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The TelescoP-_e_ Friday, October 12, 1990
Palomar College, 1 1 40 West Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069-1 487
Volume 44, Number 5
Concert is cancelled for second time By Fred E. Tracey News Editor Fans of reggae star Jimmy Cliff will have to wait until next spring in order to see their favorite reggae artist inconcertatPalomar. Cliff's talent agency, the William Morris Agency, told concert organizers that Cliff has been hospitalized for a respitory infection and would have to cancel 12 concerts on his western tour, including his appearance at Palomar Sunday. Without a star, organizers cancelled the concert and have postponed it until spring, jolting various people and business' associated with the event. Bryant Guy, Palomar's director of contracts said he was "surprised" over the cancellation. "I was kind of shocked," he said. "We put a lot of work into it." Cliff will not be able to tour again for at least another month, but instead of moving the concert to November or December and having' to deal with inclimate weather, the concert was postponed until sometime in the spring semester, when organizers hope the weather will be better for the event. "We would have just rescheduled it (the concert) for the fall had it not been for the weather," according to Kevin Helman of Backstage Entertainment, the concert's promoter. Helman estamited that "several hudred" tickets to the concert had been sold. Everyone who purchased a ticket is being reimbursed. Tickets were $13.50 for students and $15 to the general pubiic. The concert was to be held on the golf driving range above parking lot 9. Attendance at the
Jimmy Cliff concert was limited to 3,000 people, a stipulation placed on the event by campus officials. Helman put on a smaller-scale concert as a Palomar student eight years ago. He estimated that at least 1,500 to 2.000 people attended theevent,and there were no problems associated with it. Helman put on the concert while he was promotions director at the campus radio station and a member of the Associated Student Government. Helman is now owner of Backstage Entertainment, a company that books bands mostly into clubs in San Diego and around the state. Helman thinks it's time that Palomar got on the concert bandwagon, and the Palomar Music Festival, the name given to the concert, may be a way to test unsure waters. "We had dances in the Student Union (when I went to Palomar)," Helman said. "We never had a problem. I just think it's a good place to do a show. Ideally, we would like to do a series there next summer."
(see CLIFF- page 3)
Roman Koenig/Editor-in-Chief
Hot Santa Ana winds helped fuel this fire on the south side of Mission Road, across the street from Palomar College, on Tuesday. Here, firefighters work to put out the blaze as Eucalyptus trees go up in flames. About all that was lost was an abandoned car.
Tuesday fire was close call By Todd Anderson Staff Writer Palomar students scrambled to their cars on Tuesday when a fire broke out in a field across from the campus. Shortly after 2 p.m., a small brush fire engulfed a large portion of the field across from Palomar on Mission Road. The fire began at the southern section of the field, aboutlO yards away from a wall that separates the field and two industrial buildings. The blaze, fueled by
dry, straw-like brush and a steady Santa Ana wind condition, spread over 300 yards within15 minutes. The blaze swiftly climbed at least 20 eucalyptus trees that outline the field and was prevented from moving along by a small creek near the trees. As the wind picked up, the burning cinders were carried across Mission Road to the bushes and trees near Palomar college parking Lot 14, causing several spot frres to bum. While some students on cam-
See photo essay, 'Brush Fire,' on page 4 pus quickly reacted to the smoke by moving their cars campus officials felt that Palomar was not in sufficient danger and did not signal for an evacuation. When the 13 frre companies from seven North County cities arrived at the scene they found the fire torching the trees and engulfing an abandoned '77
(see BRUSH FIRE- page 3)