La Jolla Village News, June 27th, 2014

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Scripps Institute in discussions with USC on possible merger La Jolla's Scripps Research Institute — the area's biomedical sciences giant, home to three Nobel prize winners and the central figure in the state of Florida's largest-ever life-sciences jobs legislation — is in discussions that may result in a merger with or a takeover by The

University of Southern California. A joint statement, issued last week in a published report, states that “The University of Southern California (UCS) and The Scripps

SEE MERGER >> PG. 21

L.A. firm is final link to reprieve for 4th fireworks display By DAVE SCHWAB

CURTAIN CALL? A visage of an elderly Karl Marx looks out from atop the mural-laden Ché Café, a celebrated UCSD vegan/vegetarian eatery, art/music venue and center of leftist political thought that may be in its last days after years of flaps between supporters and the school. The work force has been evicted as of Sunday, July 13; students have voted not to fund the facility further; the collective's members are allegedly behind in their rent; and the facility is in need of repairs to the tune of $700,000. Still in all, our editorial on Page 6, though it hails the cafe, asserts that it must be allowed to die a quiet death. PHOTO CREDIT

It's the event that wouldn’t die. The annual La Jolla Cove Fourth of July fireworks display, on-again, off-again the past few weeks, is finally a go this year. “We were lucky that we happened to find a fireworks purveyor that was willing to come down and do the show for us,” said Deborah Marengo, La Jolla Community Fireworks Foundation Committee spokesperson, noting the 29th annual event will proceed at 9 p.m. Friday, July 4. Early on, money was the problem, as Marengo said several weeks ago that donations were slow to come in and that prospects for hosting fireworks were “doubtful.”

Then, more recently, Marengo reported that residents and businesses had come through with the minimum $30,000 needed to stage the event. However, she said the fireworks were going to be canceled amid concerns that a pyrotechnics company might not be found in time to mount the show. The depth of community feeling was evidenced when La Jolla Town Council trustee Ann Kerr Bache launched her own fundraising drive to host fireworks on July 5 when it was believed no one was available to do them on the 4th.

SEE FIREWORKS >> PG. 7

Gardner calls Town Council 'a joke' amid alleged inaction In the aftermath of a flap over disbursement of some of the proceeds from last year’s “Dancing with the Stars” fundraiser sponsored by La Jolla Town Council, event organizer Nancy Gardner chastised the council for “playing politics” and getting away from its mission of “serving the community. “ W h y can’t the town council

do something in the community for the children, for the merchants; why are we letting an organization that has the potential to help La Jolla become a joke by its behavior?” she asked. Gardner questioned the validity and necessity of a recent town council mail-ballot vote to have her removed from its board after she had already resigned, noting that “it’s not in the bylaws that they had to send out ballots. I happen to know

many more people voted to keep me in than they said, and the number of ballots sent out exceeds the number of members in the council.” Gardner noted the council spent nearly all of the “$1,238 in question” in the membership-nonmember mail-ballot election with return stamped envelopes. She added the town council should be directing its attentions toward addressing the problems and issues of the larger community rather than focusing on

itself and on individual members. “The town council needs to get rid of the personality issues, get rid of the angst,” she said, adding that members “need to ban together with all the other community groups in La Jolla. None of us are paid. We all volunteer to give our time back for the good of the community. So let’s not lose sight of what’s in the best

SEE GARDNER >> PG. 5

Cliquish behavior demeans Town Council and the neighborhood, Nancy Gardner says.

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