Torrey Pines Community Planning Board Briefs Dec. 11, 2008 meeting
By Suzanne Evans
Stop Signs at Vantage and Recuerdo and El Amigo Road
The board sought an alternate method of determining the necessity of stop signs, suggesting that the current process where city engineering comes out to study the area needs changing. The alternate method proposed is to have the request for stop signs go through District 1 (Sherri Lightner’s) office. The board agreed to send a request to Lightner.
Beautification of Del Mar Heights Rd.
The board agreed to establish a subcommittee to study the addition of a banner district (art deco, etc.) along the road; clean up the road, increase fire safety (brush management); consider adopt-a-block grants; and have homeowners take responsibility for cleaning up graffiti on a nearby sound wall on the west side of I-5.
Operating Guidelines
The board will vote in January on Operating Guidelines procedures as to how project reviews will operate concerning aspects that relate to the Torrey Pines community plan. Project reviews are accomplished by a board committee, that “must be a voice to the city,” the board noted. If a project comes before the board with insufficient material, the board must be prepared to say to the city that it cannot make a decision. The board noted it “has to be ready and willing to act in an expeditious fashion on project reviews.” Chair Mort Printz said “the project review committee needs to come back [in January] with guidelines for our community plan.”
State freezes loans, affecting high school district project
By Marsha Sutton
A freeze on loans for construction projects to improve California’s infrastructure has affected the San Dieguito Union High School District’s plans to build a Visual and Performing Arts Center at San Dieguito Academy High School in Encinitas. Construction for the project, estimated to cost in excess of $9 million, was to begin this coming summer, said SDUHSD associate superintendent of business services Steve Ma, who called the situation “very serious.” However, the freeze, announced Dec. 18, would have been “a catastrophe if it [the project] were already under construction,” Ma said.
The new Visual and Performing Arts Center at SDA is designed for both theater and musical performances, and plans include a 200-seat auditorium and several practice rooms. Ma said about $7.8 million in funding was to come from the state in two allotments: $1.8 million for new construction based on the number of teaching stations, which in this case is nine, and $6 million from a pool of funds established by the California legislature to advance Career and Technical Education. After approval by the state, Ma said the SDA project qualified for the CTE grant. The district and the school’s private foundation agreed to pay the remaining costs, which are estimated to be about $1.2 million. Ma anticipated that the freeze will be resolved soon, and he was hopeful that construction for the project at SDA will remain on schedule to begin this summer.
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – How far have we come?
By Robin Duncan
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
Tina Mickelson lends her name as honorary chair for the Burn Institute’s 17th Annual Share Your Heart Mardi Gras Party
By Lee Schoenbart
What better way for the firefighter and his wife to lend her celebrity to the Burn Institute’s 17th Annual Share Your Heart Mardi Gras Party than by accepting an invitation to promote the fundraiser as its honorary chairs.
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Community planning board election to be held in March for CV, Pacific Highlands Ranch
The Carmel Valley Community Planning Board (CVCPB) will hold elections in March, 2009 for nine of the 17 seats on the board. Local residents and businesses are encouraged to join the board, which is always looking for new members who are interested in the community and want to keep it a great place to live! There are five Carmel Valley residential seats, two Pacific Highlands Ranch residential seats and two business seats up for election.
Bob Baker teams up with local filmmaker to create Korean War documentary
By Joe Tash
Bob Baker was 21 years old, a corporal in the U.S. Army stationed in Korea, and he didn’t expect to see another sunrise.
“As I lay on my bunk trying to get some rest, I realized that this just might be the last day of my life. Our upcoming mission was so dangerous that I felt I probably would not survive the patrol. At that point I realized how much I wanted to get back home after this war. I made my peace with God then. I prayed and asked him to spare me if He could. I made a pact with Him. If He spared me that night, then I would return home, get married, have six children (whom I would raise as good Catholics), go to college, and be successful in the business world,” Baker later wrote.
Local connections, experiences propel fundraising efforts for Feb. 28 Share Your Heart Mardi Gras Party to benefit the Burn Institute
By Lee Schoenbart
Everyone enjoys a reason to celebrate. For Doug and Nichole Cox of Santaluz, the Mardi Gras-styled fundraiser will mark the second year they’ve chaired the Burn Institute’s annual event as they prepare to celebrate their sixth anniversary.
As members of the Burn Institute Auxiliary, the Coxes became involved with the organization because of his son and her stepson Jason Cox – a burn survivor, truly making the 17th Annual Share Your Heart Mardi Gras Party a family affair.
Sponsored by the San Diego County Credit Union, the Feb. 28 event will be at the House of Blues in downtown San Diego featuring KGTV-Channel 10 news anchor Kimberly Hunt, a Del Mar resident, returning as emcee. Adding to the local community involvement, Tina Mickelson, ambassador for women’s golf at the Santaluz Club, is the event’s honorary chair.
| Crime and traffic incidents
The numbers of incidents with valid addresses reported to the San Diego County’s Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) by Dec. 20, 2008 for the period from Nov. 20 to Dec. 20, 2008 in the San Diego City neighborhoods of Carmel Valley, Del Mar Heights, North City, and Torrey Highlands, and the City of Del Mar are shown below. Go to Crime Maps on the ARJIS website at www.arjis.org for a map of incident locations and a table with hundred-block addresses, dates, and times of these incidents. Select San Diego as the jurisdiction and then neighborhoods to get maps of Carmel Valley, Del Mar Heights, North City, and Torrey Highlands. Select ZIP code 92014 to get a map that includes the city of Del Mar.
Tips for preventing fraud and identity theft: Part V
By Ted Parker, SDPD Neighborhood Policing Resource Team
This is the fifth in a series of articles on preventing fraud and identity theft. It deals with things you can do to check for possible identity theft and protect your child’s identity. Others will deal with what to do if you are a victim of identity theft, Wi-Fi hacking, and other scams.
Carmel Valley resident and former Padres pitching coach Dave Smith dies
Former major-league pitcher and Padres pitching coach Dave Smith, 53, died of an apparent heart attack on Dec. 17, according to the Houston Astros Web site. Smith lived in Carmel Valley.
Smith, who was the Padres' pitching coach from 1999 through 2001, pitched 13 seasons in the major leagues, and was twice named to the National League All-Star team. He pitched for 11 seasons with the Houston Astros and two with the Chicago Cubs.
Smith was born on Jan. 21, 1955, in Richmond, Calif. He attended San Diego State University and was selected by the Astros in the eighth round of the 1976 draft, according to the Astros Web site.
According to an obituary in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Smith is survived by his wife, Alix, and their daughter, Dakota, 1, as well as sons Cameron and Kellen from a previous marriage.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Dakota M. Smith Education Fund to benefit Smith's daughter, with checks payable to “NextGen College Investing Plan FBO Dakota Smith.” Checks can be mailed in care of: Gregory Roel/Merrill Lynch, 701 B Street, Suite 2400, San Diego, CA 92101.
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