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VOL. 58, ISSUE 21
FISCAL YEAR 2014
RB/4S DIGEST
Planners prioritize RB projects for city
RBHS play
Rancho Bernardo High will present the play “Eurydice” at 7 p.m. Nov. 1, 2 and 3 plus 2 p.m. Nov. 3 in its performing arts center, 13010 Paseo Lucido. Tickets: $10 for general public, $5 for PUSD students. Purchase at the door.
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DNHS play
Del Norte High will present the comedy “The Election” at 7 p.m. Nov. 1, 2 and 3 in its performing arts center, 16601 Nighthawk Lane, 4S Ranch. Tickets: $5 in advance, $7.50 at the door.
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San Rafael Catholic Church is hosting an Oktoberfest dinner, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26 in the parish hall, 17252 Bernardo Center Drive, RB. Tickets: $15. For free childcare RSVP at gk@ valleyoftheangels.org with children’s ages.
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The Levinson family, daughters Leigh and Karina (sitting) with mom Ronit, and daughter Ella with dad Brett, and the Rotten Skulls skeleton band. See more photos on Page 16. Photo by Beverley Brooks
Family displays its Halloween spirit BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK Skeletons playing music and card games, zombies rising from the ground and spiderwebs galore are just some of the scary and humorous sights awaiting trick-or-treaters at the Levinson house. The elaborate Halloween display just west of 4S Ranch at 17007 Coyote Bush Drive in Santa Fe Valley’s gated community of Bel Etage is the work of Brett Levinson, who has been adding to the spooky decorations for the last nine years. “I like it,” Levinson said of the extensive endeavor. “We’re Jewish, so we don’t do Christ-
mas. My kids started it with me.” Levinson’s daughters, now ages 13, 11 and 7, help him with some of the decorating, but he has been doing most of the work for the past five weeks, typically devoting five hours a day to the project. He estimates this year’s display includes 7,000 yards of fishing line, to which he sprayed glue in order to create spider webs. They stand up better to wind than store-bought cottonbased webs, he said, adding the technique is not something he has seen anyone else utilize. In addition to the homemade spider webs, Levinson said his display has many unique See HALLOWEEN, Page 14
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Recycled water for landscaping, a new park and second fire station are improvements Rancho Bernardo Planning Board members want the city to pursue for Rancho Bernardo when crafting the fiscal year 2014 budget. These three priorities received an overwhelming amount of support during the board’s Oct. 25 meeting over other suggestions that will also be forwarded to city officials. Board member Vicki Touchstone said city officials this summer decided to ask each community to give suggestions for their Capital Improvement Program projects. CIP is a multi-year forecast of capital needs that can include new construction or planned improvements to existing facilities. They have to be “tangible” with “a life expectancy greater than one year.” Possible areas include environmental services, fire-rescue, park and recreation, public utilities, transportation and storm water. The board is also to give feedback on a list city officials compiled because some of the projects listed in previous years have been completed or are no longer needed. These include various roadway and median improvements and expansions, renovations at Rancho Bernardo Community Park, Rancho BernardoGlassman Recreation Center, Ed Brown Senior Center, Rancho Bernardo Library, water services infrastructure, storm water projects and sewer improvements. When voting on suggestions generated at the meeting by board members, residents and other community groups, Touchstone said cost and financing should not be considered since the city has various funding options along with possible grants the board members do not know about. Each board member was given three votes, which they could distribute as they wished among the suggestions. Making recycled water available for landscaping in public areas received 33 percent of the votes (16 of 48 cast). The city purchasing an almost 11-acre vacant site on Avenida Venusto that Poway Unified School District intends to sell so part or all can be turned See PROJECTS, Page 14
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