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Volume XVI, Issue 2 www.delmartimes.net Jan. 5, 2012 Published Weekly

■ TPHS graduatefocused on London Olympics.

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■ Former North County tourism bureau chief thriving at Cox.

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■ Local golfer’s numerous title wins elevate her to an elite class.

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2012 Penguin Plunge

BY JOE TASHAs the city of San Diego

moves forward with a plan to take bids for a long-term lease on an 80-acre parcel of land next to the San Diegui-to River, environmentalists, polo players, youth soccer supporters and neighbors are watching closely.

Over the next few months, the city will issue a request for proposals for a lease on the property at Via De La Valle and El Camino Real, which has been the home of the San Diego Polo Club since 1986. The club’s original 26-year lease is set to expire in March.

“We’re going through the process of seeking rent-ers for that property. And we’re going to evaluate all the bids that come in from the standpoint of what’s best for the city in terms of

economically, (and) the way it would fit into the commu-nity. We are looking to have a tenant in there that uses that facility in some way re-lated to recreation,” said Alex Roth, a spokesman for Mayor Jerry Sanders.

Roth declined to com-ment further on the specific requirements that will be in-cluded in the request for proposals, which he said is still being drafted. But he promised an open process and invited anyone with suggestions or concerns about the request for pro-posals, or the lease, to send a letter to the city.

“There is going to be lots and lots of opportunity for public input on this,” Roth said.

The city obtained the

Carl Hilliard took over as may-or of Del Mar in December, and along with his City Council col-leagues, faces a full agenda of issues in 2012, from streamlining council meetings to downtown revitaliza-tion.

The Del Mar Times interviewed Hilliard regarding the key issues fac-ing the city over the next 12 months and accomplishments of the past year, as he begins his sec-ond one-year term as mayor. In Del Mar, members of the council take turns serving as mayor, rather than being directly elected by voters. The interview is presented in a Q & A format, and has been edited for brevity.

Hilliard (see announcement above) was elected to the council

for the first time in 2004, following a career in law and business. After serving in the Navy and graduating from the USC School of Law, he worked as a trial lawyer, then started a San Diego-based tech company with his wife. A skiing accident left him temporarily paralyzed, and after his recovery, he taught at local law schools, and rep-resented clients in negotia-tions over satellite launch and positioning rights.

In November, Del Mar residents are expected to vote on a specific plan for the city’s downtown village, a plan that offi-cials hope will spur revitalization of the central business district. — Re-ported by Joe Tash.

Polo Club lease expires in March

Mayor discusses city accomplishments, goals and issues

Various groups keep close watch as city starts search for tenant

Hearty local residents braved the cool Pacific to celebrate the first day of 2012 at the popular annual Penguin Plunge in Del Mar. See more inside. (above) Alexandra Blasina, Pamela WhalenPhoto/Jon Clark

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SEE MAYOR, PAGE 11

Q. What are your plans as you begin your term as mayor?

A. The mayor has the right to control the (City Council) agenda, the sequence of the agenda, not the items on the agenda. I’m going to try and change things. We have had two issues that have come up. I think we’ve had closed sessions at every meeting for the past couple of years.

So I’m going to propose to the council that we set aside the third or second

Monday just for closed session and not try to get down here at 4:30 and go until 9 or 10 at night, not try to do it all in one. I’m one of

five so we’ll see what the council thinks.

I just finished my term as chair of LAFCO (the Local Agency Formation Commission), I’m on the board at SANDAG (the San Di-ego Association of Governments) and I did my term at NCTD (North County Transit District), none of them read off the consent calendar, it’s done by motion. So I’m going to suggest that we put it on the screen so the people at home can see it.

The other thing is, community announcements. It used to be that a member of the council, if there was something in particular that should be brought to the attention of the community, would make the

Carl Hilliard

BY JOE TASHThe contest for the seat

of retiring 3rd District Coun-ty Supervisor Pam Slater-Price is about to become a three-way affair, as two coastal North County city councilmen confirmed this week they plan to run.

Carl Hilliard of Del Mar and Dave Roberts of Solana Beach said they plan to run for the seat of Slater-Price, who is retiring from the Board of Supervisors this year after serving for 20 years in the position. The two will challenge Steve

Danon, who announced his own bid for the seat in 2009. So far, no other candidates have come forward, but the official nomination period runs from Feb. 13 through March 9.

Hilliard, 76, is a regis- See SEAT, page 9

Hilliard, Roberts declare candidacy for supervisor seat

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BY ARTHUR LIGHTBOURNYes, Virginia, there is

life after being laid off, and Cami Mattson is proving it.

She was among 16 em-ployees who were laid off af-ter the San Diego North Convention and Visitors Bu-reau was merged out of exis-tence into the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bu-reau in late 2010.

She had served with the North County organization for 25 years, 21 years of it as its president and CEO

Mattson readily admits that suddenly finding her-self out of a job took some getting used to.

It was a first for her.“Twenty-five years with

any company is a long time,” she acknowledged, “but what it did was create an opportunity and time to explore what would be a next step, a next opportuni-ty, and how I might grow,” she said.

Today, Mattson is the director of community rela-tions for Cox Communica-tions’ California operations. She started Aug. 29 and is responsible for the strategic direction and planning for

all of the company’s com-munity relations and corpo-rate giving in California, in-cluding San Diego, Orange County, Palos Verdes and Santa Barbara.

For Mattson, 50, it’s is a dream job come true that didn’t even exist when she was given her pink slip a year ago.

We interviewed Matt-son in her new office in Cox’s public affairs depart-ment on Copley Drive in Kearny Mesa.

Stability and diversity had been linchpins in her personality: stability from the same job since college and the same ocean-view apartment she has rented in Del Mar since 1984, and di-versity from her passion for adventure travel that includ-ed trekking 19,340 feet up Mt. Kilimanjaro, 17,600 feet up Mount Everest, a 229-foot bungee jump off a bridge in New Zealand, and skydiving out of a plane at 11,000 feet to celebrate Leap Year.

Mattson was born Cam-eron Mattson in Long Beach, Calif. Her father was a high school industrial arts

teacher in the Long Beach Unified School District and her mother, a librarian.

Her love of adventure, she says, comes from her fa-ther, who always would say, he’d rather have a life full of experiences than a room full of furniture.

“Material things aren’t important to me,” she says. From her mom, she inherit-ed “a heart for life” and an example of volunteerism. “People, human life, experi-ences, those are what’s rich.”

After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1984, she joined the Es-condido Visitor and Infor-mation Bureau in 1985, as a marketing representative.

When the head of the bureau left, telling Mattson that funding was drying up and suggesting she should also considering leaving, Mattson decided instead to hang in there, was tapped as interim director and came up with a plan to reinvent the organization and keep her job — transforming it from an Escondido city bu-reau into a regional bureau responsible for marketing the 2,000 square miles that

make up San Diego’s North County.

Then, on Sept. 2, 2010, Mattson faced another rein-vention challenge, that of

reinventing herself and her future.

“So I made a list,” she said, “of what was impor-tant to me. One, I wanted to

stay here in the San Diego area because my parents live here [in Fallbrook]. But I also wanted to work in a supportive and inspiring en-vironment. I wanted to make a difference in the community…So I just really looked at what spoke to me.”

“Then I took a year off. Really, I wasn’t even going to look for a job for seven months. I wanted to just make a wise decision and be deliberate with where I went in my future.

“In between jobs, I did go to South America and trekked in the Andes down in Patagonia, southern Ar-gentina and Chile. I turned 50 in February and I wanted to prove to myself I still had it in me. And I did.”

She travelled with Lori Holt Pfeiler, the ex-mayor of Escondido, who had served 18 years on the Escondidio City Council, her last 12 years as mayor. She is a training consultant with Synergy Executive Educa-tion.

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BY KELLEY CARLSONA recent achievement has put young golfer Courtney

Hooton on par with the best junior golfers in San Diego his-tory.

Courtney, a senior at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, has won the San Diego Junior Golf Association’s Champion-ship Division for the third consecutive year, a feat only pre-viously accomplished by Phil Mickelson, Christy Erb and Mike Riley.

The title is the 17-year-old’s ninth consecutive age class triumph with the association — something that no one else has achieved in its 59-year history, according to Courtney’s father, Claude Hooton.

“It’s very exciting for me,” Courtney said. “I take each victory in stride. It’s such an integral part of my golf career.”

The Del Mar resident has been playing for more than a dozen years, first swinging a golf club at age 5. She was in-troduced to the sport by her grandparents Libby and Wally Frank, who lived in Rancho Santa Fe. They often took Courtney and her sisters, Libby and Chloe Belle, to the Lo-mas Santa Fe Executive Golf Course.

Courtney found herself drawn to the sport, as she en-joyed spending time with her family and being outside. The sisters always encouraged one another and kept each other on their toes at all times, she noted.

Since she first started playing in tournaments at age 6, Courtney has built quite a resume. She has won more than 250 events, including the U.S. Kids Golf Teen World Cham-pionship in 2007, and two American Junior Golf Association tournaments — the 2010 Lessings Classic and the 2011 Rochester Open, both in New York. In addition, Courtney has qualified twice for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Champi-onship, and a record 12 consecutive years for the Callaway Junior World Championship.

Competitions take Courtney all over the country — “from Iowa to New York — it’s crazy,” she said. Most of them are held during the summer, when the teen plays mul-tiple tournaments each week. Quite a few are held in the San Diego area throughout the year, and Courtney says she averages about one event a month when school is in ses-

sion. The busy schedule is necessary to receive national rec-

ognition, she said.“You need to be in a competitive atmosphere to keep

your game up,” Courtney said. “Golf is truly a year-round sport.”

But academics come first, she emphasized, especially at The Bishop’s School, which is well-known for its rigorous program.

“My parents instilled in us that [academics is] a priori-ty,” Courtney said, and added that she needs to have some-thing to fall back on in case golf doesn’t pan out.

So far, Courtney appears to have managed to juggle golf and academics just fine, sporting a 4.15 GPA.

“I’ve found that time management is important,” she said, and noted that she receives support from her teachers.

Courtney also has played for Bishop’s golf team since ninth grade.

“It’s really fun,” she said. “Being on a team is so differ-ent. Golf is an individual sport ... (being part of a team) is a

Local golfer’s numerous title wins elevate her to an elite class

Courtney Hooton with her three top awards from the San Diego Junior Golf Association.

Courtney Hooton in action.

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One Paseo is the result of hundreds of conversations with our Carmel Valley neighbors. We heard that as the last piece of the Community Plan, you wanted a place to gather – a Main Street with restaurants, shops, movies and a specialty grocery store with great parking.

For a Main Street to work, there needs to be a synergy of people living and working there. So we hired the nation’s best planners and designers to create something special.

Our plan for One Paseo is just that: a special place.

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The National Champions were announced on the field and got to cheer with the Charger Cheerleaders when the Chargers ran through the tunnel and onto the field during the pregame festivities.

Coach Alicia Smith was a former Charger Cheerleader and was thrilled to bring her team to be honored at the game. “This was a once in a lifetime experience for these girls. For many of them, it was their first NFL game and to experience it on the field and to cheer with the Charger Girls was amazing for them.”

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Kentucky Fried Chicken recently an-nounced that Torrey Pines High School stu-dent Daniel Galuppo won a $20,000 KFC Col-onel’s Scholars® scholarship based on a single photo shared on Twitter.

KFC selected Daniel Galuppo from high school seniors across the country who applied by tweeting a single image and including the hashtag #KFCScholar. He schooled the Twit-terverse with an image from a recent volunteer trip to Vietnam, where he photographed or-phans. Galuppo, originally from Lithuania, has no photos of himself before his adoption and move to the United States. He has made it his mission to visit orphanages so he can give the children pictures of themselves as keep-sakes.

Photo entries were judged on quality, creativity, compelling nature and consistency with Col-onel Harland Sanders’ commit-ment to service.

“We were impressed by the creativity and passion for higher education that came across in these images. It was tough to pick a winner,” said John Cywin-ski, president of KFC. “Daniel’s photo highlighting why he em-bodies the qualities of a Colonel’s Scholar put him at the head of the class. We’re proud to help further his college education.”

Galuppo will receive up to $5,000 per year for the next four years to pursue a bachelor’s de-gree at an accredited public uni-versity within California. He hopes to attend UCLA in 2012 to pursue film production.

“Being behind the camera is my passion, and now a photo has earned me the chance at a college education,” says Galup-po. “I can’t tell you how I excited I am to pursue my dreams as a Colonel’s Scholar on campus this fall.”

Last year’s winner, Amanda

Russell, won KFC’s inaugural Twitter scholar-ship with a single 140-character tweet: “#KFC-Scholar Hey Colonel! Your scholarship’s the secret ingredient missing from my recipe for success! Got the grades, drive, just need cash!” Russell also attends UCLA and continues to play an active role in the Colonel’s Scholars program, even providing tips to this year’s en-trants via the @KFC_Colonel handle.

Shutterbugs aren’t the only ones who can snap up a scholarship. Applications for 2012 are being accepted through Feb. 8. Seventy-four additional scholarships will be awarded for next year. Visit www.KFC.com or www.KF-Cscholars.org for more information.

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ties on the site, said current club president Ron Bonagui-di.

Currently, the club pays the city $9,842 per month for the property, according to Roth. Over the life of the lease, rental payments have totaled more than $3 mil-lion, along with $650,000 in property taxes, said Bonagu-idi.

Overlooking the expan-sive green lawns of the polo fields is a deck and club-house and offices housed in modular buildings. On a re-cent morning, a flock of Canada geese occupied the fields where horses and rid-ers can be found during the

summer polo season. In the center of the property are rows of horse barns and stalls, vacant for the winter, and at the east end of the property are soccer fields subleased to a local youth soccer club.

The polo club, which has some 50 to 100 active members, subleases the property to bring in revenue to support and maintain the property. Among the annu-al activities are the Surf Cup soccer tournament, lacrosse tournaments, and corporate and charitable events.

The polo club is a “not-for-profit” corporation, said Bonaguidi, which puts all of its revenue back into the fields.

Bonaguidi said polo club officials had made a proposal to increase the club’s rent in exchange for a lease extension before the city decided to open up bid-ding for the property. He blamed outside pressure from a local newspaper and the San Dieguito River Park Joint Powers Authority (JPA) for convincing city officials

to go out to bid.“They’re doing it be-

cause of external issues,” Bo-naguidi said.

He noted that the club has been a good tenant for more than 25 years, and the city could have negotiated a lease extension directly with the club, that would have been fair to both parties.

“We don’t want a sweetheart deal,” he said. But if it doesn’t win a new lease, “the club will proba-bly become extinct.”

Roth, the mayor’s spokesman, confirmed that the city did not legally have to go out to bid. “We chose to do so because we want to make certain we perform our due diligence and ex-plore all options. The com-munity expects nothing less,” Roth wrote in an email.

The fortunes of the popular Surf Cup soccer tournament are also tied to an extension of the polo club lease, said Mike Con-nerly, tournament president.

The youth tournament, now in its 21st year, is held

each summer and fall at the polo fields, and draws about 7,500 players, Connerly said. “If we’re not able to continue here, we’re in the same situation Ron’s in, we will be done.”

Also watching the situa-tion closely are officials with the river park JPA, and the Friends of the San Dieguito River Valley, an environ-mental group.

The JPA wants to make sure that proper environ-mental review is conducted for any potential future uses of the property, said agency executive director Dick Bobertz. Also, the polo club is in the process of restoring a section of trail along the river, and the JPA wants the work completed even if the lease changes hands.

Ideally, Bobertz said, the JPA would like to see “low-key, passive recreation-al uses” on the property. “It would make a great public park,” he said.

The Friends group is most concerned about in-tensification of uses at the fields, said president Maggie Brown.

“We feel the club has been a good steward. We certainly could have done a lot worse over the last 25 years. It’s sort of the devil

you know versus the devil you don’t know. What we want is for it to be returned to its natural, unsullied state, but nobody’s going to do that. The city of San Di-ego is desperate for money. We are worried about what the city is going to put there instead of the polo club that’s going to be an intensi-fication of uses,” Brown said.

Bonaguidi said the club’s continued presence provides public benefits, from access to walkers and joggers to a place where ap-propriate community events can be held. The club offers an initial free polo lesson to any member of the public he said, and he disputed that polo is strictly a game for the wealthy.

In simple terms, the game consists of two teams of four horses and riders, who use wooden mallets to score by hitting a ball be-tween goal posts. The game requires both athleticism and equestrian skills, said Bonaguidi.

“There are one-horse polo players and the Sultan of Brunei,” he said. “The elitists get all of the ink. They’re only 1 percent of the polo population but they skew the perception.”

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One of the most excit-ing times of the year to be a Rotarian is the holiday sea-son. The Rotary Club of Del Mar puts “service above self” and gives back all year round, but the holidays is a particularly special time to brighten the lives of others. All within the month of De-cember, the Del Mar Club has been giving gifts to chil-dren, supporting military families as they fly home and donating goods to as-semble food baskets for needy families in our com-munity.

On Thursday, Dec. 15, the Del Mar Rotarians host-ed 80 children from the St. Leo’s Head Start Program in the Turf Club of the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Each child was dressed in their holiday best as they enjoyed a “formal” lunch of macaroni and cheese, carrots and milk. Then smiles and cheers filled the room as every three and four year old sat on Santa’s lap and received a stocking stuffed with good-ies, a toy to unwrap, and a book with a stuffed animal that corresponded to the story. This party is an annu-al tradition for the Del Mar Rotary Club but with the St. Leo’s Head Start enrollment doubling, the club had to band together and supply more toys for more children this year. This challenge was warmly welcomed as Del Mar Rotary Club President, Sharyn Daly said, “I don’t know who has more fun, the children or the Rotari-ans!”

On Wednesday, Dec. 21, The Del Mar Rotary Club joined an event at Lind-bergh Field to support the organization, Home For The Holidays, in their effort of sponsoring military families to fly to their hometown during this season. This year, a family of five includ-ing a four year old with au-tism and epilepsy, was given the opportunity to fly to their hometown in Pennsyl-vania for the first time in five years.

The other organization that the Del Mar Rotary Club has partnered with this month is the Encinitas Community Resource Cen-ter and their Holiday Basket Program. Throughout this month, Rotarians have col-lected and donated food, sports equipment and other goods to fill baskets that are given to families who need and deserve some holiday cheer. The Rotarians also do-nated their time to deliver and sort the goods at the

Rotarians celebrate the reason for the season

fairgrounds alongside many other volunteers from the community.

The holidays are a spe-cial time to be a Rotarian and feel the magic of the season through serving oth-ers. But as the holiday sea-son comes to a close, the spirit of giving will continue as the Rotary Club of Del Mar keeps “Service Above Self”, both here in our com-munity and across the world, as their mission for improving the lives of all people all year round.

Please visit www.del-marrotary.org for more in-formation, or join us for a weekly meeting on Thurs-days at noon at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Del Mar.

BUILDING A FLOAT: (Above from left): Robert Roberts, Robin Kemp, Solana Beach Deputy Mayor Dave Roberts, John Page, David Cain, Katie Page, Linette Page, and Blind Stoker Captain Kurt Junge. For more information on the Del Sol Lions Club, please visit www.DelSolLions.

Del Sol Lions, San Diego Blind Stokers help build special float for Tournament of Roses Parade

On Dec. 27, members of the Del Sol Lions Club and the San Diego Blind Stokers Club caravaned to Pasadena to help build the Lions float for the 2012 Tournament of Roses pa-rade. The float theme is “A World at Peace” and was in-spired by Miguel Senteno, who listened to the 2011 Rose Pa-rade on television because his poor vision prevented him from watching it. As the Lions float came on the screen, Miguel heard the announcer mention Lions and sight, so he contacted his local Lions club and was invited to a meeting. The Lions made sure that he had the cataract and retina sur-geries he needed and Miguel’s vision has now been complet-ed restored for him to see the 2012 parade!

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BY WILL BOWEN“We don’t care what a

frog thinks, or a bird ... but we should because we all live together in intercon-nected systems,” insists eco artist Ruth Wallen, whose exhibit, “Cascading Memori-als: Responses to Urbaniza-tion and Climate Change in San Diego County,” will be on view Jan. 7 to Feb. 11 at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library.

Wallen, who grew up in Berkeley, Calif., is best known for her colorful pho-tographic nature plaques at the Carmel Mountain Na-ture Preserve on the mesa top overlooking Carmel Val-ley. She said her love of na-ture dates back to age 8, when she circulated peti-tions to help protect the natural areas where she and other children played.

Wallen earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College in environmental science, and

then worked for the San Francisco park service while attending art classes at the Art Institute of San Francis-co. Her graduate degree was completed at UCSD, where she earned a M.F.A. in Visual Art under Allen Kaprow, Helen Newton Harrison and Eleanor and David Antin.

Wallen’s show at the Athenaeum will consist of photomurals and photo col-lages of San Diego natural areas that we are losing to population growth, climate change, and development. The exhibit will include im-ages from Cuyamaca State Park, Pine Creek, Otay Mountain, Mission Gorge, and Carmel Mountain.

In addition, she will dis-play her books, titled “I Love Del Mar,” “Legends,” and “Preserving Paradise.”

“I was motivated to put together this particular show because I’ve noticed how much San Diego county,

and specifically Carmel Val-ley, has changed in the last 25 years,” she said. “My pur-pose is to see what we can learn from the changes in our county landscape, which has been impacted by a population growth from 60,000 to 3 million in the last 100 years.”

Emotionally, she added,

New exhibit mourns San Diego’s loss of natural spaces

Ruth Wallen, Diana Gordon and Anne Harvey at Carmel Mountain Nature Preserve.

If you goWhat: “Cascading Memorials:

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Opening reception: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Jan. 6

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she is heartbroken about the loss of wild areas and wants to create a space for people to mourn and grieve the losses, but also offer their vi-sions for the future.

Visitors will have the opportunity to provide in-put by writing about their hopes and visions for San Diego on paper leaves that

will be attached to large photographs of trees posted in the gal-lery.

It is Wallen’s hope that we will preserve more wild open spaces and start to build up instead of out.

“The source of the problem can be traced to values,” she said. “Although there have been many good ideas put forth by environ-mentalists and plan-ners, political necessity has not always lead to the best long-range choices. In other words, we have valued growth and economic prosperity over quality of life and protecting nature.

“We must realize that there is so much richness out there in the San Diego wild and we need to think hard

about how we will protect it for the future. There are more threat-ened and endangered species in San Diego than any other county in the whole of the continental United States.”

FRIDAY, Jan. 6-SUNDAY, Jan. 8• Gem Faire, Del Mar Fairgrounds, www.

delmarfairgrounds.comSATURDAY, Jan. 7• Founded in 2006, Tsavo’s Canine Reha-

bilitation and Fitness Center, will host a grand re-opening celebration on Saturday, Jan. 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its expanded facility located at 2120 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Suite 120 in Del Mar. For additional information, visit www.tsavoscaninerehab.com or call (619) 846-9531.

FRIDAY, Jan. 13• The Solana Beach Civic and Historical

Society’s General Meeting will feature a pro-gram on the longest migration of any mam-mal, the Gray Whale. The subject is timely as more than 15,000 gray whales swim by Solana Beach from mid-December to mid-February. The meeting will be held on Friday Jan. 13, 2012 at 5 p.m. at the Fletcher Community

Center, 133 Pacific Ave., Solana Beach. Titled “From the Arctic to Baja; the Migration of the Gray Whale,” the talk will be presented by San Diego Natural History Museum (the NAT) Vol-unteer Naturalist Jim Nelson.

The public is invited to attend this free meeting where refreshments will be served.

SATURDAY, Jan. 14• Sat, Jan 14, Zel’s Del Mar, 8-10 p.m.,

Robin Henkel solo blues and jazz (guitar/vo-cals), 1247 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar (858) 755-0076

ONGOING:• The Belly Up in Solana Beach offers a va-

riety of entertainment events.For a complete schedule, visit www.belly-

up.com.• The Del Mar Library and Solana Beach

libraries host a variety of events. For a com-plete schedule, visit www.sdcl.org.

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tered Republican who is serving a one-year rotation as mayor of Del Mar in 2012. He was first elected to the council in 2004 and pre-viously he served in the Navy, worked as a trial law-yer, and ran a telecommuni-cations company.

He acknowledged Danon has a head start, as he has been raising money and gathering endorsements for the past two years. But Hilliard said that a private poll he commissioned last year showed that his back-ground would go over well with voters in the district, which includes Del Mar, So-lana Beach, Encinitas, Carm-el Valley, La Jolla and other communities.

“I have to get my mes-sage to the voters and let them hear about my back-ground and experience and hopes and aspirations for the county and let them choose,” Hilliard said.

Hilliard is in the final year of his second four-year term on the council, and said he will not be running for a third term, regardless of the outcome of the race for the supervisorial seat.

When he joined the Del Mar council, Hilliard said, the city was not in good fi-nancial shape, and its reve-nues were declining. Now, he said, the city has a bal-anced budget, a Triple A bond rating, has carried out numerous capital projects and increased its revenue.

“We did that because we applied sound business principles to the operation of the city,” Hilliard said. “We didn’t reduce services or increase taxes. We im-proved efficiencies.”

The county will be in need of such business skills as the state raids its coffers to make up its own budget shortfalls, Hilliard said.

Roberts could not be reached to comment for this story by presstime. But in an email response to an in-terview request, he wrote, “I do plan to announce soon that I am running for the Third District seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.”

According to a bio post-ed on the Solana Beach web-site, Roberts was first elected to the council in 2004, and served as mayor in 2008. He works as an executive with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Soci-ety, and previously as vice president for Science Appli-cations International Corp.,

and as a staff member for a congressional committee.The two councilmen will compete for the seat with

Danon, who works as chief of staff for 50th District U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray. Previously, Danon worked in public relations and as chief of staff for County Supervisor Ron Roberts.

“I absolutely welcome Carl and Dave into the cam-paign. I think it’s extremely healthy for our democracy for the voters to have a choice,” said Danon, 46, a registered Re-publican.

In the most recent campaign disclosure forms available on the county Registrar of Voters website, which covered the period of Jan. 1 through June 30 of last year, Danon report-ed raising $64,270. Updated disclosure forms are due to be filed by Jan. 31.

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Music Society ConcertGrammy Award-winning pianist Garrick Ohlsson will

perform an all-Liszt program with “Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude,” “Mephisto Waltz No.1, “ and “Transcen-dental Étude No. 5 in B-flat Major” on La Jolla Music Soci-ety’s The Belanich Steinway, at 8 pm, Friday, Jan. 13 at MCASD Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St. UCSD Pro-fessor of Literature Steven Cassedy, a classically trained pia-nist, will deliver a pre-concert lecture, “Liszt’s Peculiar Reli-gion,” discussing Liszt’s preoccupation with Roman Catholi-cism and its influence on his compositions at 7 pm. Tickets $25-$75 (858) 459-3728 www.LJMS.org.

Worrisome FutureThe Humanist Fellowship of San Diego will present a

free lecture by San Diego State University Political Sciene Professor Dipak Gupta on “An Unstable World: Future Trends of Radicalism and Political Violence,” 11 a.m. Satur-day, Jan. 7 at the Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave. (858)

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The popular Canyon Crest Academy Foundation Raven Wishes Nights kick off the 2012 year with a focus on “Academics, Counseling, and Technology” on Wednesday, Jan. 11, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the Del Mar Hilton (Jimmy Durante Blvd and Via de la Valle).

Raven Wishes Nights give parents and supporters of CCA programs the opportu-nity to meet their student’s teachers and administrators one-on-one, learn what is needed to keep CCA’s award-winning programs on top, and make a donation to the Canyon Crest Academy Foundation for needed items and programs.

Admission is free to the Jan. 11 event and compli-mentary hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Information on this and upcoming Raven Wishes Nights for Athletics (Feb. 22) and Envision (March 6) can be found at www.canyoncrestfoundation.org.

Raven Wishes Night for Academics, Counseling and Technology

Torrey Pines JV Soccer team fi nalists at InvitationalThe Torrey Pines JV Soccer team were fi nalists in the 2011 North County Inland Invi-

tational. They beat Scripps 1-0, Patrick Henry 2-0 and Del Norte 7-0 in regular play. They advanced and won against St. Augustine 2-1 in the semi-fi nals and tied Escondido High School 1-1 to eventually lose in penalty kicks.

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Canyon Crest Academy’s annual Swap Meet is looking for local vendors! Utilize this chance to fundraise on a per-sonal or communal level on Saturday, Jan. 14. The cost for a booth is $20. To register or purchase a booth, please go to ccaasb.com and pick up a form.

sition, so this was our transition trip, to figure out what we wanted to be when we ‘grew up’,” she laughed.

When Mattson seriously set-tled into exploring job possibilities last April, “really what helped was the networking,” she said.

“Over 25 years, there was a vast network of people and rela-tionships that were established. And so I was able to just set the goal to have ‘conversations’ with business leaders, people that I knew, who led me to other people, [and that] was how I even heard about this job.

“It was advertised, but I didn’t see it advertised, because I wasn’t looking that way.”

Her advice to others who might find themselves in a similar circumstances during these high unemployment times?

“One, break through your fears. I had some fears on some of

my technical capabilities and I went to computer classes. Don’t let your fears be an obstacle that gets in your way.

“Take charge of your transi-tion. Instead of operating from a place of desperation or fear or con-fusion, get settled and list your strengths, your weaknesses, and your areas of interests … so you can be deliberate in your search, because that’s how you’re going to sustain your next job and not just make it to another transition job.

“And really to heal and re-store, make sure your confidence is in place, surround yourself with supportive people, network and just have conversations.

“I think one of the things that was so exciting for me was just to set up appointments and have conversations. That became inspir-ing to me and it helped validate who I am, who I was and who I will be.”

What attracted her to Cox, she said, was its philosophy of “giving back” to the community ever since

its founding in 1898 by Ohio school teacher James M. Cox, who later went on to serve three terms as governor of Ohio and to pur-chase his first newspaper, the Day-ton Evening News — which be-came the first step in creating the company that Cox is today— the third largest cable entertainment and broadband provider in the country with more than 6 million customers and 22,000 employees.

“It’s a company with a big heart,” Mattson said. “They hire people with heart. They hire peo-ple with passion.

“In my process of joining Cox, I went through six different inter-views with 10 people over two months. And a lot of those ques-tions were about personal develop-ment, about ethics, about how I communicate. I really was excited that they asked those type of ques-tions versus just tactical ques-tions.”

Her job at Cox is to align three pillars within the company — the Cox Care Foundation funded by

employee payroll deductions, the corporate giving program, and en-gaging its 3,000 California employ-ees in volunteerism to serve in the community.

Utilizing its communications technology, its intellectual capital and its volunteer capacity, Matt-son said, the focus will be on help-ing three specific entities — the military population and their fami-lies, underserved youth and the ed-ucational capacities of schools to help make a difference that is mea-surable and sustainable.

The company, she said, is making “bucket lists” of organiza-tions, both profit and nonprofit, that it may partner with to create new community outreach projects that will blend with Cox’s core fo-cus areas.

“There’s nothing that we alone or someone else alone will change this world or change the immedi-ate social needs of our communi-ty,” she said. “It’s really together we make a collective impact.”

whole new dynamic.”However, the senior pri-

marily plays in tournaments not affiliated with the school.

When preparing for an event, Courtney said she doesn’t really have a rou-tine.

“I go in and just be calm, say a couple prayers,” she said. “With golf, you never know what’s going to happen.”

Outside of golf, Court-ney enjoys surfing and play-ing volleyball, and she has been a member of her school’s cross country and basketball teams.

She has also dabbled in journalism, having served as fashion editor of Golfer Girl Magazine. It was a family af-fair, as dad Claude served as

publisher, while sister Libby was editor in chief and Chloe Belle held the title of fashion director. Mom, Mi-chelle, also served as adver-tising manager. The maga-zine was founded in 2006, and the first issue was pub-lished in spring 2007. The fi-nal printed issue went out in fall 2008, and a skeleton Web site is still available for people to view old issues, at www.golfergirlmagazine.com.

“It was a fun experience for me,” Courtney said. “Unfortunately, it ended in the recession. But it was not for a lack of demand.”

At its peak, the maga-zine had a circulation of 10,000, with subscribers in all 50 states, Mexico and Canada.

For the immediate fu-ture, Courtney has her sights set on collegiate golf. She just signed with Har-

vard, and will start next fall as a member of the class of 2016.

She will be the second Hooton sister to play at that level, as Libby, 20, is on the team at the University of Pennsylvania. Libby and Courtney are trying to per-suade Chloe Belle to follow in their footsteps, although the 15-year-old Bishop’s freshman is not playing golf as often as she used to.

“She’s getting into row-ing,” Courtney said.

Meanwhile, “I’m count-ing down the hours (until Harvard),” she said. “It’s been a dream of mine as long as I can remember. ... Every day, I have to pinch myself.”

Courtney said she is contemplating the study of government, “but we’ll see.”

“I feel blessed to have the career I’ve had, and I en-joy every second,” she said.

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announcement and that’s morphed now so that the mayor has a long list of community announcements and I think it would be more productive to put that on the screen before the meeting starts, and if any council member wants to bring attention to some-thing special, like the pink ribbon walk or things of that kind, then they’ll have that prerogative.

Q. Is the idea to streamline the meetings?

A. The idea is to do that. I put in 30 to 40 hours per week and we’re fully in-formed. There is nobody on this council that is a slacker. Everybody reads everything, everybody goes out and looks at the situation and it’s a very smart council, very sharp council, and ev-erybody has done their homework. So the objective of having a public hearing is to let the public give us their input so that we can be fully advised. I’m not being un-friendly, because the last time I was mayor I was over-ly generous in extending a speaker’s time, if somebody was trying to complete their thought I would say I’ll give you another minute to allow you to wind up and that’s much more pleasant than cutting them off at the shorts, but I do think we can expedite it along.

The other thing that is probably a little bit of a change with me is we get re-quests for proclamations from every group under the sun. Generally, in the past, when I was the mayor I’d write, on personal station-ary, letters saying we’re cer-tainly happy to applaud you for your effort to do what you’re doing because it’s ad-vancing the public interest but it’s not the kind of thing we would issue a proclama-tion for. So I cut the num-ber of proclamations down to those things that impact our community, that are central to us as a communi-ty.

Q. It seems like Del Mar’s residents have a high level of participation in lo-cal government.

A. It’s not a perception, it’s a reality. We have com-munity groups who are in-terested in various aspects of the operation of the city, we have a very active lagoon group and they have done a terrific job. We have a traf-fic and parking advisory committee and it you want to get into contentious is-sues, go visit them. We have parks and recreations, a very active committee that is re-sponsible for making recom-mendations about the parks and the pathways. I mean, for a little bitty city like this, where you’ve got such a di-verse and highly qualified group of citizens, they roll up their sleeves and they

put their hands in.The other thing this

community does I think that’s extremely unique, they raise money. I mean we’ve got the message like other elected officials, peo-ple pay enough in taxes and I agree. So if you want to do something like buy the Shores property for $8.5 mil-lion dollars, I was one of the lead negotiators on that and we did a combination of lease financing and contri-butions and selling excess land, but the community stepped forward with several millions of dollars.

Q. It seems to be a good thing to have so many people who are so well-in-formed, and so involved, but does it sometimes make things take longer? And is downtown revitalization an example of that?

A. It’s called the Del Mar way (laughs). When we were starting revitalization, I was part of the committee that looked at everything, we went up and looked at Gardena because it had the same size and scope as a spe-cific plan, we spent quite a bit of time up there and I think they got that through in eight, nine months. But their community is not en-gaged, out community is. And getting it right is criti-cal. I have no shortage of vision. I could tell you ex-actly what I think it ought to look like. But my vision may be here (points) and the community vision may be one way or the other and together, what happens is, we get the best of both worlds.

This can either be the most beautiful European-style community, or disaster. And we all know that. So we’re taking the best of ev-erything we have, we’re pro-ceeding cautiously.

Q. Do you think it’s re-ally going to happen?

A. Yes. It won’t hap-pen overnight.

Q. Why is it different this time than past efforts?

A. The trouble with past efforts is, we did all the studies, what we’re talking about dates back to the com-munity plan.

Q. So 25-30 years?A. We did the studies,

and some of the studies real-ly didn’t match with what Del Mar wanted. We did the studies, presented the stud-ies, and then they went on a shelf and nothing was done. This council, starting eight years ago, said, “We’re through studying. We’re go-ing to do something.” And were going to make sure the community is fully involved and fully immersed all along.

Q. What do you expect to happen in 2012 on this?

A. It will go to a vote at the end of the year and the citizens will weigh in wheth-er they want it or not. By that time, I expect we will have had conversations like we’re having now with al-

most all of our population and we will make whatever changes… You’re never go-ing to make 100 percent of the people happy, but we’ll have consensus.

Q. So the vote will be on the specific plan and the plan is a blueprint for how it’s going to lay out?

A. Yes.Q. Will there have to

be another vote on a bond following this one, to pay for the public improve-ments?

A. As you know from our structuring of a $120 million buyout of the fair-grounds, we know how to do this. We know how to put stuff together. We bought the Shores for $8.5 million, we know how to move stuff around.

Q. Would you antici-pate a bond?

A. It’s too early to say. One of the directions we’re going and you can see it in the Shores property, you know about realignment, and you know about (the state) taking our money even though it says in the Constitution they can’t, and how that little game is being played. For a city to survive that environment, we have to do what we’re doing which is create independent streams of income.

We don’t have a rede-velopment agency like Coro-nado does. They’ve got money out the wazoo be-cause they got a redevelop-ment agency at the begin-ning. We don’t have that so we’re going to have to be clever about doing it. San Marcos is a good example. They own an office building and they’re leveraging clev-erly the money they’ve got.

Q. To shift gears, one of the big news stories last year was the fairgrounds… is anything going to happen on that in 2012? (In 2010, Del Mar negotiated a deal with former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to buy the state-owned fairgrounds for $120 million.)

A. The fat lady hasn’t sung… what were the cut-backs in this morning’s pa-per? Community colleges cut $100 million dollars, the UC system cut $100 million dollars, I’ve got $120 million dollars here…

Q. What do you think? Is the state going to come around?

A. I don’t know, I will tell you that we are consis-tent in our efforts.

Q. So the city is still interested in doing this?

A. If Del Mar alone bought that property, let me put it this way. Just looking at it as a business guy, we would make that thing hum. It would be profitable, we would clean up the oper-ation and make it do what it’s supposed to do, which is to promote California agri-culture business and prod-ucts.

But I will tell you the

message we have received loud and clear, is this is a re-gional asset, the fair is, and horse racing is, and it can-not be Del Mar alone, it’s got to be regionally gov-erned, and we made a pro-posal for regional gover-nance. We’re going forward with an amendment of our local coastal permit, be-cause… there’s no regulation on the land use occupied by the fair. The (California) Coastal Commission has original jurisdiction over that land because it was tidelands, so if we do a local coastal permit amendment which we’re going to do, that would become a guide-line for the Coastal Com-mission to follow.

With respect to the fair-grounds, I’ll give it to you in a nutshell, we just want them to pay their fair share. You know we get less than $570,000 a year for all the municipal services we offer and provide and are re-quired by law to provide. (The services) cost a little over $2 million.

Q. One more question. Recently, dog owners and the local Little League were involved in a dispute over use of the Shores property. Has that been worked out?

A. The council ruled on it. I went up to Encinitas, where they have leash-free days and hours. So we’ll try it, we’ll draft an ordinance.

This park, again I struc-tured the deal, we did not take a dime from SANDAG or from the state or from the feds or anybody else, this park is 100 percent paid for by the citizens of Del Mar. And it’s their park and they will decide what they want done with their park. It won’t be any other outside group. This community will work it out, we will compro-mise. It’s not a park for dogs, it’s not a park for Little League, it’s a community park. We will come up with an ordinance, and we will model ourselves after the Encinitas park that I de-scribed… we’ll see how it goes.

BY CARL HILLIARDI have only one thing to say about the proposed high-

speed rail system from San Francisco to San Diego: Stop!In three years, the voter-approved $35.7 billion cost has

jumped to $98.5 billion. The completion date, inked in at 2020, has been ratcheted up 14 years to 2034. And the origi-nal plan for a San Francisco to San Diego rapid-rail corridor has dropped off the tracks at Los Angeles. There is no mention of the final segment between Los Angeles and San Diego, the second busiest rail corridor in the nation.

If that weren’t enough for someone to yank the emergen-cy-stop chain, the recent proposal to start construction on the 130-mile segment between Merced and Bakersfield makes me wonder what the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) can possibly be thinking? Those 130 miles will take $6 billion of the $9 billion bond issue approved by voters, plus $3.3 billion in federal-stimulus funds. Worse, there is nothing to suggest the 130-mile stretch will ever generate suf-ficient ridership to offset operating without a substantial an-nual state subsidy. Isn’t the sensible route to start with a seg-ment that can provide a measurable benefit to the state’s transportation system?

As the state agency in charge of the project, the CHSRA offers only speculative and unreliable projections of ridership and sources of private-public funding. Where are the private investors? And since Congress zeroed out federal funding for high-speed rail, where does the CHSRA expect additional fed-eral funding to come from?

Even more maddening is the manner in which the CHSRA has handled the outcry to recent revelations. When a field poll revealed that 75 percent of California voters wanted another chance to vote – that two to one the voters said kill the idea altogether – the CHSRA enlisted the aid of lobbyists and public relations professionals to turn public opinion around.

(You might find it as interesting – or irritating – as I do that to date $800 million has been spent on CHRSA salaries and public relations fees and not a single inch of track has been built.)

Stop the runaway train that’s going nowhere. Make your-self heard before Jan. 15 at http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/contact.aspx?cat=Draft 2012 Business Plan Comments.

Carl Hilliard, currently mayor of Del Mar, has been on the Del Mar City Council since 2004. He has been Del Mar’s SANDAG rep-resentative since 2010. He was elected to represent the North Coast-al region on SANDAG’s Planning Committee in 2011 and contin-ues as vice chairman through 2012. He is also the 2012 vice chair-man of the California League of Cities, Legislative Committee, a position he has held since 2009. He was elected Commissioner San Diego LAFCO from 2007 through 2011, serving as chairman in 2010 and 2011. From 2007 to 2009, he was a member of the board of directors for the North County Transit District.

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BY KATHY DAYComing home for the

holidays marked the begin-ning of Soren Thompson’s travels for the winter.

The Torrey Pines High graduate — who was a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Fencing Team in individual men’s epee — is working on a comeback. The road will take him to Port-land for the North America Cup Jan. 13-16, and then to an international invitational in Italy. After that, it’s train-ing with the Italian national team near Naples and the first of four Olympic qualify-ing events in Milan.

“I’m very excited to be in the middle of this jour-ney,” he said in a recent in-terview from New York where he now lives and trains.

Thompson stopped competing after failing to qualify for the 2008 Olym-pic team, which he concedes was probably due to his in-jury – a complete avulsion of his hamstring, meaning the tendons are no longer attached to the bone. Before he got hurt, he was No. 2 ranked in the U.S. and No. 8

in the world.Both the fencer and Se-

bastian Dos Santos, the U.S. men’s epee coach, acknowl-edge the challenge is differ-ent because of the injury. Surgery wasn’t an option and he still has a big lump in the middle of his leg that hurts him to walk when it flares up.

“I’ve been dealing with the injury and living with it,” Thompson said. “It’s made me mentally tougher.”

After dropping out of competition, he shifted his focus to international busi-ness, working for Hycrete, a construction and green technology company. But the urge to get back into his sport grew as the London Olympics drew closer.

At 30, he’s “a touch on the old side,” he said, add-ing, “I’m glad I trusted my-self and took this leap. Hopefully it will get me to London.”

Dos Santos said he be-lieves Thompson “is almost guaranteed to qualify for the Olympics,” although there are a few steps he still has to take along the way.

TPHS graduate wants to regain that Olympic ‘touch’ in London

‘Epee - Freestyle Fencing

According to us-fencincg.org, ‘epee (pronounced EPP-pay - literally meaning ‘sword’ in French) is the descendant of the dueling sword, but is heavier, weighing ap-proximately 27 ounces, with a stiffer, thicker blade and a larger guard. As in foil, touches are scored only with the point of the blade, however in epee the entire body, head-to-toe, is valid target -- much like in an actual duel.’ Thompson added via e-mail: “It takes a pretty solid hit (750 grams of force) to reg-ister a point (i.e. more than just a touch even though we sometimes call it that).”

Above: Soren Thompson goes in

for a score against a Hungarian opponent.

Right: Thompson, waving, accepts his

bronze medal in May 2011 at the

Stockholm Grand Prix, one of the key

Olympic qualification World Cups. It was

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Rotary Corner: Del Mar-Solana Beach Rotary Club members help others during the holidays

CRC Holiday Baskets distribution, L to R, Rotarians & friends Greg Einhorn, Kirk Collins, Kevin Cahill, Susan & Mark Hennenfent, Ghita & Radia Bencheikh

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Once again, the members of the Del Mar-Solana Beach Rotary club were happy to help the Community Resource Center in En-cinitas with its 29th Holiday Baskets pro-gram as it served a record 1,600 families in need this year. The CRC Holiday Baskets is the largest distribution of donated items of its kind the County. But because the need was so great this year, they had to turn away an estimated 600 families. Rotarians and friends helped sort clothing, to ensure that every family had warm clothes as part of their holiday package. In the past, members have organized and boxed food items.

Then on Dec. 18, members again gath-ered at the Del Mar Fairgrounds to help with basket distribution. It was very gratifying and heartwarming to see the happy smiles on children and parents as they received food staples, turkeys, blankets, jackets and

toys. But it was also humbling to see so many families with so much need.

Female members of DMSB Rotary also helped decorate “Carol’s House” for the holi-days along with supplying ornaments for the tree and cookies for decorating. Carol’s House is a 24-bed emergency domestic vio-lence shelter for women and children estab-lished by the Encinitas Community Re-source Center in 2004. A fun time was had by all as carols played and cookies and juice were consumed.

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One of those will be finding the drive that many younger competitors have.

“You have to be hungry to be the best and sometimes with maturity that dissi-pates,” the coach said in a phone interview in late December.

Thompson has been taking his training in stages. At first, he trained before and after work, upping the schedule after he started to see results. Then he worked out an ar-rangement to shift from employee to con-sultant so he could hone his skills.

Within a couple of months of full-time training, he was back in international com-petition and finished as the top American at one event.

“I went from 300th (ranking) to the top 20 to the top 10,” he said. “The season is go-ing well.”

The son of Greg and Sheila Thompson, he said his fencing career started “as a little bit of an accident. My mother knew some-one who was friends with the fencing coach at UCSD.”

That was when he was 7. From there it was on to higher levels of competition, in-cluding being on the Princeton University fencing squad where he won the NCAA ti-tle. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, he fin-ished 7th.

Now back on the world stage, he trains himself, building on the knowledge he has gained from many coaches along the way, he said.

“I’m really coming back in a different way. The situation is controlled by me,” he added.

The U.S. coach, Dos Santos, said “being his own coach enables him to take the best from all. He’s had a lot of success this sea-son.”

Fencing, he said, is a “very unique com-bat sport (that is all about) timing and dis-tance, one person against another. … Each person is a new problem to solve.”

A lot of the same life skills apply to his work, he added, but for now he’s focusing on who his competitors are and what skills they have and applying his own abilities.

“It all hangs on that moment … there’s a ton of pressure.”

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BY GIDEON RUBINThey were young up-and-coming freshmen with limit-

ed roles when Canyon Crest Academy’s girls basketball team became the school’s first team to win a San Diego Section ti-tle in any sport in 2009.

They’re now the five senior leaders on a team that in many ways is very different to the Ravens Division III cham-pionship team.

During the 2008-09 campaign, the Ravens featured a formidable 1-2 combination of Alisha Eckberg and Meghan Brown, then-seniors who combined for more than 2,800 points during their distinguished CCA careers.

But Stephanie Bieler, Alison Brown, Julia Brew, Kathryn Brandos, and Olivia McGuigan, forge the nucleus of a team that relies more on teamwork, chemistry and camaraderie.

And if the early returns are any indication, this year’s team might just be every bit as good.

The Ravens are off to their best start in program history. Going into the prestigious Holiday Prep Classic at Del Norte High (CCA was scheduled to open the tourney on Dec. 27 against Mayfair), the Ravens were 6-3, with impressive wins against perennial powers Ramona, University City, and Ca-thedral Catholic, among others.

“They’re not that tall and they’re not that athletic, but they have great team chemistry and they also really have a great understanding of basketball and the way it’s supposed to be played,” CCA coach Terry Ryan said.

In addition to chemistry and camaraderie, the Ravens are also benefitting from excellent court awareness commu-nication among players.

“It’s a lot more fun because you know everyone on the team really well,” Bieler said.

“You know what everyone else is going to do and you win together and you lose together.

“We like to do stuff off the court too, so it’s really fun.”From a matchup standpoint, the Ravens are a difficult

team to prepare for. They feature a balanced offense, with as many as four players already scoring in double figures in the same game on several occasions.

“That’s what makes this team special, they have chem-istry,” Ryan said.”They all can score, they know each other’s strengths and weaknesses and they know where to be on the court.”

Bieler, a second-year captain, is probably the team’s most feared scoring threat. She’s a physical player who brings smarts to go along with a solid jumper to the forward position. She’s also among the team’s best defensive players and leading rebounders.

“She’s just (5-foot-8) or 5-9, but she plays much bigger,” Ryan said.

Brown is an athletic point guard with excellent aptitude and a knack for anticipating plays. She’s a legitimate scoring threat who can also fill in at shooting guard in a pinch and is a surprisingly effective rebounder at 5-6.

Brew, who plays the wing, is an impact scorer and de-fender, and Brandos, who plays guard, is a 3-point shooting specialist and excellent passer.

McGuigan, a 5-9 reserve forward, brings energy and an excellent rebounding and defensive game.

Brew and Brown have collegiate aspirations, hoping to become the program’s third and fourth CCA players to con-tinue their careers at four-year schools.

Eckberg (San Jose State) is CCA’s only player to go on to a Division I school, and Alex Brunt-Pluta plays at Division III Willamette University (Salem, Ore.).

Ryan said Brew will likely land at a Division II school, with Cal Lutheran (Simi Valley) a strong possibility. Brown is being recruited by several Division III schools, he said.

Bieler could play at a four-year school too, but she plans to focus on academics.

Ryan acknowledged that they’ll all be missed.“They play hard and they play the way a coach wants

them to play,” he said.“They know their roles, they know each other and they

play really well together as a team. It’s a coach’s dream the way play together.”

Bieler said she and her current Ravens teammates learned from playing for a championship team as freshman, despite having limited roles.

“We just learned how good we can be and that even if you’re not ranked very high that doesn’t mean you’re not going to go far, you definitely can still go far, it’s all about how well you play as a team,” Bieler said.

From left to right: Stephanie Bieler, Alison Brown, Olivia McGuigan, Kathryn Brandos, Julia Brew forge the nucleus of a team that relies on teamwork, chemistry

Chemistry is key for CCA Ravens girls basketball team


The DMCV Sharks Boys U8 Gold Team recently won the La Jolla All Star tournament with a golden goal in the finals. Above are the proud players and coaches after they succeeded with a golden goal in the finals.

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Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

Accomplished local resident

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The Polster Branch of the B&G Clubs also offers adult fi t-ness classes.See page B5

SEE NATURE, PAGE B15

BY KATHY DAYSome people talk about con-

servation; Ivan Gayler and the staff at Nature and Culture Internation-al live it.

The small-in-staff but large-in-reach nonprofit based in Del Mar began with a vision: a real one of burning rainforests that Solana Beach resident Ivan Gayler saw from the air over Ecuador.

Gayler said in a recent inter-view at his Del Mar office that he was aghast to see a “multi-mile fire line in the most biologically di-verse rainforest in the world.”

Now it has become a “dream to preserve what’s there and to re-build what’s left,” said the man who may be better known locally as part of the Del Mar Partnership that built Del Mar Plaza. (Another Solana Beach resident who is CEO of the partnership is David Win-kler, who sits on the Nature and Culture board.)

Fifteen years ago when Gayler made the decision to leave the real

Preservation a way of life for tiny Del Mar nonprofit

Indigenous Shuar in southwest Ecuador PHOTO: FELIPE SERRANO/NCI

Above: Aguaje palm climbingPHOTO: JOSE ALVAREZ/NCI

Right: Nature and Culture International founder Ivan

Gayler, program coordinator Silvia Usuriaga, Executive Vice

President John Evey PHOTO: KATHY DAY

Sunset in the Maijuna area PHOTO: ALVARO DEL CAMPO/THE FIELD MUSEUM

Defenders of nature, culture

Among the accomplishments of Nature and Culture Inter-national:• Protected 4.5 million acres of Amazon rainforest in Peru• Created a 2.6 million acre UNESCO-managed biosphere• Guided sustainable produc-tion of goods such as per-fume, artisanal crafts and forest products. Learn more at natureandcul-ture.org

Getting it done

White-necked JacobinPHOTO: DUBI SHAPIRO

‘One Peruvian farmer clearing rain forest to feed his family, progressing from patch to patch as the soil is drained of nutrients, will cut down more kinds of trees than are native to all Europe.’

– Biologist/entomologist E.O.Wilson, a ‘friend’ and supporter of NCI, as quoted on the NCI website

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Bradd Milove, Investment & Securities Attorney: Investors beware: hidden risks and regulatory warnings for non-traded REITs

Colleen Van Horn, Chief Executive ofInnovative Healthcare Consultants, Inc.: Home for the holidays: tips for talking to aging parentsabout changing health and wellness needs

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Kevin YaleyProgressive Education:Rethinking the role of arts education for diversifi edopportunities and well-balanced students

Local experts share tips to help make your New Year’s resolutions a reality

Getting more exercise is a popularNew Year’s resolution.

See RESOLUTIONS, page B6

— Compiled by Karen BillingA new year means new resolutions to

make and try not to break. We picked a hand-ful of the most common New Year’s resolutions (travel, eat more vegetables, floss daily and ex-ercise more) and asked a few local professionals for tips and a little motivation on making these most common resolutions stick in 2012:

TravelOnce you pick the location, here’s some

cues from Bill Altaffer, one of the world’s most traveled people who lives in Carmel Valley:

• Always travel light• Make many copies of your photo page of

your passport and hide them on you and in your luggage

• Always get emergency evacuation insur-ance

• Buy a Lonely Planet guide book• Bring with you in your carry-on bag

things you will need like medicine• Change money when you arrive

Eat more vegetablesFrom Jimbo’s…Naturally!:“As many people use the New Year as an

opportunity to define health & nutrition goals, it is important to note which seasonal produce items are available in the winter.

“The leaves of the kale plant provide an earthy flavor and more nutritional value for fewer calories than almost any other food. We offer four varieties of organic kale, all locally grown from Be-Wise Ranch in San Pasqual: Lacinato, Red Russian, Redbor and Green. Kale is widely recognized as an incredibly nutritious vegetable with low fat, no cholesterol and no

powerful antioxidant properties. Some other winter vegetables are broccoli, cauliflower, cab-bage, bok choy, chard, Brussels sprouts, pota-toes and yams.

“Our produce department isn’t the only place in-store where you can get your vegeta-ble. Our juice bar makes refreshing and nutri-tious drinks with you choice of organic vegeta-bles. For many, this is a quick and easy way to get your daily serving of organic vegetables. In fact, we sell juicers and are always encouraged by the passion of our customers who have dis-covered juicing at home.

“For those who take pride in preparing a healthy dish, please consider the recipe for our Chow Mein Veggie Stir Fry. The recipe is sim-ple; a bunch of colorful organic vegetables, noodles, and teriyaki sauce. We have used this recipe when visiting local schools to show the kids and parents how easy it can be to prepare a vegetable filled dish. Best of all, the kids love it

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BY MEGAN MCVAYTo the Carmel Valley

Emeritus resident, Frances Cleary, life is not measured by the number of breaths we take nor by the mo-ments that take our breath away, but rather by the many arias we enjoy and sing along to.

Frances, who celebrat-ed her 100th birthday on Dec. 27, reveals that both she and her two children, Donald and Katherine, were raised on opera. She held a subscription and box seats to the San Fran-cisco Opera and took her children to a show every Sunday afternoon. Even at age 82, she drove for hours with her children to at-tend Richard Wagner’s five-hour Ring Cycle opera.

So when it came time to plan Frances’s 100th birthday party, it seemed like a celebration complete with a profes-sional opera performance was in order.

On Dec. 27, Frances’s family and friends arrived at the Emeritus Assisted Living Community excited to celebrate her milestone birthday, eat her favorite chocolate cake and enjoy arias sung by veteran Los Angeles Opera singer and “Young Artist of the Future” winner Sarah Lopez.

Dressed in a navy blue and gold necklace she beaded herself and a colorful blouse, Frances sat in front of the pia-no with her children to enjoy the performance. At the end of the show, Lopez dedicated an aria to the birthday girl

called “All the things you are” and invited the audience to sing along to an encore of “O’ Holy Night” and “Silent Night.” After the opera performance, Frances’s daughter Katherine dazzled the audience as she played several songs on the Irish harp.

Frances was born in the rural town of Moccasin, Ill., but soon moved to another nearby town called Shelbyville, where she went to business college in 1928. After working at a law office in Chicago, she moved to San Francisco in 1939 and began her career as a court reporter for the Superior Court of San Francisco.

In 1942, shortly after Pearl Harbor, she moved to Ha-waii to work for a low-level propaganda agency called the Office of War Information, but soon returned to San Francis-co and married her husband, Donald Cleary, in 1946. The couple bought a three-story house together and had their two children, Donald and Katherine. However, Frances did not give up her full-time career to become a stay-at-home mother. Instead, she opted to juggle the two responsibilities, a lifestyle not common among women at the time.

She loved working and viewed it as a challenge that was fun to conquer. Every day she recorded testimonies during the day, served a homemade dinner at 6:30 p.m. and then retreated to her office in the basement to transcribe at night. “My mom was different from other moms in those times. All the kids in the neighborhood would come to our house for her cooking. She was able to whip up the best homemade meals, never store-bought, and work at the same time,” said Katherine. “One of the main things she’s taught us is to never rely on males, or anyone for that matter, for an income.”

Frances made sure that her kids always had baked goods and a housekeeper to come home to until she got back from work. While raising her children she remained even-tem-pered and calm and would often say, “I don’t know what you’re going to do, but I know what I’m going to do” when

she was confronted with issues. Her biggest piece of advice today is to pick your own battles and never start ones you can’t win.

Indeed, she does say that her biggest talent is “getting along with people.”

“If there is one word to describe my mother, it’s patient. It would be hard to classify my sister and I as prize children, but she is always forbearing and understanding,” said Don-ald Cleary. “She is kind and generous with us, always.”

Frances retired in 1976 and moved into her dream house overlooking Dillon Beach in Marin County the next year. She designed the house to have more than a 180-de-gree view of the ocean. After all, she left Illinois for a reason, and that reason was to be by the sea. By the end of the 22 years that she lived there, she knew every wildflower by heart and could tell what time of year it was by the appear-ance of the sunset.

In 1999, Frances moved to the Emeritus Assisted Living Community in Carmel Valley because she wanted to be where the weather was nice and care was readily accessible. She’s an avid reader and enjoys reading biographies about Abraham Lincoln, John Adams and Queen Elizabeth the 1st. She also loves to bead, go to the beach and, of course, attend musical shows and symphonies, especially German operas.

When asked what she thinks about turning 100, she said with a smile, “Well, I think it’s alright. I can still re-member back when I was only 4.”

Frances Cleary has seen it all — two world wars, Pearl Harbor, the first man on the moon, women’s suffrage, the technological revolution, a depression and a repression — but when comparing today’s society to that of 100 years ago, she puts things quite simply.

“Well, people are still just people.”

Devoted mother, career woman and music lover celebrates 100 years of life

Frances Cleary recently celebrated her 100th birthday.Photo/Jon Clark


BY KELLEY CARLSON

F rom its organic ingredients to its LEED Platinum-certified building, Claire’s on Cedros is definitively

“green.”Some of it’s obvious: The majority of

the landscaping is edible, such as the cardamom grown in the back patio’s whimsically decorated central garden, surrounded by colorful insect sculptures. Plenty of windows inside cut energy use by providing natural lighting and ventilation. And of course, recyclable containers are used for takeout.

But some of the eco-friendly aspects are relatively hidden jewels. Recycled blue jeans serve as treasured insulation; bricks salvaged from buildings that were on the grounds of Petco Park became prized materials for Claire’s interior.

Such features enabled the restaurant to be recognized as the first in San Diego to receive the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, and one of only several in the United States.

To complement the environmental components, eclectic elements were incorporated into the interior design. A lamp created from wire whisks and ladles hangs over delectable goods for sale that are baked in-house; a nearly human-sized turner utensil stands upright on a wall.

The atmosphere is so casual, guests have come in their pajamas.

“We wanted to make it feel like home instead of a restaurant,” said Claire Allison, who co-owns the establishment with Terrie Boley.

But the building isn’t the only reason

customers from across the county are drawn to Claire’s; Allison is one talented chef. She uses organic ingredients “whenever possible,” and obtains meat and dairy products from farmers who raise their animals humanely and without hormones. Claire’s makes its own sauces, salad dressings, jams and even cheese, and the food is “pretty much prepared from scratch,” Allison said.

“There’s not a lot of canned products in the kitchen,” she added. “It’s mostly about knowing what’s in the food. What’s important is knowing that it’s healthful.”

The menu also changes quarterly, depending on the availability of ingredients. Breakfast is served all day, while lunch starts at 11:30 a.m.

Among the current specialties offered are the Divorciados, two eggs your way on corn or flour tortillas with black beans, queso fresco, grilled green onions, guacamole, salsa fresca, tomatillo and ranchero sauce; and the Chicken Bahn Mi

Sandwich, consisting of grilled Vietnamese marinated chicken thighs, pickled daikon radish and carrots, butter lettuce, tomato, jalapeno, cilantro and mayonnaise on a homemade baguette.

Allison offers some tips for first-time customers. If it’s raining, sit inside next to a window, where it’s “very cozy.” But if it’s one of Southern California’s trademark sunny days, choose a spot on the patio next to the fountain or under a tree.

Next, select a coffee beverage such as a caramel latte or mocha. The restaurant makes its own ganache for the mocha; the lattes contain homemade caramel that Allison prepares.

For the main dish, order the award-winning Original Clairecakes. Multigrain and pumpkin options are also available, and they come in short stack, tall stack or a combination with eggs and your choice of meat.

Guests who desire to take Claire’s goods home with them can opt for takeout or buy trademarked goods from the store. Items include pancake mix, granola, multigrain hot cereal, jams, and the pear mostarda that is an ingredient in the Tuscan Pork Loin Sandwich. Catering is also available.

While reservations can be made during weekdays for parties of six or more, they are not accepted during the weekends. However, customers can call Claire’s when they are on their way over, to be put on a waiting list. There’s typically a wait at lunch during the week, and between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the weekends, Allison said. The slowest time tends to be 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.

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■ The Vibe: Eco-friendly, eclectic, casual, relaxed

■ Signature Dishes: Caprese Frittata, Pumpkin Clairecakes, Divorciados, Fried Green Tomato Sandwich, Sweet Potato Parmesan Fries

■ Open Since: 2009

■ Reservations: Recommended for parties of six or more, weekdays only

■ Patio Seating: Yes ■ Take Out: Yes

■ Happy Hour: No

■ Hours: 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Eco-friendly dining puts Claire’s on Cedros on the national map!

Fried Green Tomato Sandwich, with a side of Sweet Potato Fries.

Claire’s on Cedros guests may await seating on the patio or on benches near bike racks in front of the restaurant.

Eclectic furnishings can be seen inside Claire’s, such as the bird’s nest lamps and a cow portrait. PHOTOS BY KELLEY CARLSON

A lamp made from wire whisks and ladles hangs over the baked goods.

Each week you’ll find a recipe from the featured restaurant online at delmartimes.net. Just click ‘Get The Recipe’ at the bottom of the story.

■ This week: Claire’s Caprese Frittata

On The Menu Recipe

Eggs Benedict, topped with homemade hollandaise sauce.


Convenient one-stop shopping serving Carmel Valley, Del Mar Heights and Del MarWest of I-5 on Del Mar Heights Road at Mango Drive

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SPOTLIGHT on LOCAL BUSINESSBoys & Girls Clubs Polster Branch offers classes for kids — and adult fitness classesBY KATHY DAY

While the Polster Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito strives to live up to its motto as “The Positive Place for Kids” it’s also becoming a place where adults can focus on fitness.

Although the club had been home to Jazzercise for 11 years, program director Candace Gerlach said the new fit-ness classes offer something for everyone.

“Jazzercise wanted more space,” she added, noting that the club wanted to offer its own exercise and fitness pro-grams to serve the active Carmel Valley community. “It’s a great opportunity for us to offer a wider variety of activi-ties.”

Started in October, the programs range from Aikido and yoga classes, including a 6 a.m. “Sunrise” class that will start after the holiday break, to cardio hip hop and turbo kick-boxing. The Zumba fitness classes – described on the website as a “Latin-inspired, easy-to-follow, calorie-burning, dance fitness-party” – are also popular.

“We have a great introductory special,” Gerlach said. For $45 a month, you can take as many classes as you want from the selection of 25 a week.

The fitness programs run in the mornings and eve-nings, she noted, since the club is packed with activities for children and teens after school.

In a message on the club’s website, President and CEO Keith Padgett notes that “since 1966 the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito has provided all the traditional programs for which the Boys & Girls Clubs of America is known.”

The site also outlines the mission of “preparing our youth for tomorrow by making a difference today.” To ac-complish that objective, the focus is on character and lead-ership development; education and career development; health and life skills; sports, fitness and recreation, and the performing arts.

Polster, one of the six branches of the San Dieguito or-ganization and one of two in Carmel Valley (Allred at Carm-el Del Mar Elementary School is the other), opened 13 years ago. It was named for Leonard and Edith Polster, who do-nated $1.7 million to the fundraising campaign. Other branches are in Del Mar, Encinitas and Solana Beach, where the Doug and Marianne Pardee Aquatics Center has a full ar-ray of activities.

At the Polster branch (and others), the long list of offer-

ings includes specialty classes such as rhythmic gymnastics, USA Freestyle karate, the Inspired Movement Dance and Per-forming Arts program or Power Tutoring for middle school students. They also run the Big Eight middle school sports programs and basketball for K-6 youth and a recreational basketball league. The club is also home to Carmel Valley Montessori School.

Gerlach noted that 145 youngsters take advantage of the after-school program on a regular basis. Walking and van service from area elementary schools is available to make life easier on working parents, she noted.

And when school’s not in session, the club offers adven-ture camps in everything from cooking to sports and “Glee Super Stars.” Keep an eye open for registration for spring programs.

Gerlach said she believes the Polster programs stand out because a lot of the staff members have been there for a long time –- some are substitute teachers at local schools.

“That has helped to establish good relations in the com-munity,” she said. “They trust us.”

And because they have such a wide variety of programs, parents can sign their children up for every-thing from dance class-es to tutoring in one stop.

“Every family has different needs,” Ger-lach said. “We can ac-commodate everyone’s interests.”

Learn more about classes and membership at www.positiveplacesd.org/Branches/Polster.htm

Zumba classes are among the fitness classes offered for adults at the Polster branch.

If you go•3800-A Mykonos LaneCarmel Valley•(858) 720-2180•www.positiveplacesd.

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- Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Open for classes during addi-tional hours.


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3. Heat the oil in a wok or non-stick skillet. Add broc-coli and zucchini; stir fry about 2 minutes. Add bell peppers, garlic, ginger and noodles; stir fry about 2 min-utes. Add carrots, snow peas and teriyaki sauce; stire until sauce is warmed and has coat-ed ingredients. Serve and en-joy!

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Floss dailyFrom Dr. Curtis Chan:“Flossing your teeth daily

is one of the key components to having a healthy oral envi-ronment. If you only brush your teeth without flossing, you actually are leaving about 40 percent of bacteria and germs (dental plaque) that cause harm to our teeth.

“When the dental plaque is left too long on our teeth surfaces, the surrounding gum tissues become inflamed and irritated, causing a gum condi-tion called ‘gingivitis.’ Bad breath and terrible odors in our mouths can many times

be attributed to unmanaged dental plaque in the mouth. If neglected for several days, the plaque will harden and be-comes even more harmful to our dental gum tissues leading to periodontal disease and de-struction of our jaw bones. This process is slow progress-ing and usually painless. Re-cent studies have now shown that there is a link between periodontal disease and heart disease and stroke. That’s why it is absolutely important to manage your oral environ-ment on a daily basis by not just brushing, but also floss-ing.

“One easy tip I remind patients to do is to find a time and a place where they can consistently do their two-three minutes of flossing. There are many brands of floss available, and one should consult with their dental hygiene profes-sional for their recommenda-tions...wax, unwaxed, nylong, Teflon, etc. Depending on your current conditions, there will be a floss that will best fit your needs.

“The most important thing is find a floss that works for you and allows you to do it in a easy, manageable timely manner. There are even floss aids/holders that make it easi-er for those who have dexteri-ty issues that make it difficult to floss. If you need help, ask your dental professional on how to floss properly.

“Flossing at night before going to bed is preferred, but just doing it at least once dur-ing the day is the target. Some people even find it convenient to do their flossing while tak-ing a showering—whatever it takes, this dreaded activity, but very necessary will do won-ders for everyone’s dental health.

“Remember, you don’t have to floss your teeth....just the ones you want to keep. Your teeth were meant to last

you a lifetime, take great care to do yourself a big favor and get into the habit of daily flossing.”

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Get more exerciseFrom Eric Barajas, trainer

at Pacific Sports Resorts (for-merly Pacific Athletic Club):

“One of the best ways to follow through on this popu-lar New Year’s resolution is to have a defined, realistic set of goals (lose 5 percent body fat, have more energy, feel better, etc.), develop a plan to achieve your specific goals and find someone to hold you account-able until you achieve desired results.

“Setting achievable goals to build upon will help carry your motivation through the New Year. Start with some-thing as simple as setting aside a half an hour two to three times a week to dedicate to ex-ercise or moving. Once you accomplish this goal build on it.

“Write down exactly when you plan on exercising. Analyze your schedule and find times that you can dedi-cate to spend on improving your health. Once you’ve fig-ured out an exercise schedule tell someone about it and have them hold you account-able for following through on your plan. Finding a friend to work out with, hiring a trainer or making a wager with a spouse are all great ways to keep you exercising through-out the New Year.

“If you are truly dedicat-ed to changing old habits and committed to spending time working on improving your health this could be the year you permanently cross more exercise off the list of New Year’s resolutions.”

Contact Eric Barajas for personal training at (619) 964-3742.

Get your finances in shape

From Diane Huckabee, CFP, CRPC financial advisor with Edward Jones in Carmel Valley:

This year, in addition to hitting the gym, learning that second language and getting better organized, why not also consider a few financial reso-lutions?

What types of resolutions might you consider? Here are a few suggestions:

• Contribute more to your retirement accounts. The new year means that you are one year closer to retirement. To help yourself build resourc-es for the lifestyle you’ve envi-sioned as a retiree, try to boost your contributions to your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plan. You can do this if you get a salary increase and devote at least part of it to your 401(k). At the same time, try to “max out” on your Individual Re-tirement Account (IRA). For 2012, you can contribute up to $5,000 to an IRA, or $6,000 if you’re 50 or older.

• Reduce your debts. Look for ways to cut down or consolidate your debts. It may not be easy, but it’s worth the effort because the lower your debt load, the more money you’ll have available to invest for the future.

• Build an emergency fund. If you don’t already have an emergency fund con-taining between six and 12 months’ worth of living ex-penses, start building one soon. Keep the money in a liq-uid vehicle — one that’s sepa-rate from your everyday checking and savings ac-counts. Without such an emergency fund, you may be forced to dip into your long-term investments to pay for unexpected costs, such as a

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•Ski & Snowboard MegaSale — Jan. 12-14

Ski and snowboard equipment and clothing “mega sale” open to the public.

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Timothy J. Fennell, general manager/CEO of the Del Mar Fairgrounds and 22nd District Agricultural Association, was the re-cipient of the 2011 Don Diego Spirit Award. Since 1997 the annual award has been pre-sented to a permanent em-ployee who best demonstrates the “Don Diego Spirit of Hos-pitality and the District’s core values of Service, Teamwork, Safety and Fun.”

Fennell was stunned when the award was presented to him during the annual holi-day gathering of Fairgrounds employees Dec. 9 at the Del Mar Hilton.

“What a surprise and honor. I am humbled and shocked after being chosen for the Spirit of Don Diego Award,” stated Fennell upon receiving the award.

The past two years have been a challenging time for Fennell and his 22nd DAA team. Through it all, his out-standing leadership and dedi-cation catapulted a unani-mous vote from staff as this year’s recipient of the 2011

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niversary season, North Coast Repertory Theatre will stage “The Lion in Winter,” one of the plays presented during its inaugural year.

Directed by Andy Barni-cle, who directed seven plays at NCRT, “The Lion in Win-ter,” by James Goldman, is a family drama of emotion, wit and great insight that uses the royalty of 12th century Eng-land to reveal universal hu-man frailties.

Goldman said he jumped at the chance to di-rect when NCRT Artistic Di-rector David Ellenstein of-fered him the job.

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temporary way. The script is about language, rhetoric, characters, ideas, and is the kind of play that attracts a di-rector — especially if we have good actors. And we certainly have that in this production.”

The cast includes Mark Pinter (Henry II); Alexandra Grossi (Alais); Kyle Roche (John); Jason Maddy (Geof-frey); Richard Baird (Richard); Kandis Chappell (Eleanor) and Kyle Sorrell (Phillip).

The script is basically the same as previously performed at the Rep, Barnicle said. “People might be familiar with it, especially because of the famous people who creat-ed the roles in the film. (Peter O’Toole as Henry II and Kath-arine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine) but I think enough time has gone by that those memories have faded. Once the play begins, people will forget every thing but

what they are watching. “The play is really good

at squeaking exposition out along the way, but you have to pay attention. This is not a history lesson though, it’s much more of a family come-dy/drama. The language and characters’ behaviors are very contemporary. The only things really historical are the things at stake like the future of England. It’s really about the relationship between Henry and Eleanor and their children.”

Production designer Marty Burnett created six scenes in Henry’s castle in France on the Rep’s intimate stage. “It is a challenge to stage a play of six or seven characters the way this one surrounds the audience,” Bar-nicle said. “The actors need to be able to move around and make adjustments to ensure they can be seen and heard

all the time. It’s very helpful to have actors who have done it before and are familiar with that stage.”

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• Be aware of different types of risk. For many investors, “in-vestment risk” strictly means the possibility of losing principal when the value of an investment drops. Consequently, to cut back on their risk in the face of a volatile market, they may sell off stocks and load up on certificates of deposit (CDs), bonds and other so-called “safer” investments.

But each investment actually carries its own type of risk. For example, if you own CDs that pay a 2 percent return, and the inflation rate is 3 percent, you will lose purchasing power over time. And if you wanted to sell your bonds before they had ma-tured, you’d have to sell them at a discount if the market interest rate had risen above the “coupon” rate of your bond because no one would pay you full price for them. Just be aware that no in-vestment is “risk-free,” and try to build a diversified portfolio that can lessen the impact of one specific type of risk.

By following these suggestions, you can go a long way to-ward making 2012 a good year in which to make progress to-ward your important financial goals. So plan ahead — and make the right moves.

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artist/videographer Jan Beran, first opened on Oct. 1, 1986 in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (part of the former Yugoslavia). His wife, Biljana, is the director of the Prospect Street gallery in La Jolla that features the work of contemporary artists, both international and local.

In the last 25 years, Galeria JAN has traveled the world with the Berans — to Belgrade, Rome, Vienna and Croatia. In 1994, it moved with the Berans to California and opened in La Jolla in 1996, where it has remained for the last 15 years.

In celebration of the journey, Galeria JAN is showcasing work by Jan Beran in a retrospective titled, “Slow Train Coming.” It opened on Nov. 25 and continues through Dec. 31.

A decade in the making, Jan’s art-work is influenced by his witness of the Bosnian War and the transition to American life after becoming a refugee in Croatia. “Jan is mixing past and fu-ture,” Biljana explained, “they are his-tories.”

As a videographer, Jan has partici-pated in more than 400 documenta-ries, covering Lebanon, Israel, Western Sahara, and the Bosnian War. During that time, he saw many beautiful works of art destroyed, which is why “he is interested in how one piece sur-vives 3,000 years,” Biljana said.

Jan studied and practiced in Sara-jevo, developing an interest in iconog-raphy that shows through the use of gold and silver leaf, rusted metal, and muted oils on wood, seen in “Knock-ing on Heaven’s Door.” His works also feature the faces of woman, as in “In-side Looking Out,” which is a portrait of Biljana.

Two of Jan’s paintings are in the collection of the Sheikh of Dubai in Tel Aviv and many more are in collec-tions around the world. Galeria JAN is

the only gallery in the United States representing his work.

During their time here, the Be-rans have made a lasting impression on town with the honesty in their art collection, and through education. In 2008, Biljana found the “jewel in San Diego,” artist Taylor Marie Prender-gast. She sent her to Europe to study with renowned artist Joze Ciuha and in 2009, Prendergast had her first ex-hibition at Galeria JAN. Since then, Prendergast continues to have shows at Galeria JAN, and also at other gal-leries and museums around the world. Her next exhibition at Galeria JAN will be in April 2012.

“I will take care of San Diego art-ists,” Biljana said.

In 2012, she will feature American contemporary artists like Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana. She will also have works by Joze Ciuha (Slovania/France), Vladimir Velickovic (Serbia/France), Viacheslav Kalinin (Russia), Beck Gut-tin (Mexico/USA), Jan Beran (Bosnia/USA) and Prendergast (USA).

Retirement isn’t in the near fu-ture, but one day Biljana “would love to see my son take care of the gallery.” He is currently 28.

“For 25 years in business, I’d like to thank my husband and my son Bo-jan. In La Jolla, thank you a lot to my landlord, Mr. and Mrs. Considine, who are part of my family now after 15 years.”

Galeria JAN celebrates 25 years in the art business

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Biljana Beran in front of her portrait by Jan Beran, “Inside Looking Out”, Mix Media on Wood, 2010. PHOTO: RICHARD TILAND

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Soup’s on!Heavy-handed with

the salt shaker? Then just cut a potato in quarters and toss into the soup pot. The potato will act like a salt sponge and re-pair the sodium overdose. For future reference, pour salt into a dish and care-fully dispense with your fingertips.

To remove the fat from soup float a crisp let-tuce leaf on top, which

will act like a fat magnet, then remove the leaf.

To thicken soup, add instant potato flakes, bar-ley, beans, rice or pasta.

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Egg on your faceSurprisingly, people

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Lemon lawTo get more juice out

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Flour powerTo prevent bugs from

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Use your noodleSo lasagna noodles

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to retain their shape and white color. To make fluff-ier mashed potatoes, add a dash of baking soda with milk and butter before mashing.

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San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will host its Pre-K to 12 Open House on Wednesday, Jan. 18, for both prospective parents and current SDJA families. The event will provide an opportunity for parents and students to learn about the school, view class-rooms and speak with faculty, staff and administra-tors.

“SDJA offers its students a unique blend of aca-demics, personalized attention and values-based ed-ucation,” said Larry Acheatel, executive director at SDJA. “The open house is a great opportunity to learn about our programs and learn what makes our school unique.”

Families interested in learning more about an SDJA education are invited to attend the Prospective Family Reception at 5:30 p.m., where there will be campus tours and a complimentary dinner. Both prospective parents and current families will have the opportunity to walk through SDJA’s many classrooms, view a variety of special student projects and speak to faculty and staff.

Reservations are recommended for SDJA’s Prospective Family Reception. Please contact Renee Sherman, director of admissions, at (858) 704-3716 or [email protected] to RSVP.

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SDJA recently opened its Reggio inspired, Jewishly infused preschool to offer a seamless education to students as young as six weeks to high school seniors.

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The Grauer School will host an open house event for prospective students and their families on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the campus located at 1500 S. El Camino Real in Encinitas. Stu-dent-led tours and informal chats with teachers, administrators, students and par-ents will be available and refreshments will

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estate business and concen-trate on conservation, he said, few efforts existed to preserve and protect the tropical and dry rainforests of Latin American that are under constant siege from indigenous people who clear more and more land to feed their families or drug lords who burn the land for their crops

Today, “there are more threats,” added Silvia Us-uriaga, the nonprofit’s pro-gram coordinator. A native of Peru, who for three years directed NCI programs in the Peruvian Amazon, she said, “Our countries want everything bigger – more roads, more dams, more ac-cess to local markets.”

The forests, she said, are being lost to companies seeking timber, biofuels, soybeans and palm oil.

It is those threats, com-bined with climate change, that push Gayler – who now is contending with the ef-fects of Parkinson’s disease — and the NCI staff and board to take the organiza-tion to new places.

The newest effort – be-sides one that will be an-nounced in February — re-sulted in the government of

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Loreto, Peru, adopting pro-tection from major develop-ment of 15 million acres of headwaters mapped with the support of NCI, 8.8 mil-lion acres of which are out-side existing reserves. While not providing full protec-tion from potential degrada-tion, the action has already resulted in the relocation of at least one large proposed development project, said John Evey, who recently came on as executive vice president.

It’s just one example of the multi-level strategies of land acquisition, scientific research, environmental ed-ucation, training scientists, and setting up sustainable development programs, that enables NCI to accomplish a lot with minimal resources, he added.

The organization began with one gesture by Gayler on the day after his night-marish vision when he asked a local conservationist what it would take to stop the destruction. The answer was to purchase the land be-tween two national parks – 100,000 acres.

When he asked how much and heard the answer “$100,000,” he said, “I told him that instead of remodel-ing my kitchen I could do something more impor-tant.”

Since then, NCI has “ensured the protection of more than 7.7 million acres of imperiled ecosystems,” according to its website na-tureandculture.org.

Part of the original proj-ect, instituted with a consor-tium of German universities that do tropical ecosystem research and train students at the San Francisco Re-search Station, was that for every German researcher or professor hired, there would be an Ecuadorian counter-part, Gayler said.

Today there are about 30 Ph.D.s and hundreds in training to follow in their footsteps in a program offer-ing advanced degrees in the biological sciences in Ecua-dor for Ecuadorian students — something that had not previously been available.

“We have become well known for our ethics,” Gay-ler added. “Our philosophy is not ‘You should,” but rather ‘How can we help?’”

Usuriaga, who now is based in Del Mar but travels routinely to Mexico and Lat-in America for NCI, exem-plifies the approach. A na-tive of Iquitos, Peru, who described herself as a city girl who wasn’t a conserva-tionist but a business per-son, worked for a company

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2011-033533Fictitious Business Name(s):a. Artisonb. Artison Cuisinec. Artison Woodfired Cuisined. Artisan Woodfired CuisineLocated at: 3830 Valley Centre Dr., #705-506, San Diego, CA., 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: Same. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The first day of business: has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: JNK Foodservices Inc., 3830 Valley Centre Dr., #705-506, San Diego, CA., 92130, California. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 12/06/2011. Jacob Kahn, DM591, Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011-034939Fictitious Business Name(s):The Verde Baglocated at:13486 Mango Dr., Del Mar, CA., 92014, San Diego County. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business: was May 25, 2006. This business is hereby registered by the following: Gina Sample, 13486 Mango Dr., Del Mar, CA., 92014. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on 12-21-2011. Gina Sample, DM590, Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2011-033939Fictitious Business Name(s):Legalpools.comLocated at: 203 Loma Corta Drive, Solana Beach, CA., 92075, San Diego County. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 412, Solana Beach, CA., 92075. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business: has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Jhon Derek Downey, 203 Loma Corta Drive, Solana Beach, CA., 92075. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 12/09/2011. Jhon Derek Downey, DM588, Dec. 22, 29, Jan. 5, 12, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2011-034125Fictitious Business Name(s):Sun West Field PaintingLocated at: 832A Kalpati Cir, Carlsbad, CA., 92008, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 832A Kalpati Circle, Carlsbad, CA., San Diego, 92008. This business is conducted by: A General Partnership. The first day of business: has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1. Nicolas Swaim, 832A Kalpati Circle, Carlsbad, CA., 92008. #2. John Swaim, 832A Kalpati Circle, Carlsbad, CA., 92008. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 12/13/2011, Nicolas Swaim, DM587, Dec. 15, 22, 29, Jan. 5, 2012

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that exported ornamental fish from the Amazon.

“I didn’t know how life is in the forest,” she said. But while on vacation in the Caribbean, “I saw the fish I was exporting … and felt embarrassed.”

When she returned, she sought out a university in Lima and helped estab-lish a sustainable breeding program that has helped protect the native species.

That experience led her to apply for a job with NCI where she can utilize her “passion for working with local people.”

While working with lo-cal artists to develop an en-terprise selling their hand-crafts in what became one of the first exports out of Iquitos, she became more connected with the envi-ronment as she traveled on

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boats across the Amazon. She realized, she said,

“If you have healthy forests, it is good for people’s lives.”

Evey, who has responsi-bility for heading up fund-raising efforts and is one of only eight paid staffers in the U.S. – a fact that Gayler cites frequently as setting them apart from other non-profits.

A veteran development director who has worked with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the J. Craig Venter Institute as well as university settings, Evey noted that most of the major donors are San Die-gans.

“I’ve never seen an or-ganization that produces so much return on its donor dollars,” he said.

Besides its large donors, there are smaller ones too, from people who purchase a “rainforest certificate of appreciation” – $100 to save an acre – to those who

go carbon neutral, who are contributing to the effort.

A project with the city of Solana Beach is helping to preserve part of a tropical forest in southern Ecuador. Called the Solana Beach Living Forest Carbon Offset Fund, the goal is to preserve 2,000 acres by encouraging residents to contribute to offset the city’s carbon foot-print.

And recently the mer-chants of Cedros South Crossing presented proceeds from a wine tasting to Gay-ler and Usuriaga to assist with efforts in the Salitral-Huarmaca Regional Conser-vation Area in Peru to con-vert unprotected federal lands to protected status. At a cost of less than a dollar per acres the merchants’ contribution will “fund the conversion of over 450 acres of Peruvian endan-gered dry forest,“ a press re-lease noted.

Lux Art Institute will welcome its next resident artist Lila Jang at a reception to be held on Saturday, Jan. 14, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Institute. Jang is an emerging art star from Seoul, South Korea who is making her American debut at Lux.

Jang makes a practice of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Inspired by the limitations of a small apartment and the desire to escape the often monotonous routine of real life, Jang finds utopia by turning the traditional idea of furniture literally onto its head.

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Joseph and Diane Sampson recently donated $1,000 via the Joseph and Diane Charitable Founda-tion to the Wheelchair Dancers, a non-profit orga-nization whose mission is to bring ballroom wheel-chair dancing to the dis-abled community.

“The founders of the Wheelchair Dancers spoke on our weekly radio show a couple months ago and Di-ane and I were inspired by their dedication and vision. We knew we wanted to do-nate to such a great organi-zation,” said Joseph.

Joseph and Diane also had the pleasure of seeing the wheelchair dancers per-form a waltz. Wheelchair dancers participate in

“combi-style dancing” with an able-bodied partner or duo dance with two wheel-chairs.

“They performed one of the most beautiful waltz-es I have ever seen. The emotion between the danc-ers was so wonderful to watch,” said Diane.

The Joseph and Diane Charitable Foundation prides itself on investing in San Diego’s future. The Wheelchair Dancers pro-vide a social and physical outlet for San Diego’s dis-abled community, helping them build relationships and become more invested and confident in them-selves.

For more information on the Joseph and Diane

Charitable Foundation, please visit www.SCR-SanD-iego.com or call 858-699-1145.

Sampson California Reality specializes in resi-dential real estate sales in Carmel Valley and Coastal properties. Sampson Cali-fornia Realty has been ac-tively listing and selling residential real estate for the last 15 years in Carmel Valley. If you’re thinking about buying or selling property, don’t hesitate to give us a call. If you’re considering a career in real estate, we would love to talk with you about a dif-ferent way to do business.

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Sampson California Realty owners Joseph and Diane Sampson donate $1,000 to Wheelchair Dancers


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SAN ELIJO HILLS SHORT SALE $255,000 CROWN POINT CONDO WITH VIEWS $295,000 THE GRAND DEL MAR $325,000

SUNNY MID-CENTURY MODERN $449,000- $495,000 PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP CARMEL VALLEY $718,000

CARLSBAD OCEAN VIEWS $975,000

COVETED CARDIFF PARK TWINHOME $599,000

COZY, PRIVATE SINGLE LEVEL IN DEL MAR $870,000 OLIVENHAIN SINGLE LEVEL CUSTOM $930,000

SPACIOUS LA JOLLA TURN-KEY 3BR/3.5BA $990,000 PANORAMIC OCEAN VIEW CARDIFF HOME $999,900 - $1,129,900 PRIME CARDIFF LOCATION – OCEAN VIEWS! $1,019,000

MIDCENTURY MODERN ESCONDIDO ESTATE $1,495,000 MODERN DEL MAR GREEN HOME $2,950,000 KNORR CANDLE FACTORY ESTATE $5,000,000

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