PROP B LOOKS TO THE SKY Voters consider the future of the San Diego Bay Marine Terminal and the possibility of a building a deck. 5
CLASSIC ROCK SHOTS: Morrison Hotel Gallery exhibit shows of the iconic rock photography of Ethan Russel. 11
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
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New PBTC officers reflect change in council priorities the city to address concerns and providing service as top priorities. The Pacific Beach Town Council Board of directors nominees (PBTC) has named its officers and included Nina Balistrieri, Gregg directors for the upcoming year. The Barnes, Jerry Hall, Glenn Olson and group includes some new faces and Melvin Zeddies. is missing a couple of key members. Notably absent from this year’s The PBTC also honored student vol- nominees is Georgina Smith, who unteers and heard plans for a prohas served for years as secretary. posed development near the Broken Though she will not be serving in Yolk restaurant at its Oct. 15 meet- her longtime position, Smith said ing at the Earl & Birdie Taylor she still plans to participate in the Library, 4275 Cass St. town council. She will also continue PBTC member Karl Jaedtke preto organize the popular Concerts on sented Holly Nery of the Mission the Green summer music series. Bay High School Key Club with a Also missing from this year’s $150 check for her exceptional vol- slate is Patrick Finucane. In his unteerism. several years as a member of the Proving that the apple doesn’t fall town council, Finucane has become far from the tree, Lee Houck, son of one of its most visible members, town council president Ruby Houck, serving as a director and the PBTC’s was presented with a $150 check representative on the Pacific Beach for his work with Mission Bay High Community Parking District. He School’s Interact Club. also chaired this year’s wine tastPraising the students, Jaedtke ing fundraiser. When Finucane, said, “Giving to the community is who was not present, was nomione of the best things you can do.” nated for a director position from Town council director and nomi- the floor, Houck and others said nating committee co-chairperson he had indicated he did not wish Jim Menders presented the group’s to serve another term. officer nominees: Rick Oldham for “I still love Pacific Beach and the president; Rose Galliher, vice presitown council,” Finucane said after dent; Diane Faulds, secretary; and the meeting. He plans to continue Michael Stevens, treasurer. Ruby participating as a member and Houck will fill the past president slot perhaps return to the board in a currently occupied by Don Mullen. couple of years when his “heart is “The goal is to make Pacific Beach back in it.” a better place for all of us to live,” Oldham said. He identified getting SEE PBTC, Page 8
Bucs’ homecoming game ends in 38-38 nailbiter
BY SHANNON MULHALL | BEACH &BAY PRESS
BY BARRY SCHWARTZ | BEACH &BAY PRESS
Mission Bay High School (MBHS) and Point Loma High School (PLHS) came into the game with a lot of excitement Friday, Oct. 17, and left it all out on the field — the outcome not
certain until the final second. The two teams opened Western League play in an annual head-to-head contest that punctuated Mission Bay’s homecoming weekend. With six lead changes and huge games SEE BUCS Page 16
PHOTO BY BARRY SCHWARTZ
Luck and timing save lost wedding ring from the city dump wasn’t about to give up. With the clock ticking, she knew her chances were slim of keepTalk about finding a needle in a haystack. ing her ring from being bulldozed into the Mission Beach’s Debbie Roth was fixing dinMiramar Landfill. ner Sept. 29 when she took her wedding ring “When you don’t have your ring on, you off to prepare some potatoes. When finished, almost feel naked. A part of me was missing she washed up, dried her hands with a paper and I was determined to get it back,” she said. towel and tossed it in the trash before returnWhile Roth called the city hoping there was ing to dinner. a chance of recovering her garbage bags, She doesn’t know how, but somehow her Hortensia Galvez, an automation driver with ring wound up in the paper towel and was put the Environmental Services Department, was outside her Ocean Front house near Zanzibar continuing on her Mission Beach route. Court in a garbage bag later that evening for Starting at Hooters and working her way the morning trash pickup. south, Roth’s house is one of her first resident By the time Roth realized she had accidenstops. Normally Galvez’s truck hits capacity tally thrown out her wedding ring, the city before she crosses Mission Boulevard for her trash truck has already made its regular 7 eastside pickups, requiring her to empty her a.m. Tuesday pickup. truck at the landfill before resuming with her “My husband kept saying, ‘We’ll find it, northbound collections. honey. It’s around here somewhere,’” she said. “The trash was running light that day, so I It isn’t hard to imagine the sinking feeling thought I would continue on,” Galvez said. “I after realizing something with such sentimenSEE RING, Page 7 tal value is probably gone forever, but Roth BY LARRY HARMON | BEACH &BAY PRESS
KIRBY YAU | BEACH & BAY PRESS
Hortensia Galvez (right) holds up Debbie Roth’s (left) wedding ring found in a city trash truck after it was accidentally thrown out with with the garbage.