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LAJOLLAVILLAGENEWS.COM | VOLUME 18, NUMBER 15
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2016
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Parks group weighs in on public camping, sea lions mess
‘My Rosemary ... She was everything that love could ever be.’ ROY OWNBEY, UNIVERSITY CITY RESIDENT
Life, love and heartbreak for UC songwriter
By DAVE SCHWAB
By SANDY LIPPE Good neighbor Roy Ownbey is the best men's and mixed doubles tennis partner in University City. He also taught history 30 years in San Diego Unified, one year each in Georgia, in his hometown of Cleveland, Tenn. and in the Navy. He was a crackerjack teacher and a calm disciplinarian. Ask the University City High School students who had him the last 9 1/2 years of his career, which ended in 1990. Ownbey has also written many country-western songs the last 30-plus years, but none so tender as "My Rosemary," dedicated to his wife of 54 years, who passed away last July 14. He lost her once before to the damaging onset of dementia.
SOLE SURFER A surfer at Windansea goes head over heels in the rough surf. More inclement weather is in the forecast this wekend.
La Jolla Parks and Beaches Inc.'s March agenda featured the prickly issues of public camping in parks and what to do about the growing sea lion mess at The Cove. Board member Ann Dynes also clued in the group on proposed whale stencil artwork for the surface of an underground pump station known as Educational Plaza at Whale View Point. Board member Bill Robbins, pinch-hitting for absent chair Dan Allen, introduced both key items. “I'd like to talk about camping in parks at the beach in relation to what the (La Jolla) Shores is doing,” Robbins said, noting the Cove “turns into a tent city on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day.” Pointing out it's “always been against the law to camp overnight in a park,” Robbins said there's a growing trend of people getting to the park hours ahead of time to reserve a spot. “Problems with dogs and alcohol, you can throw this all out the window on holidays, because there's no one to enforce it,” Robbins said.
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