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A look at local historic women in honor of the 19th Amendment centennial. Page 11

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Cutting Edge owner Tony Ganaway in front of the outdoor barber stations he set up following statewide closures of most indoor businesses. (Photo by Jeff Clemetson) Casa de Pico has long served San Diegans and visitors alike in various venues. Page 17

By JEFF CLEMETSON and DAVE SCHWAB

San Diego businesses, restaurants in particular, have been turned inside-out once again.

Citing rising positive tests and hospitalizations from

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coronavirus, on July 13 Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the statewide closure of indoor operations at a laundry list of establishments including restaurants, wineries, gyms, hair salons, worship centers, personal care services, malls,

movie theaters, zoos, aquariums, family entertainment centers, and card rooms, as well as the full closure of all bars and non-critical office settings.

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In District 2 County Supervisors race, Anderson highlights bipartisan record Patrick Henry High School’s new head introduces herself to the community. Page 18

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By JEFF CLEMETSON | La Mesa Courier

Joel Anderson is a name most East County residents know. He has been running for public office to represent the region in various seats since 1998. This year, he is running to represent District 2 on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and in the March 3 primary, his name recognition and

resume of public service helped him secure the most votes — 35.5% — in a field of four candidates.

Now that the race for the District 2 seat — vacated by Dianne Jacob after recently-adopted term limits capped her at 28 years on the board — is down to two candidates, Anderson is hoping his record of working on bipartisan bills in the state legislature will catapult him to the board in November.

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Residents of El Cerrito have wanted a neighborhood park for years and it looks like they may finally get one with the Chollas Triangle Park.

City staff members are finishing a preliminary engineering report for the proposed park (available at bit. ly/3iCv9pM) and will soon initiate the process of procuring a consultant for the General Development Plan. The GDP process is expected to be completed in 12 to 18 months.

A component of the GDP includes public outreach, however, the department will have to take into account COVID-19 health and safety measures and is still reviewing how to proceed.

Finally, the preliminary review the street vacation could occur parallel to the design process and could start at the end of the GDP. The cost estimate for the park is $6 million.

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Allied Gardens/Grantville Community Council news

By SHAIN HAUG

Our principal topic at the July 28 town hall meeting was the San Diego River Park Foundation (SDRPF). Ally Welborn, SDRPF community engagement manager, discussed the organization’s trash-tracking and clean-up program and provided updates on the new River Discovery Center coming to Mission Valley. It would be too difficult to here recount the work that SDRPF is doing along the 52 miles of the river so we posted a video of this presentation on our website at aggccouncil.org – click on “Town Hall Meeting” and scroll down to just below the July 28, 2020 agenda entry.

On Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. by Zoom, the Allied Gardens/ Grantville Community Council (AGGCC) will host a forum for the candidates for the District 7 City Council seat. It will be recorded and posted on our website for later viewing, but there is nothing as good as being there in person.

Details about how to attend the forum will be announced in our September article in the Mission Times Courier and by email to our standard mailing lists.

The AGGCC needs your help in developing questions for the candidates. What issues are important to you? What questions would you want to ask the candidates directly? Please

give us your input by taking the Community Input Survey at aggccouncil.org/district7voters.

Ascension Lutheran Church has been designated a “Super Pantry”

by The Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. The San Diego Food Bank launched their Super Pantry Program in response to the families impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The program is comprised of 35 food distribution centers located throughout San Diego County.

In support of the Super Pantry Program, Ascension Lutheran Church expanded their food distributions to three times a week in addition to their traditional First Friday of the Month food distribution. Their Super Pantry hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 8–11 a.m., for the remainder of 2020. The First Friday of the Month hours are 8:30–10 a.m.

They offer drive-thru and walkin services in a touch-less environment. On July 25 they served 174 bags of food and served 92 households (or 314 individuals).

Ascension needs your help: • Inform your community that all are welcome at these free food distributions.

• Volunteer whatever hours you can contribute by email inquiry to alcsuperpantry@ gmail.com.

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COMMUNITY sdnews.com Del Cerro Action Council news

By JAY WILSON

The quarterly meeting of the Del Cerro Action Council (DCAC) was held on July 23.

DCAC chair Mark Rawlins read an update provided by John Steffen, our San Diego Police Community Relations Officer. The crime stats in the Del Cerro Area from April 1 to July 22 are as follows: Five violent crimes were reported and all five occurred on the portion of

Adobe Falls Road off of Waring Road; three commercial robberies; one domestic violence, and one assault with a deadly weapon. There were 27 property crimes in Del Cerro: 17 thefts from vehicle, one residential burglary and nine motor vehicle thefts. Fourteen motor vehicle citations were also issued.

Lisa Scott, our representative for Council member Scott Sherman, reported parking citations remained in a grace period until

Aug. 1. Following a recent vote by the City Council, the municipal code will now allow for moveable mini homes to be parked on residential property as soon as certain notifications are met. You can read more on this matter on Council member Sherman’s Facebook page.

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San Carlos Area Council news

By PATRICIA MOONEY

Five months into this seemingly unending pandemic, we now learn from the scientific community that this is only the beginning. Even though “sheltering in place” is recommended, a balance must be struck for your mind, body and spirit.

San Diego County Board of Supervisors representative Dianne Jacob spearheaded the plan to open county parks to workouts and worship. Lying around on a couch while watching television is simply not the best way to protect yourself from a deadly virus.

Go out there and take a hike or a run, ride your bike, find a patch of grass and do some yoga. Keep your body and your lungs strong so you can weather this storm.

We have noticed an abundance of climbers on Cowles Mountain

over the past few weeks — even at night when we’ve seen a few hikers continue over to Pyles Peak. We have observed how far technology has advanced in just the past 10 years, so that a person can illuminate a treacherous single-track trail to ascend to the top of Cowles Mountain, even on a moonless night. It’s technology that will also help us address this virus hopefully in the near future so we can return to a more normal way of living. We simply all need to pull our weight, wear a mask and socially distance.

Here is some news regarding an upcoming Zoom District 7 Candidate Forum meeting. It will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 7P p.m. The two candidates, Noli Zosa and Raul Campillo will answer questions submitted by community members in advance.

Email your questions to district7candidates@gmail.com by

noon, Tuesday, Aug. 18. Only questions from those submitted in advance will be addressed by both candidates. The link to attend the Zoom meeting will be posted on the Del Cerro Action Council, Allied Gardens Community Council and San Carlos Area Council Facebook page websites by noon on Monday, Aug. 17. Visit delcerroactioncouncil.org, aggccouncil. org or facebook.com/sancarlosareacouncil to find the link.

SCAC meetings are now on hiatus until further notice. If you have a San Carlos story to share, please contact San Carlos Area Council VP Patricia Mooney at patty@crystalpyramid.com.

—Patricia Mooney is Vice President of the San Carlos Area Council. Email patty@crystalpyramid.com

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The District 2 race is predicted to be one of the closest. Anderson, a Republican, will face fellow conservative Poway Mayor Steve Vaus, who garnered 31% of the vote in the primary. Another conservative candidate, Brian Sesko, took 6.8% of the vote and Democratic candidate Kenya Taylor came in third with a surprising finish of 26.7% in the historically deep-red district.

Since the primary resulted in a close race between the professed conservative, winning over votes from Democrats could be a key strategy to winning in November.

HISTORY OF SERVICE

Anderson was born in Detroit but his family moved when he was in junior high school to San Diego, settling in the Casa de Oro area. After graduating from St. Augustine High School, he attended Grossmont College before transferring to and graduating from Cal Poly Pomona.

After college, Anderson went to work for his brother who had started a direct mail marketing firm whose clients included businesses and politicians. “Through the course of working for different political campaigns, I was encouraged to run for office,�

Anderson said.

His first run for office was in 1998 — a race for State Assembly District 75, which he lost. In 2002, Anderson ran successfully for a seat on the water board, where he served four years, followed by successful campaigns for two terms in the State Assembly then two terms in State Senate.

In 2016, Anderson explored a run against Dianne Jacob for her District 2 seat, but eventually suspended the campaign citing difficulty raising the kind of money he felt he needed to beat the incumbent.

Anderson’s time in the legislature wasn’t without some controversy. In 2018, the Senate reprimanded him after an altercation with a lobbyist who said she was threatened by the senator in a bar.

Despite the pitfalls of public life, Anderson said serving in public

office has been an overall rewarding experience. “You have an opportunity to fix people’s problems — especially in the legislature,� he said. “Our focus was constituent services. We did between 20 and 90 cases a week where people would have trouble’s with the DMV or Consumer Affairs or the Franchise Tax Board and we were able to intervene on their behalf and brings things to resolution.�

Anderson said his office was able to do things like cut through red tape for small businesses, like a barber waiting for a license; or help inform constituents of money owed to them by the state (one elderly couple had over $200,000 owed to them); or the time a soldier sent to Iraq worried about the registration of his car he left parked in the street and Sen. Anderson’s office was able to get it registered so it wouldn’t be towed. “No other job allows you to solve problems like that and that’s why it was so rewarding,� he said.

Anderson credits his success in serving his constituents to two things — an internship program that at times had 50 people working in his office and an open communication policy where he published his personal cell phone number. “Part of our whole philosophy was that we’re responsible to the constituents, so if you have a question, we need to answer it,� he said.

Anderson’s philosophy also includes bipartisan solutions and he points to the 453 bills he has authored with Democrats during his tenure serving in the state legislature. “Most people don’t know that,� he said. “I did more bills co-authored with Dems than all the other Republicans put together.�

In 2018, Anderson was recognized for his bipartisanship approach with a Chuck Nichols & Pierre Frazier Bridge Builder Award from the USS Midway Museum’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee during its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Luncheon. “I’m proud to have received a ‌ Bridge Builder Award. Not many legislators that get type of award, it meant a lot to me,â€? he said.

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Even with his bipartisan record, Anderson still describes himself as an “uber-conservative.� “There’s no doubt about it — I am,� he said. “But I also understood that I represent a diversity of people and what I think is right doesn’t always turn out to be right and sometimes you’ve got to be open to better ideas. We are doomed if everyone polarizes up and nobody addresses the issues. On both sides, people are laser-focused on serving their base — that doesn’t serve our community. We have to work across party lines.�

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Working across party lines may become more important for the District 2 seat after the November election. For many years, Republicans dominated the Board of Supervisors — holding every seat until Democrat Nathan Fletcher’s 2018 victory in District 4. This year, the District 1 seat has already been lost to Republicans and another seat is in jeopardy — Kristin Gaspar’s District 3 seat where two Democratic candidates split 57.2 percent of the primary vote. If District 3 goes blue, the Democrats will have a controlling vote on the board.

Anderson is already looking ahead to what issues he can work on with his potential Democratic colleagues, such as expanding pilot programs that help the mentally ill get treatment. “On the right, a lot of Republicans hate Nathan Fletcher.

But look, Nathan Fletcher is right on mental health. He’s been doing all the right things. I disagree with him on some of his bike lanes, but on this, we’ll partner,� he said.

On transportation, Anderson holds a more traditional conservative approach — that the county should fund roads over green transportation options like bike lanes. “I’m 60. I’m not going to get on my bike and ride five miles to a doctor’s appointment. I’m not going to take a trolley to a hospital. And to ask seniors to do that is unreasonable,� he said. “So we have to protect the roads to ensure they get the medical care that they need and require.�

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In tackling the coronavirus outbreak, Anderson holds a conservative view that favors fewer restrictions on people and businesses.

“Flattening the curve was to make sure hospitals had respirators. Now closures are to make sure no one catches it. If a bunch of 20 year olds want to go out and catch it, as long as they’re not giving it to grandma, where her life’s in peril, very few 20 year olds are dying from this. It may be a miserable experience for them, but they’re not dying,” he said, adding that the county health department should focus less on the number of infections and more on the number of deaths. “If our new norm is that nobody can get sick, we’re doomed as a society because no business will ever open again and at some point you’re not going to have any toilet paper or food or anything else because all those workers can’t afford to be sick and aren’t going to show up.

“I think we have to fight this with science, but unfortunately too many people are fighting it with political science,” he continued. “I think that we need to have a plan, execute the plan and stick to the plan. You look at the news and it’s all arbitrary.

It’s OK to have thousands of people rally for a cause — whether it’s for Trump or it’s for Black

lives — and that’s OK, but if it’s singing at church, ‘Oh no, we can’t do that.”

On the issue of expanding housing in the county, Anderson also takes a conservative approach by favoring cutting red tape and “antiquated” regulations on projects to lower building costs for developers. When it comes to large-scale developments in the unincorporated areas of the county, he said he would look at projects individually and would heavily weight what neighboring communities think of them.

“But I think you need to be thoughtful,” he said. “You can’t say, ‘I want my children to be able to afford to live in San Diego so I don’t have to visit my grandkids in Phoenix.’ You can’t say that and then say we’re never going to build a house.”

Ultimately, Anderson said he prefers to make decisions based on constituent input rather than rules or procedures that in some instances need to be changed by lawmakers.

“My door is always open, it always has been open and constituent services has always been my focus,” he said. “I do think we deserve better from the county.

This rubber-stamping of staff is not representation. When you defend staff against the people, you’ve lost your way. I’ve always fought for my constituents.”

—Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at jeff@sdnews.com.

Aug. 14 – Sept. 10, 2020 NEWS San Diego Community Newspaper Group ‘Lady of The Lake’ honored with tree planting

By JEFF CLEMETSON | Mission Times Courier

La Mesa resident Gloria Ann “Lori” Ciprian was a nature lover who enjoyed her daily walks around Lake Murray, often stopping to feed the geese that she befriended over the years.

When Ciprian died on June 15 after a yearlong battle with cancer, her human friends knew that the best way to honor her life would be some kind of memorial at Lake Murray. After making inquiries to Mission Trails Regional Park and the San Carlos Recreation Center, it was determined that a tree planted near the baseball fields adjacent to the lake would be the most viable option.

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In a matter of days, Ciprian’s boyfriend Anthony Bail and friend Anna Falco were able to raise the $350 for the tree through donations.

On Aug. 13, the tree was planted at a ceremony attended by friends and family.

“I cannot think of anything more beautiful than a tree. A tree represents beau- Lori Ciprian was a friend to the geese at ty, elegance, brightness and Lake Murray. (Courtesy photos) a living thing always growing. It represents Lori to the full- numerous articles for the San est. We chose a light pink crape Diego Reader and small papers. myrtle. Her favorite color was “Lori loved life and Lake Murray pink,” Falco said. “This tree, in and could be seen at the lake daimy heart, will allow me to visit ly,” commented Bailey in a brief her anytime I want and we will obituary he wrote for his girlbe together in spirit.” friend. “She skated, jogged and Ciprian was born in walked the lake talking to friends.

Loraine, Ohio and moved She loved the birds and animals to San Diego in 1984. She at the lake and took care of the attended UCSD on a schol- injured ones. We will all miss our arship where she studied beautiful ‘Lady of the Lake.’” theater.

Falco has invited members of When the San Diego the community who knew Ciprian Convention Center first to share stories or well wishes opened, she worked as a about her by sending them by hostess on the first San Diego email to anaafalco@cox.net.

Spirit Team — chosen out of For information about getting a a group of 2,400 applicants tree dedication in or around San Carlos parks, contact Kelly Wood for the position.

For over 20 years, she at kwood@sandiego.gov. worked as an usher at —Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at Humphrey’s By The Bay Concert Series. She wrote jeff@sdnews.com.

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OPINION / POLITICS / NEWS The constitutional right we News from your County cannot afford to waste Supervisor Notes from Toni Aug. 14 – Sept. 10, 2020 San Diego Community Newspaper Group

By TONI G. ATKINS Every decade, each person in the United States, young and old, regardless of citizenship, has the Constitutional right to be counted. The Census is the only way for us to determine the true definition of America – whether you live in the largest metropolitan cities or miles down rural routes.

Reminders about taking the 2020 Census are emblazoned on billboards, featured in television commercials, and sprinkled into social media news feeds. It makes sense, given that approximately $1.5 trillion dollars in federal funding is at stake.

Breaking that down, that means for every person left out of the Census count, California could lose $1,000 per person — per year — for the next 10 years.

That’s a loss of $10,000 per uncounted person until the 2030 Census.

If you have a family of five, your community could lose out on $50,000.

The Census is like planning how much cake to have at a birthday party based on the number of RSVPs. No one wants to miss out on cake because you thought it was OK to just show up unannounced.

The total pool of funding is distributed to communities based on population and head counts. This includes babies, children, teenagers, seniors and non-citizens.

The current COVID-19 health crisis also affords an

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Reed, Steve Dahms, and Shain Haug. The vacancy arose with the resignation of the fourth Allied Gardens member.

NCPI is formed and recognized by the City Council to make recommendations to the city on land use matters — specifically concerning the preparation of, adoption of, implementation of, or amendment to, the General Plan or a land use plan when a plan relates to the NCPI community of Allied Gardens, Grantville, Del Cerro, and San Carlos.

The NCPI consists of 16 elected members; four each from Allied Gardens, Del Cerro, Grantville and San Carlos to represent the Navajo communities.

Planning group members shall be elected by and from all eligible members of the

all-too-realistic example of why you need to be counted.

We need to ensure that we get our fair share of funding and resources in emergency situations. Funding for a community health clinic in your neighborhood is based on information only you can provide. The data also funds programs and resources like senior services, child health programs, higher education, and job training.

Our population is aging.

The first Baby Boomers hit 65 in 2011. That population will continue to grow, and senior services must be properly accounted for. By filling the Census form out, you are declaring, “I am here. I exist.”

More importantly, your answers help fund programs that serve your community and shape your future.

It is important to note that this is not a citizenship survey.

Despite the Supreme Court already having blocked the citizenship question from being included in the Census, the current administration continues to wrongfully attempt to circumvent the law and exclude non-citizens in the 2020 Census. Those efforts are unconscionable and unconstitutional.

Now, more than ever, we need everyone to participate in the 2020 Census so that we can ensure the law, not divisive politics, governs our land. We cannot let people be bullied or made to live in fear.

The Constitution is clear – all people must count.

If this current public health and economic crisis has demonstrated anything, it is that vulnerable communities

have suffered the most. In addition, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on our public schools and higher education, which means it is even more important to plan for the next 10 years in communities hard hit by this pandemic.

Census workers, called enumerators, will begin going door-to-door to collect Census data. They are not allowed to ask for your social security number, political preference, bank account information, or religious affiliation. It also illegal for the Census Bureau to share your information with law enforcement or any other government agency. And your information cannot be used against you in any way.

So please, consider this my “door-to-door” ask. Have you done a post on Facebook, sent a Tweet or uploaded a picture on Instagram? It’s just as easy to fill out your Census. You can do it online, over the phone or on paper. In fact, you may also be receiving an email, making it even easier to complete.

The next 10 years of funding can be determined in just 10 minutes of your time.

Make sure you are counted.

It is your Constitutional right.

Online: 2020Census.gov.

By phone: 844-330-2020.

community. To be an eligible community member, an individual must be at least 18 years of age, and shall be affiliated with the community as a property owner, who is an individual identified as the sole or partial owner of record, or their designee, of a real property (either developed or undeveloped), within the community planning area; or resident, who is an individual whose primary address of residence is an address in the community planning area; or local businessperson, who is a local business or not-for-profit owner, operator, or designee at a non-residential real property address in the community planning area; only one representative of a particular establishment may hold a seat on the NCPI at one time. The bylaws require nominees for the Board to have attended at least one meeting in the prior year.

In addition to land use planning, NCPI originates

and endorses the local use of Development Impact Funds, the funds that are derived from property developments in the area, for public amenities such as libraries.

The application for membership can be found at bit. ly/3gqq4Aj.

—Toni G. Atkins is President pro Tempore of the California Senate. Having previously served as Speaker of the California Assembly, she began her tenure in the Senate in 2016. As Senator for District 39, she represents the cities of San Diego, Coronado, Del Mar and Solana Beach. Website of President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins: Senate.ca.gov/Atkins.

COUNCIL PASSES TINY HOME ORDINANCE On July 21, the City Council unanimously approved an amendment to the Land Development Code to add Moveable Tiny Houses to the ordinance for Companion Units and Junior Units as a separately regulated use. Movable Tiny Homes provide a lower-cost option that provides flexible housing choices for families, students, the elderly, and people with disabilities to name a few.

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Dianne’s Corner

By DIANNE JACOB Wildfire warning: In light of COVID-19, the county, Cal Fire, the Red Cross and others are revamping evacuation plans and other emergency protocols to bolster public safety during a major firestorm.

Residents under evacuation orders this year could be housed in a hotel or motel, or at multiple shelters with fewer than 50 people instead of a larger traditional shelter. The Red Cross is working with nearly 100 lodging businesses across the county to make rooms available in a crisis, and they have identified over 200 shelter locations to provide these safer options.

We’re entering the riskiest part of the wildfire season while still being in the middle of an unprecedented health crisis. That is forcing us to rethink and retool our disaster-planning efforts.

Sma l l business a ler t: Applications are still being accepted for the county’s COVID-19 stimulus grant program.

The Board of Supervisors recently voted to establish the $17 million fund, setting aside $3.4 million for private for-profit and non-profit businesses in East County.

Many of our retail shops, restaurants and other businesses are in dire financial straits and need a financial lifeline. The grants will offer relief as we continue battle the virus and work to get our economy on track.

To apply, start here: sandiegocounty.gov/stimulusgrant/. The application deadline is August 15.

Helping seniors: At my urging, the county is moving to expand meal deliveries from local restaurants to seniors and other vulnerable populations.

The Board of Supervisors has agreed to tap into federal CARES Act money to ramp up the deliveries. In recent months, the county has been offering the meals through a program called Great Plates.

These deliveries are not only critical for seniors but are another way we can support restaurants that may be struggling for survival.

In the Zone: Just a reminder that the county’s Cool Zone program is up and running again, but on a limited basis due to COVID-19. For the latest locations and hours, visit CoolZones.org.

—Dianne Jacob represents District 2 on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. For questions or comments about your county government, call 619- 531-5522 or email dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov.

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POLITICS sdnews.com Dems endorse Campillo for District 7 City Council seat

By TINA RYNBERG and JEFF BENESCH

When all the ballots were counted in the March primary, Raul Campillo had, somewhat surprisingly, amassed nearly 36% of the total vote, even with two other outstanding Democratic candidates, and a lone Repulican on the ballot.

Campillo would appear to be the favorite in a district that now leans Democratic, especially in an historic presidential election where the incumbent’s job approval is dismal, and by election time, well over 200,000 Americans will have died because of his mismanagement of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. With unemployment at historically high levels, and the economy in a steep nose dive, it doesn’t seem possible that Trump will help any of the down ballot candidates in California with an “R” after their name. His ill-advised attempts to squash by-mail voting seems to be equally unpopular among all constituencies.

The L a Me s a- Fo ot h i l l s Democratic Club has known Campillo for a long time, since he became a member early on, and spoke frequently to the club long before the election heated up.

Campillo is currently San Diego Deputy City Attorney, where he has been a prosecutor and now

serves in the nationally-recognized Gun Violence Response Unit.

Campillo was born and raised in San Diego, attending East County public schools Vista Grande Elementary School and Hillsdale Middle School before attending Uni High School in Linda Vista. He is also a double-graduate of Harvard, with a Bachelor‘s and Law degree.

Campillo has been a regular attendee and active member of the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club, and he was endorsed by the club and the San Diego County Democratic Party. He is also endorsed by former District 7 City Council member Marti Emerald, who said «Raul is committed to serving everyone and being in the neighborhoods, in each community, to solve problems. That‘s why he has my full support.»

Campillo has also been endorsed by every city employee association, including the Firefighters, Lifeguards, and Police, as well as the League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club.

Campillo‘s priorities are making sure that our local economy rebounds from the coronavirus and that local businesses are given the aid and help from the City government to rebuild. He also wants to emphasize keeping housing costs affordable, preserving open space on Cowles Mountain and in Mission Trails Regional Park, expanding public transit options, and fixing the roads that have been long

neglected in District 7. Campillo also says that his office and staff will be extra diligent in responding to community concerns, like the speeding that recently led to a disastrous crash in Del Cerro along Madra Avenue.

All in all, from his East County roots to his on-the-ground focus, Campillo represents what‘s sorely needed on council: His life-experiences and professional expertise on community issues, together with the values that emphasize local government‘s strengths.

“I work in the city government and I see what works and what doesn‘t,» he says. «Not every issue is partisan, and not every value is partisan. But when it comes down to it, the best way to lead our city is by governing the way you would want to be governed.»

The L a Me s a- Fo ot h i l l s Democratic Club meets the first Wednesday of every month. In regular times, our meeting room is the spacious La Mesa Community Center. For the last few months, and for the foreseeable future, we’ll be zooming each month.

We just had a wonderful meeting on Aug. 5 about the efforts to pass Proposition 16, the non-partisan effort to bring Affirmative Action back to California colleges and universities. You can catch the entire meeting at lamesafoothillsdemocraticclub.com.

—Tina Rynberg is president and Jeff Benesch is vice president of programming for the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club.

Republican Women looking to November

By PAT BOERNER

Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California is looking forward to a Zoom meeting featuring San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Tia Quick on Sept. 8. Deputy DA Quick will speak on the current state of law enforcement and public safety in San Diego today, as well as other related law enforcement and judicial issues.

Our members will be given the information on how to “join” the Zoom meeting and participate in a discussion after registering. This is just another incentive to join Navajo now and be able to attend our Zoom meetings and be kept up to date on the latest political and campaign events. For information about becoming a member please visit our website at rwcNavajo-Canyon.org and visit us on Facebook at Republican Women of California-Navajo Canyon.

The Republican Women of California San Diego County is

hosting an outside meeting at the Legacy Hotel in Mission Valley on Monday Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. The speaker will be Ruth Weiss from the Election Integrity Project and her topic will be the very timely and urgent issue of voter fraud.

What can we do to assure the legitimacy of our elections? For more information and to make a reservation, please contact rdlamart@cox.net or waskahwhelan@aol.com.

Americans are increasingly frustrated with the failure of their elected leaders to protect property and the citizens. Are you paying attention to what is happening in Portland? This is our opportunity to affect a great outcome in the November 2020 election. Now is the time to volunteer and remind the public how poor leadership has led to so much chaos, destruction and lack of respect for law and order.

There is a wealth of examples to consider. Phone calls to other Republican voters and getting them to promise to vote is so simple, yet vitally important.

Tired of biased reporting from major sources such as Twitter,

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Another idea: Next time you go into your Facebook account, type “Team Trump” in the search bar. This is an excellent source of information, including Women for Trump videos that are worth watching!

Please consider joi ni ng Republican Women of California - Navajo Canyon. There was never a better time to get involved and influence the direction of our country. Any questions or for more information regarding volunteering, please contact RWCNC president Waskah Whelan at waskahwhelan@aol.com.

—Pat Boerner writes on behalf of the Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California.

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ADMINISTERING YOUR TRUST UPON YOUR DEATH By: Dick McEntyre and Chris von der Lieth, Attorneys at Law You may wonder what is involved when your successor trustee administers your revocable living trust following your death.

Here are the primary actions (not necessarily sequential) your successor trustee will need to take: 1. Arrange for the on-going care of your pets; secure your home; and make the final arrangements for the disposition of your body.

2. Order several Death Certificates through the mortuary to be used in connection with closing financial accounts and transferring title to real property.

3. Mail out “Notice to Beneficiary/Heir” letters as required by California law.

4. Obtain preliminary value of your estate to determine whether a federal estate tax return may need to be filed with the IRS (within nine (9) months from the date of your death).

5. Notify the California Department of Health Care Services as required by California law if you received or may have received any benefits from Medi-Cal. 6. Open a new checking account in the trust name (or convert an existing account). This account will be used to pay all of your debts and on-going trust expenses. In this connection, obtain from the IRS a new income tax reporting number (EIN) for the trust which the bank will require, since your trust became irrevocable upon your death.

7. Transfer title to all financial/brokerage accounts from your name into the successor trustee's name, or close (sell the assets in) all or some of such accounts and transfer the proceeds into the new account in the trust referred to in Para. 6 above.

8. Locate all outstanding bills and pay same from the account referred to in Para 6. above.

9. Make claim for any death benefit(s) payable on your death.

10. As to any personal property in your estate, have an appraisal of such property

made by an estate personal property appraiser, and sell such property and deposit the sale proceeds into the trust bank account, or divide such property among the entitled beneficiaries based on value or as otherwise required by the terms of your trust.

11. Obtain date of death values of all other property in your estate. Your banks and brokerage firms can provide the trustee with a statement(s) covering the time of your death and/or a letter providing the date of death value(s) of such account(s). The trustee will probably need to hire a qualified real estate appraiser to value your real property(ies) (needed for income tax basis purposes).

12. The trustee should keep a good record of all trust income and expenses and trust distributions, since an accounting should typically be provided to each beneficiary at the end of the trust administration.

13. The trustee should pay to himself or herself the compensation he or she is entitled to under the terms of the trust; and if none is provided for, "reasonable compensation" as authorized by California law.

14. After all estate expenses and debts have been paid, make the distributions to your beneficiaries called for by the trust.

15. Have an accountant prepare and file the needed income tax returns for you and for the trust.

The above statements are not to be taken as legal advice for the reader’s particular situation.

Richard F. McEntyre practices law in the area of estate planning and administration, having served the San Diego community as a lawyer for over 40 years. Chris von der Lieth is Dick’s associate lawyer, having worked with Dick for over 6 years. Affordable rates. Highest quality services. House calls available.

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of Kumeyaay cultural resources and sacred sites while studies are done in consultation with the Kumeyaay Tribes.”

Elliott Santos added, “the Kumeyaay people, our people, have occupied this region, on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, for many thousands of years.

Trenching for the new border barriers is destroying an important part of our legacy and likely the precious human remains of our ancestors. Until we can study the area, we will not know the extent of the damage. We remain willing to work with the government in a reasonable time frame to ensure that the Kumeyaay history and religion are not illegally desecrated further by the border wall construction projects.”

Each Kumeyaay Tribe is a federally-recognized tribe with ancestral and reservation lands in Southern California. The Kumeyaay Heritage Preservation Council represents nine federally-recognized tribes of the Kumeyaay Nation and is charged with protecting Kumeyaay spirituality, cultural resources, and heritage within the aboriginal territory of the Kumeyaay people.

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unlikely to happen as our national Mortgage Backed Securities market is much stronger than it was in 2007.

In the last 10 years, people have qualified for mortgages based on strong fundamentals.

And anyone needing to sell right now is not “under water” on a property, so the market remains smooth, stable, and efficient.

Home prices in San Diego (a jewel of the nation and world) are surprisingly discounted compared to other parts of California such as Orange County, Los Angeles coastal areas and parts of the northern coast.

Another factor driving the huge demand for housing right now is that renters are valuing homesteads more than even just a few months ago.

Suddenly people are wanting to own a property with at least

a small yard and extra room for a home office. I have one buyer who was renting in Pacific Beach and traveled quite a bit but who has now settled down by purchasing a property. The virus has caused some soul searching and changes in lifestyles, no question.

Buyers are now having more confidence that we are closer to the end of this pandemic than the beginning or at least there is an end in sight with maybe being back to normalcy sometime in 2021. Sadly, most of the pandemic job losses are among those making less than $50,000 and with lots of the higher paid workers, keeping their jobs, and able to qualify for a property.

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Six Tribes of the Kumeyaay Nation and an intertribal council of nine Kumeyaay governments submitted a demand letter to Customs and Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calling for a suspension of construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall until measures are in place to protect culturally-significant resources from construction activities.

Frustrated with multiple federal construction activities along the border that have failed to properly detect and protect Kumeyaay village sites, burials and religious sites, the Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation, the Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, the Jamul Indian Village and the Kumeyaay Heritage Preservation Council (KHPC) demanded the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) temporarily cease all ground disturbing activities until CBP fully evaluates construction impacts on Kumeyaay religious beliefs, practices, and cultural resources. Federal law and CBP guidelines require that CBP meaningfully consult with the Kumeyaay on those impacts, and take appropriate steps to avoid or mitigate such impacts on tribal religious rights.

The Kumeyaay Tribes also object to federal agencies placing unwarranted restrictions on tribal monitors, which impede meaningful oversight of cultural resources. Given the agencies’ impediments, delaying construction is the only viable way to protect the sites, according to the Kumeyaay Nation tribes.

The multiple construction project sites are located in Kumeyaay aboriginal land that spans the border area and contains sacred sites, ancient village sites and certainly human remains.

The tribes are proposing to work cooperatively with the CBP while construction is temporarily paused to evaluate the impacts, mitigate, and where possible, avoid irreversible adverse impacts.

“We are horrified that the government is moving forward with construction on the border without studying our Kumeyaay sacred sites and other cultural resources and how to protect them,” said Angela Elliott Santos, chair of both the Manzanita Band and KHPC. “Construction must stop in order to avoid further destruction

I just represented the sellers on a closed transaction for an upgraded three-bedroom, one-bath, single-family residence here in the College Area. We had nine offers at and above list price within the first few days. So what is the story with this surging demand in housing right now? There are some factors contributing to both the increase in prices and demand.

First of all, this is not the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. That fall in prices was related primarily to the U.S. government relaxing qualifying terms on mortgages to purchase a property with the idea that “everyone should be able to own property.” Certainly a noble goal — but one that ultimately failed.

The book (or movie) the “Big Short” explains it all pretty well. Millions of mortgages were being written with little to no qualifying criteria on the borrower, which then lead to millions of borrowers defaulting on their mortgages and a flood of homes hitting the market all at once. Prices naturally decreased.

It is really frustrating, as I know quite a few buyers right now stating that they wish to wait until home prices drop 10% to 30% before looking for and closing on a property. Well that is

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Commemorating 100 years of the 19th Amendment when women took the vote

By KAREN SCANLON | San Diego Community Newspaper Group

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex…” so goes the text of this celebrated passage.

Women’s suffrage ended on Aug. 18, 1920, culminating nearly a century of protest. Though she took the vote, other rights granted continued to evolve — to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination. The right to be educated, own property, and earn an equitable wage.

Interestingly, German-Jewish immigrant Louis Rose, who settled the community of Roseville in

Point Loma some 150 years ago, showed himself to be an early feminist in that he deeded property to women. How startling!

A number of well-known women of San Diego began to assert themselves beyond the kitchen.

For example, in the late 1880s, humanitarian visionary Kathryn Tingley created an international community of free thinkers, known as Raja Yoga Academy, or Lomaland. It became a highly regarded educational institution.

At about the same time, American horticulturalist Kate Sessions was cultivating plants. In 1892, she leased 30 acres of land in City Park and planted 100 trees a year. She would become known as “Mother of Balboa Park,” and was connected to the philanthropic generosity of businessman, George Marston.

But there are other women whose contributions to San Diego ought to be remembered.

THE FIRST FEMALE HARBOR PILOT

Newspaper clipping of Celia Sweet and her speed boat, Relue. (Courtesy James Sweet and Janet Sweet Corey)

Celia Sweet of Ballast Point was the lightkeeper’s wife.

James, and often Celia, tended the bay beacons and lamp in the tower. He also built boats known as Sweet Craft. In 1907, Sweet christened Pilot, San Diego’s first motorized harbor-pilot vessel, Celia bursting the champagne bottle against its bow.

While raisi ng two children, Celia became the f irst

federally licensed woman harbor pilot in San Diego, and also ferried passengers across the bay to Coronado’s Tent City. When she could solicit no female competition, Celia raced the Relue against her male equals of San Diego Yacht Club. Sweet’s 28-foot Relue set a Pacific coast speed record of 22 knots.

SOUTHERN BELLE SAVES SURFING IN SAN DIEGO An extrovert known as Miss Billy Riley of Oklahoma burst onto Shelter Island’s entertainment scene when tourism efforts were flailing. Through evolving monikers of the 1960s — Windsong, L’Escale, Half Moon, and Humphrey’s — Miss Billy became the first woman manager of a major hotel and eventually part owner. She served as the first female president of the San Diego Hotel-Motel Association, director of San Diego Chamber of Commerce, and strongly advocated the construction of Ocean Beach Fishing Pier.

Miss Billy will be remembered for defending the 1966 World Surfing Championships when city officials uttered disdain for the whole affair. “Five years earlier, surfers had misbehaved during a similar event,” she said, “and the city was forced to consider the future of surfing in San Diego generally.”

“I gathered a bunch of those 200 surfers in the parking lot of Bali Hai and told them you’re going to have a rough time in our city — people think you’re a crummy bunch. We expect you to conduct yourselves honorably to represent the surfing industry.”

As it was, surfing greats Kimo McVay, Nat Young, and ‘the Duke’ Kahanomoku took to the waves

Professor Iris Engstrand at a Chargers game with granddaughter Madison.

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in Ocean Beach, while spectators crowded the new pier.

In downtown’s Gaslamp District, Billy’s name appears on the outside bronze plaque of the Horton Grand Hotel. “We’d heard that the old Horton Hotel and Kahle’s Saddlery were being torn down and felt the urgency to preserve what we could,” she said. “Some of us moved sections of those buildings into storage in an old garage on Island Avenue, brick-by-brick, windows, and everything. And when the time came, we, and other investors, recreated a hotel.” The Horton Grand is a testament to Miss Billy’s tenacity and goodwill.

THE CITY’S HISTORY PROFESSOR EMERITA Iris Engstrand, Ph.D., has taught thousands of students at University of San Diego over 49 years as a professor of American history. In turn, she says, “These students have themselves become teachers and authors. They serve as politicians, city planners,

national and state park employees, mayors, and in other positions of leadership. Teaching others is truly a gift that keeps on giving.”

Of relevance is Engstrand’s pictorial history of San Diego, first published in 1980 and reprinted three times in revised editions.

“This factual account,” she says, “tells a complete story of San Diego beginning with the indigenous population and continuing through the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods.”

Other notable women were to be recognized at this year’s Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties, an annual two-day conference. But “Remarkable Women 1920-2020” fell by the pandemic wayside. The Congress is scheduled to reconvene, fingers crossed, on Feb. 2627, 2021, when the contributions by women over the past 100 years will be celebrated.

—Karen Scanlon is a San Diegobased writer with an affinity for stories about local history.

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In response to the rollback in small-business re-openings, just recently undertaken before COVID-19 cases spiked, San Diego Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer signed an executive order on July 7. That order provides regulatory relief to restaurants and makes dining safer by encouraging outdoor operations. The order, effective immediately, waives permitting and parking requirements for the use of sidewalks and private parking lots as outdoor dining venues.

PARKING LOT PATIOS

While some restaurants have long taken advantage of San Diego’s sunny climate with outdoor dining patios, there are still

many more that do not have them.

After the city gave the OK to move seating into parking lots or sidewalks, restaurants have come up with interesting ways to take advantage of the new outdoor option — with various degrees of success, depending on the space available to them.

Dirty Birds, a chicken wings restaurant in the College Area, set up its outdoor dining area July 10. Located in a strip mall off El Cajon Boulevard — already with a limited size parking lot — the restaurant could only find space for nine tables that seat roughly 24 customers. Dirty Birds’ indoor dining area can serve over 100.

Still, the restaurant is thankful for the business it still has with its limited seating.

“It has been helpful,” said Dirty Birds manager PJ Cagnina “As

The concrete barrier at Longhorn Bar & Grill sports a message consistent with the restaurant's community-minded ethos.

NEWS you can see, we have five tables sat and it’s 2 p.m. on a Tuesday, so it’s been helpful so far.”

The limited number tables have cut staff and sales at the restaurant by roughly half, said Dirty Birds owner Noli Zosa.

“Customers overwhelmingly love [the outdoor dining] because of the pleasant atmosphere,” Zosa said. “The only issue is the longer wait times because of our limited capacity.”

Cagnina added that on weekends there are people waiting for tables and he also gets around 30 to 40 calls a day from people asking if there is outdoor dining available.

Despite tables now taking a few of the limited parking spaces in front of the restaurant, Cagnina said it hasn’t been an issue.

“We have enough neighborhood street parking that it facilitates what is needed,” he said.

Dirty Birds owner Noli Zosa Across Interstate 8 in the San Carlos neighborhood, The Trails Eatery has benefited from a location with a large parking lot — and some forethought to how the pandemic might affect business.

Trails Eatery owner Stacey Poon-Kinney finished her parking lot patio a little over a week after restaurants were allowed to open for indoor dining at half capacity.

“I had been working on opening the patio space for weeks — five weeks — before we ever opened it. While we were just doing takeout, before we were even allowed to do 50% dining inside, I saw

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Outside dining at Dirty Birds in College Area can only accommodate a quarter of the restaurant's normal seating. (Photos by Jeff Clemetson)

the writing on the wall. I knew we were only going to be able to open at 50%,” she said. “The biggest motivation for me to put a patio space out here temporarily was that with 50% capacity dining, I can’t pay my rent. It wasn’t going to be enough.”

Although Poon-Kinney said her landlords were amicable to allowing a patio into the parking lot that is shared with neighboring stores like San Carlos Hardware and Keils grocery store, it was still “a very difficult process” to get it done, mostly due to getting the patio insured.

“Nobody likes to insure parking lot patios. So my insurance company required me to jump through lot of hoops,” PoonKinney said. “I was able to send back everything they asked for

and it still took them three weeks.

They had to send it all the way up the flagpole. We were the very first restaurant in the nation that they insured for this.”

Poon-Kinney credits the safety precautions she took for the patio for the eventual insurance policy that covers it. The Trails Eatery patio is protected on three sides by concrete barriers — colorfully painted with hearts — as well as the sidewalk in front of the restaurant. There are umbrella tables and planters to add ambience to the makeshift outdoor dining area.

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guarantee we’d be out of business in the very near future if we didn’t have this patio,” she said, adding that the patio cost was thousands of dollars.

Poon-Kinney also pointed out that the patio “did not happen in a vacuum.” It was possible because of support from her landlords as well as local businesses like Art’s Trenchplate & K-Rail Services who were able to supply the concrete barriers and set them up using a crane for a good price and neighboring San Carlos True Value Hardware who also offered a good price for the paint.

“It’s things like that that make all the difference in the world and that’s what has made this possible,” she said.

The outdoor business ordinance will: • Allow outdoor business operations for dining and retail in parking lots, on-street parking spaces and sidewalks, as well as neighboring business frontage with written permission of neighboring business owner; • Waive parking requirements so businesses can make use of private parking lots to place dining furniture and displays, among retail operations; • Streamline and cut red tape for sidewalk cafés; • Allow “pedestrian plazas” to take over on-street parking for expanded outdoor dining and retail; • Allow business improvement districts to issue Sidewalk Café permits for an expanded area of the sidewalk; • Waive special event permit fees to allow nonprofit applicants to close streets and conduct business outdoors faster and cheaper; • Waive special event application processing fees and fire inspection fees for street closures; • Retroactive fee waivers for applicants that were previously approved for an outdoor dining special event permit after May 1; • Broaden allowances and reduce required permit for temporary signs so that businesses can place banners, A-frame signage in the right of way, public health reminders, and other informational signs outdoors on sidewalks while maintaining ADA access; • Allow for expanded wholesale distribution of food, beverages, and groceries directly to consumers while allowing for social distancing; • Preserve mobility, safety and emergency access for pedestrians, and preserve requirements that ADA access and path of travel be maintained at all times; • Require full compliance with all State and County Health Orders and guidance.

More information on outdoor dining and retail requirements and how to apply for a permit can be found on the Development Services Department website.

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this and waited our time to be able to reopen and follow CONTINUED FROM Page 6 the state’s orders.

So now that we reDuring these unprecedented opened, it’s impertimes, it is easy to forget that San Diego still faces a severe housing ative for us to make some money and crisis. The average cost of rent there’s no telling is nearly $2,000 a month and how long this will the median price of housing is be and we need to well over $500,000. With the feed our families.”

COVID-19 pandemic causing unprecedented job loss, the housing With the coronavirus pandemic still affordability crisis will only get growing, it is likely worse.

The Trails Eatery's outdoor seating area sports colorful hearts painted on protective conthat even more In contrast, the average cost crete barriers. (Photo by Jeff Clemetson) types of businessof a movable tiny home is only es will find ways $85,000. A significant portion of In the same spirit of community, “I had a pretty good idea in to move operations outdoors, households in San Diego can afthe patio at The Trails Eatery in- my head how I could operate a move that is supported by ford a movable tiny house as an spired another local restaurant’s in the parking lot, and it actu- College Area Business District Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU). parking lot patio. The Longhorn ally worked out pretty well,” he executive director Jim Schneider.

The average cost of rent for a tiny Bar & Grill in Grantville extended said of his parking lot shop with “We are pleased to see so mahome is $900 a month. A propits outdoor area shortly after the barber chairs and work stations ny businesses taking advantage erty owner would recover their under pop-up tents. mayor’s July 7 executive order. of this and the other progresinitial investment in eight years.

“It’s good publicity. People see sive programs offered to keep L on g ho r n ow ne r Pau l After that, the rent from the tiny Bernhardt credits his wife us out here,” he added. small businesses alive during house could help cover their mortBettyann for quickly designing For safety, Cutting Edge has this pandemic,” he said. “Their gage or other expenses. and setting up the patio, which hand sanitizers for barbers and creativity and ability to pivot “Moveable tiny homes are a also features concrete barriers customers to use, disinfectants demonstrates the entrepreneurgreat option that naturally infrom Art’s Trenchplate & K-Rail to clean up after every haircut, ial spirit by proving to be able to creases affordable housing at no Services and features a bamboo and all barbers wear masks and adapt quickly. Given the emocost to taxpayers. It’s a win for the privacy screen and putting green- gloves. Safety, he said, is the tional and financial cost of these homeowner, it’s a win for the rentstyle astroturf. most important consideration, adaptations, we hope some of er, and it’s a win for the taxpayer,” “It took a couple of weeks to get but so too is keeping his doors these temporary measures, like said Sherman. dialed in, but it’s been working open.

Outdoor Business Operations, Councilmember Scott Sherman out really well,” Bernhardt said.

“It was very important to keep can become permanent small has been working to approve this ordinance since 2018.

“It wouldn’t be a bad thing to keep it open because everybody here, business assistance for years afit even when we’re allowed back in some sort of fashion, has a ter this pandemic.”

“I appreciate my colleagues supfamily they need to take care inside.” port for this important housing reMaintaining a patio past the of, whether its kids or adults,” —Jeff Clemetson is an editor form. We must continue pushing quarantine would require some he said, adding that he has a and Dave Schwab is a contributing for common sense solutions that costs and regulatory hoops, 2-year-old daughter. “We all editor at the San Diego Community result in naturally occurring afBernhardt said, including month- shut down at the beginning of Newspaper Group. fordable housing,” said Sherman. ly rent for the concrete barriers, permission from the property owner, permits from the city and the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, who would need to sign off on the plan so drinks Together we thrive. Connection can be served. Future plans aside, the current outdoor patio has beis key to a longer & more vibrant come integral to Longhorn staylife, and powers everything ing open.

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By EVA YAKUTIS The gardeners at the College Area Community Garden, along with many area home gardeners, are reaping the benefits of that extra time they spent tending their veggies in spring/summer 2020 while hunkered down, sticking close to home.

August and September will bring a bounty of red, ripe tomatoes, and even happy neighbors who benefit from the overflow may get “tomatoed-out” before the surplus lets up. But wouldn’t it be wonderful to have that fantastic home-grown flavor available

• Submerge the tomatoes whole and uncut, in batches, for 30 seconds to one minute until their skins crack and the peel is easily removed. (If they don’t crack, pull one out and poke it with a knife.

The skin should easily pull away from the knife.)

• Pull tomatoes out of the water and slip their skin off before submerging your next batch of tomatoes. (If the tomatoes rest too long or are left in the hot water too long, some of their precious meat may stay with the skins when peeled.)

• Repeat, reheating the pot of water if necessary.

• Cut tomatoes in half horizontally and squeeze them over the sink to remove most of the seeds.

for our soups, stews, sauces, and pasta dishes as the seasons change and that summer treat is just a memory? Yes! Freezing is an easy, safe, and quick alternative to canning without having to purchase any special tools or supplies.

To freeze homegrown tomatoes, pick them at the height of ripeness and redness. Those cracked, ugly ones at the farmers’ markets are great for this as well and may be at a discounted price. You will need a medium saucepan, slotted spoon or tongs, paring knife, rimmed baking sheets (one or two, depending on how many tomatoes you have), a larger knife (chef’s knife), and a cutting board.

• Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil. Turn off heat.

• Chop the tomatoes and spread them out in a single layer on the baking sheets. A little accumulated juice is okay too.

• Pop the baking sheet (uncovered is okay) into the freezer until they are very firm or frozen — about an hour or two.

• Remove sheet from freezer and break up the tomato chunks, place in Ziplock bags (2 – 3 cup portions) and store back in the freezer for three to four months.

Now you have beautiful tomatoes ready for all your recipes.

Thawed, raw tomatoes may be used in any cooked tomato recipe. Do not try to substitute them for fresh tomatoes, however, since SEE GARDEN, Page 15

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By PATRICIA SIMPSON

The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has long captured the imagination, with possibly the most famous example being the beloved Looney Tunes animations where Wile E. Coyote, a starving not-so-clever scheming coyote, endlessly chases an astute fast-as-lightning roadrunner. I always laugh when the coyote piles birdseed on the road hoping to attract his prey. In the cartoon, the roadrunner indulges in such treats, but in real life, birdseed is not a great way to entice our great feathered friend.

Our observation of the month (visit bit.ly/3k8VKwp) by wildliferunner12 is a perfect example of what does entice a roadrunner: a nice juicy lizard. Besides reptiles, roadrunners enjoy rodents, amphibians, insects, scorpions, and the occasional bird. Only in winter will they consider adding plant material such as seeds to their diet and it’s never more than about 10% of it.

Roadrunners are not called ‘treeflyers’ for good reason. While they can fly short distances and from perch to perch, they are more comfortable on foot in open spaces. Deserts, chaparral, grasslands, and riparian areas are favorites. The roadrunner’s powerful legs can propel the bird about 20 mph, with some individuals

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freezing causes their texture to become mushy. If the tomatoes are too watery for your taste once thawed and simmering, just add a little tomato paste. Tomatoes should be seasoned just before serving rather than before freezing; freezing may either strengthen or weaken seasonings such as garlic, onion, and herbs. The possibilities are endless as are the recipes you can find online.

For more information on freezing tomatoes, check these links: “Freezing Tomatoes” From National Center for Home Food Preservation, hosted by the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. Visit bit. ly/2C1wsPI. The University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources offers the following advice on freezing tomatoes in its publication “Topmatoes: Safe Methods to Store, Preservfe and Enjoy.” Visit bit.ly/30pGLq8.

Visit the College Area Garden website at collegeareagarden.org.

—Eva Yakutis lives in El Cerrito and is a gardener at the College Area Community Garden. She is an avid baker and holds a food handler’s license issued by the County of San Diego.

A roadrunner with a lizard caught for lunch in Mission Trails (Photo by Leah A. Lewis)

clocked up to 26 mph. For perspective, these feathered athletes would probably get a silver medal when racing the 100-meter against Usain Bolt (27 mph).

In addition to being fast on their feet, roadrunners have incredible speedy reflexes and they need them to hunt rattlesnakes. They will repeatedly peck the snake’s head while avoiding strikes.

Because roadrunners need to roam and hunt in territories about half-mile in diameter, they do poorly in heavily urbanized areas and fragmented lands where they fall prey to cars, domestic or feral pets, or lack of food availability. In Southern California, their number is diminishing. Fortunately, their number overall is not in decline as the birds are expanding their

normal Southwest territories to include southwest Missouri, western Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and Louisiana, where they are adapting to different habitats.

Mission Trails makes a great home for these magnificent birds.

Keep your eyes on the trail, you might just run into one! In the meantime, check out this incredible slow motion video at youtu. be/onVbjDW-tqQ of a roadrunner catching an unusual prey! This backyard roadrunner definitely has earned one of his many Looney Tune Latin names: “Speedipus rex,” “Velocitus tremenjus” or “Accelleratti incredibus” (among others).

—Patricia Simpson is a trail guide at Mission Trails Regional Park.

Aug. 14 – Sept. 10, 2020 San Diego Community Newspaper Group

The sentinel quail

By MILLIE BASBEN

Next time you are in Mission Trails Regional Park and you hear the voice of a California Quail calling its distinctive “chi-ca-go, chi-cago,” look around. Sitting on the top of a shrub, rock, fence post, or other prominent perch, you may see a California Quail, acting as a sentinel for his covey while it forages on the ground A California Quail in Mission Trails Regional Park (Photo by George Varga) around him.

Defense against predators is a challenge for all prey extends along the west coast species. Using a sentinel who from the tip of Baja California all watches and sounds the alarm if the way to northern Washington a predator approaches allows the and a short distance into British rest of a group to focus on other Columbia, Canada. It has been activities without distraction. introduced in many places Quail are social birds and worldwide and is established spend most of the year in groups in such diverse locations as called coveys, made up of males, New Zealand, Germany, and females, and their offspring. Argentina.

While a sentinel quail is on duCalifornia Quail are no longer ty, nearby other quail will be found in heavily urbanized areas pecking and scratching at the of our county where native scrub ground, foraging for seeds, oth- vegetation is too fragmented to er plant parts and the occasional support them. Mission Trails insect, or perhaps taking a dust Regional Park is an oasis for bath. Listen closely for a soft California Quail, offering the murmuring “pit-pit-pit” call as quail a place to call home, and they stay in contact with each offering us the opportunity to other while they move about. hear and see them.

The California Quail (Callipepla californica) is the state bird of —Millie Basden is a trail guide California, but its native range at Mission nTrails Regional Park.

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By FRANK SABATINI JR. What started out in 1971 as a humble Mexican restaurant with only 17 tables has blossomed into one of San Diego County’s most colorful dining destinations.

The — in more normal times — 500-seat Casa de Pico is a lesson in endurance. After launching almost 50 years ago in San Diego’s Old Town district, the restaurant expanded slowly and steadily until transforming into a bustling environment that drew locals and tourists alike.

As owner Diane Powers recalled in a conversation I had with her earlier this year, she always hired employees who were “really dependable” and she has maintained a sharp eye for hardworking chefs and cooks who display a “keen aptitude for flavors and food presentation.”

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Powers lost her lease in Old Town’s Bazaar Del Mundo in 2005, prompting her to move Casa de Pico to its current location in La Mesa. It now resides in a sprawling structure fronting Grossmont Center mall, and features fiesta-style décor that flows attractively throughout various indoor-outdoor dining areas, including a bright, windowed section resembling a solarium.

As part of her family of “casa” restaurants, Powers also owns Casa Guadalajara in Old Town, Casa de Bandini in Carlsbad, and Casa Sol y Mar in Carmel Valley.

Tequila lime shrimp is a longtime favorite — and a shrimp lover’s dream. The plate features about a dozen of the large crustaceans, which are sourced from Baja waters. They’re peeled and deveined, and then butterflied and cooked in house spices along with the booze and citrus.

It felt as though I had landed upon some all-you-can-eat shrimp fest due to the generous portion, part of which came home with me. The dish also includes

Mexican rice, tender black beans and a choice of corn or flour tortillas, both made in-house at a grill station just inside the entrance.

Visiting with a vegetarian friend, I also ordered a pair of tacos, one with shredded beef that tasted under-seasoned, and the other filled densely with lean, flavorful minced chicken. I find that in many Mexican restaurants, poultry comes off as plain and boiled-tasting. This escaped those pitfalls.

From the menu’s limited vegetarian section, my friend ordered the chile poblano fresco plate and an avocado-veggie enchilada. He was impressed by both.

And so was I after my wandering fork snagged a few samples.

The non-battered fire-roasted poblano chilies were filled with a medley of zucchini, yellow squash and corn, all seasoned gently with achiote. The cheese factor was scant, but the silky jalapeno white sauce on top provided adequate richness.

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some can turn up rather hot. These were of the milder variety.

The enchilada had a similar construct with sauteed vegetables inside and a trace of cheese. It too was topped with the jalapeno sauce in addition to red Corn and flour tortillas are made in-house (Photos by Frank Sabatini Jr.) “salsa espanolo,” which was chunkier and livelier than traditional enchilada sauce. taste-testing before appearing first as specials, and with some Margaritas come in several varieties and sizes, with the larg- eventually graduating to permanent status. est climbing to 32 ounces. I saw All these years later, the choicone pass by our table in a glass es are vast. They range from so large it could have seemingly chicken-mango quesadillas and held a cantaloupe. The short steak picado, to house-made tawine list grabbed our attention males, Tex-Mex fajitas, taquitos instead, luring us with a cabernet by the glass ($6.95) from L.A. rancheros, assorted enchiladas, Cetto winery in Mexico’s Valle de street tacos and more.

With its stimulating décor and Guadalupe. comfortable seating designed The wine boasted a medium for both large and small parties body and a boozy or “hot” fin(currently the vast indoor dining ish. Though compatible with is closed, but the comfortable our food choices, I imagine it patio is still open), you can eswould pair particularly well to sentially skip the drive to Old beef, such as the restaurant’s famous carne asada tampiquena Town — or across the border crowned with grilled onions and for that matter — and make due with festive meals and drinks in Anaheim chilies. (I remember this renowned, welcoming casa. the dish fondly from a visit several years ago.)

—Frank Sabatini Jr. is the auCasa de Pico’s menu thor of ‘Secret San Diego’ (ECW is a compendium of Press) and began his local writing recipes brought to the career more than two decades ago table over the years as a staffer for the former San Diego

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EDUCATION News from Patrick Henry High School Aug. 14 – Sept. 10, 2020 San Diego Community Newspaper Group

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By MICHELLE IRWIN

A NOTE FROM HENRY’S INCOMING PRINCIPAL Dear Henry Cluster community members, I am honored and humbled to be appointed the next principal of Patrick Henry High School.

Henry High has a well-deserved reputation for its rigorous academics, exceptional visual and performing arts, impressive athletic programs, and positive school culture. I’m looking forward to meeting you!

I have served as an educator for 25 years in the San Diego Unified School District. I began my career as a Spanish and English teacher. My first principalship was 18 years ago at Lewis Middle School.

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Educator Sir Ken Robinson has reminded us, “The key to educational transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”

I will work diligently to earn your trust and support while building a strong relationship with students, staff, families and the community.

A few quick notes about me personally. I have lived in San Diego for the past twenty-five years and I’m married to an amazing and supportive husband, who is the principal at Dana Middle School in Point Loma. I have two furry children named Jack and Diesel.

I love gardening, cooking, reading, and traveling. I am looking forward to serving and leading Henry High School in its — and my — next journey.

FALL 2020 BEGINNING WITH ONLINE INSTRUCTION While we are all very disappointed in not being able to return to in-person instruction on Aug. 31, we understand that the safety of our students and faculty take precedent.

As we work with all stakeholders to establish guidelines and schedules to move forward, I can assure you that the faculty at PHHS is planning curriculum, learning new skills and preparing for our online return.

As you know, March 13 was quite a drastic change to our

learning organization and we learned a lot about how to implement online instruction during those last 14 weeks of school.

While we know it was quite frustrating for some by changing instruction, we know that nothing is more important than providing quality education for every student.

As we work with stakeholders, we are establishing clearer expectations which will better support our students and parents.

Although we are still finalizing our next steps, please know that we are working diligently to ensure quality instruction for all our students.

As soon as I learn more, I will communicate information to our entire PHHS community so parents and students can learn how we will launch Fall 2020 which will include orientation, textbook and yearbook distribution, and more.

2020 YEARBOOKS READY

Many of our students purchased a yearbook during the 2019-2020 school year. Like many non-essential businesses closed for a duration of time, so did our yearbook company.

We recently received the 2020 yearbooks and distributed them to our graduating seniors. Our seniors had to return their caps/ gowns in July and we distributed their diplomas and yearbooks at that time.

We will distribute yearbooks to the rest of our students in August 2020. We will notify all students when they will be able to return to campus to receive their yearbook. We thank you for your understanding and support.

SENIOR 2021 PORTRAITS RESCHEDULED In mid-July, Lifetouch sent out information regarding senior portraits starting on/after July 14.

However, Governor Newsom’s established safety rollbacks for many non-essential businesses and thus it has temporarily closed its Prestige studios.

Lifetouch will be rescheduling the appointments already made to take place on or after Sept. 1.

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Appointment requests are not being accepted again until Sept. 1.

Lifetouch will notify us when they are ready to accept appointments and PHHS will forward that information to our list of seniors enrolled in PHHS as of that date.

Once the reservation system is re-opened in September, it will generate a confirmation and reminder emails when an account is created and an appointment is requested, so that you will know your request has been received by the re-opened studio.

We apologize for the inconvenience, however Lifetouch took the necessary steps and followed the closure guidelines for the safety of our community.

PHHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIPS The Patrick Henry High School Alumni Association, Inc., a 501 c 3 non-profit, raises funds to help support achievement and athletics. Through annual fundraisers, our Alumni Association is able to provide partial scholarships to graduating seniors. This year, our Alumni Association generously granted three $1,500 scholarships to the following very deserving seniors: • Ariana Bermudez – Ariana will be attending Arizona State University • Naman Pandadiya – Namana will be attending Cal Poly Pomona • Makaila Williams – Makaila will be attending UCLA We wish these seniors a very happy collegiate journey.

GOLF TOURNAMENT POSTPONED On behalf of Patrick Henry High School, I would like to thank the PHHS Alumni Association for their continued support of our school throughout the years.

Without the Alumni Association, we would not have been able fund the various programs or improvements to our school without their financial support.

Due to the current COVID- 19 situation and in the best interest of all participants, sponsors, and volunteers, the PHHS Alumni Association has decided to postpone the Golf Tournament and Reunion BBQ until April 22, 2021. The tournament will be held at Admiral Baker Club. We hope you will continue to support our Alumni Association.

—Michelle Irwin is principal of Patrick Henry High School.

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SDSU mentoring programs are finding innovative ways to connect with and support students

By AARON BURGIN

Now more than ever, university students around the country are in need of mentors amid the transition to virtual instruction in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a result, San Diego State University faculty and staff — and trained students — have made it a priority to mentor students ranging from middle school to recent alumni who recently moved their tassels on their graduation caps.

“I feel it’s more important than ever for our students to know they have someone that supports them and is there for them,” said Michelle Cadena, a counselor with the SDSU Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Ethnic Affairs (EOP). “When they are feeling overwhelmed or they need guidance with an assignment or a process they have to complete at the university, they need to know they have someone that can help.”

The university has added mentoring programs in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, such as the Aztec Mentor Program’s Career Compass for May graduates.

The SDSU Career Services program aims to connect the Class of 2020 with alumni and professionals who can provide support, industry insights and career advice during this trying time. New graduates can reach out to as many as five alumni and professionals each month to schedule 60-minute phone or video meetings — concrete first steps in a challenging job market.

In its first nine days, 47 recent graduates signed up for Career Compass, said Career Services Director James Tarbox.

“AMP Career Compass meets the basic need of all job seekers — connection to a professional community,” he said. “I encourage our May and August graduates to use this summer to connect with professionals.”

CONNECTING IN OTHER WAYS SDSU mentors are finding new ways to reach and connect with their mentees while in-person contact is limited. In the Division of Student Affairs, many departments are using Zoom and other virtual meeting tools.

EOP uses Zoom for its Success, O p p o r t u n it y, Ac ad e m ic s , Relationship mentoring program that pairs upperclassmen with freshmen students, including for a social hour and other events.

Programs are also leaning heavily on social media as a mentoring communication tool.

“Activities that we held in person and that mentors did with protégés in person look very different now, so we have to be creative and see how we can engage our mentors and protégés in the program and also provide relevant resources and support they need,” Cadena said.

The transition was not without hurdles, Cadena said. Students at times felt overwhelmed by the seemingly constant stream of virtual communication. And technological issues, such as unstable internet connections, can make virtual engagement tougher than face-to-face communication.

EOP Counselor Daniel Oliveira said one thing that helped the transition was that most mentors and protégés had already established relationships.

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Dylan Carter, who just completed his freshman year and was a SOAR protégé, also believed the transition to virtual mentoring was fairly seamless.

“I have had the same mentor since the fall, so I had already created that bond,” said Carter, who will become a SOAR mentor in fall 2020. “I think when we moved online not a whole lot changed.

MENTORING IN THE COMMUNITY Many SDSU students also play the role of mentor to Sweetwater Union High School District students in Compact for Success, which has made adjustments due to the pandemic.

“We have adapted our mentoring model to include virtual group study sessions and guidance on navigating new school and study schedules,” said Mary Taylor, Compact for Success director.

“We have trained our student staff on best practices for virtual mentoring and communication, and we’re trying to get a sense of what the schools are requiring of the students in the virtual learning environment,” said Taylor.

SDSU’s St udent L i fe & Leadership oversees two mentor programs for commuter students: an academic mentor program and

Students in SDSU's Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Ethnic Affairs connect via Zoom. (Courtesy SDSU News Center)

a Sophomore Surge mentor program that encourages and guides commuter students in their first and second years.

“Mentorship provides the opportunity for students to remain in community with peers, access growing support resources and to be connected with the university,” said Caryl Montero Adams, director of Student Life & Leadership.

Mentor programs typically go dark over the summer, but several programs are planning to continue this time.

EOP is working with its Summer Bridge program to provide a mentoring component for new freshmen and transfer students who qualified for the program. Compact for Success also is

working on the details of a summer engagement program.

On June 11, SDSU Career Services offered its annual Life After SDSU series for recent graduates and alumni.

Student Life & Leadership is currently recruiting both mentors and mentees for the fall semester.

“I think when I become a mentor in the fall, I want to give my protégé the support system that my mentor gave me, the knowledge they were there even when I didn’t think I needed it,” said Carter. “I want them to let them know they’re not alone.”

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Over the last couple of years, the El Cerrito Community Council has worked with the Crawford High School Foundation to help meet needs at the school that exist outside of budgeted areas.

The community has generously donated sporting equipment, clothing, and musical instruments. This year we would like to focus on helping to support the amazing work that the Crawford Foundation does to fulfill needs at the school that might surprise readers.

The Crawford High School Foundation is a non-profit organization created to enhance the overall educational experience of present and future students, by raising, managing, and disbursing funds to support the educational programs and the general welfare of Crawford High School.

A few things the Foundation does that you can help support with a donation: • Offers four (4) $500 scholarships each year to graduating students to help them continue their education at either college or trade school.

• Works with the Crawford Connection on campus to assist in preparing student needs in clothing for school.

• Provides bus passes to aide in student transportation.

• Supplies uniforms and shoes for athletic teams. (Did you know that students on the track team can go through multiple pairs of running shoes in a single track season?)

• Provides pop-up tents to provide shade for student organization activities.

• Helps provide needed resources for teachers.

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—Greg Estep is the president of the Crawford Foundation and an El Cerrito resident.

Crusaders preps for recreational play season

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No obstacle can come between us and protecting our communities. Since 2017, we’ve placed more than 10,000 miles of power lines underground and converted approximately 22,000 wood poles to steel. Why? Because it’s safer. So think of us as San Diego Gas & Electric® & Wildfire Safety.

In the past, the Foundation has provided a Golf Cart for the school security personnel to have faster access on campus, eyeglasses for a student whose glasses broke, and much more. A full list of donations is on the website crawfordcolts. org. A direct link can be accesses at bit.ly/2Od8545.

If you wish to donate to the Foundation to help support our community school, please go online to the foundation webpage at bit.ly/324phRr and click on the donation button. Donations can also be mailed to The Crawford High School Foundation, c/o Greg Estep, 5621 Spartan Drive, San Diego, CA 92115. Due to construction at the school, the Foundation’s mailbox is currently inaccessible.

Please email or call Greg Estep, President Will C. Crawford High School Foundation at grestep@ cox.net or at 619-501-2399 with questions or if you wish to donate an item. The Foundation welcomes musical instruments as those are items that the school needs that are not provided

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Registrations, for the Crusaders Soccer Club’s recreational fall season are increasing rapidly. Games schedules have been revised by Cal South and the Presidio Soccer League begin on Saturday, Oct. 3.

All boys and girls born between 2016 and 2006 are eligible to participate. Over 300 competitive players are already actively training. Each competitive team holds two training sessions during the week with a third training session on every Saturday.

You can see the competitive teams practicing on the Pershing Middle School turf fields as they prepare for their season, which will begin on Oct. 3. Every player and accompanying adult entering the field must have

their temperature taken and are practicing social distancing in compliance with COVID-19 protocols.

The Crusaders Soccer Club has also been conducting professionally coached soccer camps at Pershing. The next camp is for recreational players who are registered for our fall program. The soccer camp will be taught by professional coaches from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Aug. 18, 19 and 20 at the Pershing fields. Visit crusaderssoccer.org for more information and to register for the camp.

Free Friday Night Clinics begin at 5 p.m. and continue through August at the Pershing fields for all registered recreational and SEE CRUSADERS, Page 21

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competitive players born between 2006 and 2013. These one-hour clinics emphasize skill development with fun. The players will learn new skills with a great mix of intensity.

“We most assuredly thank all the members of the Crusaders Soccer family for all your cooperation in helping us restart and bring soccer back to life in our community,” states the club in a press release.

“And a special shout out to Linda Hernandez, Emma Rivera, Christi Laumakis, Crystal Woods and Karen Nance who continually staff the check-in tables for the multiple training sessions Monday through Friday and the Free Friday Night Clinics.”

Through the effort and expertise of Rene Miramontes and Victor Melendez, director and assistant director of coaching respectively, the new training drills are working well, and comply with all the COVID-19 protocols. The drills are proving to be very successful and well received by the players, coaches and parents.

CSC’s mission is to develop life skills in children through the game of soccer, with the aim of forming leaders on and off the field.

Modified versions of the training drills will be used by each of our recreational teams if social distancing is still required when they begin training sessions.

Be on the lookout for the new Crusaders Soccer t-shirts recognizing the club’s 50th year in youth soccer in the communities of Grantville, Allied Gardens, Del Cerro and San Carlos. Visit crusaderssoccer.org for more information.

—Jay Wilson writes on behalf of Crusaders Soccer Club.

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COMMUNITY / LIBRARY Allied Gardens Library news

By KATHRYN JOHNSON

The church location is 5106 Zion Ave. Please use 51st Street to enter the church parking lot. Help them combat hunger one car at a time.

The communication and electrical box painting project proceeds apace. We have the good fortune of the experience of the folks in Clairemont and Southeast Art in their beautification of their neighborhoods. But we have to put our boots on the ground, noses to the grindstone, shoulders to the wheel (and try to work such a position) to bring the dream to reality.

Can you join us and give us the benefit of your artistic talent, your fund raising experience, your legal knowledge, and common sense? Contact us through the website and we will add you to our contact list. We will have another workshop meeting by Zoom shortly after this article is published.

The Navajo Community Planners, Inc. (NCPI) is soliciting nominations to fill one vacancy in the Allied Gardens membership on the NCPI Board of Directors. The incumbent members are Marilyn Reed, Steve Dahms, and Shain Haug. The vacancy arose with the resignation of the fourth Allied Gardens member.

Meetings of the AGGCC Board of Directors are held monthly to design and implement community projects. Just use the “Contact” page on the website to let us know how you can help AGGCC support our neighborhood. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept.

1 at 6:30 p.m. by Zoom.

—Shain Haug is chair of the Allied Gardens/ Grantville Community Council visit aggccouncil.org.

19th Amendment Centennial: While California granted women the right to vote in 1911, it wasn’t until nine years later that most women across the United States were granted the same right. The library has a variety of programs and resources for those who would like to learn more about the suffrage movement as well as celebrate the success of this initiative. Check out the library’s website for a listing of offerings.

Teen contest: The library is hosting a poetry, art, essay contest for teens ages 13-18 to honor the Centennial Celebration of the 19th amendment on August 26th.

Interested teens can select which format they would like to use to address the question: How has women’s suffrage impacted your life? Winners in each category will receive $100!

Prizes generously supplied by our amazing Friends of the Library group. Additional information and entry forms can be found on the “SDPL Virtual Branch” calendar or

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are they limited to the backyard or are they allowed anywhere on the property? Lisa will have to find the answer and let us know.

Kristen Byrne, principal of Byrne Communications, and Marcela Escobar, principal with the Atlantis Group, provided an update on the status of the All Peoples Church project. They have been working the last six to eight months to receive permission from CalTrans for an easement. There is a sewer manhole under the freeway which must remain accessible. The church would have to build a large retaining wall and a very long road for access to the sewer connection. The church has thought of a better plan to connect to the sewer, which would be more aesthetically pleasing for us and Cal-Trans, albeit more expensive to build. They need CalTrans’ approval for this. They are still working through the CalTrans bureaucracy.

The church will resubmit a new set of plans to the City in next three to four weeks. The new plans will reflect the sewer easement and enhanced landscaping plans per the neighbors’

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Deadline to enter is Aug. 18.

Virtual book discussion group: Beginning in August, the Allied Gardens/Benjamin branch library will host the Short Classics Book Club on Facebook. The August selection will be “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton. The links to online recordings and text are available on the Library Events Calendar and the SDPL Short Classics Book Club Facebook page.

Join in on a live discussion of this timeless classic on Tuesday, Aug. 18 at 1 p.m. via Facebook Rooms. As a bonus, branch manager Kathryn Johnson will host a Special Edition Short Classic discussion on “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in honor of the Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment.

The live discussion will occur on Tuesday, Au. 25 at 1 p.m. in the SDPL Short Classics Facebook Room. We are very excited to engage with the reading public by utilizing a virtual venue. Happy reading.

Virtual programming: Be sure to take advantage of our various online programs! A listing of what is available can be found on our online calendar. For best results, filter the location to “SDPL Virtual Branch” to see the wide selection of offerings for all ages.

Summer Reading Program: We are officially two-thirds through the Summer Reading Program and we have picked up steam in the last few weeks! SRP runs through the end of August so there is still time to log your reading. We are also over two-thirds through our Library Foundation and Intuit Community Goal of reading 200,000 books!

Help us meet our goal and the San Diego Library Foundation and Intuit will donate $10,000 to support library youth programming.

If you’ve completed your SRP reading —10 books or 10 hours — you can now collect your prizes! Prizes will be distributed at our 18 contactless pickup locations. The contactless pick up locations closest to Benjamin are San Carlos, College-Rolando, and Mission Valley Branches. Just call the branch from the parking lot with your information!!

And please join us @ SDPL StayIn Reading Club on FB for online read-alongs, storytimes, crafts, and science experiments (among other things) facebook.com/groups/ SDPLstorytime/.

Book drops now open: Book drops are open 24 hours a day Monday 9 a.m.–Friday 5:30 p.m. at Allied Gardens/ Benjamin as well as all SDPL locations. Please note, returned items are quarantined for four days and will not be removed from your account until the fifth day.

Voter registration: Don’t forget to register to vote now. With less than 100 days remaining before the general election, now is the time to register, check your registration, or re-register. All you need is a valid California ID. For online registration or to check the status of your registration, visit registertovote.ca.gov.

Library hours: Library staff is onsite Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Don’t hesitate to give us a call at 619-533-3970 if you have any questions.

requests following the March meeting with adjoining neighbors. The Church also presented their plans at a recent Navajo Community Planners’ Zoom meeting.

The Church is willing to build a screening wall between the parking garage and adjacent homes on Marne Avenue, which can be built only once all the eight adjacent neighbors unanimously agree to it.

There can only be one type of screening wall. It cannot skip certain houses. At the present time, the resubmitted plans will not include this wall as the church has been unable to receive approval for all the neighbors.

The signal light at the median break on College Avenue was approved by city staff. It is to be operational with smart technology. Most of the time it will be free green light and activated for turns for Sunday services. It will be for left and right turns in and out of the church property directly to College Avenue.

The church will help beautify the College Avenue median south of Del Cerro Boulevard. There are 44 dead trees and empty planters, which are unsightly on the College Avenue median. The church will work with the Friends of Del Cerro for this median project.

The Church’s capital campaign ends soon. If they do not receive a response from CalTrans, they will have to move forward with the existing plans. Timing wise, they expect that the plans will go before the city’s planning commission and City Council by the end of the year.

Members of the public will be able to comment on the project at each of these meetings. If approved, construction documents will be submitted. There is probably still a year to year and a half before they break ground. CalTrans really slowed down progress.

Under old business, Rawlins reported no update on the proposed Del Cerro Maintenance Assessment District. The city replaced three benches at Princess Del Cerro Park instead of adding three. They look nice and we might not need the three additional benches.

The next DCAC meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. It is currently scheduled as a Zoom meeting and the password will be imbedded in the link which be posted on the DCAC webpage on Oct. 18.

Candidate forums that the Del Cerro Action Council, along with the Allied Gardens Community Council and the San Carlos Area

Council are hosting candidate forums for the District 7 and mayoral races. Most likely, the forums will be via Zoom (the password for candidate forums will be embedded in the link) The District 7 candidates forum for Raul Campillo and Noli Zosa will on be Wednesday, Aug. 19, a 7 p.m. via Zoom. Residents of Grantville, Allied Gardens, Del Cerro and San Carlos are asked to send questions for the forum to district7candidates@gmail.com. Only questions submitted in advance will be asked.

The mayoral forum with Todd Gloria and Barbara Bry will be on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m. At this time, the mayoral candidate forum will also be a Zoom meeting. The link to attend the District 7 Candidate Zoom Forum will be placed on the Allied Gardens Community Council website agccouncil.org, the Del Cerro Action Council website delcerroactioncouncil.org and for the San Carlos Area Council, check their facebook page at facebook.com/ sancarlosareacouncil.

—Kathryn Johnson is managing librarian of the Allied Gardens Benjamin Branch Library.

—Jay Wilson is secretary of the Del Cerro Action Council. Visit delcerroactioncouncil.org.

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