A few weeks ago, there was a party for 13-year-olds in La Jolla and it became a drunk-fest after the kids started pouring hard liquor. That same weekend, at another La Jolla party, some eighth-graders tried marijuana for the first time. Drug and alcohol use is prevalent among La Jolla’s teenagers, just as
it is prevalent among teenagers (and adults) across the country.
I am sure many in La Jolla were caught by surprise by the relocated traffic lanes since the city gave no advance notice, not even to those with driveways along the impacted section who have to risk their lives to pull into traffic.
Hopefully, everyone will drive slowly enough to reduce the danger. The whole stormwater diversion project along Torrey Pines Road seems to have proceeded without appropriate notice or public review, and is most likely illegal as it will dry up over 500 feet of year round streams, diverting naturally flowing water to which adjacent landowners have riparian water rights including aesthetic enjoyment.
I’ve been in Congress for two months now and something that still surprises me: How out of touch and political Washington is. I ran for office because I believed I could make a difference, and I still do. I am as tired as you are of partisan posturing, and a perfect example is the sequester.
I am writing in regard to handicapped access at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla. There is a ramp there now that historically has been used by wheelchairs. The new lifeguard tower remodel needs to be redesigned immediately to include full ADA access to the water’s edge by wheelchairs.
A couple of years ago, I was searching for a civic group that would allow me to give back to my community without the encumbrance of a professional society or the rigidity of a religious organization. Serendipitously, an acquaintance I hold in high regard suggested to me the Kiwanis of La Jolla. My first impressions were: What’s a “Kiwanis”? And what do they do in La Jolla? To my pleasant surprise, I found the answers intriguing and embracing.
In all the articles I have read in this and other local papers about the seals v. humans at the Children’s Pool, you seem to ignore the elephant (seal) in the room: a trust document between the City of San Diego and the estate of Ellen Browning Scripps. What’s next? Scripps Clinic? Green Hospital?
Opinion/Editorial: “Aw come on,” we thought to ourselves last week when we first heard that full-time police presence was ordered at the Children’s Pool beach. “Police officers AND park rangers?! What’s next? Drones?” But then we watched the sad and shameful video of two young women in the dark of night cruelly harassing the pregnant seals and their pups last Thursday, and we had second thoughts.
Mayor Filner, thank you so much for approving the installation of the seal cam at Children’s Pool Beach! What an incredible educational opportunity for people from all over the world to see harbor seals in a natural, yet urban environment. Although I am grateful that you have lengthened rope line to 152 feet to correct the error from last season, some people, often encouraged by the professional harassers and their friends, do not adhere to the guideline viewing requirements and cross the rope, disturbing many of the pregnant female seals from critical rest.
One of La Jolla’s biggest tourist attractions planned, starting with La Jolla Parks and — the seals and sea lions frolicking beaches’ (LJP&b’) planned remodel of the along its shorelines — is going global shoddy, unsafe sidewalk near Children’s Pool with the installation of a real-time webcam streaming images from the beach to whom ever logs on to wanconservancy.org to watch.
Congratulations on your election as Mayor. It’s good to see bold action in a bleak social landscape of apathy. I’m also pleased to hear that you have finally got a plan to “vacuum up” the stench at La Jolla Cove. Hopefully, this cesspool of political ping-pong has run its course, but don’t worry, the Victorian cottages across the street (Red Roost and Rest Rest) will continue to be a daily historical reminder that government bureaucracy is alive and well. The real purpose of this letter is to respectively request that same consideration that you have shown the seals at Children’s Pool, for the unique and much-loved California Grunion.
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