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VOL. 35, N0. 19
MAY 13, 2022
Affordable home sold .com too early? SAN MARCOS -NEWS
Special needs students lack assets, parents say. A3 Dezzy Hollow’s music reflects O’side streets. A5 Streetscape advances, critics decry ‘hazards.’ A6 Three arrested in series of Vista bombings. A6 SMUSD rescinds dozens of teachers layoffs. A7 Oceanside approves ChemStation location. A7
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Carlsbad approves 43 new license plate readers. A7
Around 24,000 horses in the United States were shipped internationally to slaughter in 2020, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Sciacca founded Laughing Pony Rescue in 2010 after being deeply disturbed by what she learned about the industry, particularly how animals are often kept in cramped spaces at feedlots, forced to go days without food and water
ENCINITAS — A designated affordable home in Cardiff-by-the-Sea was sold to an investor and entered third-party escrow two weeks before the developer was authorized to advertise the RANCHO sale, public records show, SFNEWS raising doubts as to whether the home was purchased legitimately under the terms of the city’s affordable housing agreement. After first notifying the city of its intent to sell the home via email on Aug. 12, 2020, Kenneth Reed, a mortgage originator at Finance of America Mortgage, accepted a seller counteroffer from developer New Pointe Investment on Sept. 30, 2020, to purchase the home at 1412 Mackinnon, according to financial records and emails obtained by The Coast News via public records request. The Mackinnon affordable home is one of two properties at the center of a federal lawsuit alleging discriminatory and unlawful housing practices in Encinitas. Under the city’s affordable housing agreement, New Pointe had approximately two weeks remaining of a mandatory 60-day waiting period before it was permitted to start advertising the sale of the home, much less
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Encinitas’ Dunkle guts out an Ironman victory. A13 Sage Creek track & field stars ready for CIF. A15 The Other Democrat: Candidate Joe Kerr. A21
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ERICA MARIE WEISZ, a local singer and performer, brings her cabaret show, “I Can Cook, 2!” to Vista’s Broadway Theater this summer as the popular venue returns to a full schedule. The theater celebrated its reopening last month after curtailing operations during the pandemic. Story on B8. Photo by David Rumley
Animals find safe haven at Laughing Pony Rescue Horses facing slaughter mend in Rancho Santa Fe By Laura Place
RANCHO SANTA FE — Amid the upscale equestrian estates in the wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, one horse rescue continues its mission to save the horses, donkeys and other farm CELIA SCIACCA, founder of Rancho Santa Fe nonprofit animals that everyone Laughing Pony Rescue administers eye ointment to donkey else has given up on. With a network of Dyn-O-Mite at the ranch on Tuesday. Photo by Laura Place
volunteers both locally and throughout the western United States all led by founder Celia Sciacca, Laughing Pony Rescue has saved over 1,200 animals kept in feedlots and scheduled for slaughter, along with others that have been neglected or mistreated in the rodeo industry. While the number of horses sent to slaughter for human consumption has decreased over the last two decades, thousands still face this fate in Canada and Mexico.
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