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THE COAST NEWS
AUG. 21, 2009
Celebrate summer with a dog party SOLANA BEACH — Put Fido on a leash and hit the beach, Solana Beach that is, for the Dog Day Afternoon on Aug. 22. Join the Foundation for Animal Care and Education, or FACE, and the Beachwalk shopping center from noon to 4 p.m. at 437 S. Coast Highway 101, for an afternoon of fun for your entire family including the four-legged members. All proceeds from the event are tax-deductible and
will benefit the FACE Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps save the lives of critically ill and injured pets. Festivities include more than 20 different restaurant samplings from Pacific Coast Grill, Coldstone Creamery and Cupcake Love and more. The event will offer discounted shopping, live music by Stratos, pet-friendly vendors, professional pet portraits, doggie kissing booth present-
ed by Muttropolis, fun dog contests such as Best Costume, Best Trick, Ugliest Dog, Dirtiest Dog, Smallest Dog, Largest Dog plus games for kids. Don’t yet have a dog but want to add one to your household? The Humane Society of Tijuana will be on hand with dogs rescued from the streets of Mexico that are awaiting loving homes. Admission is free. The food sampling tickets can be
purchased for $15 pre-sale and $20 at the door. For a small donation, your dog can be a VIP (that’s Very Important Pet) and be entered into all contests. Individuals may pre-register by going to www.face4pets. org or by calling (858) 4503223. The first 100 registrants receive a goody bag. For more information on FACE and its life-saving work, visit face4pets.org.
BIDS FOR BLOOMS The Palomar Orchid Society Orchid had a good turnout for its fundraising auction Aug. 8 at the Carlsbad Woman's Club, 3320 Monroe St., where the group holds its regular meetings. Above, Carlsbad resident Barbara Eastman picks up the orchid she won at the auction. Courtesy photo
Nurses say patients don’t realize how bad they have it By Consumer Reports
You might already worry that hospitals aren’t as safe or sanitary as they should be, but nurses say you don’t know the half of it. That’s the startling conclusion of Consumer Reports’ first side-by-side surveys of hospital conditions from two very different perspectives: those of nurses and patients. In the surveys, conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, CR heard from subscribers who told them about their own or a loved one’s most recent hospital stay, and nurses reported on their most recent week at work. Their responses show that hospitals look very different depending on your vantage point. About 4 percent of patients said they saw problems with hospital cleanliness, compared with 28 percent of nurses. Thirteen percent of patients said that their care wasn’t coordinated properly, but 38 percent of nurses said that was a problem. Five percent of patients, but 26 percent of nurses, said hospital staff sometimes did not wash
their hands. In spring 2009, CR surveyed a national sample of 731 nurses who cared directly for patients in emergency rooms, critical-care units, operating rooms and other areas of the hospital. For the patient’s viewpoint, in spring 2008, more than 13,540 readers told CR about their own or a family member’s hospital stay during the previous year. CR also collected suggestions from dozens of interviews with hospital officials, doctors, registered nurses, social workers, dietitians and hospital pharmacists -- and patients who were willing to share their experiences. Here’s their combined wisdom on how to get through a hospital stay safely and with minimal confusion. 1. Do your homework. Fifty-nine percent of patients in CR’s survey did not enter the hospital through the emergency room, so they might have had a choice of which hospital to go to. But 65 percent of patients in the survey simply TURN TO NURSES ON A23
Scholarships offered at jewelry college CARLSBAD — The Gemological Institute of America is offering 76 scholarships available for the 2010 calendar year. On-campus scholarships for gemology and jewelry arts courses are offered at GIA locations in the U.S., and gemology and jewelry design scholarships are available at the Thailand, India and London campuses. Distance Education awards are also being offered. The application period for these scholarships runs through Oct. 30. Applications can be obtained online at www.gia.edu/scholarships. All GIA scholarships, along
with their respective application requirements, are listed. New scholarships for 2010 include the Rio Grande Scholarship, which will help fund one On-campus Graduate Jeweler program at the Carlsbad campus. “This scholarship is in honor of my late father who loved nothing better than sharing his knowledge about jewelry with others,” said Alan Bell, the donor of the Rio Grande Scholarship. “My family has enormous respect for the integrity of GIA’s educational programs. We want this monetary support to help foster another gem enthusiast, like my father.”
BILBRAY FOR BUSINESS At the Carlsbad Chamber’s First Friday Breakfast Aug. 7, Lou Storrow, chairman of the Carlsbad Chamber’s board of directors; was joined by Ted Owen, president and chief executive officer of the Carlsbad Chamber; Dick Castner, regional director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Western Regional Office; and Chamber member David Lloyd, far right, to congratulate Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad, who received the Spirit of Enterprise Award for voting pro business on 15 out of 18 issues before the House in 2008 from the U.S. Chamber Courtesy photo
A healthy serving of solid surf I had just moved to Encinitas after a six-month stay on Maui when I met a group of surfers who had also recently returned from the Valley Isle and were visiting North County from their place of origin, Redondo Beach. The year was 1970, a moderate south swell was running at Swami’s and there was nobody out. I had just paddled out when a car skidded into what was then a dirt lot and out piled a crew of six, including two surfers destined to become my friends — Steve Cleveland and Allan Tiegan. Steve, a regular foot, and Allan, a goofyfoot, dominated the mushy rights before we paddled in and spoke about our mutual friend Steve Oberg. I had met Oberg while surfing Honolua Bay the previous winter and we had reconAre you...
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nected in his hometown of Cardiff. Later that evening everyone got together at somebody’s house in Cardiff and we had dinner and parted company. Three years later, while again visiting Maui on my way to Guam and later, Australia, I had everything I owned stolen. As it happened,the Tiegan family owned a house near Lahaina where Allan and Steve were living. There they fed me, housed me and took me to the airport when it was time. In Guam I found good reef breaks and wrote Steve
Cleveland, exaggerating the quality of the surf in true surfer fashion. If I had realized how adaptable he was, I would have been more cautious. Still, he showed up, ready to surf. And we did score some decent island-style right ledges a few days in a row. I left for Australia and he remained in Guam, only to be held up at gunpoint by a group of nervous junkies. Glad I missed that one. Since Facebook was a lifetime away from being invented, I lost touch with Steve, drifting my way back to Cardiff where I have settled ever since. We didn’t connect again until the early 1990s, when I told him my idea for the first longboarding film of it’s time, “On Safari To Stay,” starring then unknown surfers Joel Tudor and Wingnut. The film, which Steve produced and I
directed and narrated, resonated with quite a few longboarders at the time, sparked my writing career and offering Steve the stimulus for his next film which he shot, edited and directed himself, “On Safari Again.” Departing from the Safari title, Steve’s next hit was “Another State of Mind.” Now, moving as far from as possible from safari, he delivers “Fresh Fruits for Rotten Vegetables,” which mixes long and shortboards along with an organic and generous offering of alternative surf craft. But don’t let the title mislead you — this is perhaps Cleveland’s most hardcore film to date. More like a smoothie than a platter, Cleveland reveals without narration that surfing is whatever you dream
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