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registrants will be led to the City Building where Mayor Judy Ritter and Mayor Pro Tem John J. Aguilera will be waiting to greet them and invite them on a tour of Council Chambers. A box lunch will be provided for the first 150 registered attendees upon completion of the Chamber tours. Rooted in Vista since 1969, North County Lifeline has served Vista residents and the broader North County community for more than 40 years. The agency provides a wide range of services dedicated to fostering youth resiliency, nurturing family strengths and solving community problems. More information on the history, programs and services is available at nclifeline.org.
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local water to residents per year. This is 15 percent of the total water supply. Other desalination projects are being developed, in addition to the Mission Basin Desalting Facility. “Right now, they are a very cost effective source of water as rates go up,” Dale said. “The local water supply is something we can control and keep the costs low.”
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for volunteers, extra cars and small floats. Getting everyone involved is the goal, so even a few representatives walking in the parade with a banner from your business are encouraged. Contact Cardiff 101 MainStreet for a parade application by calling (760) 436-0431, or visit cardiff101.com.
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dangers and teaches parents how to monitor their children’s online activity. No student is given a blog site unless they demonstrate online responsibility and have parental approval. A sample of student blog work can be seen at kidslikeblogs.org.
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advance by calling (760) 4353721.
SONGSTRESS Robin Henkel will sign the blues from 8 to 10 p.m. June 11, June 18 and June 25 at Zel's Del Mar, 1247 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar.
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them. “We obviously would like to raise more each year, directly to fulfill the dream but with the economy, we of a “Wish Kid” assigned to are happy with whatever we
get right now,” she said. The games are slated to start at noon following the “lighting of the torch” ceremony.
For more information about the event’s plans, visit believeinsomething.org. Magee Park is at 258 Beech Ave.
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through fifth-grade students, limited to 10 children per week. Costs are $125 per week. Call (760) 804-1969 to reserve a spot. Lagoon Day Walk is set for July 24. Enjoy a scenic walk or run beginning at one of three Carlsbad lagoons, all ending at the Lagoon Discovery Center. Stay and enjoy a barbecue
lunch sponsored by Tip Top Meats and live music. Postevent activities include a costume contest for youngsters, the shouldered hawk Merlin and a screech owl presentation by Project Wildlife.A free shuttle will be available back to your car. For more information, call (760) 804-1969. The nonprofit organiza-
tion is always looking for ways to produce events and programs on a shoestring budget. Any sponsors who can donate carpet squares for visiting third-grade classes, cans of peanut or almond butter for an upcoming bird feeder craft, or large bags of birdseed, may contribute to the organization by June 25.
• Least Competent DIY Homeowners: Reports still frequently emerge of homeowners battling household pests, yet only creating an even worse problem (as if the pests ultimately outsmart them). In recent cases, for example, Robert Hughes tried to oust the squirrels from his townhome in Richton Park, Ill., in March, but his smoke bomb badly damaged his unit and his neighbor’s. (Firefighters had to rip open the roof in the two units to battle the blaze.) Two weeks after that, in Mesa, Ariz., a man set his attic on fire trying to get rid of a beehive with brake fluid and a cigarette lighter. • Beauty contests for camels are very big business in Saudi Arabia, as News of the Weird reported in 2007, but the first one in Turkey (in Selcuk) was held in January and featured considerably lower-market camels. (The Turkish winner had been purchased for the equivalent of $26,000; a Saudi camel once won $10 million in a single show.) Judges supposedly look for muscle tone, elegance of tail wag and tooth quality, according to a January Wall Street Journal dispatch. Charisma is also important, according to one judge. “Camels,” he said, “realize that people are watching them (and) are trying to pose.” “Some will stop, open their back legs, and wave their tail, or (throw) their head back and moan ... this is the kind of posing we (judges) are looking for.” • From time to time, someone visiting his bathroom
looks down and finds eyes of a critter staring back at him from the toilet bowl. In March, Dennis Mulholland, 67, of Paisley, Scotland, encountered a 3-foot-long California king snake hiding in the bowl after escaping from elsewhere in the building. In December a woman in Edmond, Okla., had a similar experience with a squirrel, which, hypothesized police, might have crawled through a sewer drain. • “Personal body orifices,” as storage units for contraband, seem more than ever in vogue. Recent inventories made by police of suspects’ vaginas included LSD in aluminum foil and marijuana in two sandwich bags (woman in Englewood, Fla., January); pills (woman in Manatee County, Fla., February); heroin (woman in Scranton, Pa., March); a fraudulent driver’s license and credit card (woman in Lee County, Fla., May); and pills and a knife (woman in Fort Myers, Fla., May). Rectal safe-keeping included a man with a baggie of marijuana (Louisville, Ky., March); a man with a marijuana pipe (Port St. Lucie, Fla., May), and a man with 30 items inside a condom (Sarasota, Fla., February), including a syringe, lip balm, six matches, a cigarette, 17 pills and a CVS receipt and coupon.
Chester Creek Academy. The room contained inflatable exercise balls that appeared to be undisturbed, but Bjerkness has been arrested at least twice before, in 2005 (reported in News of the Weird) and 2009, because of his self-described compulsion to slash inflatable balls. • When News of the Weird first mentioned buzkashi (1989), it was merely the “national game” of Afghanistan, resembling hockey on horseback, with a dead goat (or calf, which is more durable) as the puck, carried by a team and deposited in a circle guarded by opponents (and played largely ruleless). As warlords’ power has grown, and the Taliban has departed, and Western money and commerce have been introduced, team owners now bid on the best players, some of whom also have lucrative productendorsement contracts and are treated as Afghan royalty. Said champion player Jahaan Geer, 33, to a Wall Street Journal reporter in April, “I used to practice buzkashi on donkeys. Now I drive a Lexus!” • David Truscott, 41, was convicted in Britain’s Truro Crown Court in February of violating a restraining order to keep away from the Woodbury House Farm in Redruth, Cornwall, after being caught there two times previously wallowing in the farm’s manure pit while masturbating. Said the prosecutor, “This is the only place (Truscott) seeks to gratify himself in this particular manner ...”
Escondido, the morning after the couple argued, Watanabe said. “He believed the victim was betraying him and giving information to other people,” he said. The victim was stabbed with a folding utility knife and sustained major damage to the neck area. Twedt was arrested at the residence after police responded to a 5:53 a.m. call about the stabbing, said Lt. Craig Carter of the Escondido
Police Department. “The defendant was arrested and admitted to stabbing the victim,” Watanabe said. Twedt rented a bedroom at the Cherry Street house, which he shared with a family and their two children. The family was at home during the time of the stabbing. Twedt was assigned a public defender and a preliminary hearing was set for June 16.
The current felony charge, which includes two special allegations, carries a maximum of 13 years in prison. Twedt’s prior convictions include possession of marijuana, property theft and battery with a deadly weapon. Superior Court Judge Marshall Y. Hockett set bail at $1 million. It is the policy of The Coast News to not identify victims of domestic violence.
June 17 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 651 Eucalyptus Ave in Vista. A $10 suggested donation will benefit Solutions for Change, dedicated to solving family homelessness for families and communities in our North County community. Solutions for Change is a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving family homelessness in North County.
this year’s California State University San Marcos gala, at 6 p.m. June 18, on campus at 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos. Online registration is available at csusm.edu. Tickets are $300 per person.
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11 through July 15; and Aug. 15 and Aug. 19. Activities include paddle boarding on the lagoon, learning about lagoon critters at the Discovery Center and touring Hubbs Research Institute’s sea bass project. Camp is geared toward first-
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became stuck in the drain, apparently as he was testing the filter’s suction. That story did not appear in News of the Weird, but several sources cite a July 1994 story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune.) • British welfare benefits are being reduced in two years, but for now, workshunning parents who blithely navigate a series of government “support” payments can make a nice living for themselves. Kathy Black, 45, of East Hanningfield, Essex, with 16 children by six fathers thus qualifies for the equivalent of at least $1,000 a week (the take-home pay of someone earning the equivalent of $68,000 a year), and child support from one of the fathers adds even more to her account. Black’s second husband, her 17-year-old son and her 22-year-old daughter spilled secrets of her irresponsibility to a Daily Mail reporter in February. • In May, a man exploring rural property in Lebanon, Ore., came across what appeared to be a classic World War II-era bomb, but, unfamiliar with the ordnance, he became only the most recent person to make the completely unwise decision to load it into his vehicle and drive to a police station (in Corvallis). Officers at the station reacted predictably and logically: They fled the room, closed down the streets around the station, and called the nearest bomb squad (which later detonated it safely).
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according to court documents. The victim learned of Twedt’s past after discovering a booking photo of Twedt along with a warrant for his arrest, according to Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe. The couple had known each other for one month. The stabbing took place at a residence in the 1600 block of Cherry St. in Solana Beach Mayor Lesa Heebner at its June 16 weekly noon meeting at St. Peter’s Church on 15th Street. She will speak on “The Potential Purchase of the County Fairgrounds.” Heebner has lived in Solana Beach for 36 years. You can park at Del Mar Plaza for free by mentioning the club.
JUNE 17 AMAZING GRACE To benefit Solutions for Change, the
INSIDE SCOOP The Rotary Through the Storm Gospel Club of Del Mar will host Choir will be in concert at 7 p.m.
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• Christopher Bjerkness, 33, was arrested in May in Duluth, Minn., and charged with burglary after being discovered mid-day in the physical-therapy room at the
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North County Solutions for Change will benefit from an art sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 18 by Artie Mattsonat the at the St.Tropez Bakery & Bistro, 947 S. Coast Highway. It will raise COLLEGE GALA ”An Evening money for the “Finding Our in Tuscany” will be the theme of Way” initiative, a North County Community effort helping home-
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Dressage Society, San Diego Chapter is having its first horse show of the season at the Del Mar Horsepark, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 18 and June 19 at 14550 El Camino Real, Del Mar. The show will host proffesional and amateur riders. The two-day event will showcase all levels of Dressage competition from Training Level to Grand Prix, the level shown at the Olympics.
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manager. “(He’s) very qualified (and) fits us like a glove.” Mosier said that after looking at a number of other resumes, he and Hilliard found Ochenduszko to be the most qualified. They also spoke with members of the Coronado City Council, who gave him the highest possible recommendation. During his tenure, Coronado built a new City Hall — a goal in Del Mar — and other community facilities, Mosier said. Ochenduszko will receive $15,000 per month without benefits while the city continues the recruitment process. His month-to-month contract is valid for six months and is renewable. Ochenduszko or the city can terminate the contract with a 30-day written notification. “In looking at what you have planned, you have a very ambitious agenda,” Ochenduszko said. “I look forward to being a part of that and helping you accomplish the things that are of interest to you. “I think they’re all good for the city of Del Mar and I look forward to being a part of your team for the months ahead,” he said. Brust’s resignation is effective June 29. “I know you’ll start July 1 but everybody in Del Mar works extra hours for free,” Mosier said before presenting Ochenduszko with the contract.
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level of rider, too. “We offer 98 miles of bike paths,” Calarco said. “In our quest to become even more bike friendly, the city of Carlsbad is pursuing the official ‘Bike Friendly Community’ designation sponsored by the League of American Cyclists, a national organization whose mission is: ‘To promote bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation and work through advocacy and education for a bicyclefriendly America.’” Calarco said a perfect beginners route for riders starts at the Village and heads south on Carlsbad Boulevard. This trail offers an abundance of scenery where dolphins are often spotted, he explained. Calarco called a quick tour through the South Carlsbad State Beach Campground another great path. “On your way back north to the Village, you might want to take a quick side trip on Palomar Airport Road to see the Flower Fields, or see what’s happening at the Strawberry Fields in Carlsbad,” he said. “Get outside and experience this great city and all it has to offer.” For more bike trail information, visit carlsbadca.gov.