MENTAL EXAM ORDERED: The judge orders a mental exam for the suspect accused of killing his roommate before jumping in front of a car on Mission Boulevard. 4
BOLTS FLATTEN PATS: Chargers get payback after last year’s postseason loss by clobbering New England 30-10. 12
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Fiesta Island development, Prop C top MBPC agenda
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BY PAUL DOUGLAS | BEACH &BAY PRESS
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On Nov. 4, San Diegans will decide who receives Mission Bay Park’s lease revenue when they weigh in on Proposition C. The Mission Bay Park Committee (MBPC) discussed the charter amendment as well as redevelopment of Fiesta Island at its Oct. 7 meeting at the Santa Clara Recreation Center. SeaWorld and Mission Bay Park properties like The Bahia Resort Hotel annually generate approximately $28 million in revenue. San Diegans originally agreed to allow commercial development in 25 percent of the park on the condition that resulting revenues would go toward completing the vast recreational area. “The Mission Bay compact has been broken for three decades,” Bob Ottilie, who served for years on the MBPC as a member at large and acting chairperson, said after the meeting. Roughly 90 percent of Mission Bay Park’s lease revenues are funneled every year into the city’s general fund, which pays for emergency and basic services. In 2004, City Council enacted the Mission Bay Ordinance. The measure gives 25 perSEE MISSION BAY, Page 5
MBHS Ladies win Buccaneer Bash Volleyball Tourney
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Four-year-old Quinn Girard shops for Halloween pumpkins at the PB Pumpkin Patch.
The Mission Bay High School (MBHS) Lady Buccaneers girls varsity volleyball team won their own 8-team tournament for the second year in a row Saturday, Oct. 4. “Two of our seniors, Megan Upp and Rosie Belden, took the SATs in the morning and showed up late in the first game — which we lost,” said varsity coach Steve Upp. “But they went on to help lead us to a tournament championship — it was quite a day.” The Buccaneer Bash Tournament included Sweetwater High, El Capitan, Hoover, Montgomery, San Diego, Madison, Hilltop and Mission Bay. “We faced Hilltop in the finals and they were a very good, very disciplined team,” Upp said. “But our ladies made the plays and got the ball to drop. No one really expected us to win, but they wanted it. This was a great tournament for this young team. Everyone contributed throughout the day.” On Oct. 9 the Lady Bucs defeated Sweetwater High again in a regular Eastern League dual meet in Spring Valley. Then on Oct. 14 Mission Bay defeated San Diego High again in a dual meet at Mission Bay in four games. “Our top hitter Rachel Rhoades was out SEE VOLLEYBALL, Page 14
MBHS alum honor fallen soldiers with renovated monument Richard Friend (1965), William Fix and James Gulie (1967) and Charles Fifty years ago, two girls loved the Goldmeyer (1968) — appear on the same boy. His name was Walter newly renovated monument outside “Magoo” Stevens. The women met for the school auditorium. the first time last Friday at the dedicaThe event was the fulfillment of a tion of the renovated Vietnam War dream for Rita Price, who 10 years Memorial monument at Mission Bay earlier began her campaign to restore High School. As they embraced, both the forgotten ground level memorial. women cried. She first raised money, mostly her Judith Lancefield, 68, of Portland, own, for plaques to identify the site as Ore., was Stevens’ sweetheart when a Vietnam War memorial and to add they graduated from MBHS in 1958. Stevens’ name. The project didn’t Magoo also dated an older sister of gain traction until Cheryl Seelos 58-year-old Rita Gaffney Price of became principal of Mission Bay High Pacific Beach. Rita had a childhood School and Walter Schneider, crush on the handsome young Stevens’ best friend, began thinking Marine who would visit her family about his 50th high school reunion. home and play with the neighborIn 2007, a Junior Marine Corps ROTC hood kids. program, headed by Lt. Col. Brian In May 1966, Stevens, Marines Jostens, was added to the Mission Bay sergeant, was killed while leading his curriculum. Jostens, Sgt. Maj. Mark men in Vietnam. His name along Harrell and the ROTC cadets cleaned with five other Mission Bay graduates the area and conducted Memorial — David Rose (class of 1958), BY BILL SWANK | BEACH &BAY PRESS
Day services in May 2008. In response to a Beach & Bay Press article at that time, almost $2,000 was raised by alumni from the MBHS Class of 1958 and other individuals. During the summer, Seelos and Jostens formalized plans to beautify the entire garden area. The xeriscape was donated by school secretary Pam Connelly and her husband. Jostens assumed responsibility for the actual memorial, which he designed and built. The plaques were cleaned, polished and anodized without cost by San Diego Plating. A black granite base with gold highlights was donated by San Diego Granite. When individuals at these businesses learned the memorial was for Mission Bay High School, they wanted to give something to their school. Both of these men had played ball for Coach Dennis Pugh. The dedication ceremony was part of a five-day 50th
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Rita Price (left) and Judith Lancefield embrace at the dedication ceremony for Mission Bay High School’s Vietnam War Memorial.
reunion celebration for the MBHS Class of 1958. Seelos and ASB president Lee Houck spoke of service, patriotism and sacrifice in their remarks to an
estimated crowd of 75 primarily members from the Class of 1958 and other interested Pacific Beach resiSEE MONUMENT, Page 7