Inland edition, may 18, 2018

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VISTA, SAN MARCOS, ESCONDIDO

VOL. 4, N0. 10

MAY 18, 2018

District 5 candidates talk issues

Four in running for supervisor seat By Steve Puterski

DEADLY MONTH ALONG TRAIN TRACKS San Diego County Sheriff’S Deputy Jason Burk works alongside emergency responders as they process the scene of a pedestrian fatality early Tuesday morning on the railroad tracks between South Coast Highway and South Vulcan Avenue in Encinitas. The incident marked the fourth pedestrian fatality along the railroad tracks in North County in the last month, a spate that again has raised the question of what officials can do to make the tracks less accessible to the public. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram

Student fatally struck by car while walking near high school By City News Service

SAN MARCOS — A weekend crash involving two students near Mission Hills High Schools left a teenage girl dead a month shy of graduation. Friends and classmates identified the victim as senior Lauren Wolford, who was expected to graduate June 14. She was walking near the school around 11 a.m. May 12 when a sedan whose driver apparently lost control jumped a sidewalk, striking her on the north sidewalk of East Mission Road, sheriff’s officials said. She died at the scene.

Multiple media outlets reported the driver of the black BMW sedan involved in the crash was a sophomore or junior baseball player at the high school. Sheriff’s officials said he was not seriously injured in the crash, which left the front end of the car smashed into a wall. School Principal Courtney Goode sent a recorded phone message to parents Saturday afternoon confirming that a student had died in a traffic accident, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. She informed them that crisis counselors would be available to students and

staff beginning May 14. San Marcos Unified School District Superintendent Melissa Hunt said in a statement that district officials were making arrangements “to support our Grizzly families in the wake of this tragedy.” Hunt said counselors, social workers and psychologists from inside and outside the district would be at the school as long as the need persisted. “This is a terrible loss and our hearts go out to our student’s family in what we know must be unimaginable grief,” Hunt said in her statement.

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Speaking to CBS8, Hunt said, “There are no words. We just weep with the family.” A memorial for Wolford sprouted up near the campus over the weekend, with mourners dropping off candles, flowers, stuffed animals, photographs and hand-written notes. Tributes also poured in on social media. The deadly accident was still under investigation, and deputies asked anyone with information on the crash to call the Sheriff’s Department’s San Marcos substation at (760) 510-5295.

REGION — It is a four-person race to fi ll the seat left by San Diego County Board of Supervisor Bill Horn in District 5. Vying for the seat are republican Mayor Jim Desmond of San Marcos and Oceanside City Councilman Jerry Kern. For the democrats, legislative analyst Michelle Gomez of Oceanside and Jacqueline Arsivaud, chairwoman of the Elfin Forest/Harmony Grove Town Council. If no candidate receives 50 percent plus one of the vote, the top two will run off in the November general election. The primary is June 5 and the district consists of about 620,000 residents. For District 5, though, it will be the first time in 24 years someone other than Horn will represent much of North County. It is the largest district, spanning from Camp Pendleton south to Carlsbad, and east through Vista, San Marcos, Valley Center and Borrego Springs. The county faces numerous issues, especially in North County, where housing, economic development and transportation are areas of financial support, improvement and expansion. The Coast News spoke with each candidate about how they would approach TURN TO DISTRICT 5 ON 30

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