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Volume XV, Issue 16
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April 14, 2011 Published Weekly
Council approves sidewalk café plans ■ Local resident appears on ‘Jeopardy!’ Page 4
BY MARLENA CHAVIRAMEDFORD The Del Mar City Council April 11 approved a sidewalk café permit for Del Mar Rendezvous, which is located at the north end of Del Mar’s Plaza street level. The restaurant, located
at 1555 Camino Del Mar, already operates a sidewalk café in this right-of-way, but this most recent permit includes new plans for glass panels and steel planter boxes instead of the existing wrought iron railing and clay planters. The new align-
ment will also extend 21 inches farther out from the building than the current railing, and 28 feet farther to the south along the sidewalk. This new alignment will allow for a six-foot-wide clearance for pedestrians. The new plans also call
for permanent heaters and a string of light fixtures, which will be suspended from a new awning. That awning is scheduled to go before the Design Review Board (DRB) later this month because its design does not qualify for a DRB
Local mother and former fugitive shares story
Meet the Chefs
BY KAREN BILLING Staff Writer
■ Photographer devoted to protection of great white sharks. Page 7
Food lovers enjoyed a special afternoon April 10 at the 15th Annual Meet the Chefs of Del Mar event, held at the Del Mar Hilton. The event benefits Casa de Amparo, a San Diego organization devoted to child abuse treatment and prevention. Above: Cindy Klinedinst and Lee Ann Puglisi enjoy a sample from Jake’s Del Mar. Left: Pamplemousse Grille’s display of dessert items. See page B14 for more. Photos/Jon Clark
See page B10. PHOTO: JON CLARK
Submit ‘Favorite Garden’ photos in monthly contest ■ Longboard champ boycotts professional surfing tour. Page B1
Del Mar Times is offering its loyal readers a chance to win great prizes by entering the monthly online photo contest. The theme for April is “My Favorite Garden,” sponsored by The Madd Potter. Go to delmartimes.net/contests and upload your photo. Uploading
your photo is easy. Just follow the on-screen instructions and you will be done within minutes. This month’s prize is a $150 garden gift card. The winners will be chosen based on 45 percent photo views and 55 percent editorial judgment.
exemption under the Plaza Specific Plan Tenant Design Manual. A handful of residents spoke in favor of the new concept, and council members stated that they’d received many emails in favor of it as well.
She was only 19 years old when she landed in a Michigan prison on a drug charge, 21 when she scaled a barbwire fence to escape. Thirty-three years later, Susan LeFevre’s past came to her doorstep in Carmel Valley where she had created a new life living as Marie Walsh, a wife, mother and secret fugitive. Taken back to prison in 2008, Walsh has been out since April 2009. A new book, “A Tale of Two Lives: The Susan LeFevre Fugitive Story” tells her unbelievable story and the “Fugitive Mom” has again captured the nation’s attention — she was featured on Oprah on April 7 and appeared on The Today Show on April 8. Walsh once thought the “Fugitive Mom” label was crass but has embraced it now. It’s the way peo-
ple know her and the platform she has been given to tell her story, one that carries a message that the prison system needs to be reformed. Proceeds from her book will go toward re-entry programs for women released from prison. “(Prison) was unbelievably painful and the only way to take care of that pain is to use it for good,” Walsh said. “There needs to be more rehabilitation and education in prison, more than just a façade of it like it is now. It is almost devastating for some women to get out. The transition is very hard if they’re poor or don’t have a family like I did.” Walsh’s story begins in 1974, when she was arrested with two and a half grams of heroin, about $20 worth of drugs. She maintains that she was not guilty of selling SEE FUGITIVE, PAGE 6
Del Mar National Horse Show kicks off this month The 66th Annual Del Mar National Horse Show is slated to kick off this month at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Thursday, April 21, and run through Sunday, May 8. Each week of the event of dedicated to different equestrian discipline: Western from April 24 through 24; Dressage from April 28 through May 1; and Hunter/ Jumper from May 3 through 8. Each week of the show will also incorporate a signa-
ture Saturday night event. Western week’s “Night of Horses” on April 23 features several equestrian entertainers, including Tommie Turvey, whose work has been featured in major film and TV productions, and Matt McLaughlin, the former head trainer for the Royal Lipizzaner Stallions. Dressage week includes a qualifying competition for the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s Grand Prix Cham-
pionships, Intermediaire Championships, Pan American Selection Trial, and Federation Equestrian International’s North American Junior & Young Rider Championships. On Saturday, April 30, there will also be a freestyle dressage competition. Local rider, Olympian, and World Cup champion Steffen Peters will also ride — and distinguished See SHOW, page 18