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Chicken wings are a staple of beach bar menus, and with National Chicken Wing Day being July 29, the Beach & Bay Press offers readers a sample of the best wings.
Bicycle Warehouse is celebrating its 25 year anniversary by gathering bikes for their Africa Project, which supplies refurbished rides to 8 countries. SEE PAGE 9
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New trolley station to spur development High density family housing planned By DAVE SCHWAB
HATS, HAUTE, AND HORSES AT OPENING DAY
The public is registering what they'd like to see considered in planning for preparation of an environmental impact report, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act for the Balboa Avenue Trolley Station project, following a July 19 city scoping meeting at Pacific Beach Library. The trolley stop at Balboa Avenue is one of nine planned for the Mid-Coast Trolley project, which will extend trolley service 11
Summer racing season underway at Del Mar
La Jolla native Soha Dokainish (above) watches the fourth race at the rail during Opening Day on July 19. Competitors come around the first turn on the turf course in the third race, which was won by Cheekaboomboom. PHOTOS BY THOMAS MELVILLE
n a sweltering afternoon in mid-July, hats, haute, and horses assembled to live up to the hype of Opening Day for Del Mar Racetrack’s 78th summer season. Women in elevated heels – only surpassed by the cusp of their millinery adorned with flowers, feathers, and fillies – modeled colorful dresses with matching gloves that held the arms of suitors styled in jackets, ties, and toppers as they paraded into the track.
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miles from Sante Fe Depot downtown to University City, ending at UTC and serving major activity centers including Old Town and two stops at UC San Diego. The Balboa Avenue project is to establish a “specific plan” that would increase residential density by re-designating and rezoning lands to allow for transit-oriented public and private development adjacent to the trolley station. The plan provides recomSEE TROLLEY, Page 13
Mental competency hearing for Guerrero tency because he only received an email from a A judge suspended court-appointed psychiacriminal proceedings on trist who interviewed July 14 against Jon David Guerrero in jail instead of Guerrero in the murders a full psychiatric evaluaand attacks of homeless tion. In the email, men in Ocean the psychiatrist Beach, the Midreported he evalway District, and uated Guerrero in near Mission Bay. jail recently and San Diego determined he Superior Court was not mentally Judge Michael Jon David competent. The Smyth set a menGuerrero email message tal competency hearing for this week by was discussed by Smyth another judge for Guer- and the attorneys in open rero, 40, in which he court. The ruling about susmight be returned to a state psychiatric facility for pending criminal proceedings was opposed by treatment. Smyth didn’t make a SEE HEARING, Page 12 ruling on mental compeBy NEAL PUTMAN