Founder Sherry Ahern estimates that the 10th anniversary of her La Jolla Art & Wine Festival — staged along a shuttered Girard Avenue on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6-7 — was the “largest and most successful” ever, drawing 45,000 locals and visitors.
The first concert of the season is 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 at the 7715 Draper Ave. With it, there will be an art walk with pieces inspired by the performance. The Young Artists Showcase features three young Musical Merit Foundation scholarship winners
Noted retired Scripps Cardiologist Allen “Skip” Johnson is overseeing a project to build a 1915 Model T Ford Speedster with a handful of Evans School fourth and fifth graders. Most notably, his grandson Theo.
A group of Princess Street residents are speaking out against the creation of a beach-access path at the foot of their street, ahead of a California Coastal Commission (CCC) vote related to the matter. In the days before the Oct. 11 vote at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside hotel (beyond La Jolla Light...
The intersection of La Jolla Scenic Drive North and Sugarman Drive in the La Jolla Heights neighborhood — smack dab in the middle of Cliffridge Park, Villa La Jolla Park and Allen Field; a block away from the Congregation ADAT Yeshurun synagogue and near the Dan McKinney Family YMCA, Montessori...
The Dan McKinney Family YMCA lifeguards and aquatic staff were honored by the San Diego City Council for a heroic rescue that took place at its 8355 Cliffridge Ave. facility in July during which a man’s live was saved. Speaking to her City Council colleagues, Council President Pro Tem Barbara Bry...
Celebration of lifeguards at next Town Council meeting This month’s La Jolla Town Council meeting will feature a public-safety forum honoring the three lifeguards — James Earnest, Aaron Estess and Shane McIntyre — who saved a Texas tourist on June 9. (Ian Black, 35, was swimming at WindanSea when...
'The Light' chats with Kara Kay, the La Jolla Realtor who stars on the new season of "Survivor."
Haida Mojdehi of La Jolla is this year’s recipient of the Project Concern International (PCI) Anne Otterson Community Connector Award (named for the late La Jolla volunteer). Mojdehi’s efforts will be honored at PCI’s Hands Across Borders gala, Oct. 27 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. “Civic-minded...
For the last 49 years, the La Jolla Garden Club has had a simple mission: Keep La Jolla Beautiful. They’ve done so with a tree here, a flower bed there, regular bouquet deliveries to the La Jolla Library, and a mini-oasis at the La Jolla Historical Society. Now, at the start of its 50th year, the...
Although The Bishop’s School Knights and La Jolla Country Day School Torreys football teams were almost evenly matched when they faced off Friday night, the Knights brought an aggressive, lopsided win home: 51-19. The Knights used a diverse selection of trick plays, running game, long passes, quarterback...
BBB issues tips for seasonal job-seekers In 2018, more than 1,250 employment scams were reported to Better Business Bureau (BBB) Scam Tracker, making them the second most prevalent type of scam according to the BBB Risk Index. BBB encourages applicants to take the following steps when applying...
Much like how the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean took decades to grow, the experts who spoke at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Plastic Pollution Symposium Oct. 2, agreed it will take decades and a multi-pronged, collaborative approach to solve. The second in a two-part...
At the Bird Rock Community Council (BRCC) meeting Oct. 2 at Bird Rock Elementary, Coastal Overlook Committee co-chairs Don Schmidt and Mary Lynn Hyde updated the board on a suggestion formulated at their monthly meeting: have a friends-of fund under the BRCC umbrella temporarily perform overlook...
Les Disciples d’Escoffier International — a prestigious French society of culinary professionals — brought its induction dinner to Southern California for the first time on Monday night, Oct. 8. And the special evening's guest of honor was also its cook.
Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: As La Jolla 's elected member on the San Diego County Office of Education Board (and a past-president of the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary), I'd like to provide you with information on the support services the County Board of Education provides our schools. I am...