The Coast News, July 13, 2018

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Skatepark construction breaks ground

SAN Suit alleges MARCOS negligence at -NEWS living center

By Bianca Kaplanek

By Steve Horn

SOLANA BEACH — Construction of the skatepark at La Colonia Park is now underway. Work began June 25 and is expected to take nearly a year to complete. The estimated $1.1 million project will include skateboarding features, a small full-court basketball area and an EnergiPlant, a free-standing nanogrid that will provide Wi-Fi, USB ports for charging phones and internet access, additional seating and possibly security cameras. The design also features a donor wall with 3-by-6-inch clear glass subway tiles installed in the shape of a wave. The tiles, which will accommodate up to three lines of text, will recognize individuals or businesses that contribute $500 or more. A two-phase plan to upgrade La Colonia Community Center and Park approved in 2008 included a skatepark. But the entire project stalled when the funding source was eliminated by Gov. Jerry Brown. A few years ago, a group of residents successfully lobbied the city to complete another planned element — an honor courtyard for veterans — separately from the major project. Skateboarders followed suit. Two workshops were held to allow skaters to design their ideal park. Based on their input, the park will include elements such as a bowl pocket, a three-stair set with rails, a China bank, a stampedbrick quarter-pipe, a pole TURN TO SKATEPARK ON A13

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eco-friendly practices to bring to her new home. “We want to have a garden and a compost, so it was helpful learning some of their tips and tricks and methods and how to have a successful compost,” Jagla said. The Solana Center began in 1986 as a local grassroots effort to start a recycling program in San

ESCONDIDO — What began as a hospitalization for pneumonia and other THE ailments has escalated into an elder abuse and negliVISTA gence civil lawsuit filed in NEWS the Superior Court of California’s San Diego County division. Brought against the ownership group of the Oakmont of Escondido Hills assisted living center on June 22, the lawsuit filed by 87-year-old resident Naomi Davis alleges that Oakmont did not provide an adequate response RANCHO to Davis’ deteriorating SFNEWS health conditions. Davis’ legal team alleges that the facility “failed to exercise the degree of care that reasonable persons in like positions would have exercised.” The complaint centers on an alleged violation of Section 15610.57 of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code. That state law deals with the legal issue of neglect in elderly care or dependent adult scenarios. Legally, it is defined as a “failure of any person having the care or custody of an elder or a dependent adult to exercise that degree of care that a reasonable person in a like position would exercise.” The code provides many examples of neglect, including not helping maintain personal hygiene, not providing proper food or shelter, not maintaining adequate health or safety conditions, among other things. Oakmont of Escondido Hills markets itself as a luxury, affordable retirement community, according to its

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GLORY OF GARDENING Remi, 9, waters plants as he learns about gardening at North County Lifeline’s after-school program on Monday, July 9, in Oceanside. North County Lifeline, an organization whose overall mission is to teach self-reliance, is running a pilot program in Oceanside this summer called “Teens Leading North County.” The teens help children learn about gardening and sustainability. Photo by Shana Thompson

North County residents gather for new Green Living Tour By Kelli Kyle

ENCINITAS — On a hot Saturday morning, nearly 20 people from around North County gather under the shade in front of the Solana Center, a nonprofit based in Encinitas that focuses on sustainability. The group is about to embark on the Green Living Tour, a 45-minute educational walk-through of the center’s facilities

and programs, featuring compost initiatives, water conservation projects and even science experiments. Tour guide Jackie Bookstein, also the Solana Center’s volunteer coordinator, makes this content easy to understand. “I’m not using crazy scientific jargon because the point ... is to show that living sustainably is a really graspable thing that ev-

eryone can do,” Bookstein said. That was why the Solana Center designed the Green Living Tour — to expose residents to simple methods of reducing waste and promoting conservation. Sherene Jagla went on the tour with her family. They just moved to the area, and she said the program gave her some easy-to-implement,

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