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Planners OK new condo complex, nix Whale Watch Way mansion By DAVE SCHWAB In April, La Jolla Community Planning Association approved a condominium complex replacing an animal hospital and post office satellite facility on Silver Street and nixed an unconventional mansion proposed on Whale Watch Way. Silver Street Village Homes proposes demolishing an existing animal hospital on 7601 Draper Ave. and the post office facility at 720 Silver St. and replacing them with 18 attached condo units. Units in
the townhome-style project will be 1,800- to 2,600 square feet with 2- and 4-bedrooms in three separate buildings, said La Jolla developer Bill Berwin, representing the project applicant. Trustee David Little opposed the proposed Silver Street condos. “This project is spot-zoning,” argued Little adding, “It’s zoning
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Rady commits $100 million to UCSD business school TAKING A BREAK FROM HIGH TECH Second-graders at La Jolla Elementary School recently took hammers in hand with guidance from Home Depot staff to build and paint their own “green” planters. The planters are part of the company’s outreach community program, which teaches safety and self-reliance with tools to a generation that has less access to backyard building projects amid today's surging technology. Students of Stephanie Kaplan’s class donned orange aprons as they constructed the planters from kits and a stylized cutout in the shape of a flower. They then decorated the planters with an environmental theme that reflects their respect for the environment. The planters will be gifts for parents as part of the school’s upcoming spring gala fundraiser, to be held Saturday, May 9. COURTESY PHOTO
The Athenaeum: La Jolla’s hidden precious gem By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN This is the first installment in a twopart series on The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, a unique La Jolla repository for all things artistic. The venue will host an annual national Membership Libraries Group meeting on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26 – meanwhile, its director notes that the community approaches it with something close to benign neglect. Ellen Browning Scripps' name and memory run through the fabric of this
city like the Bill of Rights frames the rest of the U.S. Constitution. Art, science, education, recreation, public access, the outdoors, gender equality, animal welfare, freedom of worship, unparalleled philanthropy: Scripps was a walking city government, framing her full-throated agendas to elevate the region into the multifaceted hub she knew it could become. Erika Torri draws a bead from behind the desk in her small office at The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. The city's landscape, she's quick to agree, would be a very different thing without Scripps' influ-
Today's Athenaeum holds everything from the Johann Sebastian Bach manuscripts to a DVD of The Who's 'Quadrophenia.' COURTESY PHOTO
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UCSD announced April 7 that San Diego businessman and philanthropist Ernest Rady has committed $100 million to help recruit and retain faculty and fund strategic priorities at the school's Rady School of Management. Rady said the new commitment is driven by his philosophy of “return on life,” or ROL. “We want the resources that we’ve been fortunate enough to accumulate to go to help other people,” he said. “That help could be for a student who receives a fellowship to attend the region’s top business school. Or success for a startup whose founders learned how to turn ideas into opportunities. Or saving a child through technology and science developed by a Rady graduate.” “The Rady School is an integral part of UC San Diego and a vital, entrepreneurial component to San Diego’s science and technology communities,” said UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. “The generous commitment from Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation allows the school to continue its tradition of
Ernest and Evelyn Rady and the Rady Family Foundation are building on their own legacy. COURTESY UCSD
success and impact.” With a $30 million lead gift in 2004, Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation helped establish the school, later contributing $5 million toward the expansion of the business school’s campus. Graduates have launched more than 80 successful companies. “What a magnificent first 10 years — and the school is just getting started,” Rady said. “Dean [Robert] Sullivan and other leaders within the community held a vision of a business school in a symbiotic relationship with the innovative culture of our region. The school is already exceeding expectations, and there is so much more to come.”
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