The Coast News, March 22, 2013

A28 THE COAST NEWS
MARCH 22, 2013
MENTAL HEALTH
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services in the community,
home, hospital, jail, and
more.
Trained mental health professionals
and peer -support
specialists w ork with
the family (or other concerned
individuals) to
identify ways to maintain
safety.
Perhaps most importantly,
IHOT uses their kno wledge,
skills, and experience
to sway the mentally
ill individual to partici-
LETTERS
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fighting chance to do basic
things — like cross a street.
Tom Reeser,
Oceanside
Re: Initiative headed
for special election
Since 1999, I have provided
my office as a polling place
for elections in Car diff.
Presidential, primaries, and
local.The lame decision by the
Encinitas City Council to hold
a special election at a cost to
taxpayers of $350,000 on June
18 for an issue that should be
handled by our elected officials
has made me r ethink
closing my office once again
for a full business da y this
June.
Can’t this issue wait until
a regularly scheduled election
at no cost to taxpayers? Or not
at all? If the council finds this
issue so important, they
should open their own homes
and offices as polling spots.
Regrettable, my office
will not be a vailable. I will
miss seeing all m y neighbors
coming by to vote.
Since our elected officials
can’t resist spending our
money, the $350,000 could
better be used to wards a
Wayside Horn System, as the
city of Del Mar has done. This
would be a much smarter way
TASTE OF WINE
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Spectator’s experts at an
average 95 points. Enjoy this
wine with veal, well-seasoned
pasta dishes, red meats and
cheese.
Andrea Cecchi is the
family winemaker. He makes
wines from family vineyards
in Castellina, San
Gimignano, Maremma and
Umbria. In each area he saw
challenge and greatness, and
realized their full potential.
Check out the Cecchi website
at cecchi.net.
Cellar Gems shine at
Encinitas Wine
Merchants
“You will love our Cellar
Gems, but buy them when
you see them, ” advised
Ellena Cassidy, one of the
two partners at the ne w
Encinitas Wine Merchants.
Cassidy and Mar k Dubiel
have just consolidated their
retail wine stor e into the
wine bar in the Kohl’s center
in Encinitas. Dubiel, who has
37 years in the business, also
runs a highl y successful
Internet wine business, and
is able to move some household
name wines in “ones
and twos” into the retail/wine
bar at a big discount.Regular
customers always check the
pate in treatment.
IHOT has been
around for less than a year
but the early statistics are
promising.
IHOT has dr amatically
increased the likelihood
that a person who is hesitant
to get help f or their
mental health symptoms
will actively engage in the
treatment process.
By getting these otherwise
disengaged people
into treatment IHOT is
proactive in pr eventing
violent acts lik e the one
our community just e xpe-
to allot funds, and a true benefit
to thousands of Encinitas
and Cardiff residents who are
impacted by the train horns.
Kurt Hubert,
Cardiff
Need for city news bulletins
Thanks for being the
alternative to the U-T and our
continued hope f or objective
news reporting. I am sure you
will grow!
I was at an Oceanside
council meeting recently and
someone complained a bout
missing the Oceanside magazine
that the city mailed out I
believe quarterly with the city
goings-on. The magazine was
stopped for budget r easons.
That got me w ondering why
there could not be a quarterly
city newspaper bulletin pr oviding
the same inf ormation.
As I r emember there was
plenty of ad vertising and
some may spill over into your
weekly paper. I am sure a city
newspaper bulletin would be
cheaper than a magazine.
Maybe even friendlier and
could be picked up all over the
city. Just food for thought.
Jack Key,
Oceanside
Council inconsistent re
Ellena Cassidy is the friendly wine hostess behind the bar at Encinitas
Wine Merchants. Here she serves up a Paso Robles Pay Dirt blend.
Cellar Gems section first and
snap up the standouts.
“Our menu of 20 wines
by the glass c hanges weekly,
with Friday being a pr emier
wine flight of thr ee pours
with nothing but pr emium
wines,” Cassidy said. The day
I was in, she poured a 2010
Paydirt Paso Robles blend of
Grenache, Zinfandel, Syrah,
Mourvedre and Petite Sirah (
$29.99). “Paso Robles wines
rienced.
While IHOT has
begun to demonstr ate
their success, it still has
very limited r esources to
meet such an important
need.
IHOT needs the
money and staff to help
more San Diegans and to
prevent unnecessary
tragedies like the one in
Encinitas.
We will ne ver know
for sure whether IHO T’s
involvement would have
prevented Evan’s death or
the injuries of the
jurisdiction
Encinitas contracts with
Peder Norby, at $100,000-plus
per year, to be Highw ay 101
“facilitator;” taxpayers involuntarily
support his acting as
a lobbyist for a
roundabout/lane-elimination
plan decided against b y
Solana Beach and voted down
in Del Mar.
Norby has now organized
various Highway 101 business
groups to change their names
to “101 Mainstreet
Associations,” a generic categorizing,
which, on the surface,
flies against Encinitas’
diverse communities’ desires
to be distinctive. These name
changes, and prejudicial special-interest
subsidizations
through the city , act against
the best inter ests of citiz ens
who support the right-to-voteon-upzoning
initiative, and
those residents, particularly
those of us adjacent to 101,
and local comm uters, who
oppose the Highw ay 101
Streetscape Project’s five
roundabouts and lane-elimination
for motorists.
In the case of the initiative,
council claims the resulting
ordinance requires “divisive”
oversight by the Coastal
Commission, whereas review
actually wouldn’t be problematic.
But in the case of
Highway 101 Str eetscape,
are favorites at the wine bar
and blends are very big,” she
revealed. Check out this wine
oasis. They are open Tuesday
through Thursday 1 p.m. to 9
p.m., Friday and Satur day 1
p.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 3
p.m. to 7 p.m. Call (760) 407-
4265 for more information.
Wine Bytes
The new Hacienda de
las Rosas Winery in Ramona
deputies who r esponded,
but it’s possible that if his
family had gotten the help
they needed b y an ear lyintervention
program like
IHOT, than Evan might be
alive right now.
If someone y ou know
is suffering from a mental
illness and needs help, call
the San Diego County
Access and Crisis Line at
1-888-724-7240.
Carrie Eichmann, Julia
Samara, and Matthew
Stephens, Masters of Social
Work students at San Diego
State University
council is effectively “thumbing
its nose” at the CCC, saying
the city can eliminate a
lane for motorists on Highway
101, without processing
required Local Coastal
Program (LCP) amendments,
an unwise decision now being
appealed.
And why are these newly
renamed business associations
sponsoring the dinner
for Mayor Teresa Barth’s State
of the City address? Shouldn’t
that address be given at City
Hall, as has been the custom,
with few exceptions, so citizens
don’t have to “pay-toplay?”
We hope the ma yor
also will repeat her address at
a regularly noticed Council
Meeting.
We support neighborhood
self-determination,
enhancing the canop y, keeping
Leucadia funk y, preserving
community character,
improving quality of life, and
extending the e xisting railtrail
bicycle lane ASAP. These
goals would be f acilitated by
empowering private citizens
with greater ability to control
our own lives, as is being
demonstrated by the right-tovote-on-upzoning-initiative,
through the populist, grassroots
efforts of dedicated
activists. We’ll be voting yes at
the Special Election!
Lynn and Russell Marr,
Leucadia
has its g rand opening fr om
noon to 5 p.m. March 23 and
March 24. Port and sherr y
barrel tasting, specials, raffle
drawings and an e xhibition
of Peruvian Paso horses will
be offered. The cost is $10.
Call (619) 840-5557 f or
details.
A Saxon Br own Wine
Dinner is planned f or the
Table 926 Restaurant in San
Diego March 26 at $75 per
person. Call (858) 539-0926
for an RSVP and time.
VINOPERA, a wine and
music paired dinner is at
ACQUA AL 2, downtown San
Diego from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
March 28. Batasiolo wines
from Piemonte will pair with
the dinner, with live performances
from opera singers.
Cost is $70. RSVP at (619)
230-0382.
San Diego Wine Co. has
a Zinfandel tasting fr om 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. March 30. The
fee is $10. Details at (858)
586-WINE.
Frank Mangio is a renowned wine
connoisseur certified by Wine
Spectator. His library can be viewed
at www.tasteofwinetv.com. (Average
Google certified 900 visits per day)
He is one of the top five wine commentators
on the Web. Reach him at
mangiompc@aol.com.
BRUSH WITH ART
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sional mbira performer and
versatile entertainer specializing
in m usical storytelling
and movement, Imhoff has
played in w orld music
ensembles for the past 45
years.
He continues to perform
with his afr o-pop ensemble
“Zimbeat,” which shares the
musical traditions of
Zimbabwe. Far from being a
“regular” artist, Imhoff also
performs as a pr ofessional
clown whose alter egos
include Sugar Bear , Pirate
Pete, Engineer Bill and the
magician Garit the Gr eat,
and can also be seen offering
face painting and balloon
creations at the Leucadia
Farmers Market.
Recipient of a K enneth
A. Picerne Foundation grant,
Imhoff introduces youth at
the Boys and Gir ls Club of
San Dieguito to music, storytelling,
mask making, and
puppet traditions from cultures
around the w orld.
Under Imhoff’s guidance,
the students learn to pla y
instruments including the
Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (also
known as a thumb piano)
from Zimbabwe and the metalophone
(similar to the
xylophone) from Indonesia.
In addition to making
their own simple percussion
instruments and using music
as means of e xpression, the
children design puppets and
masks to dramatize their sto-
FOODIE
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in food, hosting dinner parties
with friends and w orking in
catering.
“My favorite recipes are
tacos like my mom made,” she
recalled. “Instead of pac kaged
taco seasoning mix,I use
my own spices along with
beans that she used to stretch
the recipe because she had a
larger family. Today my own
family likes fish tacos of an y
kind, stuffed spinach manicotti
and spinac h salad with
chicken, avocado and goat
cheese.”
Lange has also become a
self-taught marketing whiz,
attending workshops at f ood
conferences where she’s
learned to become a food stylist
and f ood photographer
using a Canon EOS 7D camera.
As the r ecipegirl.com’s
popularity grew, Lange was
recruited to de velop recipes,
photograph food and write for
Gold Medal Flour ,
Pepperidge Farm, Kraft,
Sam’s Club, Betty Crocker,
Tabasco, Pacific Natural
NOVELIST
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not with others.’”
Talarico wants to find
two people who w ant to
have their stories made into
a small book. He warns that
this project isn’t for everybody.
It will take a significant
commitment of at least six
months and it’s not cheap.
“There are enough people
out ther e who r eally
feel compelled to have their
stories in print, in written
form for their friends and
so forth,” he said.
“They can’t do it them-
ries. Imhoff inspires his students
to shar e their talents
by performing for seniors
residing in facilities throughout
North San Diego County.
Imhoff leads special theatr e
arts and music programs supported
by The California
Arts Council, National
Endowment for the Arts, and
local community grants,
while also working as a substitute
teacher specializing
in resource and e xtreme
handicapped students.
With creativity characterized
by its ener gy and
soul, Imhoff states simpl y,
“My art is the e xpression of
my being at an y given
moment.”
He doesn’t allow any of
his moments to slip a way
without filling them with his
own brand of purposeful creative
expression. Don’t miss
the opportunity to bid on
Imhoff’s tribute banner at
the final auction in the
Cardiff Town Center May 26,
or by phoning (760) 436-
2320.
More can be learned
about Garit Imhoff and his
music by visiting
Zimbeat.com.
Kay Colvin is an art consultant and
director of the L Street Fine Art
Gallery in San Diego’s Gaslamp
Quarter. She specializes in promoting
emerging and mid-career artists
and bringing enrichment programs
to elementary schools through The
Kid’s College. Contact her at kaycolvin@lstreetfineart.com.
Foods, Sunkist Nestle and
Barilla.
She has contributed to
the cookbooks “Junior
League of San Diego:
California Sol F ood,” “Blog
Aid for Haiti,” and “GoodBite
Weeknight Meals —
Delicious Made Easy .” Her
work has also been featur ed
online at Saveur’s Best of the
Web, LA Times, Huffington
Post, iVillage, Shape, Bon
Appetit, Fox News Magazine,
The Daily Meal, Ladies Home
Journal and Glamour.
Lange is curr ently a
weekly food content contributor
to Parade Magazine‘s food
blog.
She has been a featur ed
speaker at food conferences, a
television guest on San Diego
Living and was a judge alongside
Paula Deen in the Real
Women of Philadelphia
Cream Cheese Cook Off.
With all of her successes,
she looks forward to planning
her next goal: “I’d like to
write a cookbook with m y
son,” she said, smiling.
For more information
visit recipegirl.com,
recipeboy.com
selves and ob viously can’t
do it the way I do it. They’re
getting the foremost expert
in the countr y who’s doing
this kind of thing. It will be
a very selective clientele
but it’s going to be something
people are interested
in.”
If readers are interested
in Talarico’s project, he
can be contacted at r osstalarico@msn.com
or (760)
489-5815.
“Sled Run,” by Ross
Talarico, published by
Bordighera Press, is available
at Amazon.com and
Barnes and Noble bookstores.