Brad Freeman, of Carlsbad, is suing his former business partners for allegedly taking their Cans For Cancer business from him illegally, according to a story in the North County Times.
What is more interesting is what exactly the Cans For Cancer business is doing. Using nearly 5,000 red bins, the company is collecting between $9,000 and $14,000 in aluminum cans in Carlsbadistan each month and so far it appears that very little is going to Cancer research.
Lou Delegge and [his attorney] Robert Kilborne declined to provide proof of donations to cancer research programs or make Cans for Cancer’s books available for a review of the organization’s monthly revenue and expenses, citing the ongoing lawsuit. . . In a phone conversation Saturday, Delegge confirmed his attorney’s assessment that start-up costs and overhead are eating up most of the monthly revenue. He said the company’s goal is to one day donate 100 percent of its proceeds to cancer research.
Guess we’ll just keep putting our cans in the Waste Management bins until all this gets sorted out.
A recent report released by the American Lung Association listed the 10 cities with the worst air quality and guess what? San Diego County (including Carlsbadistan) was listed as number eight on the list of most polluted by Ozone (smog and industrial waste) and at number 17 in short term particle pollution.
Apparently, places that are sunny and warm are the worst for Ozone. That would explain why eight of the top 10 most polluted cities are in California. Trade offs, huh?
We’d like to think that kids entering Carlsbadistan kindergartens this fall will have a shot at attending the Carlsbad Unified School District’s new $130 million high school at least one year before they graduate, but with the recent setbacks who really knows if that will be a possibility.
Earlier this month, the local branch of the California Regional Water Quality Board denied the certification the district needs to proceed with the project. The decision was a procedural matter necessary because the board wasn’t able to review materials on time, said James Smith, a assistant executive officer for the regional board. . . “We’re not talking about the merits of the project itself,” he said. “We’re still working with the applicant …. We just needed a little more time on this one.”
Why? Developer Bentlety-Wing Investments has complained about what effects “the project would have on water quality.” CUSD Superintendent John Roach is quoted as saying the complaints are “essentially ‘blackmail'” and are only about the money.
We just hope construction can begin soon for the sake of the youth of Carlsbadistan. Click the link for the rest of the story.
Bellesi, who has made a tradition of watching the pageant, sent out an e-mail to hundreds calling on people to boycott the show, which airs live from Vegas Sunday night on NBC. . . “Christians and young women in general in these pageants are being asked to compromise themselves regarding modesty of any kind,” she wrote.
Emcee Mark Walton, Scott Meritt and Brian Hargett from the Carlsbad Police Officers Association, and Chris Lawrence and Ken Sugahara from the Carlsbad Firefighters Association (L-3730) present their donation to the Carlsbad Educational Foundation at the Celebrate Carlsbad Day at Legoland event on May 1, 2010.
For the past seven years the Carlsbad Education Foundation has teamed up with Legoland California Resort on Celebrate Carlsbad Day at the park. This year it was held on Saturday, May 1, 2010. With a specially priced $15 tickets, it’s the one day a year that we can actually afford to visit the the theme park. But more importantly, it’s a day that Legoland donates their proceeds to a very good cause: helping to educate the youth of Carlsbadistan.
Legoland donated $116,000 to help fund weekly music instruction for every elementary school student in the Carlsbad Unified School District through the upcoming year. And that’s pretty generous.
“This year’s ‘Celebrate Carlsbad Day’ was a major success, enabling us to raise enough funds to support our elementary school music program across nine schools for the entire first semester of the upcoming school year,” said Valin Brown, chief executive officer of the Carlsbad Educational Foundation. “This means that more than 5,000 local students will receive weekly music instruction as a regular part of their public education. We couldn’t have done this without the tremendous generosity of LEGOLAND California as a phenomenal corporate partner that cares deeply about public education.”
Thanks, Legoland and donors who helped with the rest of the $137,000 raised. For more information on the day follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Frye will manage The Spa at La Costa, an elegant 43,000-square-foot sanctuary envisioned by world-renowned spa specialist Sylvia Sepielli. Divided into two spaces, a 28,000-square-foot interior and 15,000-square-foot outdoor courtyard, the spa creates an environment in which guests feel connected to nature whether they are indoors or out.
As long as she doesn’t change the Roman Waterfalls or cut the Cucumber Water we’re happy she’s here. Sounds like it might be a good time for a double-dip deal.
Carlsbadistan’s world famous Rubio’s Fish Taco restaurants has agreed to be purchased by a Greenwich, Connecticut based private equity firm called Mill Road Capital, according to a Bradley Fikes story in the North County Times.
If the deal goes through, Rubio’s stockholders will get $8.70 per share. That’s about 45 percent more than the closing price on Oct. 14, just before Rubio’s disclosed an unsolicited offer, the company said. . . Rubio’s board declined that particular offer from a group headed by Los Angeles-based investor Alex Meruelo. But Rubio’s said it was open to receiving other offers. . . Shares closed Monday after the sale announcement at $8.50 each, up 84 cents from Friday’s close of $7.66.
Rubio’s founder Ralph Rubio says he and the management team will be staying on with the company. “They like what we’re doing, they appreciate the management team, and the results we’ve had, so the management team stays on in our current roles,” Rubio said.
Then again that’s what the new owners always say, isn’t it?
Last week the California State Water Resources Control Board voted to protect sea life by phasing out “once-through cooling for seaside power plants” like Carlsbadistan’s iconographic Encina Power Station because the process “kills more than 2.6 million fish and 19 billion fish larvae annually,” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
“It will have the result of retiring a very high portion of the coastal, once-through cooled power plants,” said Steve Hoffmann, regional president for NRG Energy, which owns the Carlsbad facility. . . “We have to conform with this new water policy by the end of 2017,” Hoffmann said. “We either have to put in closed-loop cooling, or we have to have a way of screening marine life from our intake, which is technically very difficult.”
Maybe they could just dismantle the entire plant and ship it to Arizona. . . leaving the tower, of course. . .
Renovations on the 5,000 foot runway began late Sunday night. The airport will be closed for one week to renovate 5,000 feet of runway at McClellan-Palomar airport. . . Officials said the project will be completed in five phases, which each phase taking one week, while the airport will reopen every other week to allow for normal operations.
That means the airport will be closed every other week for 10 weeks. Isn’t summer a really high traffic time for Carlsbadistan? Guess those who fly every other week are stoked.
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Brad Freeman, of Carlsbad, is suing his former business partners for allegedly taking their Cans For Cancer business from him illegally, according to a story in the North County Times.
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