March 21, 2014
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Educational Opportunities HORIZON PREP Christ-centered, Classical Education in Rancho Santa Fe Imagine a place brimming with youthful energy and joyful enthusiasm. Where the blessings of individual character are celebrated and emboldened, purposefully guided by experienced academic leaders and skillfully nurtured by gifted teachers. A place where teaching for mastery is preparing articulate, critical thinkers and life-long learners. That place is Horizon Prep! EXCELLENCE Horizon Prep’s carefully honed curriculum combines the latest course materials with proven learning methodologies that actively engage students at every grade level. Students are well prepared for continued academic, collegiate, and life success. Horizon Prep consistently ranks among the top schools nationwide in Standardized Test Scores (IOWA) and is fully accredited by WASC and ACSI. PURPOSE Horizon Prep’s classical education model has flourished in Western culture for centuries and embraces the study of literature, language, science, mathematics, philosophy, history, and the arts. Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric phases form the foundation of this consistent pedagogy and shape our teaching approach at
every grade level. Studies have shown that nothing impacts a student’s ability to learn, to grow, and to achieve more than good teachers. Our low student-to-teacher ratio creates the optimum environment in which to provide the individual attention
Horizon Prep’s Christ-centered, Classical Education offers a Cure for the Common Core your child needs—and deserves. All Horizon Prep teachers are fully accredited and purposefully selected for having that special “gift of teaching.” JOY Students love to learn at Horizon Prep and enjoy an abundance of athletic, creative, cultural and contemporary electives and enrichment at every grade level. Student athletes gain confidence and experience by competing on Horizon Prep’s interscholastic teams. We offer a wide range of enrichments and electives, including music, drama, code, guitar, Mandarin, organic gardening,
Agua Hedionda Lagoon installs solar carport CARLSBAD — Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation will unveil the latest exhibit at its Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation Discovery Center at 10 a.m. April 1 with an eco-friendly and sustainable solar panel carport. It will showcase how solar power operates and how this device generates electricity back on the grid for the public. In an effort to increase awareness in the San Diego area that focus on the environment, SDG&E Sustainable Communities Program backed the Agua Hedionda project. 41 projects were completed during the last 10 years. On hand for the rib-
bon-cutting ceremony will be Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall, the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce CEO, Ted Owen, Agua Hedionda Board Chairman Mike Metts, Peder Norby Energy Neutral Coordinator for Agua Hedionda, and representatives of SDG&E. The Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation and Discovery Center Academy for Environmental Stewardship for local third grade students, delivers an in-depth, participatory curriculum through a series of three annual onsite visits to the center on the southern shore of the lagoon. For more information, contact Lisa Rodman at (760) 804-1969 or lisa@aguahedionda.org.
Final road closure DEL MAR — The city of Del Mar's bridge contractor, Flatiron West, Inc. will complete roadway improvements along North Torrey Pines Road from March 21 through March 25. The work will require one full road closure of North Torrey Pines Road from the Torrey Pines State Beach parking lot to Carmel Valley Road from 9 p.m. March 21 through 6 a.m. March 25. Detours will divert
southbound traffic to Carmel Valley Road and northbound traffic to Genesee Avenue, via Interstate 5. Pedestrians and bicyclists will be diverted around the closure via Carmel Valley Road and the Torrey Pines State Beach parking lot. For further questions regarding this notice, or if you note a safety concern, contact Del Mar's Public Works Department at (858) 755-3294 or GroupPublicWorks@delmar.ca.us.
finance, investment, and technology. To help make all of this possible, Horizon Prep offers over six acres of well-maintained athletic fields; a dedicated music center with hundreds of new instruments; an art studio that includes a printing press, potter’s wheels and separate kiln room; and a state-of-the-art technology center complete with secure campus-wide wireless connectivity and the latest Apple iPads, laptops and computers. Students and their parents also take comfort in knowing that our ACSI-accredited, over 7,000-volume library—staffed with a dedicated, full-time librarian— is always available. HOPE At Horizon Prep, we take pride and pleasure in delivering well-rounded graduates with a strong sense of self, hope, optimism, life purpose and direction. As one proud parent once said, “Horizon Prep is a great place to grow up.” Horizon Prep is now enrolling Preschool - High School. Join us an Admissions Open House, March 6th, April 10th and May 8th. For more information, visit: horizonprep.org or call our Admissions Office to set up a Private Tour (858)756-5599.
Reminiscing on things past baby boomer Joe Moris Sure seems like there are a couple prominent times in our lives that we reminisce even more than other times. Maybe it’s just me but when my kids were growing up and driving me crazy I would say something like “I hope your kids are just like you!!” which would devolve into me having a tirade about having only three channels on the television (… and that’s when we weren’t on the roof turning the antenna with my dad yelling out the window, or at the local Rx going through the tube chart to test the bulbs that burn out only to find out there are none available….). Growing up in San Diego didn’t mean trudging through the tundra mile after mile, but growing up on Jackson Dr. in La Mesa meant walking a mile and a half to the bus stop in the morning for a half hour ride to Crawford HS up off El Cajon Blvd near State College. Or, when in Jr. High, riding my bike over
a dirt road now called Navajo Rd. to Allied Gardens about 10 miles away to Lewis Jr. High. My kids grew up with their mother or me taking them to and from school every day. Home to cable channels, electronic devices, and their “caves”… better known as their sanctuary rooms. Me? I had no such privacy. I had to share a bedroom with my brother until he got drafted. Most baby boomers I know had multiple siblings. Nowadays if couples have more than two kids it raises eyebrows. So we reminisced then about how simple yet tougher adolescence was to us as opposed to that of our kids. But now the reminiscence is different. We reminisce with our friends now. “Remember Easter Break at the ‘69 Pop (pot) Festival in Palm Springs”? (Many of the rock groups that appeared there, appeared at Woodstock a few months later). Palm Springs was a great venue for left coasters but, you know the East Coast bias, notwithstanding the music, Woodstock got the press because of being in New York, the bad weather, mud and lack of planning. Palm Springs and Tahquitz Canyon was just a fabulous, warm and dry three-day fantasy.
I was writing to a they say about Paris in the friend today and we real- springtime. She says she ized that we had met thir- loves her work and being teen years ago; like a blink home, could retire any of the eye and poof, the time but feels fulfillment time is gone and yet so fast. and satisfaction with her We reminisce about fateful career. Nothing wrong events of our adolescence. with that. I’m approaching the That period in our life was truly short yet looking sunset but I still want some back and while living it, cool experiences. Planit felt like an eternity. We ning something cool raises reminisce about good and endorphins and makes you bad times. I like to think happy. Be Happy. Shake I’m making new memo- off the binds and blinds. ries so that when I’m 100 I Try to make memories that can reminisce. Heck, how you can reminisce about about 125? But, I have to when you’re 100!! It will remember my dad passing bring you peace and happiwhen he was only 71. Life ness. If you can’t afford it, is way too short sometimes. remind the kids that they You don’t see a U-Haul owe you — big time! behind a hearse. It might Afterthought: Think be time to start adding a ahead 25 or 30 years from few chapters to the book of now. Our politicians will memories. It’s time now to all be potheads. John Lenpin guilt trips on our kids non was right after all. and remind them that they Imagine! Peace. “owe us big time”!! (A little guilt never hurts). I Joe Moris may be know we’ll think we’ll nev- contacted at (760) 500er have “enough” money 6755 or by email at but happiness and even joe@coastalcountry.net generosity is important. After all, generosity is a Yin and Yang thing if you get my drift. I thought my 13-year friend was in a rut, just working and existing. She’s got a wheelbarrow of money. I told her to surprise her better half facebook.com/ with two tickets to Paris coastnewsgroup reminding her about what