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Vista man gets 80 years for killing girlfriend By City News Service
VISTA — A man who shot his girlfriend in the head at their Vista apartment complex — leading to her death at a hospital the following month — was sentenced March 2 to 80 years to life in state prison. Estevan Montelongo, 43, was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in the July 22, 2018, fatal shooting of 28-yearold Michelle Hashtani. Montelongo opened fire on Hashtani with a pistol at their apartment complex in the 600 block of Ascot Drive. Sheriff’s deputies found the victim gravely injured near the complex’s swimming pool at about 3 p.m. Hashtani underwent emergency surgery, but died Aug. 3. Two days after the shooting, Montelongo was tracked down and arrested in Pueblo, Colorado. In addition to murder, he was sentenced for allegations that include using a firearm in the killing and having prior felony convictions. Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Reischl said Montelongo had a domestic violence-related conviction in 1999, also involving a girlfriend. Montelongo was sentenced to eight years in prison in that case, and received an additional five years in prison for punching a guard.
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lifeguards at the San Diego Convention Center. On Feb. 3, there were 41 people experiencing homelessness and 61 shelter and outreach staff members at the convention center who were eligible according to guidelines at the time and opted to receive the vaccine. “It has been a unique opportunity to be involved with Operation Shelter to Home over the past year during the COVID-19
PLEXIGLASS DIVIDERS at Vista City Hall to protect staff and residents from spreading COVID-19 were built by Dan Hendricks of the Open Source Maker Labs. The Vista lab is a resource for businesses to conduct research and development. Courtesy photo
DAN HENDRICKS, founder of the Open Source Maker Labs in Vista, a co-working space for research and development. The lab is one part of the city’s Vista Economic Development Strategy to help businesses prototype and problem solve. Photo by Steve Puterski
Open Source Maker Labs a tool for business By Steve Puterski
VISTA — Startups to large-scale businesses have, and are, using the Open Source Maker Labs to quickly solve problems, develop solutions to help scale operations. The lab, founded by Dan Hendricks in 2014, is also on the radar for the City of Vista to help with its recently updated Vista Economic Development Strategy and COVID-19 recovery plans. In fact, Hendricks built the plexiglass barriers to provide safe buffers so the Vista City Hall could reopen, according to Kevin Ham, the city’s economic development director. Hendricks’ lab also provides expertise in training pandemic,” said Deputy Fire-Rescue Chief Chris Heiser, who serves as the incident commander for theoperation and oversees the city’s vaccination efforts. “Being able to offer the vaccinations to this vulnerable population is an important milestone and speaks to the care and effort that the city has placed on protecting the health of our homeless population.” Of the county’s population over the age of 16, 22.1% — or more than 594,000 people — have re-
to help guide new members for prototyping, along with software and hardware solutions to accelerate designs and prototypes to get those into production for its specific use. “How I describe it, it’s a co-working space for research and development,” Hendricks said. “If you are a startup company, or established company, and you need to do some R&D, the amount of capital to do that doesn’t make sense to do that on your own.” He said the shared resources make it cheaper for businesses to put their designs to the test. OSML, Hendricks said, has a wide range of members and customers from breweries to
Misadventure Vodka to Flux Power, which produces lithium-ion batteries, to the aerospace industry. Another startup using the labs capabilities is also including one prototyping device to monitor people with early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Hendricks added. “We try to cover the whole spectrum of anything you’d need to make or develop,” he explained. “So, it ranges from software, electronic engineering, metalworking, woodworking, rapid prototyping with 3D printing and laser cutting. And good experience on how to bring that all together.” As for the City of Vista,
The state judges each county by its worst performing metric — in San Diego County’s case, the daily case rate. ceived at least one dose and 10.7% — or more than 287,000 people — have been fully inoculated. Wednesday’s data increased the cumulative totals in the county to 261,353 cases while the death toll increased to 3,342. Of 13,293 tests reported
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by the county, 3% returned positive. The 14-day rolling average decreased to 3.5% from Tuesday’s 3.7%. Despite considerable improvement in handling the COVID-19 pandemic in recent weeks, the county will remain in the state’s most-restrictive purple tier
Ham said OSML is a valuable resource and will help with the VEDS, a five-year plan looking at 12 key areas and industries to recruit. He compared the lab to MacGyver “as I see Dan and his team possessing that know-how to put together a solution.” Ham said if companies don’t have the expertise and need to look outward, the OSML team has been a solid tool for those looking to find solutions. Ham said the city has its own resources and abilities to market support its economic and business goals. He said within the VEDS is highlighting the city as a great place to live and work.
The VEDS, Ham said, has incorporated the business changes since the pandemic. For example, he said office space may have been a priority, but now the city won’t invest as much energy in. The biopharmaceutical industry and medical devices have led to 500 jobs, but also shown how they’ve grown during the pandemic and may do so after emergency orders are lifted. “I think the economic strategy is the city looking into the future five years and how we can put into place programs, policies and actions that help support our local businesses and residential community,” Ham added.
for at least one more week. Posting an adjusted case rate of 10.8 new daily cases per 100,000 people, the county still has to drop below 7 per 100,000 to enter the less-restrictive red tier in the state’s four-tiered reopening system. In the red tier, some indoor businesses such as gyms, movie theaters and indoor dining can reopen. The county’s other metrics under the state reopening plan are also trending favorably. The seven-day positivity rate is just 4.2%, low
enough to put San Diego County in the orange, or moderate, tier. The health equity quartile positivity rate — which looks at the worst-performing quarter of a county’s residents — is in the red tier with 6%. The state judges each county by its worst performing metric — in San Diego County’s case, the daily case rate. Fletcher said despite vaccine supply issues, the county will likely move into the red tier in the next few weeks.
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