On Friday, January 25, 2008 at 7 PM, the Museum of Making Music welcomes award-winning guitarist Muriel Anderson for an evening of memorable music. Muriel will be joined by Thom Bresh, son of the legendary Merle Travis. Tickets are $20 for general, $15 for Museum members and $8 for students. Reservations are required. Follow the jump for the complete details.
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RV’s were enough of a money pit in the first place without the ground opening underneath them. But that’s exactly what happened at an RV storage lot in Calavera Hills (off Tamarack) when a 70-foot-deep sink hole opened in the ground overnight.
Steve Plyler, water superintendent for the Carlsbad Water District, said an 8-inch water pipe burst at about 7:30 p.m. Monday, punching a hole through a concrete retaining wall that holds up the hillside asphalt driveway and causing the pavement to drop away. “We’re still trying to ascertain exactly what happened,” Plyler said. “But it’s pretty clear that the pipe burst.”
Until this gets fixed no RVs will be able to enter or leave the facility. In fact, the live in caretaker Andy Masters is stuck there.
[Link: North County Times]
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One of the best golf teachers in the world, Jim Flick, 77, is now offering up his knowledge five-and-a-half days a week at TaylorMade Golf’s Carlsbad headquarters.
In 1990, a struggling and frustrated Jack Nicklaus solicited some advice from Flick on the driving range before the Golden Bear’s Champions Tour debut. Something clicked with Flick. Nicklaus won the tournament, and he and Flick have worked together ever since.
In 2002 Flick was named as the ninth member of the Golf Teachers Hall of Fame. If only we’d played golf. At $300 an hour we’re sure we could tune up our swings, no doubt. Click the link for the rest of the Jim Flick profile.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Carlsbad-based Luminous Medical has developed a new glucose measurement system for hospital patients that the medical equipment world is raving about.
Luminous has now developed what it claims to be the first-of-its-kind automated glucose measurement system that continually takes blood samples from a patient’s IV system, analyses the blood using near-infrared spectroscopy, then sends the blood back to the patient. . . . The net result is a system that accurately and precisely reports patient glucose readings without the need for frequent calibration and allows for automated, frequent measurements.
While we’re guessing few people understand any of this, it is just one more reminder of how Carlsbad-based high-tech businesses are making the world a better place.
[Link: The Engineer]
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There’s nothing better for the old men of Carlsbad than a beauty pageant. And we can all thank the Carlsbad Lions Club for keeping the tradition of scantily clad, pretty young things rolling with the 54th Annual Miss and Teen Carlsbad Scholarship Pageant.
With $3000 in educational funding as it’s ruse, the event will be held at 6 p.m. March 22 at the Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center, 3557 Lancer Way. All single girls, ages 13 to 26, and residing in Carlsbad are eligible.
An orientation will be held at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Harding Community Center, 3096 Harding St., and rehearsals will begin Feb. 5. Entry deadline is Feb. 19. Miss and Teen winners will receive cash scholarships of $2,000 and $1,000 respectively, and many other prizes.
Sadly, there is no “swimwear” or “talent” competition. Just “sportswear” and “evening gown.” But don’t get bummed. We’re sure the girls will be doing their best to look hot for the judges.
[Link: North County Times and Miss Carlsbad]
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The bluffs between Carlsbadistan’s sidewalk up top and the sea wall below may be getting a make-over according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
Responding to requests from Tamarack Beach residents and the city’s beach preservation committee, a superintendent for North County’s coastal state parks said this week that he was organizing a community planting event for Earth Day in April. . . . His “No. 1 priority,” Superintendent Brian Ketterer said, would be beautifying the eroded stretch of coastal bluffs between Pine and Tamarack avenues.
Hopefully, Brian’s idea of “beautify” is the same as ours. Then again, if we all help on Earth Day, then we can make it exactly what we want (one way or another).
[Link: North County Times]
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In November The Carlsbad City Council voted to accept the build-out of the Ponto Vision Plan and part of that plan requires upgrades to La Costa Avenue. Problem is, La Costa Ave. is technically in Encinitas. The Carlsbad City Council decided that developers would only have to pay 27 percent of the estimated $5.34 million upgrade and Encinitas would have to pay the rest. Not so, says the Encinitas City Council. In fact, they believe it so strongly that the City of Encinitas has filed suit against The City of Carlsbad.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Superior Court, says the proposed, 50-acre Ponto resort in south Carlsbad would introduce up to 70 percent of future traffic onto La Costa Avenue; Carlsbad has proposed that developers cover 27 percent of the cost of improving the road. . . Citing state law, Encinitas is demanding that Carlsbad require Ponto developers to pay proportionately for improvements to La Costa’s intersections at the Coast Highway and at Vulcan Avenue, one block to the east.
The City of Carlsbad had not had enough time to go over the suit to make a comment in time for the North County Times story. Anything that slows this development down is fine with us. Let the lawyers pile on.
[Link: North County Times]
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Carlsbad’s Phoenix Footwear has announced the sale of their Altama military footwear division to Tactical Holdings, Inc. for approximately “$15 million in total consideration,” according to a press release on Fox Business. Phoenix purchased this company on July 19, 2004 for approximately $35.3 million.
Commenting on the transaction, James Riedman, Phoenix Footwear’s Chairman, said, “The sale of Altama is an important part of continued improvements to our capital base. In addition to the direct cash it raises, it is expected to offset all of the capital taxes which arose from our gain earlier in the year with our Royal Robbins divestiture.”
So you’re saying a $20 million loss in value over three years is a good thing?
[Link: Fox Business]
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The North County Times is reporting that: “William Currier Atkinson Jr., the first elected mayor of Carlsbad, died peacefully in his Vista home on New Year’s Day, according to his wife, Charlotte.” Mayor Bud Lewis remembers Atkinson was also President of the Army and Navy Academy:
“Bill was the first elected mayor,” Lewis said Wednesday, “but I remember him more for his dedication to the Army (and) Navy Academy, where he dedicated his life to the school and did what I thought was a great job for them.”
Atkinson was 76. Our thoughts are with the entire Atkinson family.
[Link: North County Times]
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We feel badly about not warning anyone of the upcoming Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon scheduled for January 20, 2008, so this news makes us feel even worse. That’s right, registration is closed.
Registration for both the Carlsbad Marathon and the Carlsbad Half Marathon have reached participant capacity and have now closed, announced In Motion, Inc., the event’s organizer. Scheduled for January 20, 2008, the marathon and half marathon race fields have been capped at 1,500 and 7,600 entrants, respectively.
That’s not to say you can just run along without a number or sneak in with a charity organization.
[Link: Runner’s Web]
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