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Lighthouse sisters come back home BY HANNA LAUKKANEN | THE BEACON
www.SDNEWS.com Volume 27, Number 13
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016
San Diego Community Newspaper Group
Locals go feel the Bern
Charge of the light brigades in Point Loma
The New Point Loma Lighthouse celebrated its 125th anniversary on March 23 with Patricia Dudley Goulart and Joan Dudley Eayrs, daughters of original lighthouse keeper James Elliot Dudley. The sisters lived in the area for the first 19 and 20 years of their lives as their father was the lighthouse keeper for 24 years. Nowadays, the daughters don’t have so many opportunities to visit their first home, because it is on gov-
Presidential candidate holds San Diego rally BY HANNA LAUKKANEN | THE BEACON
Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally on March 21 at the San Diego Convention Center, with 12,000 in attendance – 6,000 inside and 6,000 outside. Some were from Ocean Beach and wanted to show their support. Gina Smith, from Ocean Beach, said that because of Sanders, she is now once again interested in politics. “It makes me cry,” she said. “I'm beyond delighted about what I’m seeing here. And I believe he can make a difference. He’s been in business making a difference for 40 years. It’s time that he get a chance to show himself.” Like Smith, Blue Stirling has volunteered in Sanders’ campaign. The high school student from Point Loma got 50 people
SEE SISTERS, Page 20 New permanent lighting would consist of four towers, allowing for maximum lighting of the athletic field.
PHOTO BY THOMAS MELVILLE
Residents on opposite sides of school's stadium lights plan BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON
Patricia Dudley Goulart and Joan Dudley Eayrs. PHOTO BY HANNA LAUKKANEN
The pitched battle between factions for and against installing stadium lights proposed as part of Point Loma High School's modernization is reheating, with opponents resuming fundraising to
challenge the project while an environmental document in its favor is to go before the San Diego Unified School District on Tuesday, April 26. The Pro Point Loma steering committee, representing more than 800 Loma Portal neighbors, parents and
alumni, sent out a March 28 press release noting that their anti-stadium lights group has “agreed to resume fundraising in order to sue to stop SDUSD from illegally developing the PLHS football SEE LIGHTS, Page 6
WHAT’S NEXT? The San Diego Unified School District meeting on the EIR will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 26 at the Eugene Brucker Education Center Auditorium, 4100 Normal St.
SEE BERNIE, Page 17
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