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THE COAST NEWS
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MAKING WAVES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
VOL. 24, NO. 46
NOV. 26, 2010
Residents rally for Pacific View site
THISWEEK CAR CRIMES
Senior Patrol volunteers in San Marcos help keep local shoppers’ A3 purchases safe
BENEFIT CONCERT
By Wehtahnah Tucker
The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach rallies around one of its own hosting a fundraiser to help pay an employee’s medical expenses A3
3-DAY WALK
Thousands turn out for annual 60-mile walk to fund breast cancer B1 research
BUZZING IN Patrons at a local bar get more than booze as the house serves up trivia every Tuesday night A9
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■ The San Diego Sockers won their home
opener against the Tacoma Stars on Nov. 20 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The final score was 86. Kraig Chiles was credited with a hat trick and four other Sockers scored at least one goal.
Left, Rancho Santa Fe resident Raithe Lischewski watches the action from his box seats. Above, John Krause battles Stars forward Amos Freiheit for position early in the first period. Photos by Daniel Knighton
SOCK IT TO ’EM
Fairgrounds’ purchase debate continues By Bianca Kaplanek
COAST CITIES — Del Mar Mayor Richard Earnest and Councilman Carl Hilliard asked Solana Beach City Council at its Oct. 27 meeting to support its purchase of the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Tim Fennell, the facility’s general manager, was given equal time at the Nov. 17 meeting to explain why he thought the acquisition was a bad idea. Following that presentation, Solana Beach City Councilman Dave Roberts, who along with Mayor Tom Campbell makes up a subcommittee that has been discussing the sale with Del Mar, was still unclear about Fennell’s comment that the current fair board supports “true regional control.” “I think our subcommittee would like to understand what those three words really
mean,” Roberts said. “Also we’d like to discuss the historical challenges (both cities) have had over known impacts that have been caused by the operations at that fairgrounds and that we have tried and been stymied every way we’ve turned to get the Legislature, the 22nd DAA or others to recognize.” The fairgrounds is currently operated by the 22nd District Agricultural Association’s nine-member board of directors made up of state appointees from throughout the county. Del Mar is proposing an 11-member board that includes five appointees from Del Mar and one each from Solana Beach and the city and county of San Diego; a county agricultural representative; and the director of the San Diego Association of Governments and the San
Dieguito River Valley Joint Powers Authority. Both sides claim their governance structure represents the best example of local control. Del Mar officials say city ownership would also provide better means to mitigate negative impacts.The city also opposes current expansion plans that include a convention center, rooftop sports fields and a hotel condominium. Fennell touted the facility’s positive impacts, calling it the “most financially successful fairgrounds in the country.” “I don’t want you to take my word for it,” he said. “Please do your due diligence and I think you’ll come to the same conclusion.” The fairgrounds hosts the fifth largest fair in the United States as well as more than 300 other annual events,
including home, animal and sporting goods shows, weddings, corporate meetings, business expos, cotillion and holiday celebrations. It serves as an emergency training facility and is an official evacuation site for the county Office of Emergency Services, with onsite supplies for 1,000 people. It housed more than 6,000 animals and people during wildfires in 2003 and 2007. “We were three days up and running (in 2007) before the Red Cross or county services were able to get to our facility because of their commitments,” Fennell said. It also hosts the “most successful (horse) race meet on a day-to-day basis in the nation,” he said. The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club was
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TURN TO FAIRGROUNDS ON A20
ENCINITAS — A group of residents converged to brainstorm ways to retain the former Pacific View Elementary school site as a public asset on Nov. 20. While the gathering was a nontraditional meeting that included a live band and dancing, the speakers and participants were serious about their intentions to save the site from becoming another cluster of buildings that have no TURN TO SCHOOL ON A21
Temporary train stop at end of line? By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — Plans to construct a temporary train platform south of the Del Mar Fairgrounds have been placed on hold, and possibly abandoned, according to officials from North County Transit District. Matt Tucker, NCTD executive director, said he directed his staff on Nov. 18 “to focus 100 (percent) of our attention on advancing the downtown platform based on our ability to move that project forward faster.” NCTD has simultaneously been exploring additional train stops to provide more direct access to two popular areas — the fairgrounds and downtown near the Convention Center, Gaslamp District and Petco Park. “With limited resources, we now have a project we can get moving on,” Alex Wiggins, NCTD communications director, said about the downtown platform. “We have support and funding so we are going to throw our efforts at that TURN TO TEMPORARY ON A21
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