According to a new study commissioned by the City of Carlsbad the “number of Carlsbad residents happy with the job their city is doing dipped slightly last year,” according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
The number of people who described themselves as confident in their city government declined for the third year straight, Williams said. In 2007, the confidence figure was 79 percent, while in 2009 it came in at 74 percent. . . Williams said he expects Carlsbad residents’ recent dissatisfaction is due in large part to the national economic recession. There’s also “a frustration with government in general,” he said. . . It’s something he has seen in surveys in other California communities of late, he added.
Fine, but we think it’s because the City Council refuses to build a swimming pool and a skateboard park. Just think how happy everyone would be with just two simple additions.
If everything goes well Carlsbadistan’sErica Davis will be the first paraplegic woman to climb Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, according to a story on Recordnet.com.
With the help of a specially made wheelchair and a team from the Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology Institute, which will carry her about 60 percent of the time, Davis hopes Monday to be atop the tallest free-standing mountain in the world – 19,340 feet above sea level. . . “Reaching the top is showing that it doesn’t matter what it is, you can do it, because there are people out there willing and wanting to help you,” Davis said. “I think it will show other challenged athletes that you have two choices. You can lay there on the couch being depressed or look at it as a new chapter in your book of life. It will bring different things to your life. Your life is not over in any way.”
Davis was paralyzed from the waist down in 2005 when she suffered a “cavernous hemangioma.” Since then she’s competed in cycling races, triathlons, and two marathons. We’re pretty confident she’ll summit.
This morning (January 24, 2010) at 6 AM the elite runners hit the streets of Carlsbad for the Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon. After a week of storms Sunday lived up to its name and set up what has to be one of the most perfect Carlsbad Marathons in years. Temperatures were cool, skies were blue, and the the course was a party on legs.
The 10,000 runners also got to see some of the biggest, cleanest surf we’ve seen in weeks. The look on one surfers face was classic as he surveyed the waves and then looked down at the mass of humanity that stood between him and the surf. It was like a human wall. Don’t know if he ever made it across.
For 30 years she’s been producing running races and though the 69 year old may be pulling back a little, it doesn’t sound like she’s slowing her pace at all.
She’s still president of In Motion Inc., the family-run company she founded, whose marquee event is Sunday’s Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon. But she stepped back last May, passing day-to-day operations to her daughter, Christine Adams.. . “It was time,” Flanagan said.. . .The woman is hardly sitting at home, waiting to baby-sit the 11 grandkids. . . She’s taking two art classes. One room at home is reserved for her work, which apparently is improving. . . She works out with a personal trainer twice a week, runs 18 to 24 miles a week and if you called the office, it was Flanagan answering the phone this week. . . “I will probably always work,” said Flanagan, who has cut her schedule back from 50 to 15 to 20 hours. “I don’t like to use the word retire. I think it’s a bad word. I’m transitioning. To retire, rest, that’s not for me.”
Click the link for the rest of the inspiring story behind the world’s most beautiful marathon.
Carlsbadistan’sIvanffy-Uhler Gallery will be hosting a new show by Nanette Newbry titled Image and Memory. The exhibition of new encaustic paintings and sculpture by the artist explores a contemporary view of how memory shapes the human experience. The exhibition opens with a reception on January 28 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.
“In my recent work, I’m interested in how memory shapes our view of ourselves and our relationship to others. With color and formal elements, I create a visual language from my own memories and experiences,” Newbry says. “They are a study in contrasts, between thoughts that are remembered or forgotten, with suggestions of objects that you may know or have seen. I build up multiple layers of wax and pigment, creating smooth or rough textures, which over time tell a story of a certain time and place.”
The Ivanffy-Uhler Gallery is located at 565 Grand Avenue, in the heart of downtown Carlsbad. Guitarist Daniel Stratman, will perform during the opening. The artist will attend the reception – refreshments will be served. For more information follow the jump. [click to continue…]
The weekend, January 22-24, 2010, is Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon weekend in Carlsbadistan. For locals, it means that a few roads will be closed and we’ll have a lot of extremely fit guests in town. For the nearly 10,000 people who will be competing in the Marathon and Half Marathon it means running one of the most beautiful courses in the world.
Carlsbadistan’s world famous weight loss company Jenny Craig has been sued by Weight Watchers over what they say are “deceptive claims” about weight loss rates, according to a story on Brandweek.
The Jenny Craig TV spot in question claims that consumers, on average, lose over two times as much weight as those on Weight Watchers’ program. It shows actress/spokesperson Valerie Bertinelli in a lab setting surrounded by “scientists,” where she refers to the comparative results as the outcome of a “major clinical trial run by serious lab geeks.”
Weight Watchers says no such “clinical trial” was ever conducted.
“The trials cited by Jenny Craig (available on its website) are, in fact, two separate studies, conducted ten years apart for entirely different purposes than comparing the efficacy of the Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers weight-loss programs . . . The Jenny Craig ‘trials’ do not relate to WWI’s current offerings.”
Sounds like a heavyweight title match or something. . .
Each year the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce honors local businesses that rise above the rest at the Annual Business Awards Dinner. This year 52 businesses have been named as finalists in eight different categories.
“Businesses are the driving force of our area’s economy and we want to applaud the individuals and companies that have worked hard to keep our region on track during these difficult times,” said Toni Padron, the chamber’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
The winners will be announced at the chamber’s Annual Business Awards Dinner Feb. 26 at the Four Seasons Resort Aviara, where former Channel 10 news anchor Carol LeBeau will be master of ceremonies. More than 500 people, including prominent and high-profile business leaders, elected officials and community members, will attend the awards dinner. Follow the jump for a complete list of the finalists, or click the link for more information.
News was leaked Wednesday afternoon that the former home of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida has been purchased and will soon undergo restructuring to become the second LEGOLAND in the United States and just the fifth in the world. An official announcement is expected soon.
Guess we can start waving good-bye to all our East Coast Legoland visitors . . .The official press conference is tomorrow and the Governor of Florida is reportedly attending. (Follow the jump for the official press release)
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