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LJTODAY.COM | VOLUME 18, NUMBER 15
Pre-ballot frenzy LJVMA hopefuls schmooze as Oct. 8 board elections near By DAVE SCHWAB
TAKING A TUMBLE Street acts are an important part of the La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, set for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11 and 12 at various Girard Avenue locales between Prospect Street and Torrey Pines Road. More than 40,000 are expected at the free festival, which features more than 150 artists from the region and raises money for underfunded programs at local public elementary and secondary schools. For more information, visit ljawf.com. Read the story on Page 11, which explains the intricacies behind the fortitude of stein-holding. COURTESY PHOTO
Feet to the fire National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell is facing a wave of criticism for his handling of physical abuse allegations involving some of the league's players. While some support his stepping down from office, a former San Diego resident insists that the commissioner put his power to the best and highest use. See our sports coverage, PAGE 8.
The buzz isn't good The last five decades have seen a dramatic worldwide drop in the number of honeybees, which immeasurably enhance plant life. Our garden columnist describes her firsthand observations on the dilemma, which no less than Albert Einstein said might herald the end of the planet. See our story, PAGE 18.
Candidates in the La Jolla Village Merchants Association’s (LJVMA) board election next week talked about why they’re running, and group president C.A. Marengo answered a question about the benefits of the organization at a public forum at We Olive on Sept. 30. “Why are we paying this (business license tax) when we’re not getting any benefit out of it?” asked a local art gallery owner at the end of candidates’ presentations. “We’re your voice, your advocacy to the city, the outside, the public,” answered Marengo. “We need you to get involved. I will not let you now not be involved.” Marengo said he’d felt similarly a decade or more ago about business improvement districts (BID) like LJVMA but has since
seen just what can be accomplished with merchants working together for common cause. LJVMA is a nonprofit business improvement district that creates economic development policies and programs to enhance business in La Jolla. The group will hold its board of directors elections Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 8:15 to 10 a.m., with 16 candidates vying for 10 positions. Voting is open to all merchants in the Village BID possessing a current business tax certificate. About 1,400 businesses are Association members. The candidates' statements are available online. For a look, please visit sdnews.com, click the La Jolla Village News link and scroll down to the News section.
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Art & Wine Festival exploits a local perspective By MARTIN JONES WESTLIN John Maher's a fine one to talk. Literally. Not only is he a native La Jollan, he's a first-time exhibitor at the sixth annual La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, set for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11 and 12, on Girard Avenue between Prospect Street and Torrey Pines Road. That means he can speak to both the festival's considerable growth and his own impressions as a novice vendor. It's the latter part that sticks with the casual observer as Maher conveys his home-grown excitement over an equally home-grown festival. “I'm going into the fest — I wouldn't
say nervous and I wouldn't say confident; it's just more exciting,” the veteran fine-art ocean photographer said. Some of the excitement, he added, naturally comes for the prospect of more than 40,000 people looking over your work; the rest lies in the fact that Maher's been in business for only about nine months, gingerly plying his trade in an area known for its sweeping vistas among generations of photographers. That's the trick to his art – GEARING UP All eyes are on La Jolla Villa Merchants Association executive director Sheila Fortune (left) at the board’s pre-vote party at We Olive.PHOTO BY DAVE SCHWAB
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