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.
Feb 6, 2013 | Posted in
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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.
Surprise. I stopped in the 3-minute parking space at La Jolla Cove this a.m. so my wife could check the water temperature (54-degrees, too cold for her to swim). I am used to tables hawking T-shirts devoted to saving the Earth, but not to a table with signs and literature devoted to saving my soul. I think my temperature might have risen a few degrees when I was visually accosted by a plethora of signs set up on the grass and sidewalk inviting me to learn about God and the Bible, and offering Watchtower in the language of my choice.
Jan 23, 2013 | Posted in
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Here is a standing ovation and thunderous applause for the task force that came together and rallied residents for a fight to save the building from sacrifice and sale.
Jan 17, 2013 | Posted in
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This letter comes to thank every one in our community who made a contribution to Greater La Jolla Meals On Wheels in 2012. If you gave to San Diego’s meals program, we’re certain its beneficiaries appreciated your gift, as well. La Jolla Meals On Wheels has been serving The Jewel since 1974. We predate San Diego’s Meals On Wheels organization by 23 years. We do not receive government funding.
Jan 9, 2013 | Posted in
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This edition of the La Jolla Light, the first in 2013, launches our year-long commemoration of the 100 years since the La Jolla Light printed its first edition in 1913. That was the same year the La Jolla Recreation Center and the Colonial Apartments and Hotel (now the Grande Colonial) opened, as well as the Orient Theater (now Panera Bread at Girard and Wall Streets). The La Jolla Fire Station Engine Company 13 on Herschel Avenue was also built in 1913, designed by noted local architect Harold Abrams.
Jan 2, 2013 | Posted in
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At the November meeting of the La Jolla Shores Planned District Advisory Board, the motion to approve the Hillel project failed by a vote of 3 to 2. Had board member Susan Starr, whose household has been a lead public opponent of the Hillel project, abstained, chairman Paul Benton would have broken the tie and voted in favor of the project. This kind of bias among the local planning group is unfortunately not new.
Dec 19, 2012 | Posted in
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Fed up with what he calls “Sacramento’s bureaucratic cowplop,” talk radio personality, Jim Slater, last week took it upon himself to sweep away the cormorant and sea lion poop from the Cove cliffs to rid La Jolla of the stench now making national headlines.
Dec 13, 2012 | Posted in
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Call it a Christmas pageant, a holiday happening, a winter-party-in-the-streets, but it was a great day for La Jolla Sunday afternoon when the 55th annual parade wound its way around the Village, Dec. 2.
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