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Volume 30 Number 46

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February 5, 2015 | Published Weekly

DM Council OKs schedule for city hall; project could be finished by 2017 • But some on council concerned about plan management

■ Garden blooms under students’ care at DM Heights School.

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■ Accomplished author to offer advice at CCA Writers’ Conference. Page B1

Lifestyle

BY KRISTINA HOUCK If all goes according to schedule, Del Mar could have its new city hall complex in a little more than two years.

With the master-planning phase nearing completion, the Del Mar City Council on Feb. 2 approved

a design and construction schedule.

Through Feb. 13, registered voters in Del Mar have an opportunity to voice their choice in an online poll, ranking three options for the facilities that will replace the city hall at 1050 Camino del Mar. The results will be presented March 2 to

SB to greet visitors with new city sign

council members, who will use the input to determine how to develop the site.

According to the schedule, the design phase is scheduled to begin in April, when an architectural team will also be selected. A required California Environmental Quality Act review is scheduled to take place from

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contractor will take place in April 2016. Once selected, demolition is expected to start in December, with construction scheduled to begin in May 2016.

The city also plans to continue to engage the community, holding a workshop See SCHEDULE, page 25

CCA QUEST Research Poster Presentation/Gallery Walk Canyon Crest Academy Foundation hosted the third annual QUEST Research Poster Presentation/ Gallery Walk Jan. 20, on the CCA campus. Students presented research methods, proposals, and techniques in the fields of biology, physics, and engineering.

Left: Nico Laqua with his presentation (using a bacteria that can biodegrade oil).

Photo by Jon Clark.

See page B12 for more.

BY KRISTINA HOUCK A new sign will soon greet Solana Beach visitors when entering the city from Rancho Santa Fe. Solana Beach council members on Jan. 28 unanimously approved an entry sign and monument design for the median at Lomas Santa Fe Drive and Highland Drive.

Designed by two volunteers from the Public Arts Commission, or PAC, the “Gateway to Sunshine” entry sign and monument depicts a 55-foot-long serpentine, Corten steel “S” shape with cutouts of the city name and a sunset. It will be constructed on the median with the city name facing east for those entering from Rancho Santa Fe, and the sunset at the west end of the curved piece for traffic on each side of the median on Lomas Santa Fe. The design includes solar lights to illuminate the city name at night.

Drought-tolerant landscaping will also be See SIGN, page 24

■ For a variety of community events, see pages 1-28, and B1-B24.

April 2015 through January 2016. The financing process has already begun and will run through January 2016.

Beginning in June, plans will be drawn to establish City Hall in a temporary facility during construction.

Relocation is slated for the end of November.

The process to select a

Torrey Hills board reluctant to approve funding for new rec center

BY KAREN BILLING The Torrey Hills Community Planning Board was hesitant to approve a city request to use community funds to plan a recreation center on four vacant acres at Torrey Hills Neighborhood Park. At its Jan. 20 meeting, the board heard about San Diego’s plans to tap into $2.5 million of community money, but members said they are still stinging from a years-long struggle with the city to get an enhancement project done on a 200-foot easement under the power lines on East Ocean Air Drive.

Late last year, they were able to secure a plant restoration on the property for $60,000 that for years had been pitched by the city to cost $450,000.

Rather than commit to the funds for the recreation center, the board voted to establish a subcommittee to work with the city, the parks and recreation committee and community members to figure out what all the options are. Board member Guy Ravad said See CENTER, page 24

A resident walks her dogs on a four-acre parcel at Torrey Hills Neighborhood Park that is slated for a planned recreation center. Photo by Karen Billing

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City reviewing Torrey Villas’ parking lot changes

BY KAREN BILLING The Torrey Hills Community Planning Board voted to take action after finding out that Torrey Villas Apartment Homes re-striped its parking lot, reducing the lot by 30 spaces, without city approval. The board voted at its Jan. 20 meeting to send a letter encouraging the city’s code enforcement to force the community to bring the lot back to the originally permitted build-out and that any proposal to reduce the lot come before the Torrey Hills board.

The reduced parking lot size is thought to have caused an overflow parking issue on West Ocean Air Drive. Over the last year, residents have complained that cars have clogged the narrow street from Via Mar de Delfinas to Via Cangrejo, making it unsafe for drivers and for children walking or biking to Torrey Hills School. In November 2014, residents requested the board install bike lanes on the street to prevent parking on West Ocean Air Drive.

At its Nov. 13 meeting, the board did not support a bike lane but voted to make one side of the street a no-parking zone. Subsequent to the meeting, the board learned that the city would not support the idea of removing parking.

Resident Brian Britt, who has spoken in the past on behalf of the 110 residents that signed a petition for a bike lane, said while there is no way to know for sure, he thinks that Torrey Villas restoring those 30 spaces could have a positive effect if not entirely resolve the overflow parking situation.

According to Steven Hadley, representative for City Council District 1, a city engineer is currently reviewing the existing number and sizes of Torrey Villas’ parking spaces with the original conditional use permit.

Judge rules that ‘Voice Your Choice’ is legal poll, rejects resident’s suit

BY KRISTINA HOUCK Del Mar can legally poll voters, a judge ruled Jan. 30, rejecting a claim that the “Voice Your Choice” poll is an illegal election.

Through Feb. 13, registered voters in Del Mar have an opportunity to participate in the online poll, ranking three options for the facilities that will replace the city hall at 1050 Camino del Mar. Before the poll went live Feb. 2, however, a resident sued the city on Jan. 29 and requested an injunction against the Internetbased survey. Plaintiff Edward Mohns, who also sued the city’s consultant Everyone Counts, argued the California Secretary of State had not certified the voting system.

After about an hourlong hearing, Supe-

rior Court Judge Eddie Sturgeon held that the city’s poll “was not an illegal election under California law,” explained City Attorney Leslie Devaney during the Feb. 2 council meeting.

“We were very pleased with that result,” she said.

The plaintiff immediately declined to appeal the judge’s decision, but has up to 60 days to do so.

When finalizing the survey language during the Jan. 20 meeting, council members and city officials made it clear “Voice Your Choice” is a poll, not an election. Because online voting is not allowed in California, the city received a letter from the secretary of state with concerns about the way the process was presented in a December See JUDGE, page 26

Solana Beach’s ‘B’ grade in tobacco control ranks it above most county communities Canyon Crest Academy Senior Parent

BY CITY NEWS SERVICE Most cities in San Diego County received grades of D or F recently from the American Lung Association in its “State of Tobacco Control 2015” report.

El Cajon and Solana Beach were the only local cities to receive higher grades. Each got a B from the Lung Association, which praised them for tough rules against lighting up in public and licensing retailers of tobacco products.

Several municipalities in the area have taken steps to better protect residents from tobacco-related death and disease, as nine jurisdictions (Del Mar, Encinitas, La Mesa, Oceanside, Poway, the city of San Diego, San Diego County, San Marcos, Solana Beach) all passed ordinances to regulate the sale or use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in their areas, joining the cities of Carlsbad, El Cajon and Vista.

“Despite improvements, more still needs to be done in San Diego and Imperial (counties) to better protect residents from the harmful effects of smoking,’’ said Natalie Germuska, See TOBACCO, page 24

Information Night to be held Feb. 17 Canyon Crest Academy will be holding its Senior Parent Information Night (SPIN) on Feb. 17 starting at 7 p.m. in the Proscenium Theater. This is a must-attend for all senior parents. The principal, Karl Mueller, will provide details on all of the upcoming senior activities, including graduation and answer any questions you may have. Jostens will be there to provide gap and gown information. The ASB will go over all of the exciting events they are planning for seniors and the Grad Nite committee will talk about this annual tradition of providing a safe, drug and alcohol-free celebration held on the CCA campus that allows seniors to revel with their Raven classmates on graduation night.

SPIN will be the last chance to buy Grad Nite tickets at a discounted rate. In addition, reserved parking and covered seating for graduation will be available for purchase – last year the seating sold out quickly. There are just so many reasons for senior parents to attend SPIN! Be sure to mark your calendars!

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It’s ‘smart’ to add parking, be flexible on space, New short-term projects would impact Del Mar’s two-year work plan says DM Mayor Corti of City Hall options

BY KRISTINA HOUCK With several major projects already underway, Del Mar council members quickly realized they couldn’t add many new shortterm projects without eliminating some from their two-year work plan during the Feb. 3 council priorities workshop. “This is a very full work plan,� said Councilman Don Mosier. “If anything is going to be added to this two-year priority list, something has to come off. Even with expanded staff and budget, we’re still going to run out of manpower, womanpower and money.�

The city has already started most of the council’s 20 top-priority projects on its twoyear work plan. Short-term objectives include planning a new city hall and creating a master plan for Del Mar Shores Park.

Del Mar initiated the city hall planning process in June 2013. Since then, the council has discussed the project at dozens of council meetings, held three public workshops, issued a citywide survey, and most recently, launched an online poll. The city is also on track to have a master plan for the 5.3-acre park by early 2016. In October, the council hired a consultant to produce the plan.

Other major projects in process include the city’s sidewalk, street and drainage improvements, construction of a wastewater pipeline to Solana Beach, construction of the River Path Del Mar extension, a comprehensive parking plan, and an assessment of public safety costs and options, among sev-

eral others. “We have a lot on our plate,� said Mayor Al Corti.

With a mid-year financial report scheduled in March and budget workshops set for May, the council held a three-hour public workshop to discuss its top goals for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 fiscal years. Although only a handful of people attended, City Manager Scott Huth said staff would summarize the council and community’s comments before returning to council in March for further discussion. “There is still an opportunity to weigh in on what you heard tonight,� said Corti to audience members and viewers at home. “You can weigh in with your council, staff or come to the next meeting. The decisions haven’t been made as to what the priorities are.�

Council members agreed that city hall and Shores planning remain high on their priority list. They agreed a comprehensive parking plan is also needed. In January, staff unveiled a draft plan to help alleviate parking problems in the downtown commercial area. “I emphasize these because I know that they take a lot of work,� Corti said. “When I see a schedule, I want to stay focused and get them done.�

Council members also agreed to continue to look at ways to improve public safety.

In January, the Finance Committee recommended establishing a small police force to supplement the efforts by the Sheriff’s De-

BY KRISTINA HOUCK With the “Voice Your Choice� poll now online, Del Mar Mayor Al Corti is sharing his thoughts on what he thinks the new city hall complex should offer the community.

Through Feb. 13, registered voters in Del Mar have an opportunity to voice their choice on the issue, ranking three options for the facilities that will replace the city hall at 1050 Camino del Mar. While all three options feature a 9,250-square-foot city hall, 3,200-square-foot town hall and 15,000-square-foot civic plaza, only two offer additional parking and space for future development.

Although Corti didn’t specify which option is his favorite, he said he prefers the alternatives that provide more parking.

For years, Del Mar has studied ways to tackle its parking problems — problems Corti knows all too well, having served on the city’s Traffic and Parking Advisory Committee before he was elected to the City Council.

In January, staff unveiled a draft plan to help alleviate parking problems in the downtown commercial area. The plan estimates a need for about 140 additional spaces for local employees and customers, as well as a minimum of 50 “in-lieu� parking spaces, for a total of 200 spaces in the area.

Del Mar has an in-lieu parking fee program, which allows developers to pay fees for off-street parking projects instead of providing the required parking on site. The city’s code requires designating a parking “reservoir� and creating parking and/or a shuttle. “The parking issues always come up, and it has for the last 15, 20 years,� Corti said. “This is a natural opportunity to add additional parking. I think that’s a smart thing to do.�

Besides adding parking spaces, Corti favors the options that allow future development on the site. “The property is much larger than it’s needed for the facilities, so it’s got the ability to add more stuff later on,� he

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Local company’s drone flight a Hollywood first

BY JARED WHITLOCK When Aerial Mob’s drone took to the sky last month, the local company made television history.

Aerial Mob flew a drone legally Dec. 15 for first time on the set of a Motion Picture Association of America production, marking a new era for filmmakers.

Treggon Owens, an Encinitas resident and the CEO of Aerial Mob, said “there was tons of pressure” to deliver great shots given that Hollywood has been fighting to allow drones on U.S. shoots for years.

Movie and TV studios favor drones for aerial footage because they’re less expensive and safer than helicopters. Not to mention, they’re nimble, letting filmmakers pull off tricky shots.

Aerial Mob, for instance, captured a close-up from the ground and then an aerial view of a forest in one sweeping take. Look for the footage to air Feb. 18 in the season finale of the TV show “The Mentalist.”

“It started out low and we got an intimate facial shot of policemen,” Owens said.

“And then it swooped up about a half-block away to the bad guys getting away. We wanted to show in context how close the good guys and bad guys are in proximity to each other in a single shot.”

Owens added the forest was too dense to get such a shot via a helicopter.

Drones aren’t necessarily new for Hollywood. The technology captured a chase scene in the James Bond movie “Skyfall,” for instance. However, those productions had to

go outside the country to get that footage.

“It was, quite literally, the first time many of them had seen this technology used on set,” Owens said of “The Mentalist” shoot. “Our goal was for them to walk away wanting to use this technology again.”

For years, the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) prohibited commercial drones.

That is, until last September, when the FAA granted exemptions for six filmmaking companies, Aerial Mob included, to use drones on shoots. At that time, the agency said such drone operations don’t pose a threat to airspace users or national security.

“It’s the perfect test bed for the FAA to try out the legal use of drones,” Owens said.

To date, 13 companies are exempt, with a real estate photography company and an agriculture business earning the latest exemptions.

Obtaining the exemption demanded Aerial Mob, located in Carlsbad, stop client shoots for about two months as a show of good faith to the FAA. The setback was worth it, Owens said, because the company realized it would have to work within the FAA’s rules to succeed.

“There are so many people doing it on the gray market who don’t have as many options,” he said. “At some point, you have to be legal.”

Even with the waiver, Aerial Mob has to follow quite a few regulations. Notably, its drones have to fly on closed sets. The production has to have a script. And while drones are able to follow a pre-programmed See DRONE, page 26

(Above) An Aerial Mob employee shows off their unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone.

Last month, the local company flew a drone on set of a Motion Picture Association of America production for the first time.

(Right) Aerial Mob and other officials give a safety briefing on the set of “The Mentalist.”

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Garden blooms under students’ care at Del Mar Heights School

BY KAREN BILLING A garden is steadily coming to life at Del Mar Heights School — a charming little corner of the playground filled with Anna apple trees, pink guava, blueberries, sage, mint and lemon balm.

Through the school’s Garden Club, which met for the first time this year on Jan. 28, students are helping tend to the Del Mar Heights Nature Center Garden, behind the school’s mosaic serpent bench with ocean views across the playground.

The garden has been undergoing a multiyear renovation, said Amy Chelesnik, the education vice president of the Del Mar Heights PTA, who co-chairs the Nature Center projects with Shana Khoury. One of the biggest projects was removing a chain link fence that ran through the middle of the garden.

“It really opened it up,” Chelesnik said. “Now students are coming at recess and the garden is full.

They’re playing in here, which is just what we wanted.”

After school on Jan. 28, students and their parents worked together, hammering garden signs into the earth that they had decorated in December.

“We’ve been excited for a while about getting these signs up,” Chelesnik said.

The activity was a challenge, as not only did the students have to put the painted wooden signs together, but they also had to find and identify the plant they were marking.

The center is designed to provide an outdoor space for hands-on learning in a multitude of subjects like science, health, math, language arts and creative expression.

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Activities include planting and harvesting, healthy and natural food prep, butterfly husbandry and learning about water irrigation, collecting and conservation.

The Nature Center includes a greenhouse, workspace complete with a sink, rows of benches, student artwork, and a tabletop full of succulents in bloom.

The garden also has worm-composting buckets embedded in several spots.

Chelesnik said they are making good progress using organic food trash for the worms to recycle into soil.

She just has to educate the more inquisitive kids not to dig up the buckets to check out the worms.

Last week, students needed help finding the little beginnings of plants just starting to bloom from geranium and bright orange nasturtium, strawberries, persimmons, raspberries, Mandarin oranges and the grapes, which Chelesnik

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said were huge last year.

Right now, the garden may be home to lots of fruit but not as many vegetables. The harvest of vegetables like icicle radishes will come after the next round of renovations on Feb. 22, when the Solana Beach Presbyterian Church comes out to help the school for its annual Community Serve Day. Volunteers will remove a large planter and replace it with six new planters, one for each grade level to work in. The veggies will be planted in the new cluster of boxes.

The next big learning event for Heights students in the garden will be on March 1 as part of their “Inside the Outdoors” series. The kids will be learning about hydroponics.

Urban Girl boutique, skate shop, clinics join tenants of Village at PHR Continuing to add to its diverse roster of offerings, The Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch will soon be home to locally owned Urban Girl, skate shop Overload, Total Vision Care, and Pacific Highlands Dentistry/My Kid’s Dentist and Orthodontics.

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Writer’s Roundtable: Sports agent offers a different way to win in ‘Connected to Goodness’

BY ANTOINETTE KURITZ AND JARED KURITZ Sports agent is a title that conjures up a winner-take-all attitude, and aggressiveness.

But while local resident and legendary sports agent David Meltzer, Esq., may have personified that in his early days, he shares an entirely different philosophy of success in his book, “Connected to Goodness: Manifest Everything You Desire in Business and Life,” a practical road map to defining, achieving, and maintaining success in life. Whether you are a student, parent, educator, athlete, or executive, you will find something of value in what Meltzer has to say.

David Meltzer will be speaking at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 at Barnes & Noble in Grossmont Center.

You are a legendary sports agent. What got you interested in this field? How easy or difficult was it to break into?

I love sports and always dreamed of being a professional athlete, but being 5 feet 7 inches, Jewish, and born with more brains than brawn, I had a choice. With my amazing size and talent, if I wanted to be a sports professional, I either could be the commissioner of the NBA or a sports agent.

As for the difficulty in breaking into the field, I don’t see things in terms of easy or difficult. Sports is a multibillion-dollar industry with tens of thousands of jobs. So there is no scarcity of opportunity. What I find is that there is a lack of resolve. That is the biggest hurdle for most people to overcome.

At Sports 1 Marketing, you employ a host of interns. Why? And what do you see as the benefits of internships?

My personal mission is to empower others to then further empower others, and the best way to do this is to take in young people and provide them with first-hand experience and knowledge in order for them to be successful. I am providing them with relationship capital in a very competitive industry and the situational knowledge on how to monetize those relationships. And when they do, I prove the most important reason to have so many interns is to be kind to your future self.

They’ll branch out, be successful and empower others, and those that leave here will often approach me with business deals or vice versa.

David Meltzer We tend to label many sports figures as “heroes.” How accurate or inaccurate is that and why?

Within the realm of sports, all of these individuals are “heroes” in the sense that it is so ultracompetitive and difficult to become a professional athlete. Labeling them as “heroes” based on our foundational values like character, integrity, and giving is the mistake people commonly make. Personally and professionally, I look for those Hall of Famers, those winners of Major League Baseball’s Clemente Award, and the like … those individuals who possess the athletic ability and character to truly be looked up to as “heroes.”

Your book is titled “Connected to Goodness.” What do you mean by goodness, and what role should it play in our lives?

Goodness is a simple way of describing whatever it is that inspires us … be it God, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad or whatever it is that you believe in. I use the concept of a personal “12th Man,” just as a football team with its 11 men on the field is inspired by the crowd or “12th Man.” What I try to avoid is to separating us by our beliefs. Instead, I attempt to bring us together by what we believe is good or decent. It should be our common guidepost to be good, kind, and decent.

In what ways do you manifest goodness in your life? And how has doing so enhanced your life?

Manifesting goodness takes a severalpronged approach. First we decide what it is we want; then we assess our goals in terms of contributions we can make to others and to society in general. After all, what good is achievement without greater purpose? In a practical sense, I follow the Principles and their supporting Key Elements from my book.

I consciously think about what I want or want to achieve, and it becomes a possibility. Then I use my Imagination Principles — Foundation, Guideposts and Manifestation — to get in- David Meltzer has written ‘Connected spired, and the possibility becomes a probabil- to Goodness: Manifest Everything You ity. Using the Action Principles of Discipline, Desire in Business and Life,’ a practical Strategy and Understanding, I’ll now take ac- road map to success. tion to make the probability reality.

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Class project becomes book series for young DM author

BY KRISTINA HOUCK What began as a fifth-grade assignment has turned into a children’s book series for Del Mar’s Liana-Melissa Allen.

Now 19, the young author and illustrator has recently self-published “Donkey’s Kite: A Horse Valley Adventure,” the second book of “A Horse Valley Adventure” series.

“I just love to enter other worlds,” said Allen, who graduated from Torrey Pines High School in 2014. “I love to create imaginary characters and write about their worlds. It feels like the characters are alive when I’m drawing them and writing about them.”

A creative child, Allen grew up drawing and writing.

Her imagination stemmed from her love of reading, which was instilled in her as a young girl by her father. Every evening she sat in his lap in their “Big Chair,” where he read to her.

By second grade, Allen created a cast of characters that later starred in her first book.

“I had adventures with them,” she recalled. “I’d go places, and they’d go with me. It was something that captured my childhood. When I’m in that world, I’m kind of like a kid again.”

Fast-forward to fifth grade, Allen wrote and illustrated “The Three Little Horses and the Big Bully Donkey,” a spinoff of “The Three Little Pigs,” for a class project. Her father, who read weekly to children at Del Mar Heights Elementary School, shared the story with students.

“They just loved the stories,” recalled Paul Allen, a longtime Del Mar resident who volunteered at the school for 13 years. “It was so exciting to see kids get inspired to read.”

As a 17-year-old high school junior, Allen self-published her first book. Since then, she has published six books, including a Spanish version of “The Three Little Horses and the Big Bully Donkey.”

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Liana-Melissa Allen with one of the books in her series, ‘Donkey’s Kite: A Horse Valley Adventure.’ Courtesy photo dio books for her series. She is also working on animating the characters for a YouTube video. In addition to delving into young adult fiction, she has plenty of ideas for “A Horse Valley Adventure” series.

“I’ve got quite a few characters to have fun with,” she said.

“I have a very talented daughter,” her father added.

“I’m very proud of her.”

Allen’s books are available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Visit www.lianamelissaallen.com.

Essay contest to be part of Vereen awards Ben Vereen and Broadway/San Diego announce the inaugural Student Health Initiative Essay Contest as part of the 2015 Ben Vereen Awards High School Musical Theatre Competition.

All San Diego County high school students are invited to enter and share their story, titled “The Moment I Changed My Life for the Better.” The focus will be on key topics of obesity, diabetes, low self-esteem or bullying, and can be submitted via a written or video essay.

“I am so pleased to be working with Broadway/San Diego and the community on something that’s dear to my heart: helping our young people to change their life for the better through the performing arts,” says Vereen. “My hope is that the Inaugural Student Health Initiative Essay Contest will create a new path for them to find the theatre as a welcoming, nurturing, and supportive environment to excel in, and that these stories will in turn help others live a better life as a result of the arts.”

Written and video essays can be submitted by completing the entry form online. The Deadline for submissions is Feb. 28. For details, rules and guidelines, visit the Student Health Initiative page at www.BenVereenAwards.com.

Selected essays may be used to create a live musical theatre piece for presentation at the 2015 Ben Vereen Awards, to take place at 5 p.m. April 26 at the Balboa Theatre.

Tickets are now on sale to the second Ben Vereen Awards San Diego Competition, where 20 student nominees will perform, and the top 10 will then compete in Tucson on May 24. The two top students from that competition go on to compete at The National High School Musical Theatre Awards in New York this June. The two top national winners each will receive a $10,000 award towards a college scholarship.

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Batu Biologics appoints Lewis as board chairman Batu Biologics, a San Diego biotechnology company dedicated to the development of ValloVax, its cancer angiogenesis-targeting immunotherapeutic product, announced recently the appointment of Dr. Alan Lewis of Solana Beach as chairman of its board of directors. “I look forward to working with the team on continuing this path of accelerated success, which will hopefully bring a new class of weapons in the fight against cancer,� said Samuel Wagner, president and CEO of Batu Biologics. “We are enthusiastic to have the opportunity to work with Dr. Lewis in his new capacity as chairman of the board.

Given the recent filing of an IND (investigational new drug application) with the FDA to initiate a dose-escalating Phase Dr. Alan Lewis is the new I/II clinical trial in lung cancer, we believe that having a chairman of Batu Biologchairman with the industry experience of Dr. Lewis will stra- ics’ board of directors. tegically position Batu Biologics for entry into partnerships and collaborations with others in the field.�

Lewis serves on the board of BioMarin and a number of private biotechnology companies. His most recent position was CEO of Medistem Inc., where he worked with Batu Biologics co-founder Dr. Thomas Ichim to obtain FDA clearance for a cell-based therapy, which resulted in a $26 million sale of Medistem to Intrexon, an NYSE-traded company.

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Carmel Valley resident Katie Nielson is one of two people who has been recognized as a “Big of the Year� from Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County for exceptional efforts in mentoring.

During National Mentoring Month, Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County celebrates these individuals who make it their cause to bring out the best in young people.

These everyday folks became heroes to children, just by volunteering a little bit of time. “We served more than 1,700 San Diego children during 2014 by providing each of them a caring adult mentor,� said Deborah Condon, CEO and president of Big Brothers Big Sisters. “That is 1,700 children, who can positively affect all of their family members and countless communities because of the educational, emotional, social, and physical improvements that are linked to successful 1:1 mentoring relationships. “National Mentoring Month is an ideal opportunity to applaud the efforts of all our Big Brothers and Big Sisters who stepped outside their own lives to help our community’s children. They are the heroes, because they care enough to make an effort to improve the lives of others.�

Nielsen’s Little Sister said, “When I tell her how much I appreciate her and ask how could I ever repay her, she says, ‘When I see you graduating from university, that’s how you will repay me.’ I have guidance and security when I think about college, only because I have her.� Visit www.SDBigs.org, or call 858-536-4900.

Local attorneys named among ‘2015 Super Lawyers’ •Ranked among the top 5 percent of San Diego attorneys, all seven CaseyGerry partners – Wendy Behan, Gayle Blatt, David Casey Jr., Robert Francavilla, Thomas Luneau, Thomas Penfield and Frederick Schenk — have been recognized as 2015 San Diego Super Lawyers.

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From STEM, kids can branch into science — and flower

BY ASHLEY MACKIN An education in STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — is at the forefront of teaching as elementary schools nationwide put extra emphasis on these subjects, hoping to spur interest in the sciences at a young age. With several of the fastest-growing occupations requiring an understanding of STEM principles, it’s more important than ever.

Is it possible to give toddlers a foundation in STEM thinking, so they are ready to embrace these concepts in school? Katherine Williams, Ph.D., a child and adolescent psychologist at UC San DiSTEM ACTIVITIES FOR ego’s Rady Children’s Hospital, thinks so.

YOUNG MINDS: “Having an early start and piquing an early interest and development in STEM learning can help set children • thoughtstem.com: on that trajectory to learning and developing careers in Coding workshops and STEM,” she said during an interview.

Williams, a mother of four, touts the importance of games encouraging that thinking through play.

• code.org: Coding “We know that the younger (that) children learn and games for kindergartenare exposed to STEM-based activities, the more likely that fifth grade, and for they will build skills in those areas as they get older, and teachers to bring coding the more likely they will be to choose to learn more in into the classroom those areas,” she said. “When it comes to learning, especially at the toddler age, the more time they spend explor• stem-works.com: ing, the more the neurons in the brain are developing.”

Games,exercises and But letting the child lead the way as far as which acactivities to encourage tivities to explore is key, she said.

STEM interest “Parents can start at a very young age because chil• girlstart.org: Blog to dren learn best through play,” Williams explained. “There get girls interested in are so many games, puzzles, pattern recognition games, STEM activities etc., that stimulate the brain development. But instead of forcing them, find out what your child responds to. If they like Legos, show them how pattern recognition can lead to bigger and better projects. Follow their play and what they are interested in, and find a way to bring STEM into what they like.”

Williams said her 5-year-old daughter loves Disney’s animated film “Frozen,” and so “there is a learning game online for children to learn how to write (computer) code using ‘Frozen.’ So they can make Elsa ice skate or create snowflakes that fall across their screens — all by writing code,” she said.

Have a little Padres fan at home? “Baseball is all about math and statistics,” she said, adding that sports can be a way to make physics interesting for children.

When it comes to technology, Williams said early use and introduction has its advantages when used as one avenue of learning.

“Kids are using technology at a younger and younger age, and that can be a doubleedged sword,” she said. “On one hand, they can use computers better than most older

A camera-shy Paul Williams, twins Kate and Cole Williams, Katherine Williams and Grant Williams. Courtesy photo adults. On the other hand, you want to make sure they are not just using computer games or apps, and limiting other areas of learning or exploring, such as art, sports or music.”

Williams said when children have motor skills to work a computer mouse and can understand how to turn on a computer, it might be a sign they are ready to start exploring.

Williams said there is no scientific data to suggest that boys and girls respond differently to STEM activities when they are very young. “What typically happens is more of a social development where parents and teachers bring STEM-oriented activities, like coding or Legos, to boys instead of girls, so that’s where you might see a difference forming,” she said.

“It’s a societal difference, not a biological difference.”

Nationwide, Williams said, STEM organizations are incorporating art into their programs, whether it has a place in the acronym or not, as it is just as important.

“Engineers are creating robots, and they have to understand how to draw and represent the robot on paper before they can build one,” she said. “The purpose of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) should not be so much to teach art, but to apply art in real situations. Applied knowledge leads to deeper learning.”

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January contest winner!

(Left) A photo submitted by Susan Halenza won this newspaper’s “Caught on Camera” photo contest for January. The theme was Cutest Kid Photo and all the photos submitted were terrific! Halenza will receive a $100 gift certificate to Amaya Restaurant at the Grand Del Mar. Ezra Frederick, age 14 months, the grandson of Susan and Judd Halenza of Del Mar, is shown getting his first haircut in Carlsbad over Christmas. His mother, Brooke, in the background, is a Torrey Pines High school graduate. Dad, Adriel, looks proudly on.

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(Right) Photos recognized with an honorable mention are at right: (Top, l-r) Brother Fun by Marisa Martini; Happy Baby by James Kohn; (Bottom, l-r) Cousins by Mary Becker; and Alejandro Astiz by Arturo Astiz.

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DM-SB Optimists hold oratorical contest in March The Del Mar-Solana Beach Optimist Club will hold its annual oratorical contest at 9 a.m. March 21 at the Calvary Lutheran Church Hall in Solana Beach.

The contest gives youngsters the chance to speak before an audience. As they prepare for the future, many of our local students need experience expressing thoughts, and opinions, to an audience. The Oratorical Contest challenges them to do just that, and also offers an opportunity for scholarships.

This year’s subject is “How My Optimism Will Help Me Press on to Greater Achievements of the Future.”

The Optimist Club judges the local students’ speeches based on content and presentation. Winning students receive medallions and awards, and top speeches will advance for the opportunity to win $2,500 college scholarships.

Application deadline is March 7. For application form and rules, visit www.optimistdelmarsolanabeach.org. Click on Oratorical Contest in the righthand column. Complete the application online, print, sign, and submit to: Chairman Victor Svistoonoff, 15754 Mango Drive, #110, Del Mar, CA 92014.

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Local lacrosse tournament benefits autism research More than 100 local boys lacrosse players took part in the recent Carlsbad Classic at Pacific Ridge School. The tournament, hosted by Pacific Ridge service-learning group Sports Force, attracted top athletes from Cathedral Catholic High School, La Costa Canyon High School, Carlsbad High School, Torrey Pines High School and more. Additional divisions included elementary school, middle school, and post-graduate players.

Sports Force student leaders Alderik Van der Heyde of Carmel Valley, Borhan Rafiq of Encinitas, and Andrew Poole of Rancho Santa Fe were pleasantly surprised by the number of players who took the time to ‘compete for a cause’ during winter break.

Proceeds totaling more than $2,000, were donated to the San Diego Autism Research Institute. ‘Sports Force combines our passion for sports with our desire to support the autistic community,’ said Poole. ‘We would like to sincerely thank everyone who helped make the tournament a success.’ The group hopes to make the Carlsbad Classic an annual event. Courtesy photo

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Del Mar Heights School World Music Program: Building awareness and ability with a variety of musical traditions Del Mar Heights School embraces the elements that make students unique and celebrates the diversity of the community. Educators at Del Mar Heights appreciate that technology has made the world an increasingly small place, requiring students to grow in awareness of global ideas and international concepts.

They also seeks to give children the inspiration and instruction to become expressive, creative members of their communities. With this in mind an innovative program was created.

Members of the Del Mar Heights PTA worked with arts teacher Andrew Smith to create the Del Mar Heights World Music Program to increase exposure to, understanding of, and ability with various musical traditions.

Each grade level at Del Mar Heights has multiple instructional sessions with visiting musicians and dancers from various cultures. Students participate in creating and understanding music using a wide range of instruments. These instructional sessions often culminate

Students James, Carmen, Yu Mei, Christian, and Laine with musician Kourosh Taghavi as part of the Del Mar Heights School World Music Program. Courtesy photo with student concerts or presentations of learning.

This school year, students have spent time with Spanish Flamenco dancer and musician Reyes Barrios and Kourosh Taghavi, a masterful persian string-musician. These artists’ unique perspectives allowed our students to engage with traditions that are quite foreign to the western ear.

Later in the year, students will have the opportunity to work with West-African percussionist and dancer Amara Camara and Indonesian Gamelan musician Tyler Yamin, who will lead students in a Gamelan orchestra.

Pacific Ridge students excel at Model UN Conference Seventeen students from Pacific Ridge School were among more than 750 high school delegates from around the country assembled Jan. 15-18 for the 14th annual Columbia Model United Nations Conference and Exposition at Columbia University.

The Columbia conference is known for its fast-paced crisis committees, which allow students to react quickly and address real-world scenarios in international affairs. Pacific Ridge delegates participated in simulations as wide-ranging as the Chinese Military Commission, the Cyprus Dispute Committee, and the International Trade in Endangered Species Committee. Seven students received awards: Best Delegate Award: Nick Marr of Carlsbad, Avery Rogers of Carlsbad; Honorable Mention: Elle Lefebvre of Carlsbad, Julien Barthelemy of Carmel Valley, Matty Bernstein of San Marcos; Verbal Commendation: Josh Kahn of Encinitas, Tony Oliverio of San Marcos.

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My heroes: Those who work with and care for dementia, Alzheimer’s patients My mom passed away Thursday. But this is not about grief or losing someone you loved very much. There will be time at her funeral and with family over the next week or so to reflect on her life and what she meant to all of us.

This is about my new heroes.

My mom spent the last two years in the Memory Care unit at Emeritus in Carmel Valley. She had dementia, not Alzheimer’s, but dementia caused by multiple transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or ministrokes in the brain.

Because of the diagnosis of dementia, we were required to place her in the Memory Care unit with many other individuals who are in various stages of memory decline — including men and women suffering from end-stage Alzheimer’s.

It can be a bleak environment. The caretakers in this unit are faced with daily challenges that most of us can’t even imagine: from changing diapers and cleaning up feces and urine to trying to find ways to engage these individuals in some kind of interaction that will bring them happiness and/ or fun. They handle patients who yell at them, refuse to take their medications, re-

fuse to eat, try to get out of their wheelchairs, fall out of bed, and/or who don’t respond to anything or anyone.

They do it with incredible patience, dignity, care and yes, love. They do it for minimal wages, with minimum rewards, and almost no recognition for their profession or their daily dedication. I am not criticizing Emeritus, but rather our society for not recognizing individuals like these caretakers who are daily heroes, handling the most difficult problems with grace and dignity and even joy and fun.

I would love to recognize them by name, but I can’t remember all the names and wouldn’t want to forget anyone. They know who they are, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart. They made my mom’s last two years more bearable and enjoyable for her — and for me as well. I could always count on a cheerful greeting, an update on my mom’s condition, and some laughs and joking around with the staff.

Please take a moment to recognize and thank those people who care for others as their life’s work. I know I couldn’t possibly do what they do every day. They are my heroes!

Sally Yoder

A Civic Center for all

The sky isn’t falling on us — we do care and support One Paseo There they go again.

For months I have heard opposition to One Paseo proffer all sorts of doomsday scenarios. Indeed, to outsiders, the sky does seem to be falling right here in Carmel Valley. Not because of One Paseo, but rather because of the abject venom spewed by the opponents who have been whipped into a frenzy by a well-greased PR effort mounted by a professional lobbying firm.

Paid walkers have come to our doors claiming to represent our best interests, but they — and all the materials and signs they carry — are paid for by Donahue Schriber, owner of the Del Mar Highlands Town Center. They’ve spent seven figures because they don’t want competition from One Paseo.

I have heard opponents and their paid representatives not only state mistruths about the project (two hotels!) either out of malicious intent or sheer ignorance, I’m not sure. I have seen them accost people who say they support the project, bullying them. I have heard on more than one occasion their claim that our City Council has been bought off. It’s maddening.

These opponents claim to represent the whole of our community. They do not. I know supporters of One Paseo have been marginalized by the aggressiveness of the opponents, cast aside as if our opinion of the community’s future is not welcome.

We may not be screaming at people in front of a store, but we are here, we do care and we do support One Paseo.

The sky isn’t falling on us.

Kymberli Clement

KAREN BILLING Senior News Writer

One Paseo deserves a ‘No’ vote

KRISTINA HOUCK Reporter

BY DAVE ROBERTS How would you feel if your neighbor wanted to build a home that’s three times larger than the law allows? Angry? Incredulous?

That’s how many Carmel Valley residents are feeling as a project that’s nearly three times bigger that zoning laws permit heads to the San Diego City Council for a vote on Feb. 23.

Welcome to the One Paseo controversy.

One Paseo, a proposed commercial and residential development on El Camino Real at Del Mar Heights Road, would bring 170-foottall buildings to the busy intersection and would be five times the size of the Del Mar Highlands center, right across the street.

As a county supervisor, I have no vote on One Paseo. But I oppose the project because I have heard objections from hundreds of constituents and I share their concerns about regional impacts to traffic and public safety.

That’s why, in letters and phone calls, I am urging City Council members

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The city has mailed to all Del Mar registered residents a brief description of three options for a new City Hall — I believe too brief for such a major decision.

Del Mar needs a new City Hall. What we have is embarrassing. However, I believe our community deserves more than just a stand-alone City Hall.

Del Mar’s Master Community Plan’s criteria for the Community Center states: “A plan organized around outdoor courtyards and plazas to serve as public gathering places” ... “that invites and supports Community interaction.”

The Community Master Plan envisioned more than just a City Hall to serve a few. The vision was for a vibrant Civic Center designed around a grand Public Plaza to serve as a gathering place for the entire community. A place for multiple social, cultural and holiday interactive Community events.

Only Option 3 achieves that goal, plus pro-

vides space for further options such as the historic Alvarado house, performing arts, an art gallery, a restaurant to serve the Plaza and adequate space for our Farmers Market.

The question is: What option will best serve the entire community over the next 50- plus years? At the Oct. 27 Civic Workshop vote on the proposed options, the Village Square concept (Option 3) received the most votes.

The city has ample financial capitalization to fund any of the three options without raising taxes. Over the 50-plus years, the annual cost difference between the options is insignificant when compared with the value of a complete Civic Center to serve all residents vs. a stand-alone City Hall to serve a few. Del Mar deserves this very special place for all residents to enjoy and take pride, and that is why I have attempted to more fully explain the benefits of Option 3.

Jim Watkins

Dave Roberts to vote against One Paseo and to uphold the laws of the land.

Like most residents, I support responsible, thoughtful development and amenities that serve families. Any such amenities from One Paseo, however, would not compensate for the extraordinary burdens placed upon streets, schools and other public facilities.

Existing zoning does not permit housing on the site; One Paseo calls for 608 multi-family units. Will Carmel Valley’s schools be able to accommodate kids from those units?

As for traffic, the developer’s own estimates See ONE PASEO, page 24

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San Dieguito Union High School District Superintendent Rick Schmitt’s Monthly Update Superintendent Schmitt plans to update the greater San Dieguito Union High School District community through our local media with a monthly update. Topics covered will include curriculum, facilities, budget, enrollment, safety, and other specific and special interest topics.

Today’s update focuses on middle and high school enrollment.

2015-16 High School Enrollment SDUHSD will employ its current enrollment practices for the 2015-16 school year with the High School Selection process, which began on Feb. 2, 2015. Each incoming 9th grade student is required to select the school he or she would like to attend in the 2015-16 school year. In order to participate in the SDUHSD High School Selection process, the student must live within the SDUHSD boundaries.

The High School Selection window closes at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 2, 2015.

Current SDUHSD 8th grade students who make no high school selection will be automatically enrolled in their school of residence (LCCHS or TPHS). Students already enrolled in SDUHSD high schools need not make a high school selection for 2015-16 unless they want to change schools. If more students apply for enrollment in a school than capacity can accommodate, we will conduct a random lottery to determine which students are enrolled.

While we cannot guarantee that every student will get into his or her first choice school for 2015-16, we are committed to doing our absolute best to enroll as many students as we can in their first choice school and we have a history of success with this effort. For more information on 2015-16 high school enrollment, please visit www.sduhsd.net/Parents--Students/High-SchoolSelection/index.html.

High School Enrollment Study Group In the summer 2014, the SDUHSD Board of Trust-

Rick Schmitt ees asked staff to establish a group of parents, students and staff members to explore various options for enrolling students in our high schools. The group was established due to concerns expressed by community members about the lottery enrollment process at two high schools and due to the need to examine long-term high school enrollment projections and demographic shifts in our community.

Participants for the group were solicited in the early fall of 2014 and the group was established as the High School Enrollment Study Group (HSESG). The group is not a decision-making body, but rather an information gathering effort focused on the following tasks: • Examine the long-term demographic and enrollment projections that could influence HS enrollment in SDUHSD • Examine current district enrollment practices and relevant state law in order to arrive at a list of potential ways we could enroll students in our high schools • Analyze each potential option to identify benefits and drawbacks of each option • Share these options, along with benefits/drawbacks, with the broader community and seek feedback on each • Report findings to the school board The group has met three times to date and will begin seeking input from the broader community this spring. While the exact timeline is unclear, the group expects to report its findings to the school board late in the spring or summer of 2015. Given this, it is im-

portant to realize that should the board decide to make changes in how we enroll students in our high schools, these changes would take place beginning with the 2016-17 school year, not the 2015-16 school year.

For more detailed information about the work of the HSESG, please visit the group’s webpage at www. sduhsd.net/Parents--Students/High-School-Selection/index.html.

Summaries of each of the group’s meetings are posted here as well as information about community forums and other community input opportunities.

Middle School IntraDistrict Transfers Students who will attend SDUHSD middle schools in the 2015-16 school year have the opportunity to apply to attend a school other than their school of residence. Beginning Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, incoming 7th and 8th grade students can apply for intradistrict transfers. The intradistrict transfer window will close March 2, 2015. After this deadline, we will grant transfers on a space-available basis. If more students apply for transfer to a school than capacity can accommodate, we will conduct a random lottery to determine which transfers are granted.

Historically, each of our middle schools has accommodated all transfer requests with the exception of Carmel Valley Middle School.

There has never been the need to conduct a middle school lottery. Students accepted on an intra-district transfer are responsible for their own transportation.

Detailed information on district schools is available via our district website (www. sduhsd.net) and further information about intra-district transfers is available at www.sduhsd.net/Parents-Students/High-School-Selection/index.html.

You can follow Superintendent Schmitt on Facebook, (https://www.facebook.com/ sduhsd), and Twitter, (https:// twitter.com/SDUHSD_Supt).

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Education Matters/Opinion Questioning legality of San Dieguito Union High School District boundary group meetings BY MARSHA SUTTON T h e fourth meeting of San Dieguito Union High School Dis- Marsha Sutton trict’s “study group,” created to consider changes in high school boundaries, will meet Feb. 17.

This meeting, as with the previous three, will be closed to the public. Illegally closed, I believe.

All these meetings should have been open to the public, under California’s open meetings laws.

So agrees Terry Francke, founder and general counsel for Californians Aware.

CalAware (www.calaware.org) is a nonprofit, open government advocacy organization founded to help citizens and journalists understand their rights regarding the First Amendment, California’s open meeting Ralph M. Brown Act, and other laws ensuring transparency in government.

“If the task force was created by the school board, then it must meet openly and with notice to the public,” Francke said in an email Jan. 26. Calling it a task force or a study group, or any other name for that matter, makes no difference.

What matters is that the school board, composed of elected officials, authorized the creation of this committee.

Although trustees did not take a formal vote, the board nonetheless clearly gave the go-ahead to staff to create the study group.

According to the minutes from the June 19, 2014 meeting, “The board asked staff to form an ad hoc task force that would make a recommendation to the board” on the question of the district’s boundary policies.

Whether a formal vote was taken or general assent was given, matters not.

According to the law, the Brown Act applies to legislative bodies of local agencies and their subsidiaries, including boards, commissions, councils, committees, “or other bodies of a local agency that are created by charter, ordinance, resolution, or ‘normal action’ of a legislative body.”

“This applies regardless of ‘temporary v. permanent’ and ‘advisory v. decisionmaking.’”

Francke offered further

evidence that the district is in violation of the law regarding open meetings.

In the 1993 California Frazer v. Dixon Unified School District case, which refers to section 54952 of the California education code, the issue was whether “the board ‘created’ the advisory committee by some type of ‘formal action.’”

The prevailing legal opinion states that boards may create advisory committees (call them what you will) “to assist with ‘examination of facts and data,’ and that the mechanisms by which such advisory bodies are created will be equally varied. We must give that section a broad construction to prevent evasion.” [italics mine] The opinion further states that “adoption of a formal, written policy calling for appointment of a committee to advise the superintendent and, in turn, the board (with whom rests the final decision) … is sufficiently similar to the types of ‘formal action’ listed in section 54952.3.”

The legal conclusion that applies in this case is that advisory committees are covered under the Brown Act, and to exclude the public from the meetings is in violation of Ed Code.

Reluctant to speak openly Mike Grove, SDUHSD’s associate superintendent for educational services, said the study group is only making recommendations to the school board after reviewing and exploring all possible courses of action, and he justified the closed meetings because “no decisions are being made.”

But, as stated before, advisory groups are to be regarded the same as decisionmaking.

After my challenge, Grove consulted with lawyers who, not surprisingly, supported the district’s position that it has the right to keep the study group’s meetings closed.

I’ve asked the district numerous times over the past week to provide written legal justification for this opinion, but have not received any as of press time.

Grove said that opening up the meetings would inhibit the free flow of information and members would be reluctant to speak openly.

“It would be difficult to have productive, honest conversations,” he said, and would bring a different dy-

namic with the press and public present.

“It’s difficult to be productive when the press is there,” he added.

To which I say, “Tough.”

Transparency in government and open meetings are just so darned annoying and inconvenient.

Opening the meetings may make group members uncomfortable, but that’s no excuse for breaking the law.

As the law states, “The Brown Act embodies the philosophy that public agencies exist for the purpose of conducting public business, and the public has the right to know how its ‘collaborative decisions’ are being made.”

Closing these meetings violates California’s Brown Act which guarantees the public’s right to attend and participate in public meetings.

Grove noted that the initial meetings provided members with background information and legal constraints concerning school boundaries, and subsequent meetings built upon the previous ones.

So if parents come to one meeting without hearing an earlier one that detailed critical data that limited possible courses of action, he said they wouldn’t have the background needed to form viable opinions.

That may be true. But it doesn’t outweigh the legal requirement to make the meetings public.

Costly facilitator For more evidence that this committee was legitimately authorized by the school board, trustees at their Oct. 2, 2014 meeting formally approved a contract with consultant Leonard Steinberg at the rate of $350 per hour to facilitate the meetings.

The contract, which is open-ended, was approved by a vote of 4 to 1, with board member John Salazar opposed.

Salazar’s request to fellow board members to consider a cap on the facilitator costs was rejected. When he asked for a not-to-exceed amount, “they all said no,” Salazar said at the time.

Grove said last week that Steinberg’s company has billed the district just over $12,000 for his work to date, to prepare for and facilitate the three meetings.

He called Steinberg “productive and objective” See EDUCATION, page 25

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TPHS girls basketball team set to play Westview Feb. 6 Everyone is invited to come and watch the Torrey Pines girls basketball team on Friday, Feb. 6. The team plays at 5:30 p.m. against Westview High at Torrey Pines High School.

‘5K Paw Walk in the Garden’ to be held Feb. 21 For only the third time in its history, dogs will be allowed Feb. 21 in the San Diego Botanic Garden during the third annual “5K Paw Walk in the Garden.”

Once a year, the Rancho Coastal Humane Society and the San Diego Botanic Garden “join paws” to raise funds that support these two landmark organizations.

Register for the third annual 5K Paw Walk in the Garden at www.sdpets.org or www.sdbgarden.org. Event-day registration starts at 9 a.m., and the first paw crosses the starting line at 9:30. Information about the 5K Paw Walk in the Garden is available at the Rancho Coastal Humane Society, 389 Requeza St., Encinitas, or the San Diego Botanical Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive in Encinitas.

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TPHS Foundation holding fundraiser March 28 The Torrey Pines High School Foundation’s 40 Year Celebration Committee is reaching out to TPHS alums and current parents alike to raise interest in the annual online silent auction and fundraiser to be held March 28 at the Belly Up in Solana Beach.

This event raises money for the TPHS Foundation’s “Support All Students” fund. The focus this year is to equip 100 classrooms with LCD projectors.

“We have a lot to celebrate from the past 40 years, and we are hoping to have a large alumni turnout at the event this year,” said Bobbi Karlson, executive director of the TPHS Foundation. “We are striving to break attendance records for this event by not only reaching out to our current families, but TPHS alums as well.”

The Detroit Underground will headline again this year and the foundation wel-

comes back professional auctioneer Steve Hamann for the live auction. TPHS parent and KUSI news anchor Sandra Maas will emcee the event. Resurrection Radio, a local classic alternative cover band with TPHS Assistant Principal Rob Coppo and alumnus Scott Williams will get the party started with music from The Clash, Devo, R.E.M, U2 and more. For this event, Resurrection Radio will welcome additional Torrey Pines alumni including Dawn Davis-Bearson on vocals and Tim Campen on guitar.

Invitations will be mailed to TPHS families next month. Parents and alumni are encouraged to follow the TPHS Foundation on Facebook or Twitter, or check torreypinesfoundation.org for up-to-date information and to buy tickets. The annual online silent auction will open at 6 p.m. March 6; visit www.auction.torreypinesfoundation.org.

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New Carmel Valley studio raises the ‘barre’ on fitness

BY KAREN BILLING The line on Brooke Tigh’s tank top may read “So this girl walks into a barre,” but her new fitness boutique, Studio Barre Carmel Valley, is no joke. Infectiously energetic, her voice hoarse from leading 15 to 20 classes a week, the happily exhausted Tigh has watched her business grow steadily since it opened Aug. 1, 2014 in Torrey Highlands Village off Camino Del Sur. Young moms, teachers, scientists and “Barre Buddies” who help each other stick with their workout routines are just some of the people who have been coming regularly to Studio Barre for classes that focus on digging deep into the core, improving posture and sculpting a dancer-like body.

“Some people think barre is scary. I want to tell people that trying something new is good for you, and it’s not scary. It is hard, but it works,” said Tigh, who lives in Del Mar. “And no dance experience is required.”

Dance, in some form, has always been a part of Tigh’s life.

She started in ballet as a 3-year-old and continued through high school, performing in “Nutcrackers” and “Swan Lakes” with the California Ballet Company in her native Fresno. Tigh also competed nationally with her high school cheer team.

She moved to San Diego in 1997 to attend San Diego State and performed with several professional dance teams in college such as Fire and Ice USA, the San Diego Sockers and the San Diego Stingrays — “sparkly tops and pom-poms,” Tigh recalled.

After graduating with a degree in journalism, she worked many jobs she didn’t

like and maintained her fitness, always working out. Things changed when she found a barre studio in La Costa seven years ago.

She had stopped classical dance training at 21 but the barre class was a way to get back into dance, tapping into those familiar ballet positions and extensions to “super, awesome, fun” music, all while not dressed in the pink tights and black leotards of her youth.

It was a “grown-up” ballet workout — and she was hooked.

A few months in, her instructor suggested that she begin teaching classes herself.

She trained in Los Angeles and started teaching classes at the studio, which eventually became known as Studio Barre.

Owner Shannon Higgins began to franchise her studios and it has become “the little studio that could”: Studio Barres have popped up in Mission Hills, Newbury Park, South Carolina and Rhode Island. The Birdrock La Jolla location opened two weeks ago, and one will open in the spring in San Juan Capistrano.

Tigh leapt at the chance to become one of those franchise owners.

“I always knew I wanted to own some kind of dance or fitness studio,” she said. “It was always in the back of my mind, because if you love what you do, you’re not really going to work.”

It was challenging at first, figuring out how she would make it work, finding investors and a good location. A former client, Melissa Chang, became her partner, and the pieces began to click into place. After going through the city’s “grueling” permit process,

A class at work in Studio Barre in Carmel Valley.

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Brooke Tigh, owner of Studio Barre Carmel Valley.

Photo by Karen Billing

they built out a former “vanilla box” Sprint store into a “stunning, classy and clean” boutique studio.

“It was a very long time coming in realizing a dream come true,” Tigh said. “I love what we’ve created here.”

Tigh still teaches those 15 to 20 classes a week and has a team of Barre-tenders who handle the rest of the classes offered throughout the day.

All classes are an hour long, and all feature upbeat, motivating music as the Barre-tender leads the group in small, isolation-based movements. Sometimes they use exercise balls and resistance bands.

“What separates us from other barre studios is that there’s lots of personality from the instructors and tons of hands-on instruction and help with alignment,” Tigh said.

Barre-istas, as the clients are called, wear socks with grips on the bottom during the workout to help stay grounded to the floor and to keep feet warm.

“We work to fatigue each muscle group, and then

lengthen with each stretch to create those long, lean dancer muscles,” Tigh said.

The head-to-toe workout causes muscles to “burn and shake” and results in a chiseled and contoured body, Tigh said. Clients such as NFL quarterback Drew Brees, Navy SEALs, Ironman triathletes and ex-professional ballet dancers have reported that the class is a great workout.

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that will allow them to make a decision from the bottom up rather than from the top down.

Howard Greenstein, park designer from the city of San Diego’s planning department, said they have identified funding sources that they would like to use for the project, including $1 million from a past developer contribution earmarked for a Torrey Hills recreation center, $1.1 million from the Torrey Reserve Gateway Development Funds, and $454,000 from a Torrey Hills Development Agreement fund.

The Torrey Reserve Gateway funds can only be used for park projects within Torrey Hills; the developer agreement fund has fewer restrictions. It can be used for any public facility, but must be within Torrey Hills.

The city’s proposed recreation center is a “modest” 2,000-square-foot center that could provide office space, a large and small multipurpose room, restroom and storage. The anticipated cost is about $4.1 million, and the city hopes to have a final design in place by 2016.

Greenstein said the $2.5 million is a “good start” for the project and will go as far as preparation of the general development plan and construction documents. Grants or other funding sources would help complete the project.

Back in 2002, plans were approved for the YMCA of Encinitas to build a recreation center at the park, complete with a swimming pool. In 2007, the plans were canceled as the funds could not be raised.

Greenstein said public input would determine what other amenities the community would like to see in the park, outside of the recreation center building. The plan would probably go before the Ocean Air Recreation Council for approval, not the planning board.

The board was also uneasy about relinquishing control of the community’s money to a Carmel Valley board.

Board member Brad Fagan informed Greenstein of the “really bad experience” they had with the greenbelt enhancement project.

“Our issue is, the city used our money and didn’t do what they should’ve done with the cost breakdown,” Fagan said. “By the time we were able to review the costs, it was way over what anyone expected … I think it gives a lot of us here a cause to question what’s happening.”

As Torrey Hills Community Planning Board Chairwoman Kathryn Burton said, the

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money was “sucked up” by consultant fees and nothing was left for the project.

“We’re nervous about committing to money that isn’t even there yet, and with such a skin-and-bones idea,” Burton said.

Fagan requested Greenstein return to the board with a more complete budget.

Greenstein said his department’s job is long-range planning, working at a higher level, so he isn’t sure how much more detail he will be able to provide.

He said the city has generic costs, peracre costs for park development, per-squarefoot costs for recreation centers, and soft costs for city project management and consultant fees. He said from the planning department, the plan goes to the public works department, which hires a consultant to prepare the design cost estimate from the general development plan.

Resident Anhtu Nguyen said he is in favor of a recreation center, but didn’t understand why they had to spend money to get a consultant to spend money. He wondered how much of the money would be spent until they came up with a reasonable plan.

“It makes no sense,” he said of the process.

The board is also concerned about the potential access for the recreation center.

“The biggest issue is the road up to the site,” said resident Paula Abney of the fire lane from Carmel Mountain Road.

Abney said in the past, when they went through the YMCA proposal, they were told it would take $1.5 million just to build a road that also goes over a SDG&E easement.

Abney said some neighbors do not want to see that road opened up because of the traffic.

Chairwoman Kathryn Burton said neighbors also do not want to see the building accessed by Via Mar de Delfinas, which is already over capacity.

“We’ve got a big problem any way you cut it,” Burton said.

Board member Peter Gilchrist was selected to lead the recreation center subcommittee. Gilchrist said that he thinks the center will ultimately be a good thing for the community, and they have a great opportunity to make something out of a property that has long sat dormant.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people who’d like to see something done there and have some ideas,” Gilchrist said.

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who chairs the American Lung Association in California-San Diego Leadership Board.

“We have a lot of work to do to safeguard public health from tobacco-related illnesses,’’ she said. “Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and illness in the U.S., and we must take the necessary steps to ensure a tobacco-free environment for our community.’’

Grades of F went to Imperial Beach, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Oceanside, Poway, San Marcos, Santee and the unincorporated county area. Others received overall grades of D except for Vista, which got a C. The report credited Coronado and Chula Vista for public smoking restrictions, and Vista was among the cities that was noted for tobacco retailer licensing.

The city of San Diego was given a D overall, but got a B for licensing businesses that sell tobacco.

Among the top 10 cities in California by population, only San Francisco and Oakland were given B grades overall.

Statewide, the Lung Association is pushing for a hike in the tobacco tax, which has not been increased since 1999. California’s rate of 87 cents a pack ranks 33rd nationally.

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place daily vehicle counts at levels nearly four times higher than those permitted under current land-use policies.

Families west of Interstate 5, in the City of San Diego communities of Del Mar Terrace and Del Mar Heights worry about what the gridlock would mean for fire and police response times. Citing traffic and safety issues, the cities of Del Mar and Solana Beach have issued formal letters of opposition.

Traffic shows no sign of waning in Carmel Valley, where public transit is not expected until 2035.

Who will pay for the burdens One Paseo places upon streets and other infrastructure? Where will the water come from to support this project? Are multiple, 170-foottall buildings appropriate for Carmel Valley?

An appropriately-sized One Paseo could be a great addition to Carmel Valley. The current proposal is not, and residents of Carmel Valley and surrounding communities deserve better.

Dave Roberts represents the Third District on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

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added.

The PAC began exploring entry signs for the site after the 2013 traffic-calming project at Highland Drive at Lomas Santa Fe created a new, large median at the intersection.

In December 2013, the city, in cooperation with the PAC, issued a request for proposals to design a sign and monument for the median, along with landscaping for the site. Of the 10 responses, five finalists were selected to make presentations to the PAC. Because the PAC could not reach a consensus, however, commissioners decided to consider sculptures already created by wellknown artists, and tentatively selected a piece called “Sun Platter.” At the same time, two commissioners, Brett Reisdorf and Mike Swanson, volunteered to design an entry sign and monument based on the feedback received during the PAC meetings, from staff and the community.

With input from the city’s Engineering Department, the PAC decided “Sun Platter” was not suitable for the median. Its topheavy design presented a potential public safety risk. Instead, commissioners decided to move forward with the “Gateway to Sunshine” design, bringing it before the council

for consideration.

Once constructed, “Gateway to Sunshine” will be the city’s fourth welcome sign. Others include a “Welcome to Solana Beach” sign on South Highway 101 from Cardiff, the Coastal Rail Trail tile arches on North Highway 101 from Del Mar, and a Solana Beach sign with a fish and kelp sculpture at the Eden Gardens Pump Station.

“I live real close to it,” said Swanson, a landscape architect and Solana Beach resident for about 35 years. “As a professional, resident and designer, it’s always been in my conscience.”

“I thank you very much for your volunteer time on this and coming to the rescue,” Mayor Lesa Heebner said to both volunteers. “I think this suits the site, myself.”

The project is estimated to cost $35,000, but the city anticipates in-kind services provided by the community for the landscaping portion of the project. The project will be funded by transient occupancy taxes from the city’s Reserve Public Art Account.

The new sign is expected to be installed by summer.

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partment, and the council agreed to “cautiously explore” the idea.

Other priorities include maintaining the streets, as well as implementing the housing element and building affordable units.

“Affordable housing is an investment of time, effort, money, heart,” said Deputy Mayor Sherryl Parks. “We need to make sure that we get some outcomes and spend some money, if we have to.”

Although council members acknowledged the full work plan, the council still discussed a number of new short-term, midterm and long-term goals.

Among their suggestions, Councilman Dwight Worden wanted to look at ways to better communicate with and engage the public, from informing community members on what the city is doing, to recruiting more residents to volunteer on committees or run for council. Councilman Terry Sinnott suggested evaluating Dog Beach and considering the feasibility of undergrounding utilities. Mosier said the city should decide whether or not horses are allowed on the beaches before the Coast to Crest Trail is completed.

Instead of adding new priorities to the council’s list, Parks said her goal is to preserve the city’s resources, including the costly sewer system. The Powerhouse Community Center should be painted when needed and the restrooms need to be better maintained, she said.

“Preserving what we’ve already built is what I look at mostly,” she said.

This year, at Corti’s suggestion, the council engaged the advisory committees in the process, inviting the committees to also submit their list of short-term, mid-term and long-term goals. Ideas included ideas completing a Climate Action Plan, developing a public art policy and evaluating the city’s design review process.

Because so many ideas were positively received, the council asked staff to let them know when they and committee members could help accomplish items on the priority list.

Mosier said he, other council members and committee members could work on evaluating the city’s design review process, to help alleviate staff workload.

“I’m very reluctant to load anymore work on our planning staff because they’re overworked now,” said Mosier, who noted city staff dedicates time to residential projects, as well as development projects such as the potential projects at the Garden Del Mar and Watermark properties. These projects are in addition to the city’s major projects, including the city hall and Shores master planning projects.

“I think we have to be flexible with our timing or augment staffing,” Mosier said.

“That’s a lot of stuff to deal with in the next couple years.”

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level you are, you’re going to be challenged, you’re going to have fun and you’re going to see noticeable results,” Tigh said.

In her first five months of business, hearing the thank-yous and compliments from clients about their results has been the coolest part of running the studio for Tigh.

Jessica Kinsella, a client

turned teacher and a mother of three, said her body has never looked better since coming to the Barre.

“One client told me, ‘You have changed my life and I feel like I can do anything,’” Tigh said. “I’ve seen her level of strength go from a two to a 10, and it’s so rewarding and satisfying as an owner and an instructor to know that I can give that to people.”

Classes can be purchased alone ($20 per class)

or in a package, and there are also monthly rates. New clients can get one month for $99, which includes a free pair of socks.

Walk-ins are welcome and attendees only need to register in advance for the 6 a.m. classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Friday night classes, at 4:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., are only $5. For a schedule of classes, visit studiobarre.com.

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mean text messaging. It means making sure that we all understand one another. We also need to teach them gratitude and empathy.

Gratitude is teaching them to be thankful for what they have, and empathy is teaching them to be able to forgive themselves for the mistakes that they will make and, in doing so empowering them to forgive others.

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Strategy, discipline, and understanding.

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How do you define success?

Quite simply, success is happiness. I look at my journey as “successive events” … there are no successes or failures. Everything will come in the right way at the perfect time, but our main mission needs to be staying focused on connecting to goodness and being happy.

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Grove said the decision was made to select an outside consultant to do the work rather than use someone from inside the district, to avoid the appearance that the district would be controlling the process and

Who is your personal hero? Why? Despite being surrounded by Hall of Famers such as Warren Moon, Troy Aikman and Steve Young, my personal hero is my mother. She empowered me with gratitude and empathy, and no one else has believed in me or sacrificed more for me than my mom … and she loves the San Diego U-T, so I know she’s reading this. Hi, Mom. Thank you and I love you!

What do you hope readers take away from “Connected to Goodness”?

I hope they come away with a pragmatic approach to look at faith and fact … a simple way to first prioritize and then manifest or attract everything they desire or want in life accurately and rapidly. I hope they’ll be able to turn possibilities into probabilities and then make this their perspective or realities.

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come to a predetermined conclusion.

But the district traded one potential misperception for another, very real one – widespread, valid objections over the high-priced contract and the amount of taxpayer money being spent on the facilitator.

Paying big bucks for someone to lead a task force might be more palatable if the purpose of the group was to explore options for something so complicated and impossible to sort out that no board member or staff administrator could wrap their heads around it.

But this is not one of those issues.

When demand for a school exceeds supply and a lottery system is used that does not offer preferential status to kids

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concepts and another workshop Sept. 28 to discuss design development. In addition, a community participation program meeting is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 12.

An initial review by the Design Review Board is scheduled for Aug. 26. The board hearing is slated for Jan. 27, 2016, after EIR certification.

If all goes as planned, the estimated move-in date is April 28, 2017.

Although council members unanimously approved the plans, they expressed concerns with the project timeline.

“I don’t see (Planning Director) Kathy (Garcia) doing this. It’s too much. I don’t see (City Manager) Scott (Huth) doing this. It’s too much,” said Councilman Terry Sinnott. “I’m starting to worry about how to implement this.”

Huth said the city would eventually have to hire a project manager.

“It’s going to be a project that we’re going to need external resources on to be able to manage, yet it’s still going to require management from our full-time employees,” he said.

“I’m OK with the end date, I just want us to be comfortable that we are going to work to meet that schedule,” said Mayor Al Corti. “It really does take work. We just can’t come back every two or three months and say, ‘Here’s the new schedule.’”

“Projects of this magnitude, more often than not, don’t finish on schedule,” said Councilman Dwight Worden, adding that he wouldn’t be “all that shocked if that slips.”

Noting that she has managed many public projects, Garcia said the schedule is “aggressive but doable.

“I believe we could do it, but it requires effort on everyone’s part,” she said.

who live close to the school, the obvious solution is to give first priority to students within a certain geographic radius so they can attend their neighborhood school if they choose to do so.

If more seats are available after that, then it’s open to the entire district via a lottery.

Recommendation to the board, and done.

Salazar supported this approach and opposed the formation of a task force, but district staff and the board decided instead to create this cumbersome 43-member com-

mittee to study the issue – a move that has delayed for one full year any change in current policy.

And then district staff decided to close the meetings to the public.

This is a highly contentious and emotionally charged issue, with hundreds of parents anxious about the deliberations. Discussions should not be kept secret.

There have already been three illegally held meetings. Let’s not see a fourth.

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mated to cost $7 million to $8 million.

Options B and C feature civic uses, plus additional parking and space for development.

Option B, which is estimated to cost $9 million to $14 million, includes approximately 160 parking stalls, 60 stalls in a surface parking lot and 100 stalls in a parking structure. It also supports about 11,000 square feet of future development area and about 100 additional parking stalls.

Option C, which is estimated to cost $12 million to $18 million, includes about 160 parking stalls in a below-grade parking structure. It also supports about 20,000 square feet of future development area and about 100 additional parking stalls.

Although Corti prefers the options that feature flexible space, he has no preference on how the site should be developed in the future.

Since Del Mar initiated the city hall planning process in June 2013, the council has discussed the project at dozens of council meetings, held three public workshops, issued a citywide survey, and most recently, launched an online poll. During that time, community members have expressed varying opinions on whether the site should include other uses, such as commercial or residential space.

“I don’t think that’s a decision that needs to be made today,” Corti said. “To me, it comes down to just moving forward with city hall and starting the design process. We’ll do what we need now and the property’s got the ability to expand later on.”

The online “Voice Your Choice” poll describe the three options and includes pop-up windows for detailed information, such as costs and features. Respondents are asked to rank each option as a first, second

or third choice.

Council members, city staff and the city’s consultant, Everyone Counts, collaborated to craft the poll so that the questions were objective.

“There was a sensitivity to not trying to lean toward one or the other; we’re just giving factual information,” Corti said.

Corti, however, decided to be open about his thoughts on the city hall options because members of the public have asked him to share his opinion. In fact, while at a Del Mar coffee shop for this interview, Corti was approached by a few residents who wanted to hear his view and share their thoughts.

“If you ask for somebody’s opinion and they give it to you, you need to respond,” he said. “It’s all about communication, whether it’s in the coffee shop, at the council meetings, through the city website or the newspapers.”

Letters regarding the poll, which included a unique password, were recently mailed to registered voters in Del Mar. A polling station with a tablet is available at city hall for those without Internet access. Paper surveys are also available.

No matter what voters choose, Corti encourages all community members to voice their choice in the poll.

“I encourage everybody to get involved, take a look at the options, read them, call the city, speak to their council people, talk to their neighbors and form an opinion,” he said. “It’s their city hall.”

The poll closes 5 p.m. Feb. 13. Results will be presented to the council at the March 2 meeting.

For information about the city hall project, visit www.delmar.ca.us/cityhall.

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route, a technician with a pilot’s license must manually operate them during shoots, according to Owens.

Also, Owens said preparing for scenes demands completing stacks of detailed safety paperwork.

“80 percent of the job is done off set,” Owens said.

He said the demand is skyrocketing for drones in television, movies and commercials.

And drones are poised to take off in other industries.

John McGraw, a private aerospace consultant and former deputy flight standards director for the FAA, said more businesses are turning to drones, for everything from monitoring crops to inspecting bridges.

“They’re a lot safer in many cases,” McGraw said.

However, McGraw said most drone companies are currently operating without FAA approval, potentially limiting their growth.

But, he said the FAA exemptions signaled the agency is close to rolling out a draft of uniform rules for small drones.

Facing pressure from drone manufacturers, the FAA is expected to announce pro-

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posed standards in the next month or so for legalizing drones that weigh less than 55 pounds. Still, it could be around two years before such rules take effect, McGraw said.

“Regulations have been slow to catch up to the technology,” he said. He added the FAA has a tough job because it has to navigate safety concerns and other issues when crafting regulations.

Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, an industry group, anticipates drone businesses could generate $14 billion in economic activity in the U.S. from 2015 to 2018. In a June press release, the group stated uniform FAA rules and training procedures, rather than individual exemptions, would unlock the industry’s potential.

In the meantime, “it’s really exciting to be on the cutting edge of this industry,” said Kate Bedingfield, spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

The association facilitated the first round of FAA exemptions. Bedingfield said the organization would push for more filmmaking waivers when appropriate in the near term.

“There are really tremendous creative and safety benefits,” Bedingfield said.

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staff report. That letter was used as evidence during the hearing.

Since receiving the letter, all references to the survey as an election were removed. The modified documents were submitted to state officials, who verbally said they had no problems with the new language, said Assistant City Attorney Barry Schultz.

The poll closes 5 p.m. Feb. 13.

A polling station with a tablet is available at City Hall for those without Internet access. Paper surveys are also available.

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Author to offer advice, encouragement at Canyon Crest Academy Writers’ Conference

(L-R) San Diego Aviators owner Fred Luddy and CEO Billy Berger.

San Diego Aviators tennis team hopes to fly high this summer

BY JOE TASH Most San Diegans are familiar with the Chargers and Padres. But the city has another professional sports team that brings big-name athletes to San Diego, which many locals may not know about — the Aviators of Mylan World Team Tennis.

This summer, the Aviators will play in seven matches at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, hosting pro teams from such cities as Austin, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Local residents Fred Luddy and Billy Berger are the majority owner and CEO, respectively, of the Aviators, and the coming season will be the second for the San Diego team, which had previously been based in New York.

Luddy and Berger said a more relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere prevails at WTT matches, in comparison with major tournaments on the pro tennis tour, such as the U.S. Open.

“This event is more about the entertainment of tennis, the excitement,” said Berger. “It’s like a tennis festival.”

Spectators are not hushed if they speak or cheer during the matches, and an announcer calls the games, unlike during play in the majors, said Luddy. After the matches, the players hang out to give autographs.

“Kids get to see these world-class athletes up close and intimate,” said Luddy. “Every kid can get an autograph from every player.”

The WTT season runs from July 12 through Aug. 3, and includes a schedule of 14 matches, plus two rounds of playoffs, culminating in a final match. There are currently seven teams in the league, which was founded in 1974 by Billie Jean King, who still owns the Philadelphia Freedoms.

Each match includes five sets, one each of men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. The teams are comprised of four to six players, with at least two men and two women on each team.

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BY LOIS ALTER MARK Horror writer Jonathan Maberry may be the busiest man in the business. Not only has the Del Mar resident written dozens of bestselling, award-winning books, short stories, articles and comics — many of which are now in development for TV shows and films — but he is also a teacher and in-demand speaker who will be giving the keynote address Feb. 21 at the Canyon Crest Academy Writers’ Conference on February 21.

We interviewed Maberry when he first moved to Del Mar a couple of years ago, but thought we’d catch up with him to see what the students can expect.

• You’re going to be the keynote speaker at the CCA Writers’ Conference this year, which will be a real treat for the students.

Why did you want to get involved in this event?

It’s important for writers who have gained some measure of commercial and artistic success to share with those who are on the way up or trying to break in. No one ever succeeded without help and advice, and events like the CCA Writers’ Conference allow for that kind of sharing of tips, guidance and encouragement.

• Many of the attendees will probably be fans who have gobbled up your books. What do you enjoy about writing for kids?

Although I started out writing for adults, about half of what I’m currently writing is for teens, and I’m writing in several different age ranges. I find that teen fiction allows for greater creative freedom. Kids are so much smarter than most adults think.

• Can you give us a little preview of your speech?

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Courtesy photos ations on a very important theme: positivity and cooperation. It’s a waste of time to focus on the downsides or to be stifled by fear. I prefer to inspire and encourage writers to work together to build a mutually supportive creative community. And to learn how the business works, because although writing is an art, publishing is a business that sells art.

They’re not the same thing, and writers prosper when they grasp that and learn to work with the publishing world rather than coast the fringes.

I came from rough beginnings and grew up in a violent household where education and reading were discouraged. I was determined, however, to “write my way out.” I pursued education and sought guidance from those who had achieved some measure of success. I met some great folks along the way — teachers, librarians, booksellers, published authors — and it was their support and encouragement that helped me rise above my home life and become a best-selling author.

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My core message is that anything is possible. No one has proof that they can’t until they’ve utterly failed, and utter failure isn’t common.

Most often, people become discouraged and accept that as failure. It isn’t. I like to share strategies for celebrating and usefully exploiting the creative potential in the next generation of young writers.

• What are the differences between talking to teens who want to become writers vs adults who want to become writers?

Many of the adult writers have already begun to lose faith in their own success or in their skills. Teens don’t have that problem, and maybe some encouragement will help them jump that hurdle. They’re more open-minded, more creative, and they haven’t yet been inundated by the negativity about publishing that so often stifles adult writers.

Also, there are some things they can do now, as teens, to sharpen their skills, their focus and their business acumen so that they’ll have the best chance of coming out of the gate at a full gallop.

• Your first novel came out in 2006, and you’ve had 20 more since then! How do you write so prolifically?

I’ve always been a highoutput creative person. I like the fast lane, and I write my best stuff when I have a tight deadline. Currently I’m writing three- to four thousand words a day. This is the busiest time of my career.

• What is it about horror and science fiction that attracts you?

I love how you can tell very important stories — and get large numbers of people to read them and consider the underlying metaphor — if you wrap them in a ripping yarn. Fantastical storytelling is our oldest form of writing. Even “Hamlet” is a ghost story.

• You moved here a little over a year ago, which seems like the perfect place for you, because San Diego is the home of Comic-Con! Have you gotten to attend?

I was a guest at San Diego Comic-Con last year and will be again this year. It was a blast. I’ve done the See AUTHOR, page B22

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Openings available at SB Library citizenship Openings are available for personalized, one-to-one instruction to prepare for U.S. citizenship testing. The classes meet weekly from 5-7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Solana Beach library. All materials and instruction are provided free.

The library is located at 157 Stevens Ave; call 858-755-1404.

St. James to host blood drive Feb. 15 The San Diego Blood Bank will accept blood donations at St. James Catholic Church from 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 15. The drive will be held in the upper parking lot at the church, 625 S. Nardo Ave., Solana Beach.

Anyone 17 and older, who weighs at least 114 pounds and is in good health, may qualify to give blood. A good meal and plenty of fluids are recommended before donation. All donors must show picture identification.

Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment before they donate. To do so, call 1-800-4MY-SDBB (469-7322) or visit www.sandiegobloodbank.org.

Free blood pressure screening at SB Library From 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 13, free blood pressure screenings will be available at the Solana Beach Library. This opportunity is offered as part of Live Well, San Diego, a long-term county initiative for all citizens to be healthy, safe, and thriving. The library is at 157 Stevens Ave.; call 858-755-1404.

State legislative aide to visit Feb. 12 at SB Library Myrna Zambrano, special assistant to Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, will make her monthly visit to the Solana Beach Library from 10-11 a.m. Feb. 12.

She will be available to assist with issues such as DMV problems, unemployment, consumer complaints, property tax, and Medi-Cal. She will also welcome your suggestions for changes to current California law.

The library is at 157 Stevens Ave.; call 858-755-1404.

‘Danny Dog’ signing set for Feb. 8 at Warwick’s There will be a book signing for the children’s book “Danny Dog,� from noon-2 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 8 at Warwick’s, 7812 Girard Avenue in La Jolla. Author Sid Shapira and Danny, the subject of the book, will be in attendance. “Danny Dog� was recently named to RedRover Reader’s “Recommended Books With Humane Themes� book list (www.RedRover.org/books). This program helps children explore positive relationships between people and animals through stories and discussion.

Visit www.dannyrescuedog.com.

San Diego Blood Bank accepting blood donations Feb. 8 at St. Therese of Carmel The San Diego Blood Bank will accept blood donations at St. Therese of Carmel on Sunday, Feb. 8, from 7:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. The drive will be held at: 4343 Del Mar Trails Rd., San Diego, 92130 (parking lot).

Anyone 17 and older, who weighs at least 114 pounds and is in good health, may qualify to give blood. A good meal and plenty of fluids are recommended prior to donation. All donors must show picture identification.

Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment when they donate.

To schedule an appointment, please call 1-800-4MY-SDBB (469-7322) or visit www. sandiegobloodbank.org.

San Diego Blood Bank is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization.

Architect hosts open house Feb. 14 in La Jolla Architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, a San Diego native and founder of the Organic Architecture Charitable Foundation, (1997), will hold an open house Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Lotus House, 7799 Starlight Drive, La Jolla, which he designed.

First event: 10 a.m. to noon, donation of $150 per individual to the nonprofit OACF. Second event: 1 to 3 p.m., donation of $150 per person to OACF. Donation is $20 for anyone under 25 with ID. Space is limited. RSVP via the contact form to http://www.kendrickbangskellogg.com/events.html.

Library manager to speak Feb. 23 at St. Peter’s Kara West, the Library Arts and Culture Exhibition Manager at the new Central Library in San Diego, will highlight the collections and discuss the importance of public art at the library at a lecture Feb. 23 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Del Mar. Registration and refreshments at 9:30 a.m. and lecture starts at 10 a.m. Free for San Diego Museum of Art, North County Chapter members and first-time guests; $5 for others.

Call 760-704-6436. The church is at 15th Street and Maiden Lane, across from the Del Mar Plaza.

SDCCC hosts speaker on ID theft Feb. 17 The San Diego Coastal Chambers of Commerce will host a community event regarding identity theft from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the Fish Market in Del Mar/Solana Beach. Jesse Navarro from the San Diego District Attorney’s office will be the guest speaker.

ID theft has been called the fastest-growing crime in America. It remains, however, difficult to quantify for a number of reasons. Many states do not have a specific ID theft statute.

Even when such a statute exists, as in California, the definition of ID theft often varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The format of crime reporting can easily overlook cases, and many victims never report it to police.

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2015 Go Red For Women Campaign kicks off Feb. 5 The American Heart Association’s annual Go Red For Women Campaign kicks off Thursday, February 5, with local landmarks and supporters “Going Red.” Over 25 San Diego landmarks/businesses are Going Red in February, including UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, UC San Diego Medical Center, La Valencia Hotel and the US Grant, to name a few. In addition, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has declared Friday, Feb. 6 as Wear Red Day in San Diego County.

National Wear Red Day and American Heart Month are just one portion of the American Heart Association’s yearlong Go Red For Women campaign. The campaign is a national call to increase awareness of heart disease in women that inspires women to take charge of their heart health, and stress the importance of knowing their numbers (i.e. blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and body mass index).

Since the movement was launched a little over a decade ago, more than 650,000 women have been saved from

heart disease. Yet there is still much to do as nearly 1,100 women are still dying each day. For more information, visit www.goredforwomen.org.

African American jockeys are topic for Feb. 12 talk at Del Mar Library The Del Mar Library will host a presentation by local educator, singer-songwriter and storyteller Ross Moore on “African Americans in Thoroughbred Racing: Stories of America’s First Star Athletes” at 6 p.m. Feb. 12.

This program focuses on the largely unknown stories of America’s first star athletes, African American jockeys, in what was the most popular sport in the United States, some 200 years before Jackie Robinson broke the “color barrier.”

Tracing their origins to West Africa, learn about the rise of slave grooms and trainers, and then slave jockeys in the time of George Washington. Hear about America’s first true national sporting event, a match race that drew more than 50,000 people, and the two slaves who competed that day.

The Del Mar Branch Library is at 1309 Camino Del Mar. Call the library at 858-7551666.

Paint class offered Feb. 21 at DM Highlands Town Center Mia Francesca Del Mar and Wine and Canvas San Diego will offer a painting event from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Del Mar Highlands Town Center at 12955 El Camino Real, G-4.

For $35, guests will follow step-by-step instructions from a local artist to re-create the featured painting, “Tuscan Trail” (at right). All art supplies will be provided including 16-inch-by-20-inch canvas, paints, brushes, easels and aprons. Wine is not included. No experience is necessary. By the end of the event, guests will bring home a great work of art that they created on their own.

Guests will re-create ‘Tuscan Mia Francesca’s full food and beverage menu will be Trail’ at the Feb. 21 event. available for purchase during the event.

Registration is required: https://www.wineandcanvas.com/wine-and-canvas-calendarsan-diego-ca.html.

Wine and Canvas San Diego is a mobile art entertainment company offering public and private painting events at local venues, corporate settings and private homes.

‘2015 Go Red For Women Luncheon’ to be held Feb. 27 The 2015 Go Red For Women Luncheon is Friday, Feb. 27, at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. The luncheon is the celebratory event for the American Heart Association’s annual Go Red campaign. For many, the luncheon is a lifechanging experience.

The luncheon focuses on three areas to support the fight against heart disease in women: heightening awareness of the issue, creating a passionate call-to-action, and generating funds to support education and research. The 2014 luncheon drew over 650 people, raising almost $750,000 for heart disease and stroke research.

New to this year’s luncheon is renowned aerialist Tania Holt.

Luncheon registration begins at 10 a.m.

The American Heart Association will also

honor its 2015 Legendary Women of the Heart at the event. This year’s Legendary Women are Dixie Unruh, Karen Cohn, Gaby Sulpizio, Sally Thornton, and Ronne Froman Blue.

This year’s campaign chair is Debbie Turner. Barbara-Lee Edwards of KFMB-CBS 8 will again serve as Go Red For Women Luncheon Mistress of Ceremonies.

Local Go Red For Women sponsor UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center will provide free health screenings to attendees. Screening include Body Mass Index, hypertension (blood pressure) and cholesterol.

For more information, please contact the American Heart Association at (858) 410-3850 or visit sdgoredluncheon.ahaevents.org.

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QUEST Research Poster Presentation/Gallery Walk Canyon Crest Academy Foundation hosted the third annual QUEST Research Poster Presentation/Gallery Walk Jan. 20, on the CCA campus. Students presented research methods, proposals, and techniques in the fields of biology, physics, and engineering.

The QUEST research program is part of QUEST: The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) experience at CCA, which is funded by the Canyon Crest Academy Foundation.

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Jerry Wu – Producing higher grade graphene

Richard Murphy - Using a bacteriaphage to create a vaccine effect

Anthony Kang – Inhibiting interbacterial Julia Cochrane – Using neurotransmitters genetic exchange to protect against protein toxicity

Maia Zelkind – Using a protein to control a beetle pest Simon Xu – A self-sustainable irrigation system for the garden

Esther Peluso – Making cheese production more effective

Andrew Kim – Piezoelectric Classical Instruments

Nico Laqua - Using a bacteria that can biodegrade oil

Gavin Rockwood – Redesigning UV light sources

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‘Understanding Differences’ at Del Mar Heights Del Mar Heights held a month-long program in January titled “Understanding Differences.” This is a unique, award-winning disability awareness program created and developed at Del Mar Heights in 2005.

This school-wide program teaches students empathy and understanding through participation in science lessons, simulation exercises, and interactions with guest speakers. Each year, throughout January, the Del Mar Heights community participates in a variety of activities designed to foster tolerance.

Understanding Differences is supported by the staff and PTA, over 75 parent volunteers, UC San Diego undergraduate psychology volunteers, as well as by multiple community volunteers with disabilities. Understanding Differences is innovative because of its three-pronged structure, spiraling curriculum that builds year after year, and integration of lessons on wellness, health, and environmental contributors as a basis 4th grade yellow team students at Del Mar Heights School practice the link of the brain and nerve cells for understanding disabilities. Kindergarten and fourth-grade students and muscles. learn about motor disabilities, first- and third-graders explore vision, second-graders focus on hearing, and fifth-grade students learn about health and fitness. To culminate the program, sixth-graders focus on cognitive function, learning, and communication.

In the initial part of the curriculum, students learn about their grade level topic through scientific inquiry. Next, students are exposed to learning through simulation and experiential inquiry. The final components of the triangulated teaching model offers a venue for students to interact and learn directly from disabled community members.

The Understanding Differences program builds a foundation for understanding based on concrete scientific inquiry. Then, by understanding challenges through “walking in another’s shoes” children develop tolerance, empathy and compassion. This program was honored by the North Coastal Council PTA with a Program Award of Excellence and has been awarded the California School Boards Association Golden Bell Award.

The photos taken on this page were taken Jan. 29 during a Del Mar Heights fourth grade class.

Photos by Jon Clark. For photos online, visit www.delmartimes.net. Parent volunteers demonstrate the links between the brain and nerve cells and muscles for 4th grade students at Del Mar Heights School.

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Wings Over Wetlands Family Discovery Days One of San Diego’s largest coastal wetlands, the 979-acre San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve, is host to visitors each winter that fly in from distant shores. Each year at least a billion birds migrate along the Pacific Flyway, which stretches from the North Slope of Alaska to Central and South America. It’s an ideal time to visit local wetlands to see birds in action. At San Elijo Lagoon, the annual Wings Over Wetlands is an all-ages celebration that connects visitors to the beauty and wonder of local and visiting birds.

Wings Over Wetlands Family Discovery Days was held Jan. 24-25 at the San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center. Participants had the opportunity to enjoy bird-themed crafts, face painting, interactive stations, and live raptor presentations.

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Friends of CV Library host free concert Feb. 11

Speaker Rabbi Ben Kamin presents his lecture to a packed room at the Powerhouse.

DMF packs Powerhouse to hear MLK speech The Del Mar Foundation welcomed a capacity crowd at its DMF Talks recently with speaker Rabbi Ben Kamin.

Kamin, an award-winning author, nationally known scholar and clergyman, talked about his recently released book, “Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers,” based on previously unrevealed FBI transcripts and Kennedy administration records. “Dangerous Friendship” is in development as a motion picture screenplay.

Left, Julie Maxey Allison The presentation was recorded by Del Mar TV and will with author and Rabbi Ben be broadcast at a later date. For notification of the DMF Kamin.

Talks air date and of upcoming events, visit www.delmarfoundation.org to join the email list.

DMF Talks, the Del Mar Foundation’s version of TED Talks, draws its speakers from locally based creative, intellectual and scientific leaders. Launched in 2012, DMF Talks aims to entertain, inspire, and inform the Del Mar community through a series of free presentations.

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February’s free family music program sponsored by the Friends of the Carmel Valley Library will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the library’s community room. It will feature violinist Roy Bak playing music by Bach, Kreisler, Elgar, Gabriel Faure, and Aram Khachaturi- Roy Bak, left, and Irina Bessonova will perform a free an. He will be accompanied program Feb. 11 at the Carmel Valley Library. by pianist Irina Bessonova.

Roy Bak began his violin training at age 11 in Los Angeles. During his teen years he played with the American Youth Symphony under Mehli Mehta. He continued his studies at Gonzaga University and was a finalist in the Spokane Young Artist Competition, performing the Khachaturian Violin Concerto with the Gonzaga Orchestra. Bak enjoys playing solo Bach as well as a varied classical and romantic repertoire on a Stradivarius-model violin.

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Carmel Creek PTA STREAM Expo Carmel Creek Elementary School held a PTA STREAM Expo Jan. 29.

STREAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics.

It is often most commonly referred to as STEM. According to the Solana Beach School District’s website, the idea of emphasizing these subjects through an inquiry-based, hands-on curriculum has been driven by the goal of more closely aligning school programs with what students will experience in college and the workplace.

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Q&A with Jerry Cesak, Part II Due to a technical problem last issue, the end of the question and answer feature on Jerry Cesak, co-host of the top-rated “Jeff & Jer” morning show, was cut off. Below are the questions and answers that were missing: • What is your philosophy of life?

Never cause harm to another living being. The Buddha said, “Do not destroy life nor cause others to destroy life, nor approve of others’ killing. Refrain from oppressing all living beings in the world, whether strong or weak.” When Pam and I established our charitable endeavor, The Unicorn Foundation, we chose that name because a unicorn never steps on another creature.

• What would be your dream vacation?

Anywhere in the world where I can scuba dive is a dream vacation. More than half the show is down there. If I could physically do it, I’d go diving in a birdbath.

• What clothing item in your closet will you never part with?

A pathetic old denim shirt I’ve had since Lewis and Clark discovered the Beach & Tennis Club. There’s also a pair of powder-blue Capri pants in there that Pam doesn’t know about.

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It begins with the 19th Spotlight Series, in which renowned musicians from around the world perform in intimate settings in Rancho Santa Fe, La Jolla and Carlsbad between February and May. “They (the artists) are true legends in the chamber music world,” said Nancy Laturno Bojanic, Mainly Mozart’s executive director.

This year’s Spotlight Series – curated for the third consecutive year by Anne-Marie McDermott – will feature many returning musicians, along with some new faces. McDermott said she took special care when choosing the artists and matching them up together for the series, “which can make or break a performance.” She said that she strives to create passionate performances where everyone is inspiring one another, where there is a sense of spontaneity, and there’s a love of music and a great sense of bonding among the players.

“I want it to feel like a family of artists so the public can get to know them,” McDermott said.

Furthermore, she balances out the season by ensuring there are a variety of instruments, from piano trios to string quartets.

The first engagement in the Spotlight Series is Feb. 6-8, featuring violinist Erin Keefe (concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra), cellist Ronald Thomas (Mainly Mozart Artistic Partner for the Chamber Players series in June and Artistic Director Emeritus, Boston Chamber Music So-

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Next, from March 6-8, violin virtuoso Nadja SalernoSonnenberg will pair with McDermott (who is also a pianist) to perform Ernest Chausson’s Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet in D Major, Op. 21 in a program that also features The Miami String Quartet. Bojanic noted that because Salerno-Sonnenberg and McDermott regularly collaborate, “they play like sisters.”

“I’m head-over-heels in love with this piece,” McDermott said.

This year, there is a new venue for the series in Rancho Santa Fe: the Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, 15150 San Dieguito Road, which has a capacity for up to 150 people. For $70, patrons are welcomed with a Champagne and Bellini reception, followed by an hour-long concert and a questionand-answer session with the artists on stage. Finally, guests are invited to post-performance mingling with the musicians while enjoying hosted hors d’oeuvres.

Those who have previously attended Mainly Mozart Spotlight Series events will recognize the other two locations. In La Jolla, the performances are held at The Auditorium at The Scripps Research Institute, 10620 John Jay Hopkins Drive, and the $55 ticket price includes a pre-concert wine-and-cheese reception. Meanwhile, the $25 Sunday matinees are held at the St. Elizabeth Seton Church in Carlsbad.

Later in the season (June 6-20) will be the 27th annual Mainly Mozart Festival, which will be helmed for the first time by Michael Francis. Mainly Mozart’s new music director will conduct all of the concerts of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, while also serving as music director for the Florida Orchestra and chief conductor and artistic adviser to Sweden’s Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.

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Del Mar Hills Academy Talent Show Students displayed their many talents at the annual Del Mar Hills Academy Talent Show held Jan. 30 in the school PAC. Performances included singing, dancing, acting and the occasional violation of the laws of physics!

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-001850 Fictitious Business Name(s): a. Danninger Real Estate b. Danninger Enterprises Located at: 1049 Camino Del Mar, #12, Del Mar, CA, 92014, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 3525 Del Mar Heights Road, #118, San Diego, CA 92130. This business is registered by the following: Hammex Hawaii Inc., 3525 Del Mar Heights Road, #118, San Diego, CA 92130, California. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The first day of business was 02/17/2010.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2014-033646 Fictitious Business Name(s):

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Skotfree Located at: 950 Chalcedony, Apt. 3, San Diego, CA, 92109, San Diego County. This business is registered by the following: Scott Inglish, 950 Chalcedony, Apt. 3, San Diego, CA 92109. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 1/1/2014. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 12/31/2014. Scott Inglish, President.

DM1311. Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-001506 Fictitious Business Name(s): iCREATEMEALS Located at: 2634 Del Mar Heights Rd., Del Mar, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 4711 Caminito Eva, San Diego, CA, 921303402. This business is registered by the following: Quynh-Anh N Do, 4711 Caminito Eva, San Diego, CA, 92130-3402. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was on 01/01/2014.

This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/16/2015. Quynh-Anh N Do. DM1310. Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000161 Fictitious Business Name(s): Skate Stick Located at: 2658 State St., Carlsbad, CA, 92008, San Diego County.

This business is registered by the following: Amy Schumacher, 2658 State St., Carlsbad, CA 92008.

This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/05/2015. Amy Schumacher. CV691. Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12,19, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000902 Fictitious Business Name(s): Sand and Sea Saddlery Located at: 519 Stratford Ct., #C, Del Mar, CA, 92014, San Diego County.

Mailing Address: 519 Stratford Ct., #C, Del Mar, CA 92014. This business is registered by the following: Alis Carbone, 519 Stratford Ct., #C, Del Mar, CA 92014. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started.

This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/12/2015. Alis Carbone. DM1309.

Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000719 Fictitious Business Name(s): Alexandra Diana Located at: 1419 Monitor Rd., San Diego, CA, 92110, San Diego County.

This business is registered by the following: Robert Sebastian Inc., 1419 Monitor Rd., San Diego, CA

92110, California. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The first day of business was 01/09/15.

This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/09/2015. Anca Morari Soni, President. CV690. Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000750 Fictitious Business Name(s): LK Publishing Located at: 3525 Del Mar Heights Rd., San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: same as above. This business is registered by the following: Kimberly Kristan, 3819 Creststone Place, San Diego, CA 92130. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 1/9/15. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/09/2015.

Kimberly Kristan. CV689. Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000018 Fictitious Business Name(s): L. Randolph Designs Located at: 3866 Modena Place, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County.

Mailing Address: same. This business is registered by the following: Laura Ingemanson Randolph, 3866 Modena Place, San Diego, CA 92130.

This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 10/12/2008. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/02/2015. Laura Ingemanson Randolph, Owner.

CV688. Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000828 Fictitious Business Name(s): Ridgemar Horseback Riding School and Pony Camps Located at: 13872 Old Camino Real, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. This business is registered by the following: Erin Riley, 7768 Caminito Monarca, #110, Carlsbad, CA 92009. This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The first day of business has not yet started. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/12/2015. Erin Riley, Owner. CV687. Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2014-032701 Fictitious Business Name(s): Raft Property Ventures Located at: 4691 Torrey Circle, #A202, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: c/o Ed Bogart, PO Box 534, Solana Beach, CA 92075. This business is registered by the following: William E. Bogart, 4691 Torrey Circle, #A202, San Diego, CA 92130. This business is conducted by: An Individual.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000666 Fictitious Business Name(s): Paramount Cleaners Located at: 3487 University Ave., San Diego, CA, 92104, San Diego County. Mailing Address: PO Box 473, Solana Beach, CA 92075.

This business is registered by the following: Jesus Suarez, 682 E. Main St., #3, El Cajon, CA 92020.

This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/08/2015. Jesus Suarez. DM1306. Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000729 Fictitious Business Name(s): a. FYI Systems b. GCHQ Located at: 12526 High Bluff Dr., San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: PO Box 1370, Solana Beach, CA 92075.

This business is registered by the following: Green Cloud HQ, Inc., 619 Dell St., Solana Beach, CA 92075, California. This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The first day of business has not yet started. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/09/2015. James Enlow, President. DM1305. Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000577 Fictitious Business Name(s): a. Yummy Pita Bread USA b. Yummy Pita Bread Located at: 4174 Sorrento Valley Blvd., Suite #I, San Diego, CA, 92121, San Diego County. Mailing Address: PO Box 910713, San Diego, CA 92191. This business is registered by the following: Raphael Refaely, 4174 Sorrento Valley Blvd., Suite #I, San Diego, CA 92121.

This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business 1/1/15. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/08/2015. Raphael Refaely.

DM1304. Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000507 Fictitious Business Name(s): Brian Hall Properties Located at: 101 N. Acacia Avenue, #102, Solana Beach, CA, 92075, San Diego County. Mailing Address: same as above. This business is registered by the following: Brian Hall, 101 N. Acacia Avenue, #102, Solana Beach, CA 92075. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business was 1/7/2015.

This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/07/2015. Brian Hall. DM1303.

Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

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Located at: 13065 Signature Point, #216, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. This business is registered by the following: Karen Wilson, 13065 Signature Point, #216, San Diego, CA 92130. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business has not yet started. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/23/2015. Karen Wilson. CV693. Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 2015.

NORTH COAST Fictitious Business Name(s) to be Abandoned: a. E3G b. E3Gen Located at: 12520 High Bluff Drive, Suite 312, San Diego, CA, 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: same as above. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 11/14/2014, and assigned File no. 2014-030152.

The fictitious business name is being abandoned by: Clearwealth Asset Management, Inc., 12520 High Bluff Drive, San Diego, CA 92130, California. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk, Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., of San Diego County on 01/06/2015.

Licia M. Britt, Vice President. CV685.

Jan. 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 2015-002856 Fictitious Business Name(s) to be Abandoned: a. Oceanscience b. Oceanscience Group Located at: 301 Sunset Dr., Encinitas, CA, 92024, San Diego County.

Mailing Address: same. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 08/15/2013, and assigned File no.

2013-023765. Fictitious business name is being abandoned by: The Oceanscience Group, Ltd., 301 Sunset Dr., Encinitas, CA 92024, California. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk, Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., of San Diego County on 01/30/2015.

Ronald A. George, President.

DM1316. Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2015-000989 Fictitious Business Name(s): Keith B. Schwartz, CPA Located at: 24050 Sargeant Rd., Ramona, CA, 92065, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 24050 Sargeant Rd., Ramona, CA 92065.

This business is registered by the following: KB Schwartz Accounting Inc., 24050 Sargeant Rd., Ramona, CA 92065, California. This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The first day of business was 01/01/2015. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 01/13/2015. Keith B. Schwartz, President. CV698. Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2015.

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Torrey Hills Family Bingo Night A fun-filled Family Bingo Night was held Jan. 30 at Torrey Hills Elementary School.

Photos by Jon Clark. For photos online, visit www.delmartimes.net.

Nicole and Natalie Elizabeth Bentley, Shoshana Sadoff

Jorge, Patrick, and Patty Lance

Kathia and Sofia Zamora

Anika, Taylor, and Julie Pallia, Maya Bilstad

Jack and Carmen Kehoe

Playwrights Project Executive Director Cecelia Kouma, founder Deborah Salzer, costume designer and mentor Alina Bokovikova, producer Derek Charles Livingston, Development Director Laurel Withers. PHOTOS COURTESY REMINISCE PHOTOGRAPHY

Playwrights Project marks 30 years of work by young writers

BY GLORIA LIMAS This year was a special one for the Playwrights Project: The artistic organization celebrated 30 years of performances this season. Eight winning scripts were chosen from among almost 600 submitted to the California Young Playwrights Contest.

Young writers under age 18 had the opportunity to see their plays come to life at the Old Globe with professional actors and actresses. Four scripts received full professional productions, and the other four received staged readings. The submissions were evaluated by theater professionals volunteering their time and expertise. Carmel Valley resident Alina Bokovikova was the company costume designer and mentor for the productions.

Cecelia Kouma, Playwrights Project executive producer, says the festival advances literacy, creativity and communication by empowering individuals to voice their stories through

Grayson Wyandt, Shelby Wyandt, Reese Peterson

playwriting programs and theatre productions. She adds, “This is an incredible opportunity for teenagers from across the state to work alongside professional theatre artists to bring their writing to life on stage. When audiences respond to the plays, either with ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs,’ laughter or tears, the student writers glow with pride. They recognize the power of their stories and the importance of sharing their ideas.”

This year’s productions include hidden truths and unspoken needs that complicate the lives of four families in very different ways. The pieces are titled, “Coffee, Cream, and Closure,” “Crown Prince Crazy,” “From Another House,” and “Light.”

Susie Peterson, Patty Lance

The Playwrights Project gratefully acknowledges the Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky Family Fund as this year’s event sponsor, and major support for this program from the city of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, the Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, the Kinder Morgan Foundation and Macy’s. Additional support was provided by the Balboa Park Kiwanis Foundation, the Community Service Association of San Diego Unified School District, Mrs. Audrey Geisel / Dr. Seuss Fund, the Kiwanis Club of La Jolla, the Kiwanis Club of Old San Diego, the National Endowment for the Arts, the ResMed Foundation and the North Park YMCA. Visit www.playwrightsproject. org/PBYW.

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Dr. Mom’s natural cough remedies The Kitchen Shrink

BY CATHARINE KAUFMAN As a self-proclaimed hypochondriac, I’m particularly conscious of the cacophony of sounds (and germs) that fill the air this time of year. The irritating, uncomfortable and annoying coughs — whether croupy barks, whopping gasps, dry hacks or wet ‘chesty’ ones — transform people into miserable and contagious Petri dishes shunned by the worried well. Alas, these bronchial ails can be soothed and healed with some simple home remedies.

Thyme is of the essence Originating from Mediterranean climes, this Hercu-

lean herb with anti-microbial properties has been used as far back as ancient Greece to treat and cure respiratory infections and assorted coughs. Its little leaves contain a mother lode of healing flavonoids to relax muscles of the trachea and bronchi, and put the skids on inflammation to open up stuffy airways.

While its antiseptic properties make it a good gargle for laryngitis, brewed as a tea with honey and ginger it also soothes bronchitis. Add 2 teaspoons of fresh crushed thyme leaves to one cup of boiling spring water, a splash of fresh lemon juice, ¼-inch of shredded ginger and a spoonful of amber honey to quiet the cough and seek much needed comfort.

The Buzz on Honey Sweet, rich, viscous honey acts as a soothing demulcent to coat the delicate mucous membranes and calm even the most aggressive coughs. An antibacterial powerhouse, honey also shortens the duration of the cough.

Of course, this healing food is taboo for young children, whose immature immune systems cannot fend off spores of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum contained in honey, making them vulnerable to infant botulism.

Just the flax, ma’am A strong warrior against coughs is the mighty flaxseed, boiled in water (then strained) to produce a thick rich syrup to soothe an irritated throat.

Amp up the relief with some antibiotic honey and Vitamin C and immuneboosting lemon juice for a powerful potion.

Full of ginger The gnarly beige tuber with fibrous cream-colored flesh is either grated fresh, ground into pungent powder or formed into candied nuggets to give a smooth natural remedy for stuffy noses and scratchy throats in broths, teas or incorporated into a soothing syrup with fresh peppermint and honey. The spicy ginger in this homeopathic cough syrup loosens mucous from

the lungs and airways, while the calming peppermint alleviates the irritating throat tickle that encourages coughing.

When buying ginger root, look for glabrous-skins with few knots and branches, and a fresh, spicy scent.

For milder, less stringy ginger, pick immature, stubbier stems.

Nothing to sneeze at To tame a wet croupy cough, follow traditional Chinese medicinal practices by brewing a cup of black pepper tea to perk up circulation and the flow of sticky, stubborn mucous in the lungs and passageways. Simply steep 1 teaspoon of fresh cracked pepper (which packs a much more powerful one-two punch than the pre-ground spice) in a cup of boiling water, blended with a tablespoonful of organic raw honey. Strain, sip and relish the relief.

Pucker up A classic folk remedy to hush an annoying cough is to suck on a lemon. Slice a juicy Meyer or Eureka, sprinkle with some sea salt and cracked black pepper, be brave and suck away.

Land of milk and mucous

According to the folks at the venerable Mayo Clinic, “while drinking milk does not cause your body to make more phlegm (mucous), drinking milk may make phlegm thicker and more irritating to your throat than it would normally be.” Yet a traditional folk cure claims that sipping a cup of warm milk and honey will temper an irritating cough. So know your body, and govern it accordingly with milk and other dairy products.

Almond Joy Packed with Vitamins B and E, zinc, phosphorous, and the same anti-inflammatory resveratrol found in red wine, this antioxidant super food has also been found to relieve bronchial ailments, especially nudging coughs. Blend ground almonds or almond butter into fruit smoothies, particularly those with an oomph of immune-boosting Vitamin C and antioxidants (organic berries, acai, raw pitaya aka dragon fruit, assorted citrus) and sip on.

For more healing recipes, e-mail kitchenshrink@san.rr.com

Cough Calming Pitaya Smoothie Ingredients 1 frozen pitaya pack (sold at natural food grocers) 1 frozen banana 2 tablespoons of ground almonds or almond butter 1 cup of frozen mixed berries 1 kale leaf 1/3 cup of almond milk Method: Place ingredients in a blender and puree for 30 seconds until smooth. Pour into a glass and sip soothingly.

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New York Comic-Con several times, and although that matches SDCC in terms of attendance, San Diego has a different feel. Much more fun, less aggressive, and spread out enough so you can catch your breath. I had a terrific time. I was hosted by IDW Comics, a San Diego-based comic company that is now the fourth largest in the world.

• What’s the one best piece of advice you would give an aspiring writer?

Learn everything you can about your craft; and learn everything you can about the publishing industry. Do those two things and you’ll be way ahead of the pack.

And another thing: Have fun. Even if it’s hard work, have fun with it. Always.

To learn more about the projects that are keeping Maberry busy this year, visit www. jonathanmaberry.com.

The CCA Writers’ Conference will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 21 at Canyon Crest Academy, 5951 Village Center Loop Road, San Diego.

Students can learn more about the conference and register at www.ccawritersconference2015.weebly.com

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will also be youth ticket prices, as well as group discounts and family packages. More information about tickets will be available at SanDiegoAviators.com.

Over the years, participants in the WTT have included a virtual Who’s Who of tennis luminaries, from Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova, to John McEnroe and the Williams sisters. Recently, Andy Roddick and Martina Hingis have played for WTT teams. The league will hold its 2015 draft in March. Last year’s San Diego Aviators team featured doubles stars Mike and Bob Bryan.

Last year, San Diego matches were played indoors at the San Diego Sports Arena, now known as the Valley View Casino Center. The new venue will allow for an interactive expo with food booths and a beer garden. Matches will be played on the resort’s tennis stadium, and Berger and Luddy anticipate as many as two thousand spectators. Match time is 7 p.m., and the schedule will be posted on the team’s web site when it becomes available.

Luddy became involved with the team two years ago, after meeting Billie Jean King. He said the WTT league schedule falls between two major tennis events, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Players enjoy the camaraderie of the teams, and it also allows them to get ready for the upcoming tournament, Luddy said.

“This really gets them tuned up to play in the U.S. Open,” he said. “They like the team environment. Tennis is a very lonely sport.”

Luddy, who founded a cloud computing company, and Berger, who ran his own sports marketing firm, want to reinvigorate San Diego’s tennis scene through the Aviators and the annual WTT league, and build a following for the local matches, similar to the enthusiasm shown by horse racing fans for the annual Del Mar meets.

Both men have children who attend the Roger Rowe School in Rancho Santa Fe, and also play tennis.

“We’re trying to energize the sport of tennis and the tennis community and energize families around the sport of tennis,” Luddy said.

Chargers Ladies reach out to Casa de Amparo The San Diego Chargers Ladies Club visited Casa de Amparo in December to learn about its programs fighting child abuse and neglect. Soon after the visit, club members signed up to participate in Casa’s 12th annual Holiday Drive. The drive attracted 190 individuals and 60 groups who fulfilled 230 Casa Kids’ holiday wish lists, as well as household needs for the 1,000 Casa Kids served throughout the year. Community members who wish to host their own drives for Casa Kids throughout the year may contact Heather Jenkins at 760-566-3559 or hjenkins@casadeamparo.org. Casa de Amparo is the San Diego Chargers Courage House, part of a network of NFL teams and local charities dedicated to the prevention of child abuse.

Pictured are: Chargers Ladies Club members (back row, L-R): Chelsea Walker with daughter Charlotte; Kelly McCoy; Sarah Wooden; Deborah Johnson; Jane McGuire; Annette Castango; Amy Abraham; Linda Reich; Lea Butkiewizch and Nina Steichen. Front row: Susie Spanos, Stacia Woodhead, Chanel Weddle and Denise Derret. Courtesy photo

Meditation event Feb. 20 with ‘Swamiji’ Join spiritual teacher, personal coach, and author Swami Parameshwarananda on Feb. 20 for a free meditation being offered to the public to launch a weekend of teachings about cultivating powerful techniques to unlock a more passionate and effective way of living life by changing habits and thought patterns.

This free meditation event will be led by renowned speaker “Swamiji” from 7-8:30 p.m. at the One Mind-One Heart Center for Spiritual Living, 11211 Sorrento Valley Road in San Diego. Guests will first be treated to a brief talk by Swamiji on the importance of being present and shifting perspective to achieve goals, and the value in learning proven meditation practices to manifest desired outcomes. A guided meditation by Swamiji will follow to set the tone for transformational thinking and living throughout the year of 2015 and beyond.

Reserve your seat today via email by contacting swamijip@gmail.com.

Swami Parameshwarananda is an initiated monk with a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from New York University. He was a licensed psychologist in New York, management consultant for 25 years, and designated master coach with international experience.

Visit www.inthepathoflight.com and www.insidetipsblog.com for information.

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David M. Cabot, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, among 200 Top Residential Real Estate ‘Power Players’ in Annual Roster David M. Cabot, president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, has been ranked No. 31 in the 2014 Swanepoel Power 200 list, a comprehensive roster of leading CEOs and senior executives whose leadership and experience drive the industry and their organizations.

“The SP200 serves to identify those leaders that impact and lead the residential real estate brokerage industry,” said Rob Hahn, executive editor of the Swanepoel Power 200.

“We acknowledge their enormous influence and contribution to our industry by detailing their role in improving the overall home buying transaction and the real estate business in particular.”

“I am honored to be listed among the accomplished executives on the Swanepoel Power 200,” Cabot said. “And I am pleased to note that another 21 executives from HomeServices of America, our parent company, also are on the list. Their contribution to our collective success is an ongoing source of pride for the entire organization.”

The Swanepoel Power 200 is a research service annually spanning more than 400 hours analyzing over 1,000 individuals in the residential real estate brokerage industry.

Leaders are analyzed for their personal influence, tenure in the industry, the office the person holds, the decision-making power of their office, the financial resources of the company or organization, the company or organization’s significance and contribution to the industry, the company’s geo-

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Dan Conway once again named ‘Best in Client Satisfaction’ For the sixth consecutive year, Dan Conway of Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty has been voted a recipient of San Diego Magazine’s “Five Star: Best in Client Satisfaction Real Estate Agents” award. The award is the result of a survey, in which more than 31,000 recent home buyers, subscribers and industry experts were asked to identify the county’s leading real estate agents.

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A graduate of Boston College and a former professional football player with the Buffalo Bills, Conway specializes in the marketing and sale of residential real estate. With a background that also includes a career in education and coaching, he attributes his success both on and off the field to his perseverance and ability to work as a team.

Real estate is a family affair for Conway, who works alongside his wife Pattie Conway and daughter Taylor Barre.

The team also consists of Bill Jones, Chris Plato, Elaine Walker, Samantha Annuzzi, Briana Secviar, Michele Walker Smith, Jodi Fliss, Joseph Hathaway, Kathy Bischofberger, Carolyn Campbell, Amelia Mihoc, Eric Charlebois, Willie Fijolek, and Nick Gould.

Dan Conway and Associates offer knowledge-backed assistance for clients with a broad array of needs in real estate, from starter homes, luxury condominiums and coastal estates, to investment properties, vacation homes and land.

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‘Hearts, Hats, Heels’ fundraiser to show love for former racehorses

La Jolla Cultural Partners

BY KELLEY CARLSON Ex-racehorses will be getting extra love this year, thanks to a Valentine’s charity fundraiser planned in Rancho Santa Fe. Proceeds from the third annual “Hearts, Hats and Heels” will benefit After the Finish Line, a Toluca Lake-based group that assists in the rehabilitation and care of former racehorses until they are adopted, saving them from slaughter and neglect.

“Hearts, Hats and Heels” — which consists of a fashion show, a luncheon, and silent and live auctions — is slated from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club, 5827 Via de La Cumbre.

Founded in October 2007 by Dawn Mellen, who has a home in Rancho Santa Fe, After the Finish Line contributes funds to thoroughbred rescue and retirement organizations across the country. In 2014, the nonprofit spent nearly $100,000 helping about 300 horses.

“After the Finish Line continues to be the founding organization rescue organizations call upon and rely upon to help their rescued ex-racehorses,” Mellen said.

Through charity events, “we’re able to maintain our ability to help horses in need,” she said.

Mellen noted that people in the community may have previously attended one of After the Finish Line’s fundraisers during the Del Mar race meet, but this is the first time the organization will benefit from “Hearts, Hats and Heels.”

Those who attend this Valentine’s event will be treated to a day of glamour and shopping. A fashion show will feature clothing by local retailers Satori Designs, Jessie Georgina, Peaches En Regalia and Deja Vu Love Boutique. Tables will be set up for guests to buy apparel from these vendors, with items in varying price ranges.

“There will be something for everyone,” Mellen said.

She noted that After the Finish Line will receive 20 percent of the sales.

Also, there will be silent and live auctions. Among the items up for bid are gift certificates and gift cards for restau-

Dawn Mellen is founder of After the Finish Line. A charity fundraiser is planned Feb. 12 for the group. rants, beauty and spa services, hair salons, fashion retailers and rounds of golf at local country clubs; equestrian and horse racing items; bottles of champagne (such as Dom Perignon); art; and jewelry.

Lunch will also be served. The main dish is an Asian chicken salad with grilled chicken, pea pods, mandarin oranges, bean sprouts, crispy wontons and cashews; however, there will be options for vegetarians, Mellen said. The meal will wrap up with dessert.

Alyrob, right, once a successful racehorse who competed in the Kentucky Derby, is one of many who have been helped by After the Finish Line.

The fundraiser’s format is free-flowing and unstructured, according to Mellen.

Guests are welcome to bid on items during the fashion show, and peruse the boutique fashions at their own pace.

“This is a very happy, leisurely, enjoyable type of event,” she said.

Tickets are $75, available at www.afterthefinishline.org/fundraiser.htm.

Mellen asks people to RSVP by Feb. 6. She noted that “Hearts, Hats and Heels” has sold out in previous years.

People who are unable to attend but still want to support After the Finish Line are welcome to donate, Mellen said.

“I’m looking forward to expanding our donor base,” she said. “I look forward to meeting more people who want to support ex-racehorses, and meeting people who in the past didn’t know that we existed and want to come support us.

“We’re here to save racehorses, and rehome (them) for a second career off the racetrack,” she emphasized. “Many (people) don’t realize the horses are up for adoption.

“The horses are full of fire and race fast, but … they’re truly gentle, loving, wonderful companions that can be your best friends.”

For information about “Hearts, Hats and Heels,” which is sponsored by FINE Magazine, or After the Finish Line, contact Dawn Mellen at dawn@afterthefinishline.org or 858945-1371.

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A distinguished earth scientist with extensive national and international experience in ocean science, global climate, and environmental issues, Margaret Leinen is director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Join us for an up close look at how some of the latest research activities at Scripps Oceanography are helping to shape worldwide conversations about the future of our planet.

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Local sisters hoping line of travel accessories will go far

BY KRISTINA HOUCK Having frequently traveled for business and pleasure, sisters Shelli Pelly and Vickie Nezat saw a need for functional, stylish travel gear for women. Looking to meet that need in the marketplace, the pair launched women’s luxury lifestyle brand, Jessie Georgina, in mid-November.

“You should demand more from your products,” said Pelly, co-founder and chief operating officer of Jessie Georgina. “You should demand they fit and suit your lifestyle.”

Jessie Georgina’s debut collection, “Solana Beach,” features five products, including a travel tote, four-in-one belt bag, twoin-one wallet and clutch, two-in-one cosmetic and toiletry bag, and toiletry bag.

One of the line’s most popular items is the Wind-n-Sea toiletry bag, which offers extra space for products, while still adhering to the Transportation Security Administration’s 3-1-1 liquids rule. After all, it was designed

by Nezat, who worked for the TSA after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

“She comes up with a lot of these really cool organizational features and figures out how to make them work,” Pelly said. “With this design, you can fit more products.”

Another popular product, Pelly said, is the four-in-one Trestles belt bag. With a removable strap, it can be used as a belt bag, cross-body, clutch and wallet.

“Some of the pieces will grow on you because you don’t realize how ineffective and non-functional a lot of your pieces are until you have something that is actually

specifically made for you,” said Pelly, a longtime San Diego resident who lives near the Rancho Santa Fe polo fields. “We get so used to things not really working for us and making do.”

Originally from Seattle, Pelly and Nezat grew up in a military family, with their father a member of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Pelly, who’s just a year and a half older than Nezat, graduated from the University of San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in mass media communications. After earning her degree, she spent 15 years in the corporate sector as a director of sales in telecommunications and Internet technology.

Nezat earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oregon, and spent 11 years working for the government.

Living in Carmel Valley, she works as a consultant in addition to serving as co-founder and chief creative officer of Jessie Georgina.

Although the sisters worked in different sectors for most of their lives, they have always dreamed of building a business together, especially one that would cater to women, Pelly said.

“We always knew at some point we were going to go into business together, and it was going to be something that would help make women’s lives better and easier,” Pelly said. “It’s something that’s just been positive. I don’t know that I would have done it with somebody who wasn’t my sister.”

The pair formed the business in 2011, naming it after their late grandmother, Jessie Georgina. Nezat created the initial designs, See TRAVEL, page B22

Jessie Georgina’s debut collection, “Solana Beach,” features five products including this colorful travel tote and clutch. Courtesy photos (Right) Vickie Nezat and Shelli Pelly named Jessie Georgina after their late grandmother.

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‘A Letter to Wedgwood: The Life of Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz’ to be screened Feb. 10 at San Diego Jewish Festival •Do cumentary features moving true story of how a British politician helped a young Jewish girl

BY KRISTINA HOUCK The story of how one San Diego woman survived the Holocaust will make its local film debut during the 25th anniversary of the San Diego Jewish Film Festival.

“A Letter to Wedgwood: The Life of Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz” is the true story of how a progressive British politician became the protector of a young Jewish girl.

“I wanted to tell a moving story that leaves the viewer with a least one or two new facts,” said Director Yale Strom. “Many people know quite a bit about the Holocaust, but there’s always something new to be learned. Even if we think we’ve seen, heard or read about the subject a zillion times, there’s always something new to be unearthed and understood.”

Born in Budapest in 1914, Auspitz grew up in Mukachevo, a city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with a thriving, cosmopolitan Jewish community, where secular Hungarian Jews co-existed with Hasidim and Zionists. With the end of World War I, the city became part of Czechoslovakia.

Because Mukachevo was such an important center of Zionism, British Col. Josiah Wedgwood visited the city in 1922 to give a speech on why he and other Christian Zionists from England supported a plan to create the State of Israel. For the occasion, the Jewish community selected young Auspitz, whose maiden name is Hartstein, to present Wedgwood with flowers and a speech.

Although she had memorized her speech, Auspitz, then an elementary school student, was overwhelmed and started to cry.

Wedgwood picked her up and wiped away her tears.

The connection she made with Wedgwood would later save her from the same fate

British Col. Josiah Wedgwood and Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz. Courtesy photos of most of her family.

In 1938, Czechoslovakia was dismembered and Hungarian fascists allied with the Axis powers took over the Mukachevo area. Auspitz, at the time, was a teacher at the Hebrew gymnasium.

As conditions worsened, she wrote to Wedgwood in an effort to save herself and her family. He sent her a British visa and, months later, sent another visa for her brother, who fought in the Czech Brigade of the British army.

Auspitz’s sister, sister’s child and her parents died at Auschwitz.

Today, she lives in San Diego, having recently celebrated her 100th birthday.

Using archival footage and photographs, Strom told Auspitz’s story in a 55-minute black-and-white film. He interviewed Auspitz in the summer of 2011 and edited the film the following year.

“What was the challenge, and kind of the fun of it, was being able to create a moving story by using archival photography and archival footage,” said Strom, who as a violinist and composer, also wrote the music for the film. “You see life as it was.”

Strom, who also lives in San Diego, met Auspitz through his father. David Strom had been working on memoirs and helped Auspitz organize her 2004 book, “My Righteous Gentile: Lord Wedgwood and Other Memories.”

About five years after publishing the book, Auspitz contacted Strom, wanting to film a documentary. He agreed her tale would translate to film.

“I hope viewers appreciate not only what the survivors went through, but how they were able to reconstitute their lives and really make something of themselves, going above and beyond,” Strom said.

“A Letter to Wedgwood: The Life of Gabriella Hartstein Auspitz” will be screened at 2 p.m. Feb. 10 at David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, located at 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla.

General admission tickets cost $13.75. Tickets for nonmember seniors and students cost $12.75.

To purchase tickets, call 858-362-1348 or visit www.sdcjc.org/sdjff.

For more about Strom and the film, visit www.yalestrom.com.

DM Library announces February showcase authors The Del Mar Library is pleased to announce the authors who will be appearing at the Local Author Showcase for readings at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

• Feb. 11: C.L. Hoang, “Once Upon a Mulberry Field” • Feb. 25: Kevin Brass, “The Cult of Truland” The Del Mar Branch Library is at 1309 Camino Del Mar. Call 858-755-1666.

Robin Henkel performs at Zel’s Del Mar Award-winning guitarist and singer Robin Henkel performs blues and jazz at Zel’s Del Mar from 8-11 p.m. Feb. 14 and 28. Zel’s is at 1247 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar. Call 858-755-0076.

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Urban Girl can’t wait to keep it local with new Village at PHR store

BY KAREN BILLING The pink hard hat was perfect for her, although she might’ve preferred purple. The girly hard hat was on site at the under-construction Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch as punishment for any worker who forgot their hat — but for Annie Glenn, it was just the right color for a recent tour of the space that will soon be her newest Urban Girl Accessories store. This will be the third Urban Girl location, along with the one in Del Mar Plaza and one in Seaport Village downtown.

Glenn, a Pacific Highlands Ranch resident for the past seven years, couldn’t be more excited to be a part of her community’s center. Urban Girl is shooting for a May opening, alongside fellow confirmed tenants like Trader Joe’s, Rite Aid, Panera Bread, Crunch Fitness, Starbucks and Baked Bear ice cream sandwiches.

“I really feel like this mall is going to be phenomenal. It’s stunningly beautiful,” said Glenn, whose store was hand-picked to join the Village lineup. “We were so flattered and honored and excited to be able to live and work all in the same place. Our life is in Carmel Valley, so I know exactly what people are going to want so we can really cater to locals.”

Glenn talks about her commitment to the locals while wearing a cute black Carmel Valley hat, just one of many locally inspired items she plans to sell in the new location.

Glenn and her husband, Chris, met in college at Point Loma Nazarene and both knew from the start they wanted to be entrepreneurs. After graduating, they pooled their money, all $5,000 of it, and got a kiosk in Horton Plaza in 1993.

That initial $5,000 grew into a store at the Hotel del Coronado for several years and eventually five stores in Seaport Village in 2007: Urban Girl Accessories, Urban Beach House, San Diego Surf Company, Seaport Shoe Company and American Nostalgia.

American Nostalgia was that first kiosk 17 years ago, and the Glenns have been married for 20 years.

“Because I lived in this area, all of my girlfriends were Chris and Annie Glenn will asking me to open up another store locally,” Glenn said. “No open Urban Girl one wants to leave our little bubble.”

Accessories in the new One fateful day dining at Smashburger in Del Mar, Village at Pacific Highlands Glenn noticed the for-lease sign a few doors down. She Ranch. Courtesy photo wasn’t sure whether Del Mar Plaza would let their “little mom and pop store” take over the space, but it just so happened that the leasing agent was a big fan of Urban Girl, and they opened up shop in 2011.

“We just love being here,” said Glenn, who also opened the Urban Beach House store next door. “The locals have been amazing, we get lots of tourists, and in the summer, everyone comes right off the beach. We’re so fortunate. When you love something so much, I think it really shows. Everything we do comes from our heart.”

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The store is bright and cheerful and fully stocked with shirts, shoes, hats, gift items, things for babies and children, and accessories for pets.

“Urban Girl Accessories is all my favorite things wrapped up in one pretty package,” Glenn said.

In her stores, she loves supporting businesses that give back a portion of their proceeds, carrying TOMS shoes, Beads for Learning bracelets that fund teachers in Africa, the Krochet Kids line of products hand-signed Owner Annie Glenn in her Del Mar Plaza Urban Girl by the women who made store: ‘It’s going to be so beautiful, I’m really beside them in Uganda and Peru, and myself.’ Photo by Karen Billing the Chavez for Charity line started by USD graduate Julie Marie Chavez, where each color bracelet sold goes to support different charities, like the Whole Planet Foundation and Alex’s Lemonade Stand for children with cancer.

She supports small local businesses as much as she can, such as the La Jolla Salt Company, and sells as many items as she can that are made in the USA. At Pacific Highlands Ranch, she is designing the store in “modern cottage style, clean and simple yet warm.” She’s excited about the cool industrial-light fixtures she’s picked out that will play off the white brick walls and touches of grays and yellow.

“It’s going to be so beautiful, I’m really beside myself,” Glenn said.

She plans to bring in a large variety of lines such as Billabong and Roxy, Stance Socks, Herschel backpacks, L Space swimwear, Maui Jim and Ray-Ban sunglasses and Havaianas flip-flops.

When Glenn says her life is Carmel Valley, she isn’t kidding. The store will really be in the center of her little universe. Her 16-year-old son, Jack, is at Canyon Crest Academy and her 12-year-old son, Cooper, will attend the new Pacific Trails Middle School in the fall — both schools across the street from the Village.

And Glenn herself will be able to walk to work, although she’s thinking about getting a little golf cart with a bumper sticker that says, “Follow me to Urban Girl.”

“We have been waiting and waiting, and it has been amazing to see (Pacific Highlands Ranch) grow. We’re so excited and so ready to have something close by, the center is going to be extraordinary,” Glenn said. “They have put so much into the center to really make it feel like a local’s place.” Visit urbangirlaccessories.com.

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SPOTLIGHT on LOCAL BUSINESS ‘Beautiful You’ offers a variety of cutting edge, anti-aging skincare treatments • Owner Kimberly Ceballos passionate about “making a differenceâ€? in her clients’ lives For years, Kimberly Ceballos suffered from acne. Now, a licensed medical aesthetician, Ceballos has dedicated her life to helping others feel comfortable and confident in their own skin. “I was so insecure for so many years,â€? said Ceballos, owner of Beautiful You. “When I started getting skincare, it was like an unveiling.â€?

Because skincare changed her life, Ceballos set out to transform the lives of others by studying skincare at Poway Academy of Beauty and Spa, now called Bellus Academy. She opened Beautiful You in 2004. “I named my business ‘Beautiful You’ because I truly think everyone is beautiful,� she said. “I see beauty in everyone, and I want each and every person that walks in here to feel loved and beautiful.�

Located in Carmel Valley, Beautiful You offers a variety of cutting-edge, anti-aging treatments. Blending science and nature, Ceballos treats her clients using advanced technologies and organic products.

One such method is DNA Health Institute’s CryoStem Cell Therapy. The flash frozen serum, which contains fresh stem cells, helps restore skin at the cellular level, Ceballos said. Another popular method, often used in conjunction, is LED Light Therapy, which Ceballos explained was developed by NASA for plant growth experiments and wound treatments.

LED Light Therapy triggers cellular regeneration, collagen, elastin and fibroblast production while eliminating bac-

Beautiful You owner Kimberly Ceballos.

Courtesy photo teria and reducing inflammation.

Although a “healthy glow� is visible after one session, multiple sessions help reduce acne, pore size, redness, scars and wrinkles, she said.

“A lot of treatments that we do today, we started off treating wounds,� Ceballos said. “We found that anything that helps to heal the skin, helps the cells to rejuvenate, will also be anti-

aging.�

Other Beautiful You services include diamond microcurrent, radio frequency, cryotherapy, broken capillary removals, age spot removals, skin peels, facials, and more. “I love to be able to deliver really amazing results,� Ceballos said.

Having started her career as a massage therapist 20 years ago, Ceballos incorporates massage therapy, relaxing music and other techniques to make her clients comfortable. Ceballos never leaves the room, spending quality, oneon-one time with all her patients, she said. “For me, it’s about quality, not quantity,� said Ceballos, who studied massage therapy at Mueller College of Holistic Studies. She still works as a massage therapist, specializing in trigger point therapy and neuromuscular therapy. “I spend a lot of time with each client.�

With business growing, Ceballos recently expanded Beautiful You, opening a new, larger location at the same office building. “I’m not here just to make a buck,� Ceballos said. “I really want to make a difference.�

Beautiful You is located at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 115, in Carmel Valley. For more information, call 619-7087822 or visit beautiful-you-skincare.com.

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Award-winning chef Sinsay Applications open for Fair performance contests joins Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Del Mar team Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Del Mar announces that San Diegoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native son, Anthony Sinsay, has returned and is the new dining room chef at Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Del Mar. Sinsay joins the T S Restaurants family in preparation for the opening of Dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Jolla, where he will be executive chef. Dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Jolla is the T S Restaurantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new venture at 1216 Prospect St., on the parcel once occupied by the Top of the Cove restaurant. Dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Jolla is scheduled to open this summer.

Anthony Sinsayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary horsepower is formidable and includes stints with the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, The Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills and Nobu in La Vegas. He has honed his skills alongside notable chefs such as Brent Hammer, Brian Malarkey and Jose Andres. Here in San Diego he brought his playful and exciting approach to cuisine at Harney Sushi and Burlap.

Sinsayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accolades include being named one of the Top 10 chefs in San Diego by braiser.com and the 2012 Chef of Anthony Sinsay is the new the Year by Sandiegoville.com. He was invited to cook for the dining room chef at Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013 James Beard Awards in New York and was the San Di- Del Mar. ego Bay Wine and Food Festival â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chef of the Festâ&#x20AC;? in 2009.

He will now be sharing the kitchen at Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chef of the Fest,â&#x20AC;?

Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Chef Duvinh Ta. The announcement comes as Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Del Mar celebrates its 34th anniversary. The restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibrant, friendly atmosphere has made it a local tradition and visitor destination in Del Mar. Situated right on the sand, Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s floor-to-ceiling windows provide sweeping views of the beach and ocean. Chef Duvinh Taâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new American cooking brings innovation to classic preparations of fresh fish, shellfish and premium meats. The menu showcases clean, eclectic flavors and local, sustainable products.

Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Del Mar is open for lunch from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Dinner nightly starting at 5 p.m., weekends from 4:30 p.m. and Sunday brunch from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Debate workshop starts at Solana Beach Library A weekly speech and debate workshop begins at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the Solana Beach Library for all interested middle school and high school students. Members of the award-winning Torrey Pines High School speech and debate team will lead the sessions.

Common Core educational standards will be the focus, including skills of research, critical thinking, active listening, and persuasive speaking.

The library is at 157 Stevens Ave. Call 858-755-1404.

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Every year the San Diego County Fair, presented by Albertsons/Sav-on, hosts performance competitions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an opportunity for local and regional singers, songwriters, musicians, dancers and all-around entertainers to strut their stuff for big prizes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Spotlightâ&#x20AC;? and Best Dance Crew competitions are for performers ages 8 to 17 years, broken into two divisions (youth for 8- to 12-year-olds, teen for 13- to 17-year-olds).

All other contests are age 18 and up. Performers must complete an online performance contest application, found at www.sdfair.com/contests. The application deadline is April 13.

In 2014, the five performance competitions had nearly 300 applicants. Close to 100 of the best of the best performed live, vying for their share of almost $20,000 in cash. This year, even more prize money is at stake!

If you are in a band and want a chance at the $5,000 First Place prize, apply for the Battle of the Bands. A band must have three or more musicians, and members must be 18 and older. Live rounds are scheduled for June 26.

Best Dance Crew is another popular competition for professional and amateur dance groups of five or more. Technical skills, showmanship, creativity, rhythm and costume will be judged. Live competition and judging will take place June 14.

For the singers out there, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Spotlightâ&#x20AC;? is where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at. The live competition will be held June 23 (Youth competition) and June 24 (Teen competition).

Returning for its fifth year, the Singer-Songwriter contest is a search for the best performance by a solo singer, and a showcase for original songwriting capabilities. The winner will receive $3,000! The live competition is set for June 19.

Applications for the Oratorical Contest will be online in April. This contest challenges county students from elementary through grade 12 to perform an oration (not a song) as individuals or in small groups of up to three members. Original material, a famous speech, poem or a story are examples of an oration. Regional recognition, ribbons and cash prizes are awarded to the top finishers in three divisions; Elementary (K-grade 5); Junior High/Middle School (grades 6-8); and High School (grades 9-12).

Dr. Philip Goscienski to speak Feb. 12 at SB Library on the health benefits of wine and chocolate Do you need a justification for eating chocolate and drinking wine on Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day? Be prepared to enjoy these indulgences to the fullest by listening to Philip Goscienski, M.D., discuss the kinds of wine and chocolate that are best, even healthy, for you. Learn which claims about these products are legitimate.

Goscienski will speak at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Solana Beach Library.

He has a 45-year career in clinical and academic medicine. He is the author of numerous medical articles and has written for the Saturday Evening Post, other magazines and newspapers, and the Newsletter of the American Heart Association. You can find his weekly column, The Stone Age Doc, on his website: www.stoneagedoc.com.

This free Friends Night Out program is sponsored by the Friends of the Solana Beach Library. The library is at 157 Stevens Ave., Solana Beach. Call 858-755-1404.

Canyon Crest Academy Envision Theatre presents â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Drink the Waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Canyon Crest Academy (CCA) Envision Theatre will present the comedy play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Drink the Waterâ&#x20AC;? by Woody Allen, Feb. 12 (7 p.m.), Feb. 19 (4:30 p.m.), Feb. 20 (7 p.m.) and Feb. 21 (2 and 7 p.m.) at the CCA Black Box Theater. Guest directed by Steve Lipinsky with technical direction by Jeremy Sewell and costumes by Janet Pitcher. Additional production team includes CCA student Maya Abed as stage manager and Marie Osterman as assistant director. The production will be held at the Canyon Crest Proscenium Theatre, 5951 Village Center Loop Road, San Diego. Email: envision.theatre.cca@gmail.com

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DESCEND INTO THE MIND OF OPERA’S ULTIMATE BAD BOY! Lustful, pompous and sadistic, Don Giovanni stalks his latest conquest, but he cannot escape his past sins or the ones who try to bring him to justice. In a shocking conclusion, we find that the living are not the only ones who can seek vengeance.

This opera contains adult situations.

All performances at the San Diego Civic Theatre.

Free lecture one hour prior to each performance.

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