Those who get tattoos put their bodies in the hands of the artists who work for years to perfect their craft. Garnet Avenue offers a plethora of talented artists.
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unners turned out in the hundreds on April 22 at De Anza Cove to support the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings with a “Boston Strong San Diego” memorial race. The event, one of several that took place around the country one week after the bombings, started with a moment of silence, pictured above.
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Other events are in the works to support victims. A fundraiser to benefit The One Fund Boston will take place at Thrusters Lounge in Pacific Beach from 6 to 9 p.m. today, April 25. The event will feature free samples from Bite of Boston, along with a raffle of items donated by local businesses. There will be a suggested $5 donation at the door
and raffle tickets and T-shirts will be available for sale. Prizes include Padres tickets, memberships to Bird Rock Fit and gift cards to area businesses. Thrusters Lounge is located at 4633 Mission Blvd. For more information or to donate a raffle prize, email Karyn Houde at bostonfundraiser@gmail.com. — Staff and contribution
Around the world in eight years
PB TOWN COUNCIL BEGINS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE — The allvolunteer Pacific Beach Town Council (PBTC), a key driver in the community since 1951, is launching its annual May membership drive to encourage community involvement and input. According to PBTC officials, the organization’s member who brings in the most new members in the month of May will win a $100 gift certificate to The Patio restaurant on Lamont Street. Potential new members need only to sign up on the PBTC website at www.pbtowncouncil.org and write in the PBTC member’s name as the referral member. Benefits for new members include: • voting on community issues • meet elected officials • interaction with representatives of city services like police, fire, lifeguards and other entities • getting community questions answered • engaging with active community members • a monthly newsletter detailing activities in the community • monthly Sundowner and Dineout mixers at great Pacific Beach restaurants The annual membership cost to join the Pacific Beach Town Council is $30 for an individual or family; $50 for businesses. For more information, call (858) 483-6666, or visit www.pbtowncouncil.org.
ward-winning author Lois Joy Hofmann, a Pacific Beach local, has been making the rounds of bookstores and coffee shops promoting the latest book in her nautical trilogy. Hoffmann and her husband, Günter, escaped the corporate world — where Hoffmann sat at the top of the corporate ladder as the CEO of a publicly traded biomedical company — for a life on the high seas after they turned 60 years old, embarking on
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a sailing trip that would change their lives. After sailing around the world during an eightyear adventure, Hofmann began to write her nautical trilogy, “In Search of Adventure and Moments of Bliss.” Her first two books, “Maiden Voyage” and “Sailing the South Pacific,” are available on Amazon and locallyat Seabreeze Books, Traveler’s Depot
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A LIFE’S JOURNEY Lois Joy and Günter Hoffmann sailed around the world over the course of eight years and 62 countries. The graphic shows the couple’s path, starting with the pink line, denoting the first voyage from France to San Diego (covered in the first book, “Maiden Voyage”). The green line shows voyages two and three, sailing from San Diego to the Marquesas Islands, through all the rest of the South Sea islands to Australia, (covered in “Sailing the South Pacific”), and the blue line follows the final trips from Australia back to the same dock in Canet, France where it all began (which will be covered in the third book, to be titled “The Long Way Back.”
WORLD WATER DAY COMES TO MISSION BAY — To acknowledge the UN-sanctioned World Water Day and raise awareness about the global water crisis, PCI (Project Concern International) is leading the fifth annual San Diego Walk for Water. The 5k walk will be held at Tecolote Shores in Mission Bay on Sunday, April 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. During the walk, participants can carry buckets of water to simulate the journey that women and children make every day in developing countries to obtain water. Registration is open to the public and is $20 per person. Donations and proceeds from the event will go toward funding water systems for remote water-deprived regions and PCI’s lifesaving programs around the world. To register or for more information, visit www.pci-global.org/w4w-2013.