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BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK Longtime community volunteers Valerie Brown, Steven DeMatteo and Thomas Lettington will be the 2012 Rancho Bernardo Hall of Fame inductees. The trio will be honored at the Hats Off to Volunteers event on April 20 and at a dinner in June. Each was selected due to contributing at least six years of combined volunteer service to the community, with three or more of those years in a leadership position that required them to make “significant contributions” to Rancho Bernardo.
Brown, who moved to Rancho Bernardo in 2002 with her husband, Vince Jolley, and their daughters, Amanda (now 17), Jessica (16) and Olivia (13) Jolley, said volunteerism is something she has done all her life. It started as in childhood while accompanying her grandparents. “Growing up in the South, you were expected to help everybody out,” Brown said, who recalled accompanying her grandparents who BROWN brought meals to a sick neighbor
or helped someone with repairs. “You just did it. I’ve always volunteered and can’t imagine not volunteering.” That “philosophy” as she called it has extended to her daughters, whom she said know no other way of life. All three, she said, accompanied her to a community organization board meeting by the time they were 2 weeks old. Brown was nominated for work as director of RB United since 2007 (while initially paid, it has been as a volunteer since 2010), her leadership with See HALL, Page A27
Long-awaited bridge to become reality BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK After more than a decade of planning and advocating, a pedestrian bridge over Ted Williams Parkway at Shoal Creek Drive will become a reality. Members of the Shoal Creek Elementary community along with Carmel Mountain Ranch residents and representatives of Poway Unified School District plus city, state and federal government attended an April 5 ground-breaking ceremony to mark the occasion. The $4.5 million project, funded with more than $2 million in federal money and almost $2.5 million in local Transnet funds, will be built across the six-lane Ted Williams Parkway on the east side of its intersection with Shoal Creek Drive. Primary beneficiaries will be students who attend the nearby Shoal Creek Elementary, many of whom cross the street that has a daily traffic volume of more than 25,000 trips. The posted speed is 55 mph, reduced to 25 mph near the school. Plans call for a 479.5-foot bridge with a north ramp of 71.6 feet and south ramp of 157.3 feet. It will be 10 feet wide with an 8-foot pedestrian clearance. The bridge is to have a stone facade, stained concrete with anti-graffiti coating and bronze See BRIDGE Page A16
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Turning over dirt at the April 5 ceremonial ground breaking were Shoal Creek Elementary students, from left, Tyler Witmondt, Taylin Maienschein, Brenna Maienschein and Bryan Benavente (student council president). Also from left, City Councilman Mark Kersey, Assemblyman Brian Maienschein, Joe Browning (representing Congressman Duncan D. Hunter), Tony Heinrichs (Public Works Department director) and Troy Daum (Shoal Creek Pedestrian Safety Committee chairman). Photo by Elizabeth Marie Himchak
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