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MB BOARDWALK The city's more than halfway through an approximately $5.5 million restoration of Mission Beach's boardwalk, which will return the well-trod thoroughfare to its 1920s condition. SEE PAGE 5
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Are parking permits and meters coming to PB?
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‘Maruta was extraordinary in every sense of the word.’ NANCIE GELLER MB WOMEN’S CLUB
Beach community mourns Maruta Gardner at memorial By DAVE SCHWAB Gambling – especially on horses – traveling and being with friends were among retired schoolteacher and administrator Maruta Gardner's favorite things, friends and family noted during a celebration of Gardner's life in the park near the Mission Beach jetty on March 4. Gardner's passion, however, was community service, SEE MARUTA, Page 13
Maruta’s husband Willie Gardner receives a hug at the memorial.
PHOTO BY DAVE SCHWAB
Where have you gone, Lady Liberty? The orange areas would be metered parking and the blue areas would be permitted parking in the latest PB parking proposal.
‘Yes, parking meters and residential parking permits are some of those techniques that have been proposed.’ SARA BERNS DISCOVER PB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Parking committee developing paid parking plan By DAVE SCHWAB Limited metered parking is among alternatives being considered by a reconstituted Pacific Beach Community Park-
ing District at its next monthly meeting 6 p.m. Thursday, March 10 at Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond St. But not everyone, like PB resident and coastal pho-
tographer John Cocozza, is pleased by the prospect. Cocozza's take is that the PB parking committee, using Hermosa Beach SEE PARKING, Page 2
Pacific Beach turns its bleary eyes toward you By DAVE SCHWAB Pacific Beach is a little darker these days. Symbolically, at least, since Margaret Barrie, who lives in the 1900 block of Thomas Avenue, had her “Lady Liberty” stolen. Barrie, who lives in the same
Pacific Beach home she grew up in, had two keepsakes – replicas of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower – gracing her front yard. But the seven-foot-tall, lighted Lady Liberty replica was recently snatched. SEE LIBERTY, Page 7