A post from the Lifeguards of San Diego reads: “At 6:58, a local Cove swimmer (Dan Simonelli) recognized a person in distress in the large surf at the Cove, where all the water energy pushes into an area referred to as ‘The Hole’."
Contrary to complaints frequently expressed in community meetings, La Jolla doesn’t seem to have a parking shortage. What it has, experts agree, is a shortage of drivers willing to PAY for parking.
KITCHEN SHRINK: Since I don't have a crystal football, I can't predict which two teams will be vying for the Vince Lombardi trophy at Super Bowl LIII. At this time of writing the New England Patriots , New Orleans Saints , Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs are in the running. Each locale...
ART REVIEW: If you follow the news too closely, there's plenty you might feel blue about these days. But the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library's latest exhibition, "Beyond Blue," featuring two gifted ceramic artists who include blue glaze and a sense of playfulness in their work, may well chase your...
City Council approves UCSD fire station As expected, the San Diego City Council approved construction of the first on-campus fire station at UC San Diego. Slated for the intersection of North Torrey Pines Road and Northpoint Driveway, the 10,500-square-foot facility will serve students, faculty,...
You’ve no doubt seen La Jolla Light’s Alphabet Soup list of community planning groups, their missions and meeting times (find it on Page A16 in this issue). And if your New Year’s Resolution is to get more involved in these groups (but you sometimes get lost in their lingo), here’s a glossary of...
Cathedral Catholic High School (CCHS), 5555 Del Mar Heights Road, dedicated its new Daniel and Mary McSweeney Engineering Building at a ceremony Jan. 9. The complex will support the growing pre-engineering program at the school, which provides students with the skills needed to succeed in classes...
As is its tradition, the five La Jolla-area Rotary Clubs meet once a year to rekindle friendships and share resources for their humanitarian projects. At the 2019 annual meeting, held Friday, Jan. 11 at the Braille Institute, local Rotarians heard a keynote address from Rotary International President...
Just about everyone who spends serious time on Girard Avenue in the vicinity of Pannikin Coffee & Tea has a River story. He’s the precocious outdoor cat who can be found browsing the lower shelves at D.G. Wills Books, people-watching from trees and nuzzling up to La Jolla Elementary students.
The son of Harry Rudolph — who founded Harry’s Coffee Shop in 1960 — 44-year-old La Jollan James P. Rudolph graduated from bussing tables at Harry’s to working in both President Clinton’s administration and, more recently, in the State Department under President Obama.
Although shots were many, goals were few in the first half of the first La Jolla High School Vikings/Bishop’s School Knights girls water polo game, held Jan. 3 at Coggan Pool on the Vikings campus. But as both teams picked up steam in the second half, the Knights defeated the Vikings 11-5. Going...
Understandably, the scientists over at La Jolla Institute of Immunology (LJII) run a lot of tests in their mission to solve immune system diseases. And thanks to the middle school students in Dan Lenzen’s class at La Jolla Country Day School’s Design & Innovation program, LJII’s microscopy division...
At the start of the New Year, it seemed as though the La Jolla Shores Association’s (LJSA) longtime request to have the City’s Park & Rec Department lock the gates at night to the Kellogg Park parking lot for security reasons would be answered. After all, District 1 City Council member Barbara...
For the first time in five years, two math squads with 11 students from La Jolla High School drove 122 miles to the CalTech Harvey Mudd Math Competition Dec. 1-2, and one team placed 17th out of 41 statewide teams. That may seem like a lot of numbers, but it’s nothing compared to what the students...
Police Blotter Dec. 26, 2018 Petty theft, 7800 block Avenida Kirhah, 3:35 p.m. Dec. 30, 2018 Vehicle break-in/theft, 5000 block La Jolla Blvd., midnight Vehicle break-in/theft, 2400 block Avenida de la Playa, 7:35 a.m. Vehicle theft, 1200 block Silverado St., 5 p.m. Jan. 1 Vehicle break-in/theft,...
“I wanted to start a company where people, especially teenagers, could come and learn how to eat, especially before going off to college to be on their own," said La Jolla Nutritional Health owner Lauren Bartell Weiss.