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LE T TER FROM THE EDITOR

Helloooooo springtime! Glad you’re here. It’s always fun to do a springtime issue of the magazine (especially when you’re writing about it in February and it’s pouring buckets outside). Stories about gardening and home-front judging and bowling greens tend to shake those cobwebs loose. We’re welcoming a new writer to this issue: Ann Jarmusch, the former architectural critic of The San Diego Union-Tribune, will be a regular contributor to Coronado Lifestyle. Ann’s an old friend. She loves our community and relishes the opportunity to meet some of our local architects and explore “Coronado style.” In this issue, she introduces us to several Craftsman-style homes built a century ago by F.C. Winchester. Several Winchester homes will be on this year’s home tour presented by the Coronado Historical Association. Ann’s story begins on page 22. I drove up to San Francisco a few months ago, taking Highway 101 and it’s changed dramatically from the years I traveled the road in the early ’70s. From Santa Barbara to San Jose the rolling hillsides are covered with vineyards. Our wine columnist, Samantha Metzger (who also is an English teacher at Coronado High School) takes us on a statewide tour of the wine country…Napa Valley has some competition these days! Samantha’s story begins on page 58. The Soroptimists have a way of choosing three women each year in our community who are heroes, and who we either haven’t gotten to know personally or who have been there for us for generations and we’ve tended to take for granted. Get to know this year’s Legends a bit better, Doug St. Denis’s story begins on page 36. Now, I know your gardens will be yielding some of their most bountiful blooms this year. Do consider sharing them at thee April Flower Show. (See page 11.) Just pick up a garden show “Schedule” — that’s what the official brochure of Standard Garden Shows is called — at the library or your local florist to show you all the possible categories. Or, heck, just cut off a stem and head down to the show on n Saturday morning. The friendly folks will point you and your posy in the right direction. Happy gardening!

Kris Grant 6 Coronado Lifestyle • Spring 2010


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