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want the money back. “I want to return it,” Roberts said. “I want to show good faith to those who invested in the campaign.” Ironically, Roberts entered the race later than Tracy Emblem and Francine Busby, the other two other Democratic candidates, because of complications with the adoption of his third son. Emblem, who questioned Roberts’ party loyalty when he entered the race, described his decision to withdraw as “very noble.” “I like Dave,” she said. “We had a good rapport. But he’s raising a family. It’s hard. That’s why I waited to run. Family is No. 1.” After spending time with Roberts on the campaign trail, Emblem said she no longer doubts his party affiliation.
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23rd annual Holiday Homes Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6. The tour will feature four exquisite North County homes, all professionally decorated for the holidays plus the historic Rancho Buena Vista Adobe. The event raises money for VCC’s Kare for Kids Fund. Call (760) 631-5000, ext. 1418 or visit www.vistacommunityclinic.org/HHT.html to learn more. SPIRITUAL CHAT Seaside Center for Spiritual Living will host guest speaker Dr. Terry Cole-Whittaker from 9 to 11 a.m. Dec. 6, 1613 Lake Drive, Encinitas. Cole-Whittaker is the author of five best-selling books and creator of an Emmy Award winning television ministry. Call (760) 753-5786, ext. 848 to learn more.
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BOOK SALE The Friends of the Carlsbad Library will hold its annual Holiday Boutique Book Sale from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 7, Carlsbad City Library, 1775 Dove Lane. The boutique will offer hundreds of new and like-new books for all ages and interests. Call (760) 602-2020 for more details. ROCK ON The Encinitas Library will host a Jingle Bell Rock Video Game Tournament from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, 540 Cornish Drive. The video game tournament invites four people of any age to sign up and compete against other “bands” for fun and prizes. Call (760) 7537376 to learn more.
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Calls to the Busby campaign requesting a comment were not returned. Roberts said he doesn’t plan to endorse either candidate before the primary election in June. But he said he will support the winner in her effort to defeat Republican incumbent Brian Bilbray. He also said he’s keeping all options open for 2012, when his City Council term is up. “I could run for both, but I’m not sure I would,” Roberts said. “I’ll make my decision then.” Meanwhile, he and Oliver are adjusting to life with diapers, cribs and car seats. He said their other three sons were beyond all that when they adopted them. A few days after Thanksgiving, they also took the quintessential final step that commits them to a big family. “We bought a minivan,” Roberts said. Cardiff 101 Chamber will host its holiday festivities from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 10, Cardiff Towne Center. The evening will include music, craft vendors, holiday treats and even a visit from Santa. Call the chamber office at (760) 436-0431 for directions and more details. FORE! The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce will host a golf tournament at noon Dec. 10, La Costa Resort & Spa, 2100 Costa Del Mar Road, Carlsbad. The scramble format tournament will feature a $1 million holein-one shootout and various other contests. Call (760) 9318400 or visit www.carlsbad.org to learn more. GOOD YEAR Publishers and Writers of San Diego will hold their annual year-end celebration from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10, Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. There will be opportunities for networking and socializing. RSVP at www.PublishersWriters.org.
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SURVIVOR DivorceCare will hold a Surviving the Holidays seminar from 7 to 9 p.m. Dec. 11, Horizon Christian Fellowship, 6365 El Apajo Road, Rancho Santa Fe. The seminar will feature practical suggestions, guidance and reassurance through video interviews with counselors and experts in divorce-related care. Call Gary McCartie at (858) 756-5599 or e-mail divorcecare@horizon.org for details.
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HAPPY HANUKKAH The Chabad Jewish Center of Rancho Santa Fe will celebrate Hanukkah at the fourth annual Hanukkah Celebration at 7 p.m. Dec. 12, Del Rayo Village Shopping Center. The event will feature the lighting of a six-foot tall ice Menorah, live music and traditional potato latkes. E-mail Rabbilevi@jewishrsf.com.
Anthony from A Place for Mom will present a program on options for assisted care and how to pay for them from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 8, Carlsbad Senior Center, 799 Pine Ave. Anthony will discuss what options are available, how to choose and how much to pay for each. Call (760) 602-4654 for ELSEWHERE The Ivanffymore details. Uhler Gallery will show the exhibit “Here and Elsewhere” SING IT! The Oceanside through Dec. 28, 565 Grand Public Library will celebrate Ave., Carlsbad. “Here and the holidays with the family Elsewhere” is a diverse collecprogram Holiday Sing-a-long at tion of over 30 landscape paint3 p.m. Dec. 9, Mission Branch ings by local and regional Library. This event will be a artists.The gallery is open from celebration of favorite festive 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday songs led by Coast through Sunday. Call (760) Entertainment Cecilia. All 730-9166 to learn more. ages are welcome. For details, WATER ART Encinitas artist call the Civic Center Library Adam Koltz will showcase his watercolors all Children’s Desk at (760) 435- marine 5600 or visit www.oceansid- December at Encinitas City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Ave. For epubliclibrary.org. details, contact Adam Koltz at (760) 436-8533, FEELING FESTIVE The adamkoltz@sbcglobal.net.
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High School in Escondido, police said. Deputy District Attorney Vanessa DuVall told the court Hogue was a
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like in 20 years. One resident said there would be no cars, and an underground tunnel would be used to drive from one end of the city to the other. “You didn’t say we had to be realistic,” she said. “She stole my dream,” another woman said. Next they were asked to choose five one-word values they would use to describe why they live in the city. Twenty people wrote down adjectives such as quaint and beautiful, 18
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choose for reporting and paying their taxes,” the staff report states. Owners of rental property with five or more units will also be required to pay $25 per unit. Although several business owners addressed council at previous meetings, Peter House, president of the Highway 101 Association, was the only one who spoke Nov. 18. “Things are tight in the business community,” House said, speaking on behalf of several business owners. “We wanted some-
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pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison if convicted. Following the hearing, Ostbye said acquaintances of the victim and police officers that knew him testified Jacobson had a propensity for fighting and had a lot of enemies. “I have reason to believe that anybody could
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being elevated to a felony, because Clark now has three DUI convictions within 10 years. Like his aforementioned DUI arrests, these new cases occurred within a relatively
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idea,” Councilman Don Mosier said. “The only reservation I have about this plan — and I think this can be worked out — is that we are sort of endorsing one nonprofit, and there are a number of nonprofits in Del Mar. “I would like to make it clear that this is a level playing field — that we’re not picking our favorite nonprofit,” he said. “We would have to be open to the possibility that other worthy nonprofits in Del Mar might be reasonably expecting to have a Web site link on the city site.”
“predator disguised as a teacher.” She said Hogue was arrested on his way to the victim’s house, who he had told in a police monitored phone call to “say nothing, nothing at all.” Police said the victim
contacted authorities in late October to discuss her relationship with Hogue. The crimes reportedly occurred at Hogue’s residence, according to authorities. The school district placed Hogue on administra-
tive leave on Oct. 30, police said. Hogue remains out of custody on $100,000 bail. His next scheduled court appearance is a Dec. 14 readiness conference. A preliminary hearing was set for Jan. 4.
referred to community, 14 wrote down beach and 11 cited the weather. Residents were also asked to share changes they wanted to see included in the revitalization. Then they were asked to rate them in order of importance. The most popular responses were roundabouts and continuous sidewalks along the 101; more parks, trees and wider sidewalks; outdoor seating and cafes; slower vehicle speeds; and art and more profitable businesses. The two days following the workshop, Burden and
his associates conducted two walking tours to garner additional input. He said he would take all the information to create a master plan, which he expects to present as a work in progress in January. Once a plan is adopted, he said it could take anywhere from one to 10 years to break ground. “A lot depends on funding,” he said. City Manager David Ott said the city has already started looking at funding opportunities and has applied for a “major federal grant.”
Gabe and Ellen Rodarte, who grew up in Solana Beach, said they were “pretty excited” about the project. “I just hope it happens,” Ellen Rodarte said. With a 2-year-old and another baby on the way, the Rodartes said they would most like to see traffic slowed down on Coast Highway 101. “We walk a lot,” they said. “We want to be able to walk back and forth from the lagoon and the beach safely. We want our kids to have walkable places and places where it’s safe to ride bikes.”
thing simple and you gave it to us.” House read from a letter signed by almost two dozen members of the business community, including the executive directors of the Chamber of Commerce, Cedros Design District Association and Highway 101 Association. “The proposed tax must not make even worse the already difficult business climate that Solana Beach businesses are experiencing, especially those on the verge of closing,” House read. “The business tax had to be simple both for the city to administer and for the business com-
munity to calculate and to pay. The tax proposal before you today says that you listened to our petition. It does protect our small and struggling businesses and it does give us the flexibility, certainly, and simplicity that we asked for.” Councilman Tom Campbell, who owns a small business in the city, said he felt the model addressed the issues of fairness and equity. “I’m going to be paying this,” Campbell said. “I don’t think these numbers … (are) unreasonable.” About 80 percent of the businesses in Solana Beach have gross revenues of less than $1 million, putting
them in one of the first three tiers. More than half would fall into the first two tiers, or those with gross revenues less than $100,000 annually. Solana Beach, Encinitas and Poway are the only three cities in San Diego County that don’t currently charge some form of a business tax. Council members also unanimously agreed the vote should take place during the upcoming June election. That will cost the city about $13,000, as opposed to sending out a mail ballot, which would cost approximately $62,000.
have killed him,” Ostbye said. Additionally, Ostbye said DNA lab results relating to the blood police described finding in the kitchen, bedroom and on rags in the apartment, all of which she said could have come from Schmidt’s broken nose, are still pending. “I think there is a lot of missing evidence that we need to know (about),” Ostbye said.
Both Kundrat and Jacobson served time for drug-related offenses. At the time of the murder, Kundrat was on parole from a 2008 felony drug possession conviction. Prior to that, he served three prison terms dating back to 1999 for convictions out of San Diego County, his last being for vehicle burglary and grand theft auto in May 2005. Meanwhile, Jacobson
had been released from jail June 9 after committing a series of probation violations relating to a June 2007 conviction for possessing marijuana for sale, a felony. A condition of his release was that he had to complete a 12-hour anger management program. Weber set a trial date for Jan. 12. Kundrat’s next scheduled court appearance is a Dec. 21 readiness conference.
short time of one another, and involved high blood alcohol levels. Both arrests occurred in Carlsbad. The first was March 29 and the second was May 17, according to court documents. Clark’s BAC was .32 and .31, respectively, which is four times
California’s legal limit of .08. Clark was arrested in the first incident after driving into his residential community’s exit gate, court records state.The details surrounding his second arrest were not immediately available. If convicted, Clark faces
up to three years in prison, Deputy District Attorney Daniel Shim said. Clark’s next scheduled court proceedings are scheduled for Dec. 1 at the San Diego Superior Court in Vista. He is currently free on bond.
“I’m not so worried about how this might affect other nonprofits in the city because, for the most part, they are very locally oriented,” Councilman Richard Earnest said. “This is globally oriented. “I sort of have a problem here with people buying off their carbon footprint by buying something,” he said. “I think they ought to reduce their carbon footprint to begin with just because it’s the right thing to do.” As Del Mar addresses these and other issues, Heebner said Solana Beach officials can share what they learned in creating her city’s
resolution, which includes language about use of the city Web site. “We have gone back and forth with the attorney so I think that you’ll appreciate the template that we can provide to you,” she said. Participation in the program would be voluntary and there is no cost to the city, Mike McColm, Nature & Culture’s international director, said. By purchasing property, residents would be helping to conserve some of the world’s most important tropical forests, creating migration corridors for large animals and helping to conserve the water supply in a
fairly dry area, he said. The company also hires and trains local people to staff its foreign operations, so participants would be contributing to their livelihood, McColm said. We can’t save these areas without organizing the local people to engage in research and educational programs and finding ways for them to make some money that are compatible with forest conservation, he said. More information and a calculator to determine your carbon footprint can be found at natureandculture. org.