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Women's Week tickets are at lowest price
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BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK
• RB Inn dressed up for the season.
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• North S.D. Business Chamber holds holiday A6 mixer.
COMMUNITY
• Celebrating being able to hear for holidays. B1 • Many seasonal events remain on calendar. B6
BUSINESS
• Count on Bisher's for quality meats. A5
SPORTS
• Bronco soccer team begins quest for title. B30
• Del Norte football B30 coach steps down.
EVENTS
• Bluegrass music coming to PowPAC Friday, Saturday.
Those who want to take advantage of the lowest available ticket prices for San Diego Women’s Week next March need to make their purchase by year’s end. Dec. 31 is the deadline to buy tickets that in many cases are more than 50 percent off the atthe-door pricing. They can be purchased at www. sdwomensweek.com. The sixth annual event, organized by North San Diego Business Chamber and set for March 16 to 20, has been expanded to include more people, said Debra Rosen, the chamber’s president and CEO. “Each year our event has grown and we see many guests returning from previous years,” Rosen said. “They enjoy the empowerment and inspirational messages throughout the week and always look forward to the next year’s speakers.”
She said organizers have set attendance goals of 1,500 for the opening session and 4,000 over the four sessions. Unlike in previous years, where only the final session was an all-day event, the opening day session will also be an all-day activity. The week will start with the noon to 8 p.m. Monday, March 16 event in the Rancho Bernardo Inn. It will feature eight breakout sessions, a vendor village, a fashion show, plus free one-on-one personal finance sessions, personal finance information for students, hair and makeup makeovers, one complimentary professional headshot and swag bag. The breakout sessions will be about taking action in your own life, ways to stop bullying, taking control of your finances, taking control of your health, ways to engage in community service for fulfillment, building self-esteem and leadership in young women, becoming a leader of change and what women do to sabotage their careers. One of
Bookin' It 5K run returning to help RB High's library BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK If you want a souvenir T-shirt from the second annual Bookin’ It for the Broncos 5K Fun Run/Walk, you need to register by Dec. 31. The expanded fundraiser event benefitting Rancho Bernardo High School’s library will start at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 when participants of all ages trot along the Piedras Pintadas Trail, which is adjacent to Rancho Bernardo Community Park. Following the chip-timed run/walk, expected to take about an hour according to 5K Chairwoman Liz Schwartz, there will be a free vendor expo from 9 a.m. to noon in the park. “We’re making it a bigger community event,” Schwartz said. There will be entertainment, giveaways, food and vendor booths during the expo. Schwartz estimates around 20 booths will be featured, some for the event’s sponsors and plus other local businesses. Some of those who will have booths are Miramar Kitchen & Bath, San Diego County Credit Union, Alta Golden, Geico, Medifast, Perry Ford, Terri Hunter with Keller Williams Realty and Dr. Stephen Albinder with Synapse. Others not sponsoring the 5K who would like to have a booth can reserve one for $50. They need to register by Jan. 10. Go to www.rbhsfriendsofthelibrary.org for details. Runners and walkers can receive a free event T-shirt if they register by Dec. 31 at www.bookinitforthebroncos5k. com. A limited number of shirts will be sold at the event for $10 each. Online registration is $35 for adults and $20 for students ages 6 to 17. Children 5 and younger are free. The top three male and female finishers in each age group will receive a medal. The groups are 6-10 years, 11-14, 15-18, 19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69 and 70-plus, which will have awards for groupings based on five-year age ranges. Schwartz said the trail is not difficult, but she advises against most models of strollers due to the terrain. “We’d like to raise around $8,000,” Schwartz said. “All of it goes to benefit the RB High library’s ongoing needs, like the latest technology, books ... and we help with funding staffing.” She said last year there were 135 who registered for the event and around $4,500 was raised. For questions, contact Schwartz at 858-568-2546 or rbhsfriendsofthelibrary@gmail.com.
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the speakers will be Tanya Brown, who is an advocate, author, life coach and sister of the late Nicole Brown Simpson. Admission is $15 per person until Dec. 31 and will incrementally go up each month until reaching the at-the-door price of $40. Students and military can be admitted for free with valid ID and students under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. The 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 “Women and Wine” session will be held at Bernardo Winery. Organizers expect more than 400 women to participate in the wine and food tasting, networking and unique shopping opportunities. They can also listen to inspirational speakers who have yet to be announced. Tickets for the Wednesday session are $20 until Dec. 31 and set to increase incrementally until reaching the at-the-door price of $45. SEE TICKETS, Page A4
Our website, www.pomeradonews.com, has a fresh new look and many new features. Read all about it in the letter from the editor on Page A14.
HOLIDAY FUN — The Rancho Bernardo Recreation Council sponsored its annual “Holiday Extravaganza” on Dec. 13 in the Rancho Bernardo-Glassman Recreation Center gymnasium. The event included a pancake breakfast; entertainment by students in the San Diego Civic Dance Arts, Isaguirre’s Martial Arts, rec center’s break dance and Dance to Evolve classes; art activities and an opportunity for those of all ages to visit with Santa. Several hundred locals attended. Pictured are San Diego Civic Dance Arts teenage tap dancers, who closed the show with “In the Mood for Christmas.” See more photos on Page A3 and in the photo gallery at www.PomeradoNews.com. Photo by Elizabeth Marie Himchak
RB MAD fees not going up BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK There will be no increase in Rancho Bernardo’s annual Maintenance Assessment District fees, which most residential, commercial and other property owners pay to keep the community’s medians attractive. The Rancho Bernardo Community Council approved the proposed fiscal year 2016 budget on Dec. 4. Next year it will go before the San Diego City Council for final approval. If passed, it goes into effect on July 1, 2015. The annual $22 fee charged to singlefamily homes will remain unchanged, as will the fee assessed to other types of properties within the MAD boundaries. The latter is based on formulas for multi-unit homes, commercial properties and public properties. The fee has been the same since it went up for fiscal year 2014, rising from $18 to $22 for single-family homes. Bernardo Heights is not included in the MAD as its medians are taken care of through its homeowners association. The MAD assessment revenue of $551,979 makes up the majority of the projected $635,697 in revenue. The FY16 budget shows a projected yearend operating reserve of $309,171, down slightly from the estimated FY15 budget which projected $327,111. The amount for the coming year is near the maximum reserve allowed, a six-months operating budget of $326,818. The minimum allowed — 10 percent of the operating budget — is $65,363. City officials estimate there will be a little over $378,600 in district expenses, with the
largest allocation — $152,229 — for landscaping services along the medians and other district areas. These primarily are along Rancho Bernardo Road, Bernardo Center Drive, Pomerado Road and West Bernardo Drive. There is $275,000 set aside in the FY16 budget for a future capital improvement project — the second phase of converting asphalt medians to landscaped areas along Pomerado Road north of its intersection with Rancho Bernardo Road. In the previous year, $150,000 was allocated for this endeavor, bringing the total to $425,000. Based on the phase one project it will likely take several years to accumulate enough money to begin the second phase, said Casey Smith, district manager at the city’s Parks and Recreation MAD department. The first phase required fiscal year allocations from 2010 to 2014 to set aside $899,840. The money is going toward converting three asphalt medians, adding trees, plants and required irrigation infrastructure. Smith said they will be similar to the landscaped median just north of Pomerado/Rancho Bernardo roads intersection. “We hope to construct them in the near future,” Smith said, adding work could potentially begin in February or March of next year. As for another capital improvement project in the works — conversion of various medians to stamped concrete that had a little over $260,600 allocated in the FY12 and FY14 budgets — Smith said there is about $30,000 SEE MAD, Page A4
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