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New Mission Hills-Hillcrest Library Expands in Size

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Point Loma Teen Leads “MayMatters” Fundraiser

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Home of Guiding Hands’ 44th Annual Gala

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Hanging Out in La La Land

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Mission Hills BID Asks for Community Input

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Best Muscle Workouts for Your Glutes

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Walkabout Australia Opens at San Diego Zoo Safari Park

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Ambogio15 Imports Executive Chef

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Vincent Herring Performs on June 16 at the Athenaeum

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Featured Stories Unsuspecting Consumers

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Tenth Annual Taste of Little Italy

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Jazz Icon Gilbert Castellanos to Perform

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Purchase Life Threatening Chemicals

One of the most important responsibilities as a journalist is to inform the public of very serious situations, especially when it can be detrimental to your health and wellbeing. That’s why I am sharing this very important information about chemicals that are currently in the paint departments of your local retailers: Lowe’s, The Home Depot, Walmart, Ace, Orchard Supply and other independent stores.

I have been working on this article for several weeks and was pursuing this through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In an effort to respond to serious allegations against products being sold in the paint departments of your local retailers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced upcoming actions on methylene chloride, a chemical that can be used for paint stripping. This occurred after the EPA was notified that numerous unsuspecting individuals (as many as 50) have died from using paint removers containing methylene chloride.

However, I am not alone in bringing this subject to the public. “CBS News This Morning” has been doing a series of stories that share the sad reality of unsuspecting people who recently died after using paint strippers containing methylene chloride. As difficult as it is to watch this news coverage, I would encourage you to do so. This can help you better understand the severity of the situation and how easy a life is cut short. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEhIhYFSecM. There are several organizations that are also helping with this effort to remove these products from the paint department shelves.

Safer Chemicals and Healthy Families, which led protests at various Lowe’s locations, lobbied for the paint strippers’ removal.

“When facing federal inaction on vital issues facing the American public—some of which are matters of life or death—retailers have a responsibility and an opportunity to do right by their customers,” said Mike Schade, Mind the Store campaign director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families.

Dr. Robert Harrison, Professor of Occupational Health at the University of California San Francisco, is an industry expert on the dangers of products containing methylene chloride. He states that there are safer alternatives that work as well and as fast, and mentions that Europe has barred products containing methylene chloride from the market place.

In response, Lowe’s is banning paint strippers with two harmful chemicals after activists waged a campaign against the home improvement retailer over its sale of the products. Paint removal products with methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) will be off Lowe’s shelves by the end of the year.

“We care deeply about the health and safety of our customers, and great progress is being made in the development of safer and more effective alternatives,” said Mike McDermott, Lowe’s chief customer officer, in a statement. “As a home improvement leader, we recognize the need for viable paint removal products and remain committed to working closely with suppliers to further innovate in this category.”

The group, which organized protests outside Lowe’s stores, said more than 200,000 consumers had signed petitions “demanding action.” The organization called for competitors, including Home Depot, Walmart and Menards, to follow suit.

Methylene chloride has been tied to cancer, reproductive issues and other conditions, according to Safer Chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency in 2017 proposed a ban that has yet to become law.

NMP, or N-methylpyrrolidone, is cited as a cause of fetal development problems, including miscarriages, Safer Chemicals said.

As much as I regret having to be the bearer of bad news, I also know that I would be irresponsible to not bring this to your attention and allow you to become knowledgeable on this life saving issue.

Methylene chloride is dangerous and should be removed immediately from store shelves. It is the right thing to do. Let’s encourage all of the retailers to follow Lowe’s and ban it from their shelves.•

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The New Mission Hills-Hillcrest Branch

Library Expands in Size & Content

By Ginny Ollis Due for completion of construction September 2018, and to open in January 2019, the Harley and Bessie Knox Library of Mission Hills and Hillcrest will be one-story with two stories of underground parking. In addition to shelves of books, it will include a children’s area, computers, media, media-making such as 3-D printers and other technology, four meeting rooms and study rooms, a bookstore, staff space, an interior “healing garden” room, a courtyard on Washington Street, and fabulous programs to entertain and educate the public from children’s happenings, to author presentations, history, and seniors programs, among others. A Youth Services Library will be in operation to serve toddlers to teens.

Phyllis Marion, president of the Friends of Mission Hills/Hillcrest Branch Library, explains that the friends were created in 1983 to advocate for members and raise funds. Not the major donor funds, but operating and program funds, which are used for books, programs, equipment, and interior cosmetics. The library is city owned. The Friends add the community priorities. Friends are completely volunteers, people who offer their time and/or money, and whose personal time donations can be fitted to the friend’s time availability. The two biggest needs looking forward, Marion foresees, are bookstore volunteers and people to develop and operate programs. The more volunteers that offer to work in the bookstore, the more time the store will be able to be open, earning funds directly for the library, of course.

Marion said she is excited about developing programs and hopes to create a pantheon of speakers who want to share the history of their lives and families in Mission Hills, directed to both adults and children. New volunteers to the Friends may sign up at library92103@gmail.com.•

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Remembering

Bobby

By George Mitrovich “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”—Robert F. Kennedy Cape Town, South Africa 6 June 1966 This is a column I didn’t want to write, not wishing to relive the searing memories of 50 years ago when Bobby Kennedy lay mortally wounded on the kitchen floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

But Robert F. Kennedy in life and in death changed my life, so that is why I write: On Saturday, 16 March 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced he was running for president of the United States. In that speech the senator said: “I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all that I can...”

Watching on televisions at our home in Whittier, I knew I wanted to be a part of his campaign; I knew it would be a presidential campaign unlike any other—the chance to raise again America’s collective consciousness on issues of social justice; that in Bobby Kennedy we might comprehend the truth of what Camus wrote, “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”

Through the help of Pierre Salinger, who had been President Kennedy’s press secretary, I was hired by Bobby’s campaign and sent in late March to Omaha, Nebraska, a then critical primary state.

Upon arrival I went to the Sheraton Fontanelle Hotel, headquarters for the campaign, where I met Steve Smith, the legendary Kennedy brother-in-law, and overseer of the family’s business interests.

For someone like me, a 33-year old unknown from California, meeting Smith was a big deal. Like many others Kennedy and Camelot had captivated me. I had read extensively about the family and followed closely stories on radio and television about President Kennedy and his administration, which had created an excitement about politics and the possibilities of government missing in the Eisenhower years.

Like most Americans, save for the hate mongering fringe, I was devastated by the president’s death; the 1,000 days of his presidency had brought hope and a sense of renewal to the American spirit, but now it was over, ended by his assassination in Dallas.

But five years later I found a sense of hope reborn by Bobby and what forcibly struck me as his moral commitment to politics.

I first met Bobby late on a Friday night at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Denver. He had spent the day campaigning with Caesar Chavez in California’s Central Valley before flying east to Colorado. He was leaning against a wall in his suite. He was wearing a blue nightshirt. He looked absolutely beat.

Frank Mankiewicz, his press secretary and former Latin American director for the Peace Corps, introduced me, but I’m not sure it registered, because Bobby fixed me with a quizzical look of, “Who are you?” But Frank said, pay no attention, the senator was extremely tired.

(Mankiewicz would thereafter become my political mentor in all things media. It was he who first said to me, “If you can’t tell the press the truth then tell them nothing at all.” A charge I have faithfully observed these 50 years.)

The next morning early while the campaign entourage and press waited, Bobby went off for a brisk walk with his dog, a cocker spaniel named Freckles. We then went to the Denver airport to board a chartered American Airlines Lockheed Electra; we were bound for Scottsbluff, a small Nebraska town near the Wyoming border.

During the flight I was surprised when one of the senator’s secretaries told me he wanted me to join him for breakfast. No, really, that was a surprise.

After all I was just one press aide among many in the campaign. But Bobby wanted to know my “take” on Nebraska, What was going on? How did it look? What were our chances? Sitting opposite of him with a small table between us, between bites of breakfast and sips of coffee, I realized that when he spoke, he spoke directly to you and to no one else. He had an ability to lock in on you, to make you think you just might be the most important person in his campaign.

That day across the northern tier of Nebraska, proved exhausting, before finally ending late at the airport in Norfolk, in the middle of the state.

The American charter was waiting to take Bobby to McLean, Virginia, as he sought to be home on Sundays with his family. Before boarding the plane people said their goodbyes to the senator. When my turn came I told him to make sure he got some rest. He looked at me and said, “God yes, I need it.” He started up the steps to the plane, but stopped. He came back down and walked over to me. He took my hand and said, “Thank you for today. It was very well done.”

It was, to be sure, a small moment, but sometimes in this life character is measured by such small moments; sometimes such acts reveal depths of inner decency and kindness; sometimes they tell you that at a person’s core there is caring and respects for others, no matter how great the relative difference in their positions of power and standing; and sometimes such

George Mitrovich is a San Diego civic leader. He may be reached at gmitro35@gmail.com.

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Mine Eyes Have Seen George Mitrovich

Bobby Kennedy in 1962.

“small” acts separate the ordinary from the extraordinary—and Robert F. Kennedy was extraordinary.

There was another long day of campaigning (a redundancy, they were all long, hard days, this time through the small towns of southeastern Nebraska. At one of the stops along the way, in Beatrice, Bobby went inside a state hospital, a place where hydrocephalic children were being cared for (children with abnormally large heads).

Before he went in, Bill Lawrence of ABC News, asked me if I was coming?

I told him I would wait outside, that I wasn’t good in such circumstances.

Sometime later Bobby and the press came out of the hospital. What I saw were members of the press in tears.

I asked Lawrence what happened? He said Bobby had taken these hydrocephalic children into his arms, speaking lovingly to them while caressing and kissing their foreheads. It was, Lawrence said, an extraordinarily moving moment—and clearly the press was affected by what they witnessed.

On the day after the Nebraska primary, which Bobby won decisively, we made a quick trip to Detroit, where more than a 100,000 people greeted the senator. We flew back west to Los Angeles. When we arrived at LAX, my wife, La Verle, and our three children, Carolyn, Mark, and Tim, were waiting to greet me, as I had not seen them in several months.

There was a large crowd waiting to see Bobby in the boarding area (this was before security concerns kept people away from such areas). The staff was pushing Bobby to get off our American charter flight, but I asked if he would say hello to my family? He asked, “Where are they?” “Outside in the terminal,” I answered. He told me to bring them on board. It was obvious some staff members were annoyed, but I did as asked. He greeted La Verle, and then asked each of our children their names, ages, and where they went to school. He focused on them—and they remember that moment.

No one can say with certainty what we lost when Bobby died 6 June 1968, but I believe our world would be a vastly different place had he lived—that both America and the world would have been spared so much of the hell the last 50 years has brought—and we might never have heard the name, Donald Trump.

For I am certain Bobby would have been the nominee of the Democratic Party for president in ‘68, and would have defeated Richard Nixon. Two reasons: First, because Mayor Daley and his thugs would not have done to Bobby in Chicago what they did to Eugene McCarthy, and, secondly, Hubert Humphrey, with all the baggage of Vietnam and the Johnson presidency, still lost to Nixon by fewer than 500,000 votes.

Yes, our world would have been vastly different.

But if you know anything about the Kennedys, you would know they do not live in the past. As Ethel Kennedy told NBC’s Tom Brokaw in an interview 25 years after Bobby’s death, “Kennedys do not do would ofs, could ofs, or should ofs.”

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Father’s Day & the Fifth Annual Car Show

This Father’s Day, treat dad to a special day at the beach and cruise on down to Belmont Park for their free annual Car Show, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, June 17 in the North Parking Lot at 3146 Ocean Front Walk. Get your fix of classic cars and more at this event before cruising over to Draft or Beach House with the family. There will be nearly 100 cars including a selection of restored classic cars to enjoy.

While you’re enjoying the Park, drop into the Food Court to enjoy a complimentary Stone Brewery beer tasting from noon to 3 p.m. paired with live music from the Sea Monks. Kids can enjoy free crafts under the Giant Dipper Roller Coaster from noon to 3 p.m. while supplies last.

Classic cars will be on display at the annual Father’s Day event at Belmont Park.

This Father’s Day, come to Belmont Park where there’s something for everyone. For more information on Belmont Park’s Fifth Annual Car Show or Belmont Park, visit www.belmontpark.com.•

Patty Ducey-Brooks Publisher

Ilene Hubbs Associate Editor

Michal A. Tuzinkiewicz Creative/Art Director

Phyllis E. Zawacki Graphic Designer

Contributing Writers Blake Beckcom Rick Brooks Melody Brown Ian Campbell Richard Cone Cath DeStefano Violet Green Barry Hager Ilene Hubbs David Kamatoy

Point Loma Teen Leads “MayMatters” Community Service Fundraiser The School for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SET High) announces “MayMatters,” an inaugural community service and fundraising initiative that encourages social entrepreneurism and assists local charities and their school. Not only do students, their friends, and their family members spend time volunteering, but also raise funds for the organizations as well. It’s a new twist on school fundraising.

SET High students gather sponsors to pledge money for every hour a student works with their charity of choice. Family and friends are encouraged to join in on the service projects as well. Half of the funds raised go toward the charity, and the other half goes to SET High, to support the school’s innovative programs.

SET High’s MayMatters effort is a collaboration between students and staff. The charities were chosen through a competitive process by a student committee.

“This is the first year of MayMatters, and I’ve enjoyed being involved very early in the decision-making process to assist with the campaign logo as well as co-present during the MayMatters showcase where students got to meet each charity,” said Trinity Catlin, freshman at SET High who is also a resident of Point Loma. Trinity and her mother Lisa are team leads to support the project with Reins Equestrian Therapy.

Another student, Jeremiah Kubota, who along with his mother Kathleen, is leading the effort to assist the Frosted Faces Foundation, adds, “Helping to build and launch the first-ever MayMatters campaign at

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Left to right are Tayo Rhodes, Trinity Catlin and Jeremiah Kubota.

SET High has taught me a lot about “Through MayMatters, we conhow to produce an event, stay on tinue SET High’s mission to build track and organize a group around a socially responsible students and common cause. This campaign has community members,” said Sofia sparked my interest in philanthropy.” Zambalis-Lowenstein, english deSkills learned by students will set partment chair at SET High. “Wheththem up for life. “The MayMatters er it’s volunteering with a local charinitiative aims to address the ity or creating sustainable solutions needs of our community as well for community challenges like homeas encourage SET High students to lessness, school safety, or human develop mutual trust and respect trafficking, we hope to better prepare with the charities of their choice,” our students for the workforce by desays Neil McCurdy, Ph.D., chief veloping their interests now to coneducational officer and principal, tribute effectively to the community SET High. “These are key qualities in the future.” successful social entrepreneurs Based in San Diego, Calif., SET should have and SET High strives to High is fully accredited by the cultivate these characteristics with Accrediting Commission for Schools, our students to prepare them for Western Association of Schools the future with new traditions like and Colleges (WASC). To learn MayMatters.” more, please call 858.874.4338 Service days where SET or visit www.sethigh.org.• High students work in the community were May 12, May 19, and May 20. A school-wide celebration was held in midIlene Hubbs will return May to commemorate in future issue. the initiative.

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Walkabout Australia Opens at San Diego Zoo Safari Park The Safari Park is known for its expansive habitats featuring African and Asian species, but now it offers a view into the Land Down Under, featuring Australia’s interesting and unique species. Walkabout Australia takes guests through four different types of Australian habitats: grassland, rain forest, wetlands and desert. Featured animals include western gray kangaroos, red—necked wallabies, brush turkeys, radjah shelducks, freckled ducks, magpie geese, double—wattled cassowaries and Matschie’s tree kangaroos.

During a visit, guests also may come nose—to—nose with animals like a wombat, kookaburra, echidna, blue—tongued skink, woma, rose—breasted cockatoo or sugar glider.

Accompanied by their keepers, these extraordinary animal ambassadors will be available for up—close encounters several times throughout the day.

Walkabout Australia represents Australia’s rural landscapes and the animals, plants and signs of human habitation encountered along backcountry roads. The 3.6—acre Walkabout Australia cost $17.4 million to build, and is located at the base of the trail to Condor Ridge, adjacent to Tull Family Tiger Trail.

After strolling along a country road among Australian bottlebrush and eucalyptus trees, guests come upon a tumbledown stone house that welcomes them to the grassland. A pathway with no barriers leads guests through an expansive meadow, home to a large group of western gray kangaroos, red-necked wallabies and magpie geese.

While guests are asked to be respectful of the animals and to stay on the pathway, the kangaroos and wallabies are welcome to get quite close to visitors, especially if they are feeling inquisitive. This unique opportunity is similar to experiences offered by zoos in Australia, which are a key part of their work to engage local communities in species preservation.

Walkabout Australia is included with Safari Park admission and membership.•

Wallabies are featured at Walkabout Australia.

help us find a home Dobby is a five-year old, Chihauhua mix with big ears and ready to find a forever home. He might be little, but he’s got a big personality. Happygo-lucky, sweet and friendly, this adorable guy has it all.

Dobby is currently on medication for seizures and will need a family who is committed to continuing care for this very manageable condition.

Dobby is neutered with current vaccinations, permanent microchip identification, a certificate for a free veterinary exam, waived enrollment fee for medical insurance from TruPanion, and a license if residing in Escondido, San Marcos, Poway, Oceanside, and Vista.

Dobby is residing at the San Diego Humane Society, San Diego Campus, located at 5500 Gaines Street, San Diego, CA 92110. For more information, call 619.299.7012, or visit www.sdhumane.org.

Dante is a one and one half-year old Doberman Pinscher mix. This handsome guy may take a little time to warm up to new people, but once you are friends you will soon see his affectionate side, ready to offer cuddles and kisses. Dante is house-trained, treat-motivated and can’t wait to show you his potential!

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Dante would love to find a home where his humans will be patient with him and committed to continuing his positive reinforcement training and confidencebuilding, especially around strangers, as the big world around him can seem rather scary and overwhelming at times. It also might be helpful for him to have another friendly and calm doggie in the home. If you have one, be sure to bring them in for an intro to see if it’s a good fit.

Dante’s adoption fee includes his neuter, current vaccinations, permanent microchip identification, a certificate for a free veterinary exam, waived enrollment fee for medical insurance from TruPanion, and a license if residing in Escondido, San Marcos, Poway, Oceanside, and Vista.

Dante currently resides at the Escondido Campus at 3450 E. Valley Parkway.

For more information, call 760.888.2275 or visit www.sdhumane.org.

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Best Muscle Workouts for

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Your Glutes

Are you trying to get optimal muscle definition for the summer months especially in the booty? If so, you may be starting to hit the gym or research some weight training ideas to bolster your backside.

You probably are already familiar with doing a squat, as they are an effective way to sculpt your legs and they are easy enough to do in the correct form. However, adding weights to this move can intensify it so it will work even harder for you.

This will help your muscles become more defined and leaner to get that sculpted beach body.

If you want to get the most out of your squats, have you considered doing variations such as the goblet sumo squat or the dumbbell squat thrust? These two moves add a little extra effort to the traditional squat, but make an incredible difference in the outcome. They add weight and an increased amount of motion, which will force your body to work a bit harder, but it will also produce greater results.

These moves are superior because they cause you to move up and down, creating tension on your muscles until you are finished with your entire set. Your muscles are then working constantly throughout the duration of the exercise so they remain activated and engaged. This helps build size and strength and keeps you moving

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through the entire exercise so your muscles don’t get a break until all of your reps are complete. It is best to do these exercising until your muscles are fatigued.

The dumbbell squat thrust is great at putting stress on your glutes during the squat exercise, but it lets that tension go as you jump out of your plank position. This means it is a bit less powerful for your legs than the previously stated goblet sumo squat.

However, this phase of the exercise is powerful for the upper body and abdomen, which are both important muscle groups to pay attention to when you are doing weightlifting.

Both of these moves are very helpful to do in your exercise regimen, but if you really want to focus on your backside, the goblet squat jump is the best. Try adding these moves to your exercise routine at least three times a week (but no more than four) to increase the strength in your muscles Goblet Squat Jump Hold onto the head of a heavy dumbbell directly in front of your chest. Stand with your feet a bit wider than your shoulders with your toes slightly facing outwards. Bend your knees and push your hips back to lower your body. Stop here for a minute to feel the tension in your muscles before slowly straightening your legs back up to the position in which you started.

Dumbbell Squat Thrust Stand with your feet directly below your hips while holding a dumbbell in each hand. Bend your knees and push your hips back to get into a squatting position. Put the weights down on the floor and hop back up into a push up position. Stay in this position for a moment to feel the tension, then do the movement in reverse and return to standing.

If your priority goal is your glutes, you need to do exercises that work all three of the gluteus muscles, which are the minimus, the medius, and the maximus. A lot of glute exercises will also work your quads and hamstrings, but adding two more specific moves will help keep your emphasis on your glutes.

Supine Bench Glute Bridge Sit on the floor in front of a bench with your upper back resting on the bench. Bend your knees and put your feet flat on the floor. Raise your hips up, forming a straight line from your chest to your knees while resting your upper back on the bench. Stay here for five seconds before returning to your original position.

Dumbbell Dead Lift Hold two dumbbells with an

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overhand grip while standing, and bend at your hips and knees. Brace your abs and keep a slight arch in your lower back. Pull back your torso and move your hips forward while you stand up with the dumbbells. Do this move while squeezing your glutes.

Lower the dumbbells to the floor.

After doing these exercises, make sure to give your muscles time to relax and recover. Stretch them out a bit and stay hydrated so they don’t become tense or tight. After doing these exercises for a few weeks, you will start to notice a change in the shape of your body and in the amount of strength you are able to put forth. Whatever your reason is, it is important to create a strategy for your glute workout because doing squats all day is boring and won’t necessarily give you the sculpted muscles that you are looking for.•

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More Important Than Ever Before

A Roth Conversion is when you distribute money out of a regular IRA and “convert” it into a Roth IRA. Because you are taking a distribution from your IRA, this creates taxable income. If the funds are then left in the Roth IRA for five years or more (and you are over 59½), earnings in a Roth IRA can be withdrawn tax-free. The idea is that you pay taxes today and never get taxed on those funds again. Prior to 2018, you could change your mind and recharacterize (or undo) a Roth Conversion.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 scrambled a LOT of tax and financial planning. Besides some seismic shifts in corporate and personal income taxes, it also made a number of changes to the details of personal income taxation. One of these was to eliminate the ability to recharacterize amounts converted into a Roth IRA. Said another way: once done, a Roth Conversion is now permanent.

Roth conversions have been a useful tool for managing taxable income, and the ability to “undo” a conversion was very important. Still, I think that Roth Conversions may now be more important than ever, even if you can’t change your mind later.

One of the goals of tax planning is to avoid creating any additional tax. If tax rates in the future are the same as today, there’s no mathematical difference between paying the tax today (Roth conversion) versus keeping the money in an IRA and paying taxes on the withdrawal later. But if tax rates will be higher in the future, paying tax today might actually be better than waiting.

And this is what sets up the planning opportunity: The currently low tax rates expire in 2026. That means that tax rates today are quite likely lower than they will be in the future for the same income.

There are basically five reasons why you would want to convert money to a Roth IRA: Take advantage of large deductions. If you have a large net operating loss or charitable deduction to offset the taxable income created by the conversion, you can essentially create a “free” conversion. For example, if you start a business and your net income after writing off losses is $30,000, you could convert $30,000 from an IRA to a Roth to zero out your taxable income. You could even convert more and still keep your taxable income very low.

Roth IRAs don’t have minimum distributions. Traditional IRAs require you to start taking money out at age 70½. Roth IRAs don’t have this requirement, so you can keep the funds inside the (tax free) IRA longer.

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Tax brackets are more favorable for married couples. This means that income withdrawn from an IRA (including conversions) before the first spouse’s death are done at a lower tax rate than when the survivor is single.

For example, if your taxable income today (including minimum distributions and Social Security) is $160,000, that would put a married couple in the 22 percent tax bracket. A single filer (widow) would be taxed at 32 percent today on the same income.

Tax rates will probably be higher in 2026. Using the last example, that 22 percent tax bracket today would be 28 percent for married couples in 2026, so converting today moves the money to a tax-free account at a lower cost.

Estate taxes. If you have a very large IRA, it gets complicated. It’s probably better convert to a Roth IRA and pay lower income taxes before 2026. This leaves an income tax-free Roth IRA to your heirs instead of the taxable traditional IRA. That’s because the traditional IRA will owe estate taxes then income taxes on whatever is left over, especially if you live past 2025.

Remember that you can’t undo a Roth conversion anymore, so you should work closely with your tax planner to make sure you don’t overdo it. You may also want to wait until later in the year so that you have a better idea of you income for the year and how your conversion will affect you.

Today’s temporarily low tax rates offer an excellent opportunity to do a little tax arbitrage.• This column is prepared by Rick Brooks, CFA®, CFP®. Rick is Director/Investment Management with Blankinship & Foster, LLC, a wealth advisory firm specializing in comprehensive financial planning and investment management. Brooks can be reached at 858.755.5166, or by email at rbrooks@bfadvisors.com. Brooks and his family live in Mission Hills.

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Wildfires*

By Barb Strona

Last January Gary Ferguson spoke of some of the results of wild fires. He covered aspects of its benefits and those of its dangers.

We know that today wildfires occur with increasing frequency; they burn hotter and faster; and they are incredibly difficult to contain.

The consequences of wild fires are ecologically and economically enormous. In 2002 a wildfire in Colorado burned 138,000 acres. The losses of property, income, and forest, as well as the cost of extinguishing this fire, came to three billion dollars. State government costs for suppressing wildfires have doubled.

According to Ferguson, it would be more economical to spend some of these funds toward prevention.

He says, “The Forest Service spends about five hundred times more on putting out fires in the wildland— urban interface (WUI), than it does on preventing them in the first place.”

One issue is that firefighting funds come from the same source that Congress appropriates for research.

We are losing staff for research and development in order to deal with the results of these fires. We need to protect our forests as they give us half of our country’s water and “sequester about 13 percent of total U.S. fossil fuel carbon emissions.”

If the forests are not protected, they will “become net carbon emitters later this century,” says Ferguson quoting Christopher Topik of The Nature Conservancy.

Ferguson says we need to deal with three goals: first, improve firefighters’ response ability as wildfire emergencies increase; second, we need to “restore fire—adapted landscapes (in other words, undoing some of the damaged caused by eighty years of aggressive fire suppression).”

Finally, we need to change the wilderness—urban communities into fire—adapted communities

Improving firefighters’ response is helped by improved communication. Communication is improved when the speakers are familiar with each other. Because each group of firefighters operates somewhat differently, assumptions are made without actual knowledge of how that group functions. One idea to improve communication is for various groups to have more social and professional interactions, thus fostering familiarity with different communication styles. Common radio frequencies can provide access to information about emergencies at various stations would allow the fire fighters to help each other more effectively.

Restoring fire—adapted landscape is another way of dealing with wildfires.

The eighty years’ suppression of forest fires has resulted in an excess of fuel in our forests. Downed timber, crowded forests, sick and dry trees, low branches and invading species of flora not adapted to wildfires make fires not only more likely to occur, but these conditions make the fires burn hotter and faster than they do in forests in which fires used to occur naturally. Thinning the forests is expensive, but it allows more rain and more sunshine to fall on the forest floor helping the trees to become healthier and more resistant to diseases. It also means the trees have less competition for water. Due to the exorbitant cost to treat all the forests that need thinning, thinning will need to be done first in areas of the highest risk.

Setting prescribed burns is another treatment method. Dry fuels lining the forests’ floors can be cleared more quickly by setting a controlled fire. However, based on what we need to do to reduce the severity of fires, about 50,000 acres would need to be burned. The public is not happy with the resulting harmful smoke. However, finding an accurate way of predicting winds would enable prescribed burns to be scheduled according to how the

Wilderness abutting communities need to be more carefully regulated.

weather will disperse and transport the fires’ smoke.

Burning when the weather is cold and wet is counterproductive.

The fire—resistant plants’ seeds germinate under hot, dry conditions; moist heat kills most of them.

Thus, invading plants take over; these plants typically burn hotter.

Herbicides also kill native shrubs leaving a clear field for the fast burning invasive grasses.

Wilderness abutting communities need to be more carefully regulated.

New communities should be constructed to meet Fire Protection Association standards.

Many of us live in communities that abut wild terrain. Ferguson gave ten ways to protect your home from wild fire.

Immediately next to the structure (zero to five feet) should have only non—combustible materials such as gravel, brick and concrete.

Five to 30 feet should be defensible. Remove dead vegetation, shrubs under trees, and branches that overhang your roof. All sheds and trailers should have the same defensible space.

The property’s siding should be non—combustible. Maintain at least a six—inch clearance between the ground and the building’s siding.

Use fire—rated, Class—A roofing.

Clean debris from the top of your roof. Hot embers can ignite debris if blown onto it.

Keep your gutters clean. Any gutter covers should be non—combustible.

Use non—combustible materials for fencing, gates, and other decorative structures to reduce the danger of their catching fire.

Keep vents covered with 1/8—inch mesh and close open eaves to protect your attic from burning embers.

Protect your windows. Use multi—paned tempered glass. Close windows if fire is likely.

If you have a wooden deck and/or stairs, use California’s requirements for new construction.

Remove combustibles from under decks and stairs.

We need to be mindful of what we are doing to our planet. Pollution, over—crowding of plants and people, changing the landscape are just a few of the many areas we need to examine while keeping in mind that one action may affect a host of other issues.

The next meeting of the Mission Hills Garden Club will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, September 26 at Mission Hills Nursery, 1525 Fort Stockton Street. I will give the topic in a future article.• * I am extremely sorry to have just realized that the May article was a repeat. This is the article that was to follow the April article on wildfires. Due to operator (that would be me) error with the computer, I inadvertently erased the May article. Thanks for your understanding.

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Mission Hills BID Asks for

Community Feedback on Reynard Way

Three years ago, the Mission Hills BID Design Committee and the Mission Hills Parking Advisory Committee began discussing the Reynard Way area. About the same time, the Mission Hills Town Council formed a Reynard Way Ad Hoc Committee and invited residents and business owners to Saturday morning meetings, which included Reynard Way walk-abouts.

In 2017, the Mission Hills Parking Advisory Committee proposed a Reynard Way parking and alternative transportation modalities study. The Uptown Community Parking District approved funding for this study. An RFP was issued and it received five responses.

KTU+A was awarded the contract.

The Reynard Way Parking and Alternative Transportation Modalities Study began in July 2017 and on September 23, 2107 a morning community kick-off was held at The Frame Maker. Initial drawings where shared. Feedback was solicited. On February 28, 2018 an afternoon community update meeting was held at The Frame Maker to share study progress and solicit feedback. And, on May 2, 2018 an evening community update meeting was held at Mission Hills Methodist Church where the latest study information was shared and feedback was solicited.

Although not all in attendance support every element of the study, most want options which would have the potential to yield additional parking spaces; create a calm and safer walking and bicycling environment, and include elements for place making.

The Mission Hills BID is interested in hearing your ideas on the Reynard Way Parking and Alternative Transportation Modalities Study. You are invited to view the study online and allow a couple more minutes to take the Survey at: missionhillsbid.com/reynard-way-parking-and-transportation-modalities-survey/.

The Reynard Way Parking and Transportation Survey is seeking feedback through June 5, 2018.•

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Reynard Way Parking and Transportation Modalities Study Survey

1. Have you attended a Reynard Way Parking and Transportation Modalities Study Community Outreach Meeting? Yes/No 2. Do you use the Reynard Way corridor for: Daily Commutes, Weekly Special Trips, Once a Month, Rarely? (Please choose one.)

3. Are you aware of parking problems on Reynard Way? Yes/No 4. Do you feel the speeds on Reynard Way are too great for the safety of residents, business owners, employees, or shoppers? Yes/No 5. Do you feel that residences and businesses along Reynard Way need additional parking? Yes/No 6. On Reynard Way there are very few mid-block crosswalks. Would you support additional crosswalks at the following cross streets?

Pennsylvania Yes/No Torrance Yes/No

Ostego Yes/No Eagle Yes/No

Pedestrian Stairs Yes/No Redwood Yes/No (south of the southern-most Eagle Street)

Arroyo Yes/No None of the Above 7. Do you think it is a good idea to paint marked locations on Reynard Way that provide a person parking a vehicle a better idea of the proper space to leave between parked vehicles? Yes/No 8. Do you support increasing the potential number of parking spaces on Reynard Way? Yes/No 9. Would you support adding angled parking along Reynard Way? Yes/No 10a. If cost was not a factor, which above option do you prefer, Option 1 or Option 2 10b. Please provide a brief explanation for your preference between Option 1 or Option 2 11. Would you like to be contacted by e-mail for upcoming Reynard Way meetings? Yes/No 12. Please provide any additional comments, compliments or concerns.

Please review the Existing Conditions, below, as well as the following two design options,

Existing Conditions: Reynard Way functions as a local street as well as a throughway from West Washington and West University to Laurel Street, State Street and onto Little Italy and Interstate 5.

Reynard Way has very few safe or convenient pedestrian crossings. Parking habits are not always conducive to efficient parking. What could you squeeze out of the street?

Option 1 Description:

Existing Conditions

Along Reynard Way from the intersections of North Eagle to South Eagle are median based parking with bike lanes on the outside curb edge and various crosswalks to get from the median to the walkways. This option includes raised speed tables with pedestrian flashers at North Eagle, crosswalks with a three way stop sign at Redwood and another speed table with pedestrian flashers at South Eagle. All are designed to slow traffic in this area. Traffic calming measures may also include lighting and safety elements.

Option 2 Description:

Option 1

Along Reynard Way angled parking will be implemented on the east side of the street between North Eagle and South Eagle. Parallel parking on the west side of Reynard Way allows for a dedicated northbound bike lane and southbound “sharrows”. Bulb-outs and crosswalks will be incorporated to encourage pedestrian safety.

Option 2

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Taste of Little Italy

On Wednesday, June 13, restaurants of San Diego’s top eatery hub will open their doors for the 10th annual Taste of Little Italy, in San Diego’s Little Italy from 5 to 9 p.m. Food lovers can walk along Little Italy’s picturesque sidewalks enjoying live music on the street corners and tasting bites from some of the neighborhood’s most popular restaurants. Ticketholders will receive a Taste Passport, a guide mapping out all participating restaurants in the neighborhood and their menu offerings.

“San Diego’s Little Italy neighborhood is excited to host the most flavorful event of the summer and celebrate its 10th annual event,” said Chris Gomez, district manager of the Little Italy Association. “Visitors and locals will be able to sample nearly 20 top eateries in the neighborhood all in one night, trying each restaurant’s most popular dishes, including appetizers, entrees, desserts and beverages.”

Two different Taste Passport routes will be available on the event HYPERLINK “http://www.littleitalysd.com/events/taste-of-little-italy”website—a south route and a north route, each featuring a different but equally delicious selection of restaurants. Nearly 40 restaurants will participate in Taste of Little Italy— with about 20 eateries per route. Attendees can take their Taste Passport from restaurant to restaurant, sampling the delicious food options at each spot in exchange for a stamp on their passport! Some participating restaurants include Barbusa, Nolita, Herb & Wood, The Crack Shack, Ironside, Born & Raised, Civico 1845, Filippi’s, Frost Me Café & Bakery and more.

Tickets are priced at $40 per route prior to the event and $45 at the door.

Tickets will go on sale in late April. For more information on this year’s event, visit www.tasteoflittleitalysd.com.•

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Guests of Taste of Little Italy enjoy a variety of delicious food options.

44 th Annual Gala

Home of Guiding Hands (HGH) will hold SuperHero Soiree, its 44th annual fundraising gala, on Saturday, June 9, 2018 from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the U.S. Grant Hotel, which will benefit more than 2,500 individuals with developmental disabilities that HGH supports annually.

The event will feature a cocktail reception, a threecourse meal with wine pairings, unique experiences included in a silent & live auction, dancing, gaming and live music from The Mighty Untouchables.

Guests will also have the chance to interact with clients whom HGH serves. Rich and Lynda Kerr are this year’s honorees and Rachel Wood is this year’s Committee Chair.

Rich and Lynda Kerr have been extraordinary Home of Guiding Hands supporters for the past 18 years.

Rich first got involved with HGH by joining the annual HGH Pro-Am Golf Classic committee and cochairing the event. Every year since, Rich has played in the tournament and the Kerrs have been long-time sponsors of the Golf Classic.

“Rich and Lynda simply believe in giving back,” said Mark Klaus, president and CEO of Home of Guiding Hands. “We are grateful for their altruistic sense of giving, their loyalty and their shared belief in our mission (to improve the lives of those we serve).”

For over 50 years, HGH has been committed to providing quality community support, critical housing and life skills training for children and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The basis for what HGH does, is the belief that individuals can thrive in a setting that offers a more fulfilling lifestyle, provides individualized attention, stresses increased opportunities for self-sufficiency and encourages greater community integration and access.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.guidinghands.org or contact Jessica Brandon at 619.932.2854 or jessica@guidinghands.org.•

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Vincent Herring Performs on June 16 at the Athenaeum There’s no avoiding the hard times. Every human being that’s walked this earth has had his or her share of the blues, from the personal to the political, the local to the global.

Vincent Herring doesn’t have the answers to those issues any more than the rest of us. What he can offer is a tonic to help calm the turbulence of modern life, at least for an hour. With ‘Hard Times,” his third release for Smoke Sessions Records, the master saxophonist supplies the perfect musical response to our troubled existence—part escape, part defiance; part lament, part laughter. Over the course of these 11 songs, Herring and his stellar band both sing the blues and shake them off in ways both healing and infectious.

Though Herring was going through a rough patch in his personal life at the time of the recording, he had a much more wide-ranging vision in mind for “Hard Times.” “It’s the theme of the times that we’re going through,” he explained, pointing out that, at the time of this writing, the possibility of nuclear war suddenly seemed very possible thanks to the bluster of saber-rattling world leaders.

“The obvious red elephant in the room would be politics,” Herring continued. “So it’s hard times not Vincent Herring will perform songs from “Hard Times” while he is in San Diego. necessarily just from my vantage point, but from looking at world events. At the same time, I do realize how blessed and fortunate I am to be living the life I’m living. I have a lot of real fans that support me and a lot of great people in my life; and, I have wonderful kids. This album will hit people in different ways, but I offer it as an uplifting piece for the hard times in the universe.”

The selection of repertoire for “Hard Times” came down to a single principle: these are quite simply songs that Herring has loved over the years and have seen him through his own hard times—and he hopes his renditions will do the same for listeners. “All through my life, whenever I’ve had ups and downs, music has been the one thing that’s always kept it positive for me,” he says. “It’s always been something that I could come back to and dig into to lift my spirits.

This record is meant to be fun, it’s meant to be uplifting, it’s meant to be something that people will want to listen to over and over again.”

“Hard Times” was produced by Paul Stache and Damon Smith and recorded live in New York at Sear Sound’s Studio C on a Sear-Avalon custom console at 96KHz/24bit and mixed to ½” analog tape using a Studer mastering deck. It is available in audiophile HD format.

Herring will perform during the Athenaeum summer series. He will perform at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 16 with Dave Kikoski on piano, Yasushi Nakamura on bass, and Carl Allen on drums. The Athenaeum is located at 1008 Wall Street in La Jolla.•

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Jazz Icon Gilbert Castellanos to perform with the San Diego Children’s Choir The San Diego Children’s Choir and jazz icon and award-winning trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos will showcase “An American Tapestry,” a performance of the musical history of our nation at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 2 at Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall at 750 B Street in downtown San Diego.

Choristers ages four to 18 will take guests on a musical journey of the indigenous people of Southern California and Mexico and progress through two significant waves of immigration representing European and East Asian cultures. San Diego Jazz icon and award-winning trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos will join the choristers in the second half of the program when the focus widens to a broader picture of our nation’s music.

Quintessential genres of Americana, Spirituals, and Jazz will be highlighted.

A highlight will be Duke Ellington’s, “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing,” featuring Castellanos.

“We are excited to be taking guests on a retrospective of our musical history,” said Carrie Cottriall, executive director of the San Diego Children’s Choir.

“The lyrical and melodic beauty of our diversity will be performed by more than 230 enthusiastic choristers from throughout the county and jazz trumpet virtuoso Gilbert Castellanos.”

The San Diego Children’s Choir has six ensembles and two introductory programs for children in kindergarten and pre-kindergarten and for lowincome youth. All six ensembles will be performing.

For more information, visit sdcchoir.org, Jazz artist and award-winning trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos will showcase or call 858.587.1087.• “An American Tapestry” with the San Diego Children’s Choir.

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Old Globe Theatre “Native Gardens,” by Karen Zacarías runs through June 24 at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center of the Old Globe. It is directed by Edward Torres.

Young power couple Pablo and Tania get their piece of the American dream when they purchase an upscale house in a historic neighborhood. But a disagreement with their next-door neighbors Virginia and Frank over the property line that separates their backyards soon spirals into an all-out war of taste, class, and gardening. The hedgerow becomes the site of a culture clash and friendly neighbors turn into flower-flinging enemies in the West Coast premiere of Karen Zacarías’s uproarious “Native Gardens.”

The cast includes Kimberli Flores as Tania Del Valle, Peri Gilpin as Virginia Butley, Eddie Martinez as Pablo Del Valle, and Mark Pinter as Frank Butley, as well as local San Diego actors Jose Balistrieri (Gardener) and Alex Guzman (Gardener).

The creative team includes Collette (From left) Mark Pinter as Frank Butley, Kimberli Flores as Tania Del Valle, Pollard (scenic design), Jennifer Brawn Eddie Martinez as Pablo Del Valle, and Peri Gilpin as Virginia Butley.

Gittings (costume design), Amanda Zieve Photo by Jim Cox (lighting design), Mikhail Fiksel (sound design), Caparelliotis Casting (casting), and Marie Jahelka (production stage manager).

Post show forums are Tuesdays, June 5 and June 12, and Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

Join us after the show for an informal and enlightening question-and-answer session with cast, crew, and/or Globe staff members.

The Old Globe is located in San Diego’s Balboa Park at 1363 Old Globe Way. For information, call 234.5623.•

Landmark Theatres Andrea Riseborough (“The Death of Stalin,” “Battle of the Sexes”) gives a subtly haunting performance as Nancy, a lonely 35-year-old woman who makes things up to brighten her otherwise boring life. Taking care of an ailing and demanding mother (Ann Dowd), trapped in a messy house, Nancy escapes frequently to the internet where she creates elaborate identities and hoaxes under pseudonyms. When she hears about a couple whose fiveyear-old daughter was stolen 30 years ago, she wonders if she could be that missing daughter.

The projected portrait of the missing girl looks remarkably like Nancy, and she decides to contact the parents, who invite her to

visit. The traumatized mother (J. Smith-Cameron) wants to believe it might be possible, but the father (Steve Buscemi) is more skeptical.

Fact and fiction begin to blur in Nancy’s mind, and she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents. As their bond deepens, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief— and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.

“Nancy,” written and directed

by Christina Choe, opens at the Hillcrest Cinemas, located at 3965 5th Avenue, on Friday, June 22. The film runs 87 minutes and it is not rated. For information and times, call 619.819.0236, or visit www. landmarkTheatres.com. Film times and dates are subject to change.•

Andrea Riseborough and John Leguizamo star in “Nancy.”

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La La Land

By Stylishly Aubree Lynn, Stylist/Writer/Producer Back in November of 2016 I had the beautiful and talented actress, producer and entrepreneur, Tamera Mowry Housley, co-host of the Emmy winning talk show, “The Real,” take over my Instagram. Since then I had been asked if I wanted to go to the show to connect with the co-host and meet the producer. Though it had been a long time since we initiated contact, I really wanted to attend. Finally, this past May, I told my husband that for my birthday let’s make this happen. So we did.

I met with Designer Lizz Russell of the Lizz Russell Collection and she styled me in one of her two-piece ensembles in fuschia pink, which just popped. I got the dress code restrictions and though the bright color was on point for the audience attire, the sleeveless top was not. So Lizz and I regrouped and she added a creative sleeve in the same fabric and color to each shoulder, which worked out perfectly.

We matched the outfit with layers of pearls and my first ever Lizz Russell handbag.

To finish the ensemble, I threw on a pair of way too high strappy, stiletto heels.

The long drive to LA that day was not for the faint of heart. Fortunately, we stopped in Huntington Beach where we met our friends who have a new born. The meet and greet experience made the traffic and drive worth it. Around 4 p.m. we finally arrived at The Beverly Hills Marriott where we were greeted with fruit filled champagne in flutes and headed straight to the pool for some serious relaxation.

Later that evening, we had reservations to the oldest restaurant in LA, Musso and Franks. This place has been around since 1919. How cool is that? The atmosphere was that of the 20s, low lighting, red booths, wood accents throughout, coat hangers on each booth, and music of gentile Frank Sinatra playing in the background.

The hustle and bustle of LA traffic, and the waves and crush of people, make for a challenging trip. However, a quick getaway for mom and dad (me and my husband), who don’t ever take time off, was a nice escape. And here we were, preparing to attend “The Real.” That alone was reason for all the extra effort and commotion.

We confirmed the later, noon taping to avoid the early morning traffic and other challenges on Monday in LA. That was smart. We slept in and had breakfast in the hotel, took our time to get ready and arrived at Warner Bros Studio where we stood in the VIP line with a few others. This allowed us to meet some very nice people who we bonded with before going in for the taping.

They finally called us in to the studio and we took our seats. It was a fun vibe. Dave, the producer, came up to me and gave me a hug. He talked to us for a minute and asked if he could take us backstage after the show. “Absolutely!,” was our response.

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Monzu Fresh Pasta Opens in East Village on May 22 Six months after first announcing plans to enter San Diego’s East Village, new restaurant and retail concept Monzu Fresh Pasta opened on Tuesday, May 22, followed by a public Grand Opening celebration from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, June 2. Located at 455 Tenth Avenue, the eatery will serve authentic fresh pasta among other dishes and will offer a retail section featuring an assortment of raw fresh pastas to cook at home, imported Italian delicatessen products and San Diego made foods.

Monzu is the family-owned creation of European husband-wife team Aldo de Dominicis Rotondi and Serena Romano, who share a strong belief in the Slow Food movement. Having trained with Italy’s master pasta makers, de Dominicis Rotondi and Romano will lead the kitchen in creating Monzu’s all-day menu, which will follow centuriesold pasta making techniques and flavors inspired by regions including Sicily, Campania and Puglia.

Among a diverse pasta menu, staples like the fried raviolo fritto cacio e pepe and Signature Neapolitan scarpiello are primed to become favorites. Monzu will also offer daily specials and weekly-changing regional recipes, and several dishes will cater to dairy-free, low-gluten and vegan diets such as pici with vegan pesto of the Day. For diners who cannot decide, Monzu fresh pasta will serve pasta flights comprised of the guest’s choice of three items from the day’s menu.

During its Grand Opening, Monzu will also offer twenty percent off purchases of the restaurant’s retail selection of specialty foods.

To learn more visit www.monzufreshpasta.com.•

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It was pretty exciting and not what I was expecting, to have that opportunity to be in the center of the energy leading up to the show. Then it started. The girls came out: Adrienne, Loni, Jeannie and Tamera walked down to start the show.

These infamous stars walked to their table and the energy was off the charts.

Unfortunately, one of the cameras blocked Tamera’s face, which restricted her from seeing me. However, near the end of the show we finally made eye contact. We waved and smiled. Producer Dave took us to a back area and we got to talk for a while until Tamera arrived.

She screamed and held out her arms. We hugged and laughed, and finally we got to meet in person. I introduced her to my husband. Tamera stated that she already felt like she knew us. That was a pretty cool compliment.

We then found a spot to take a photo and chatted about motherhood, having a boy first, then a girl, as that is what she has and soon I am about to have a girl. We talked about potty training, her schedule for the show, her new HGTV show with her husband Adam Housley, and the newest addition to her family, that being her sister Tia’s new baby.

My husband and Tamera chatted about being twins. We learned that they are both two minutes apart from their siblings and the older of the two. It was a very cool and special encounter. As I was talking to her I felt like I was talking to a friend I had not seen in a long time. Then I would look at her face and think, “This is Tamera, a girl I grew up watching with my brother and now watching as an adult and now meeting.” This is awesome!

How cool is this? Dave walked us out and told me we need to come back as they still have two more years in the contract. I thanked him deeply or making this happen.

As we departed the studio, on our way home, and over the next few days it continued to feel like a dream. The concept of La La Land became reality.

It truly felt like we fell asleep, did all these cool things, and woke up back to the reality of life. I will never forget this experience and the people I met. It was a great start to my 33rd year of life.

Tamera isn’t just an actress and mother, she is a role model, a truthful person who walks the talk, a noble person with integrity and loyalty. She is the kind of women I want my soon to be daughter following from childhood to adulthood, and eventually meeting in real life. I believe the people I met are rare these days, especially being a Hollywood born and raised actress. It was truly a refreshing and assuring experience to witness.

A big thank you to Lizz Russell for the beautiful ensemble, my husband for making the plans and driving us to LA, my parents for watching our kiddo, and of course Dave and Tamera for being genuine people who care about their fans. Now a big congrats to “The Real” for a well deserved Emmy.•

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Summer Murals of

by Cath DeStefano

Appreciation

I came of age with the military when I sort of knew my uncles were in World War II but it never occurred to me to ask them what that was like for them.

I remember somehow knowing not to ask.

By the time I was waking up to an outside-of-Niles-Michigan world, there were fellow students wearing afros on campus and my brother was told to go, and went, to Viet Nam and came back. (We’re still trying to make up for the thanks and appreciation not expressed to our soldiers of that time.)

I admit to a naïve bias and preference for a military-free world. I identified with the one who put a flower in the barrel of the soldier’s gun.

So, it surprises me that I now collaborate with others to see that our military feel appreciated. North County Blue Star Mothers were a big part of my wakeup call on this. Their children serve.

To honor those who serve, our third collaboration (with you perhaps?) are our HeArt Fest Military Appreciation Murals directed straight at the hearts of our military.

Imagine 1 to 8 people gathered around a three-foot by six-foot paper mural with scented magic markers in hand.

The idea? Color (inside or outside the lines) and gift it in appreciation to those who signed on to, if necessary, give their lives for our security. BIG. Summer. It suggests times of ease and fun sprinkled throughout our regular lives.

May it also have some time for summer parades of appreciation in it too.

Cath DeStefano, Author, Keynote Speaker, Artist Military Appreciation Murals: www.humantuneup.com/heartfest.htm HumanTuneUp@Live.com

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Music Saves

By Laura Walcher Here are all the things you can’t think about while you’re playing music: Did I pay my mortgage? I know I put the payment on automatic, but does it begin this month? Next month? Should I wear the floral skirt? Maybe basic black’s better. Are Syria’s wars ever going to end?

Nope. Even if you’ve played from childhood—“Baa—baa Black Sheep”–several thousand times by now, you can’t play it even mildly well if you’re thinking about anything else—at all.

And that’s what I like. I’d guess that music—to play for sure, to sing together–has fostered more unity and peace in the world than any other single activity. My drummer brother Michael says, simply, “It gets us out of our heads!” Music therapists, including Sharp’s new program, agree. That’s they’ve turned music into a healing treatment. It’s been well documented to relieve pain, reduce distress, lower blood pressure, boost immunity, enhance intelligence, and improve memory.

Moreover, plenty of research has shown that preemies, children of all ages, and dogs (well, I knew that, judging from our entitled Fen’s collapsing, immobile at my feet at my first flute note!) find peace in being presented with music.

Next to we humans, actually, perhaps dogs benefit the most from music. Sue Wagner, who wrote, “Through a Dog’s Ear,” reports that music

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can soothe and relax your hyperactive pooch. At a test of 150 dogs, she discovered that certain classical pieces could cure separation anxiety, say, and other issues that provoke drooling, panting and incessant barking.

With my musician companions, these days we whirl ‘round senior facilities, playing the music we love, and that we know resonates with our audiences: the Gershwin brothers, Cole Porter, Hank Williams (well, poor Hank pretty much always lost his lover, but he did manage to cheer up now and then (Jambalaya—“Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me—oh—my—oh..” etc. And he was only depressed in—between songs). Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and, of course, the music from the shows that go with them: Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma,” and just in town, “South Pacific,” Gershwin’s ”Porgy & Bess,” or Harold Arlen’s “Wizard of Oz.” We’re constantly impressed by the recall of elderly and/or infirm seniors, who rouse to melodies and lyrics. (Once you know ol’ “baa—baa black sheep, “ you never, ever, forget it!)

Oliver Sacks, in a discussion of his book, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” said, “I’m actually amazed at how much of the brain is recruited for musical experience. The ability to appreciate music is a defining quality of our humanity.” (O.K. he didn’t know Fen.) Here are your instructions: revive your childhood piano lessons. Pick up a guitar, cello, or sax. Any instrument will do. (No, I didn’t “recommend” the flute. For one thing, that mouthpiece, it’s too difficult! For another, I don’t need the competition.)•

Executive Chef Daniele Piazza from Italy

Ambrogio15, the modern and authentically Milan-style pizzeria with a flagship location in North Pacific Beach and a second location soon to open in the Little Italy Food Hall, has hired new Executive Chef and “dough master” Daniele Piazza from Italy to oversee the restaurant’s dough production and future recipes. Chef Daniele becomes Ambrogio15’s first official executive chef since its opening in Summer 2016 and steps into the role as the face of the creative kitchen where he will play a lead part in the restaurant’s planned expansion, both in terms of new recipes inspired by Northern Italy and future restaurant locations. Ambrogio15 will celebrate the arrival of its new chef with The Dough Master’s Dinner on Thursday, June 7.

Ambrogio15, born from the minds of Milanturned-San Diego residents Giacomo Pizzigoni, Andrea Burrone and Luca Salvi, was created to share Milano culture—both dining and design— with San Diegans. Ambrogio15 has consistently earned the respect of patrons through incredibly high quality and thoughtful fare made with ingredients from small-scale, sustainable producers in Italy; notably, its modern lighting, dough mixer, oven, pizza counter and coffee cups are also products of Italy. Learn more at www.ambrogio15.com.•

Chef Daniele Piazza’s most recent role was head pizza chef at the historic Trattoria Ballotta, founded in 1605 more than 400 years ago.

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June 1 n Arts District

Liberty Station, located at 2640 Historic Decatur Road in San Diego, has free performances from 5 to p.m. to celebrate summer and the arts at Friday Night Liberty. Enjoy a free concert by Point Loma Nazarene University students at Dick Laub NTC Command Center.

n Ki’s Restaurant, located at 2591 South Coast Highway in Encinitas, hosts Robin Henkel and Whitney Shay from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. For information, call 760.436.5236.

June 1 thru September 28 n Beginning this evening summer arrives early with the return of the Balboa Park Conservancy’s popular Food Truck Fridays program from 4 to 8:30 p.m. The opening event will feature the San Diego Youth Symphony’s “Balboa Park Summer Kick—Off Concert,” with performances by multiple SDYS ensembles. The family—friendly entertainment will provide the perfect side dish to more than a dozen of San Diego’s favorite food trucks, along with games and booths set up with hands—on activities and crafts for kids and other family activities.

June 2 n Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall, located at 750 B Street, San Diego, hosts the San Diego Children’s Choir and Jazz icon and award—winning trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos at 3 p.m. The event will showcase “An American Tapestry,” a performance of the musical history of our nation. Choristers ages four to 18 will take guests on a musical journey of the indigenous people of Southern California and Mexico and progress through two significant waves of immigration representing European and East Asian cultures. Gilbert will join the choristers in the second half of the program when the focus widens to a broader picture of our nation’s music. Quintessential genres of Americana, Spirituals, and Jazz will be highlighted. Tickets are $25 on the main floor, $30 grand tier, $10 children. Seats are assigned. For information and tickets, visit www.sdcchoir.org or call 858.587.1087.

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Madeleine Sophie’s Center (SMSC) will hold its inaugural Our Secret Garden Party from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 2119 East Madison Avenue in El Cajon. This event will give SMSC’s supporters and the San Diego community the chance to experience SMSC’s magical garden and new aquatics center. There will be beer and wine tastings from local breweries and wineries; live music; catered food station; Arts Alive Auction presented by Jasmine Creek Florist and SMSC Sophie’s Gallery; Wine Pull and silent auctions; boutique vendor booths; a special live appearance of “Faeries” designed by Deb Solan; and the sale of student—made art and plants from SMSC’s garden.

Tickets cost $80 per person and include complimentary beer and wind tastings, live entertainment and hors ďoeuvres. Tickets can be purchased at www.stmsc.org or by calling 619.442.5129, ext 352.

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Fleet Science Center, located at 1875 El Prado in Balboa Park, presents the 2018 Annual Fundraiser Busting the Myths of Wine from 6 to 10 p.m. Is it true that white wine should be paired with fish, and red wine with meat?

Those questions will be answered tonight don’t miss the fun. The evening will begin with a reception filled with hors d’oeuvres, wine and music. Guests can partake in the silent auction, featuring a variety of impressive wine lots, travel and dining packages and other exclusive experiences. The reception will be followed by a seated dinner featuring world—class wines curated by well—known local wine expert and owner of TheWineSellar & Brasserie, Gary Parker. The unique wines will be paired with a splendid multi—course dinner prepared by world—renowned culinary guru Andrew Spurgin. Tickets for Busting the Myths of Wine are available at www.eventbrite.com/e/bustingthe-myths-of-wine-tickets-409.270.56929. For information, visit www.fleetscience.org/events/busting-myths-wine.

June 4 n Reuben H Fleet Science Center, located at 1875 El Prado, in Balboa Park, offers the first Monday of every month to seniors 65 and better to enjoy the Science Center exhibits, a show in the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater and a lecture on the quietest day of the month for only $8. The doors open at 9:30 a.m. to get Senior Monday started early. Sharp Minds lectures begin at 10:30. The lecture topic for this month: The Secret Languages of Bees. Come explore the different dances of bees and what they mean. The Lecturer for this month is Dr. Heather C. Broccard—Bell. The noon theater show is Flight of Butterflies.

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Loma Village Wine & Book Club will be meeting at 6 p.m. at the Wine Pub, located at 2907 Shelter Island Drive, Suite 108, in San Diego. This month’s book is “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee, and its available at the bookstore at a 20 percent discount if you choose to join the Club. La Playa Books is located at 1026 Rosecrans St., San Diego. For information, call 619.226.2601 or visit www.laplayabooks.com.

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Coast Repertory Theatre, located at 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive in Solana Beach, presents Angelina Reaux Sings Weill on Broadway at 7:30 p.m. Internationally acclaimed singing—actress Angelina takes you on a musical voyage through Kurt Weill’s nine American Broadway shows, highlighting his collaborations with writers Maxwell Anderson, Langston Hughes, Elmer Rice, Ogden Nash, Alan Jay Lerner and Ira Gershwin. Tickets are $30 with a discount to seniors, students, military and educators. For information, call 858.481.1055 or visit www.northcoastrep.org.

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Mar, located at 1247 Camino Del Mar in Del Mar, hosts Robin Henkel solo blues from 7 to 10 p.m.

For information, call 858.755.0076.

June 8 thru late October n This is the 11th year that County

Parks and Recreation and sponsor cities have coordinated the 2018 season of Summer Movies in the Park. The annual event is bigger and better than ever with 151 screening at dozens of parks across the county. All screenings are free and open to the public. Movies are rated G through PG—13. New movies for 2018 include “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” “Jumanji:

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June 2018 Welcome to the Jungle,” “Ferdinand,” “Black Panther” and more. Tonight we will have this classic “The Princess Bride” at Nobel Community Park. Movies start 15 minutes after sunset but many locations offer arts and crafts, games and other activities such as live entertainment and food trucks for an hour or so beforehand. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring along blankets, chairs and snacks. For a complete schedule, visit www.SummerMoviesinthePark.

June 9 n Birdrock Coffee Roasters, located at 5627 La Jolla Boulevard in La Jolla, hosts Robin Henkel solo blues from 10 a.m. to noon. For information, call 858.551.1707.

n Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall, located at 750 B Street in downtown San Diego, hosts the San Diego Youth Symphony as they perform the Spring Showcase and Inspiration—Evening Concert. At the 7 p.m. concert you will be treated to the final season performances by the foundation level ensembles from the Inspiration Program, including Symphonic Strings, conducted by Ulli Reiner.

Tickets are $10–$35.

June 9 and 10 n Reuben H. Fleet Science Center is holding a Saturday and Sunday Science Club for girls in grades five through eight.

This month the topic is T—Shirt Chromatography. Create your own colorful T—shirt design while learning about chemistry and chromatography. Please bring one white shirt to class to decorate. Members are $13, non—members $ 15 per person. To participate, parents must pre—register by calling 619.238.1233 x806.

June 9 and 10 n City Heights Weingart

Library Performance Annex, located at 3795 Fairmont Avenue in San Diego, presents the Playwrights Project with a free performance of the play Soul Fire as it combines theatre, music, and dance to depict the spiritual and physical voyages of San Diego immigrants. Soul Fire shares the stories of San Diegans who immigrated from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Vietnam, China, Haiti, and Poland. Reservations required at www.playwrightsproject.org or by calling 858.384.2970.

June 9 thru September 3 n The San Diego Museum of Art, located at 1450 El Prado in Balboa Park in Balboa Park, is pleased to showcase more than 90 works of art from its world—renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of South Asian painting outside of India. In Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from this exhibition offers the unique opportunity to experience South Asian paints in their original narrative context by explaining the classic of literature that the works illustrate.

The art is from the 16th through the 19th century, and provides the tools for reading and understating Indian Painting. The exhibition also features an interactive space with hands—on workshops, live musical and dance performances, daily storytelling and more. For information, visit www.SDMArt.org.

June 10 n Java Joe’s,

located at 2611 Congress Street #C in San Diego, hosts Anna Troy and Robin Henkel at 7 p.m.

For information, call 619.274.9989.

June 13 n San Diego’s Little Italy presents the 10th Annual “Taste of Little Italy” from 5 to 9 p.m. Food lovers can walk along Little Italy’s picturesque sidewalks enjoying live music on the street corners and tasting bites from some of the neighborhood’s most popular restaurants. Visitors and locals will be able to sample nearly 40 top eateries in the neighborhood all in one night, trying each restaurant’s most popular dishes, including appetizers, entrees, desserts and beverages. Ticketholders will receive a Taste Passport mapping out a list of participating restaurants and their menu offerings. Two different Taste Passport routes are available on the event website—a south route and a north route, about 20 eateries per route. Sampling the delicious food options at each spot in exchange for a stamp on their passport! Tickets are sold online, and are priced at $40 per route prior to the event and $45 at the door. For tickets, visit www.tasteoflittleitalysd.com.

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Degrees, located at 660 Carlsbad Village Drive in Carlsbad, hosts Robin Henkel solo blues from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

For more information call 760.729.7904.

June 14 n theNAT,

San Diego National History Museum, located at 1788 El Prado in Balboa Park, presents Nature & Me Storytime at 10:15 a.m. Open to all ages with a parent or guardian (recommended for ages 1—5), the event is free with museum admission. This Months theme is Insects.

Visit www.sdnat.org for ticket information.

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Playa Books, located at 1026 Rosecrans Street in San Diego, presents “Annette Works” from 5 to 7 p.m.

The exhibition of paintings and works on paper by San Diego artist Dorothy Annette opens on the 2nd Thursday in the Village. Dorothy’s works are figurative, fluid and very beautiful. Saxophonist Brandon Johnson will play at the opening, so come get inspired. For information, call 619.226.2601 or visit www.laplayabooks.com.

n Challah

Circle is a monthly get—together to knead friendship from 7 to 8:45 p.m. During the circle, you will learn how to make a holiday—themed challah, knead the dough, let it rise and shape it. While the dough is rising, you can join in a text—based conversation or schmooze with your friends. You’ll leave with your ready—to—bake challah, which will bring sweet and aromatic smells to your kitchen on Friday, in time for Shabbat. Space is limited.

With your registration, you’ll receive a list of basic supplies to bring to prepare your challah. All ingredients will be provided. Call 858.457.3030 for information and to RSVP.

mentor to violent crime. Faith and love helped him recover, and after all the heartache came healing and forgiveness.

Featuring the music that kept Lake going on and off the stage, as well as original songs that he wrote on his way to recovery. Visit www.martinisabovefourth.com for tickets and information.

June 15 and 16 n Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, located at 500 Hotel Circle North in Mission Valley, hosts the inaugural InterGalactiCon, a con for the fans, by the fans, and of the fans. There will be keynote speakers throughout the event, beginning with Claudia Christian, Colin Cantwell, Noah Felder and Ryan Schneider. Parties, events and social lounges will bring fans together for face—to— face fun. It will be a weird and wonderful good time. Visit www.intergalacticonsd.com for information and to register.

June 16 n Reuben H Fleet Science Center, located at 1875 El Prado, San Diego has a Junior Science Club which meets at 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for students in grades 1 thru 4. Each third Saturday to investigate exciting science topics.

Sessions will be filled with new challenges, hand—on activities and interaction with local scientists. Throughout the year, we will explore an array of fields including biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, robotics and much more! This month we have the Great Cookie Caper. Jump right into the world of forensic science! Analyze evidence, investigate fingerprints, compare chromatography samples, With these skills you will uncover who stole the cookies from the cookie jar.

Prices are members $13, Nonmembers $15 per person, per date. To participate, parents must preregister and pay with a credit card while registering their children by calling 619.238.1233x 806 or by registering online at www.rhfleet.org/events/junior-science-club.

June 16 and 17 n Maritime Museum, located on the North Embarcadero in downtown San Diego at 1492 North Harbor Drive, presents Father’s Day fun with a day full of sailing on San Diego Bay and beer. Bring your dad, grandpa, uncle, or big brother to celebrate Father’s Day. Guests will have the opportunity to sail aboard schooner Californian, official tall shop of California, San Salvador, a 1542 Spanish galleon replica of America, a replica of the first vessel to win the America’s Cup. Each adult receives a delicious bratwurst sandwich, chips, and a cold beer prior to sailing. Hotdogs and soft drinks are available for the kids. The three—hour sailing trip will begin boarding at 11:30 a.m. and return to the Maritime Museum at 3 p.m. Passengers have the option to join the lively crew and trim the sails or simply relax and enjoy the weekend sail on San Diego Bay. Tickets are available at www.sdmaritime.org or by phone: 619.234.91583 ext 106.

June 17 n Nate’s Garden Grill, located at 3120 Euclid Avenue in San Diego, hosts Robin Henkel solo blues from 1 to 3 p.m.

For information, call 619.546.7700.

n La Playa Books, located at 1026 Rosecrans Street in San Diego, presents local author Claudia Ross from 2 to 4 p.m. in honor of the anniversary of the first publication of “The Wizard of Oz” on May 17, 1900. Ross will talk about her book, “Dorothy Jones: A Jazz—Age Visit to Oz,” as well as her series of books set in New Orleans. For information, call 619.226.2601 or visit www.laplayabooks.com.

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at Marriott Vacation Club Pulse, located at 701 A Street San Diego, hosts Whitney Shay & Robin Henkel from 6 to 9 p.m. For information, call 619.696.9800.

June 19 n theNAT,

San Diego National History Museum, located at 1788 El Prado in Balboa Park, presents the Nat Talk: Unnatural Selection, Evolution at the Hand of Man at 7 p.m. Join us for a talk by author and illustrator Katrina Van Grouw about her work celebrating Darwin’s theory of evolution. The talk begins at 7 p.m. Specimens and drawing supplies will be available from 5:30 to 7 p.m., giving guests an opportunity to create art inspired by the author’s illustrations. Food and drink are available in The Flying Squirrel Café before the event. After the talk, join Katrina in our Museum store for a signing of her book, “Unnatural Selection.” Purchase tickets at www.sdnhm.org, or by calling 877.946.7797.

June 21 n Red Shoe Day takes place from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Help us fill 100+ intersections with great volunteers. Register now to clam an intersection at RedShoeDay@RMHCSD.org and to get a list of open intersections in your area. Recruit your friends, family and coworkers for a fun morning of doing good for a great cause—helping families stay at San Diego’s Ronald McDonald House.

June 21 and 23 n The Bike Coalition will host a three—day summit to share ideas for better biking in San Diego at the Museum of Photographic Arts, located at 1649 El Prado in Balboa Park.

Register at www.tinyurl.com/sdregionalbikesummit18

June 22 n Dizzy’s, located at 1717 Morena Boulevard in San Diego, hosts Robin Henkel Band with horns from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15. For information, call 858.270.7467.

June 23 n La Playa Books, located at 1026 Rosecrans Street in San Diego in holding a pop—up shop at the Ocean Beach Chili Cook—off, located at Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach.

The program will feature Kathy Blavatt’s “History of Ocean Beach,” as well as other books of local interest. Find us in the Merchant’s section of the festival. For information, call 619.226.2601 or visit www.laplayabooks.com.

n Martinis Above Fourth, located on the second floor at 3940

n Carnitas, located at 1004 North Harbor Drive in San Diego,

Fourth Avenue in Hillcrest, presents San Diego native Lake Davis as he presents Pain On The Dancefloor at 8 p.m. Lake is a singer, actor, choreographer, and playwright. Pain On The Dancefloor is his new solo show, reminiscing about his life filled with tragic losses but also joy and hope. Within a decade, Lake lost his older brother, mom and his artistic

hosts Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel from 1 to 4 p.m.

For information, call 619.696.7675.

June 25 thru 29 n Westwind Brass presents a summer brass workshop from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at SDSU School of Music & Dance, located

at 5500 Campanile Drive in San Diego. The musicians of The Westwind Brass Ensemble are Elizabeth Howard, John Wilds and Karl Soukup (trumpets), Barry Toombs (horn), Eric Starr (trombone) and Bryan Smith (tuba). Each year, this week provides a cross—generational environment to explore and develop skills in communication, collaboration, and creativity; and to engender a larger sense of community. Register online at www.westwindbrass.org or call 619.665.9125 for information.

June 25 thru September 3 n It’s time for summer concerts

and the 31st Annual International Summer Organ Festival at the Spreckels world organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. The Festival hosts a line up of 11 free public concerts by renowned organists each Monday evening on the historic Spreckels Organ.

All festival concerts start at 7:30 p.m. and are open to all ages. Friendly, music—loving pets on leash are welcome.

Light snacks, beverages, and unique gifts are available on the pavilion grounds, and proceeds from donations benefit the nonprofit Spreckels Organ Society, which works to preserve, program and promote the Spreckels Organ as a world treasure for all people. Opening night will feature Raúl Prieto Ramirez, new Civic organist of the City of San Diego.

June 27 n Please join

United Way of San Diego County for its annual Women’s Leadership Council 10th Anniversary Celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Cuvier Club in La Jolla, located at 7776 Eads Avenue in La Jolla. About 100—150 philanthropists and business leaders will come together to honor this network of powerful women across all sectors and from top companies who pull together their funds to change the lives of women, children and families countywide. RSVP by June 8 at 858.636.4163 or visit www.WLC10.evenbrite.com for event details and to register.

n Searsucker, located at 12995 El Camino Real, suite 21, in San Diego, hosts Whitney Shay & Robin Henkel from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For information, call 858.369.5700.

n Maritime Museum, located on the North Embarcadero in downtown San Diego at 1492 North Harbor Drive, presents the first stage of 2018 curriculum to train individuals 18+ how to sail and maintain tall ships. Vessel training includes learning the skill to sail the 19th century Star of India, the world’s oldest active sailing tall ship, pus the official tall ship for the state Californian and the recently built 16th century Spanish galleon replica San Salvador. The first class will be held at 8 a.m. sharp on Sunday, July 15 and continue every Sunday through August 19. For information, visit www.sdmaritime.org.

June 29 n Farmer & The Seahorse, located at 10996 Torreyana Road in San Diego, presents Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel from 5 to 7 p.m. For information, call 858.260.5400.

June 29 thru July 1 n Back by popular demand,

the 2nd Annual San Diego Smooth Jazz Festival presented by Rainbow Promotions and Payne Pest Management return to San Diego at the picturesque Embarcadero Marina Park North at 400 Kettner Boulevard in downtown San Diego (located adjacent to Seaport Village). Parking will be available at the San Diego Convention Center, located at 111 West Harbor Drive. The festival, hosted by Eric Darius, celebrates the long—lived musical style and features a great line—up of hot summer night smooth jazz and is open the public on June 30 and July 1. For more information on the schedule and to purchase VIP tickets for the special event on the 29, visit www.sandiegosmoothjazzfestival.com or call Rainbow Promotions at 562.424.0013.

June 30 n Nate’s Garden Grill, located at 3120 Euclid Avenue in San Diego, hosts Robin Henkel solo blues from noon to 2 p.m.

For information, call 619.546.7700.

n Westwind Brass presents free concerts at 1 p.m. at SDSU School of Music and Dance, located at 5500 Campanile Drive in San Diego. This fun—filled week culminates with the participant ensembles. The participants, young and old, receive an opportunity to work with some of the finest brass musicians in Southern California. It is fun, informative, and relative to the music in their daily lives.

n Loew’s Coronado Bay Resort, located at4000 Coronado Bay Road in Coronado, hosts Whitney Shay and Robin Henkel from 8 to 11 p.m. For information, call 619.424.4000.

July 2 n Pt. Loma Village Wine and Book Club will be meeting at the Wine Pub at 6 p.m., located at 2907 Shelter Island Drive, Suite 108, in San Diego. This month’s book is “Swell,” by Jill Eisenstadt and its available at the bookstore at a 20 percent discount if you choose to join the Club.

La Playa Books is located at 1026 Rosecrans Street in San Diego. For information, call 619.226.2601 or visit www.laplayabooks.com.

July 8 n McAlister

Institute will hold its 6th annual 5K Walk for Sobriety with check—in and registration beginning at 8 a.m. at NTC Park at Liberty Station, located at 2455 Cushing Road in San Diego. The Walk is an opportunity to bring help and hope to thousands of individuals and families braving the unforgiving cycle of addition.

Tommy Sablan, senior producer for KGB’s Bob and Coe in the Morning Show, will serve as emcee for the sixth year. Also, in response in community requests, this year’s event will include the addition of a timed run. Walkers, runners, and online supporters will help us send this powerful message on the day of the walk by wearing the number of days they—or their loved ones—have been clean and sober and what it means to them. All proceeds from the Walk for Sobriety benefit McAlister Institute, one of San Diego’s leading resources for individuals and families impacted by addiction. To join the celebration, visit www.walkforsobriety.com.

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Join an exciting team and rapidly growing company.

Sales experience preferred.

Call 619.481.9817

Classified

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

Call Sandra at 619.297.6480

Market Street Group

Members include students, amateur, professional artists.

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 MODELS3 DAYS A WEEK INCLUDED!

All Classified Ads must be Pre-Paid

Monthly fee: $145 More information please contact: Kirby Kendrick kirby4004@aol.comphone: 505.660.4448

Read to a Therapy Dog

June 2 and 9 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Kids can improve their reading skills by reading aloud to a therapy dog.

Summer Reading Program: Hullabaloo June 2 at 4 p.m.

Kids and families can sing and dance to the music of Hullabaloo.

Signing Storytime

June 4, 11, 18 and 25 (Every Monday) from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m.

Find out what’s going on in your baby’s mind, strengthen your bond with your baby, and lessen frustration brought on by miscommunication.

Interactive presentation led by Jennifer Duncan also includes sing-alongs and bubble time ending with Q&A period. Recommended for children, age birth to four-years old.

After-School Craft Time

June 5, 12, 19 and 26 (Every Tuesday) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Even You & 35, 000 Potential Customers Would be Reading Your Ad Right Now!

LEGO Playtime

June 6, 13, 20 and 27 (Every Wednesday) from 5 to 6 p.m.

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

Mission Hills Book Group

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Kids are invited to make a cool craft after school.

June 7 from 10 to 11 a.m.

RELIGIOUS CALENDAR • UNIVERSAL SPIRIT CENTER

The Mission Hills Book Group will discuss “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder.

New members are always welcome to participate.

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

Summer Reading Program: San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum June 7 at 4 p.m.

A Center for Spiritual Living Rev. Kevin Bucy, Senior Minister 858 Front Street

Kids in grades kindergarten through third grade can learn coding and use robots.

Baby Storytime

(at University and Front Streets)

June 14 at 10:30 a.m.

San Diego, CA 92103

Extra parking across the street at Florence School

Enjoy a storytime especially for babies and toddlers, followed by a playtime.

619.291.4728

Summer Reading Program: Snapology

www.universalspiritcenter.org.

SUNDAY MORNING GATHERINGS

June 14 at 4 p.m.

8:30 a.m.

Meditative with full message 10:30 a.m.

Music-filled gathering

Kids can have fun building a better world with LEGO.

Book Sale

(with Youth Ministry available)

June 16 from 9:30 a.m. to noon

Kadampa Meditation Center 3125 Rosecrans Street, Bldg. B 619.230.5852

Meditation Classes most Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. & Saturday at 4 p.m.

Kids & Families Sundays at 9 a.m.

Prayers for World Peace Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Simply Meditate MWF 12 to 12:45;TT 12:15 to 12:45 p.m

More classes and events listed on our website: www.meditateinsandiego.com

The Friends of the Mission Hills Branch Library will hold a book sale. Stock up on books while supporting your Library.

Summer Reading Program: Michael Rayner June 21 at 10:30 a.m.

Kids will be amazed by Michael’s Rayner amazing juggling and balancing.

Mystery Book Group June 27 at 6:30 p.m.

The Mystery Book Group will discuss a mystery novel. New members are always welcome to participate. Please read the book beforehand.

Books are available at the Circulation Desk while supplies last.

Summer Reading Program: Magic of Rafael & Katia June 28 at 10:30 a.m.

Kids are invited to a magic show.

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

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Civic Calendar Hillcrest

1st Tuesday

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

Put Your Name In Front of

35,000 Potential Customers!

1st Thursday

Uptown Partnership 3101 Fifth Ave. Call 619.298.2541. 4:30 p.m.

Thursdays 7–8:30 pm

San Diego Uptown Rotary Club 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.

Kensington-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– Linda Vista Community Planning Committee Agenda Linda Vista Library meeting room.

Contact Jeff Perwin at 619.806.9559 for details 6 pm.

3rd Tuesday

Tech Committee–Technology Committee Bayside Community Center. Contact Xiogh 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– Linda Vista Historical Committee 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– Linda Vista Collaborative 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 Advisory Committee 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– Linda Vista Community 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– Linda Vista View Civic Association Community Newsletter. Bayside Community Center. Contact Sarah Granby at 858.405.7135 or email sgranby@lvca-sd.org. 2:00 p.m.

Mission Hills June, 2018

Mission Hills Garden Club There will not be a monthly meeting this month. The next meeting is in September and will take place at Mission Hills Nursery, 1525 Fort Stockton from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. 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

June 3, 2018

Monthly Meeting will be at 10 a.m. and the program is the Annual Luncheon and installation of officers.

The meeting takes place at Portuguese Hall, 2818 Avenida de Portugal, San Diego, CA 92106. More information is available a www.plgc.org.

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1212 West Arbor

Cherished Craftsman home with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, approximately 2,292 sq. ft. Updated baths and newer kitchen that opens to family room. Formal living and dining rooms with gorgeous Gum Wood details. Hardwood oak floor planks throughout. Entire second level is master bedroom and bath retreat. Additional 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths on main level. Many windows for lots of light and breezes from nearby canyon. Fireplaces with decorative inserts and gas logs in living and family rooms. 2 car garage.

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8125 Cinnabar Drive

Panoramic views from the top of Eastridge in La Mesa. See the Coronado Islands from the living room. Resort living in your own back yard with a crystal clear pool, overhang to shelter the outdoor entertaining area, & your own putting green. Lovely single level 3 bedroom, 2 bath home beautifully situated up the hill from La Mesa Village, close to the Secret Stairs, minutes from freeway access, in a lightly trafficked neighborhood. New roof, heating/air conditioning.

Call Celeste Williams, Agent CalBRE #00897028 at 619.405.7575

1,699,000

4421 Plumosa Way

Welcome to fabulous Mission Hills. This Ranch style canyon rim home is located on one of Mission Hills most private streets with vast views of the surrounding greenery. This is a 2 story 4 bedroom 3 full bath home with 3,351 square feet of living space.

Large open master bedroom comes complete with roomy walk in closet and private master bath and dressing area. 2 other bedrooms are also on this same floor just down the hall adjacent to another full bath with jacuzzi tub for your guests to utilize.

Call Rocky Rockhill, Agent CalBRE #01197738 at 619.972.3033

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4301 Hilldale

Historically designed classic Kensington home features many Missionstyle period details (Mills Act application has been submitted). Coved ceilings, hardwood floors, picture windows, and old world beauty. The property is very private, surrounded by walls and tall hedges. The main floor features the living room with fireplace, formal dining room, breakfast room, charming kitchen , den, bath, and sun room. 3 bedrooms and one bath upstairs; charming balcony overlooking front courtyard. The spacious back yard has a fireplace, kitchen and a sparkling pool.

Call Krista Lombardi, Agent CalBRE #01504924 at 619.519.3251

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

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Simply stunning. An art work. Down-to-the-studs remodel in 2010, designed by architect Mark Tarasuck. Panoramic water and city views. Custom wrought iron and glass entry door, heated marble floors, Venetian plaster walls, central entertainment system, marble kitchen with onyx barrel ceiling, Venini Italian light fixtures, marble zero-edge pool and spa with projection TV for watching movies outdoors, and more. Every design decision was made and executed with the utmost integrity. MLS #170053066.

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

2,595,000

2505 Presidio Drive

This extensively remodeled, exceedingly private 5 bedroom, 5 bath Frank Hope masterwork features sweeping views from Mt. Soledad to the Coronado Islands. Tranquil and secluded courtyard that could have been designed by Cliff May. The courtyard functions as a huge outdoor great room with covered dining, waterfall, and mini-gardens. Every bedroom has unique views, bathrooms, and private outside sitting space. Two master suites on the main level. Custom wood and copper front gate. New stucco. Zoned air conditioning, owned-solar, and a huge storage room. MLS #180000588.

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

3,295,000

4474 Hortensia Street

This rare and delightful English Cottage Estate is an opportunity of a lifetime. Every aspect of this home is charming, unique and filled with cherished items such as hand-blown leaded glass windows, an Inglenook fireplace, abundant original wood details, pool and an expansive and exceptionally PRIVATE wooded canyon view. This 4,359 square foot home has 4 bedrooms & 5 baths, including a spacious guest apartment. The lot is 30,000 square feet and located on an A+ street. Built in 1917 by the Quayle Bros & Cressey Architects, this San Diego Historical Landmark (#446) has the Mills Act taxes of $5,600.

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

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A+ location on Third Avenue, 16 units within walking distance to all of Hillcrest’s amenities. Central courtyard, secure entry, off-street parking, and a high standard of maintenance make these units a perfect long-term investment. Fantastic unit mix with owned laundry. Complete package, including physical inspection, appraisal, termite, financials available at www.3650Third.com MLS #180002505.

8,000,000

1770 Evergreen Street

24 units nestled on the hillside above San Diego Bay. Fabulous opportunity, rents are under market. Many units with views. Multi-level floors and walkways create visual interest. The building is designed around a large central courtyard that is lushly landscaped. The project was built in two stages, the westerly portion was built in 1959 and the easterly about a decade later. Covered parking for all units, two laundries, storage room with lockers and bike storage, and more.

Complete package, including physical inspection, appraisal, termite, financials available at www.1770Evergreen.com MLS #180002504.

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4650 Florida Street

19 Units. Steps to Trolley Barn Park and the amenities of North Park Boulevard and Adams Avenue. Excellent mix, 13 2’s and 6 1’s. Pad parking front and back. The units are in excellent condition but are mostly original. Big upside on rents. Pleasant courtyard. The owner has a high standard of maintenance. Complete package, including physical inspection, appraisal, termite, financials are available at www.4650Florida.com MLS #180002506.

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

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845 San Antonio Place

Spectacular property with 105 feet of frontage on The Bay. Charming mid-Century single level water-front home.

Quiet La Playa cul-de-sac location. Private and prestigious street. 4 Bedrooms, 4 Baths, 3365 square feet. Bright and sunny interior. The floor plan is flexible—you could easily create a guest suite with an outside entrance. Sitting on approximately 1/3 of a waterfront acre, there is plenty of room for a pool on the bay. The bayfront yard is dramatic and spacious. Rare opportunity! MLS #180012952

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

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4360 Conrad

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Set apart, high on a hill, this spacious home offers some of the best southerly views one can find in Mount Helix. Very private, gated property is about 200 yards away from the traffic on Conrad, nestled above & behind Glenn Murdock Elementary School. The home has 3470 square feet on multi-levels with plentiful decks, bedrooms & bathrooms. An orchard is below the property with grapevines, avocado trees, and other fruit trees.The floor plan is thoroughly modern with ample open spaces. First time on market. MLS #180006249

Call Jim Scott, Broker CalBRE #830226 at 619.920.9511

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Mission Hills 1829 Altamira Place • $1,695,000

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ocated on one of the most desirable streets in Mission Hills, this exquisite 4 bedroom Craftsman home has not been offered for 39 years. Large remodeled eat-in kitchen and family room, downstairs en-suite bedroom, spacious master suite with a huge closet.

Mission Hills 4388 Arcadia Drive • $1,349,000

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ission Hills contemporary three bedroom home with a legal 800 square foot studio apartment. Big views both to the east and west, from the coast to the mountains. Very secluded location.

Scott & Quinn Real Estate is located in Mission Hills at 1111 Fort Stockton Drive. Founded in 1982, Scott & Quinn is the oldest full service real estate firm in Mission Hills and is locally owned and operated. Jim has been a homeowner in Mission Hills since 1976.

www.JimScottHomes.com

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