The Carlsbad Boys and Girls Club on Roosevelt Street was headquarters today as The Carlsbad Christmas Bureau handed out food and gifts to more than 420 needy families, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Businesses and local residents teamed up to collect the goodies to help the families through its annual “Adopt-a-Family Project. . . The bureau has been helping families through the holidays since 1970.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Hard to believe but Carlsbadistan reportedly has 18,000 fire hydrants and only two crews of two who are responsible for painting them. “We start down here by the Army Navy Academy and we finish up in La Costa,” said Vince, pictured above.
Last time around it took the workers a year and a half to paint them all. This year they’re hoping to get her done by December 2009. Kind of like of our version of the Golden Gate Bridge. . . Thanks, Vince. They look good.
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Carlsbadistan’s blingiest business, the Gemological Institute of America, announced today that it is cutting 11 percent of his its staff and giving its executive a wonderful Christmas bonus: a 10 percent reduction in pay.
A GIA spokeswoman confirmed the cuts to National Jeweler on Friday, saying that the job cuts were a “last resort” move for the institute, spurred by trying economic times. . . . “Obviously, we’re in a deep recession, and we’re not isolated from the rest of the gem and jewelry industry,” she said. “Anything that happens to them, happens to us …. There are fewer stones going into our laboratories for servicing.”
You know the economy is in trouble with the people who cut the diamonds are feeling the hurt.
[Link: National Jeweler Network]
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On the twelfth day of Carlsbadistan Christmas my true love gave to me a swanky, 1978 Donald Cromley designed home on the golf course at La Costa. According to Modern San Diego the design for the home was “inspired by the Bauhaus architects” of the early 20th Century. But don’t think for a minute that this is a 30-year-old Christmas gift. The Green Home was totally updated with a new gourmet kitchen, cabinets, and complete bathroom and wiring upgrades in 2008.
Make white Christmas dreams come true. And remember: it’s a buyer’s market so don’t expect to pay the $2,495,000 asking price. Contact Tom and Peggy Cozens and ask them about MLS listing #080074794.
Tom and Peggy Cozens, Century 21 Sea Coast (760) 930-9336.
Previous Carlsbadistan Days of Christmas Gifts:
1. Organic Play Dough From Rock’n Sprouts
2. Foaming Bath From Chandler’s Boutique
3. Carrera Safari From Sunglass Lounge
4. The Signature Club from The Wine Spot
5. Cufflinks & Earrings From Mulloys Fine Jewelry
6. Harry Barker Tennis Balls and Teafco Collar From Dog Mania
7. Skidless Yoga Towel From Bodacious Living
8. Black & Decker Cordless Drill From DeNault’s
9. Mud Pie Ceramic Coin Banks From Ella Grace
10. New Village Arts Theatre Four Pass
11. R. Taylor Style 2 From Epic Guitars
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We were pretty hyped when we heard that P.F. Chang’s China Bistro was coming to the new Paseo Carlsbad “retail center” across the street from the Carlsbad Premium Outlets, but now we hear that another restaurant has signed a lease (20 years at $6.98 million): BJ’s Restaurant Brewhouse. Really?
Does Carlsbad really need a loud, chain restaurant that serves beer, pizza, and bar food? Aren’t Pizza Port, Karl Strauss, and that place in the Costco parking lot enough? Hopefully, BJ’s is at the opposite end of the mall from P.F. Chang’s.
[Link: San Diego Business Journal]
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On New Year’s morning 2009, Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California will feature a float from right here in Carlsbadistan sponsored by NAMM, the International Music Products Association. And those with some free time between December 26 to 31, 2008 can help decorate the float and get bragging rights that are two fold, according to the Museum of Making Music’s B.J. Morgan.
1. Point to a float on television and say you helped decorate it.
2. Raise money for a local museum
For more information on helping to decorate the NAMM float click here.
[Link: NAMM Float Volunteers]
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Long-time Carlsbad Education Foundation Board Members Steve Pynes and Bill Walls (pictured above with former President Julie Baker and Board President Lisa Posard) were honored last night for their years of service, according to a press release. The two attorneys have concluded their service after nearly 10 years.
Honored last evening by immediate past president of the board Julie Baker and current board president Lisa Posard, along with many other board members attending the Board of Trustees meeting of the Carlsbad Unified School District, attorneys Pynes and Walls were publicly thanked for their many years of support to public education. . . .“We appreciate their many years of dedicated service to CEF,” said past President Julie Baker. “Bill and Steve were valued members of the foundation who helped us oversee the contribution of dollars which funded the schools with up-to-date computer equipment, theatre and band programs, libraries, the award-winning CHS-TV program, and more.”
[Link: Carlsbad Education Foundation]
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Epic Guitars founder Kevin Kinnear believes handmade guitars are as much art as they are instrument; maybe more. That’s why his new store on State Street in the Village feels more like an art gallery than a retail business. The guitars are presented in the three room store like paintings in a gallery. Each guitar is given its own breathing space while couches and comfortable chairs line the walls. None look better in the space than the all Koa R. Taylor Style 2 with Cocobolo binding.
As a result of the carefully thinned back, sides and top, and the light scalloped bracing, it takes very little energy to make the entire guitar body come alive. The sound is signature R. Taylor, offering superb note definition over the entire fingerboard, exquisite sustain, and chords that bloom as a finely balanced palette of expression.
At $6,280 the R. Taylor Style 2 may be the kind of present people buy for themselves, but there is no doubt that the guitarist on any Christmas list would be blown away to find something like this under the tree.
Epic Guitars, 2656 State Street (760) 730-0022
Previous Carlsbadistan Days of Christmas Gifts:
1. Organic Play Dough From Rock’n Sprouts
2. Foaming Bath From Chandler’s Boutique
3. Carrera Safari From Sunglass Lounge
4. The Signature Club from The Wine Spot
5. Cufflinks & Earrings From Mulloys Fine Jewelry
6. Harry Barker Tennis Balls and Teafco Collar From Dog Mania
7. Skidless Yoga Towel From Bodacious Living
8. Black & Decker Cordless Drill From DeNault’s
9. Mud Pie Ceramic Coin Banks From Ella Grace
10: New Village Arts Theatre Four Pass
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Carlsbadistan’s finest lined up on PCH today at 2 PM.
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Carlsbadistan has its own theatre in the Village, but we just don’t go enough. We’re guessing we’re not the only ones. That’s just one of the reasons why a New Village Arts Theatre Season 8 / Four Show Package ($163.00) is such a perfect gift this holiday season. The package includes tickets to one play before Christmas Off The Ground, and then Bulrusher, Be Aggressive, and Four Dogs and A Bone.
More than something to open on Christmas morning, the gift of the theatre says, “We are going out four times in the coming six month, no matter what else happens, and it’s not going to be to the movies.” Even better: this gift can be purchased online right now. And will only take five minutes.
[Link: New Village Arts Theatre]
Previous Carlsbadistan Days of Christmas Gifts:
1. Organic Play Dough From Rock’n Sprouts
2. Foaming Bath From Chandler’s Boutique
3. Carrera Safari From Sunglass Lounge
4. The Signature Club from The Wine Spot
5. Cufflinks & Earrings From Mulloys Fine Jewelry
6. Harry Barker Tennis Balls and Teafco Collar From Dog Mania
7. Skidless Yoga Towel From Bodacious Living
8. Black & Decker Cordless Drill From DeNault’s
9. Mud Pie Ceramic Coin Banks From Ella Grace
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