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JULY 16, 2010
RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS
Rancho Santa Fe scout earns Gold Award RANCHO SANTA FE — Tali Rappaport of Rancho Santa Fe is among the 56 local young women who earned the prestigious Girl Scout Gold Award during 2010. Just 5.4 percent of Girl Scouts nationwide achieve this honor, the culmination of their Girl Scout Leadership Experience. She is a third-generation Girl Scout and the daughter of Mark and Lori Rappaport who currently serves on the Girl Scouts, San DiegoImperial Council board of directors and leads Troop 1109. Each Girl Scout Gold Award recipient spends two to three years completing a seven-step process that includes exploring career interests, colleges, internships and jobs. It is completed when the girl plans, executes and evaluates a major service project based on a personal passion that addresses the needs of a specific communi-
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gain confidence in myself and my organizational and leadership abilities.” The recent Canyon Crest Academy High School graduate will enroll at the University of Puget Sound in the fall. She plans to major in psychology, then attend graduate school and become an occupational therapist. The Girl Scout Gold Awards were presented during a recent ceremony at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in University City. Former Girl Scout Beth Burns, San Diego State University’s women’s basketball coach, delivered the keynote address and met privately with the Gold Awardees to exchange ideas about leadership and perseverance. SDSU hosts Girl Scout nights at home games, and Coach Burns and her team volunteer at Girl Scouts’ New Day 5K and other council events.
Rappaport created a memorial library for the Jenna Druck Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports families that have lost a child. After raising nearly $3,000, she purchased more than 200 new books and made memorial book plates featuring her original painting. During her 13 years as a Girl Scout, Rappaport was a delegate to the national Girl Scout convention, a member of the councilwide Teen Advisory Board, and a counselor at a Missouri Girl Scout camp, serving girls living with disabilities. “I feel proud to have followed the progression of leadership in Girl Scouts from Brownies all the way to the Ambassador level,” Rappaport said.“It helped me TOP HONORS Tali Rappaport of Rancho Santa fe is a third-generation Girl Scout. Courtesy photo
Don’t worry — I still have my silver cube in the Salton Sea I knew, dear readers, that you have been holding your collective breaths waiting to hear if my lovely winter home near the Salton Sea had survived my husband’s absence of six months. For those of you looking puzzled, let me briefly review.
My column, written about a year ago, told of a goofy, 8-footby-6-foot shack my husband had spent months building in Slab City out in the middle of almost absolutely nowhere. He had become curious when he heard about the deserted Army base where Canadian
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snowbirds and ne’er-do-wells migrate to live rent-free. My spouse loves to explore places like this for his ongoing study of mankind. He also likes to build things, but not to code. No, I don’t understand it either. In any case, the final touch was to paint the hut silver to reflect the heat. On one visit, he arrived to find hilarious signs on it, declaring it the “Silver Cube Café” complete with a menu and posted hours that indicated it was never really open. Now the legend grows. Just too busy with work, my hubby had no time to make the three-hour drive all winter. When he headed out there Saturday, he considered the possibilities of what he might find. He figured it was burned to the ground, dismantled for firewood, occupied by eight or 10 of the local denizens, or hopelessly vandalized. To his great glee, he found that a very pleasant, retired fellow of about 70, from
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from a far worse fate and that he was welcome to stay as long as he liked. I think they bonded. Now we need to expand on “the legend” to give it a permanent place in the lore of the Salton Sea, like ersatz mayor “Hunky Daddy” and Salvation Mountain. I think we should call it “The Legend of the Albino Mexican.” My husband is so fair he has pink freckles, but because he wears a big floppy hat, long pants and long sleeves whenever he’s in the sun, it’s hard to tell what his coloring is. I’m working on a really good tale about how he died, involving an attack by scorpions and tarantulas on his way to the outhouse. Or perhaps he was shot by an irate customer upon discovering the Silver Cube doesn’t actually sell margaritas for $1. Hi, ho Silver Cube, awaaaay!
Oregon, had parked his trailer next to it. He doesn’t need to live inside the tiny shack, but instead uses it to lock up his motorcycle and other supplies. On really hot nights, he pitches a tent atop it and sleeps there. When Mr. Gillette introduced himself and shared that he had built the shack, the nice fellow was suitably chagrined and apologetic. “Oh!” he exclaimed.“The story I was told is that it was built by some Mexican fellow who died!” They agreed to let that be the story that stands, as it is much more interesting than some peculiar, middleaged man from Carlsbad who just likes to putter. My husband assured his Jean Gillette is a part-time editor who tenant that his presence had, loves happy endings. Contact her at no doubt, kept the Silver Cube jgillette@coastnewsgroup.com.
Book Cellar auctions rare tomes RANCHO SANTA FE — The Book Cellar, the book store at the Rancho Santa Fe branch of the San Diego County library, will host a blind auction in July and August for rare books and catalogs. Bid forms are available at
the Book Cellar, 17040 Avenida De Acacias, during regular hours, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The last day to bid will be Aug. 31. Bidding starts at $30. The items for sale include seven catalogues of Meeting R oo Available m Hourly Ba sis Half-day , or Full-da y. Call today !
“Derriere le Miroir,” an art magazine published between 1946 and 1982 by French publisher and gallery owner Aime Maeght. The second item up for bid is “Far West: Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Shore.” In 1888, San Francisco publisher James Dewing launched the project with text and editing by John Muir. For more information, call the Book Cellar at (858) 756-4780.
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JULY 16 GOOD TUNES The Friends of the Solana Beach Library will present the band San Diego Cajun Playboys from 7 to 9 p.m. July 16, Solana Beach Library, Warren Hall, 157 Stevens Ave. The band is the reigning winners of the Cajun French Music Association’s Le Cajun award for “the best Cajun band outside of Louisiana.” Call (858) 7551505 to learn more. RARE, COLLECTIBLE The Friends of the Carlsbad Library will have its annual silent auction of rare and collectible books from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 17 and from 1 to 3 p.m. July 18, Gowland Meeting Room, Carlsbad City Library, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad. Books will be on display. Call the bookstore at (760) 6022020 or visit www.carlsbad library.org to learn more.
JULY 17 EASY RIDERS The GoldWing Road Riders Association chapter Ca1N will meet for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and business at 8:30 a.m. July 17, Grandma’s Hill Top Hide-AWay Café, 539 Vista Bella, Oceanside. Primarily a Gold Wing motorcycle chapter, owners of all types of motorcycles are welcome.Visit www.gwrracaln.net or call (760) 476-9450 to learn more. HELPING OUT Hospice by the Sea is seeking volunteers for Hospice patients and their families. An informational/training session will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 17, Hospice by the Sea, 312 S. Cedros Ave., Suite 250, Solana Beach. Training is free. Call Kathleen at (858) 794-0195 or e-mail kathleenc@hospice bythesea.org to learn more. LAGOON DAY! Batiquitos Lagoon will hold an open house and family-oriented events in celebration of Lagoon Day at 9 a.m. July 17, Nature Center, 7380 Gabbiano Lane, Carlsbad. Learn about natural resources, prehistoric Native American habitation at the lagoons, and current efforts to manage the lagoons. Call (760) 931-0800 or visit www.batiquitosfoundation.org to learn more.
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BRIDGES
American Contract Bridge League Unit 531 will host a unit game at 1 p.m. July 18, Esplanade Bridge Center, 437 S. Highway 101, Suite 102, Solana Beach. The game will feature Stratified Open Pairs, as well as a 499’er Section. Visit www.acbldistrict22. com/531 or call (858) 755-8463 to learn more. TURN TO CALENDAR ON B14
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