San Diego Community Newspaper Group
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009
www.SDNEWS.com Volume 14, Number 25
County ready for a clean sweep BY JOSEPH GREENBERG | VILLAGE NEWS
Cigarettes are usually thought of first in their deleterious affects on one’s health. Once that stick is burnt down, however, a tarstained filter is left over whose insignificant size does not always cause guilt when extinguished on the ground or deposited anywhere outside of a trash receptacle. Everyone knows cigarettes are bad for your health. But people seem less aware or less remorseful about scarring the environment with their left over, tar-stained filters. Those tiny butts add up and get swept along with other debris into
streams and watersheds that eventually make their way to the ocean. “The cigarette butts continue to be an extremely pervasive litter problem, and people do not know how big an impact they can have,” said Morgan JusticeBlack, I Love A Clean San Diego’s (ILACSD) outreach director. Justice-Black is hoping for a volunteer force 5,000 strong that will band together and blanket the entire county in the seventh annual Creek to Bay Cleanup that takes place Saturday, April 25 from 9 a.m. to noon. She also hopes that the message of loving a clean San Diego
will spread through the volunteers and community members alike to cause a snowball effect of fighting pollution. “To me, pollution knows no boundaries, which is why we cover such a huge area. We have cleanup sites from Oceanside to San Ysidro, from Mission Beach and as far east as El Cajon,” Justice-Black said. There are approximately 60 cleanup sites throughout those regions, and the event this year is poised to crack the 1 million pound mark of debris picked up and properly disposed. The widespread volunteering SEE CLEAN, Page 5
Burnham plans to rescue SKCC researchers BY ALYSSA RAMOS | VILLAGE NEWS
PATE FOR THE PAR-TAY Chef Sixto Sandoval from The French Gourmet prepares duck paté on a crispy baguette with caramelized prosciutto and pickled cornishons for the April 3 Taste of the Triangle at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. Gross proceeds from the 15th annual event topped $100,000 to benefit five University City public schools. Organized by EdUCate Foundation, the Taste featured samples from 20 area restaurants plus an auction, entertainment and dancing. VILLAGE NEWS | PAUL HANSEN
The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday, April 17, calling the legal filings a larger research center’s opportunity – and revealing the nearby Burnham Institute for Medical Research’s interest in the nonprofit’s assets. “Talks are ongoing to allow Burnham to acquire the largest building on the Kimmel campus where much of the scientific
research is being done,” said John C. Reed, Burnham’s president and CEO. “If this can be accomplished, Burnham will work closely with SKCC to transition their existing research grants to Burnham, where researchers will be able to temporarily continue their work with as little disruption as possible.” Burnham Institute and the other life-science centers on the Torrey Pines mesa collaborate together to move forward, Reed
Half Marathon, 5K will take off this Sunday BY ALYSSA RAMOS | VILLAGE NEWS
Runners hope last week’s heat will not repeat as they get ready for the La Jolla Half Marathon and 5K on Sunday, April 26. The half marathon starts at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and finishes at La Jolla Cove’s Scripps Park. Although the half marathon is sold out, runners can still register for the 5K at the expo on Saturday, April 25 at La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Propspect St. “We generally raise over $100,000 and give it back to the community,” said marathon cochair Trenton Bonner, president of the La Jolla Kiwanis club that sponsors the event.
Runners start in Del Mar and then make their way south through Torrey Pines State Park, racing up a long hill and then down a winding La Jolla Shores segment to end at La Jolla Cove. Bonner said buses will begin shuttling racers from La Jolla Cove to Del Mar at 5 a.m. Sunday morning. The race begins at 7:10 a.m. Prizes and medals will be awarded at 10 a.m. The evening before the races, on Saturday, April 25, La Jolla Kiwanis Club will sponsor a pre-race Carbo Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. at Washington Mutual, 7777 Girard Ave. Admission is free for participants and $5 for the public. For info, visit www.lajolla5k.com. I
said, and those nonprofit research centers respect SKCC’s accomplishments. “The filing will provide a legal framework and opportunity for the independent cancer research center to be purchased by another entity — ideally another nonprofit research institute with a compatible mission,” SKCC chief executive officer Jan D’Alvise said in a press release. D’Alvise said SKCC’s board of SEE SKCC, Page 5
Fab photog to show at Morrison BY BART MENDOZA | VILLAGE NEWS
PHOTO BY ROBERT WHITAKER
Robert Whitaker brings many of his photos of the early Beatles, as well as other subjects, to the Morrison Hotel Gallery, 1230 Prospect St.
While not quite a household name, it’s safe to say that few photographers have had as big an impact on popular culture as Robert Whitaker. As a key lensman for the Beatles between 1964 and ’66, the images Whitaker captured ended up on such album covers as “Meet The Beatles,” “Revolver” and “Yesterday & Today,” becoming some SEE FAB, Page 8