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VOL. 12, N0. 25
DEC. 9, 2016
Sheriff K-9 stabbed, deputies shoot suspect in the Ranch Suspect has a history of violently resisting arrest with law enforcement By Tony Cagala
Ed and Luciana Hanley, a father and daughter duo from Rancho Santa FE, are the creators behind their modernized invention of the play fort, AIR FORT. Courtesy photo
Father-daughter team modernize play forts By Christina Macone-Greene
RANCHO SANTA FE — A passion for innovation drew a local family together to reinvent the idea of play forts for kids. Father-daughter team, Ed and Luciana Hanley, who are residents of Rancho Santa Fe are the co-founders and inventors of AIR FORT. The idea emerged one night over dinner when Luciana, who used to babysit while attending USD, chatted about how so many kids built a
furniture fort. That was the impetus behind the creative thinking of using a fan to inflate a fabric fort. “We dusted off mom’s old sewing machine and hit the local fabric store. Not long after that, we had a prototype that really performed,” said Ed, noting how they later brought on a sewing company based in National City to assist with the prototypes. “Once we began testing AIR FORTS on kids and parents, we knew we really had something. There was nothing
even close to this on the market for kids.” Ed said what set Air Fort apart from other competitors in the market was virtually no assembly. When inflated with an ordinary household fan, he said, the AIR FORT expanded to 71-inches in diameter and is 50-inches tall. It also has the ability to fit three to five persons. When not in use AIR FORT was TURN TO FORT ON 21
730 Covenant members participate in online internet survey By Christina Macone-Greene
RANCHO SANTA FE — The Rancho Santa Fe Association asked its Covenant members to take part in an online internet survey which closed on Nov. 15. Available for three weeks, the survey asked 11 questions which gave the Association a better idea on internet coverage, connectivity
and cell service among its members. Christy Whalen, Association interim manager, indicated they had a good survey response at a Dec. 1 Rancho Santa Fe Association board meeting. The goal was to receive between 600 and 800 surveys and a total of 730 members participated.
“We hit our goal and we think that it’s a pretty representative sample,” she said. Whalen noted that a survey was done a few years ago, but what differed from that one, was the type of information gathered didn’t allow the Association to really accurately assess what was going on in the Cove-
nant regarding internet service and those providing it. “We had a lot of comments which was great information for us, and I know the Tech Committee is studying all those comments,” Whalen said. “Some of the comments were very appreciative of TURN TO INTERNET ON 21
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RANCHO SANTA FE — A knife-yielding man stabbed a Sheriff’s department K-9 before being shot by responding deputies early Saturday morning. The man, Edward Ray Nett, 50, according to a Sheriff’s department news release, was shot in the torso and taken to a local hospital for treatment. Nett is expected to recover from his wounds. The deputy involved in the shooting has been identified as Sgt. Scott Bligh. Bligh, according to the Sheriff’s department, has been with the department for 21 years and is assigned to the North Coastal Station in Encinitas. According to a Sheriff’s department news release, deputies from the North Coastal Station responded to a report of a person yelling and the sounds of items breaking in front of 6012 Paseo Delicias in the community of Rancho Santa Fe just before 5:30 a.m. The suspect yelled at deputies that he was going to stab them. In an attempt to take the suspect into custody with the minimum amount
of force, deputies launched pepper balls at the suspect and deployed a Sheriff’s K-9 named Banjer. The pepper balls had no effect, and Banjer was stabbed under the left eye. Deputies recovered Banjer and he was rushed to a local animal hospital for emergency surgery. Nett then broke into a nearby apartment where he confronted the resident and held them at knife point for a short time. The resident was able to break free of the suspect and run into the bathroom and lock the door. Nett yelled to deputies who were outside, that he had just, “slit the throat” of the victim. As deputies prepared to enter the apartment to rescue the victim, the suspect stepped outside and again confronted the deputies with the knife. One of the deputies fired approximately four times, striking Nett in the torso. Deputies took him into custody and began to render first aid until paramedics could arrive. The resident of the apartment was found unhurt, inside the bathroom. Banjer underwent successful surgery and is now resting comfortably. He is expected to make a full recovery, the news release reported. At the time of the shooting, Nett was on active parole for violently resisting law enforcement officers in 2015. Once Nett is able to be released from the hospital, he will be booked into jail on multiple felony charges.
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