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On the cusp of his 100th birthday, Jim Jackson — former dean of students at what is now Point Loma Nazarene University and current chaplain of the White Sands senior living community in La Jolla — can reflect on a long life of service and adventure.
Torrey Pines Elementary School physical-education coach Sergio Cabrera had one intense day May 31.
Editor’s Note: La Jolla Light’s People in Your Neighborhood series shines a spotlight on notable locals we wish we knew more about.
La Jolla Centenarians: This occasional La Jolla Light series features interviews with local centenarians.
Editor’s note: La Jolla Light’s “People in Your Neighborhood” series shines a spotlight on notable locals we wish we knew more about.
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La Jolla Centenarians: This occasional La Jolla Light series features interviews with local centenarians.
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La Jolla native Tanya Lichtenstein has authored her first book, “Cosmic Botany,” which teaches readers “how you can work with plants and crystal energy to create certain vibes in your life.”
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Editor’s note: La Jolla Light’s People in Your Neighborhood series shines a spotlight on notable locals we wish we knew more about.
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La Jolla Country Day School, looking for a new boys basketball coach, got more than 80 applicants from across the country.
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Professional opera singer Alina Mullen has performed all over the world.
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The work, which debuted in 2019 at Long Beach Opera, features Donald Trump (or rather an opera singer portraying Trump, circa 1989).
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In her “front porch photography” sessions, La Jolla resident Cristina Schaffer has seen it all: messages of encouragement, masked families, screaming babies.
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San Diego home prices continued to increase into the second month of the COVID-19 crisis and grew at a quicker pace than other California cities.
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Nearly 200 motorcycle riders and several sports cars decked out in red, white and blue passed through La Jolla on Independence Day as part of a “Spirit of Liberty Ride for Freedom” in San Diego County.
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La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library will reopen Tuesday, July 7, according to a statement on its website.
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Many students in the San Diego Unified School District are calling for the complete defunding of the district’s school police, saying a police presence in schools leads to increased punishment and arrests that disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic students.
When La Jolla High School sophomore Max Stone realized the coronavirus pandemic was putting senior citizens at a higher health risk, he wanted to do something to help them.
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La Jolla native Kathryn Muñoz has had her hands in a lot of service organizations: the women’s philanthropy group Las Patronas, and the mother-daughter philanthropy group National Charity League, to name a few. She is continuing her community service in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting La Jolla restaurants and frontline workers through a program called Feed the Fight SD, through which she raises funds to purchase meals from local eateries and deliver them to local medical facilities.
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La Jolla gains another centenarian in Leo White.
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La Jolla Community Center (LJCC) executive director Nancy Walters knows the value of good programming and has worked for nearly a decade to ensure La Jolla’s senior citizens stay involved and connected through fun and challenging activities.
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Leah Rosenthal has been named artistic director of La Jolla Music Society, where she is a proven veteran with more than a decade of achievements to her credit. She is the first person to be named as the organization’s artistic director who isn’t concurrently serving as its president or CEO.
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In her sixth year as a member of La Jolla philanthropy group Las Patronas, Kelly Kjos is working to ensure the organization she leads is able to continue serving the community as it has done since 1946.
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La Jolla resident Scott Flavell was grappling with his own coronavirus-caused problem: laying off workers in his Kearny Mesa factory. It manufactured postural correction products for the chiropractic industry — not exactly an essential business. As Flavell left a local market and seeing grocery employees working closely with others, a simultaneous solution to both problems suddenly dawned on him. His factory would switch to manufacturing face masks and donate them to grocery stores. He shifted production and made 10,000 masks at an initial cost of $3,000, but offering them for free.
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In nearly losing his life, Patrick Fitzpatrick gained a friend.
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It’s not just because she’s the president of La Jolla Parks & Beaches (LJP&B) that Ann Dynes has a unique perspective on La Jolla’s parks and beaches. From the balcony of the condo she shares with her husband (former University of California president and UC San Diego chancellor Bob Dynes), she overlooks the park and the beach at Whale View Point. Dynes also helped found the San Diego Parks Foundation; worked with La Jolla Conservancy; and with the LJP&B board, advises the City Parks & Rec Department on improvements needed for La Jolla’s parks and beaches.
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After living a bicoastal life in which she found success as a model, teacher and author, Doris Sutton celebrates her 100th birthday this week in La Jolla.
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The last living silent film star turned misfortune into success in academia.
