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VOL. 28, N0. 45
NOV. 7, 2014
Gaspar is city’s first elected mayor ENCINITAS — Encinitas voters elected Kristin Gaspar as the city’s first mayor, as she easily distanced herself from the rest of the five-candidate field on election night, elected Catherine Blakespear to fill the council seat vacated by Teresa Barth, and said no to Medical Marijuana. Gaspar, per unofficial totals on the County registrar of voters website, received 48.14 percent of votes cast, easily besting Deputy Mayor Tony Kranz, who finished in second place with 32.26 percent. Former Encinitas Mayor Sheila Cameron, who entered the race just before the filing deadline, finished in third place with 13.08 percent of the vote. Munawer “Mike” Bawany, a local engineer, and indpendent journalist Alex Fidel finished in fourth and fifth place, respectively. Gaspar said she believed her hard work on the campaign trail paid dividends. “I am very pleased with the results so far,” Gaspar said early Tuesday night before final tallies solidified her victory. “This was the culmination of Kristin Gaspar becomes the city’s first elected 18 months of hard work, walking the mayor. File photo
neigbhorhoods of Encinitas, sometimes with my 9-year-old son in tow. I really feel that the face-to-face contact with voters really was the difference.” Gaspar has opposed the city’s $10 million purchase of Pacific View, which she said should have been used to pay for the city’s infrastructure repair backlog. Kranz has been an ardent supporter of the purchase, countering that the city has enough money to pay for both priorities. City voters are electing mayor for the first time after voters in 2012 passed two propositions that would make the mayor an elected post rather than an appointed one, and set the mayoral term at two years. Kranz, who still has two years left on his council term, congratulated Gaspar on her victory in a statement on his Facebook page. “Congratulations to Mayor Kristin Gaspar on her big win last night,” he wrote. “Since I still have two years to serve in my term as a city council member, I look forward to working with her. Thank you for your support. Encinitas TURN TO ELECTIONS ON A16
Del Mar Library celebrates 100 years By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — As an oceanfront community and home to the famed thoroughbred race track, Del Mar has become known for hotel bookings and horse race bookies. But it was books that are read that were celebrated Nov.1, when the city marked the 100th anniversary of its library and the building where it has been located for nearly 20 years. This newest page of the city’s history began in 1914, when Haidee Howard, clerk of the Del Mar School District, successfully petitioned San Diego County to establish a library in Del Mar. It started in the home of E.J. Hindle, who also served as the first librarian, before relocating first to a store, then in 1924 to the house of author Lee Shippey on the bluff north of Eighth Street. Throughout the next 25 years or so the library was moved to various locations on 15th Street. It was about County Supervisor Dave Roberts presents Pat Freeman, president of Friends of the Del Mar LiTURN TO LIBRARY ON A16
brary, with a proclamation declaring Nov. 1, 2014, Del Mar Library Centennial Day in the county. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
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Amy Jo Burnett, a real-life “Rosie the Riveter,” spent the years during World War II helping to build P-38 fighter planes. Courtesy photo
By Pete Peterson
Special to The Coast News SAN MARCOS — History has been defined as an account of people’s actions. In 1942, there was much action to be recorded. America was at war in North Africa and the South Pacific. Our troops desperately needed supplies and equipment. American women responded in droves, trading household chores for the assembly line, and forever changing the labor force. Some authorities credit this phenomenon as the beginning of the feminist movement. Others say it was the direct result of effective government propaganda, which ended when the men marched home. However, everyone agrees that these workers produced vital war supplies — battle ships, air planes, tanks, Jeeps, guns, rifle parts, bombs and other munitions — in such staggering numbers that our fighting forces were the best-equipped military in the history of warfare. Popularized in song and in print, as “Rosie the Riveter,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 said, “The dedication and commitment of the hardy American women is our ace in the hole in our fight against the forces of evil.” A real-life Rosie lives in Lake San Marcos, today. She is Amy Jo Burnett. Soon to be 92, Amy is as feisty and fully engaged now, as she was in 1942 when she assembled P-38 fighter planes for Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif. The thought that she was a feminist never crossed Amy’s mind. She was more interested in the 35 cents an hour she could earn. “That’s practically $3 a day,” her Uncle Claude said, when he told her about the job. “Smart as you are, you’d be great at polishing rivets or working on airplane main frames.” Amy remembers the hiring procedure at Lockheed as being easy. She filled out a one page form and returned the next day ready to work. With dress shoes TURN TO RIVETER ON A17