La Jolla Village News, November 24th, 2011

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www.SDNEWS.com Volume 17, Number 9 Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in a series throughout the month of November highlighting veterans’ experiences.

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NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton poses with Scout Bassett, a member of the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Walton will host an event to benefit the foundation at Colosseum Fine Arts in La Jolla on Nov. 26. Courtesy photo

BY KENDRA HARTMANN VILLAGE NEWS

nyone who thinks the worlds of art and sports will never meet is in for a rare treat. On Nov. 26, the two come together in La Jolla for a common cause: challenged athletes. Bill Walton, former NBA star, basketball Hall of Famer and avid art collector, will host the event to benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation at Colosseum Fine Arts. “This event gives the sports world and the arts world

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the chance to come together to make a difference in a big way,” he said. “And to have the ability to combine all the elements that are important to my life — San Diego, creativity, the Challenged Athletes Foundation and art — is a really special opportunity.” Walton became involved in the fundraising event when he was approached by longtime friend and Colosseum owner Richard Sertucha about collaborating on an art show. Walton said he would, under one condition: that the show involve some kind of charity benefactor. And thus, the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) arts fundraiser was born. Now in its second year, the event will feature the art of several local artists, including Sean Dietrich, Danny Day and female boxer/painter Danyelle Wolf. Diet-

BY MARIKO LAMB | VILLAGE NEWS Vietnam War veteran Don Hyslop put his love for art on hold when the war draft became an imminent reality in the late 1960s. After high school, a young Hyslop set his sights on becoming a commercial artist, taking art courses at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell and continuing his studies at Texas Tech University. Before completing college, the 21-year-old Hyslop shifted gears by enlisting in the U.S. Navy in his home state of New Mexico. From there, he took a train to San Diego with other recruits and landed at what was then the Naval Training Center in Point Loma, where he volunteered to train as a member of the Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) 11 — a specially trained, amphibious-ready group tasked to reconnoiter and eliminate defensive obstacles along shorelines before marines disembarked. His future in art would have to wait. “After completing training in Coronado, we went directly overseas, so there was not a lot of time for expectations,” he said. “It was on-the-job training.” He completed his first tour in Vietnam from May to December 1967 doing survey operations.

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Occupiers take to beach communities; march to bridge gap of inequality BY MARIKO LAMB | VILLAGE NEWS Proving the Occupy movement can reach out and touch any part of the city — including our quiet coastal communities — Occupy Mission Bay took to the streets Nov. 17, shutting down the westbound lane of the Clairemont Drive bridge near the visitor center and proudly displaying handmade signs, banners and even art to illustrate their cause to passing

drivers on the southbound lane of Interstate 5 below. Signs and chants ranged from demands for universal healthcare and job creation, cries to end corporate greed, and pleas to Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-50th Dist.) to fix infrastructure in the district — including the bridge upon which they stood. Despite the diversity of themes, all of the demands fell under the overarching mantra of “We are the 99 per-

cent” and “We deserve better.” “We got involved in this because in 2008, Wall Street gambled away our retirement, our business went kaflooey, we lost the house we were trying to sell and the house we were trying to retire to, and we had to file for bankruptcy in 2009,” said Sharon Jacobs, an Occupier who came from Oceanside with her husband, Frank. Members of Occupy Mission Bay line the bridge on Clairemont Drive near the visiSEE OCCUPY, Page 5

tor center on Nov. 17 to help spread their movement’s messages to passing motorists. MARIKO LAMB | Village News


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