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NOV. 12, 2010
WALK TO REMEMBER 78 teams participated in the Alzheimer’s Memorial Walk, including the Garcia,
Escobedo and Bacaria family who walked for their grandparents. Photo by Promise Yee
Memory Walk raises awareness
and $52k for Alzheimer’s research
By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — Close to
500 participated in the first
Alzheimer’s Association
Memory Walk at the
Oceanside Pier to raise
awareness and funds for
Alzheimer’s care, support and
research on Nov. 6.
“The focus of the walk is
to remember those loved
ones affected and support
caregivers and patients,”
Francine Phillips,
Alzheimer’s Association
director of communications
for San Diego and Imperial
Counties, said.
The walk raised more
than $52,000 for research
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substitute objects over their
heads for forgiveness insisting
on hard-core expression
by twirling sacrificed chickens.
• Cheerful, articulate
Catholic Opus Dei official
Sarah Cassidy, 43, granting a
long interview to London’s
Daily Mail in September
about her joy of life, waxed
eloquent about bringing herself
pain for two hours every
night as reminders of God’s
love. Complained another
Opus Dei “numerary,” our
“materialistic, hedonistic
society” understands pain “if
you go jogging and pounding
the streets ... just because
efforts. Alzheimer’s disease
affects 53,000 people in San
Diego and is the third leading
cause of death in the county,
Phillips said. Every person
with the disease requires two
caregivers, which multiplies
its impact.
“Every 70 seconds someone
(nationwide) is developing
Alzheimer’s disease,”
Phillips said. “It’s getting
huge.”
Despite ongoing clinical
trials, there is no known
cause or cure.
Walk participants were
motivated to raise funds to
help find a cure. Some
walked in teams in support of
you want to be thinner” (or
endure Botox injections or
cram your toes painfully into
tiny shoes) but somehow
they don’t understand when
Cassidy wraps the spiked
“cilice” tightly around her
leg every night for God.
Chutzpah!
In June, the Mexican
government filed a brief in
Arizona challenging the constitutionality
of that state’s
proposed law that required
police to check the immigration
status of detainees,
which, according to its
Foreign Ministry, “violates
inalienable human rights.”
However, a May USA Today
dispatch from Tultitlan,
Mexico, noted that Mexico
has a similar law (“Article
67” of its immigration code)
and that police allegedly
harass immigrants from
Honduras and other Central
American countries. Said
one pro-immigration activist,
“There (the U.S.), they’ll
deport you. In Mexico, they’ll
probably let you go, but
they’ll beat you up and steal
everything you’ve got first.”
(Bills to overturn Article 67
have been pending in the
Mexican legislature for
months.)
Questionable
Judgments
• Awkward: (1) The charity
Brain Injury New Zealand,
organizing a community ben-
loved ones and others joined
to help. “My mom and grandma
don’t have it, but one day
they might,” said Marissa
Reid, an event volunteer.
“The stress is very hard,”
Phillips said. “Every cause is
different. It’s hard to have a
family plan because every
progression of the disease is
different.”
Early detection methods
are improving that can find
the disease before a patient
shows its symptoms. This
helps patients and their families
get early support.
The Alzheimer’s
Association’s 24-hour hot line
is (800) 272-3900.
efit in the town of Rotorua,
decided in October to stage
— of all things — a “zombie
walk,” inviting townspeople
to shuffle around in support.
The TV station TVNZ reported
numerous complaints
alleging BINZ’s insensitivity.
(2) The city government in
Seoul, South Korea, warned
in October that the local delicacy
“octopus head” contains
toxic amounts of cadmium
and recommended a twohead-per-week
maximum.
Fishermen and restaurateurs,
as well as those who
eat octopus head for its supposed
libido-enhancement,
protested.
• For months, Mississippi
Gov. Haley Barbour has been
indifferent to humanitarian
appeals on behalf of sisters
Jamie and Gladys Scott, who
were convicted in 1993 of luring
two men to a robbery
(total take, $11; no injuries)
but who were each mysteriously
sentenced to two consecutive
life sentences. (The
actual robbers got two years.)
Beyond the questionable sentence
is Jamie’s extremely
poor health (double kidney
failure). Gov. Barbour’s
unyielding position is to
direct the appeals to the
state’s parole board. In 2008,
bypassing the parole board,
Gov. Barbour independently
pardoned four vicious murderers
who were serving life
sentences, even though none
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EARLY ELVES
From left, Meredith Coon, Lee Mommsen, Pauline Parks and Peggy Risk are among the busy
senior elves at La Costa Glen who wrapped more than 3,000 Christmas and Hanukkah gifts for
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on Oct. 20 as part of the community’s Care Packages From
Home program. As a result of this latest effort, more than 8,500 boxes have been shipped
overseas to troops. Courtesy photo
LIONS TOP
AWARD
On Oct. 26, Solana
Beach Councilman
Dave Roberts was
awarded the third
highest medal in
Lions Club
International, by
Immediate Past
District Governor
Julie Crawford, for his
outstanding service
and leadership of the
newly established Del
Sol Lions Club. For
more information or
to get involved with
the Del Sol Lions,
contact Charter
Secretary Mary Jane
Boyd at (858) 481-
7547. Courtesy photo
E-WASTE EVENT
From left, Brandon Contreras, Lucie Kramer with StorAmerica, Jorge Amador, Elijaha Watts, DJ
Aldridge and Tammy Walz of the Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside teamed up with All Green
Electronics Recycling for an electronics recycling collection event in August at StorAmerica
Oceanside. Organizers of the event determined that the collection kept 37,954 pounds of carbon
dioxide from polluting the atmosphere. All Green donated $463.72 to the Boys & Girls Club
of Oceanside and StorAmerica donated $150 from this event. Courtesy photo