive, putting the rail trail on Highway 101 could reduce the need for fencing. North County Transit

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Encinitas City Council backs pedestrian path on La Costa Avenue

BY JARED WHITLOCK Sparked by a neighborhood petition presented last summer, a pedestrian path and bike lane buffer will soon be painted on La Costa Avenue.

With a 3-2 vote, the Encinitas City Council last week approved the traffic measures on La Costa Avenue, from Vulcan Avenue to Interstate 5. Specifically, the changes include: • Restriping to add a 5-foot pedestrian lane on the eastbound side, to go with an existing 5-foot bike lane; • On the westbound side, adding a 3-foot buffer between the 5-foot bike lane and the car lane; • Narrowing each side of the road from 15 feet to 11 feet to make way for the work.

Resident Elena Thompson said cars travel too fast on the thoroughfare, making it difficult to turn onto and off side streets.

Further, she said, it’s unsafe for Leucadia residents to walk to the beach via La Costa Ave-

District, the railway owner, previously stated that any portion of the rail trail that runs next to the tracks would require a small fence.

During a community workshop in November 2013 on the rail trail, residents raised concerns about fencing, arguing it would impede coastal access.

Deputy Mayor Catherine Blakespear acknowledged the drawbacks of putting the rail trail on San Elijo Avenue. But, she added, Cardiff residents would be less inclined to use the rail trail if it were on Highway

nue, because there’s only a narrow bikeway, rather than a pedestrian path or sidewalk.

“The pedestrians are really the heart of the matter,” Thompson said, adding that a sidewalk would be ideal, but another solution is needed in the meantime.

Thompson first brought the problem to the Traffic and Public Safety Commission’s attention last summer with a petition to slow down cars and encourage walking on the road, which gained 40 signatures.

City staff recommended a solution that would have added a 3-foot buffer in each direction between the car lanes and the existing 5-foot bike lanes. This entailed narrowing the car lanes from 15 feet to 12 feet.

Rob Blough, the city’s traffic engineer, said under state law, pedestrians could walk in the bike lane.

He also expressed reservations about decreasing the road width to 11 feet. Among his concerns, Blough said motorists have to keep at least 3 feet from bicyclists when See PATH, page 14

Legal arguments over school yoga program to be heard March 11

BY JARED WHITLOCK Oral arguments will be heard March 11 for an appeal seeking to end the Encinitas Union School District’s yoga program.

In July 2013, San Diego County Superior Court Judge John Meyer struck down a lawsuit that claimed EUSD yoga is an attempt at religious indoctrination and violates the constitution.

Meyer said that yoga is rooted in Hinduism and other religions, but added EUSD’s brand of yoga only promotes physical and mental wellness among students.

Attorneys with the Escondido-based National Center for Law and Policy, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of two EUSD parents, appealed the ruling four months later.

“Although yoga is very popular today, it is not the job of state to pick religious winners and losers, as the district has clearly done in Encinitas,” said attorney Dean Broyles with the center in a press release last month.

EUSD officials have said the program is in no way religious, stating poses even have neutral names like “crisscross applesauce.”

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Former DM mayor, Encinitas farmer appointed to fair board Gov. Jerry Brown appointed former Del Mar Mayor Lee Haydu and Encinitas farmer Pierre Sleiman to the 22nd District Agricultural Association board of directors on Feb. 27.

Sleiman, 28, has been the founder and chief executive officer at Go Green Agriculture Inc. since 2009. He is also a member of the San Diego County Farm Bureau board of directors. Sleiman earned a master’s in business administration from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management.

A Del Mar resident for more than 30 years, Haydu, 66, was elected to the Del Mar City Council in 2010. She served as mayor of the city from 2013 to 2014 and as deputy mayor the previous year.

The two new board members will replace David Lizerbram, who stepped down last month when his term ended, and Adam Day, who submitted his letter of resignation on Feb. 27.

Day previously served as president of the 22nd District Agricultural Association board, and was appointed last year by Brown to the California State University board of trustees.

He also chairs San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s task force on the new Chargers stadium.

Dog park maintenance schedule announced The city of Encinitas will be closing the Maggie Houlihan Memorial Dog Park from 1-3 p.m. Thursdays for cleaning, turf maintenance and odor control treatments.

The dog park is part of the recently opened Encinitas Community Park at 425 Santa Fe Drive.

The maintenance schedule, which takes effect Thursday, March 12, will ensure that the dog park remains in good condition. Also, the dog park will be closed April 27 through May 21 for turf renovations and grounds maintenance.

If needed, the dog park may be closed Sept. 8 through 20 for turf renovations and grounds maintenance.

City staff will evaluate the success of the first renovation to determine whether the closures can be shorter in the future.

This schedule will be available for reference on the city website, and signs will be posted near the dog park to alert the public to the closures. The dog park will remain open for Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.

Please note that the dog park is subject to unscheduled closures after periods of heavy rain or other inclement weather.

Friends of Cardiff Library Scholarship Program open for 2015 applications Five $1,500 scholarships will be awarded by the Friends of the Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library to graduating high school seniors who reside in ZIP codes 92007 or 92024. For the past 10 years, the Friends have provided scholarships to students from Cardiff, Encinitas, Leucadia and Olivenhain. Last year’s recipients are planning study in public service, pre-law, environmental science, linguistics and bioengineering.

Applicants must include a maximum 500-word essay describing how their own library experiences have affected them, their reasons and plans for pursuing higher education in 2015, and describing their special interests and extra-curricular activities. In addition, applications must contain two letters of recommendation from non-family members, a copy of the applicant’s public library card, proof of residence in ZIP code 92007 or 92024, and a copy of their high school ID card.

Applications are available at the Cardiffby-the-Sea Library, in downloadable form on

the Friends of the Cardiff by the Sea website (www.friendscardifflibrary.org), and at school counselors’ offices. The original application and supporting documents should be sent to: Scholarship Panel, Friends of the Cardiff by the Sea Library, P.O. Box 657, Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007, or hand-delivered to the Cardiff Library at 2081 Newcastle Ave., Cardiff. All applications, with all supporting documentation, must be received no later than 6 p.m. May 1 at the Cardiff-bythe-Sea Library.

A panel of judges selected from the community will evaluate the applications, essays, and supporting materials, and will select the top five candidates, who will be notified by May 29. The scholarships will be presented June 8 at the library by the Friends of the Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library.

For more information, contact Jenny Paschall, scholarship chair, at cardifflibrary92007@yahoo.com, 760-815-5602, or jennypas@att.net.

Man killed in Encinitas freeway rollover accident

BY CITY NEWS SERVICE A 29-year-old San Diego man was killed March 1 in a rollover crash on rain-slicked Interstate 5 in Encinitas.

The driver of a 2002 Honda Civic and his passenger, a 29-year-old San Diego woman, hydroplaned and lost control while headed north approaching Birmingham Drive at 6:50 a.m., according to California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt.

The Honda struck the center divider at an estimated 70 mph and overturned, Bettencourt said.

The driver was trapped in the car and died at the scene. His name was not immediately available. The passenger managed to crawl out of the wreckage and was taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla to be treated for minor to moderate injuries, Bettencourt said.

Bettencourt said neither drugs nor alcohol were factors in the crash.

The crashed vehicle initially blocked two lanes and a SigAlert was issued. One lane was later reopened, the CHP said.

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Encinitas executive named to lead second phase of Scripps Hospital fundraising effort

BY LOIS ALTER MARK Over the past few years, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas has been undergoing a major expansion, adding a much-needed parking structure in 2011 and completing the Leichtag Foundation Critical Care Pavilion last summer.

The hospital is in the midst of the second phase of this campaign, aiming to raise $10 million to build two state-ofthe-art operating rooms, redesign and upgrade its four operating suites, expand the pre-operative care unit and post-anesthesia unit, and relocate and double the size of the endoscopy department.

To lead these fundraising efforts, Encinitas resident Marc Graham was recently named chairman of the community advisory board of Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas.

A leader in the automotive retail industry, Graham is a seasoned executive with more than 35 years of senior management experience. He is the CEO of Take 5, a rapidly growing oil-change business based in New Orleans, and the former CEO of Jiffy Lube, EZ Lube and AAMCO Transmissions’ parent company, as well as a former executive vice president of Kragen Auto Parts.

“Marc is the ideal leader for this part of the campaign,” said John Ciullo, director of development of Scripps Health Foundation. “We needed someone with instant credibility to provide overall direction, but who was skilled and wise enough to step back and let his volunteers fly. He’s just that kind of guy. We’re fortunate to have him, and we feel confident we’ll finish this campaign over the next year.”

Scripps is already more than one-third of the way towards its goal, having raised $3.5 million.

“I am lucky to succeed a long line of community advisory chairs, many of whom still serve the board today,” said Graham. “This group has raised $40 million through philanthropic and educational events, and I’m looking forward to continuing those and helping people understand the need for their support in making Scripps Encinitas one of the most prepared and technically capable for our community.”

Graham, who will have a two-year term, is no stranger to the responsibilities he will be facing, having served on numerous boards during his career.

Marc Graham Courtesy photos

Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

“I love helping people and companies understand their utmost capability and how to get there,” he said. “I also love mentoring management. Although Scripps needs no help on the management side, I think, as a community advisory board, we can work with them to understand the community’s needs and how to surpass them.”

At Scripps Encinitas, he will be leading a group of 40 volunteer community leaders committed to raising awareness and funds for the hospital.

“Scripps has done a phenomenal job in furthering itself as a top hospital,” said Graham. “It takes community, though, to assure it has the resources to reach its potential and exceed patients’ needs. I want to be part of that endeavor. And selfishly, it’s my hospital and my family’s, too.”

Graham’s wife, Mindy, and all four of their daughters were born at various Scripps hospitals in San Diego, and he has been a

patient at Scripps Encinitas himself.

“One day my heart just began racing, so I went to the hospital and was thoroughly examined within minutes,” said Graham.

“The patient care was amazing. I had an appendectomy there and was treated by topnotch doctors and nurses. Most important, to me, was that I got a smile whenever I needed. I can go on about my motorcycle accident and a few other incidents, but the theme is the same. It’s an excellent facility.”

According to Graham, the hospital’s already high standards may, ironically, be the biggest challenge in motivating people to donate.

“Scripps Encinitas is already one of the best hospitals in the country, from heart care to the ICU,” he explained, “so I think it’s hard to understand, when you’re there, how they could possibly need funding. If the community wants a great hospital, well, they have one. But, if they want an industry

leader with the best technology, they need to help us get there.”

Graham hopes the community will rise to the challenge.

“I want people to sit back and think about the fact that they will need that hospital — if not now, someday,” he said. “Or a loved one will need care there. Every single donation, no matter what the amount, will help us continue to drive toward being the best.”

To donate or learn more, visit www.scripps.org/ campaignforencinitas or call 760-633-7722.

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Just in Time honors local family for commitment to foster youth

BY KAREN BILLING Just in Time for Foster Youth will honor the Livingston family, including former longtime Encinitas residents Susanne and Brad Livingston and their daughters, for their dedication to making a difference in the lives of young adults at the organization’s March 14 Walk the Talk gala at Balboa Park. Through the family’s Livingston Foundation, they have supported the Just in Time organization since it began 10 years ago and started Living to Succeed for foster youth in 2011.

For The Livingston Foundation, board meetings are held around a family dinner table headed by “Nonie and Pop.” Founded by grandparents Ron and Sandy Livingston as a way to involve their children and grandchildren in philanthropy, board meetings at the Thanksgiving table consisted of the younger generations pitching the philanthropic ideas that “tugged at their heart the most,” from local foster youth to Darfur.

The board includes the McKay family in Orange County and the Livingstons

in San Diego: Ron and Sandy’s son, Brad, and his wife, Susanne, and their grandchildren, Kristin (25) and Lauren (23).

The family tends to shy away from the spotlight.

They are humbled by Just in Time’s honor, but also see it as an opportunity to show the positive example set by the Livingston grandparents, three generations committed to giving back. This will be Ron and Sandy’s legacy, said Susanne Livingston.

“If everyone on the planet did this, the world would be such a better place,” she said.

The Livingstons have lived in Rancho Santa Fe for a little over a year, after more than 30 years in Encinitas. Susanne and her husband, Brad, started Residential Wholesale Mortgage in 1994, a “community mortgage banker” that gives residential and retail loans to help people finance homes and investment properties.

The Livingston Foundation founded Learning to Succeed with the help of Casa in Orange County.

More than 25 foster youths

The Livingston family Courtesy photo are involved in the scholarship program and have gone on to become successful college students. Learning to Succeed recently launched locally in San Diego with Voices for Children, and six students are on their way to achieving their scholastic dreams.

Throughout the years, the Livingston Foundation supported a variety of organizations such as Stevens Cancer Center in San Diego, Casa de Amparo and Second Chance.

They’ve worked with the Warwick Foundation to provide scholarships for students to attend Santa Fe Christian School and built homes in Tijuana.

“There are so many great causes in San Diego, so each year we took our allocation and gave to those causes,” Susanne Livingston said. “Foster youth became a real passion

starting in 2011.”

The Livingstons found out about Just In Time through their business 10 years ago, when the organization was just starting up. A local real estate agent asked whether they had any donations of gently used furniture to help emancipated foster youth set up their first homes.

The Livingstons had become familiar with foster youth issues through their support of San Pasqual Academy and their daughters’ participation in National Charity League.

While San Pasqual helped guide foster teens though high school, Just in Time was covering that next step, for youth ages 18 through 26.

Their involvement with Just in Time began with their College Bound program, where foster youth get Target gift cards to help outfit their dorm rooms and prepare to go off to college.

The Livingstons went on a shopping spree with a girl named Veronica and built a relationship with the young student, who had an aptitude for numbers and aspired to be an accountant.

They were able to hire Veronica as an intern for Residential Wholesale Mortgage while she was in school at Cal State San Marcos. After graduation, she was hired to work with them full time before she got a job using her accounting degree.

Veronica just moved into her first home with her husband and newborn baby girl.

Susanne Livingston said it is very rewarding to play a part in helping a foster youth.

“It’s not always a hand out, it’s a hand up, to help them live a better life,” she said. “If we can change the life of just one person at a time, it really makes a difference.”

Just in Time helps young adults take care of themselves financially, and provides professional connections and mentorships as well as helping with basic needs or emergencies, such as when a car breaks down or help is needed to put down a deposit for a first apartment.

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American Ballet Theatre signs Encinitas dancer

BY NINA GARIN SPECIAL TO THE ENCINITAS ADVOCATE Scout Forsythe is an Encinitas-bred beach girl who is now in the corps de ballet at New York’s American Ballet Theatre (ABT).

The 18-year-old joined ABT’s training program almost two years ago but has stayed on as an apprentice and, in January, she was promoted to a company dancer.

This week, Forsythe returns to Southern California to perform in ABT’s “The Sleeping Beauty” at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts. In the show, which runs through Sunday, March 8, Forsythe dances various roles, including a nymph and a garland couple.

Though she spends most of her time in New York, Forsythe comes home to Encinitas during long breaks. (Her father, William Forsythe, was a San Diego fireman for 36 years, and her mother, Lori Forsythe, played professional beach volleyball.)

Forsythe, who formerly danced for San Diego Ballet, tells us about life as a professional ballerina.

Q: At what point did you realize you wanted to pursue ballet professionally?

A: I’ve always been dedicated, but I had my realization at 16. It was in Paris, after a Youth America Grand Prix competition that I won first place in, and I was with my mom outside of the theater. I remember saying, “This is what I am doing with my life; this is what I want.” It was a great moment.

Q: You’ve participated in various Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) competitions. How did you do in them?

A: I have won multiple awards with YAGP. I have received the Grand Prix award in San Diego along with first place for pas de deux (dance duet). In Paris, I placed first in classical and contemporary. I have been to

the New York finals three times and made it into the top 12 each time. YAGP helped me in so many ways. I was able to learn variations that I see on stage being performed by the world’s best dancers. I was able to dance on stages that ballet dancers dream of. I was able to put myself out there (on stage) and grow artistically.

Q: What advice would you give to young San Diego ballet dancers inspired by your success?

A: Ballet is a never-ending journey. Absorb everything you can and don’t be afraid to work on your weakness. Make it fun and stay inspired.

Q: What is the most difficult thing about being a professional dancer? What is your favorite part about it?

A: Not being afraid to try new steps and combinations that I might not be comfortable with in class. I also have to keep reminding myself to have patience. My favorite part is taking class with the dancers that I looked up to when I started ballet. Being able to take class with them is so inspiring.

Q: What have been some of your favorite roles to dance?

A: I had a great time last year in ABT’s Studio Company (training program) performing “Raymonda” and “Great Galloping Gottschalk (GGG).” They are such different pieces. It was fun to discover the classical demand of “Raymonda” and the fun energetic acting of “GGG.” As a corps member, my favorite ballet I have danced so far is “Swan Lake.”

Q: Tell us about “The Sleeping Beauty.” Why should San Diegans drive up to Orange County to see it?

A: I am going to be dancing in three of the four acts. I am a garland couple, nymph and Mazurka couple. There are so many rea-

‘Ballet is a never-ending journey,’ says Scout Forsythe of Encinitas, now dancing with American Ballet Theatre.

‘Absorb everything you can.’ Courtesy photo sons everyone should see this ballet. This production of “The Sleeping Beauty” represents a reconstruction of the Sergei Diaghilev and Nicholas Sergeyev 1921 production for the Ballets Russes. (ABT choreographer) Alexei Ratmansky has created this ballet using notation from the 1921 production. This reconstruction has never been done before. Also, (set designer) Richard Hudson (“The Lion King”) has based his costume and set designs on (Ballets Russes artist) Léon Bakst’s original designs. It will be a truly special show.

Q: What do you like to do when you’re not training or dancing?

A: Sleep. On the weekends, I sleep a lot. It hits the reset button for me and helps me refuel for the coming week. I try to walk around in nature and enjoy the earth as well.

When we are on big weeklong breaks, I always come home

to California. I love to spend time at the beach surfing and swimming.

Q: What’s the best advice you ever received?

A: My teacher in San Diego always used to say, “Your brain should be like a sponge, soak up everything you can.” You can learn something from everyone you dance with. I am so fortunate to be at ABT and learn from the best.

Q: What is one thing people would be surprised to find out about you?

A: Ballet was never something I thought of doing as a kid. I was playing softball and volleyball before I danced. I didn’t start ballet until I was 11 and I didn’t go “en pointe” (on the tips of the toes) until a month before I turned 13.

Q: Please describe your ideal San Diego weekend.

A: Breakfast at Swami’s Cafe, then going to the beach for a surf/body boarding “sesh,” swim and relax with my friends. Then finish the evening off with a good home-cooked meal and a beautiful sunset.

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Singer-songwriter brings passion for folk music to Encinitas event March 21

BY ROB LEDONNE He’s been praised by the likes of Johnny Cash and Pete Seeger, and come March 21, singer-songwriter John McCutcheon takes his folk act to the San Dieguito United Methodist Church in Encinitas.

“The luxury of being a soloist is that I can take these short trips around the country whenever I want,” McCutcheon said from his home in Smoke Rise, Ga., which is just outside Atlanta. “Also, I’m able to keep my shows fresh. I can ad-lib and take requests, and that makes it more fun for the audience and more fun for ‘When I get out of bed every morning, I can’t me.” wait to do my job,’ says singer John McCutcheon should know how McCutcheon. Courtesy photo to keep it fresh. In his 43rd year as a professional singer-songwriter, he has navigated a changing music industry while retaining the same amount of passion he had when he was first starting out.

“When I get out of bed every morning, I can’t wait to do my job,” said McCutcheon, who besides performing folk is also an accomplished producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and passionate consumer of music history. “Even though I’m on the verge of releasing my 37th album, I feel like I have never written, performed, or played better than I am now. I still feel like that 20-year-old college student.”

It was when McCutcheon was attending a small university in the Minnesota area that he asked his college adviser if he could go on a three-month sabbatical performing music.

His advisor said yes, and those three months turned into an entire career.

“It was a three-month adventure to meet people who played the banjo as a way of life, not a hobby,” McCutcheon said. “I was blessed with the audacity of youth.”

His latest album, which isn’t officially released until May but will be on hand as an exclusive preview during his show in Encinitas, is meant to honor the late Joe Hill, who was one of the first satirical lyricists in music history.

“He wrote for an early 20th-century labor union,” McCutcheon said of the late folk singer, who died exactly 100 years ago this November. “Pete Seeger used to sing some of his songs, and I thought that since it’s been a century since he passed, someone should honor his memory.”

As a result, McCutcheon poured “hundreds of hours” into the production of an album that rerecorded Hill’s music for an entirely new audience. “Most people don’t know him at

all, but working in music isn’t always about hitting the right notes,” McCutcheon said of keeping Hill’s legacy alive. “It’s more than that.”

McCutcheon is no stranger to performing in North County. For many years, he regularly appeared at the Old Time Cafe, a mecca for folk music formerly located in Leucadia, which closed in 1987. Since then, the organization San Diego Folk Heritage has continued holding folk shows in place of the legendary cafe.

“The core of the audience in San Diego knows me well,” McCutcheon said. “I’ve played for the same group of people for 30 years. The reward for traveling to San Diego, and around the country, is that you get to play music. “ McCutcheon will perform in Encinitas on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. San Dieguito United Methodist Church: 117 Calle Magdalena Encinitas, 92024. For more information, visit www.folkmusic.com.

Annual Healthy Living Festival returns to Del Mar San Diego’s largest health and fitness expo, the Healthy Living Festival, returns March 21-22 to the Del Mar Fairgrounds. This amazing event draws more than 10,000 people and incorporates everything imaginable to help promote and educate on health and wellness, including: • 30 free lectures and workshops where experts will share new ideas about lifestyle changes that can help attendees keep fit better, eat more healthfully, improve sleep, prevent disease and lower stress. Find details of the lectures and workshops at www.healthylivingfestival.com.

• Free medical screenings from Sharp HealthCare, back by demand. A thousand persons went through Sharp’s free medical and wellness screenings last spring. This year, attendees can have their cholesterol, glucose, Body Mass Index (BMI) and blood pressure checked, and also get information on the hazards of smoking.

• Cooking demonstrations each day that include sampling as well as healthy cooking tips from renowned chefs. On Saturday, attendees can see Chef Toby Carillo from The Fish Market Del Mar, and on Sunday, festivalgoers can enjoy Chef Kai Peyrefitte of Kai Food.

• Free yoga and qigong classes. Attendees can also try Xorbing in giant balls.

• Belly dancing shows, Zumba and karate demonstrations.

• The biggest attraction of the event is its 200 exhibitors, offering the latest in health and fitness products and services, who have come to Del Mar from across the nation.

Stroll through the festival and sample healthy foods and beverages, visit with health professionals and sports and fitness experts, receive a massage, learn about the latest in weight management, nutrition, skin care and green living products, or find out about the benefits of aromatherapy or homeopathy.

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In ‘Euphoria,’ writer takes readers on a journey to another world

BY JOE TASH “Euphoria,� Lily King’s fourth novel, is a departure for the author — up to that point in her writing career, she had written domestic novels, set in the Western world, about families.

But after reading a short chapter in a biography of anthropologist Margaret Mead, set in the jungle along the Sepik River in what is now Papua New Guinea, King was hooked. She began researching the story, and then set out to write her own novel. It’s based on a short period of Mead’s life when she was working in the field with her second husband, and she met and fell in love with the man who would become her third husband. “They were caught in a really intense love triangle that had malarial fevers, intellectual breakthroughs, threats of violence, and moments of great joy and moments of great despair,� said King, who spoke at the Feb. 13 meeting of the Rancho Santa Fe Literary Society.

King’s novel, published in 2014, tells the story of Nell Stone, loosely based on Mead, during a few months in the 1930s when she and the other two main characters, her husband and an anthropologist she falls in love with named Andrew Bankson, lived and worked together in what was then called the Territory of New Guinea.

The book follows the three scientists as they grapple with their job of chronicling and understanding the lives of tribal peoples along the river, and their own personal needs and desires. The story is rich with detail about the living conditions of the anthropologists and their subjects, including

clothing, rituals, diet and language. “Euphoria� has received a number of accolades, including the designation as one of the 10 best books of 2014 by The New York Times.

King met with a reporter and a group of creative writing students from Cathedral Catholic High School before her talk, discussing her writing process and inspirations.

While she invented the characters’ dialogue and much of the plot, she drew from extensive research, including Mead’s own writings, to set the scenes in the book.

She said she did not feel tethered to historical accuracy, even though her characters were based on real people. “I gave myself free rein pretty early on,� she said.

Among her challenges was capturing the motivations that brought each of the three anthropologists to the jungles of the South Pacific, and their private passions. In one segment, Bankson, an Englishman, asks Nell Stone about her favorite part of anthropological field work. “It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Suddenly it feels within your grasp. It’s a delusion — you’ve only been there eight weeks — and it’s followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It’s the briefest, purest euphoria,� Nell Stone said. “Bloody hell,� (Bankson) laughed. “You don’t get that?� “Christ, no. A good day for me is when no little boy steals my underwear, pokes it through with sticks, and brings it back

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difficult to wrest herself away from her work when it’s time to pick up the kids from school, she said. “It is really hard at 2:30 or quarter to three, to transition to the real world,� she said. “Euphoria� is available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and most book stores.

For more information, visit www.lilykingbooks. com.

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King said she prefers to write her first draft by hand in a spiral-bound notebook, then type chunks of the book into her computer. She brought her battered notebook with her to show the writing students.

In order to get to know her characters as well as possible, she said, she writes a bio of each one that can run as long as 20 single-spaced pages. All that information doesn’t end up in the book, but it helps her to know their voice and history, she said.

King lives in Maine with her husband, novelist and painter Tyler Clements, and the couple’s two daughters, ages 13 and 15.

She writes Monday through Friday, while her children are in school, and takes weekends off. Sometimes it can be

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New Scripps Prebys cardiac center to receive first patients March 8

BY PAT SHERMAN After years of planning, Scripps Health’s new $456 million Prebys Cardiovascular Institute will receive its first patients March 8, opening as the West Coast’s most advanced center for cardiovascular care.

What Scripps Clinic’s chief of cardiology, Paul Teirstein (who is also director of the new cardiac center), praised last week as the building’s “arty, boomerang design” seems fitting. Just like a boomerang, the quality care Scripps has provided San Diegans through the decades came back in the form of $127 million in philanthropic gifts toward the new center. Donations came from more than 2,600 individuals, including $1 million from Scripps physicians, another $1 million from Scripps staff and $45 million from Conrad Prebys, a real estate developer and philanthropist for whom the state-of-the-art facility is named.

Addressing hundreds of donors, physicians, staff and media during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 26, Scripps Health’s President and CEO Chris Van Gorder called Prebys’ donation “impactful” and “historic.”

“We will always be grateful to you,” Van Gorder told Prebys and those in attendance. “It’s the single largest donation Scripps has ever received, and we believe it will help reshape heart care and health care in San Diego for the 21st century.”

The new center has 108 private patient rooms, 59 intensive-care beds and six operating rooms, including two hybrid operating rooms and three cardiac catheterization labs, with room to add three more. (Catheterization is a procedure by which a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter is inserted into a blood vessel in a patient’s arm, upper thigh or neck and threaded to the heart to conduct diagnostic tests and heart treatments.)

On floors three through seven are 17 negative-pressure (isolation) rooms that prevent cross-contamination between patient areas. The rooms are used to isolate patients with airborne contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox or Ebola.

During his speech, Van Gorder paid homage to La Jolla benefactress Ellen Browning Scripps, who in 1924 established the original Scripps Hospital on Prospect Street. “I can absolutely tell you that Miss Ellen is smiling down on us today,” Van Gorder assured everyone.

The center will continue Scripps’ more-than-three-decade collaboration with Kaiser Permanente cardiologists.

Scripps’ 166 cardiovascular specialists serve about 76,000 heart patients per year, making Scripps the largest heart care provider in the region.

Addressing the audience Feb. 26, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said the new center is a testament to San Diegans coming together to achieve great things.

“The research and the teaching that is going to go on

FAMILY continued from page 4

Approximately 300 foster youth emancipate from the foster care system each year in San Diego County. Without financial or emotional support, 50 percent will become homeless during their first two years after exiting foster care; 60 percent of girls become pregnant within a few years after leaving; and 50 percent leaving foster care become unemployed.

Livingston said that 70 percent of emancipated teens say they would like to attend college, but less than 50 percent graduate from high school — that’s what makes organizations like Learning to Succeed and Just in Time so important.

“It’s all about developing a relationship with the kids and letting them know that people really care about them and want to help them achieve their educational dreams,” she said. “It’s important to have a community there that can support them, to support these kids when they need our help.”

Just In Time provides a number of classes and programs, Livingston said, but it’s really about putting the young people in touch with role models and mentors who can start relationships that carry on for a long time.

The new $456 million Prebys Cardiovascular Institute in La Jolla will receive its first patients Sunday, March 8.

Photos courtesy of Pat Sherman here is going to save thousands and thousands of lives across this country and indeed across the world, because of the techniques and technology to be pioneered here,” Faulconer said.

The building’s design was shaped by input from more than 200 doctors, nurses, administrators, architects and staff.

“That work is done,” Van Gorder told the crowd, “and now we hand it back to … these highly skilled people to start taking care of patients literally a week from now.”

Van Gorder said completion of the Prebys Center fulfills a vision he had when he joined Scripps Health in 2000 “to see cranes on all the campuses,” heralding expansion of the Scripps Health system.

The new center is a crucial component of a 25-year master plan unveiled in November 2010 that is transforming the Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla campus. The master plan also calls for the replacement of the hospital to comply with California earthquake safety mandates.

Other additions are the Scripps Clinic John R. Anderson V Medical Pavilion, a $130 million medical building being constructed next to the institute, to be completed in March 2016.

San Diego City Council President Sherri Lightner, a La Jollan who gave birth to all three of her children at Scripps hospitals, said Scripps was one of the first outside parties to pay her a visit when she joined the City Council in 2008, to share plans for its cardiac center and its other La Jolla projIn the Livingstons’ case, they attended the wedding and baby shower for the “bright, energetic, capable” young woman they met that day at Target. And they weren’t the only mentors to have an impact on Veronica’s life — her baby’s godmother is another Just in Time mentor.

Livingston’s daughter, Lauren, still exchanges text messages weekly with a foster youth named Tasha who got a scholarship to UC Berkeley while she was enrolled there.

“It’s all the little pieces that really help. Sometimes you don’t know the extent of your help and what it’s done, but it can mean so much to them,” Susanne Livingston said.

She said Just in Time does a “tremendous” job — but what really has made an impact in San Diego is all of the organizations working together for the benefit of all youngsters in foster care.

“It’s pretty amazing,” Livingston said. “The community has really come together to help San Diego foster youth.”

There are many ways to get involved, from serving as a mentor or participating in the College Bound program as Livingston did. Visit jitfosteryouth.org.

Court-appointed special advocates for foster children are always needed. Visit Voices for Children at speakupnow. org.

Tickets for the March 14 Walk the Talk gala are also available at jitfosteryouth.org.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer thanks philanthropist and real estate developer Conrad Prebys for his $45 million donation. (Seated beside Prebys is longtime partner and philanthropist Debbie Turner.) ects.

“I am proud that Scripps continues to grow, invest and thrive in San Diego,” Lightner said, noting how Scripps’ expansion will create an array of jobs in the region and promote economic growth. “Once completed, this entire area will be a wonder to behold. … I can’t wait for the rest of the buildings in the master plan to come forward.”

The new facility combines the cardiovascular programs of neighboring Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and Scripps Green Hospital, located next to Torrey Pines Golf Course.

The nearby John R. Anderson V Medical Pavilion will be linked to Prebys Cardiovascular Institute by two enclosed, elevated walkways. The Anderson pavilion will include doctors’ offices, patient exam rooms, four cath labs and 12 recovery rooms.

Cardiologists practicing in the Prebys Center will have offices and see patients in the adjacent pavilion. Surgical facilities in the Prebys Center will be available, if needed, to patients undergoing procedures in the Anderson cath labs.

Heart disease is the nation’s leading cause of death for men and women, claiming about 600,000 lives each year and accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In San Diego County, nearly 4,000 people die of heart disease each year.

For more information, visit scripps.org/SPCI

Special events at Coaster stops this month as district marks line’s 20th anniversary The North County Transit District is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Coaster train service with special events this month.

The commuter train that runs down the shoreline between Oceanside and downtown San Diego has grown in ridership from 700,000 passenger trips the first year to 1.7 million annually now, according to the agency.

The NCTD says it will mark the Coaster’s two decades of operation with customer-appreciation activities through March, including an online rider-generated photo contest.

A celebration will be held at 7 a.m. Tuesday at the Carlsbad Village station, March 10 at the Carlsbad Poinsettia station, March 12 at the Solana Beach station, March 17 at the Encinitas station, and March 24 at the Sorrento Valley station, according to the transit agency.

Celebrations were also held at the Oceanside station earlier this month.

The NCTD says on its website that it plans to propose a new station at Camp Pendleton, along with limited-use stops at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and San Diego Convention Center.

For more information, visit gonctd.com

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Define yourself by your own metrics, says Graham; it’s the first step to success

BY CATHARINE L. KAUFMAN When Stedman Graham, Jr. sauntered into the crowded lecture hall on Feb. 11 at Torrey Pines High School, parents and teachers took notice of his presence even before he spoke. The globetrotting educator and motivational speaker proceeded to share inspiring and informative ideas about his Nine-Step Success Process, some of which evolved from his life experiences.

Stedman takes his mission — molding followers into leaders by changing the way people think and view themselves — to high schools, colleges and universities, as well as corporations, professional groups and community organizations.

The core of his talk is to enlighten listeners through the metaphorical journey outlined in his self-help book, “Identity Passport to Freedom.” It starts with Step 1: Gaining a deep and intimate understanding of oneself (one’s identity), which he calls “self-mastery.”

According to Stedman, we must find our life calling and define ourselves by our personal metrics — not by the labels imposed on us by the outside world, and that includes our gender, race, title or job and our relationships.

He talks about how difficult it is to maintain his own independent identity because of his longtime relationship with media mogul Oprah Winfrey. Still, Stedman has managed to carve out his niche, and that includes entrepreneur; CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a Chicago-based educational marketing and consulting firm; author of a dozen selfhelp books; Huffington Post columnist; and orator.

He speaks at educational institutes because he believes it’s never too early to show young people the importance of developing leadership qualities rather than remaining followers.

Stedman is on a Live Sonima Tour, jetting to 80 high schools around the country to promote his leadership message to thousands of students. The Sonima Foundation,

based in Encinitas, has the mission of encouraging healthy lifestyles for students in mind and body.

Growing up in Middle Township, N.J., Stedman confessed he had low self-esteem, thanks in part to a local shopkeeper who taunted him and defied him to go to college and earn a diploma.

This became the driving force that inspired Stedman to embrace Step 2: Create your vision. He said people must become rainmakers, with fresh ideas and meaningful goals that propel them forward and enhance their socio-economic development. Step 2 resulted in Stedman earning his academic stripes, a master’s in education from Ball State University.

Along the journey to self-identity and freedom, Stedman believes that “love,” the most powerful word on the planet, defines everything, including the passion that drives you. He called love the center of development and the universal magnet that attracts positive energy and success.

A group of eight participants had a “love fest” competition that night to see who could rattle off the most things they loved in 30 seconds. The winner conjured up 24. Most competitors cherished people — beloved family and friends, followed by pets, nature, a fine glass of wine, and a good session of retail therapy.

One way of achieving Step 5 — stepping out of your comfort zone by confronting fears and taking risks — comes by expressing, acknowledging and accepting love.

According to Stedman, we all share a common denominator: 24 hours a day in which to be productive and achieve our goals and visions. Alas, most of us get stuck in daily habits that prevent us from thinking. This disconnect causes our actions to be misaligned with our thoughts, as we stumble through life as myopic followers rather than as insightful leaders.

To the question of what path Stedman sees for his own future, he points to Step 7: Build your dream team, creating

Stedman Graham, Jr. (at 6’ 7”) poses with reporter Catharine Kaufman (who is 5’ 2”). Courtesy photo a network of supportive relationships and mentors. Stedman said that along his journey, he has adopted many people with traits he admires and characteristics he would like to emulate.

If you were to ask who Stedman Graham, Jr., is, no doubt he would refer you to a set of goals, passions, strengths and human imperfections he owns as his identity.

New UCSD dean aims to strengthen arts in education

BY WILL BOWEN If you add the letter “A” for Arts to the educational acronym STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) you get STEAM. Moving from STEM to STEAM by strengthening the role of the arts is the new buzz in education, where an interdisciplinary focus is growing and the traditional dichotomy between the arts and the sciences is fading fast.

A native of Venice, Italy, Cristina Della Coletta hopes to contribute to the “renaissance” of STEAM learning as the new Dean of Arts & Humanities at UC San Diego.

From her large-windowed office on the fourth floor of the Literature Building, Della Coletta has an expansive view of Warren Mall — all the way to the Stuart Art Collection’s “Snake Path,” which winds up the hill to the Geisel Library.

She can also see the “Fallen Star,“ the little blue house perched on the corner of the top of the Engineering Building, as well as hundreds of students scurrying to their classes below, to whom she hopes to teach “durable skills in the arts and humanities … skills that can last a lifetime ... or longer.”

“This is a phenomenal university,” she said, glancing back from the window during a recent interview. “It is a powerhouse which is growing at an extraordinary pace.

If you look at the more traditional colleges, they just don’t have the interdisciplinary thrust that UCSD has become famous for.

“Here there is a marriage of the theoretical and the practical; science meets up with the humanities. You see music theorists alongside music performers, art historians mingling with studio artists, engineers talking to literature professors. This great interdisciplinary focus is why I wanted to work here!”

Before coming to UCSD, Della Coletta

taught Italian at the University of Virginia and was its associate dean of arts and sciences.

“What impresses me about UCSD is that it has more of a sense of the imminence of the future than anywhere else I have seen,” she said. “Here, the present is related to the past, but not subservient to it, and the focus is on becoming something new. People are willing to take risks and are full of curiosity about what is behind the next corner. What powers it all is diversity.

Diversity of race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation and interest.”

She said there are three things she hopes to accomplish as Dean of Arts & Humanities.

“The first is to expand the humanities to have a more global perspective,” she said.

“Second, I want to encourage more collaboration between the arts and sciences — especially in the study of larger cultural areas or global issues, such as global warming or migration and immigration. Third, I want to bring more focus to practical ethics or how we should approach topics like genetics, big data and biomedicine.”

Della Coletta also hopes to bring more residents from the surrounding communities to the campus for lectures and events, and send out more teachers to the local schools to instruct about special topics.

Her Italian upbringing in picturesque Venice has left an indelible impression on her and how she views things. She is the only child of an electrical engineer and an accountant-turned-homemaker.

“We lived in an apartment, like everyone else,” she said. “My father worked for a corporation in the Marghera industrial area.

Everyone knew everyone else. It was a safe place. I loved to roam the island. I remember it as a very happy world.”

‘What impresses me about UCSD is that it has more of a sense of the imminence of the future than anywhere else I have seen,’ says Cristina Della Coletta, new dean of Arts & Humanities at UCSD. Photo by Erik Jepsen After high school, Della Coletta went to college at the University of Venice.

“My second year, I got a scholarship to go to any UC school I wanted to as an exchange student. I chose UCLA, so I could to study with Professor Martha Banta, who was a specialist in the study of Henry James, an author I admired.”

At UCLA, she lived off campus with other foreign exchange students and struggled to learn English. She also met Mike Thrift (now an environmental lawyer), whom she would eventually marry after a long-term long-distance relationship. The couple have two children, a son at the University of Virginia and a daughter at La Jolla High School.

After a year at UCLA, Della Coletta went back to Venice to finish college, and then chose the University of Virginia

because it was one of the few places that would accept graduate students in the middle of the year.

As it turned out, U of V was a very comfortable place for Della Coletta because of the extensive use of the Italian-influenced architectural style known as “palazzo.”

There were tall white columns everywhere that made her feel at home. There, Della Coletta switched her focus to Italian literature and taught Italian for the language department.

Della Coletta and her husband-to-be decided they would both go to the same college for graduate study.

That turned out to be UCLA, which accepted her to study Italian and him to study law.

At UCLA, Della Coletta turned her doctoral research into a book about how historical fiction can offer a unique perspective for examining history. She has also written about Italian world fairs, and the transition of books into movies, such as the transformation of the American novel, “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” into the Italian film, “Ossessione.”

— Cristina Della Coletta can be reached by e-mail at dean-ah@ucsd.edu.

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Pieology custom pizzeria opens in Carlsbad Pieology Pizzeria, where pizza lovers go to create custom pizzas in endless flavor combinations, is officially open in Carlsbad.

The new restaurant is at 2647 Gateway Road in the Bressi Ranch Village Center

by Nékter Juice Bar and Peet’s Coffee & Tea. A proven favorite with SoCal fans, Pieology will soon have four restaurants in the San Diego area, with plans to open a fifth in Del Mar in the coming months.

“We are excited to bring Pieology lets pizza lovers create their own pies for only the unique Pieology experi- $8. Courtesy photo ence to the Carlsbad community,” said John Sangmeister, franchisee. “We invite our new neighbors to stop in and enjoy a delicious pizza, inspired by their own personality and flavor preferences, for just $8.”

The Pieology experience starts with fresh house-made dough that is pressed into 11.5inch thin pizza crusts. Guests select from eight signature sauces, moving down the line to choose from more than 30 fresh and flavorful meats, cheeses, vegetables, herbs, and spices.

The customized pizzas are then stone oven-fired to perfection in less than three minutes. To finish, guests have the option to add after-bake “Flavor Blast” sauces, including fiery buffalo, pesto and BBQ, to put a personal touch to their pies. Each custom pizza with unlimited toppings is always $8 or less.

Pieology also offers gluten-free crust, whole wheat crust and a selection of seven signature pizzas that can be customized upon request.

Pieology Carlsbad comfortably seats approximately 65 guests inside and 35 outside in an industrial-chic and friendly environment where inspirational quotes decorate the walls, menus and employee uniforms. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Call 760-930-8988.

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CCA offering driver’s ed classroom courses The Canyon Crest Academy Foundation and Canyon Crest Academy Dollars for Scholars chapter will be offering a classroom course for Driver’s Education again this year at the school.

Students can choose from one of three intensive, four-day sessions, all from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in a CCA classroom. The first will be April 6-9, a second session will be June 15-18, and the third session will be Aug. 17-20.

Students should be approaching or already 15½ years old to enroll in the classroom course. Teens who are not CCA students are also welcome to register; classes are limited to 40 participants per session.

The benefits of a classroom-based program are that students finish in four days, receive live instruction, experience interactive learning, learn lifesaving and defensive driving skills, and take multiple practice tests. Students will receive instruction from a licensed, insured instructor from Golden State Driving School. They will receive an official certificate of completion at the end of the session, verifying that all the DMV Driver’s Education requirements have been fulfilled.

With this certificate, students who are 15½ or older will be able to take the DMV written test to obtain a learner’s permit. The learner’s permit is valid after the student completes one 2-hour driving lesson with an accredited driving school. Note that behind-the-wheel driver’s training is not included in this program, but Golden State offers experienced behind-the-wheel instruction.

The cost for the four-day classroom course is $89. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the CCA Foundation and CCA Dollars for Scholars.

For details and to register, visit www.canyoncrest.dollarsforscholars.org and click on driver’s education. For questions, email ccadfs@gmail.com. Students will be enrolled firstcome, first-served; registration is online only.

Enrollment for each session will end one week before the first class begins. There will be no make-up dates for missed classes. Full refund given if cancellation is received more than 72 hours before the first day of class. If cancellation is received less than 72 hours before the first day of class, 50 percent of the fee will be refunded. Note that the classroom course is not available for high school course credit.

Academy for Public Speaking Celebration to be held March 14 The Academy for Public Speaking is hosting a special event from 1:30-3:30 p.m. March 14 at the Encinitas Library to celebrate the publication of the book “Confidence Is Key! 12 Amazing Ways Public Speaking Empowers Your Child,” by Kathleen Petrone.

At 2 p.m., several of the Academy for Public Speaking graduates who are featured in the book will share how embracing the power of public speaking has positively affected their lives.

There will be food, fun and special guest speakers, including Academy for Public Speaking graduate Hanrui Zhang, the winner of the 2014 San Diego Optimist Club Oratorical Contest.

Advance registration is required. For details and to register, visit www.AcademyForPublicSpeaking.com.

Author Skypes with Rancho Encinitas classes Fifth- and sixth-graders at Rancho Encinitas Academy and their teachers, Angie Trevino and Kristen Edwards, had a wonderful opportunity to Skype with author Chris Grabenstein (visible on screen at rear) after reading his book, “Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.”

Grabenstein, who lives in New York City, spent about an hour with the students, answering their questions and talking about his collaboration with best-selling author James Patterson.

‘Tomatomania’ kicks off spring festival March 14-15 at SD Botanic Garden These events and classes are “blossoming” at the San Diego Botanic Garden in March.

The garden is at 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. Call 760-436-3036; visit www.sdbgarden.org/classes.

• Sculpture in the Garden, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, now through April 2015. Free with paid admission or membership.

This unique exhibition showcases sculptures from 33 talented artists set against the beautiful backdrop of the San Diego Botanic Garden. Take a self-guided tour with the Garden’s Sculpture Map. • Spring Garden Festival and “Tomatomania,” 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 14-15. Free with paid admission or membership.

Don’t miss the SD Botanic Garden’s new Spring Garden Festival and Tomatomania featuring a wide variety of herbs, spring plants, bromeliads, garden art and implements, and (of course) tomatoes! Great food, a petting zoo, crafts, and music from Bob Ballentine and friends make this a great event for the whole family.

• Mosaic Garden Jewels, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 and 18, members: $30, nonmembers $36 (A $20 materials fee is also paid to the instructor on the first day of class). Register by Friday, March 6.

Create a beautiful mosaic using ocean rocks and glass beads. Learn how to glue and grout colorful beads to create flowers, plants, or other shapes to make fabulous garden art.

• Chef Elizabeth’s “That’s Italian” Cooking Class, 2-4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21, members $30, nonmembers $36. Register by March 13.

Everyone loves Italian food, and these recipes will quickly become your new favorites!

Chef Elizabeth has created several new Italian-inspired recipes: Tuscan Style Pork Ribs With Balsamic Glaze; Slowly Cooked White Beans With Escarole And Sundried Tomatoes; and for dessert, Apricot Biscotti With Dark Chocolate Glaze.

• Backyard Chickens Class, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 21, members $30, nonmembers $36. Register by March 13.

Join Paul Barbano to find out the basics about raising chickens in your own backyard, including: Are backyard chickens legal? Which breed is best for you? Start with chicks or full-grown hens?

• Create a Succulent Mushroom for a Garden Accent, 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday, March 24, members: $35, nonmembers $42 (materials included in fee). Register by March 14.

Create and complete a unique garden design in succulents and moss. Taught by the SDBG Succulent Wreath Team. Please bring small clippers or scissors to class.

• Build Your Own Hydroponic Spring Garden, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 28, members: $75, nonmembers $90 (materials included in fee). Register by March 20.

Learn the principles of the hydroponic wick method by building your own sustainable garden to take home. Taught by Alex Kallas of AgPALS.

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Elks Chaplain Cheryl Curren congratulates Fred Schneider

Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler Scott Hagner and wife Nancine, Fred Schneider, Vicki and Elks Lodge Leading Knight Mike Wright

Mary Jo Williams, Shirley Maher

Marine Sgt. (Ret.) Ruth Osborn, Dotty Grant, Pamela Kaspar

Encinitas Elks celebrate member’s 100th birthday James Armstrong, Elmeta Baldwin

Sally Hickok, Liz Stratton, Deb Armstrong, Marcia Switzer

Encinitas Elks member Fred Schneider turned 100 years old on Feb. 28 (see article on Schneider last issue, Feb. 27, or online at www.encinitasadvocate. com). On Feb. 26, the Encinitas Elks lodge hosted a birthday bash for Schneider, complete with full dinner prepared and served by Marines from Camp Pendleton and birthday cake.

The Elks organization is a charitable, not-forprofit organization donating hundreds of thousand of dollars to charities, schools and veterans each year.

As their major state charity project, CaliforniaHawaii Elks provide therapy to disabled children who would otherwise go without. Weekly community events include Wednesday night bingo, Thursday dinners and Friday night dances, with free dance instruction prior to start of dance. The Encinitas Elks is currently accepting new member applications. To find out more about the Elks National Organization, visit www.elks.org.

Standing: Vicki and Elks Lodge Leading Knight Mike Wright, Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler Scott Hagner and wife Nancine. Seated: Fred Schneider, Doug Schneider

Marilyn Taranto, David Moomaw, Richard Howard “Tractor” Fred Schneider with one of his creations

Camp Pendleton Marines prepared dinner for the guests. PFC Brandon Hugle, PFC Miguel Angel Mejia Perez , SgtMaj (Ret.) Tim Soboleski, LCpl Alexander Ramirez, LCpl Michael Gannon

Fred Schneider and son Doug Schneider

Joyce Wilson, Brenda Wilson, Jill Lamb and guests, Charles Wilson (right)

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What’s going on around Encinitas this weekend and beyond These are just some of the events taking place in and around Encinitas this weekend. For details, visit http://bit. ly/1BsaKuU. • “Gift of Sight,” 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 7, Oak Crest Middle School, Encinitas.

Engage Encinitas is assisting the Encinitas Lions and the Encinitas Library in their search for volunteers at the first “Gift of Sight” event. The outreach will offer free vision exams, refurbished eyeglasses, diabetes testing and blood pressure and hearing screenings. Volunteers are needed between 6:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. to help people from station to station. A two-hour shift is requested, although volunteers can offer more time. To help, email sheila.crosby@sdcounty.ca.gov. For details, visit http://www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/encinitas.

• Opening Reception: Celebration of Spring. Oil Paintings by Carole Mayne. 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 7, Art Gallery, Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. Free.

“My love for capturing the light and shadow patterns with oil paints is my calling. Exploring the subtleties of color nuances and temperatures has forged my course throughout my career.” Meet Carole and enjoy refreshments. On view till March 16.

• Mini-Comics Workshop, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 7, Lux Art Institute, 1578 S. El Camino Real. Cost: $50 (child learner members), $75 (non-members) Ages 13 and up. Visit https://luxartinstitute.wordpress.com/category/teens.

Join eclectic local artists Toshwerks for a mini-comic jam session. Learn the history and process of creating comics and try your hand at creating your own book!

• Opening Reception: Vicki Walsh, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, March 7, Education Pavilion, Lux Art Institute, 1578 S. El Camino Real. Free. Visit https://luxartinstitute.wordpress. com Walsh will be exhibiting new works, including a series of happy faces, and one work specifically created for Lux. These works explore a variety of emotions. On view: March 7-April 17.

• Jewish Family Services Coastal Club, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, Temple Solel, 3575 Manchester Ave. Cardiff. Activities free, lunch: $7.

Seniors 60-plus can choose among different activities: 10 a.m., Flexibility and Fitness with Danyll; 11 a.m., “Understanding the Law” with experts from the Elder Law Center; a healthy lunch is served at noon; and at 1 p.m. see the film “Gone Girl.” RSVP for lunch by noon Monday, March 9 to 858-674-1123; visit http://www.jfssd.org.

• Tuesday Movie, 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. Free. Call 760-753-7376, ext.

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In a seemingly perfect community, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world (PG-13). County libraries can’t publicize titles of free screenings, so call for info.

• San Diego Shakespeare Society Open Reading: Favorite Fools and Jesters, 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. Free. Visit http://www.sdcl. org/locations_EN.html; 760-753-7376.

A series of fun open readings of various speeches or monologues. Anyone can join in the reading or come and listen.

• San Diego Italian Film Festival, 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, La Paloma Theatre, 471 S. Coast Highway 101.

Tickets: $10, $8. (cash only) Info: www.SanDiegoItalianFilmFestival.com “La Prima Neve” (First Snowfall), by Andrea Segre, 2013.

This rich and uplifting movie is a story about overcoming, about the ways in which pain is made into strength.

• Wednesdays@Noon: Courtly Noyse. Noon-12:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. Free; 760-633-2746; visit www.Encinitasca. gov/WedNoon; www.CourtlyNoyse.com.

Jay Sacks, Sandra Stram, Vickie Jenkins, Penny Hawkins, Laury Flora and John Cassaboom make up the early music ensemble Courtly Noyse. They will present a concert of medieval and Renaissance music, instrumental and vocal, performed on reproductions of period instruments, and wearing period costumes.

• Gentle Zumba for Cancer Patients and Caregivers, 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, Fitness Evolution, 780 Garden View Court, Encinitas, free; www.NorthCountyCancerFitness.org; 858-735-5708.

With Alessandra Colfi, Ph.D. Enjoy a playful, easy, goodfor-body-mind-spirit time. Moving is one of the keys to healing and to prevent recurrence. Learn salsa, cumbia, bachata, merengue, reggaeton, hip-hop, and free-flow too! Bring water and wear sneakers.

• “Objects, Images and Ideas in Art of the 21st Century;” 1-2:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, San Elijo Campus, MiraCosta College, 3333 Manchester Ave., Room 201, Cardiff.

Free lecture; parking $1.

Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? Are there universal elements that make up what we know as “fine art”? In this informative talk, Professor Anna O’Cain will discuss art from a working artist’s point of view and explain how non-

artists can hone their art appreciation skills.

• Intrepid Shakespeare Company: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” through Sunday, March 15.

Show times: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays; Performing Arts Center, 1615 W. San Marcos Blvd. San Marcos. Cost: $35, $30, $25. Tickets/ info: 760-295-7541.

Six adolescents (played by adult actors) vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of words. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! With audience participation. PG-13.

• Kishkushim, 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, Chabad La Costa, 1980 La Costa Ave., Carlsbad. Free; http://tarbuton.wordpress.com.

A fun, informal “Mommy and me” support group; make new mommy friends, talk the mommy talk and simply enjoy an hour around some fun mommies making new connections while the little ones play in a safe and fun environment.

• Mosaic Garden Jewels, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 and 18, San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive. Members: $30, nonmembers $36 (plus $20 materials fee). Register by Friday, March 6. Info: http:// www.sdbgarden.org/classes.htm Create a beautiful mosaic using ocean rocks and glass beads. Learn how to glue and grout colorful beads to create flowers, plants, or other shapes for fabulous garden art.

• California Friendly Landscape Training, 9 a.m.noon Saturday, March 7, Encinitas Community Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, Encinitas. Free. Register to conserve@sdwd.org.

Learn a holistic approach to sustainable landscape design and maintenance, with an emphasis on water-use efficiency and solutions to common landscape problems.

• Families Making History Together: Washcloth Bunny. Noon-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, San Dieguito Heritage Museum, 450 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas.

Free; 760-632-9711.

Before the hills of North County were covered with houses, they were home to rabbits, lizards, snakes, coyotes and other local fauna. In March, we will create washcloth bunnies to remind us of when rabbits ruled the hillsides and canyons.

• La Paloma Theatre, 471 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. Tickets: $9, $7. Call 760-436-SHOW (7469).

“Birdman,” “Whiplash,” Friday Midnight Movie, “Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Life Club at San Elijo showing free Chinese film

March 14 party marks Cardiff Library’s 101st year

The Life Club@San Elijo presents “Happy Times,” a Chinese film in Mandarin with English subtitles, at 1 p.m. March 13.

Directed by Zhang Yimou, the film depicts how, in an attempt to impress a divorcée who has caught his eye, an unemployed factory worker poses as the wealthy manager of a non-existent hotel.

The film is free to the public, shown in Room 204 at the San Elijo campus of MiraCosta College, 3333 Manchester Ave., Cardiff.

Parking is $1/day, unless you are a member of the LIFE@San Elijo Club. To join the Club, email lifesanelijo@gmaol.com and ask to be added to the mailing list.

Join the Friends of the Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library in celebrating the library’s 101st birthday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 14 in the community room of the library, 2081 Newcastle Avenue, in Cardiff.

As a part of the birthday celebration, the used bookstore, the Book Nook, will offer all its materials and books, including collectibles and media, for half off the regular marked price.

And of course, since this is a birthday celebration, there will be cake!

Call 760-635-1000 or visit http://www.friendscardifflibrary.org.

Cardiff Church offers screening of faith-based film March 14 In honor of the Lenten season, the San Diego community at large is invited to attend a special screening of “Antique Prayers,” a 50-minute independent film that explores the power of prayer, as a family man endures tremendous adversity, yet still maintains hope and reaffirms God’s love for us.

Written, directed by and starring first-time filmmaker Paul Socrates Kaitson, the film has won the Award of Merit at IndieFest Film Awards, Award of Merit in the Best Shorts Competition, and Award of Merit in the Accolade Global Film Competition.

“Antique Prayers” shows at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in the Constantine G. Pappas Hall, 3459 Manchester Ave., Cardiff.

Michael Garrison (Paul Socrates Kaitson) is put to the test as his wife, Cassie (Kelly M. Kaitson), is hospitalized in critical condition. He struggles to keep his faith while comforting his 5-year-old son, Andrew, as they face the possibility of life without Cassie. As a successful antique store owner, Michael is confronted by his partner’s daughter, Angela (Tracy Pacheco), as she tries to take control of the antique store and win him over. A true message of faith is revealed, and the importance of prayer is a central theme throughout the film.

Tickets are $5 in advance, $10 at the door. Call 619-405-0983 to purchase.

All proceeds benefit the philanthropic work of the local chapter of the Daughters of Penelope, who promote Hellenism, education, philanthropy, civic responsibility, and family and individual excellence.

30th annual Spring Home/Garden Show at Del Mar Fairgrounds March 6-8 Now in its 30th year, the Spring Home/Garden Show returns to Del Mar Fairgrounds from March 6-8 for a three-day extravaganza of inspiring real “Garden Masters” landscapes (created exclusively for the show), hands-on demonstrations, hundreds of home-improvement products and services exhibitors, educational seminars, plant sales, and face-to-face consultations with top experts — all with the convenience of one-stop shopping for everything pertaining to home and garden, inside and outside.

The show focuses on San Diego-area experts, services, products, and businesses. Visitors find everything they need to save time and money improving, refreshing, or remodeling their home and outdoor surroundings — from the latest in appliances to garden lighting, from fencing to security systems, from baths to sunrooms.

Besides the huge main hall where hundreds of exhibitors showcase the newest products and hottest trends, all at special low prices, the show offers several home and garden seminars (included in admission) that provide extraordinary added value.

Show hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.springhomegardenshow.com.

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Rancho Encinitas Academy honors Dr. Seuss on his 111th birthday First- and second-graders at Rancho Encinitas Academy enjoyed celebrating the beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2. Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, would have been 111. Students dressed up as “The Cat in the Hat” and enjoyed some “Green Eggs and Ham” prepared by their teacher.

Top: Colton Bell shows his plate of green eggs and ham. Right: Students show their “cat in the hat” hats. L-R, front, Mick Kazma, Gavin Parker; back, Colton Bell, Tyler Campbell.

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Temple Solel hosts Purim Carnival March 8 The yearly Purim Carnival celebration at Temple Solel will be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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The carnival is open to the public and raises money to help fund educational programs at Temple Solel. The festivities include something for everyone, from games and rides for the kids, to great ethnic food and even spa services for adults.

Temple Solel is at 3575 Manchester Ave., Cardiff by the Sea. Parking is available just south of the temple at MiraCosta College, with free shuttles to the temple. Visit www.templesolel.net or call 760-436-0654.

Rides at the Purim Carnival will include large and small Ferris wheels, a climbing wall, pony rides, a train ride, laser tag, Eurobungy, bumper cars, and new this year, carousel and chair swings. The event also features classic carnival games, such as the fish-bowl toss, tictac-toe, milk-can toss, bottle-ring toss and a cake walk.

A designated spa area will be offering hair “updos,” nail painting and massages. Also on hand will be a used book sale and opportunities to win themed raffle baskets full of prizes.

The festival will offer assorted food choices: Allen’s Pizza, Middle Eastern fare, Rotisserie Affair chicken and the Temple Solel Men’s Club kosher hot dogs. There will also be snow cones and kettle corn, as well as traditional Purim cookies called hamantaschen.

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the biblical Book of Esther. The day of deliverance became a day of feasting and rejoicing. Customs for the holiday include wearing masks and costumes, and public celebration.

Anyone wearing a costume to the Purim Carnival will receive one free game/ride ticket.

Tickets are $1 each on event day but can be purchased in advance at a discount for tickets of 25 or more. Wristbands will be on sale for $30 ($25 in advance) and offer unlimited access to all rides and games. Wristbands are not good for food, raffle or spa services. For advance purchase, visit www.templesolelpurim.eventbrite.com or stop by the Temple Solel School Office from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays. Visit www.templesolel.net.

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A three-judge panel with the California Court of Appeals will listen to oral arguments and rule on the appeal. The hearing is 9 a.m. on March 11 in Division One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, 750 B Street, Suite 300, San Diego.

Yoga was introduced in fall 2012 at five district schools. EUSD’s four remaining schools started yoga six months later. The program has been funded through grants from the Jois Foundation.

The case, which is believed to be the first challenge of a school yoga program on constitutional grounds, has attracted international attention.

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(First below) “First Grandson” by Larry Brooks wins our Caught on Camera community photo contest for February. For his very sweet image, Brooks will receive a $100 gift certificate to Amaya Restaurant at The Grand Del Mar. Shout-outs go to Honorable Mention winners (middle left) “Love Knows No Bounds” by Christina Brown; (bottom left) ”Love is Always Being in Step” by Robert Sillers; (middle, right) “William and Willy” by Angelika Drake; and (bottom right) “Puppy Love” by Serene Edwards. These win a round of applause and our heartfelt admiration. We appreciate all the great photos entered in the contest.

Another chance to win lunch or dinner at Amaya Restaurant comes this month with the March contest theme: Best City or Architecture Photo. It’s easy to enter and upload your images at encinitasadvocate.com.

The deadline is Tuesday, March 31. Get snapping!

A preliminary design shows how a separated bike lane and bike paths could fit on Coast Highway 101. This alternative would take out one northbound car lane.

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101, since it wouldn’t run next to their neighborhoods.

Blakespear said SANDAG should consider placing the rail trail on San Elijo Avenue, with the exception of the slim portion of the road, in order to avoid a retaining wall. On that narrow portion, “sharrows” — lane markings reminding drivers to share the road with bikes — could be installed, she said.

“I would be open to that,” Blakespear said.

Similarly, Councilwoman Lisa Shaffer said the rail trail could be installed on San Elijo Avenue from Chesterfield Drive to Montgomery Avenue, the location of a planned rail undercrossing. At Montgomery Avenue, the rail trail could jump over to Coast Highway 101.

Shaffer said this way, the trail would still be located in front of heavily frequented spots like the Cardiff Town Center.

“If you improve 101, that’s good, but the people who live on the east side of the tracks, just for community use, want to get from their houses to Seaside Market, the school and other things going on in Cardiff,” Shaffer said.

Carterette said putting the rail trail on San Elijo Avenue would be difficult, but it’s still on the table. A community workshop will be held, probably in early April, to gain input on the path.

A specific construction timeline for the first leg hasn’t been set.

As for other parts of the citywide rail trail, the SANDAG project team is considering varying location alternatives, including putting it on Highway 101 or in the rail right-ofway.

SANDAG officials have stated they envision the rail trail one day covering downtown San Diego through Oceanside.

Rich Kelso, one of three public speakers on the presentation, expressed concern that putting the rail trail on San Elijo Avenue would eliminate parking. If that design is approved, he said the California Coastal Commission could reject the project.

“The Coastal Commission does not like any projects near the coast that cause any loss of parking,” Kelso said.

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passing, which would be even more difficult with an 11-foot wide road.

A council majority said staff’s preferred option wouldn’t do enough to help pedestrians.

“Pedestrians do not feel safe walking in a bike lane, and cyclists don’t feel safe riding in a bike lane with pedestrians,” said Councilwoman Lisa Shaffer, who made the alternative motion that was ultimately approved.

Shaffer added it would be tough at night for cyclists to spot pedestrians in the bike lane. She also said that the lanes could be restriped if the project is deemed unsuccessful.

Councilman Mark Muir voted against the motion,

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La Costa Avenue will be restriped for bike lane buffers and a pedestrian path, as a result of Encinitas City Council action.

Photo by Jared Whitlock saying city staff hasn’t had the chance to fully review the pedestrian path.

“I don’t feel comfortable designing from the dais,” Muir said.

Mayor Kristin Gaspar expressed similar sentiments, adding she was reluctant to go against city staff’s recommendation, since they’re knowledgeable on traffic safety.

“They do carry great weight in my mind,” Gaspar said.

Glenn Pruim, Encinitas’ director of public works and engineering, cautioned the council from approving the pedestrian path that night. He asked that the item be brought back so that city staff has more time to familiarize itself with

the feature.

Deputy Mayor Catherine Blakespear said residents at previous Traffic and Public Safety Commission meetings voiced support for pedestrian improvements on La Costa Avenue. She added thus city staff should have looked further into options for improving walkability.

“It’s a really awkward position I think the staff puts us in, by being opposed to what the community wants,” Blakespear said.

Councilman Tony Kranz said studies have shown that narrowing roads reduces car speeds, boosting safety. He later added that Shaffer’s motion is a hybrid between staff’s recommendation and another alternative that was unanimously backed by the Traffic and Public Safety Commission.

Staff’s recommendation would have cost $2,000, while the commission’s option was estimated at $9,000. The price tag and timeline weren’t specified for the approved motion.

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Let the conversation begin: End-of-life discussions are important, say doctors

BY JOE TASH As a medical student and later a physician, Donald Ritt was surrounded by a culture that prides itself on prolonging the lives of its patients.

“All I learned along the way was to cure and save lives, and ‘Nobody dies on my shift,’” said Ritt, who practiced as a gastroenterologist for 45 years, including a stint as chief of staff at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla.

That changed for Ritt five years ago when, at age 75, he launched a palliative care program at Scripps, which worked with some 2,000 patients in its first three years.

Palliative care, according to Ritt and his colleague, Karl Steinberg, a geriatrician who cares for patients in nursing homes, is a medical sub-specialty focused on reducing suffering and improving quality of life, rather than curative treatment.

“As a society, we have a great deal of difficulty approaching death,” said Ritt, who is now retired and speaks on end-of-life issues to homeowner associations in North County. “We’ve learned that some of the life-sustaining systems are really not addressing quality (of life). End of life needs to be quality of life as well.”

“It’s a matter of education and conversation. People have to let their loved ones know what they want and what they don’t want, so they’re not stuck on a ventilator for months on end, wishing they could die but not being able to articulate that to anybody,” said Steinberg, who along with his medical practice is president of the board of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California.

The two physicians recently met with a reporter in their quest to educate the public on end-of-life issues, and about ways for people to make sure their desires regarding end-of-life care are known by their families and doctors.

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Dr. Karl Steinberg and his two dogs, which he takes with him on his rounds to the nursing homes.

ment, they said, is called the “Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment,” or POLST. The document is signed by the patient and his or her doctor. It spells out what treatment is desired if the patient stops breathing and has no pulse.

The POLST form can be downloaded from the CCCC website (coalitionccc.org), and may also be available at doctor’s offices. It is especially important for those nearing the end of their lives, said Ritt and Steinberg, and should be posted in a prominent place in the home, such as on the refrigerator, and also given to the person’s doctor and family members.

Another document that works in conjunction with the POLST, they said, is the advance directive, which designates who patients want to make medical decisions if they are incapacitated.

Palliative care is separate from — but related to — hospice care, said Ritt and Steinberg. In order to be eligible for hospice care, they said, patients must have a prognosis of six months or less to live, and decide to forgo further life-prolonging or curative treatment.

Palliative care, on the other hand, is designed to relieve suffering and improve quality of life, and can be an adjunct to curative treatment, they said.

Observation of palliative care programs, said Ritt, has shown that patients with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer actually live longer when their suffering is relieved.

“The whole approach of palliative care is to relieve suffering, and in that capacity, patients do better,” Ritt said.

Palliative care is a team-based approach, said Steinberg, and includes medication for pain, nausea, anxiety and other symptoms, as well as counseling and spiritual support for those who want it.

“It’s really about what’s important to that person, what makes their life meaningful,” said Steinberg. “For a lot of people, that can have religious or spiritual overtones.”

Resources include the San Diego County Coalition for Improving End-of-Life Care, and TheConversationProject. org.

In North County, the Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas is sponsoring a “Death Café” from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 21, when attendees are invited to “have tea and cake and a rich conversation.” The Seaside Center for Spiritual Living is at 1613 Lake Drive in Encinitas.

Death is a taboo subject in our culture, said the two physicians, but it really shouldn’t be.

“It’s like hitting the finish line. We’re all on that bullet train,” said Steinberg. “We don’t have to think about it constantly, but it’s always a part of all of our lives.”

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CCA Basketball Senior Night Canyon Crest Academy’s seniors were honored on Feb. 18 at the basketball game against Mt. Carmel.

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SPOTLIGHT on LOCAL BUSINESS Encinitas prosthodontist’s work restores smiles to patients’ faces

BY DIANE Y. WELCH Dr. Edward B. Coffey has such a longtime presence in Encinitas that loyal patients who have moved away from the area often come back for appointments, traveling from points afar to take advantage of his pain-free dentistry.

A big factor in Coffey’s edge over other dentists is that he is able to offer his services in a facility that is comfortable, rather than clinical, and very calming for his patients while still being on the leading edge of dental technology. “I have all the toys,” he joked.

These high-tech toys include digital X-ray machines, a microscope that allows both doctor and patient to see details clearly, and a 3-D CT scanner.

In each operating room, video monitors broadcast satellite television and play music for patients to relax them, resulting in an ambiance that diminishes any anxiety that patients may be feeling.

It’s all part of Coffey’s commitment to quality, which has found him serving more than 15,000 patients who have entrusted their dental care to him.

A prosthodontist who has been restoring teeth for 35 years, Coffey holds a philosophy in his work founded in scientific evidence, historical success and keeping up to date with advances in his field.

He has recently begun to offer patients the option of dental implants, which is an added convenience for his clients. “I am doing the surgery myself, so the patient doesn’t have to go to another surgeon’s facility to get the tooth implanted. It is all done here,” Coffey explained.

Implants are the latest treatment option included in his specialty prosthodontist services, which include full-mouth restorations, bridges, root canals, and dentures.

For health, appearance and self-confidence, Coffey offers teeth-whitening treatments, inlays and onlays, dental crowns, dental bonding and porcelain veneers. In addition, he provides the more traditional services of fillings and extractions, deep cleanings and routine preventive care, as well as sleep apnea appliances and nightguards Fluent in Spanish, Coffey was born in Boston, but raised in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

After graduating with his DDS (doctor of dental surgery) from the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, in 1979, he continued his education at the University of Michigan, where he was awarded a full-ride scholarship because of his academic excellence.

In 1981, Coffey graduated with a master’s of science in prosthodontics. After graduation, he worked at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor teaching junior and senior dental students the art of fixed and removable prosthodontics.

Coffey came to Encinitas in 1984. His first office was east of I-5 on Encinitas Boulevard. In 1992, he expanded his office when he moved to his current location at 1445 Encinitas Blvd.

Dedicated to excellence in general and cosmetic dentistry, Coffey’s integrity with patients is paramount, he said. He will often treat patients who have made appointments expressly to get a second opinion.

“I’m pretty straight with clients. I’m not going to sell them something they don’t really need,” he said. “For example, many times patients have been told that they need several fillings, then in reality end up only needing one.”

Coffey is married with two adult daughters and three Dr. Edward B. Coffey grandchildren who all live in Encinitas. A private pilot, he enjoys camping and cars and is an avid golfer. When he’s not in his office, he can be found on the links at Lomas Santa Fe Country Club, and with an upcoming residential move to Rancho Santa Fe, will probably be spending more time at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club, he said.

Respected by both his professional peers and his patients, Coffey credits his longtime success to his loyal client base who appreciate his practice of the art of painless dentistry.

“When I give you a shot, you don’t know you have gotten it. It’s all about being considerate,” he said modestly.

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Artist/inventor to be guest speaker at AAUW meeting set for March 14 The Del Mar-Leucadia Branch of the American Association of University Women will feature an award-winning artist and inventor at its March 14 meeting from 10 a.m. to noon at the Encinitas Community Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive. The presentation will follow a social time from 10 to 10:30 a.m. The public is welcome.

International artist Catherine Newhart will discuss and show photos of her work, which uses a variety of media and styles. “The elements of discovery, as well as design (color, composition, lines, texture, and contrast), are foremost,” she says of her art. “Light and shadow play a vital part.”

Newhart received her B.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work has received recognition in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She has exhibited in numerous juried, group, and solo exhibitions. Her airbrush painting, “Dream Wings,” was accepted for a juried show at Women’s Museum of California in San Diego. Newhart has been featured on television and in print for her innovative Catherine Newhart, processes and holds a U.S. patent for creating unique em- award-winning artist and bossed graphic prints. She is a member of the San Diego Mu- inventor, will be the guest seum of Art Artists Guild and Vista Art Foundation Board.

March 14 of the Del MarThe Del Mar-Leucadia Branch of AAUW, founded in Leucadia branch of the 1955, serves the North Coastal communities of Carmel Val- AAUW. Courtesy photo ley, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe, Cardiff-by-theSea, Encinitas, Olivenhain, Leucadia and Carlsbad. The branch raises funds for scholarships for students attending Mira Costa College and Cal State San Marcos, as well as local middleschool girls attending AAUW’s Tech Trek, a math and science camp at UCSD. Visit http:// delmarleucadia-ca.aauw.net.

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36 month lease. $5995 plus tax and government fees due at signing. $0 security deposit. Excess mileage charges of $0.20 per mile for miles driven in excess of 30,000 miles. On approved above average credit.

Lease For

Month + Tax $799 Per

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$7,000 off MSRP Lease For

Per Month + Tax

36 month lease. $4995 plus tax and government fees due at signing. $0 security deposit. Excess mileage charges of $0.20 per mile for miles driven in excess of 30,000 miles. On approved above average credit.

320i, 328d, 328xi sw, 328xi GT, 335

2015

$449

Lease For

36 month lease term on 320i. $4995 plus tax and government fees due at signing. $0 security deposit. Excess mileage charges of $0.20 per mile for miles driven in excess of 30,000 miles for 320i. On approved about average credit.

2014

BMW 528i

2015

Per Month + Tax

2012 BMW X5 xDrive50i CL425886 ...........$47,771 2013 BMW X6 xDrive35i DL783992 ...........$50,552 2012 BMW 650i Convertible CDL70090 ....$51,884 2012 BMW 650i Convertible CDL73141 ....$54,992 2014 BMW X5 sDrive35i E0K45114 ..........$59,994 2013 BMW 750Li DD133017 .....................$63,992 2013 BMW X5 M DLL15735 ......................$69,881

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2014 BMW M6 Coupe ED160477

$84,994

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