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LJTODAY.COM | VOLUME 18, NUMBER 26
La Jolla student spends her summer bringing education to rural India By KENDRA HARTMANN
A FIGHTING CHANCE Maya Lakshman will hold a fundraising event on July 19 to aid her efforts to build a high school in a rural Indian village. FRANCISCA MOORE
INDEPENDENCE DAY Ready for the show? Here’s a list of area fireworks displays: • La Jolla Cove’s annual show is still, a quarter century later, one of the best in town. The 20-minute show starts at 9 p.m. • Ocean Beach Pier: 9 p.m.
• “Big Bay Boom” on San Diego Bay: 9 p.m. • SeaWorld San Diego: 9:30 p.m. Other Independence Day-related activities: • Old Town San Diego: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., an 1800s-themed celebration that includes a parade, crafts and activities of early San Diego, historical costumes and dancing,
hat-making contest, dramatic readings and wagon rides. Free. For more information, call (619) 220-5422, or visit www.parks.ca.gov/oldtownsandiego. • Cabrillo National Monument’s “Above the Fireworks”: 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., $35. www.cnmf.org
The Map gets some legal backing The flap over The Map has turned into the legal war by the shore. Nonprofit Friends of La Jolla Shores was joined by Mayor Bob Filner at a June 20 press conference to announce a lawsuit against T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc. and Shaw & Sons, Inc., alleging
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fraud, deceit, misrepresentation and negligence. At issue is The Map, a 2,300-squarefoot plaza at Kellogg Park depicting marine life at La Jolla Shores. The Map has seriously deteriorated since the two contractors completed the educational
The annual Berry Good Night took
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up the bird guano at La Jolla Cove.
place on June 22. See some photos from the gourmet event.
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Most incoming high school seniors are relaxing this summer, enjoying their last bit of freedom before their final year of high school. Not so for Maya Lakshman, however. For Lakshman, soon to be a senior at La Jolla High School, summer is anything but restful. Not only is she busy preparing to host Passage to Bollywood, a fundraiser for her efforts to bring education to rural Indian children, she’s gearing up for a month-long trip to the village in India where she’s helping build a high school, along with a library and computer center. To help with the endeavor, Lakshman is bringing together three nonprofits, all with distinct roles in the effort. The Rural India Student Education Foundation (RISE), an organization commit-
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CARTOGRAPHY EYESORE The Map at Kellogg Park has badly deteriorated since it was installed in 2008. Now, a group of residents are taking the company that built it to task with a lawsuit. DAVE SCHWAB
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project in September 2008. “It’s a tragic outrage,” said William Lerach, spokesman for Friends of La Jolla Shores, a group led by Mary Coakley Munk, which raised hundreds of SEE MAP >> PG. 2
Girard Avenue has a new photo gallery. See what the
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