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A2 THE COAST NEWS FEB. 25, 2011 It’s what’s inside that counts. SmallTownSanElijoHills.com WALKING THE KIDS TO SCHOOL • PINTS AT THE PUB CONCERTS IN THE SQUARE • SHIMMERING OCEAN VIEWS SOLAR POWERED ONLY 3 LEFT! SALES OFFICE OPEN! COMING SOON! Belmont TERRAZA AT SAN ELIJO HILLS 2,182 – 2,721 SQUARE FEET 3–5BEDROOMHOMES 2.5–3BATHS FROM THE MID $500,000S (760) 798-2822 DRE #01252753 MARKETWALK TOWNHOMES 1,647 – 2,734 SQUARE FEET UP TO 4 BEDROOMS LOCATED OVER RETAIL FROM THE LOW $400,000S (760) 798-1765 DRE #01793242 ALTAIRE (D.R. HORTON) 2,627 – 3,469 SQUARE FEET 3 – 6 BEDROOM HOMES 2–4BATHS FROM THE LOW $600,000S (800) 646-7866 BELMONT (LENNAR) 1,446 – 2,093 SQUARE FEET 3 – 4 BEDROOM HOMES 2.5 BATHS (866) 823-6719 Visitor Center Open Daily 10 am - 5 pm • 760-798-1765. Directions: From the 5 Freeway exit La Costa Ave. heading east past El Camino Real. Turn left on Rancho Santa Fe, then right on San Elijo Road. San Elijo Hills reserves the right to change prices, plans, features or amenities without prior notice or obligation. All residents automatically become members of the San Elijo Hills Master Association. Model does not reflect racial preference. Square footages are approximate.
FEB. 25, 2011 by CHUCK ODD SHEPHERD FILES LEAD STORY Getting Old, Young: (1) Jack Smeltzer broke a record in the tractor pull championships in Columbus, Ohio, in January — doing a “full (track-length) pull” of 692 pounds. Jack is 7 years old. The National Kiddie Tractor Pullers Association (holding 80 events a year for ages 3 through 8) uses bicycles instead of motors. Ms. Brooke Wilker, 5, was the youngest champ, lugging 300 pounds 28 feet. (2) Walmart announced in January that it would soon offer a full line of makeup especially for 8-yearolds (and up), by GeoGirl, including mascara, sheer lip gloss, pink blush and purple eye shadow, all supposedly designed for young skin. (An executive of Aspire cosmetics said her research revealed a potential market of 6-yearolds.) Government in Action! • Everyone washes hair, but those who want a license to apply shampoo in Texas need 150 hours of training, with 100 hours in “theory and practice of shampooing,” including a study of “neck anatomy.” A February Wall Street Journal report on excessiveness of state regulation highlighted California’s year-long training to be a barber, Alabama’s 750-hour schooling standard for a manicurist’s license, and Michigan’s 500 practice hours for performing massages. (By contrast, many less-tightly regulated states seem not to suffer. Connecticut, without licensing, fielded only six complaints last year against manicurists — four of which involved disputes over gift cards.) Next up for licensing, perhaps: cat groomers in Ohio. • What Budget Crunch? The South Florida Sun- Sentinel reported in January that despite an array of pressing problems, the Broward County public school system has paid about $100,000 per year since 2004 to build and maintain special gardens at selected schools in order to lure butterflies for pupils to study. • Government That Works: (1) The 2009 federal stimulus program came through just in time with $34,000 for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Kearneysville, W.Va., laboratory. Work on the recent dangerous increase in Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs was in jeopardy because money had run out for design of a workable air distribution system for the offices. (2) The City Commission of San Antonio, Fla. (population 1,052),passed an ordinance in January restricting, to a tiny portion of town, where registered sex offenders could live. However, San Antonio has only one sex offender, and that man is exempt from the law because he already lives there. Great Art! • David Morice, of Iowa TURN TO ODD FILES ON A15 THE COAST NEWS BRAND NEW BELL The Taco Bell at 1502 Encinitas Blvd. gets a major overhaul as workers prepare for the construction of a larger, more modern fast food restaurant. The project began as a remodel but turned into a new construction. “Our franchisee is excited to open a brand new Taco Bell restaurant in Encinitas and expects to reopen in April. The renovation for this location will feature Taco Bell’s ‘Bold Choice’ design, including a warm, inviting interior and advanced technology to provide our customers with even more speed and service,” said Rob Poetsch, a Taco Bell spokesman. Photos by Wehtahnah Tucker California Surf Museum celebrates 25 years By Promise Yee OCEANSIDE — Surfing legends and founding museum board members gathered at the California Surf Museum on Feb. 19 to celebrate the museum’s 25th anniversary. Supporters celebrated the progress of the museum that started as an idea drawn on a cocktail napkin by North County local Stuart Resor in 1986. Resor had finished renovation on a Woody station wagon when the idea hit him that surfboards are worth preserving too. “Old surfboards have value like a Picasso or Rembrandt,” Resor said. A meeting at George’s Restaurant in Encinitas, owned by Jane Schmauss, followed. Soon vintage boards were hanging from the restaurant ceiling and surfing posters and framed articles on the sport filled the walls. “The restaurant become a hangout for a lot of the surfing crowd,” Schmauss said. Schmauss is now the museum historian. She has By Alyx Sariol CARLSBAD — Lack of coordination between Carlsbad’s traffic lights will soon be a thing of the past, as city staff unveiled a proposal to modernize the system at a council meeting Feb. 22. The $3 million to $4 million project will update Carlsbad’s current 170 traffic signals, as well as link the signals to the new Traffic Management Center, to better control the flow of traffic based on real-time data. “Without a doubt, we have room for improvement,” Senior Civil Engineer Doug Bilse said. “You can only get as good of coordination as you have information, and we need to update stood by the dream for 25 years and seen the California Surf Museum through six different locations. “I thought it was a great concept,” Schmauss said. Among the original board members was June Chocheles, who had worked at the Smithsonian. “She guided us through the right steps,” Schmauss said. “We did all the paperwork to get a 501c3 classification and were off.” The museum continued to expand its collection as it moved into bigger facilities. “We have DVDs, CDs, records, clothing, boards, leashes, wetsuits, photographs,” Schmauss said. “We’re growing constantly. People keep bringing us stuff.” The California Surf Museum moved to Oceanside in 1991. In 2009 the museum found its present home in the custom renovated building at 312 Pier View Way. “Oceanside embraced us,” Schmauss said. “We couldn’t be happier.” The museum has extensive room for exhibit displays, an archive room and storage space for its collection. “It’s the signal equipment to get that better information.” A wireless communication system will replace Carlsbad’s current video detection device. The live feed information will relay to a central unit where signals can be viewed and adjusted as needed, Bilse said. “We want to use that data to develop a library of traffic signal plans and constantly select the best plan using real time data,” he said.“These plans will make more sense and they will be a lot more efficient.” Currently, Carlsbad relies on a handful of traffic plans captured in the summer that are used throughout the year, with no adjustment for seasonal changes like weekday holi- QUARTER CENTURY STRONG Ian Urquhart, Cheryl Gerlson Folwell, June Chocheles and Stuart Resor, four of the original board members of the California Surf Museum. Photo by Promise Yee phenomenal to see the changes in the last two years,” Julie Cox, museum operations manager, said. “I’m really impressed with the extensiveness of the stories they’re telling,” Chocheles said. “They’re really compiling the history of surfing in the Southern California region. I was involved in the early years when it was just a kernel of an idea.” Despite the museum’s expansion over the last 25 years its core remains the same. “At the first meeting there were 12 people — surfers, nonsurfers, men, women,” Schmauss said. “The board makeup is still the same today.” The mission of the museum continues to be to collect, protect and preserve the history of surfing. For more information, see www.surfmuseum. org. Carlsbad traffic light system to be modernized days, Bilse said. El Camino Real and Palomar Airport Road — two of the most heavily trafficked roads in Carlsbad — will be the first corridors updated with the new technology. “They are the most important corridors and the biggest challenge,” Bilse said. “It’s important that we get it done right.” It is expected to take two to three years to update all of Carlsbad’s major corridors. Staff will be working with the finance department to determine the source of funding for the project, City Engineer Skip Hamman said. City Council members recently indicated an update of the outdated traffic management system — long a source of frustration for Carlsbad residents — as a top priority at a goal-setting workshop. “We all sit at red lights and look back and forth to see that there’s no cars coming,” Councilman Keith Blackburn said. He asked that the new equipment guarantee a reduction in wait times at red lights. Bilse said the technology should provide around a 30 percent reduction in wait time on main corridors, although side streets might still see delays as main roads are given higher priority. Council is expected to vote on bids for the wireless project in the coming weeks. A3 Sweat lodge death case begins jury selection By Shelli DeRobertis CAMP VERDE, Ariz. — A jury selection began Feb. 16 for the trial of a Carlsbad motivational speaker who is accused of causing the deaths of three people who died after participating in a sweat lodge ceremony. James Arthur Ray, 53, pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter, which stem from a spiritual retreat he hosted near Sedona in October 2009. Prosecutors contend that more than 50 people were crammed inside a sweltering sweat lodge and Ray admonished them if they wanted to leave, according to reports. Ray’s attorneys say that the defendant is not to blame and that the deaths were a tragic accident. His attorneys have requested a change of venue and asked that his case be moved from Yavapai County to Maricopa County, due to what they feel is unfavorable and excessive media coverage. The judge overseeing the case, Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Warren Darrow, said he’ll see if an impartial jury can be seated before he rules on a change of venue motion, according to a report from the Associated Press. Opening statements are scheduled for March 1 in Camp Verde. Damages from O’side school fire at $22K By Promise Yee OCEANSIDE — After a day off for Presidents’ Day, teachers and students came back to a charred administration building at Lake Elementary School. A fire broke out on Feb. 21 and caused $22,000 in damages to the school. The emergency call came in at 3:43 p.m. Feb. 21 and within six minutes Oceanside and Vista firefighters were on the scene to put out the fire at the school that sits in Oceanside and is part of the Vista Unified School District. When firefighters arrived heavy smoke was spewing from the roof of the administration building. The fire was found to have originated in the electrical room of the building. “Firefighters made a forced entry on the wall of the electrical vault and used dry chemical extinguisher because of the nature of the fire,” Joe Ward, battalion chief of the Oceanside Fire Department, said. Heavy fire damage TURN TO FIRE ON A23
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