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A2 THE COAST NEWS DEC. 16, 2011 Lions Club rings in the holidays By Bianca Kaplanek COAST CITIES — More than 50 people were on hand for the second annual Del Sol Lions Club Christmas party Dec. 6 at Chevy’s Fresh Mex Restaurant. The free event included appetizers, games and music by Solana Beach singalong coordinator Ed Siegel. Guests also brought toys for It’s All About the Kids Foundation, which uses music and the arts to enhance the lives of less fortunate youngsters and their families. The nonprofit organization is donating the toys collected to the Community Resource Center for its annual Holiday Baskets program, which will distribute gifts, clothing and food to about 1,500 local families at the Del Mar Fairgrounds the weekend of Dec. 16. “There were about 2,100 applicants,” Shawn Heyl, It’s All About the Kids president, said. “The needs just seem to get bigger every year.” The Christmas party was organized by Solana Beach City Councilman and former Lions Club President Dave Roberts, and fellow Lions members June Olson and Kevin Barnick. The Del Sol Lions is part of Lions Clubs International, the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.35 million members in more than 45,000 clubs worldwide. Lions serve those less fortunate locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. The Del Sol Lions meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month at Above, 6-year-old Mia Smith checks out the toys donated by guests for the Community Resource Center’s annual Holiday Baskets program for local needy families. Right, Robin Kemp, right, and Sherry and David Cain chat as the party gets under way. As the Lions Tamer, David Cain is responsible for club property such as flags, banners, gongs, gavels and bells. Kemp currently serves as secretary. Photos by Bianca Kaplanek Fletcher Cove Community Center, 133 Pacific Ave., Solana Beach. “Our Del Sol Lions Club will be two years young on Feb. 15, 2012, but we are already making a large and memorable impact in our community,” Roberts said. Briley Perez, age 7, and Jensyn Perez, age 4, both of Oceanside, drop off donations for troops at the Soldier’s Angels booth at the Sunset Market. Photo by Promise Yee ‘Angels’ serve troops during holidays and all year round By Promise Yee OCEANSIDE — The 3foot-tall donation box wrapped in Christmas paper that sits at the Soldiers’ Angels booth is a regular site at the Sunset Market in December. Susan Lawson, community network coordinator for Soldiers’ Angels, is at the booth every Thursday night to collect hot chocolate mix, wrapped snacks, socks and cash donations for soldiers’ holiday care packages. “The motto is ‘May no soldier go unloved,’” Lawson said. “We want every deployed soldier and wounded vet to know he has the support of the community.” Soldiers’ Angels was founded by Patti Patton- Bader after she heard from her enlisted sons that most of their fellow servicemen did not receive letters or care TURN TO ANGELS ON A23
DEC. 16, 2011 by CHUCK ODD SHEPHERD FILES Uphill both ways — Chinese Education Values: To get to their school, 80 children (aged 6 to 17) in the mountaintop village of Pili, China, near the borders with Tajikistan and Afghanistan, make a 120-mile journey that includes 50 miles on foot or by camel. The most dangerous parts of the route are an inches-wide path cut into a cliff (over a 1,000-foot drop), a 600-foot-long zip-line drop and crossings of four freezing rivers (easier in winter when they are frozen solid). The kids must make the chaperoned treks four times a year — coming and going for each of two long sessions. According to one teacher, Ms. Su, the kids generally enjoy the adventure. The government is building a road to the village, but it will not be finished until 2013. Cultural Diversity — Globally (except in Japan), family-run businesses under perform those run by professional managers. Japanese corporations often seem to have a talented son to take over for his father. The main reason for that, according to an August Freakonomics radio report, is that the family scions usually first recruit an ideal “son” and then adopt him, often also encouraging their daughters to marry the men. (Japanese adage: “You can’t choose your sons, but you can choose your sons-inlaw.”) If the man is already married, sometimes he and his wife will both get adopted. In fact, while 98 percent of U.S. adoptions are of children, 98 percent of Japan’s are of adults. — At an October ceremony in the Satara district in India’s Maharashtra state, 285 girls were allowed to change their names, as each of them had originally been named the Hindi word “Nakusa,” which translates to “unwanted” (expressing their parents’ disappointment at not having had a son). In Satara, only 881 girls are born for every 1,000 boys, reportedly the result of abortion, given the expense of raising a girl (whose family is expected to pay for any wedding and give a dowry to the groom’s family). — Dubai is a city of towering, architecturally brilliant skyscrapers, but since all were built only in the last several decades, the TURN TO ODD FILES ON A14 THE COAST NEWS Copper thieves steal wiring out of local streets By Christina Macone-Greene CARLSBAD — Some Carlsbad streetlights have been hit by copper thieves who have stolen more than $40,000 of wiring this year from the city. Officials have stepped forward asking the public to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity to help them find the culprits. The driving force behind the crime, city officials said, is that the price of copper has tripled in its worth. Thousands of linear feet have been stripped. The copper wires, which operate streetlights, are housed in concrete, underground pullboxes. “Staff believes the thieves are opening the concrete pull-boxes, cutting the copper wires and then pulling the wire sections from between the pull boxes,” said John Maashoff, city of Carlsbad transportation superintendent. “They are either pulling the wires out by hand or possibly tying the wire to a vehicle and pulling them out that way.” Maashoff said the utility pull-boxes are flush with the ground surface and are generally located in the dirt directly behind the sidewalk. The words, “Street Lighting” are imprinted on the concrete lid and the boxes are a rectangular 14inch-by-18-inch shape. The thieves also appear to have fundamental knowledge about the workings of Thieves are stealing copper wiring from city pull boxes such as these pictured. Photo courtesy City of Carlsbad electronic streetlights. Maashoff wants people to know that these crimes are occurring in nonpopulated areas throughout the city and are believed to be happening in the evening. He said a handful of streets that have been affected include La Costa Avenue between I- 5 and El Camino Real; Faraday Avenue, south of Cannon; Tamarack Avenue, west of El Camino Real; and Alicante Road, south of Gateway Avenue. After the wire is stolen, only the immediate area of a streetlight is affected and not blocks of areas. Lights along the street, Maashoff said, have several power source service locations that keep things operating. The city recently estimated a total of $40,000 to pay for stolen wire. About 13,000 linear feet of copper wire needed to be replaced at Faraday, Tamarack and La Costa avenues. In addition to these streets, copper wiring from the ball field lights at Poinsettia Community Park have also been fleeced. Maashoff pointed out that during the last fiscal year, the city spent $56,000 on replacing wire that was stolen. “The Carlsbad Police Department has increased surveillance around the lights and is asking the public to be alert and report any suspicious activity around streetlights, in city parks or around city facilities, especially at night,” he said. Jodee Sasway, public Accused gang members head back to court By Shelli DeRobertis OCEANSIDE — Four gang members accused of ties in the double murder of two teens at an Oceanside park are expected back in a Vista courtroom on April 26 after a four-day hearing held earlier this month led a judge to decide enough evidence was presented for a trial. By Shelli DeRobertis VISTA — A handyman who served six months in jail more than a decade ago will spend the next decade in prison after he is sentenced next month for punching an Oceanside furniture salesman in the head and causing his death. Bruce Hamil, 36, pleaded guilty at a court hearing Dec. 6 to assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury in the death of Willie Hoyle, 53. Outside of Hosie’s Pacific Pub in Oceanside, a single Robert AL’C Bejaran and Justin Gibson, both 19, and 34-year-old Kenneth Hamilton are each charged with two counts of murder for the killings of Fernando Solano, 16, and Sandra Salgado, 14, which took place on May 3 at Libby Lake Park. Another suspect, Tyrone Blackmon, 29, faces several punch to the head knocked Hoyle to the ground, unconscious, on Sept. 26, 2010, according to Oceanside Police. Prosecutor Jodi Breton said that the punch ruptured an artery in Hoyle’s brain. He was placed on life support and died in a hospital two days later. Hamil is expected to be formally sentenced on Jan. 5, 2012, to 10 years in prison. At a previous hearing for the case, a judge found insufficient evidence for Hamil to go to trial on a murder charge. charges, including being an accessory to the crime after the fact. If convicted, Blackmon’s role in the hillside murders could land him seven years in prison. Bejaran is the accused triggerman in both teen murders, and charged with a multiple-murder special allega- Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett set Hamil’s bail at $1 million last September following his arrest. Breton said Hamil has a prior strike against him for a 1998 conviction, in which he served six months in jail and three years’ felony probation. She said he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for hitting and injuring another man. In the current case, police said the assault at Hosie’s happened shortly before 7 p.m., following an tion that makes him eligible for the death penalty or life and no parole, if he is convicted. Hamilton and Gibson both could serve 51 years to life in prison, if convicted of being accomplices. The bodies of the two TURN TO GANG ON A20 Sentencing set for man charged in fatal brawl argument. Although details of the argument were never made clear, apparently it started after Hoyle gave Hamil’s girlfriend a cigarette. Hamil fled the scene before authorities arrived, but was arrested and became a defendant in a court arraignment days later, according to police. The Facebook page of Joe’s Furniture, where Hoyle worked, includes pictures of him, and one post reads: “Let all of San Diego know what a great person we lost.” A3 information officer at the Carlsbad Police Department, said along with their extra patrol they need residents to be the eyes and ears of their community. “It is important to be a good witness,” Sasway said. “This means not confronting people yourself but calling the police and noting important information like vehicle description, license plate numbers, descriptions of the people involved and direction of travel.” The type of suspicious activity officials are looking for are people who may be dressed in construction attire hanging around, working on, or pulling wire from city light poles. Another dubious view would be a work truck without a city of Carlsbad emblem on the vehicle. Additionally, the city is thinking of various ways to discourage future copper thieving. Some alternatives are modifying the pull-boxes and creating different ways to access them. “We’ve epoxy glued some boxes shut and will be installing some locking lids in the near future,” Maashoff said. If a resident sees a copper crime in progress, the city asks them to call 9-1-1 and those who believe they see suspicious activity should call the police department directly at (760) 931-2197. — HELP WANTED — Receptionist / Sales Assistant (Encinitas) Work for the Coast News, a popular North County weekly newspaper in the community for 25 years. Positive, up-beat, professional wanted immediately to help answer phones, greet customers and prepare legal notices for court filings. On the job training is available for the right person. The most important quality we are looking for is a willingness and ability to make sales calls while maintaining a positive upbeat attitude. Business casual or workappropriate attire is required. Approx. 32 hours per week. 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