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THE COAST NEWS
SEPT. 3, 2010
Who’s NEWS? Business news and special achievements for North San Diego County. Send information via e-mail to community@ coastnewsgroup.com. Oktoberfest time ENCINITAS — The Encinitas Chamber of Commerce will host the 16th annual Oktoberfest from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 26, on Mountain Vista Drive between El Camino Real and Wandering Road. The event will feature German food, beer garden, bands, dancing, and a host of vendors, rides and a climbing wall for children. Admission is free. For more information, contact Marilyn Phenow at the Encinitas Chamber, (760) 753-6041 or e-mail, info@encinitaschamber. com.
Rise Above Plastics COAST CITIES — The Wiley One band has joined forces with the Surfrider Foundation and “Rise Above Plastics” to support the California Assembly Bill 1998: Single-Use Bag Reduction Act, which if passed, will prohibit stores from providing plastic bags to customers in California. For more local info you can visit www.rapSD.org and www.surfriderSD.org.
Student action SOLANA BEACH — Solana Beach teens have made a difference this summer by collecting school supplies and dropping them off at local Staples stores at 681 San Rodolfo Drive, Solana Beach and 222 N. El Camino Real, Encinitas. Supplies will be collected through Sept. 18. They will be given locally to the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito. DoSomething.org and Staples are teaming up for the National Staples/Do Something 101 School Supply Drive. Staples customers can donate $1 at any Staples store with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting Solana Beach students in need.
Reading volunteers OLIVENHAIN — The Everyone A Reader tutorial program at Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary School
REIGNING CHAMP Levi Slawson takes off on his first wave of the IN THE TUBE After taking off on his first wave of the final heat in the 9-to-11-year-old category, Micah final heat in the under-8-open division and rides it all the way in. The cat- Crozier gets hoots and howls from the crowd after getting slightly tubed on this ride, which likely helped him egory has been part of the Grom-o-Rama for two of the past three years earn a first-place finish. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek and Levi placed first both times. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
Surfers make waves at third annual Grom-o-Rama By Bianca Kaplanek
SOLANA BEACH — Dozens of local surfers 17 and younger hit the beach at Fletcher Cove early on Aug. 28 for the third annual Gromo-Rama surf contest, sponsored by the Solana Beach Lifeguard Association.
Boys faced off by age in three divisions: 9 to 11; 12 to 13; and 14 to 17. There were also two open categories — one for girls 9 to 17 and another for 8 and younger. Surfers had 15 minutes to catch as many waves as
O’side mobile home park lot split denied By Promise Yee
OCEANSIDE — Mobile home owners at Cavalier Mobile Estates can rest a little easier after City Council upheld the Planning Commission’s denial of a property split in a 3-2 vote on Aug. 25. Councilmen Jerry Kern and Jack Feller voted no on the split, which would likely have increased rents for many fixed-income residents. “It’s a bona fide conversion,” Attorney Mark Alpert, who represents the owner, said. “It’s a situation where an owner wishes to stop running a mobile home park. It is not a sham conversion. It’s something to be decided in court, it’s not intended for you to block the owner to subdivide.” Park residents expressed concerns about being stuck between a rock and a hard place, as they own their mobile homes, but are property renters. Most cannot afford to buy and add on flood insurance for lots that
sit in a 100-year flood zone. If lots are split and sold, mobile home park rent control is gone and rents may prove to be too costly. “If one park owner sells his property, it’s no longer under rent control,” Brent Marifield of Rancho Santa Fe Mobile Home Park said. “Rents will increase considerably. In three to four years they will go to market value.” “Uncertainty increases immediately,” Bob Lammen, president of the Cavalier homeowners association, said. “I can buy the lot or pay more money. How is that a better financial situation?” City staff recommended that council deny the lot split. “The conversion was not tenant initiated,” Jerry Hittleman, city planner, said. “It is not a bona fide conversion. It’s an attempt to avoid rent control.” Rent control would stay in effect for qualifying lowincome residents, but many TURN TO MOBILE HOME ON A19
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possible in several qualifying heats and one final per division. “It is great to see all the kids having fun running around with smiles on their faces just being kids at the beach,” said Lt. Jason Shook, a Solana Beach lifeguard
who provided wave-by-wave commentary throughout the morning. “It reminds me of when I was a kid,” he said. The event is a fundraiser for lifeguard programs and featured a raffle with a variety of prizes, provided by
sponsors Quiksilver, Sanuk Foot Wear, Sol Sunguard, Surfride Surfshop, Dragon Optics, Jim Ratzer Family Law, ReRip.com, Moonlight Screen Printing, Clinch TURN TO SURFERS ON A20
Woman’s volunteer efforts help local children, art community By Lillian Cox
ents to Carlsbad when they CARLSBAD — Empty retired in 1984. “They bought a furnished nest syndrome marked the end of one stage of Joni house on Almaden and I’d Miringoff’s life and the begin- come every January with my four children,” she ning of another. remembers. “They’d Today, she is arrive sick and get known as the better before we beloved petal pusher returned home.” who directs The Miringoff said Flower Fields in the she always loved Calispring and Art fornia and dreamed Splash in the fall. of moving here one Earlier this year day. “Today, I pinch Miringoff’s commumyself because I’m so nity efforts led to being honored with JONI MIRINGOFF lucky to be able to live here, especially in the Carlsbad Chamber Leadership Award. In Carlsbad.” Miringoff’s family was her 2005, she was named Carlsbad priority. She threw herself into Citizen of the Year. Miringoff is a native of the PTA and was also a room Neenah, Wisc., home of Kim- mother. For 30 years she berly-Clark paper products. served as head of North CounShe, her husband Jim, and ty Junior Tennis. In fact, the their family followed her par- Miringoff family was named
Southern California Tennis Family of the Year. Joni Miringoff loved being a mom so much so that it was difficult letting her children go. “I had Traci and Michael two and a half years apart, then there was a four-year break until Betsy and Jimmy arrived,” she said. “I’m glad it worked out that way because I wasn’t ready when the first two left.” Miringoff had a gift basket business in the early 1990s. This led to a meeting with grower Edwin Frazee who tried to recruit her to sell flowers for him. “I couldn’t at the time because of my business,” she said.“The following year I sold it and began selling flowers at TURN TO VOLUNTEER ON A19
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