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Complete information and 2-page flyer/entry form can be downloaded by inserting the following link into your URL bar: browser http://escondidoartist.weebly.com/events-quick-links.html. You may also call or visit the Artists Gallery at 121 W. Grand Avenue, Escondido, (760) 489-0338, or phone Event Coordinator Rosemarie Woldin, (760) 7436634. Local artist Renee Argule Corwin, out-going President of the San Diego Portraiture Society and member of the Portraiture Society of America, will be judging the show. Renee teaches classes in portraiture and other types of painting in Escondido. The show will run from October 3rd thru 27th, and will coincide with the Grand Avenue Festival scheduled for Sunday, October 15, thus providing The prime exposure for the artists. Reception and Awards Ceremony, open to the public, will be held at the Artists Gallery on Second Saturday, October 14, from 5– 8pm, with awards being presented at 6pm. The EAA is an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to promoting the arts in North County San Diego. This exhibition of artwork with cash awards is being made possible through the generous sponsorships of local merchants.
North County Lifeline Community Impact Awards – Choose the winnersnominate today for the Community Impact Awards, an awards ceremony to honor organizations and individuals from the local community who make extraordinary contributions to North County Lifeline and improve the lives of youth and families in North County. Award Categories are Community Impact Award; Connector of the Year; and Client Advocate of the Year. The event will be held on October 16th, and journalist/story teller, Alicia Summers,
News 8, will be hosting the Awards. North County Lifeline is located at 3142 Vista Way, Suite 400, Oceanside, CA 92056.
Oceanside Mural Initiative – Main Street Oceanside’s Mural Initiative (OMI) is proud to announce that local artist, Skye Walker, began his work on the first mural on Saturday, September 2nd, and expected to take 8-10 days to complete the mural. Stop by the Star theatre to see his work. The Oceanside Mural Unveiling Networking Mixer was held recently. The OMI GoFundMe page remains open to raise funds to install more public art murals in downtown Oceanside. Donate the cost of a cup of coffee to the program to help raise the remainder of the $10,000. Main Street Oceanside has pledged to match dollar for dollar, up to $10,000. The OMI seeks to install ten curated public art murals over the course of three years. For information, contact Gumaro Escarcega at 760.754.4512 at MainStreet Oceanside. LSM Republican Women’s Meeting Announced – The Lake San Marcos Republican Women Federated club has a busy agenda for the Fall season. All interested women are invited to join, and men who are interested may join as associate members. The important first meeting of the season will be lunch on Monday, October 2, at the St. Marks Country Club. Shirley Mark, President of California Federation of Republican Women (CFRW), will be the guest speaker. In mid-summer 2017, a plan was announced at a CFRW Board meeting that would institute changes centering around a new organization structure that would impact all divisions, counties and regions, specifically eliminating county clubs in Southern California by 2020. Given that
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REPORT OF COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMISSIONERS SALARIES/EXPENSES FISCAL YEAR 2016/2017 In accordance with City Municipal Code 2.08.050(h), the following information is provided: CITY COUNCIL Mayor: James Desmond Salary $11,731.68 Auto Allowance 3,600.00 Benefits 19,480.24 Travel/Attendance at Functions 1,491.90 Other Agencies Board Compensation 4,150.00 Other Agencies Board Expenses 0.00 Other Agencies Expenses 0.00 TOTAL $40,453.82 Vice Mayor: Rebecca Jones Salary
$11,731.68
Auto Allowance 3,600.00 Benefits 27,644.32 Travel/Attendance at Functions 255.00 Other Agencies Board Compensation 1,500.00 Other Agencies Board Expenses 0.00 Other Agencies Expenses 17.00 TOTAL $44,748.00
Council Member: Christopher Orlando Salary $11,731.68 Auto Allowance 3,600.00 Benefits 27,632.92 Travel/Attendance at Functions 291.90 Other Agencies Board Compensation 650.00 Other Agencies Board Expenses 0.00 Other Agencies Expenses 0.00 TOTAL $43,906.50
Council Member: Kristal Kritzer-Jabara Salary $11,731.68 Auto Allowance 3,600.00 Benefits 27,641.92 Travel/Attendance at Functions 1,266.22 Other Agencies Board Compensation 0.00 Other Agencies Board Expenses 0.00 Other Agencies Expenses 0.00 TOTAL $44,239.82
Council Member: Sharon Jenkins Salary $11,731.68 Auto Allowance 3,600.00 Benefits 19,113.64 Travel/Attendance at Functions 75.00 Other Agencies Board Compensation 0.00 Other Agencies Board Expenses 0.00 Other Agencies Expenses 17.00 TOTAL $34,537.32
COMMISSION MEMBER MEETING STIPENDS
PLANNING Eric Flodine $800.00 George W. Jacoby 450.00 Rodney Jones 250.00 Stephen Kildoo 450.00 Carl Maas 250.00 Bruce Minnery 300.00 Wendy Matthews 350.00 Dimitris Magemeneas 150.00 Kevin Norris 350.00 James Schaible 450.00 TOTAL $3800.00
TRAFFIC Charles Buckley Edward Collins Phil Makrogiannis Michael Masterson Edward Musgrove Donna Nickel Jeffrey Oleksy Brad Pederson Arturo Rico Momcilo Savovic TOTAL
COMMUNITY SERVICES Robert Crain Jay Franklin Julia Maas Danyte Mockus Sasha Smith Heather Towsley TOTAL
YOUTH Dana Andrews Rohun Athalye Isabel Caroline Flatley John Hernandez Mykaila Istvanyi Spatika Madhava Tuheen Manika Sophia Morrison Vivek Vijayakumar Huryoung Vongsachang TOTAL
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Historically Speaking by Tom Morrow
Cave Couts: North County’s Anglo Pioneer
Cave Johnson Couts was one of the first white men to settle in North San Diego County. His Rancho Guajome lies in Vista along N. Santa Fe Ave., near the Oceanside city limits and today is a County Historical Museum & Park.
Couts was born in November 1821, near Springfield, Tennessee. His uncle, Cave Johnson, was U.S. Postmaster General under President James Polk. Uncle Cave had his name-sake appointed to the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1843, near the bottom of his class. He served on the Western frontier assignments: as a dragoon officer until after the Mexican War at Los Angeles, Mission San Luis Rey, and Old Town San Diego from 1848 to 1851. In 1849, Couts conducted the Whipple expedition to the Colorado River. He was a qualified surveyor - he documented and mapped California and Arizona’s southern boundaries with Mexico as outlined in the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty. It ceded large portions of Mexico to the U.S. as part of the settlement ending the Mexican War with the U.S. (the surveyor’s transit Couts used on that expedition is or was in the County’s Rancho Guajome Museum in Vista.) On April 5, 1851, Lieutenant Couts married Ysidora Bandini, daughter of Juan Bandini, who was a prominent Italian businessman in Old Town San Diego. Bandini had immigrated to America from Italy via Peru. In October 1851 Couts resigned his commission from the U.S. Army and soon after was appointed colonel and aide-decamp on the staff of California Governor John Bigler (1852-56).
In 1853, he and Ysidora moved to North County on a tract of land known as the Guajome (pronounced: wah-home-ah) Grant, a wedding gift to Ysidora from her brother-in-law, wealthy Los Angeles businessman Abel Stearns. Now located in a large area of the present-day cities of Oceanside, Vista and as far east as San Marcos, the Guajome Land Grant took in a large portion of what previous were lands of the San Luis Rey Mission.
Couts built a large, rambling, 20room, Spanish Colonial-style hacienda with two courtyards, an arcaded veranda, and other structures, including a chapel in a former small house. It was built with the profits from the cattle boom of the 1850s, when many California ranchos supplied the Gold Rush miners and associated new American immigrants with meat and leather. Couts was appointed sub-agent for the native Luiseño people (San Luis Rey Mission Indians) in 1853. He used their enslaved labor to improve his properties in the area, including this one and nearby Rancho Buena Vista and Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos. The Rancho Gujajome hacienda and associated structures was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. It also is a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places. Today it is a County park and museum. In 1854, Couts became County Judge, and in 1859, was appointed a member of the County’s first Grand Jury, He was a leading political figure in San Diego County.
Over the years of Cave Couts’ later life, Rancho Guajome was widely celebrated for its hospitality. Not only was it a stagecoach stop for travelers, some used it as a destination. Ysidora entertained noted author Helen Hunt Jackson while she was collecting materials for her best-selling book, “Ramona.” Part of the story is supposed to have taken place in real life at the Guajome Rancho – especially some of the ill treatment of the Native Americans living and working around the rancho. As Couts’ wealth grew, consisting largely of cattle, the passage of the fencing law eliminated “open range” grazing. This was a severe financial blow to Couts, and one from which he never fully recovered.
Couts was a controversial and colorful figure. People who knew him either respected and liked him, or outright hated him for his dealings and sometimes cruel methods and treatment, primarily to Native Americans. On one occasion, he reportedly got in a gunfight in Old Town with a former employee, who claimed he was owed unpaid wages. As the story goes, Couts shot the man in the back, but later a trial jury found him “not guilty” by reason of “self defense.” The verdict, no doubt, was the result of being influential in early California. Couts died at the young age of 53 years and is buried in the Old Town cemetery in San Diego. A number of the Couts family relatives still live in the County. Tom Morrow's books are available at Amazon.com in soft-cover or via Kindle E-mail.