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The Save La Jolla Post Office Task Force needs YOU next Thursday, April 26!

Since the U.S. Postal Service announced in January its plans to sell the busy and beloved La Jolla Post Office building at 1140 Wall St. and relocate its services elsewhere in town, hundreds of residents have come forward to fight the closure under the direction of the Save La Jolla Post Office Task Force. The Force is one to be reckoned with but it needs your support at a face-to-face meeting with postal officials 6 p.m. next Thursday, April 26 at The Cuvier Club, 7776 Eads Ave. Speaker slips will be provided to allow everyone a chance to voice their concerns.

UC San Diego welcomes community to Triton Day experience

Where can you check out the latest sustainable vehicles, get your blood pressure screened, witness cutting-edge research, learn about college planning and listen to live music, all in one place, at one time? The answer is UC San Diego. The university will host a special “Triton Day Experience” for campus and community members from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 7. The event is free and open to the public. The day’s activities will offer campus visitors an enhanced opportunity to discover all that UC San Diego has to offer, including world-class education, translational research and advanced patient care.

Please keep the seals at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla

I was recently vacationing in La Jolla with my family, and had the great fortune to watch the seals and their pups at Casa Beach, also known as, “Children’s Pool.” My children, ages 7 and 9, were delighted to watch mother and baby seals interact with each other. We were even able to see the umbilical cord, still hanging from the belly of an hour-old seal. And while my children know that seals are mammals like us, seeing the umbilical cord and watching a pup nurse was eye-opening for them.

La Jolla Town Council elections near

A few years ago some people in this town identified me as a community leader. My take has always been that the best qualification for leadership is for a person to have enough common sense to be able to appreciate what thoughtful and reflective people want and (often through trial and error) to try, in all candor, to reflect the

Letters to the Editor Feb. 23 issue

n regards to the Feb. 16 cover story “Town Council backs revived ‘promenade’ plan,” I’d like to add that we just returned from Santa Barbara and saw first hand how they have preserved and revitalized their downtown. Whereas, La Jolla has a rotting lifeguard station, a couple of shacks that are historical eyesores for the last 30 years, and businesses are closing.
My hope is that enlightenment will shine on this town and modernize modernize modernize. And by-the-way … don’t like the stupid canoes sticking out of our art museum … just saying it is time for BIG CHANGES in La Jolla!

Can you spare some cash for La Jolla Meals on Wheels program this week?

In this last week of 2011 I want to thank all of our caring contributors who, through their philanthropic donations, have continued to fuel the autonomous La Jolla Meals On Wheels engine, allowing us to keep rolling along as we mark our 37th year of service throughout our own community by providing tasty, healthy and nutritious meals to isolated homebound seniors as well as disabled or mobility challenged people of all ages.

Letters to the Editor, Dec. 29 issue, La Jolla Light

Our family is pleased to announce our lawsuit against the La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) and the City of San Diego has been resolved. With the filing of our lawsuit, we wanted both the LJCPA and the City of San Diego to acknowledge the appeal “Policy and Procedures” of the LJCPA were inconsistent with City Council Policy 600-24 and their own City approved bylaws. Although our family is regretful as applicants we were required to take this course of action, the purpose in filing and pursing our lawsuit has been accomplished.

Letters to the editor, Dec. 22 issue

n the long running debate over the harbor seals at the Children’s
Pool, no one to my knowledge has noted that this harbor seal
population is unique in that it is the only one that is so close to a
major urban center. I have seen harbor seal colonies in Alaska at
South Sawyer Glacier, in Glacier Bay National Park at John’s HopkinsGlacier, on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, in the winter on
Long Island, NY, and in Carpinteria, Calif.

Opinion: Choose your priorities for the future of San Diego today

Now through mid-January, San Diegans have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to plan for the region’s future. We can weigh in on our priorities, hopes, concerns and aspirations for this wonderful place, and become part of a collective vision and action plan for the future at www.ShowYourLoveSD.org.

Opinion: Robberies becoming more alarming

I have been living in La Jolla for a year and a half and I (am concerned about) the increase of robberies in La Jolla. Indeed, I am living on Rutgers Road and a few friends of mine who are close neighbors had been robbed, either their cars were broken or robbers entered the house while they were away and stole jewels and console video games. I also have friends in a gated community on Soledad Mountain who had been robbed.

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