La Jolla Village News, November 4th, 2016

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City Council votes to further study short-term rentals

PUMPKIN PIÑATA BURSTS

By DAVE SCHWAB

The 600 pound great pumpkin (above) explodes after being dropped from the top of Tioga hall on the UCSD campus. Dozens of students ran to the carnage to pick candy out of the pumpkin’s guts (below). PHOTOS BY THOMAS MELVILLE

Halloween tradition at UCSD Students dropped a humongous candy-filled pumpkin from the 11th story of Tioga hall at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28 for the 42nd annual UCSD Monster Pumpkin Drop. Weighing in at approximately 600 pounds, this is one of the largest pumpkins in Muir College’s Pumpkin Drop history. The students in the Muir Residents’ Council named the sacrificial fruit “My Lowest Test Score,” so the students dropped “My Lowest Test Score” during the annual tradition. Inside the pumpkin was an

A motion by City Council President Sherri Lightner which some feel would have largely banned short-term vacation rentals in single-family neighborhoods was defeated Nov. 1 by a 7-2 vote. An alternative motion brought by Councilmember Todd Gloria was then passed by the same 7-2 margin. Lightner of Coun-

cil District 1 and Lorie Zapf of Council District 2 cast the dissenting votes on both motions. Gloria's counter motion requested city staff do a fiscal analysis to determine the cost of greater short-term vacation rentals (STVRs) enforcement citywide, asked staff to draft and return with a comprehensive ordi-

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Car crashes into White Sands, kills man in bed

assortment of candy that dozens of students scurried to claim after the pumpkin explosion. After the drop there was a Halloween Carnival sponsored by Muir College. The pumpkin’s “splat” is measured each year. The largest splat in the history of the pumpkin drop occurred last year, when a pumpkin weighing more than 500 pounds spewed over 138 feet. This is the sixth year Jon Berndes, a local grower from Alpine, has donated the doomed pumpkin to Muir College at UCSD.

A 96-year-old La Jolla man was killed Oct. 25 when a car slammed into the beachfront retirement home where he lived, and the driver of the car was jailed on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and other charges. The driver of a 2004 Oldsmobile, Randy Albert Gaster, 53, ran

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a stop sign at the intersection of Pearl Street and Olivetas Avenue, lost control on a curve in the roadway and careened into the White Sands La Jolla around 12:20 a.m., according to San Diego police. The car crashed through an exterior wall and fatally struck the victim as he was sleeping.


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