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OCT. 12, 2018
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SDUHSD candidates talk issues By Carey Blakely
REGION — In an election year with record-breaking numbers of women running for office, one thing is clear about the San Dieguito Union High School District race: The board will be all women. No men are running in 2018, and Joyce Dalessandro and Beth Hergesheimer hold their seats until 2020. Vying for Trustee Area No. 1 are Amy Flicker and incumbent Maureen “Mo” Muir. Melisse Mossy and Rhea Stewart are running for the No. 3 seat. Lea Wolf, Kristin Gibson and Cheryl JamesWard are competing for No. 5. The Coast News reached out to the candidates for written responses to specific questions, which are summarized below.
RSF Connect breaks ground in ceremony By Christina Macone-Greene
DR. CHARLES FREDERICK BRASS started his Solana Beach medical practice in 1948 and was the personal physician to many famous residents of neighboring Rancho Santa Fe and Del Mar. He retired in 1986. Courtesy photo
Doctor to the stars and many others By Adam Bradley
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San Dieguito does not have term limits. Dalessandro has served on the board for 22 years. Should term limits be imposed? Flicker, Mossy, Muir and Wolf said yes. The latter three suggested two terms (eight years), while Flicker did not specify. Mossy pointed to a “constant stream of new and fresh ideas,” while Muir believes in balancing institutional knowledge with new leadership. Flicker wrote, “I believe that fresh blood and oxyTURN TO SDUHSD ON 7
DEL MAR — Thanks to her dad, Dr. Charles Frederick Brass, Louise Abbott spent many of her younger years in Del Mar hanging around such celebrities as Desi Arnaz and Jimmy Durante. That’s because her dad was the personal physician to Arnaz and Durante, among others including actors Victor Mature, Robert Young and Alan Ladd over the span of a 38-year career. “Even though he was my step-dad, he was really my dad in every sense of the word and he was beloved by many,” said Louise Abbott, 67, a real estate
broker who resides in Solana Beach. “He said his specialty was ‘the skin and contents’; back then it was known as a general practice, it is now known as family practice,” she said. “He delivered more than 5,000 babies over his 38 years as a doctor.” “I remember he was always busy, and was hardly ever home, he was either delivering babies, taking care of a patient, going to a Kiwanis meeting, or at the Solana Beach Fire Department, or doing something at the chamber of commerce, or doing something in the community … He also brought paramedics
to San Dieguito,” she said. his dad. “His mom, a graduate Growing up in Solana Beach of Stanford, was a math Growing up in Sola- teacher at San Dieguina Beach, among three to High School and she siblings, Abbott was the always insisted on him middle child. Her dad becoming a doctor,” Abopened his practice in So- bott said. “He didn’t have lana Beach in 1948, and much choice.” As for schooling, her provided medical care to the area, which included father was a graduate of Del Mar until he retired in what was San Diego State at the time, then Berkeley 1986. He was born in Calex- and finally USC. Abbott ico because his mother said her dad was a “gifted was visiting her sister diagnostician” who was there. His father was a known for making importjourneyman carpenter ant diagnoses. “He never took credand his mother a teacher. Abbott said while her dad it for his diagnoses; he enjoyed being a physician, always said it was a ‘gift he might have preferred TURN TO DOCTOR ON 14 becoming a carpenter like
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RANCHO SANTA FE — The Rancho Santa Fe Association invited Covenant residents and those affiliated with RSF Connect to a groundbreaking ceremony at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club on Sept. 27. The ceremony was held at the site where the Fiber Optics Maintenance Building will be constructed for 1-gigabit fiber-optic internet network in the Ranch. The $19 million project will enable every resident to have the fastest internet service in the nation, wireless capabilities, and other telecommunication features. RSF Association Manager Christy Whalen welcomed guests. “This is a very exciting day for all of us — it’s an exciting day for the board, the Technology Committee, of many who I see in the audience, staff, as well as community members,” she said. “We have been waiting a long time for this.” Whalen went on to say the event had many attendees who were instrumental in bringing 1 GB internet service to Rancho Santa Fe. She was also quick to point out the Association’s great collaborative working relationship with the county of San Diego. “Permitting and progress has moved even quicker than we had anticipated,” she said, noting that the project’s financing with First Citizen’s Bank was in the final stages. Whalen commended all involved who put countless hours TURN TO RSF CONNECT ON 3
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