Oceanside Police are looking for Wendel Geiger, 87. The Oceanside man has been missing since 4:15 PM December 8, 2008 and was last seen leaving Rorick Buick in Carlsbad.
Geiger is white, 87 years old, 5’8″ 190 lbs, with gray hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a yellow shirt, blue pants and a blue jacket. He was driving a tan 4-door 1998 Buick Century with California license plate number 4BQA901.
Anyone who has seen a man fitting Geiger description should call the Oceanside Police department at: (760)435-4900.
Santa Claus arrived safely in Carlsbadistan Sunday, December 7, 2008 at the annual Rotary Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at The Shops at Village Faire. The crowds turned out, and the festivities got underway at 2 pm with Santa’s arrival. It was an afternoon of free cider, cookies, and a Christmas card craft station for the hundreds of kids who showed up with their parents on the blustery day.
While Santa posted up with a few Rotary Elves in front of the tree for photographs with the kids, the festivities got underway on the makeshift stage in the parking lot in front of The UPS Store. The singing and dancing went strong almost all afternoon, and didn’t wind down until after the 4:30 dance performance from Carlsbad High School’s junior varsity Xcalibur and varsity Lancer Dancer squads.
Once the girls were off the pavement, the pop-up tents came down, and the tree lights went on. And, that, was the end of the festivities for 2008. (Follow the jump for all the photos.) [click to continue…]
One after another, wet-suited, harnessed men in helmets jump into the water between the jetties at Warm Waters and are pulled out to sea by the current. Moments later they are “rescued” by helicopter and taken to safety on the beach. The helicopter coming in slow and low stirs up sand and spray and attracts a crowd of people some on walks and others just stop on their way by.
Today it’s only training. The San Diego Fire Department is one day into their annual three-day swift water rescue training in front of the Power Station. “There is not a lot of swift water in San Diego,” said Jim Gilcrist, Air Ops Chief for the San Diego Fire Department. “But it doesn’t take much rain for some of the canyons (especially around Mission Valley) to get extremely dangerous and our crews need to train for it. Through the graciousness of the Power station we are able to use this area.”
The show continues through Thursday when the tide is on the way out and the water is flowing “swiftly.”
Carlsbadistan’sDee Forsberg (along with other members of the Surfrider Founation) kicked off a month long project yesterday that will see 50 giant stainless steel ashtrays installed at beaches in North County, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Forsberg hopes for immediate results from the new ashcans. “My goal is to raise awareness. It’s really to get people to stop and think,” she said. . . One day this past summer, she filled a kitchen garbage sack with discarded cigarette butts at Tamarack and tied another one to a nearby post. “I thought maybe whoever is sitting here and smoking will start to use the trash bag,” she said.
That’s great because we’re sick of looking at butts all over the beach. Wait, rewind that. We’re sick of looking at cigarette butts all over the beach.
Tonight, December 1, 2008, the North County Health Services Coordinated Services Center, Pilgrim Church, and the Vista Community Clinic are hosting a Candlelight Vigil in remembrance of World AIDS Day.
Brennan Nichols, 25, and Samuel Robles, 25, were both stabbed early Saturday morning in the 2700 block of Roosevelt Street.
About 12:55 a.m., officers responded to a the scene of the fight, which involved roughly 10 people, on the 2700 block of Roosevelt Street. . . . Witnesses of the fight said several white men ran from the area in various directions.
Apparently, the men had a little post-Thanksgiving steam to release. Police are still investigating, and three more arrests have been made.
Looks like even Santa Claus has been hit by the recent economy woes as he’s spending a lot of time loitering at the Carlsbad Premium Outlets this holiday season. Apparently, he’s been picking up a little extra cash by charging kids to have their pictures taken with him in the Santa House in Center Court.
Here is the schedule:
Nov 26: 10am – 4pm
Nov 27: Closed
Nov 28 – Dec 23: Mon – Sat: 10am – 9pm; Sun: Noon – 6pm
Think the economy has killed the advertising business? Not yet. The Carlsbad Tourism Business Improvement District is getting ready to sign off on a $350,000 ad campaign for the city of Carlsbad, according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
These are challenging times for the hotel industry and we do need to get going on a program,” said Bill Canepa, board member of the Carlsbad Tourism Business Improvement District, as he discussed the proposed publicity campaign at a board meeting Monday.
Apparently, a consulting company called Mindgruve, is going to create a “brand” identity for the city including a “new logo” and “some advertising, with a heavy emphasis on Internet Web site ad placement.”
We’ve got some ideas: what about changing the name of Carlsbad to Carlsbadistan and using the power station and seawall as the logo? How rad would that be? Oh, wait. . .
A couple weeks ago when LA Times writer Christopher Reynolds visited Legoland with his wife and daughter they noticed something odd while cruising through miniature Las Vegas.
Among the wonders of this scaled-down Vegas is a quickie-wedding chapel (below). Now, thousands of visitors have probably strolled right past it, since it’s not as tall as the fake Eiffel Tower, as familiar as the fake New York, New York skyline, or as splashy as the faux hotel fountains. But it’s clever. . . . If you wait and watch, an aged groom (in tuxedo with cane) and young, blond bride come striding out of the chapel, headed for a waiting bus. The bride is wearing red boots and either a red miniskirt or hot pants, it’s hard to say. But what startled the three of us was the bride’s top. . . . There didn’t seem to be one.
While Legoland’s Julie Estrada later assured Christopher that the woman is indeed wearing a white blouse, we’re not so sure. It kind of makes us think our old April Fools story may not have been as over the top as we thought.
Carlsbadistan resident Alex Kajitani, the Rappin’ Mathematician was named California Teacher of the Year yesterday, and while he actually teaches at Mission Middle School in Escondido, we’re still proud of him.
As the state Teacher of the Year, Kajitani will join other teachers in March in representing their states in a White House visit with the president. . . . “It’s such an honor and something I’m really looking forward to,” Kajitani said. “I think this country is on the verge of potentially great change, and I think the same is true for education as well.”
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