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help less fortunate cousins DEL MAR — Helen Woodward Animal Center’s fifth annual Surf Dog-a-Thon was held Sept. 12 at Dog Beach in Del Mar. The yearly event aims to raise awareness and money for orphaned pets while promoting responsible pet ownership. All funds raised are used to support the various programs offered at Helen Woodward Animal Center. Owners and their pets participated in 20minute heats based on the dogs’ weight classes.
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Del Mar residents Louisa West, Gidgette, and Loretta West celebrate their 1st place win in the Small Dog heat.
Candidate forum kicks campaigns into gear By Wehtahnah Tucker
CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA — Keeping true to tradition, the first Encinitas City Council candidate forum was held at Ada Harris Elementary School on Sept. 14. After a brief opening statement the four candidates vying for two seats on the council took questions from the audience. Two current members, Mayor Dan Dalager and Councilwoman Teresa Barth, joined challengers Tony Kranz of Leucadia and Encinitas Ranch resident Kristin
Gaspar. The first question was on a little-known vote of the council that has the potential to impact what is decided upon at the dais. Last August, in a 3-2 vote, with Barth and Deputy Mayor Maggie Houlihan opposed, the council changed the rules as to how an item comes before them for a decision. Previously, only two council members had to agree to have an item put on the agenda. However, now a majority of three members is required on the five-person council.
“I was almost thinking that’s what our rules had said before,” Dalager responded when an audience member asked why he voted in favor of the measure and how would the two challengers vote if given the opportunity. “Your memory doesn’t serve you very well,” Barth responded.“It goes against the grain of our democracy,” she said referring to the inability of the minority to be heard. “You don’t have to have a majority of the people already supporting something to have it go to council for discussion.”
OCEANSIDE — The fifth of five open house meetings on I-5 expansion plans was held at Oceanside High School on Sept. 9 and brought plenty of questions and concerns from residents who live along the freeway corridor. The proposed expansion of I-5 from La Jolla to Oceanside will ease traffic for the 200,000 daily drivers who currently use the road and anticipated traffic growth through 2030. To ease traffic, freeway expansion is the likely solution. “We don’t have a whole lot of options,” Allan Kosup, Caltrans I-5 corridor director, said. Oceanside is the smallest footprint in the expansion project. Caltrans proposes an addition of four managed
City expects more than $25M from trash deal By Promise Yee
Barth raised the stakes when she called the move to a majority council in order to agendize an item “appalling and embarrassing” to thunderous applause from the crowded auditorium. Kranz went further saying he would consider a process by which citizens could get an item on the City Council agenda while Gaspar said she would entertain arguments both for and against the three-person agenda rule. While some issues were
OCEANSIDE — The base terms and conditions of a long-term trash hauling contract with Waste Management — that brings a $1 million signing bonus, $1.7 million in annual franchise fees, recycling revenues, and greener waste disposal services to Oceanside — was unanimously approved by City Council on Sept. 8. A year of negotiations ratcheted up an initial payback to the city of zero franchise fees and recycling revenues — that were later nudged up to $1 million, then $5 million over the life of the
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