PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID ENCINITAS, CA 92024 PERMIT NO. 94
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VOL. 24, NO. 4
JAN. 22, 2010
Public weighs in on surf contest
THISWEEK
By Wehtahnah Tucker
EDUCATION ON WHEELS The Wyland Clean
ENCINITAS — The city’s Parks and Recreation Commission heard public comments on a proposed surf contest at Swami’s Beach on Jan. 19. The evenly divided crowd of supporters and detractors were in agreement that the famous surf break is a “gem.” City Council directed the commission to solicit public opinion about the feasibility of holding The Women’s World Longboarding Championship
Water Challenge Mobile Learning Center aims to change the way kids think about clean water B1
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TURN TO SURF ON A18
Encinitas woman lives through Haiti quake
Above, Carlsbad resident Bill Stedman, a 9-year employee of the city of Solana Beach, cuts up a fallen tree that completely blocked Rosa Street in the Cedros District of Solana Beach on Jan. 19. Right, a pickup truck makes its way across the flooded parking lot at Seaside Reef in Cardiff.
By Wehtahnah Tucker
Photos by Daniel Knighton
Club gets big boost from local restaurant owner By Alyx Sariol
CARLSBAD — Greg Nelson is always looking for ways to give back to an organization that gave so much to him as a young boy. This year, he’s launched a yearlong event and fundraising goal that he hopes the community will help him reach. Nelson recently announced that he will donate 100 percent of 2010’s profits from his restaurant, Gregorio’s Italian Restaurant, to the Boys & Girls Club of Carlsbad. The goal is $250,000. “People still go out to eat,” Nelson said, in reference to the drop in charitable donations due to the economy. “I just hope that they would think of kids when they’re spending money.” The money raised at Gregorio’s will benefit the club where it currently needs it most. The club recently finished the construction of TURN TO CLUB ON A20
DONATE DELICIOUSLY Barbi and Greg Nelson, Gregorio’s Manager Brandee Dunda
ENCINITAS — Doris Keats had a dream about an earthquake last Monday night only to wake up Tuesday, Jan. 12, to news that Haiti had been rocked by one. Her concern immediately turned to the safety of her friend, Dotty Valdez, who arrived in Port-AuPrince just hours before the earthquake. Valdez, a longtime Encinitas resident and former owner of The Outgrown Shop on South Coast Highway 101, was on her second trip to Haiti as part of a small contingent of volunteers bringing supplies to the elderly living at St. Stephen’s Home outside of the capital city. As reports of the devastation trickled in, Keats said she waited anxiously for news of her friend. “I was wondering what happened to them knowing they were there,” she said. Soon a bright spot TURN TO HAITI ON A18
Reeves, and a few of their Boys & Girls Club friends. Courtesy photo
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