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VOL. 24, NO. 52
DEC. 24, 2010
What’s next for sale of Del Mar?
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Local resident hatches a plan to have students, parents and teachers gather to plant trees to make campus landscape B1 more edible
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By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — With the 2011 session under way, state Sen. Kristine Kehoe introduced new legislation Dec. 6 authorizing the sale of the Del Mar Fairgrounds to the city of Del Mar. Senate Bill 1 replaces Assembly Bill 181, which was introduced by Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña in October and pulled almost immediately. It
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SUCH ANGELS Hark, the herald angels sing! From left, Carlsbad resident Lori Askew, San Diego resident Michaela Landis, Carlsbad resident Jacquelyn Askew and Carlsbad resident Gabriella Beltran perform during the 2010 Living Nativity hosted by Horizon Christian Fellowship in Rancho Santa Fe. Photo by Daniel Knighton
ENCINITAS — Councilwoman Teresa Barth was stripped of her regional committee assignments by a council majority during a special meeting Dec. 20, after being passed over for mayor last week. Deputy Mayor Jerome Stocks motioned to have firsttime Councilwoman Kristin Gaspar replace Barth as alternate representative on the San Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG, and North County Transit District, or NCTD. Barth was demoted to SANDAG second alternate while Stocks remained as the city’s representative. Barth said she did not support Stocks’ nomination to the NCTD and SANDAG boards because he did not
represent the city in a manner that was transparent. Gaspar said the 19-0 vote to recently appoint Stocks the chairman of SANDAG showed he represented the city well on regional boards. He was the only name on the SANDAG ballot. Mayor James Bond said he did not speak to anyone on the council prior to the meeting except Gaspar regarding his recommendations to the various regional boards. “I would have liked to talk to everyone but it’s not appropriate under the state’s Brown Act,” he said. On Dec. 15, Councilwoman Maggie Houlihan accused Stocks, Bond and Gaspar of colluding to deny Barth a chance at mayor or deputy mayor post for the second year in a row
(see story page A3). All three denied accusations that they violated California’s open government meeting law when they voted to appoint Bond mayor and Stocks deputy mayor. Tony Kranz, who lost his bid for council in the last election, asked the council to remember their places on the regional boards. “Council members area appointed to represent the city,” Kranz said. Last year, then-Mayor Dan Dalager reappointed each council member to their existing committees. However, this year’s appointments were greatly changed. Gaspar expressed a desire to be on the NCTD board according to Bond. He said he gave Barth similar committee assignments four
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VISTA — The real-life scene has ended for actor Shelley Malil after a judge sentenced him on Dec. 16 to life in prison with parole for the premeditated attempted murder and assault of his exgirlfriend, Kendra Beebe. More than a dozen news cameras captured the final hours of the court sentencing, which was likely the end of the spotlight for Malil, 45, an India-born Los Angeles actor who had a supporting role in the 2005 comedy “The 40 Year Old Virgin.” In September a jury found him guilty of the brutal attack on Beebe, in which he used two knives to separately stab her 23 times in back-toback assaults that left the mother of two nearly dead Aug. 10, 2008, at her San Marcos home. At the Dec. 16 opening court proceedings, Malil’s defense attorney, Matthew Roberts, had made a motion for a new trial, claiming the
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