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VOL. 24, NO. 44
NOV. 12, 2010
Foreclosed home held hazards
THISWEEK ON POINT
An Oceanside native is doing well at the renowned United States Military Academy at B4 West Point
By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — The city of Oceanside was left with a major hazardous waste cleanup after a family moved out of their foreclosed home at 1428 San Simeon Street on Nov. 4. The past resident of the home in the Capistrano neighborhood, near the front gate of Camp Pendleton, reported to the Fire Department that her husband had owned a company that made gopher eradication devices and regularly bought and sold hazardous materials and explosives to kill the gophers. Her husband developed gastrointestinal cancer in 2005 and died in 2008, leaving the hazardous materials behind. Firefighters found four storage buildings in the backyard that contained hazardous liquid and solid materials. There were also numerous containers of liquid found
GETTING CRAFTY Local artists and artisans got a chance to peddle their wares to the public thanks to an annual A3 Encinitas event
STEAMPUNK
A new multimedia exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art proves to be anything but A14 ordinary
INSIDE
TWO SECTIONS, 48 PAGES
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . A5 Camp Pendleton News . . . A16 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . B20 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . B22 Consumer Reports . . . . A13 Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A8 Doorman Diaries . . . . . B11 Frugal Living . . . . . . . . B11 Hit the Road . . . . . . . . . A12 Hot Off the Block . . . . . . A9 The Law & You . . . . . . . . A9 Legal Notices . . . . . . . . A22 Local Roots . . . . . . . . . . A9 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . B7 Odd Files . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 Pet of the Week . . . . . . . B7 Sea Notes . . . . . . . . . . . A12 Second Opinion . . . . . . A15 Small Talk . . . . . . . . . . . B1 Taste of Wine . . . . . . . . A7 Who’s News? . . . . . . . . . B4
COUNTRY DAY FAIR Above, at the Encinitas Country Day School Halloween Fall Festival Oct. 30, eighth-grader Devon Phillips cheers as Principal Graeg Lehmunn falls into the Dunk Tank. “It’s all about the students having fun,” Lehmunn said. “The first- and secondgraders get such a kick out of dunking me.” The fair is held to raise money for the ECDS Parent-Teacher-Organization. Right, Michael Peterson and first-grader Ella Decking have fun making creepy bubbly potions. Courtesy photos
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Arrested man not ‘Geezer Bandit’ By Shelli DeRobertis
that were not consistent with the city’s general plan. City officials said the designation was not relevant for the coral because it sits along a public right-of-way, where such protections, on paper at least, are already are in place. In order to qualify as a heritage tree several factors
VISTA — Authorities have determined that the man arrested Nov. 1 for a set of robberies is not the Geezer Bandit, which was what was originally reported by witnesses who heard the robber identify himself as such. Edward Bernard Power, 58, was arrested as a suspect in three robberies that took place in Carlsbad and Oceanside during the same day. The Geezer Bandit has been captured on numerous surveillance photos, and is estimated to be about 60 to 70
TURN TO HERITAGE ON A23
TURN TO BANDIT ON A13
Commission designated first heritage tree By Wehtahnah Tucker
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TURN TO FORECLOSED ON A15
ENCINITAS — The Planning Commission gave the city’s first “heritage tree” designation despite staff recommendations in both a September meeting and on Nov. 4 not to qualify the tree as a heritage tree. The city arborist said the tree was old, is in poor form and condition with gopher
activity and limbs growing into power lines among other problems. Arborist Mark Wisniewski, who worked with the applicant, disagreed. Marguerite Butler said the 80-year-old cockspur coral along Requeza Way that she has cared for more than half a century deserves special recognition. As part of the urban for-
est management policy the City Council passed in 2009, the heritage tree designation identifies trees that have significance to the community according to City Planner Kerry Kusiak. The heritage designation was designed to afford trees an extra measure of protection against removal for development or other reasons
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