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Patel, Beatty win PUSD seats; stadium measure fails Incumbents Peters and Maienschein re-elected
Sheriff Bill Gore speaks to COGG members. A3
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BY STEVE DREYER Newcomer Darshana Patel and incumbent Kimberley Beatty were elected to the Poway Unified School District Board of Education Tuesday night. Meanwhile, County Supervisor Dave Roberts clung to a lead Wednesday in his bid to remain on board for a second term, but his edge over challenger Kristin Gaspar was narrow. Roberts represents the Third District, which includes Rancho Bernardo.
Darshana Patel
Kimberley Beatty
Dave Roberts
Rancho Bernardo voters also joined others from across the city to defeat Proposition C, the Chargers stadium initiative, and the related Proposition D. They also elected Democrat Mara
Elliott to succeed the termed-out Jan Goldsmith as city attorney, beating Republican Robert Hickey 56.6 percent to 43.4 percent as of Wednesday morning. With all precincts reporting but more than 620,000 mailed ballots countywide still to be counted, Patel had collected 20.3 percent of the PUSD votes cast, with Beatty receiving 19.4 percent. Patel, a scientist and Rancho Penasquitos resident, will take the seat being vacated by Poway resident Andy Patapow after 20 years. It will be the first time in two decades that no Poway resident will sit on the five-member board. Debra Cooper placed third in the SEE ELECTION, A11
RB to honor veterans on Friday All are welcome to the free event
BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK Rancho Bernardans will be honoring their country’s past and present military personnel Friday during the community’s annual Veterans Day ceremony. The 11 a.m. commemoration at the Rancho Bernardo Veterans Memorial in Webb Park will be preceded by a 10:45 a.m. patriotic musical prelude. The park can be accessed from Avena Place, off Bernardo Center Drive. Attendees are advised to bring lawn chairs since seating is limited. Among the participants will be members of Col. Daren the Maj. Abraham J. Baum Veterans of J. Erickson Foreign Wars Post 7766 and the Gen. J.P. Holland Chapter of the Military Order of World Wars. They will post the service, POW/MIA, MOWW and VFW flags. In addition, the Westview High School JROTC Color Guard will present and retire the colors. SEE VETERANS, A10
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The stands at Friday night’s varsity football game were filled to capacity as two undefeated teams, the Poway High Titans and Rancho Bernardo Broncos, played for the Palomar League championship. More than 4,000 people filled Poway’s stadium. The Broncos defeated the Titans 35-14, to finish the season 10-0. They are seeded No. 3 in the Open Division playoffs. See our prep football coverage on page B2.
New Rancho Bernardo History Museum director has big plans More exhibits, better website, larger space among his goals
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BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK Rancho Bernardo Historical Society’s new museum director has some ambitious plans, which he said include expanding the museum at its current location or somewhere else. “I have a big vision of where I’d like
to take the historical society,” he said Monday. “We need a bigger space ... to show things. The mud wagon takes up half our (display space).” He added that the museum’s collection room — where it stores items not on display and those
preserved for research purposes — “is already almost full.” Over the past decade or so the historical society has made large strides in its museum endeavor. Its earliest incarnation was in two storage sheds at Bernardo Winery. In 2004 it
launched a capital campaign to build a real museum space. By 2009 the group moved into its first building on the winery grounds, the winery’s former Vineyard Room, and in 2013 extensively remodeled the winery’s bunkhouse to create its current facility near the winery entrance along Paseo del Verano Norte in Rancho Bernardo. SEE MUSEUM, A11
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