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Prison term ordered for theft of patrol car
POWAY DIGEST Eat well, help kids
The annual Lunch at the Outback fundraiser for Seniors Helping Our Kids (SHOK) is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, March 19. A choice of entree plus beverage, tax and tip is only $12. The Outback Steakhouse is at Pomerado Road and Ted Williams Parkway. No reservations are needed. For more details, contact jradatz@att. net or 858-485-5449.
BY KELLY WHEELER SAN DIEGO (CNS) — A man who was on drugs when he stole a sheriff’s cruiser and led officers on a 23-mile pursuit from Poway to Carmel Valley on Monday was handed a fouryear state prison term. Sean Michael Webber, 30, pleaded guilty last month to auto theft and DUI charges and admitted a prior DUI conviction. The defendant also admitted a 2007 assault conviction from Los Angeles County, where he shot at a drug dealer, and being an ex-felon in possession of a weapon. San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenia Eyherabide ordered Webber to pay $2,640 to the City of Poway and $715 to a management company. A March 29 hearing was scheduled to determine if the City of Poway is due an additional $6,843 in restitution. See THEFT, Page 21
PHS Choir Concert Poway High School choirs, along with the Twin Peaks Middle School Chorus, perform a variety of traditional choral music, at the Festival Choir Concert 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20 at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 15498 Espola Road, Poway. Tickets at the door are $8 for adults, $5 for students, seniors and military.
School board receives At last, a place to call home mixed financial news Hannah and Zachary Vanslager with their son, Eli, in their new residence. Photo by Pat Kumpan
Families settle in to new lives at Brighton Place
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New tenants are settling into 76 Brighton Place town homes off Midland Road in Poway, thankful for the opportunity to live in a newly developed affordable housing community. For Zachary and Hannah Vanslager, the move is literally a dream come true coming on the heels of several moves, living with family, then friends and making the most of a small apartment with a newborn son, all
during a two-year span. When the letter came announcing their chance to occupy a Brighton unit, the young married couple, both in their 20s, said they knew it was an incredible opportunity to rent a two-bedroom town house for less than $1,000 a month, but more importantly a place to raise their 1-year old son, Eli. They previously juggled taking college classes and working for almost seven years as servers at I-Hop Pancake House in Mira See HOUSING, Page 16
BY STEVE DREYER
Poway Unified School District trustees received a mixed bag of financial news at Monday night’s meeting. On the plus side, adjusted 2011-12 budget figures show the district will have $10.4 million more available than projected in December and the district will be able to meet its financial obligations over the next two school years. But projected “worst case scenario” budgets for 201213 and 2013-14 continue to show the board will need to make deep cuts and draw from available reserve funds. The future budgets assume no educational financial reform measure passing on the November ballots, the full reinstatement of employee salary cuts and the return to a longer teaching year. See BUDGET, Page 16
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