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LAJOLLAVILLAGENEWS.COM | VOLUME 18, NUMBER 15
The long and short board of the record The One Wave Challenge, first of its kind in San Diego, kicked off the Farmers Insurance Open golf tourney at La Jolla Shores on Saturday, Jan. 23 when nearly 200 surfers gathered for the chance to beat the current world record, set six years ago, in Cape Town, South Africa, when 110 surfers rode a single wave to shore. Unfortunately, the local surfers fell a bit short of the record, as only 97 surfers managed to ride one wave. The event, supported by the charitable Century Club, benefited Boys to Men, a San Diego nonprofit dedicated to guiding and supporting often fatherless boys on their journey to manhood. PHOTO BY JIM GRANT
Road collapse under investigation, Shores group learns By DAVE SCHWAB In January, La Jolla Shores Association got a progress report on an ongoing investigation into flooding caused during this month's huge storm. Senior construction engineer Steve Lindsay reported to the association on mop-up and remaining work being done following mostly completed water and storm drain infrastructure replacement in the Shores. “The contractor will be done with remaining water and sewer work in March,” Lindsay said. Lindsay said the cause of the “explosion and collapse” of
yet. At this point, I just don't know.” Shores resident David Gordon noted “storm drain manhole covers were popping off ” during the last storm. STEVE LINDSAY, SENIOR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER “When pipes get under pressure, things like that tend to hapinfrastructure at the end of for the flooding problem might pen,” answered Lindsay. “If Avenida de la Playa during the be to “figure out a way to make there's enough pressure, when it last storm event was being the box culvert (on Avenida) blows, it could be catastrophic.” investigated. He noted that the watertight.” “We're peeling back the In other matters: high storm surge during heavy rains, coupled with high tides, roadway that's been damaged • The group gave kudos to presented a double-whammy to take a look,” said Lindsay, Tim Lucas, longtime Shores of unusual conditions that adding, “We will work hard to resident and past association likely contributed to the failure get an engineering solution to chair, who has moved out of of pipes to carry the storm this.” the neighborhood and thereLindsay noted that estimates fore is no longer eligible to be surge. Association vice chair Susan for how much reconstruction Tschirn suggested one solution will cost “hasn't gotten to me SEE SHORES>> PG. 4
‘We're peeling back the roadway that's been damaged to take a look. We will work hard to get an engineering solution to this.’
Lifeguards, city agree on expanded health coverage By DAVE SCHWAB
coverage protections features workers’ compensation benefits implemented to protect employees who have high risk of injury and hazardous exposures on the job. The San Diego Police and Fire departments enjoy these benefits. Lifeguards have been denied the same coverage. “It falls far short of what we were told by the mayor we were going to get in 2013,” said Harris
San Diego lifeguards, who recently approved a new contract proposal with the city dealing with “presumptive illness coverage,” got some — but not all — of what they were looking for in the deal. “But it's a big step in the right direction,” said Ed Harris, former District 2 city councilman and the lifeguards union spokesman. Presumptive illness SEE BENEFITS>> PG. 13
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