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In 1992, the mail received by La Jolla native Coleen Jan Paderewski drove her postal carrier insane with curiosity. He had never delivered an actual envelope from the White House to anyone before, much less two dozen in two weeks. Finally, the guy just blurted it out: “Who are you?!!” It can be safely assumed that the carrier was neither a big fan of classical music nor an American of Polish descent.
Put sushi on the menu and Nak Joon Kim behind the bar and you have Haru Sushi, La Jolla’s “neighborhood” sushi bar since fall 2018. “I don’t want a big restaurant,” he said. “I prefer a smaller, quiet one (it seats 60) where we’re part of the neighborhood and our customers are our friends.” Kim believes that good food makes you comfortable and 90 percent of Haru’s patrons are locals: “They come in and enjoy the environment, the experience and the food.” They must. Kim claims that 50 percent of first-time customers come back. One customer told Kim he enjoyed Haru because he “didn’t like to feel like a mackerel in a can.”
Not all New Year’s resolutions are about losing weight. We asked nine La Jolla community leaders to share the top three goals for their organizations — and for La Jolla — in 2020. Here they are in alphabetical order by organization: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Bird Rock Community Council, Enhance La Jolla, La Jolla Community Center, La Jolla Community Planning Association, La Jolla Parks & Beaches, La Jolla Shores Association, La Jolla Town Council, and La Jolla Village Merchants Association.
La Jolla resident, Kiwanian and chair of the La Jolla Community Center, Glen Rasmussen, has a new heart. He received a transplant at UC San Diego on July 20, 2019 and five months later on Dec. 13, he told his story during a Kiwanis Club meeting at La Jolla Community Center. Rasmussen was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, he explained — a rare condition that creates deposits within the heart walls, making them thicker and less efficient to pump or receive blood.
The San Diego County-based Doris A. Howell Foundation for women’s health recently named Karen Wilson as its first executive director. Wilson said she is more than ready to use her skills, passion and knowledge “to take this organization to the next level.”
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Bradley Fikes, beloved biotech writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, was so much larger than life, he inspired two memorial services. -
CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! La Jolla’s 62nd holiday parade escapes rain!
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When La Jolla native Stan Stewart celebrated his 90th birthday on Nov. 22 in La Jolla, it was a milestone.
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Online Performers Group (OPG), a San Diego-based talent management group, moved to La Jolla earlier in 2019
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La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen will soon be featured on not one but two television series.
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A fresh crop of pioneers is smashing some preconceived notions about just who owns businesses in La Jolla.
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Is it just my imagination, or do I spend an inordinate amount of time getting stuff fixed? Something is always broken, whether it’s a computer problem, a funny noise the car is making, a cracked sprinkler head, or an ice-maker that isn’t making ice. Even our security cameras decided to fog up for no known reason. Of course, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the stuff I’m getting fixed wouldn’t have needed fixing in my youth because it didn’t yet exist (like computers). Or didn’t exist at my house (like ice-makers, sprinkler heads and security cameras). There was a lot to be said for the era of manual typewriters, hand-washed dishes, ice cube trays, and a climate where it actually rains.
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The boards of the La Jolla Village Merchants Association (LJVMA), La Jolla Town Council, La Jolla Community Planning Association and the La Jolla Historical Society will preview Enhance La Jolla’s Village Streetscape Plan at a closed-door meeting Thursday, Jan. 16.
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At its Jan. 8 meeting, the La Jolla Shores Association (LJSA) voted 10-1-1 to register its opposition to a bridge over La Jolla Parkway with the La Jolla Traffic & Transportation Board (T&T).
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Only the Trying opens with the assassination of a man swimming from The Cove to The Shores.
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‘Papa Doug’ Manchester lists La Jolla estate for $37 million Real estate developer Doug Manchester — former owner of The San Diego Union-Tribune and La Jolla Light and President Trump’s onetime appointee for U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas — has listed his La Jolla home for $25 million, and the site next door for $12 million, while a third listing proposes both for $37 million.
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When Dr. Ryan Hoffman started working at La Jolla Dentistry with Dr. Joe D’Angelo and Dr. Ashley Olson in August 2017, he knew he was exactly where he was supposed to be. Now, two years later, he is officially a partner with the practice at 1111 Torrey Pines Road, Suite 101 in La Jolla.
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PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Those dedicated to America’s pastime feel a personal connection to their teams, or even certain players.
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At least one Native American still calls La Jolla home. Adam Raby wasn’t born here.
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PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Many La Jollans know Charles Hartford for the financial advice he provides them as a member of Merrill Lynch’s wealth-management team.
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Fine art, craft wine and brews to fill Village of La Jolla streets, Oct. 12-13
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A relative late-comer to the 2020 San Diego City Council District 1 race, La Jolla resident and Democrat James Rudolph filed last week to join the race for the seat to be vacated by current Council member Barbara Bry, who is running for mayor.
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With all the projects coming down the pike at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), the appointment of new assistant vice chancellor of finance and operations Patrick Callaghan could not have come at a better time.
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Sitting at the Brick & Bell coffee shop in La Jolla Shores on Sept. 4 with local residents Sandra Munson and Tim Johnson as they catch up over iced teas, one would never know that just three weeks prior, the two were undergoing surgery so Munson could donate a kidney to Johnson.
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In preparing for his installation as the 12th person to helm The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, educator and history buff Ron Kim said he researched the life of the school’s benefactress, Ellen Browning Scripps, and found an unlikely connection in her life with that of former U.S.
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Dressed in a sharp white suit and shell pink dress, Bill and Nancy Dubey celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary Aug. 24 with the same joy that one might expect from their actual wedding day.
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Three weeks ago, the La Valencia hotel welcomed Timothy Ralphs as its new executive chef.
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