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most days.” When he’s not surfing, Heilman keeps busy with other events and designing efforts with Able Planet, a Colorado-based headphone manufacturer that is making its first foray into surfing by becoming Heilman’s sponsor. Heilman plans to pick up enough trash to fill 10, 35-gallon barrels. “I think it will be a pretty incredible visual to see all of the barrels stacked with 35 gallons of trash from just one section of beach.” Beginning at Moonlight Beach, Heilman walks one mile south some days and a mile north on others to pick
DEL MAR — City Council unanimously agreed at the Aug. 8 meeting to take action on a project study report that could result in a direct access ramp from Interstate 5 to the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The California Department of Transportation will be widening the freeway to 12 lanes during the next several years. At that time the plan is to remove the overpass at Via de la Valle and reconfigure the off ramps to handle an increase in traffic expected from the Flower Hill Mall expansion and more events at the fairgrounds. “They indicated they are going to try and offload that traffic more quickly onto our streets, mainly Via de la Valle and Jimmy Durante (Boulevard),” Councilmen Carl Hilliard said “They suggested that this is an opportunity for us, as a city or together with other cities such as San Diego and Solana Beach, to discuss the addition of a direct access off ramp into the fairgrounds,” he said. “It’s my impression that that is a desired outcome for Caltrans in providing the best solution at the interchange there at Via de la Valle,” Councilman Mark Filanc said. That will require a project study report estimated to cost $500,000, which Hilliard said would ideally be shared between all the stakeholders, including Solana Beach, the city of San Diego, the Flower Hill developers and the 22nd District Agricultural Association, which manages the fairgrounds. “Hopefully the DAA will be the lead funder since most of the traffic is created by their activities,” Hilliard said. “It would behoove the council to see if there’s any opportunity to seek out some
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Pro surfer Jesse Heilman is dedicating the month of August to clean up a one-mile stretch of beach in Encinitas. Photo courtesy of Dean Bradshaw
Surfer ridding beach of garbage By Wehtahnah Tucker
ENCINITAS — On Earth Day of this year, pro surfer Jesse Heilman, 23, thought about what he might be able to do to make a difference in the environmental landscape. With seemingly insurmountable doom and gloom on the ecological horizon, the possibility of affecting change might seem too daunting for some. But one man, over the course of one month, is beautifying a one-mile stretch of Encinitas beach in an effort to raise awareness and hopefully spur others to action. Heilman is pragmatic about his goals. “I’m by no means a hippie who
thinks that we can’t live without plastic; that people are going to give everything up,” he said. “But I think this will help people realize just how much trash is out there and how, if everybody just at least cleaned up after themselves, it would make a difference.” Heilman, a Florida native and winner of last year’s Kona Pro, has spent almost every summer chasing waves in California since he was 11. “I love it here,” he said. “But growing up in Daytona Beach was pretty cool. I spent most of my childhood outside, always on the move, doing something active. When I started surfing, I was in the water as much as possible, walking home from the beach well after dark
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