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B4 THE COAST NEWS<br />

OCT. 3, 2008<br />

Gun control<br />

group backs<br />

Leibham<br />

NORTH COUNTY —<br />

<strong>The</strong> Brady Campaign to<br />

Prevent Gun Violence, along<br />

with its California chapters,<br />

has endorsed Nick Leibham<br />

for election to Congress<br />

from California’s 50th<br />

Congressional District.<br />

“Nick Leibham has<br />

served his community as a<br />

teacher and as a prosecutor,<br />

and he strongly supports<br />

common sense gun laws to<br />

make it harder for dangerous<br />

people to get dangerous<br />

weapons,” Paul Helmke,<br />

president of the Brady<br />

Campaign, said. “With his<br />

service as a prosecutor, he<br />

knows we need strong gun<br />

laws to put gun criminals<br />

behind bars.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> Brady Campaign<br />

endorsed Leibham in his<br />

June primary and is urging<br />

candidates for public office<br />

to support specific steps to<br />

help make American communities<br />

safer, such as:<br />

— Requiring Brady<br />

criminal background checks<br />

on all gun sales, including at<br />

gun shows.<br />

— Strengthening law<br />

enforcement’s efforts to disrupt<br />

the illegal gun market,<br />

by providing tools to crack<br />

down on corrupt gun dealers<br />

and stop the large-volume<br />

gun sales that supply gun<br />

traffickers.<br />

— Restricting civilian<br />

access to military-style<br />

assault weapons.<br />

“We make it too easy for<br />

dangerous people to get<br />

TURN TO GUN CONTROL ON B9<br />

Local sixth-grader organizes chess club<br />

NORTH COUNTY — Now<br />

a sixth-grader, Alexander<br />

Goddard learned how to set up<br />

the chess board and how the<br />

pieces moved when he was 2<br />

years old and at age 7 was assistant<br />

director on Friday<br />

evenings at a tournament that<br />

Academic Chess held for kids<br />

in Escondido. This tournament<br />

ran for more than a year.<br />

Learning that the North<br />

County Chess Club was closing<br />

its doors at the beginning of<br />

2008, young chess organizer<br />

Alexander convinced his older<br />

brother Zakary to put together<br />

a club in Escondido, as he wasn’t<br />

of legal age to do it himself.<br />

Nineteen-year-old Zakary set<br />

up shop and acquired the business<br />

license, while Alex manages<br />

the club.<br />

Back in May, Alex started<br />

teaching chess at the San<br />

Marcos Library, located at 2<br />

Civic Center Drive in San<br />

Marcos. He found that interest<br />

in the game is growing. Alex is<br />

back at the library through<br />

December on Wednesdays from<br />

3 to 4:30 p.m. Alex feels that<br />

video games don’t challenge<br />

him enough and that a lot of<br />

time and money are wasted on<br />

them. Chess, on the other hand,<br />

sharpens the mind and makes<br />

CARLSBAD — Treasured<br />

objects and artifacts held by the<br />

Carlsbad Leo Carrillo Ranch<br />

Historic Park will be preserved for<br />

future generations with help from<br />

the Institute of Museum and<br />

Library Services Connecting to<br />

Collections Bookshelf.<br />

A core set of conservation<br />

books, DVDs, and online resources<br />

have been donated by the IMLS,<br />

the primary source of federal fund-<br />

CHESS CENTRAL At the Escondido Chess Club, organized by 7-year-old<br />

Alexander Goddard and his brother Zakary, Gregory Baumann, of Carlsbad, studies<br />

his next move. <strong>The</strong> group, which has players from all over San Diego County, meets<br />

at 7 p.m. at the 2427 S. Centre City Parkway in Escondido, Visit the club’s Web page<br />

at www.escondidochess.com or call (760) 317-1744 for details. Courtesy photo<br />

you think, according to Alex.<br />

This new chess club has the<br />

only regular USCF rated tournaments<br />

in North County.<br />

Players can sharpen their skills<br />

on Thursday evenings. <strong>The</strong><br />

club’s Web page, www.escondidochess.com,<br />

has an active<br />

forum for questions, answers,<br />

and sharing. <strong>The</strong> club’s phone<br />

ing of the nation’s museums and<br />

libraries.<br />

<strong>The</strong> IMLS addresses such topics<br />

as the philosophy and ethics of<br />

collecting, collections management<br />

and planning, emergency<br />

preparedness, and culturally specific<br />

conservation issues. <strong>The</strong> city<br />

was awarded the collection as part<br />

of a nationwide competitive<br />

process.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>se libraries, museums,<br />

number is (760) 317-1744.<br />

Alex hopes that there is<br />

enough interest in the game<br />

that he can start unrated tournaments<br />

soon, maybe on Friday<br />

night.<br />

Contact Sandy Coleman at<br />

Sandra.Coleman@sdcounty.ca.<br />

gov or at (760) 891-3000 for<br />

details.<br />

Federal funding awarded for Carrillo Ranch<br />

and archives, such as those at Leo<br />

Carrillo Ranch, are in the forefront<br />

of our call to action on behalf of<br />

America’s collections,” Anne-<br />

Imelda Radice, director of IMLS,<br />

said. “According to a recent<br />

national survey, our important collections<br />

are at great risk, and without<br />

them, the American story simply<br />

cannot be told to future generations.”<br />

Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic<br />

Park is a 27-acre designated<br />

Historic National Landmark that<br />

was opened to the public in August<br />

2003. <strong>The</strong> park was once owned<br />

by actor and preservationist Leo<br />

Carrillo, who is perhaps best<br />

known for playing the role of<br />

Pancho in “<strong>The</strong> Cisco Kid” television<br />

series of the 1950s.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(760) 476-1042 or visit www.leocarrilloranch.org.<br />

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Attorney at Law<br />

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CARLSBAD<br />

<strong>The</strong>ater<br />

students<br />

put on<br />

‘Our Town’<br />

■ Play focuses<br />

on ordinary folk<br />

interacting<br />

OCEANSIDE —<br />

<strong>The</strong> MiraCosta <strong>The</strong>atre<br />

Department will present<br />

Thornton Wilder’s “Our<br />

Town,” in the MiraCosta<br />

College <strong>The</strong>atre, 1 Barnard<br />

Drive, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3,<br />

Oct. 4, Oct. 9, Oct. 10 and<br />

Oct. 11, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 5<br />

and Oct. 12. General admission<br />

is $12, seniors/staff are<br />

$10, and students $8. A preview<br />

performance is scheduled<br />

for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2,<br />

where all seats are $8.<br />

“Our Town” stars<br />

Carlsbad residents Mary<br />

Relator, playing Mrs. Gibbs;<br />

Aimee Burdette as Rebecca<br />

Gibbs; and Garrett Bales as<br />

Simon Stimson; Vista residents<br />

Bernard Kopsho as<br />

Stage Manager; Hayley<br />

Palmer as Emily Webb;<br />

Amanda Dane as Mrs. Webb;<br />

and Patricia Sullivan as Mrs.<br />

Soames; Del Mar resident<br />

Ryan Kidd as George Gibbs;<br />

Oceanside resident Michael<br />

Thomas as Doc Gibb; and<br />

Encinitas resident Sassan<br />

Saffari as Mr. Webb.<br />

“Our Town,” directed by<br />

Tracy Williams, is a character<br />

study that details<br />

the everyday interactions<br />

between citizens of Grover’s<br />

Corners, a fictional, early-<br />

20th century town.<br />

“I am so excited to have<br />

the opportunity to direct<br />

this play,” Williams said.<br />

“My father directed it<br />

when I was a young girl in<br />

a community theater in<br />

Huntington Beach. We used<br />

to get up at five in the morning<br />

for rehearsals. I wasn’t<br />

cast in the play, but loved<br />

watching the rehearsal<br />

process so much that I would<br />

join him in the wee hours. I<br />

remember being moved by<br />

this play even as a child of 10<br />

or 11. It has been on my list<br />

of plays I wanted to direct<br />

for many years ... I finally<br />

have the right group to do it<br />

with.”<br />

Tickets are available<br />

online at www.miracosta.<br />

edu/events or by calling the<br />

MiraCosta College Box<br />

Office at (760) 795-6815.<br />

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