Presidio Sentinel, September 2013. Vol. 14, No. 8

Volume 14, No. 8

Serving the Heart of San Diego | A Publication by Presidio Communications

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Help Bicycle Warehouse Reach Goal to Send 500 Bikes to Africa pg. 4

Robert Foxworth joins a celebrity cast.

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Recent fundraiser raises funds and awareness.

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Old Town event recognizes volunteers.

WEB EDITION September 2013

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It’s a family affair.

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! e m o c l We Featured Stories

A free library in your neighborhood.

Soccer team is on a roll.

Featured Events

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Scripps announces integrative medicine position.

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Mission Hills holds newcomer event.

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Harvest for Hope at Stingeree.

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The Southwest comes to Old Town.

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9th Annual Mission Hills Heritage Home Tour.

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Cross the Bay for Coronado Art Walk.

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Of Politics & Poetry

By George Mitrovich

Bob Filner finally decided to resign as mayor of San Diego. He didn’t go on his own, but he went.

The joy I experienced when he was elected is now anything but, as the pain his 264-days in office brought our city isn’t going away tomorrow.

Todd Gloria, an inherently decent and able man, will serve as acting mayor, and with the full powers of that office, he will transition our city from the chaos of Filner’s last days to the coming of our new mayor – whoever he or she is.

In Filner’s departure, it is well to recall the instructive words of Machiavelli, “For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than those are.”

In short, Bob Filner lost both “the things that seem and those are” – and he had to go.

Leaving that behind, because I’m tired of it, dead tired, let me move on to poetry – not of politics (that would be a stretch) but of baseball.

It started when McFarland Publishers in Jefferson, North Carolina, sent me “Waiting for Godot’s First Pitch: More Poems from Baseball” by Tim Peeler.

I did not know Peeler or his work and for a very long time paid little

George Mitrovich is a San Diego civic leader. If you would like to receive his Baseball Notes, please contact him, gmitro35@gmail.com

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attention to “Waiting for Godot’s First Pitch,” beyond sporadic readings, here and there.

But five days a week I write Baseball Notes, which are posted on Facebook and emailed to friends around the country, with each posting ending with “Quote of the Day”, and I decided to use one of Peeler’s poems, “In Somewhere Out There”: Beyond the rim of what we can see, A drain waits for Mantle’s uncareful foot – A drain named Martin moves in slow Pickup truck movements across The hoary crest of the morning hill.

History loops in long horse lopes As Davy Lopes covers second On a runaway steal.

Somewhere out there, Time staggers on the teeth of a reel And the God of the universe Checks His counter obsessively And curses quietly to Himself.

Dick Enberg, the Hall of Fame sports broadcaster and television voice of the San Diego Padres, sent me an email saying how wonderful he found Tim Peeler’s poem. (Enberg is among the several hundred people who receive my Baseball Notes.)

His response prompted me to read more seriously Peeler’s poetry and from those readings I decided to invite him to The Great Fenway Park Writers Series I chair for the Boston Red Sox. I knew from our first conversation

I would like Tim Peeler, and the more I knew about him and his work, a sense of friendship grew – and when he came to Boston and spoke August 16 (his first ever visit), the foundation of a friendship was formed.

Tim teaches at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, North Carolina, and has written 11 books and collaborated in three others, and what you know from him and his books is his profound love of America’s Game (how else to explain his history of baseball in Catawba County?).

In his first book, “Touching All the Bases: Poems from Baseball,” it is easy to get caught up in Tim’s work, because it is so good, and if you read one of his poems you will read the next and the next and the next – until at page 119, when there are no more to read, a sense of void will come upon you.

But if you think its poetry about baseball hat has captured me you would be wrong. The subject matter is baseball but his work transcends a sport or sports and goes to the very soul and spirit of life itself – which is always true of great poets.

Am I saying Tim Peeler is a great poet, someone you have most likely never heard of? Indeed, I am.

Read this from “Touching All the Bases”:

In the family pictures, My brother stands at the plate Forever waiting on a pitch, My dad squats by the dugout fence, His chin resting on his hands; Somewhere beyond the eye of the camera, I hold a huge scarlet plum behind my back, Left leg kicked high in a pitching motion, As near to the spirit of the game As I’d ever be..

OOn “great poets”, here’s a simple test: beyond Whitman, Frost and Sandburg, say, how many poets can you name? Most Americans would stumble naming those three, and are basically clueless as to the art form itself.

But know this: That is not a judgment about poetry, it is a judgment about us – and it is not flattering.

Somewhere out of my voluminous reading I read the average book of poetry sells less than a thousand copies.

But even that number may be inflated, and as that figure relates to Tim, the number would be less.

Let’s think about that. Let’s say the thousand figure is correct or nearly so, that would be a thousand copies in a nation of 310 million! Which means that we are ignorant of poets, ignorant of their work – and we are the lesser for it.

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Send 500 Bikes to Africa

Front cover story Join owners Mike and Debbe Simmons of Bicycle Warehouse to reach their goal to send 500 bikes to Africa by Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Mike and Debbe learned about the “Africa Bike Drive & Sister Shop Program,” started by Mike’s Bikes in San Francisco, and immediately wanted to be a part of it. They have started the Southern California Chapter to further the cause because bicycles can change people’s lives in a positive way providing fitness, freedom and fun.

The Africa Project is a 501(c3) non- profit foundation that establishes self-sustaining bicycle businesses in developing regions in Africa. Bicycle Warehouse is the first Southern California donation location, and will be collecting donated bikes and gear at all of their store locations on an ongoing basis. The sister stores are located in the developing African countries of Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Lesotho and Ghana.

“The bikes and gear we collect will be shipped to our sister shops in Africa and refurbished before being made available to the local community,” says Owner Debbe Simmons. “Your donated bikes give provide access to education, health care, food/water and employment they did not have beforehand.”

Bicycle Warehouse, located at 5710 Kearny Villa Road, is a full service cyclery and repair shop offering kids bikes, mountain bikes, road bikes, comfort bikes and much more. Their mission is to get people actively involved in cycling and be their best source for information and equipment. Though locally based in San Diego, they are in the top 100 dealers in the country.

To learn more, visit http://www.bicyclewarehouse.com, or call 858-943-4207.

A Star Cast Performs

to B e a t A l z h e i m e r s

On Friday, September 27, 2013, a star cast will take the stage for a special ensemble reading of Act 1 of “Surviving Grace,” an original play penned by comedy writer Trish Vradenburg (“Designing Women,” “Family Ties,” “Kate and Allie”), and co-founder of USAgainstAlzheimer’s, a national advocacy organization committed to stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020. Based on Trish’s experience as a caregiver to her mother who died of Alzheimer’s in 1992, “Surviving Grace” is a brutally honest, irreverent and moving story – laced with humor – that sheds light on the emotional ups and downs that 15.4 million Alzheimer’s caregivers in the U.S. go through each day The performance will take place at Shiley Theatre on the campus of the University of San Diego and boasts a legendary cast including local philanthropist Darlene Shiley, Helen Reddy, Diane Rehm, Marilu Henner, Susan Taylor, Robert Foxworth and Jim Laslavic The evening will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by the play reading at 6:45 p.m., and dinner with the cast at 8:30 p.m.

To purchase tickets in advance or to learn more about sponsorship options, visit www. survivinggrace.org/show/sandiego.

Alzheimer’s affects one in three seniors, and is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The number of Americans with the disease is projected to triple by 2050 –

Jim Laslavic, sports director f or NBC 7 San Diego, is one of the cast for “Saving Grace.”

from 5.4 million to nearly 16 million – unless we find a treatment or cure, and ten percent of victims are between the ages of 40 and 65 Researchers believe that it is possible to stop Alzheimer’s within the decade if the right resources are appropriately applied – just as we did for HIV/AIDS in the 1990s. In support of this goal, proceeds from the “Surviving Grace” San Diego production will benefit the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego and WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s.

The Seven Deadly Sins of a Failed Exercise Program. Are You Making These Mistakes?

by Anthony Carey M.A., CSCS, AHFS

Movement is life. Emotion comes from motion. In today’s world, for our bodies to get the movement we need for optimal health, we must exercise. What many people do not realize is that all exercise is not created equal. There is generic exercise and there is strategic exercise. The difference between the two can be the difference between amazing results and mediocre or no results.

If you are not seeing the results you want, you are probably guilty of one or more of these Seven Deadly Sins: 1. Thinking you can exercise away a bad diet. Spending hours and hours a week exercising as hard as you can will never counter the effects of poor nutrition. You may temporarily neutralize a bad diet to a certain extent with intense exercise, but ultimately that which you consume will play a more significant role in your health and fitness. 2. Lack of variety in your exercises. Long term efficiency and familiarity of an exercise or mode of exercise is the enemy of fitness. Doing the same movement(s) and simply adding more weight or repetitions does not provide the body or spirit the stimulation it needs and wants for progress. 3. One size fits all approach. Are you doing an exercise program from a DVD or magazine?

Or are you following a program that worked for a friend? If so, you are missing the opportunity to maximize your results in the same (or less) time.

No one exercise plan just like no one nutritional plan is best for everyone. With the body of knowledge available to us today, there is no reason not to have a personalized exercise program. 4. Depending on machines and isolated movements.

Walk into any health club in the world and 80% of the exercise floor is still machines. Is that because they work so well in getting you fit? Not according to

Function First has been serving the San Diego community since 1994. Located in Mission Hills, Function First, an internationally recognized corrective exercise studio, expanded its services in 2009 to personal and small group training.

Through referral and by excellent reputation in the community, Function First was named one of the Union Tribune's San Diego’s Best of 2010 for the category of Best Personal Trainer/Studio, voted San Diego's Best Alternative Exercise Studio in 2011 and San Diego's Best Health & Fitness Club in 2012.

Anthony Carey holds a Master’s degree in biomechanics and athletic training and is the owner of Function First. He was awarded Personal Fitness Professional Magazine’s 2009 Personal Trainer of the Year. Anthony has authored two best-selling books and his work has received national attention, including the NewYork Times, Time Magazine and Oprah’s “O” Magazine. He is the inventor of the Core-Tex™.

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Emilio Nares Foundation presents

Harvest for Hope at Stingaree

Harvest for Hope will be held from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, September 22 at Stingaree, located at 454 6th Avenue in downtown San Diego. Harvest for Hope is a food and wine fundraising event bringing together some of the finest Chef’s in San Diego to create unique dishes with selected wineries, craft beers and spirits from all over the world. The result is a beautiful fun afternoon of great food, wine, music and friendship benefitting the Emilio Nares Foundation (ENF).

Richard and Diane Nares lost their only child, Emilio Nares, to cancer.

Turning tragedy to hope, the Nares

family created the ENF, which provides information, programs, and services for low-income, underprivileged families whose child is battling cancer in San Diego. Annually, ENF serves over 5,000 patients and families in San Diego and Orange County.

Carlo Cecchetto, anchor for KFMB/ CBS8 Evening News will emcee the event. There will also be a special performance by Southern California’s trumpet virtuoso, Gilbert Castellanos and the Sensational Strings. This Year’s honoree, cancer survivor and cancer advocate is Randi Hosking, owner of Indio Salon and Spa.

Attendees at the 2012 ENF event, include (left to right) Carlo Cecchetto (KFMB News 8 Anchor), Diane Nares, Richard Nares, Debra Katz, Xavier Soriano (Xavier the Man from Magic 92.5) and Alicia Soriano.

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SANDAG and Community i n Serious Disagreement

By Patty Ducey-Brooks

Over the last couple of months I have been hearing from disgruntled Mission Hills’ business owners and residents, as well as others from Hillcrest and Old Town about a proposed bike lane project that would impact these three communities.

The proposed project involves significant modifications to traffic flow, parking and traffic lanes on Washington Street, University Avenue, 4th and 5th Avenue, India Street and other connecting streets in Hillcrest. According to representatives of the Mission Hills Business Improvement District (BID), Old Town Chamber of Commerce, Five Points and Middletown Property and Business Owners Association, and International Restaurant Row, numerous meetings have been held with SANDAG representatives for “input” and “recommendations” but through the entire process, all input has nearly been rejected and their “master plan” has not changed at all.

SANDAG is proposing to close University Avenue to all automobile traffic, reduce the lanes of traffic on Washington Street, and eliminate parking along the south side of Washington

Street, which means the loss of more than 60 parking spots that are crucial to all businesses in the 5 Points area.

According to Selena Stockley, representative for the International Restaurant Row on India Street, “We are asked to give ideas and feedback.

Yet, SANDAG seems unwilling to recognize our understanding of parking challenges that will carry over to the residential communities. There are only so many parking spaces.”

Gerrie Trussell, executive director of the Mission Hills BID added, “West Washington Street is already at capacity servicing three area hospitals and two fire stations and cannot facilitate the gridlock that would occur by closing or redirecting traffic from University Avenue.”

According to Trussell, to date, the only studies presented are of New York City in underutilized, low impact streets. It’s not an “apples to apples” comparison because it wasn’t done on one of the most busy traffic corridors in the City of San Diego.

Obviously, we will continue to hear from more business owners and residents who say that SANDAG reps seem to be listening, yet, ignoring their concerns.

If you want to voice your opinions, email us at info@presidiosentinel.com.

Coronado Art Walk Saturday & Sunday September 14 & 15 10am - 5pm at the

Coronado Ferry Landing

FREE Admission!

Over 100 Participating Artists

Art Activities • Live Music

For more information: 619.435.7242 www.coronadoartwalk.org • www.coronadohistory.org

Sponsored by: The Unified Port of San Diego, The Coronado Historical Association and Coronado Tourism Improvement District with donations from many others.

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By Ilene Hubbs As the mother of two sons I watched how my boys played and thought nothing of it. Although I did not see them gravitate toward dolls or dishes, I thought they must be playing the same as girls only using different toys. Instead of dolls they had G.I. Joe and action figures, instead of dishes they lined up their blocks. I had all nephews and my first grandchild was a boy. They all confirmed my theory. Yes, boys and girls play the same and we, as parents, steer them to toys that are marketed to boys or to girls. But that was before I had a girl in my life. Then my first granddaughter was born and 12 years later my second.

With both these children, I soon realized my theory had holes in it.

My grandsons and my granddaughters love to build things but with a big difference. The boys built their masterpieces just to have the joy of knocking them down once they were built. The girls wanted to preserve and protect theirs and were very careful to keep them intact. The boys used their action figures as instruments to fight each other. The girls combed their dolls’ hair and wrapped them in swaddling blankets. No one told them to play that way, no one showed them how. It was inherent.

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By the time she was three, my first granddaughter found my makeup drawer and was enthralled. She would sit at the vanity forever, putting on blush, eyes shadow and lipstick all the while smiling at herself in the magnifying mirror.

I kept a bag with various items of clothing for her to play dressup and she would ask for that bag whenever she visited. It was filled Applying makeup isn’t a skill with all kinds of things she has yet acquired. from gloves to sequined sweaters. She would dump her treasures Then another girl came along and I got on the floor and dress and redress the opportunity to test my theory again. herself all day. I never showed her what Do girls and boys really play differently to do with makeup, I never dressed her right from early childhood? She had all her in those clothes. Somehow it was where brother’s hand me down toys at my house she gravitated all by herself. and I always put them out for her to play When another boy was born after with. Instead I found her with her older my granddaughter I gave him the same cousin’s play clothes, Barbies and dishes. toys as I gave her. There was total She has no time for the little matchbox cars rejection, except for the time I found or the transformers. She wants the “girl him behind closed doors undressing toys” only. Carefully arranging her dolls Barbie to see what mystery lurked and stuffed animals, she feeds them with under those clothes. No, he wanted her tiny dishes. Just like her girl cousin, cars and transformers, anything he gramma never showed her how. And then, could pretend was a gun and building at the young age of two, she found the something was for the pure joy of magic makeup drawer. But with this little knocking it down. He never played girl, it looks like she could use a little help dress up even with boy outfits and he from gramma. had no interest in the makeup drawer.

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Ilene Hubbs Associate Editor

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Contributing Writers Concetta Anitico Blake Beckcom Rick Brooks Melody Brown Ian Campbell Richard Cone Cath DeStefano Barry Hager Ilene Hubbs David Kamatoy Philip C. Lee Alice Lowe Aubree Lynn George Mitrovich David Rottenberg Anne Sack

Bet we en t h e Lin es: Coming Soon – to a Little Free Library Near You

By Alice Lowe

On my neighborhood rounds a few months ago, I walked down a welltended alley, more like a rural lane, off Goldfinch Street.

On the wall next to a garage door was a shelf with an angled roof over it, and on it were several books. A sign read “take one, leave one.” The books were a mix of hardback and paperback, fiction and nonfiction, popular and obscure. I already have too much to read, so I kept walking, but I loved the concept and knowing that it was there.

I’ve passed by many times since, always scanning the titles, until recently I saw a pristine hardback of “When We Were Orphans” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I couldn’t resist (though I still have too many books to read) and took it with me. At home I unearthed three gently used Thomas Hardy paperbacks from the back of a bookcase—worthy classics that I’ll never reread—and took them back to the shelf.

This was my first encounter with a Little Free Library. This one was established last year by artists Al and Josie Rodriguez. Al says that “The idea is to circulate books that are languishing on our shelves.” He checks the shelf every day to manage the flow of books and find good reading for himself.

I’ve seen two more such libraries in Mission Hills, one on Pine Street and the www.PresidioSentinel.com

latest at Crone’s Cobblestone Cottage and B&B on Washington Place and Ingalls. Joan Crone’s son, who teaches woodworking at Francis Parker School, built the replica of her house, a 100-year-old San Diego historic landmark. People in the area already knew Joan’s “Ponder Post” of pithy proverbs, so the book box was a natural addition. Joan had seen the others in the area and thought it would tie Joan Crone stands next to the Little Free in well to her love of reading Library that was constructed by her son. and her book art projects.

What started as a speculative nonprofit real people are sharing their favorite venture in Wisconsin in 2009 has become books with their community. The secret a movement. Little Free Libraries are to the success of this modest strategy is everywhere, estimated at between 5,000 still individuals who want to share part and 6,000 in 36 countries including of their lives, memories and dreams with Japan and India, Uganda and The Congo, their neighbors.”

Qatar and Pakistan, all over Europe and Joan Crone sees the neighborhood the U.S. There’s a website with how-tos, exchanges as augmenting the public designs and signs, and a registry to get libraries and used bookstores. They’re listed on the global map. You can buy open all hours, she says, and “people hats and t-shirts, mugs and totes. Make will be more likely to read books that your own custom library or buy one are different than they might otherwise readymade: how about an Amish barn read.” Steve Wheeler, Mission Hills wood cabin, a Scandinavian cottage, or branch librarian, and Kris Nelson, a little red British phone booth? Or you owner of Bluestocking Books in can just nail up a box. It’s the thought Hillcrest, agree. They think the Little that counts.

Free Libraries are a great idea. Both According to the founders: “Little expressed unqualified enthusiasm for Free Libraries have a unique, personal anything that encourages reading. touch and there is an understanding that

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San Diegans Support Spay/Neuter Clinics for Tijuana, Mexico

Not to be combined with any other offer. Not good for boarding, bathing, grooming, pet food and prescription and non-prescription drugs. Expires 09-30-2013

Rita is a four-year old, American pit bull terrier mix. She likes to snuggle up with you watching a movie, or out and about enjoying this nice San Diego weather at the nearby park. Rita is sweet and easy-going. She would do best in a home with children over age five, and no cats.

Her adoption fee includes my spay /neuter, current vaccinations, permanent microchip identification, a certificate for a free veterinary exam, a gift from Hill’s Science Diet, and a license if residing in Oceanside or Vista She is currently available for adoption at San Luis Rey/North Campus of the San Diego Humane Society, located at 2905 San Luis Rey Road in Oceanside. For information, call 760.757.4357 or visit www.sdhumane.org.

Fely is a nine-year old, domestic short hair. He is a handsome, loving cat with a huge personality that is guaranteed to keep you entertained all day.

He will do best in a cat-savvy home with children over the age of 12.

During the “Back to School: Adopt a Study Buddy” promotion Fely’s adoption fee is reduced to $5 through the end of September. Cat adopters will also receive a $5 credit to Muttique. His adoption fee includes my spay / neuter, current vaccinations, permanent microchip identification, a gift from Hill’s Science Diet, a certificate for a free veterinary exam, and limited veterinary medical coverage from VCA Hospitals up to $250 Fely is located at the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA, located at 5500 Gaines Street. For more information, call 619.299.7012 or visit www. sdhumane.org.

Just 15 minutes south of San Diego, an estimated 12,000 unwanted cats and dogs are killed each year. Many families are unable to cover the medical expenses of their pets, and are not able to keep offspring when their animals reproduce. Every day thousands more mange-ridden and parasite-infested animals roam the streets of Tijuana looking for food and water. Hungry and neglected, they die a painful and lonely death. Unbelievably, just one unaltered female dog, her mate, and their litters can produce over 67,000 puppies in only six years.

America for Animals believes that the most effective way for preventing overpopulation and needless suffering

is to spay and neuter cats and dogs.

During the first clinic in July 2013, more than 70 animals were treated. With future support, American for Animals will continue to work with partners in Mexico to provide medical aid to the animals of Tijuana.

This past August an event held in Mission Hills raised over $2,200 and will fund one-to-two more clinics in Tijuana this coming year (about 125-150 surgeries). These surgeries will prevent thousands of cats and dogs from living desperate lives on the streets. The next clinic is scheduled for September 2013.

To learn more and to support this cause, visit www. americaforanimals.org.

Pictured are members of the team who participated in the first clinic in July 2013. More than 70 animals were treated.

September Heat Warnings San Diego is known for having warmer Septembers than other states around the country. This means, pet owners need to be concerned with providing their special canine and feline housemates with proper heatrelated care and attention even in to the fall season.

According to Melani Peleti, lead dog trainer and adviser for Petco, there are lots of products available today to keep your dog cool and comfortable for the continued warm weather, especially when you take them on hikes and long walks. And, the way to initiate this is to be proactive. She suggests preparing a backpack complete with a variety of items that joins you on your outdoor activities, including a Chilly Bowl, Chilly Bone and Chilly Mat that are available at Petco. She also recommended dog boots by Pro Tex Pawz, which protects your dog’s paws from hot streets, sand and dirt.

As an added reminder, Peleti said you should never leave your dogs in a vehicle during the warm season, even for short periods of time. Dogs don’t sweat and can quickly overheat even with all the tools and resources offered and available.

For more information on Rita, call 760.757.4357 For more information on Fely, call 619.299.7012

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Exercise Tips to Shape up Your Golf Game

By Blake Beckcom

Your favorite golf course is ready for another great round of golf, but is your golf game up to par? Shape up your golf game with the following exercise tips to increase your fitness level as you shoot for more of those birdies and eagles. The fairways are groomed, the putting greens are smooth and the tee boxes are set. Are you ready?

Tip One: Train Like an Athlete The primary goal of training for athletes is to prevent injury first, followed by improving performance.

If you are injured, you can’t practice, you can’t play, and you can’t improve your performance. The first step of an athlete’s training program should be a personalized fitness assessment that tests range of motion, strength and flexibility.

If you don’t have an established baseline to work from, then you won’t have a clear direction toward accomplishing your golf fitness goals. Golfers are athletes so they should train like an athlete. You have to get fit to play, not play to get fit. If you don’t know, or have never measured baseline parameters like the strength and flexibility component of your golf game, you can’t effectively train to improve.

Ti p Two: Turn Up Cardio Conditioning

Since the PGA requires golfers to walk all 18 holes of the golf course during its tournaments, fit players need to focus on increasing cardiovascular fitness levels with exercises that are performed while standing up. Golf is an expanding, explosive sport so you need to train as functionally and effectively as possible.

This means that as much of your training exercises need to be done on your feet as possible, and the training movements need to be as explosive as possible. Challenging and improving your sense of balance through varietal planes of motion, while developing explosive power are areas to explore in your fitness routines.

Increasing your cardio and metabolic conditioning, though, doesn’t mean that you have to log double digits of running or walking miles each week. Adding exercises into your fitness program that mimic the explosive and repetitive nature of golf, like a circuit of pushing/pulling, battling ropes and multi plane medicine ball slams into your workout will not only help increase your overall fitness level, but prepare your body for endurance and for powerful tee drives and strong golf swings. “Tee em high…….watch em fly.”

Tip Three: Build Total Body Strength, Power and Stability

The golfer’s swing is the most critiqued movement of the game. If you only focus on strengthening the upper body portion of your swing, you’ll miss out on a critical part of your golf game. You have to be able to control the forces of the swing or you’ll end up spending most of your time looking for your ball in the trees or, ultimately, injuring yourself.

The power of your golf swing comes from total body strength that starts with strong, explosive and flexible legs, followed by strong back, shoulder and neck muscles, and ending with powerful biceps, triceps and forearms to finish the swing. You can hit all of the key muscle groups in your body by adding total body strength and power training moves into your

workout. Some total body movements for golfers include Kettle bell swings, shoulder press squats, medicine ball throws and medicine ball lunges with a twist. Holding regular plank, side planks and superman positions for one minute in duration three-to-four repetitions at a time also are excellent exercises for building strong core and back muscles to stabilize your body, which can help you crush the ball off the tee and drive it down the fairway with power, finesse and skill.

Most people avoid working their legs due to the sheer difficulty of it, and perhaps not knowing how and what to do. If you look closely at professional golfers, those that have mastered the art of “leg drive” in their golf swing have a major advantage in the distance department.

“Hit em deep…watch em weep.”

Tip Four: Stretch It Out

A limber, flexible body is an integral part to every golfer’s game. It’s important to cool down and stretch after hitting the greens to recover your muscles and prepare them for the next round. It also is a good idea to warm up and stretch prior to teeing off to loosen tight muscles and prepare them for the torque and repetitive motion of a golf swing. Before you head out to the greens, warm up your lower and upper body muscles with dynamic stretches such as walking lunges, toe touches and core rotational movements. After your golf game, static stretches at the course, as a “cool down” and even regular massage, will help relax your tired muscles and prepare your mind and body for the next golf event on your roster.

It’s important to prepare your body’s fitness level for the physical wear and tear of the golf. Golf requires a strenuous

Blake & Gwen Beckcom. athletic movement, repeated many times over the course of 18 holes. By incorporating these four fitness tips into your workout routine, you will be on your way to upping your game.

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The Price of a Good Life

By Mrs. Freud

“Of course I want to live a good life,” is the astonished answer of anyone I have ever asked if they aspire to live a good life.

However, in my 15 years as a psychologist as well as life coach, I have come across many instances where significant resistance arose as soon as people were faced with making a decision to act towards living a good life.

That does not make much sense to me. What does it then take to have a good life?

In my experience, it takes most of all the conscious commitment and determination to live a good life. Especially for those of us who live in urban areas. That’s because there are many other colliding interests from not only people but also companies and organizations.

Someone wants something from us. Many billions of dollars are spent to create desires for ourselves that otherwise we would not seek to quench. Then there is also our own personal history, the lessons we learned growing up and the beliefs that we internalized from hearing them over and over again, usually from our parents and teachers. A third aspect of why it might be difficult to www.PresidioSentinel.com

have a clear path to a good life is the uncertainty or ambivalence about who we think we are and what we value in life. This attitude can hold us back from progress and good choices, rather to play it safe than fully going for it.

What does a good life mean to you? In general, it is not one spent on a couch without challenges. People report feeling alive and happy after they have made courageous decisions in favor of long held dreams or sincere passions; such as leaving that desk job to start a home based business. It could be going on a trip to another continent where a parent came from, after years of a latent fear of flying. Or it could be leaving or recommitting to a spouse of 20 years where the last 10 were somewhat luke warm. Or, how about changing nothing in life but ceasing to complain about a boring job and enjoying the perks of a safe job and getting to be with people every day?

A good life is an authentic life. It takes being completely honest with ourselves; and the willingness to search, act, observe, adjust our actions according to our goals and personal values. It is also very subjective, nobody else can define it for us.

It takes the conscious choice.

Whereas it can happen by itself,

I have found it to be the rare person who can navigate all the challenges and distractions without considerable reflection and clarity.

Deciding to lead the good life comes with a price. It gives us the rudder: the responsibility. We can´t hide anymore or say “if only” this or that were the case or “if only” the other person would change or “if only” I had had a different childhood. The good life is not usually glorious or heroic, it simply is a good life with enough time to recharge batteries, enough challenges to keep us alert and on our toes, enough social

encounters for us to feel connected and enough financial stability for us to feel safe. Taking good care of our health, physical as well as mental and emotional, sleep, balanced and proper nutrition and exercise are essential for the good life, and we fit it in to whatever life we choose to live. Sometimes, the help from professionals is welcomed and used on a need-to basis. On my blog you can find tools and direction for the peace of mind that helps with living a good life: www.HealthwithTaste. blogspot.com.

Author Sabine Starr is a psychologist licensed in Vienna, Austria, currently living and working in Mission Hills. She has written numerous articles for professional psychology journals.

For further information, visit www.starrcoaching.com and follow her blog at www.HealthwithTaste.blogspot.com.

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The Value of a Financial Advisor

By Rick Brooks We Americans tend to be a very optimistic bunch. It’s part of our national character and some might even say part of our DNA. Perhaps that’s why casinos are so popular despite certain knowledge that the odds are against us. How else could you explain spending $1 for a lottery ticket with odds against us of more than 175,000,000 to 1? (By the way, in investment terms, that means you’re investing $1 for an asset with an expected value of $0.0000000057.)

There is a fairly consistent body of research which suggests that the odds of finding an investment manager to ‘beat the market’ aren’t much better.

If that’s the case, does working with an investment advisor improve your odds? If an advisor’s fees make it that much harder to beat “the market,” is there enough value added to justify the extra costs?

A 2012 study by mutual fund research company Morningstar approached the question from a holistic perspective, attempting to quantify the value of making better decisions about multiple financial topics like portfolio allocation and rebalancing, spending strategies, asset location and so-on. According to their research, making better financial decisions could add about 1.8 percent per year to a retiree’s potential income.

For example, one of the things that Morningstar looked at was portfolio asset location – the combined choice of which accounts to use to own certain kinds of assets, and which accounts to withdraw first, based on a person’s circumstances. By working with an advisor to optimize asset location, they estimated that a retiree could add about 0.5 percent per year to their retirement income. Morningstar also estimated that better asset selection (e.g.: more stocks, less bonds) could also add about 0.5 percent per year.

Other factors accounted for the remaining 0.8 percent.

Financial Alternatives, an advisory firm in La Jolla, also surveyed research on the value added by investment advisors. They found that: • Lower cost institutional investments, exchange traded funds and active tax loss harvesting could save up to 1.25 percent per year.

• Better diversification could add value by adding higher return for taking the same risks, or providing less risk for the same returns.

• Disciplined rebalancing can add up to 0.8 percent per year over simple buyand-hold strategies.

• Purchasing undervalued securities rather than chasing the herd can add significant value. On average, buying stocks when P/E ratios are high can result in very poor future returns.

• Emotional mistakes (“get me out, I can’t take this anymore!”) can subtract up to 1.5 percent per year from investment returns. Just consider those who went completely to cash in 2008 or 2009 and missed even some of the recovery.

All told, they estimated that good decisions made with the help of a fiduciary advisor could add up to 4.5 percent per year to the investment returns an individual might achieve on their own. And that was just dealing with one single facet of financial planning: investments. Their review didn’t even consider the value you can receive on insurance, estate, tax or cash flow planning.

At the end of the day, it’s nearly impossible to quantify the value of financial planning advice because individual needs will be different and the amount or type of help received will vary from person to person.

Keeping costs down is important, but looking only at the cost of advice can be shortsighted, too.

Doing something yourself can save you money. But as any plumber or attorney can tell you, it’s usually a lot cheaper to get professional help the first time around than it is to pay someone to clean up the mess afterwards.

poetry and poets, but even at that there are thousands of poets whose works we have no knowledge of – poets perhaps like Tim Peeler.

It’s a damn shame.

That said, there’s darkness in some of Tim Peeler’s poetry, but there’s darkness in the works of most poets (unless they are named Phyllis McGinley), but the cause of that darkness is life itself, more shadow than sunshine, more sober than sybaritic.

That judgment notwithstanding, I do not count myself a critic of either literature or poetry, because literary criticism is a demanding and scholarly profession and I have other causes to champion, but I have some judgment about what matters in this life – and poetry matters.

I want you to know Tim Peeler and I want you to buy, before it’s out of print, “Waiting for Godot’s First Pitch” www.mcfarlandpub,com). If you do that, you will in due course, thank me for bringing to your attention this lovely North Carolinian – teacher, poet, citizen.

I close this month’s column with Tim’s “The End of the Century”: And the comparisons are inevitable – All us fanatics must know for sure: Who is the greatest athlete Of the last 100 years?

It will come down to the final two As ESPN is nice enough to decide for us.

And why not? When we are so frantic To be told, gripping the sweaty cans Of our beer, adjusting the angle Of our recliners – we are a fallen race Of men who have managed to catch Ourselves just like this, in this action Of watching action A week will turtle by in the office break rooms And out by the furniture loading dock And in the student lounge, even.

Michael or the Babe, what do ya’ think?

Black or white, yin or yang?

And I will be called stupid, racist, out of touch For taking the Babe – though I love the other Game for the way it turns into dunks, Revenge into blocks, violence into good defense – The way it brings hope to the hopeless and money, too.

So the week will drift along while I defend the Bambino Against my family of sports fans, point to the support?

Of his numbers, the sheer ineffable dominance of peers, The pitching record, and the stolen bases, I point to These things as if to a pie chart, but Michael will get it, Here at the high-flying end of the century; And nobody, not a single arguing one of us Will listen to Satchel Paige, who cocked his cap And said, “Don’t look back.”

Know Tim Peeler.

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This column is prepared by Rick Brooks, CFA, CFP®. Rick is Vice President for Investment Management with Blankinship & Foster, LLC, a wealth advisory firm specializing in comprehensive financial planning and investment management. Rick can be reached at 858.755.5166, or by email at brooks@bfadvisers.com. Rick and his family live in Mission Hills

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Dr. Suhar Selected to Lead Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

United Way of San Diego County Elects Six New Board Members

Cardiologist and integrative medicine specialist Christopher Suhar, M.D., has been named director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Suhar has practiced cardiology and integrative medicine at Scripps since 2005. He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo and completed a combined residency of internal medicine and pediatrics at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He also completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease at Scripps Clinic and in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Suhar resides in Health Science Center.

Carmel Valley with his wife and three children.

He is board certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine, nuclear cardiology created for our patients at Scripps,” Dr. and comprehensive echocardiography. Suhar said.

Dr. Suhar is a member of the American The center offers state-of-the-art College of Cardiology. imaging technology, clinical research, As director of Scripps Center for education and lifestyle change Integrative Medicine, Dr. Suhar is programs to effectively diagnose and responsible for overseeing all of the treat a wide range of conditions, such center’s treatment and educational as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, programs and operations. He will stress, pain, weight management continue seeing patients in his and other health issues. Among its clinical practice and will maintain his many services are acupuncture, clinical research work in the fields of meditation, yoga, healing touch, mindintegrative medicine and cardiology. body classes, nutritional guidance, “I’m honored and privileged traditional medical care and a state-ofto continue the strong legacy in the-art fitness center. The center is part integrative medicine that has been of the Scripps Health system.

United Way of San Diego County has named six new members to its 2013/2014 board of directors: Ignacio De La Torre, regional vice president of external affairs, AT&T Jacqueline L. Parks, senior vice president and wealth strategist in wealth planning solutions, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management Kian Saneii, founder, CEO and chairman, Independa, Inc. Laurie Berman, District 11 director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Omar T. Passons, senior counsel, Stutz Artiano Regina V. Evans resides in Downtown Shinoff & Holtz APC San Diego and is one of the newest members Regina V. Evans, attorney of United Way of San Diego County. and senior vice president of business development, Information Man- of San Diego County. They also serve agement Resources, Inc. on one or more board sub-committees, Board members serve a three-year such as workplace campaigns, finance, term, providing governance over the Tocqueville Society, major giving, pubaffairs and activities of United Way lic policy and marketing.

Erich Foeckler joins

National Multiple Sclerosis

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has named Erich Foeckler as donor relations officer at its San Diego-based Pacific South Coast Chapter, which serves Hawaii, San Diego, Imperial and Orange counties.

The announcement was made by Richard Israel, president of the Pacific South Coast Chapter.

Foeckler, with more than 25 years of philanthropic fundraising management experience in both the non-profit and private sectors, will be involved in strategic philanthropy.

Prior to joining the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Foeckler worked in fundraising for Home Start, Inc., St. Madeleine Sophie’s Foeckler is a resident of San Diego’s Mission Hills and Center, Being Alive San has earned the Certified Fund Raising Professional Diego, and Episcopal designation from Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) International.

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The Mission Hills Garden Club Presents Education, Beautification, and Fun

By Barb Strona

Over 14 years ago Mission Hills Garden Club had a fairly lengthy gestation period. However, once it was born, it grew by leaps and bounds. Its history begins before 1999 and continues today with a medley of traditions and changes.

In the beginning, Fausto Palafox posted a notice in the Mission Hills Nursery asking anyone interested in starting a local garden club to sign up. However, only Donna Knierim, Cheryl Gaidmore, and Wendy Nash and Veronica Longstreth signed the list. When George and Marien Kissling decided to create a garden walk, the few people on Fausto’s list joined forces with Marien and George, and the now annual Mission Hills Garden Walk was born.

The first planning meeting took place at the nursery; subsequent meetings were held at Wendy Nash’s home, Jere McInerney told me about the proposed club and encouraged me to attend the early meetings.

Not being particularly interested in gardening, but trusting Jere’s judgment since I’d known her since high school, I agreed to check it out.

By April, 1999 the original members were officers: Donna Knierim was president, Wendy Nash was vice president in charge of programs, Sandy Rhatigan (who has moved away) was membership chairman, and Cheryl Gaidmore was treasurer. McInerney, hospitality chair, organized volunteer for snacks; I was in charge of publicity.

George and Marien had the Garden Walk which, by then, was part of the garden club. Veronica Longstreth, Sherri Schottlaender, and DonnaKnierim put together bi-laws from those of other garden clubs.

Since many of us were working, we decided upon night meetings.

We met at the nursery for the first general meetings. We had round table discussions of what new members wanted to learn; we invited people whom we knew to speak, and Fausto filled in with educational talks from plants and planting to creating a garden pond.

It was really fun to be a founding member; we took form as we grew. While we were so small, every single member pulled his or her weight.

That first year, spring of 1999 to spring of 2000, we had some interesting speakers: Pam Chapman spoke on use of color in the garden, Cynthia Drake, an arborist, took us on a walk around Mission Hills pointing out good and poor examples of tree choice, tree location, and tree pruning. Fausto spoke about fertilizer, and Pat Palowski spoke on the Grant School Gekko Garden, Butterflies, and fall planting. David Urban gave us a talk on decorating with natural foliage and Dick Streeper, rosarian, author, and speaker came to enlighten us about roses. We even went to Sandy Rhatigan’s house to hear and see how John Holloway planned and executed the lighting in her garden. It was phenomenal! The club’s first year finale was Pat Welsh, a Del Mar gardener and author of several garden books.

Our second year, 2000-2001, showed a growing membership with more exciting meetings. We not only had our second Garden Walk, but our program vicepresident, Barbara Schneider, also found fabulous speakers. Jill Deming spoke on container gardening followed by a handson workshop led by Christi Palafox, and

Cheryl Clark created t-shirts with a Mission Hills’ personality, emphasizing gardens and community culture.

Fausto gave us information on various local gardens. Pam Chapman returned to give a chat on keeping a garden journal.

One of that year’s highlights was “Tool Man Bob,” also known as Bob Denton.

Sadly, he is no longer available for talks.

From him we learned how important a well-made tool is as well as learning the value of having the right tool for the right job and the right fit for the person who will use it! Other topics ranged from ornamental grasses to the art of Bonsai.

World famous Rene Van Rems spoke on floral arrangements to a standing room only crowd. Vince Lozaneo spoke on responsible pest control. We had the late Ron Searfoss speak on Ikebana and Pam Chapman returned to discuss “Sex in the Garden”! I see flowers quite differently since then; her talk verged on x rated!

Meanwhile, we were not only learning and growing; we were also helping the community. We began using our funds to enhance the local landscape and hardscape as well as contributing to education. The money we made on the first Garden Walk was used outside the tennis courts where a drab corner became an attractively landscaped asset. As the years passed, Dick Disraeli decided we needed a committee to decide what we should do with our money. Mary Shelley San Diego Resident 1968 and Don Rudesill became champions San Diego Resident 1968and Loving Mission Living, Growing, of education Hills programs such as the Mission Hills Resident 1971 internship program at Palomar College.

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When we discovered that the Mission Hills Business District could not insure us, we became one of the clubs under the umbrella of the Palomar District which covers San Diego and part of Riverside County and is part of California Garden Clubs, Inc. which in turn is part of the National Garden Clubs, Inc. network.

Under the guidance of Meredith French, the Mission Hills Garden Club’s membership increased to over 250, and the club won the top state wide award for “Highest Membership Increase by a Club” for the state of California. The club was honored with a party hosted by Palomar District.

More than 14 years later, the Mission Hills Garden Club is thriving and looking for new ways to enhance our community. We need new members to broaden our horizons Now it is time to renew your membership. If you are not a member it is time to join. For $35 a year or $50 for a couple in the same household, you have at least ten interesting meetings a year, many opportunities to enjoy coffee or wine in various members’ gardens, special field trips (Some may require additional fees.) and a ten per cent discount at the Mission Hills Nursery. If you are not really a gardener, you can still learn, contribute to your community, and make new friends.

Our first meeting of the new fiscal year will feature Nancy Conney. She is an extremely funny and knowledgeable speaker about raptors which she rehabilitates.

Come to hear her Wednesday, September 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the First United Church of Christ at 4070 Jackdaw. Members are free; guests pay $10 which becomes part of the membership fee if they join that evening. Sandra Richardson will speak at October’s meeting.

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The Association of Moving Image Archivists

Honor Students

AJ Lawrence (who previously resided in Mission Hills) and Crosby Buhl, second-year students in UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies MA degree program, were recently recognized by the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Lawrence is the recipient of the Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship, which carries a cash award for tuition, and Buhl was selected for the Image Permanence Institute Internship in Preservation Research, which provides a generous stipend for a three-month research residency at one of the leading institutions in preservation science.

The AMIA scholarships and internship include additional AJ Lawrence joins MIAS alumni funding for recipients to attend the as the fourth UCLA student to receive organization’s annual conference, to the Rick Chace Scholarship. be held this November in Richmond, VA, where Lawrence and Buhl will be formally recognized along with the year’s honorees for volunteer service and lifetime achievement. “AMIA invests in the future of the field through its scholarship program,” says MIAS Program Director Jonathan Furner. “We’re absolutely thrilled to see two of our students recognized in this way by the professional community. It’s an honor for them, and something everyone associated with the program can be proud of, too.”

AJ Lawrence joins MIAS alumni David Gibson (’04), Benjamin Harry (’06) and Oki Miyano (’08) as the fourth UCLA student to receive the Rick Chace Scholarship.

Crosby Buhl is the second UCLA student to be selected for the IPI Internship; she follows in the footsteps of 2008 graduate Tim Wilson. Lawrence and Buhl are the first MIAS students since 2009 to be selected for these highly competitive awards, and they bring the total number UCLA students who have been recognized by AMIA to 18 For information about the AMIA scholarship program, visit www.amianet.org

Bazaar del Mundo’s

“Santa Fe Market”

At Bazaar del Mundo’s annual “Santa Fe Market,” art and fashion lovers will find vibrant collections of sterling silver and multi-stone inlaid jewelry made with turquoise, coral and other exotic stones in bold colors. An array of traditional Native American and Southwestern items, such as sculptures, wall hangings, fetishes, Pendleton blankets and woven pillows are also featured. The market is from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, September 22. Bazaar del Mundo Shops are located at 4133 Taylor Street in Old Town.

“Santa Fe Market” guests will also enjoy live entertainment from Latin American folk band TINKU and delicious cuisine for sale from neighboring Casa Guadalajara restaurant as they shop and interact with artists.

Southwestern and Native American artists – including Navajo, Cherokee and Pima tribe members – will be sharing their crafts and selling their wares including jewelry, hand-woven baskets, sand art and more.

For more information, call 619-296-3161 or visit www.bazaardelmundo.com

Vibrant collections of sterling silver and multi-stone inlaid jewelry will be at the market.

Soccer Winners

Albion Earns a Record of Four Wins San Diego Surf Academy and Albion SC White recently competed in the finals of the Albion Cup National Soccer Showcase which took place on July 19-22. The event is one of the largest and most prestigious youth soccer tournaments in the country attracting over 500 teams from ages seven to 18 years old. The tournament also represents the start of the 2013-2014 soccer season. This was the first major tournament for both of these teams. To reach the finals, Surf had a record of 3-0-1 wins, losses and ties (W-L-T) and Albion had a record of 4-0-0 W-L-T. Albion SC is based at Robb Field in Ocean Beach and draws players from north to La Jolla and south to Chula Vista. San Diego Surf is based at the Polo Grounds in Del Mar and draws players from north coastal San Diego County.

Both teams are U8, which means 7 years olds.

Mission Hills’ Francis Parker and Grant are both represented on Albion SC White, with three players from Francis Parker and one from Grant.

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Mission Hills Heritage Home Tour—9th Annual Master Builder Nathan Rigdon is Highlighted

Six privately owned homes crafted by builder Nathan Rigdon 100 years ago will be featured in “The Legacy of Master Builder Nathan Rigdon,” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, September 21. The event is the ninth annual docent-led home tour hosted by Mission Hills Heritage (MHH).

Born in Harford County, Maryland, Rigdon’s first career was as an ordained Methodist minister. He moved to San Diego in 1909. While here, the main body of his known work was in Mission Hills where he tended to buy several lots in a tract and then build larger homes on main thoroughfares and smaller homes on side streets, often adding cobblestone retaining walls next to the sidewalks which are extant today. He built more than 40 homes in Mission Hills, all with front porches and detached garages at the rear of the property that expressed the neighborhood’s development as a community well off enough to own private transportation.

Testimony to the century-old practical plans and simple but timeless elegance, the distinctive stucco-clad, four-square Prairie homes and the

wood-sided Craftsman residences are also recognized for beautiful handcrafted interior woodwork. Early works include four homes in the 1500 block of West Lewis Street, one of which is on the tour.

During the ten years Rigdon lived in Mission Hills, he also built a number of commercial buildings, including two, “The Rigdon” and the “Montclaire,” that offered retail space on the first floor and apartments above.

“Both still stand today, a comfortable combination of work and living space.

While Rigdon was not an architect and had no formal schooling in design, he is recognized by San Diego’s Historic Resources Board as a “master builder,” remembered for his lasting legacy of beautiful homes, building and streetscapes in Mission Hills.

Home tour advance tickets are $20 for MHH members and $25 for nonmembers by September 6. Day of tour tickets are $25 for MHH members and $30 for non-members. Refreshments are served at end of the tour. The ticket office is at the corner of West Lewis Street and Palmetto Way the day of the tour. For more information, call (619) 497-1193.

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Newcomer Event Welcomes

New Mission Hills Residents

Nate and Jill Boyle are new residents welcomed to Mission Hills by Dan Thomas, owner of The Gathering; Ginny Ollis, and others at the recent Welcome Event hosted

by The Gathering Restaurant. Nate is a firefighter, and Jill is a marriage and family counselor employed by the U.S. Navy. They are excited by their recently purchased craftsman home on Ingalls and the community look and sensibility of their new neighborhood.

They responded immediately when the postman delivered their invitation. Thomas provided extra fun to the event by performing some of his renowned magic tricks, amazing one and all.

Others attending included Bob Vinter, of Hunter Street; Carley Enders of West Lewis Street; Sue Raffee and Susan Hill from 1 Mission; Cammie Morgan of Arcadia Street; Elizabeth Wos of West Lewis Street; Jean Seley, artist; and Iva Irwin of Ibis Street. Joe Mabee, Aaron Mendez and Mike Johnson of the new Mission Hills business, Allstate Insurance on West Washington Street, were also welcomed by fellow business members including Sean Ryback, Fitness Together; Patty Ducey- Brooks, publisher of The Presidio Sentinel; Janet O’Dea from Powers Plumbing; and Stephanie Murphy and Antoinette Embry of Prudential Real Estate.

Left to right are Nate Boyle, Dan Thomas, Jill Boyle and Ginny Ollis

This four-square Craftsman bungalow is one of many superbly maintained residences in Mission Hills built by Nathan Rigdon a century ago.

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10-year anniversary this fall when it returns to San Diego Sept. 17 to 21. The annual festival, a fiveday celebration of all things agave, has several new events this year in honor of the anniversary.

Sept. 17­—New! Contemporary Cocktails / Ancient Cuisine – The 2013 festival opener will boast an evening of Aztec cuisine and the hottest new cocktail sensations. Guests will experience, firsthand, how the Spanish influenced Mexico’s ancient culinary landscape at the Blind Burro in downtown San Diego.

Sept. 18 to 21—The Art of Tequila Exhibition; Free and open to the public, a four-day art exhibition on Juan Street in Old Town will feature a selection of rare collectable Tequila bottles on loan from El Agave Restaurant owner Juan Carlos’s extensive Guests at last year’s Main private collection. The exhibition will also feature Tasting Event had the emerging Latin artists from Centro Cultural de la opportunity to sample and Raza and take place from noon to 6 p.m. daily. learn about more than 70 Sept. 19—Tequila Trail—Agave enthusiasts will brands of tequila and other sample selections of tequila, mezcal, bacanora Mexican spirits. and other Mexican spirits as well as signature dishes at more than a dozen Old Town eateries from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event continues at Café Coyote with an Olmeca Altos Tequila-sponsored after party starting at 9 p.m.

Sept. 20—Awards Dinner and Live Auction–Milagro Tequila welcomes our guests with a cocktail uniquely created for this evening, and a spirits-infused tasting reception and dinner with specialty cuisine prepared by Barra Barra Saloon Chef Jose Pulido from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Old Town State Historic Park.

Sept. 21—Main Tasting Event – Guests will join master distillers, industry experts, authors, and ambassadors at the festival’s grand finale in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m

The Spirits of Mexico Festival is presented by the IWSC Group, a leader in organizing wine and spirit competitions and events around the globe. For more information about the Spirits of Mexico Festival visit www.thespiritsofmexico.com.

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Hosts Special Reception

A packed audience attended a special reception to meet the State Parks director and to recognize the contributions of volunteers who have contributed to the economy and well-being of Old Town. Major General Anthony Jackson, retired United State Marine Corps, is the State Parks director. He is also a resident of San Diego.

During the reception, Connie Puente Miller, of Mission Hills, received a certificate of recognition for her years of operating a bakery and restaurant in Old Town.

Mary Ellen and Tom Young, Boosters of Old Town members, received numerous awards and words of praise for serving Old Town since the early 1980s.

Left to right are Susan Jackson, Chuck Ross, Gail Ross and State Parks Director Anthony Jackson.

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Art Walk 2013

Take a short, cool ride across San Diego Bay to enjoy the works of over 100 artists from around the country during the this year’s Coronado Art Walk at the Coronado Ferry Landing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, September 14 and 15. Admission is free. Musical entertainment and hands-on art activities will be available both days. The Coronado Art Walk, a juried art show, is a major fundraiser for the Coronado Historical Association.

The Ferry Landing, located on the Coronado side of San Diego Bay is a picture-perfect setting for the two-day art and music celebration. At colorful booths like the Rad Hatter, Stitches from the Heart and other hands-on art stations visitors can try their hand at weaving, painting or creating colorful cards for service persons overseas, while little ones may have their faces painted. Musical entertainment includes the Sundance Band, Breez’n, the Bayou Brothers and Bill Magee Blues Band.

The event attracts artists from many different areas, who work in a wide variety of media, including jewelry, ceramics, painting and colored pencil, sculpture, photography, glass, body ornament, textiles and wood.

Visitors will find ample parking available but for anyone wishing to forgo their cars for the day, the San Diego/Coronado Ferry will be carrying pedestrians and bicyclists across the bay (a fee is charged for ferry service).

A free M.T.A. shuttle bus (No. 904) is available to shuttle visitors from the Ferry Landing along Orange Avenue to the Coronado Library, Coronado Museum of History & Art, Coronado Visitor Center, downtown shopping and dining spots, the beach and the Hotel del Coronado.

For further information, call the Coronado Visitor Center, (619) 437-8788 or visit www.coronadoartwalk.org or www. coronadohistory.org.

Guests and residents enjoy art, entertainment and a great setting.

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Móolelo Performing Arts Company “The Amish Project,” by playwright Jessica Dickey, will preview on September 26 and run through October 20 at The 10th Avenue Theatre, located at 930 10th Avenue in downtown San Diego.

“The Amish Project” is a fictional, one-woman play inspired by the 2006 Nickel Mines shooting in Pennsylvania in which several Amish children were killed. In the wake of the mass schoolhouse shooting, the Amish community immediately reached out to the gunman’s family with compassion and forgiveness. “The Amish Project” presents the gripping question: in the tightrope intersection of grief, rage, and forgiveness, which path do you take?

Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, MOXIE Theatre’s award-winning Artistic Director, returns to Mo`olelo to direct.

Iliana Carter, a 2004 graduate from UCLA’s Theater Arts program, the

woman cast in the play’s tour-de-force role embodies all seven characters, from a 6-year old victim of the shooting to the 33-year old gunman.

The creative team includes David F. Weiner (scenic design), Jeannie Galioto (costume design), Jason Bieber (lighting design), Nicholas Drashner (sound design), and Marie Jahelka (stage manager).

Concurrent to Mo`olelo’s production of “The Amish Project,” 10th Avenue Arts Center’s resident artist, Gerald Montoya, will curate an exhibit of works by local emerging artists in the 3rd floor gallery of The 10th Avenue Theatre. More information is available at www.geraldmontoya.com/upcoming.

For tickets and information on “The Amish Project,” visit www.moolelo.net or call 619-342-7395.

San Diego REPertory Theatre

“A Weekend with Pablo Picasso” will run from Saturday, September 7 through Sunday, October 6 in the Lyceum Space, located at the San Diego REPertory Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego. This one-man show has wowed audiences nationally in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Houston and Denver. The production was born at a threeweek workshop where actor Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash wrote the original play Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash stars and starred as Pablo Picasso, as Pablo Picasso. the most influential artist in directed by Todd Salovey, who is also modern history.

Siguenza is back with his polished, the associate artistic director of San fully-realized and critically acclaimed Diego REP. For information, call (619) 544work and is ready to show San Diego audiences his finished product. “A 1000.Tickets can be purchased online Weekend with Pablo Picasso” is at www.sdrep.org.

L ANDMARK THEATRE

“Short Term 12” is a powerful and emotional story told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson, “The Spectacular Now”), a twenty-something supervisor at a facility for at-risk teenagers.

Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge, and in love with her longterm boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). But Grace’s own difficult past—and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself— throw her into unforeseen confusion, made all the sharper with the arrival of

a new intake at the facility: a gifted but troubled teenage girl named Jayden (Kaitlyn Dever) with whom Grace has a charged connection. While the subject matter is complex, this lovingly realized film finds truth—and humor—in unexpected places.

“Short Term 12” is 96 minutes long, Not Rated and tentatively opens 08/30 or later at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinema. For information and times, call 619.819.0236, or visit www. landmarkTheatres.com. Film times and dates are subject to change.

“Short Term 12” is the winner of the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.

The Company Without A Home When the mistress is away, the maids will play. Two women in service to a socialite pass the moments of their day in playacting and fantasy. As the line between fantasy and reality begins to disintegrate, their games take a deadly turn. Jealousy, resentment, sexual tension and murder converge in this 1947 classic French play by Jean Genet.

Director O.P. Hadlock brings to life this seminally rebellious play with three of San Diego’s most

adept actresses: Margaret Glaccum, Sandy Hotchkiss, and Carla Navarro. The play is produced by the Talent to aMuse Theatre Company at the 10th Avenue Theatre’s Cabaret Theatre.

Performances take place September 13 through15, 20 through 22, 27 through 29, and October 4 through 6. Curtain is at 8:00 p.m., except on Sundays, which start at 7:00 p.m.

Reservations can be made at (619) 940-6813 or info@talenttoamuse. com.

San Diego Musical Theatre “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” The Fats Waller Musical Show, takes place from September 27 through October 13 at the Birch North Park Theatre, located at 2891 University Avenue.

The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930’s Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging, fingersnapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway’s best.

Although not quite a biography, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” evokes the delightful humor and infectious energy of this American original as a versatile cast struts, strums and sings the songs he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown clubs to downtown Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood and concert stages in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

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Don Le Master (music director); Matthew Novotny (lighting designer); Janet Pitcher (costume coordinator; and Jill Townsend (stage manager).

Cast includes Rufus Bonds, Jr. as Ken; Sylvia MacCalla as Nell; Jenelle Randall as Charlaine; Amber Mercomes as Armelia; and David LaMarr as Andre.

For tickets and information, call (858) 560-5740 or visit SDMT online at www.sdmt.org.

$899,000 to $950,000

Ian Capmbell

Jenelle Randall stars as Charlaine.

Ian will resume when Opera season returns.

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An Eye for Hair

By Aubree Lynn Writer/Producer/Stylist www.StylishlyAubreeLynn.com

San Diego has the perfect venue for so many events, parties, and productions. Yet, we fail to think about the magnitude of what this great city can produce when the right talent, minds and collaborators get together.

“I am a passionate, driven, and committed individual, looking to open my own salon in the near future,” that’s according to hair stylist Kendall Schmidt. I was told of Schmidt’s craft from a fashion and hair guru, who told me that Schmidt is better than some professionals she’s seen in the business for years, “She just has an eye for hair.”

After hearing this I was very intrigued and was determined to learn firsthand what Schmidt brings to the locks of men and women. So I decided to interview her and receive some lock pampering that would suffice for my next article.

Schmidt is from San Diego and grew up focusing on sports and academics, but she always had a flare for up-dos and fashion forward styles. In middle school she was the go-to for school dances and special events. She taught herself up-dos and French braids and started practicing on friends. Her passion began to ignite when she

started getting hired by friends and family through the East County school districts. While Kendall was attending Northern Arizona University she got her first set of clippers and continued with her natural talent and passion, cutting and styling hair for students.

“I will work in the corporate world for a while and maybe pursue hair later in life,” she thought to herself.

However, in May of 2011 everything clicked, and her passion was no longer able to contain itself for only special occasions and events. She quickly claimed her title as hair stylist, “I set my goals and went after them.”

Professionally doing hair at Michael Nelson an Image Studio in La Mesa is where you will currently find Kendall Schmidt who turned her love of hair into her lifestyle. She is aspiring to open her own salon, which I believe she will. With her marketing degree and hair design profession intertwined it will make for a great business venture.

Schmidt is very outgoing and well represented at the salon where she works. She would love to get a bigger following and give you a haircut, color or up do for an upcoming event. If

Aubree Lynn (left) and hair stylist Kendall Schmidt at Michael Nelson an Image Studio.

you’re interested in finding a small hair boutique with charm, then La Mesa’s Michael Nelson an Image Studio is that place to visit. The salon carries high end professional products and services without the expense of some downtown mobiles.

For my amazing before and after color and style, please visit and “like” her Facebook page at www. facebook/kendalljshair. To book an appointment, call (619) 463-0234.

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Looking UP… Looking Down

By Laura Walcher Just gimme a minute here, while I assure you that I’m not going to elaborate on the urgent stories of the day: Egypt, Syria, Gay Conversion, Bradley Manning, Oscar Pistorius, Fires, Filner, the Hermanos Arellanos.

By publication, the world will have turned (hopefully, not tumbled) and my deeply considered opinions will already be obsolete.

A loss, no doubt.

No, this month, I’m an ambassador of looking on the upside. For instance, the top guy at J. C. Penny’s could be booted, but in the meantime, I may be the foremost beneficiary of the company’s peculiar pricing. I admit to a craving for using all the discounts, coupons and birthday presents a retailer can come up with - which is why I cheerfully report that my new jeans cost 79 cents.

That’s not a typo.

I urge you to follow my practice – even to Von’s, where traveling through their discount systems requires – at minimum – a Ph.D. in Economics.

Despite my arduous attempts to unravel their customer specials, I’m a four-star Von’s shopper.

Despite the ordeal – to say nothing of confusion – of clipping coupons, entering passwords, phone numbers and mother’s maiden names, to say nothing of simply collecting Von’s snail-mail, I save a ton.

In fact, except for what was surely a professional expert who carted off a basket of groceries for no cash at all - I’m not making that up – I’ve drawn admiration – however reluctant - from incredibly patient shoppers behind me.

In honor of one visit, which resulted in a 55 percent savings, I penned a celebratory limerick: Oh, coupons ‘pon coupons I clip For my totals to take a steep dip My record - I broke!

(This isn’t a joke, Tho’ I realize it’s not very hip ... :)

My family has developed any number of creative techniques for sending me up, inspired by my unhipness. But I don’t care. They should have respect for their inheritance.

One relative sighs at my using restaurant coupons.

She’s embarrassed, imagine that. Doesn’t she know that the coupon reminded me of the restaurant, gave me an incentive for choosing it over the several dozen others? There’s even a reasonably good chance that,

given a good meal and service, I’d return? Could even make it a regular? Either way, we all win.

(I’ll pause here to report that I never even think of “Saigon on Fifth” until I see their coupons.

Now, this lovely restaurant’s cuisine and service are really commendable, yet given other dining demands, etc., I don’t think of them until I see the coupon. Better that I use the coupon than don’t patronize them at all?)

Try as I might, I simply can not tell the value difference between a T-shirt for $65 and one for $7.95. It’s got to be the labels. My highly affordable “Gotta Dance - Baryshnakov!” tee may be the mostadmired in the city. And I’m not even counting those who say they love the shirt but never heard of Baryshnakov. “More People Have Read This T-shirt Than Have Seen Your Blog,” is my second mostadmired tee, but it has a downside, of course.

I hope I’ve persuaded you to similarly manage your money, for the good of your pocketbook and the satisfaction of your soul. And don’t even think for one minute of the financial challenges of those guys, Manning, Pistorius, Fires, Filner, the Arellanos. They’ve got other troubles.

“Mission Hills, Images Across America” Book Local Resident Prepares to Document a Photographic History Allen Hazard and Janet O’Dea, two long-term Mission Hills’ residents, are pleased to announce that they have been selected by Arcadia Publishing to write and produce the “Mission Hills, Images Across America” book. “Images Across America” is a national series that chronicles the history of small towns and historic neighborhoods, each book contains about 200 vintage images that capture an often forgotten, bygone era and brings to life the people, places and events that defined a community.

From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, September 28,

they will be hosting a Scanning History Party at Powers Plumbing (1705 West Lewis Street). The couple is seeking private, period photographs of old Mission Hills for this new book. They are asking Mission Hills’ residents as well as former residents who have moved out of the area to bring their historic photos of Mission Hills, including interior and exterior period homes, schools, churches, family events, etc. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP at 619-574-6247.

Allen and Janet will be using historic photos from their own private collection but need your

The little Stimson girl on Hermosa Way, c. 1915. (photo: Erik Hanson Collection).

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help to make the first book about Mission Hills a success. Other special community events will be held over the next year to 18 months. Allen stated, “Mission Hills is one of the best historic neighborhoods in San Diego and such a book is long overdue. We were both very excited to be selected by Arcadia Publishing for this endeavor.

We hope to highlight the wonder architecture that defines our community, our bungalow, Craftsman, Spanish Revival and our Modernism homes as well as the people who lived in Mission Hills during the past 100 plus years.”

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Yellow is for Depression

By Charlotte Tenney, MA Integrative Medicine

The news on health benefits of ingesting turmeric (Curcuma longa) just keeps accumulating. Using the original research that validated this root crop as an effective anti-inflammatory, many researches are building from there to test whether the anti-inflammatory properties will affect a wide range of conditions from heart disease to diabetes, from cancer to skin break-outs, and from asthma to pre-menstrual symptoms.

The most recent research findings reported by Phytotherapy Research (see www.GreenMD.com for the link to the original source) pitted the use of turmeric against the well-known anti-depression drug, Prozac (fluoxetine). It was done with sixty patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD). Turmeric used alone was shown to be equally effective to Prozac and also to the combination of Prozac and turmeric.

So, while the herb was not shown to get better results, it is safer to use, since it does not present the psychotic and suicidal ideation side-effects so common with using Prozac. And, there is no withdrawal problem if a person decides to cease taking it.

While turmeric is easy to consume in the form of curry sauce, it may not be possible to eat enough of it in our diet to get a therapeutic dose for depression, cancer, diabetes or arthritis. About three percent of the raw plant matter is curcumin, the constituent generally thought of as the “active” ingredient. So, one way to get a complete dose is to

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take the concentrated extract that is higher in curcumin.

There is now an evidence-based concentrate that is being used by supplement companies as the base of their products that contain curcumin. When you read the ingredients, these will prominently list either “Meriva” or have the number “95” to indicate that the turmeric used is the high potency variety. Even in the concentrated form, the dose needed is about a heaping tablespoon of the powder Turmericis a tuber root related to ginger and grown in a similar fashion. once or twice a day. If you get the This summer I have been teaching botanical 500 mg capsules of a product such as Jarrow brand Curcumin-95, you will need to take six capsules daily. medicine to medical students from Bastyr University.

The curcumin is best absorbed by the body when Each week, students choose to experience the effects mixed with some kind of oil, so it is most reasonable of some herb that they have learned about in class. to take the dose along with a meal that includes some Last week three students all reported back on their results with turmeric and all noticed pronounced form of fat.

Turmeric is one of the ubiquitous spices in food improvement after taking a therapeutic dose for only from India. It is a tuber root related to ginger and three days. One had an injured knee and a strained grown in a similar fashion. It is not just for curry, but back that he smeared with turmeric paste. Another also “golden milk” beverages that are whole milk had IBS symptoms that abated significantly. The third simmered with turmeric and drunk sweetened like student opted to treat asthma attacks with preventative hot cocoa. For over five thousand years this root has doses and documented a reduction in episodes.

All have decided to continue taking the herb. Next been harvested and used in ayurvedic medicine. It is not uncommon in India to see people whose skin is week I will ask them if they have noticed any shift is their stained yellow from the practice of using turmeric mood – a sense of well-being to go with their wellness. If paste applications to skin problems. It is highly you want your outlook to be sunny, you might consider getting some bright yellow into your routine. effective for rashes and skin cancer.

Human TuneUp Column by Cath This Is Your Life

By Cath DeStefano

Oh dear you mean that I am in charge of THIS too?

Yes. It used to be women could tag along on their husband’s life and let his life be their life. As unfulfilling as that might sound to a modern mind, it worked then. She got her power from being associated with him.

Somewhere along the way, the cracks in that model showed up and through the openings came this question: “What interests me?” Flip flop the world changes.

One thing I find I not interested in much anymore is self improvement. I love this quote: “the trick to self improvement is knowing when to quit.” After a while we are who we are. And unless you have a major personality quirk that is causing you trouble in your human relations (I hope you know who you are) acceptance is a great thing.

One thing I find I am interested in now is contentment. Enjoying where I am. You? One of my favorite questions I ask periodically is “Do I like my life?”

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And part of liking my life is being involved in interesting-to-me things. Sewing dresses for girls in Africa. Attending a panel of San Diego and Syrian journalists. Spending the afternoon in the pool with 11 year old Allison.

Not interesting to you?

Well of course there’s the trick. WHAT interests you?

I find research reported in the New York Times comforting. It seems we humans share this in common: when bored, we take steps to “unbore” ourselves. In the interest of an interesting life, may this be true for you too.

Cath DeStefano

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San Diego Blues Festival September 7th

By Richard Cone

The 3rd Annual San Diego Blues Festival comes to Embarcadero Marine Park North on Saturday, September 7 with an all-day show that will feature three members of the Blues Hall of Fame – Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Boy Arnold and Jody Williams – playing the festival, along with many more of today’s most exciting blues performers. Gates will open at 10:30 a.m. This is a benefit performance for the Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank, and tickets are a very reasonable $15, plus two cans of food for the needy.

As Charlie Musselwhite is fond of saying, the blues overtook him when he was a child. At 69 that hold has never loosened. Musselwhite and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn., when he was three, where he immersed himself in the blues music that he seemed to hear everywhere he went.

By the time he was in his teens he had earned the blues nickname “Memphis Charlie” and would hang around on Beale Street watching closely as street singers or bluesmen such as Furry Lewis, Will Shade or Earl Bell cast their blues spell.

Through the years, Musselwhite’s musical taste has continued to expand. He has collaborated with such diverse musicians as Tom Waits, the Blind Boys of Alabama, John Lee Hooker and Eddie Vedder. This year, Charlie and rock star Ben Harper collaborated on “Get Up!” Despite his protests of being a simple blues musician, Musselwhite has always kept his ears open and built a musical career that is filled with tradition as well as innovation. His blues has always been fresh and filled with feeling. Perhaps that’s why he has seven Grammy nominations, his own marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail and was named to the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010.

Rounding out the bill at the San Diego Blues Festival will be Billy Watson & His Submarine Trio, The Tighten Ups, Bill Magee Blues Band, Billy Boy Arnold & Jody Williams, Lucky Peterson, featuring Tamara Peterson, The Fremonts, Nikki Hill, Eden Brent and Dave Alvin’s Downey Blues AllStars. Music will be continuous from 9:30 a.m. until Musselwhite’s 6:45 p.m headliner performance. There are two stages at the festival with overlapping acts so you can wander from one to the other at your leisure.

When the San Diego Blues Festival was founded in 2011, it had a simple mission, to provide great blues music at an affordable price and raise money to support the battle against hunger in our community.

Since then, the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank has shared some of the best blues musicians going today with an appreciative and growing audience. In the festival’s first two years, sponsors and festival goers have helped contribute more than seven and one-half tons of food and more than $100,000 to help the Food Bank fight hunger in San Diego County.

Blues great Charlie Musselwhite To reserve tickets, see the festival website at http://sdbluesfest.com/about/ where gate beginning at 9:30 a.m. The San you can purchase, download and Diego Trolley stops two blocks from print your tickets. Gates will open at the venue. No food, coolers, drinks or 10:30 a.m. for early admissions. All alcohol may be brought into the venue, others will be allowed in at 10:45 and video cameras and audio recorders a.m. Billy Watson & His Submarine of all kinds are prohibited.

Trio will be playing outside the front

Country Crooner Butch Hancock in Concert Sept. 27 th

With a long string of recorded songs and albums, Butch Hancock has been called one of the finest songwriters of our time and is acknowledged by his peers and critics as one of the premiere singer-songwriters Texas has ever produced. Some argue he’s one of the best in the world. His tunes evoke visions of wind-swept dryplains and his lyrics are profoundly imaginative, often displaying for his listeners the miracles that occur in the ordinary through creative irony and metaphors. His style of writing has often been associated to that of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and his songs have been covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Robert Earl Keen and a host of others.

Hancock is also a founding member of the famous country rock group, The Flatlanders, along with his lifelong friends, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, a band they formed in 1972. Through his stellar career, Hancock has written and recorded several iconic albums, some of them sparse and simple, others as big as all outdoors. After moving to the progressive country hotbed of Austin in the mid-70s, he started Rainlight, his own record label which released the classical “West Texas Waltzes” and “DustBlown Tractor Tunes” in 1978.

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world-wide reputation as a master wordsmith. In 1990, Hancock, and more than two dozen musician friends performed a Guinness Book of World Records worthy event entitled “No Two Alike” where the band played for six nights in a row of live performances in Austin’s famed Cactus Cafe, recording 140 of his original songs. The real accomplishment was that they played this marathon show without repeating a single song. Hancock has studiously rejected playing to the needs of the commercial music markets, insisting that his music is an end in itself, recording and releasing much of it on his own and spending his energies on other things than a musical career. Not widely known is that Hancock is also a talented photographer. He owned a gallery named “Lubbock or Leave it” in the 1980s and 1990s, and has shown his photographs and drawings at Bluebird Gallery in Wimberley, Texas.

Butch Hancock will play a two setshow at AMSDconcerts on Friday, September 27, with show starting at 7:30 p.m. There will be ample time to meet Hancock and thank him for decades of creative music, and cop an autograph if that’s your thing.

Tickets are $22 for rows 8 and up and $47 for the first 8 rows including a four course dinner at DeMille’s Italian on Adams Avenue, just across the street. For reservations, visitwww. amsdconcerts.com.

Butch Hancock, photo courtesy of consequencesofsound.com.

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Tom Ham’s Lighthouse—Come For the View, Stay For the Food

by David Rottenberg Can you see the light…at the end of the island? Harbor Island lies adjacent to the airport, just across Harbor Drive. Enter onto the Island, turn right at the intersection and you’ll shortly reach Tom Ham’s Lighthouse, a fully functioning and still operating facility to guide ships. But – surprise – it is more than just a lighthouse. It is a fully functioning restaurant with perhaps the best view of the downtown skyline and Coronado Bridge. Come for the view. Stay for the food!

Tom Ham’s first opened in 1971 and has been a local landmark since.

For more than 40 years, it has served generations of residents and visitors.

It has been the site of many weddings, celebrations and corporate events.

High standards for cuisine and service have always been maintained under the direction of the Baumann family.

Unfortunately, Tom Ham passed away but his daughter and sonin-law, Susie and Larry Baumann continued to operate it and its “sister” restaurant, Bali Hai, which is located at the opposite end of Harbor Island.

The restaurant is now managed by a third generation. Grant and Andy, the Baumann children are now in charge.

Tom Ham’s Lighthouse recently completed a great renovation and expanded its wedding services. The

exterior of the building’s classic lines were retained but a new view patio was added, a large deck with clear glass walls that seem to disappear against the background of the sea. Sitting there to watch the sunset and the glow of downtown lights is simply magical.

The restaurant is on the second floor of the building. The ground floor holds several large meeting rooms for private parties and corporate events. A new wedding center was established on the side of the building to provide a beautifully scenic focal point – gorgeous bay views – from which to launch married life. It would be hard to find a nicer setting.

One may walk up a winding staircase to the restaurant level or take a nearby elevator. The restaurant itself is a large open area, ringed with booths and filled with tables where happy diners may also watch the views through large glass windows. A large bar area is located at one side of the room. A small private dining room for small groups is found near the bar area.

In addition to the physical renovation, the restaurant appointed a new executive chef, Lance Repp, to preside over food preparation. Repp trained in Ohio through an American Culinary Federation apprenticeship program. After coming to California,

Suzie and Larry Bauman, standing upfront, are surrounded by other members of their family.

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The Pork Belly is a delightfully presented large square of meat, darkened on top with the savory glaze and very tender.

Repp worked alongside restaurant consultant and two-star Michelin Chef Jason McCleod to rework the extensive menu of the Mediterranean Room at La Valencia Hotel.

He has also served as the executive sous chef of La Valencia Hotel Auberge Resorts, where he helped manage the kitchens of three restaurants and oversaw menu planning. His work at La Valencia Hotel landed him into the San Diego Chef Hall of Fame in 2009 and 2012. He has been the executive sous chef of the Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa and the chef de cuisine at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club.

Repp focuses on fresh seafood, echoing the nautical themes of the restaurant and has created many tasty and innovative recipes to please his guests. His menus include Mediterranean-style seafood dishes with contemporary twists.

Iced shellfish platters are one way to begin the meal. Clams, mussels, crab and more are available in several platter sizes, depending on how many are in your party. Other starters include calamari, roast corn and shrimp soup and a very popular pomegranate glazed pork belly with fontina polenta. The Pork Belly is a delightfully presented large square of meat, darkened on top with the savory glaze and very tender. It can be cut with a fork and is full of flavor. The polenta beneath blends well with the meat’s sauce and is very creamy.

Entrees include two exotic dishes – paella, a Spanish dish made famous in

Valencia, with rice, chorizo, chicken, shrimp and more. The second is lobster bouillabaisse, a French dish made famous in Marseilles, is a stew-like amalgam of clams, mussel, scallops, and more in a saffron broth.

The well prepared scallops dish came with mushroom, turnip and heirloom carrots. The Jidori chicken is accompanied by a tasty wild mushroom risotto. The New York steak, dry aged, is served with fava beans, whole corn and cauliflower gratin.

Chef Repp blends vegetables into many of his dishes, satisfying appetites with healthful combinations. His presentations are simple. Plates are not unnecessarily adorned. But the proof is in the eating.

For dessert, be sure to try the mango cheesecake. It is delicious.

Or, ask for Elvis’s favorite sandwich in a glass, combining peanut butter, bacon, banana pudding and chocolate shavings. Elvis loved it.

Want a terrific evening? Come to Tom Ham’s for the view, enjoy the food and go for a long walk during the cool evening along the waterside promenade.

Prices are moderate to high but the view is priceless. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner daily and brunch on Sunday. Reservations are suggested.

Lots of free parking is available on the adjoining lot. Tom Ham’s Lighthouse is located at 2150 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego, CA 92101. Call (619) 2919110 for directions and information.

The San Diego skyline is perfectly presented from the dining area at Tom Ham’s Lighthouse.

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September Thru September 2

n The Maritime Museum of San Diego will host the 2013 Festival of Sail in downtown along the Embarcadero.

More than 20 tall ships and other marine vessels from around the world will sail into San Diego Bay for the event. For only $5, guests ages 3 years and up will gain admission to the Maritime Museum, tour the tall ships, be treated to live entertainment at the Festival of Sail main stage, sample food and drink, enjoy a family activity area and petting zoo, and shop for one-of-a-kind items among more than 150 festival vendors. For a detailed schedule of activities, visit www.sdmaritime.org

Thru September 5

n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA has a Film Festival: This week’s favorite is the Grand Canyon Adventure. Travel deep into the Grand Canyon on a 15-day river-rafting trip. For times and prices please visit www.rhfleet.org or call 619238-1233.

Thru September 10

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) has a Photography exhibition – Raúl Gonzalez Microphotography: The Log from the Sea of Cortez.

Sixty plates illustrate the magnificent marine life that John Steinbeck and naturalist Edward Ricketts chronicled during their historic journey there in 1940.

For information, visit www.sdnhm.org.

Thru September 12

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) Traveling Exhibition-Dino Jaws From the infamous flesh-eating T.rex to the plant-munching Iguanodon.

Dino Jaws will combine fun hands-on (with no danger of being bitten!) exhibits with scientific insights.

See lifelike spectacular animatronics and learn when paleontologists know about what the dino had for dinner. For information, visit www.sdnhm.org.

September 6 thru 30

n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA wants you to swim with the Dolphins once again. Imagine you are a marine biologist working in the crystalline, turquoise waters of the Bahamas. For times and prices please visit www.rhfleet.org or call 619-238-1233.

September 12 thru October 6

n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA. Young Scientists session 1 “Exploring Earth” will delve into landforms, geology rocks, water wonders and awesome animals. Preschoolers age 3-5 (and a parent) explore the scientific wonders of the world through experimentation, investigation and scientific questioning. Four 4-week sessions run monthly. Limited to eight students per class. Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday morning 9 to 10:30 a.m.

For information, visit www.rhfleet.org/events/youngscients#sthach.EjgA3PcG.dpuf.

Thru September 27

n The San Diego Automotive Museum in Balboa Park is proud to announce the opening of its new exhibit Car Toys. This exhibit features a huge variety of auto-themed toys throughout the ages. Pedal cars, lowrider bikes, street-legal bumper cars, Soap Box Derby racers, and more are featured in this trip through time. Admission prices are $8.50 for adults, $6 for seniors (65 and over), $6 active duty military with ID, $5 students with ID, $4 children ages 6 – 15.

Children under 6 free of charge. The museum is free to all San Diego County residents and military with ID on the 4th Tuesday of each month. There is a $2 charge for residents to see special exhibits on Free Tuesdays. Museum is located at 2080 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park. Phone 619-231-2886. www. sdautomuseum.org.

Thru Sept 27

n Taboo Studio located at 1516½West Lewis Street in Mission Hills presents Perspective and Invention – Innovative Jewelry by Kristin Beeler, Kyunghee Kim, Iker Ortiz, and Donna Veverka. For more information visit www.taboostudio.com.

Thru October 6

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) Traveling Exhibitions Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age – For Millions of years, mammoths and their evolutionary cousins, mastodons, wandered the Earth – great beasts weighing as much as eight tons and bearing tusks up to 16 feet long.For information, visit www.sdnhm.org.

Thru October

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. will have a six-hour cruise to see magnificent blue whales, the largest mammal, and possibly the largest animal to ever inhabit Earth, can be spotted swimming and feeding off the coast of California from mid-June through October. Photo I.D. required for all adults. Tickets can be purchased at H&M Landing and at the San Diego Natural History Museum (phone 877-946-7797) or online at www. hmlanding.com.

Thru December 31

n Coronado Museum of History & Art located at 1100 Orange Avenue, will explore in detail, when their newest exhibit, 100+ Years of Coronado Yachting opens this month. Coronado’s yachting history is deep, with many surprising twists. The museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission is by donation. For information, visit www. coronadohistory.org or call 619-435-7242.

September 1 and every Sunday in September

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) from 12:15 – 2:15 p.m. will have a free performances – Wacky Science Sundays with Ms. Frizzle™ and The Magic School Bus© Wahoo! Join us for live performances; get ready to explore the wild and wacky worlds of mysterious creatures fascinating habitats, and phenomenal hands-on science! FREE with Museum admission. For more information visit www.sdnhm.org.

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September 2

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) will host Fossil Frenzy Family Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Meet a real paleontologist and explore your love for all things prehistoric. Family days are free with admission and always free for members. For information, visit www.sdnhm.org

September 4

n University Christian Church at 3900 Cleveland Avenue in Hillcrest at 7 p.m. will have pre-registration for the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus. Everyone interested is invited to “Info Night”. Actual auditions will be held at a later date. n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park wants you to meet Origami with Bruce Gemmell.

The traditional art of paper folding has evolved into a venerable modern art form with solid foundations in math and science. A flat sheet of material is transformed into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques. This event will be held the first Wednesday of each month 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Participation is included with gallery admission. For information, visit www.rhfleet.org or call 619-238-1233. n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, Balba Park is inviting you to The Sky Tonight: Constellations of the Southern Sky. Join us in September to learn about the constellation of the southern sky. For times and prices, visit www.rhfleet.org or call 619-238-1233.

September 5 thru 7

n San Diego Botanic Gardens located at Encinitas, CA will be holding a Special Event Learning Opportunity “Gala in the Gardens.” Learn the ins and outs of event décor and nature inspired décor for the garden with Gala Creative Director René van Rems, AIFD. Hours are 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. or part of the day Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. until closing on Saturday. Please dress accordingly. Please bring your tools. Water and snacks will be provided. To register, please e-mail rene@renevanrems.com.

September 6

n CD Release Event for themattsmithneujazztrio featuring Matt Smith drums, Mackenzie Leighton bass, & Ed Kornhauser piano returns to dizzy’s at 8:00 p.m. $15 cover ($10 students) at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach.

September 7

n Old Town San Diego Kicks into Gear for the 2013 ‘Fiesta De Kustom’ Hot Rod, Motorcycle and Lowbrow Art Show. San Diego Avenue, Harney Street and Twiggs Street will be lined with hot rods, customs, muscle cars, trucks and motorcycles while the public strolls through this free event from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m “From Afrotruko to Dizzy Gillespie” salsa & Latin jazz performed by percussion master Charlie Chavez & his 11 piece salsa band AFROTRUKO featuring lead singers Maguito Chavez & Robert Lopez at 8:00 p.m. $15 cover at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach.

September 9

n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, Balboa Park is proud to have ScholarShare who has generously sponsored many of the recent public programs to share some of the cool exhibits for National Grandparents Day. Free admission to the interactive exhibit galleries, including On the Fly: Technology Takes Off, the new and gloriously restored Block Busters! And the Tinkering Studio. For times and prices, visit www.rhfleet.org or call 619-238-1233.

September 11 thru November 27

n San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, The Gotthelf Art Gallery, located at the Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Dr, La Jolla, CA., is pleased to present Lavine/Levine: Relative Viewpoints at 7:00 p.m. Exclusive Friends of the Gallery Sneak Peek.

RSVP 858-362-1154 or gallery@lfjcc.com. In this exhibition photographs by Arthur Lavine are matched to photographs by Dana Levine. The viewer may compare and contrast each photographer’s work

September 12

n San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) at 10:30 a.m. will feature a Family program – Nature and Me Storytime Calling all budding naturalists.

Enjoy an imaginative journey into nature through dynamic readings and visits to exhibitions. Open to all ages with a parent (recommended for ages 1-5).

FREE with Museum admission. For information, visit www.sdnhm.org. n San Diego Floral will be having a class - Elements of Design – Flower Arrangements Using Decorative Wood Pieces from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Room 104 Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. Cost is $5.00 members/ non-members. Students are registered when payment has been received. After 10 have registered and paid, students will be on a wait list and will be called if space is available. This class is for beginning flower arrangers. Students will use decorative wood to create a floral arrangement under of Lucy Kramer. Students should bring slippers, plant material, a vase, and weathered wood to class. Questions call 619-232-5762 or Pay by PayPal www.sdfloral.org. n The Tonga Ross-Ma ́u Trio featuring Tonga Ma ́u piano, Antar Martin bass, & Fernando Gomez drums, with special guest tenor sophaxonist Brian Clancy will be at dizzy’s at 8 p.m. $15 cover ($10 for students) at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach. n Master Gardener Association wants you to Join Us for an Informational Open House from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the War Memorial Building in Balboa Park, 2125 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101. Love gardening, want to learn about horticulture, and have the heart to educate your local community. For information, to download an application, and to RSVP, visit www. mastergardenerSD.org/2014class.

n Valley View Casino Center (formerly known as the San Diego Sports Arena) at 3500 Sports Arena Blvd. will be hosting the Disney Junior Live On Tour. Join us for the Pirate & Princess Adventure, featuring your favorite characters, Sofia the First and Jake and the Never Land Pirates at 3:30p.m.and 6:30 p.m. To order tickets by phone 800-745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. n Oliver’s Hair Design, located at 2971 Beech Street, from 7 to 9 p.m. will give you an Exhibit Ambush Phase 2 PopUp Show as to what to expect at the main entertainment fashion event in October. This one-of-a-kind work event will give you a small taste of how designers, artists, DJ’s, make-up artists and performers will display their work

September 14

n Jazz fusion from piano phenom Mikan Zlatkovich & his Jazzmikan sextet will be at dizzy’s at 8 p.m. $15 cover ($10 for students) at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach. n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA. Saturday Science Club for Girls: PicoCrickets. Program and design your own PicoCricket! PicoCrickets combine science, art, and technology to build gadgets that light up, spin, make music and even purr! Girls in grades 5-8 can join the Fleet on the Saturday of each month to investigate exciting science topics from12/noon to 2 p.m. Must preregister by calling (619) 238-1233 x806.

September 15 thru 20

n San Diego Restaurant Week brings the city’s vibrant food scene to life for one week of delicious dining.

Choose from over 180 restaurants for three-course prix-fixe dinner menus. For information, visit SanDiegoRescueWeek.com or call (619) 233-5008.

September 19

n San Diego Floral will host a class – Flowers & Art for Your Home and Beyond from 9:30 a.m. to noon in room 104, Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. Cost is $15 ($10 for SDFA members). Class closes after 15 have paid students are registered. Here is your chance to learn about how to create arrangements for your home as well as how to enter events that feature floral designs created to interpret art objects. Class will include live demonstrations, visual examples, and individual and group interpretation of various art objects. Questions call 619-232-5762; pay by PayPal www.sdfloral.org. n Junior Achievement of San Diego County hosts its 1st Annual JA Golf Classic presented by San Diego Fluid System technologies. The new event will premier at the Grand Golf Club located at The Grand Del Mar. The fundraiser will start with registration at 10:30 a.m. followed by a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. After golf the participants will enjoy a cocktail reception, buffetstyle barbeque and silent auction. Those interested can purchase a player spot, foursomes and/or sponsorships by contracting Tara Michener at tmichener@ jasandiego.org or 619-906-4902

September 20

n Jazz guitarist Jaime Valle, keyboardist Allan Phillips, & vocalist Coral MacFarland Thuel present a special performance of true Latin jazz at at dizzy’s at 8 p.m. $15 cover ($10 for students) at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach.

September 20, 21 and 22

n The Southwest Comes to Old Town for Bazaar del Mundo’s “Santa Fe Market” September 20 and 21, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and September 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Located at 4133 Taylor Street in Old Town, art and fashion lovers will find vibrant collections of sterling silver and multi-stone inlaid jewelry made in turquoise, coral and other exotic stones in bold colors. An array of traditional Native American and Southwestern items such as sculptures, wall hangings, fetishes, Pendleton blankets, woven pillows and more are also featured. Admission is free for more information visit www.bazaardelmundo.com.

September 21

n Volunteer Registration Now Open for 29th Annual Coastal Cleanup Day, the largest single-day volunteer event in San Diego dedicated to protecting and preserving our local environment. Volunteers of all ages are needed from 9 a.m. to 12/noon at more than 90 coastal and inland sites to help preserve the local environment by cleaning up these outdoor areas.

Interested volunteers can sign up online at www.

CleanupDay.org. n Led by Greek-born singer, accordionist & composer Magda Giannikou, BANDA MAGDA moves from baiao to jazz manouche, from Greek dance rhythms to samba beats. Their songs, sung in French (with forays into six other languages), hearken back to the golden age of Brazilian bossa, & lush chic of vintage French pop, all while drawing on the band’s global background. The concert is at dizzy’s at 8 p.m. $15 cover at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach.

September 22

n MULDOON!!Come Together!! Featuring Michael Muldoon vocals, Martin Greaves piano, Michael Moaze guitar, James East bass, Brian Cantrel drums, Jamie Shadowlight violin, with backing vocalists Arnessa Rickett & Carmelia Toot Bell at dizzy’s at 7 p.m. $15 cover at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach. n The Emilio Nares Foundation presents the 10th annual Harvest for Hope at Stingaree, located at 454 6th Avenue in downtown San Diego, from 3 to 6 p.m. to raise funds and create awareness for the Emilio Nares Foundation. This event will bring together some of the finest Chef’s in San Diego to create unique dishes with selected wineries, craft beers and sprits from all over the world. For information and to RSVP, visit www.

EmilioNaresFoundation.org.

September 22 thru 28

n The County of San Diego Fall Prevention Task Force has planned 6 events in locations around the County to educate older adults and caregivers on how to prevent falls. Each event will feature dynamic speakers, balance screenings, and exhibitors with local resources. All events are free. Please register by calling the Southern Caregiver Resource Center at 1-800-827-1008.

September 25

n Voices for Children invites you to Night at the Padres Celebrating Our Volunteers and Supporters. Pre-game welcome reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Come join the CASA volunteers and their guests, members of YPG, and VFC star in the Padres’ tailgate lot before the game for refreshments and ticket pick up. Game time is 7:10 p.m. Join us to celebrate our collective efforts to improve the lives of foster children in San Diego County. To register and receive additional information please visit sabrinag@speakupnow.org.

September 26

n Hungarian flugelhorn master Kornél Fekete-Kovács returns to team up with an all star quintet featuring Mike Garson piano, Lori Bell flutes, Bob Magnusson bass, & Duncan Moore drums at dizzy’s at 8 p.m. $15 cover ($10 for students) at the showroom of San Diego Jet Ski Rentals, located at 4275 Mission Bay Drive at Rosewood Street, San Diego 92109 on the Southern edge of Pacific Beach. n Center for Community Solutions will host their 9th Annual Chef Showdown at 6 to 9 p.m. at the NTC Promenade at Legacy Plaza in Point Loma at 2640 historic Decatur Road. Ten of San Diego’s top chefs will come together for an entertaining, iron chefinspired culinary competition. All proceeds support domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse prevention and intervention programs and services.

Tickets can be purchased for $125 by calling 858-272-5777 x120 or visit www.ccssd.org. n The 21st Annual Taste of Downtown takes place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. For tickets and information, visit downtownsandiego.org//tasteofdowntown, or call (619) 233-5008.

September 27

n US Against Alzheimer’s is proud to have the Shiley Theatre on the campus of the University of San Diego stage a star cast for a special ensemble reading of Act 1 of Surviving Grace, an original play penned by comedy writer Trish Vradenburg. This play is based on Trish’s experience as a caregiver to her mother who died of Alzheimer’s in 1992. The evening will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by the play reading at 6:45 p.m., and dinner with the cast at 8:30 p.m. To purchase tickets in advance or to learn more about the sponsorship options, visit www.survivinggrace.org/show/sandiego.

September 27 and 28

n Bach Collegium San Diego’s Eleventh Anniversary Season includes New York City debut with the season opener of Handel and Bach: September 27 at 7:30 p.m. at St James by-the Sea Episcopal Church, and September 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the San Diego History Center (Balboa Park). The two famous works are a study in contrasts from the same period. Details and tickets can be found at the BCSD website.

September 28

n New Belgium Brewing’s “Tour de Fat” Rolls into San Diego for a Day of Bikes, Beer and Bemusement. If dressing freaky, riding bikes, listening to bands and drinking beer are things you like, then don’t miss the most FUN fundraiser around. This all takes place in Balboa Park with a giant bicycle parade, people of all skill levels are welcome and colorful costumes are encouraged. If you want to apply for the Car-for-Bike Swappers then submit your application describing why they are ready to give up their vehicle for the gift of two wheels, apply at www.newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat. n James Hubbell’s llan-Lael Foundation has reached its pearl anniversary and will celebrate 30 years at First Unitarian Universalist Church in Hillcrest – the site of Hubbell’s first important volunteer-assisted major outdoor sculpture installation – from 5-9 p.m. The celebration will feature food, wine, a silent auction, speakers and dance, all in revelry for Hubbell’s prolific vision and impact on worldwide culture and art. For more information and to purchase tickets visit www. ilanlaelfoundation.org

September 28 thru 29

n The International Folk Dancers will host their Annual Octoberfest Dance Event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Balboa Park Club (west of the International Cottages).

There will be partner dances, but no partner required to attend. For information, call (619) 422-1584. n Alpacas Owners and Breeders Association (AOBA) invites you to visit their member farms and ranches on National Alpaca Farm Days. While most alpaca farms welcome visitors throughout the year, National Alpaca Farm Days are sure to include special activities and educational opportunities. For a complete list of participating farms and ranches, visit www.

NationalAlpacaFarmDays.com. n English Motors at Fairbrook Tour and Show takes place in Fallbrock, CA. The tour will commence with a continental breakfast at 9 a.m. at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at Miramar and finish at the Mechanized Museum on Camp Pendleton at approximately 2 p.m. This is a unique chance to relax with fellow English motorcar enthusiasts. All proceeds benefit Meals-on-Wheels Greater San Diego, Inc. The cost to participate in the tour is $60.00 for car and driver, and $20.00 for each additional passenger. Preregistration is recommended, as spaces are limited. For information, visit www.englishmotorsatfairbrook.org.

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Mission Hills Newcomer Welcome Committee - to help with assembling, delivering Welcome Packages, collecting items from businesses to include, and arranging Newcomer Welcome Events. Call Ginny at 619.295.3904

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September 2013 Events Pajama Storytime

Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24 (Every Tuesday) from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Children are invited to an evening storytime with books and possibly singing and puppets.

Feel free to come dressed in your pajamas..

LEGO Playtime

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Video production services from conception to final product. Call 619.296.8731

Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25 (Every Wednesday) from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Kids can have fun and get creative while building with LEGOs.

• STUDIO SPACE • Looking for a studio space to paint, draw or sculpt?

Mission Hills Book Group

2,000 sq. /ft. artists’-op studio – one of SD best kept secrets.

Market Street Group Members include students, amateur, professional artists

•AD SALES POSITION•

Commissioned sales position for print, video and website ads.

Join an exciting team and rapidly growing company.

Sales experience preferred.

Call 619-481-9817

•CAREGIVER SERVICES• Need a helping hand?

Located in Little Italy, wooden floors, sky-lights, access to studio 24/7, working materials can be stored at studio, easels provided.

Market Street Studio Group Studio founded 26 years ago.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE MODELS 3 DAYS A WEEK INCLUDED! Monthly fee: $145 More information please contact: Kirby Kendrick kirby4004@aol.com phone: 505.660.4448

Seniors, Children, Pets, House Sitting & More Great references and experience.

Call Mr. Tom at 619-885-9605

Put Your Name In Front of 35,000 Potential Customers!

For more information, call 619.296.8731

Sept. 5 from 10 to 11 a.m.

The Mission Hills Book Group will discuss “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Mohsin Hamid. New members are always welcome to attend and participate. Please read the book beforehand. Books are available at the Circulation Desk while supplies last. This month’s meeting will be at Mission Hills Books & Collectibles at 4054 Goldfinch St.

Preschool Storytime Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27 (Every Friday) from 10:30 to 11:00 a.m.

Children are invited to a fun storytime with books and possibly singing and puppets.

Children’s Craft Time Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28 (Every Saturday) at 10:30 a.m.

Kids can develop their artistic skills while enjoying a fun craft time.

Signing Storytime

Sept. 9 and 16 from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m.

Twice a month, babies, toddlers, and preschoolers can have fun while learning sign language

Book Sale

Sept. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The Friends of the Mission Hills Branch Library will hold a book sale. Support your Library.

Mystery Book Group UNIVERSAL SPIRIT CENTER A Center for Spiritual Living

Rev. Kevin Bucy, Senior Minister 858 Front Street (at University and Front Streets) San Diego, CA 92103 Extra parking across the street at Florence School

www.universalspiritcenter.org.

(619) 291-4728

SUNDAY MORNING GATHERINGS 8:00 a.m. Meditative with full message 10:00 a.m. Music-filled gathering (with Youth Ministry available)

11:30 a.m. Music-filled gathering

Sept. 25 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The Mystery Book Group will discuss a mystery novel.

New members are always welcome to attend and participate!

Please read the book beforehand. Books are available at the Circulation Desk while supplies last.

Mission Hills Branch Library 925 West Washington Street San Diego, CA 92103 • 619.692.4910 www.facebook.com/mhlibrary

Wednesday Night Gathering at 7:00 p.m. every Wednesday

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Civic Calendar Hillcrest

1st Tuesday

UPTOWN PLANNERS Joyce Beers Hall in Uptown Mall. 6:30 p.m.

1st Thursday

UPTOWN PARTNERSHIP 3101 Fifth Ave. Call (619)298-2541. 4:30 p.m.

Thursdays 7 - 8:30 pm

SAN DIEGO UPTOWN ROTARYCLUB The Uptown Rotary Club has moved to their new home at Jimmy Carter’s Mexican Cafe, 3172 Spruce at the corner of 5th. Breakfast meetings are held every Thursday 7 to 8:30 a.m. Guests are welcome to attend a meeting to learn how to become part of this dynamic organization and see why their motto is “Service Above Self.” For information, visit www. sdurotary.org or call 619-894-0140.

Kensignton-Talmadge 2nd Wednesday

KENSINGTON-TALMADGE PLANNING COMMITTEE Kensington Community Church. 6:30 p.m.

For information, call (619) 284-0551

Linda Vista

2nd Monday

LVCPC Agenda– LINDAVISTACOMMUNITY PLANNING COMMITTEE AGENDA Linda Vista Library meeting room.

Contact Jeff Perwin at 1-619-806-9559 for details 6 pm.

3rd Tuesday

Tech Committee - Technology Committee Bayside Community Center. Contact Xiongh Thao for detail at (858) 278-0771 or email xthao@baysidecc.org or Info@ lindavistaSD.org or visit our website www.lindavistaSD.org.

3rd Wednesday

LV Historical– LINDAVISTAHISTORICALCOMMITTEE Bayside Community Center. This committee is collecting historical photos, documents and memories of Linda Vista’s past. For more information, contact Eleanor Frances Sennet at (858) 277-3817. 4 p.m.

LVCollab– LINDAVISTACOLLABORATIVE Bayside Community Center at 3pm. Contact Monica Fernandez at 858-278-0771 or mfernandez@baysidecc.org.

For details visit www.facebook.com/LVCollaborative

3rd Wednesday (Odd Months)

TCCAC– TECOLOTE CANYON CITIZEN’S ADVISORYCOMMITTEE Tecolote Nature Center. Contact Eloise Battle for details. 7 p.m.

3rd Thursday

Linda Vista Town Council Baha’i Faith Center Alcala Knoll Drive Contact Thomas Kaye 858-277-6793 at 6:30 p.m.

4th Monday

LVCPC– LINDAVISTACOMMUNITY PLANNING COMMITTEE Linda Vista Library Meeting Room.

Contact Ed Cramer at (619) 222-2047 for details. 7:00 p.m.

4th Wednesday

LVPC – Linda Vista Planning Committee monthly meeting.

Linda Vista Library Meeting Room at 6 pm.

Contact Jeff Perwin 619-806-9559 for details, minutes and agenda at www.LindaVistaSD.com.

Linda Vista View Linda Vista Town Council Community Newsletter Contact Thomas Kaye at 858-278-6973

Various Wednesdays

LVNewsletter– LINDAVISTAVIEW Civic Association Community Newsletter. Bayside Community Center. Contact Sarah Granby at (858) 405-7135 or e-mail sgranby@lvca-sd.org. 2:00 p.m.

Mission Hills

Sept. 25,2013

ancy Conney is an extremely funny and knowledgeable N speaker about raptors, which she rehabilitates.Come to hear her from 6 to 8 p.m. at the First United Church of Christ at 4070 Jackdaw. Members are free; guests pay $10 which becomes part of the membership fee if they join that evening.

For more information, visit www.missionhillsgardenclub.org

Ocean Beach

OCEAN BEACH PLANNING BOARD Ocean Beach Recreation Center, 4726 Santa Monica Ave. Call (619) 523-1700. 7 - 9:30 p.m.

4th Wednesday

OCEAN BEACH TOWN COUNCIL Ocean Beach Recreation Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue.

Call Jere Battan at (619) 515-4400 for information. 7 p.m.

Point Loma

Sept. 11, 2013

oint Loma Garden Club. Garden writer and photographer P Bonnie Jo Manion will discuss Gardening with Chickens at the Point Loma Garden Club meeting. Manion is the author of a new book, “Gardening with Free-Range Chickens for Dummies.” The meetings begin at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of the month at the Portuguese Hall, 2818 Avenida de Portugal. More information is available at www.plgc.org.

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to make any preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians; pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of this law. Our readers hereby informedthat all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD Toll-Free at 1-800-669-9777. The Toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275

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4369 Witherby

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3928 Alameda Drive

4361 Hawk Street

A+ location in North Mission Hills for a condo price. Spacious outdoor entertaining areas, bamboo floors, built-ins, gorgeous kitchen with granite and stainless.

A “Must See”!

This lovely 3/2 Classic Craftsman home exudes the charm, warmth, and character that Mission Hills homes are famous for. Built-ins, two fireplaces, box-beamed ceilings, stained glass, a large front porch, and period-perfect lighting are just a few of the details that will delight you.

Sunny 2/1.5 cottage with 2 fireplaces, box beam ceilings, stylish kitchen and baths, and nice outdoor spaces.

Secluded location.

Maureen and Antoinette

Maureen and Antoinette

Maureen and Antoinette

619-800-1103

619-800-1103

619-800-1103

South Mission Hills

North Mission Hills

North Mission Hills

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

Mark Your Calender!

Mission Hills Community Garage Sale Deadline to register is Sept. 25th

Maps Available Day of Sale at Coldwell Banker (1621 W. Lewis St.)

Sat., Oct. 5 th, 2013 8-12:00 a.m.

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2878 Eagle Street

Adorable Spanish style charmer in South Mission Hills!

A must see at this price. Enter into a dramatic stone courtyard complete with fountain & accent lighting. Walk through the front door and be greeted by gleaming original hardwood floors, a fireplace, and a view across Reynard Canyon. An abundance of light streams through picture windows that span the living room and french doors open onto a wrap-around wooden deck.

Call James Hardy, Agent BRE #01076819 at 619-204-9511

$1,075,000

4252 Aloha Place

Charming Spanish jewel nestled on a quiet canyon setting in North Mission Hills. Enjoy both verdant and Point Loma views from this lovely 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Gleaming hardwood floors, 15’ ceilings in the living room, glorious sun porch, tranquil courtyard, beautiful fireplaces, multiple trex decks, along with superb storage and workshop rooms.

Call Jim Scott, Broker BRE #830226 at (619) 920-9511

$1,395,000

1995 Guy Street

A perfect blend of old and new. Freshly redone Prairie home in North Mission Hills. 2650 square feet, spa, views, and a spectacular outside entertainment space.

Call Jim to view this special property.

$1,650,000

1809 West Montecito Way

Spacious craftsman in the heart of North Mission Hills.

The 4 bedrooms and 2.5 are baths accented by gorgeous hardwood floors, built-ins, window seats, box beam ceilings, moldings, and wood trim. Remodeled kitchen with built-in seating area opens to a generous family room that opens to the backyard with its outdoor kitchen.

All four bedrooms on one level. Exceptional living room.

Call Jim Scott, Broker BRE #830226 at (619) 920-9511

Call Jim Scott, Broker BRE #830226 at (619) 920-9511

North Mission Hills

Show Your Listing Here!

$1,895,000

4224 Altamirano Way

Exquisite blend of traditional design/modern upgrades. This spacious home radiates tranquility and privacy for everyday living while providing a showcase for entertaining. The property is set back from the street to optimize panoramic views while the private courtyard entry provides the perfect introduction to the beauty within. Gorgeous Presidio 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath with amazing kitchen, faultless living room, a master suite on the entry level, and hardwood floors.

Call Jim Scott, Broker BRE #830226 at (619) 920-9511

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For more information, call 619.296.8731

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4298 Randolph • North Mission Hills Spanish charm abounds in this grand home built in 1930 & blends with modern updates to accommodate today’s lifestyle. 4 bedrooms plus an office/optional bedroom for comfort & privacy. Located in an enclave of Spanish homes on a cul-de-sac street with peek ocean views!

Call Celeste Williams, Agent BRE #897028 at

619.405.7575

3770 Herbert Street • Hillcrest • $659K 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1914 Craftsman home with built-ins, hardwood floors, a beautifully remodeled kitchen, AND parking. The living room features a wood burning fireplace, built-in bookshelves, original period windows, and floor moldings. The dining room has built-in cabinetry with glass doors. The kitchen has granite counters, stainless appliances, hardwood cabinets with lots of storage and useable space. Large garage and plenty of yard space.

Call Jim Scott,

Broker BRE #830226 at

619.920.9511

Scott & Quinn has three offices, in Mission Hills at 1111 Fort Stockton Drive, in Normal Heights at 30th and Adams Avenue, and in South Park at 2973 Beech Street. The company also features Scott & Quinn Property Management. Founded in 1982, Scott & Quinn is the oldest full service real estate firm in Mission Hills and is still locally owned and operated. Jim has been a homeowner in Mission Hills since 1976.

Jim’s past Market Reports dating from 1997 are on the company web site at www.sqre.com.

Jim Scott, Broker, BRE #830226, 619-920-9511

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