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VOL. 32, N0. 5
FEB. 2, 2018
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Kevin Towers’ passing hurts at a local level
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By Jay Paris
ENCINITAS — The music would start blaring, which prompted Trevor Hoffman to swagger through an open bullpen gate and Kevin Towers to bolt from his seat. “I never saw one of his saves,” Towers once told me. “I’m too nervous and superstitious.’’ “Hells Bells” would reverberate around the Padres’ digs, but it would do so minus the team’s one-time general manager. Towers would be the target of others, busting his chops for being so jittery over a future Hall of Famer’s performance. Now anyone associated with the local nine would love to see a sweaty-palmed Towers find refuge in the Padres’ clubhouse, just one more time. But Towers, a Leucadia resident, died on Tuesday morning. The dastardly disease of cancer claimed another victim but it’s doubtful it’s ever taken anyone as beloved as Towers. He was just 56. During the recent World Series, Astros manager A.J. Hinch, a former Padres executive, held up a sign with Towers’ name on it to illustrate cancer’s reach. “He means a lot to me,” Hinch said after-
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.com Former Padres GM Kevin Towers, left, died of cancer Tuesday morning at the age of 56. He is shown here in 2011 at the number retirement ceremony for former
TURN TO TOWERS ON A14 Padres closer Trevor Hoffman. Towers was the team’s general manager from 1995 to 2009. Courtesy photo
Surfing Madonnas project installs Moonlight mural By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — The Surfing Madonna Oceans Project has installed a highly anticipated mosaic at the city’s new lifeguard tower at Moonlight Beach. The 7 1/2 foot-by-15-foot mural entitled “The Pacific Playground” — which hundreds of residents helped put together — was placed on a wall near the entrance to the $3.7 million lifeguard tower The Surfing Madonna Oceans Project has installed a highly antici- and safety complex earlier pated mosaic at the city’s new lifeguard tower at Moonlight Beach. this week.
“It’s a dream come true, very rewarding,” said Bob Nichols, Surfing Madonna president. “It has been a lot of hard work and a lot of time, but, you know, it is something that our organization has worked very diligently on. “This community needs more art, and as a save-theocean organization, we wanted to put out that message through art and show just how beautiful our local ecosystem is, and at the same
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time, show how fragile it is, and this is a great way of showing it,” Nichols said. The artwork, originally drawn by artist Peggy Sue Zepeda, cost the nonprofit about $30,000. Originally, the nonprofit was going to donate the art to the city, but in October, the City Council approved a change to the arrangement that calls for the nonprofit to lease the piece to the city for five years, followed by two, five-year lease extensions if both parties
agree. The mural was constructed by Don Myers and Manny Corona with the help of many community artists at Meyer’s stained-glass shop in Oceanside. Nichols said that hundreds of people helped put the pieces of stained glass in place. “Even more rewarding than seeing it up is to see how people are responding to it,” said Brad Hanson, a board member on the nonprofit.
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