The Coast News June 3, 2016

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VOL. 30, N0. 23

JUNE 3, 2016

SAN MARCOS -NEWS

.com Showdown for SupervisorTHE

With the primary only a few days VISTA away, Dave Roberts, the incumbent District 3 representative on NEWS the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is facing challenges from two opponents, Encinitas Mayor Kristin Gaspar and Escondido Mayor Sam Abed. See pages A6 and A7 for a full analysis on the race and the candidates’ responses to a number of issues important to voters when heading to the polls June 7.

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Solana Beach latest RANCHO SFNEWS to regulate puppy mills

Carrying the torch

By Bianca Kaplanek

Runners head north on Coast Highway 101 on Wednesday morning during the two-day Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. The run started on May 31 in downtown San Diego. By Wednesday the torch had traveled north where it was handed off to Marines at Camp Pendleton. The Flame of Hope will continue on to Los Angeles where it will open the Southern California Summer Games starting June 11. Photo by Steve Puterski

Student’s letter earns her class a pizza party By Aaron Burgin

ENCINITAS — When Asya Anderson wrote a letter to her favorite restaurant, Leucadia Pizzeria, as part of a classroom assignment back in January, she didn’t expect them to write back. As it turns out, the 11-year-old La Costa Heights Elementary School student was about to learn the power of her own voice. On May 27, Asya, her classmates and 10 parents were treated to lunch at Leucadia Pizzeria and the owners, Linda and Chip Leucadia Pizzeria owner Chip Conover picks up the tab for a La Costa Conover, picked up the tab. Heights Elementary School student’s pizza party. Courtesy photo

“I was expecting that they would reject the letter and not write back,” Asya said this week. “I was really surprised that not only did I get a response, I got to supply a pizza party for the class.” Asya was not the only person surprised by the outcome. Natalie Christ, Asya’s teacher, has been doing the letter-writing project for years with her students. “I have been teaching for 17 years, and never has an establishment paid it forward in such a generous TURN TO PIZZA PARTY ON A16

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