by The Editors on April 28, 2010
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, join the California State Parks for the Third Annual Carlsbad Beach Fest and coastal clean-up day.
The Carlsbad Beach Fest’s main focus is to provide citizens and beach users with the opportunity to participate in a beach cleanup. To take part in the cleanup and earn a raffle ticket, please sign in at the California State Parks Welcome Station down on the sand at Tamarack/Frazee State Beach at Pine Avenue. The beach cleanup will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m on Saturday, May 1st. Trash and recycling bags will be made available. Participants should bring gloves.
But that’s not all. There will be live music, entertainment and at 9 AM beach volleyball legend Karch Kiraly will host a free volleyball clinic. Throw in 15 artists, a food court, and magicians and it makes an amazing day at the beach in Carlsbadistan. For more information click the link below.
[Link: Carlsbad Beach Fest]
by The Editors on April 25, 2010
On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, proponents of the Carlsbad Skatepark, Museum and Action Arts Center will present their plans (which include the skatepark shown above) for the old City Yard on Oak Avenue near State Street to the Carlsbad City Council.
The San Diego Union-Tribune outlines the group’s plans and discusses just how deeply skateboarding history runs in Carlsbad in a story titled Skateboarding legacy focus of Carlsbad plans.
Since January, the Carlsbad Village Association and a group of downtown business owners have been working on plans for a Skateboarding Museum and Action Arts Center. They say it would offer a much-needed outlet for local skaters and draw tourism to the city. . . “The (term) ‘skate park’ was actually coined in Carlsbad,” said Robin Young, the association’s executive director. “We thought, ‘What a perfect opportunity to pay homage to that rich history.’ ” . . . The association proposes building the center on land occupied by a city maintenance yard at Oak Avenue and State Street that is slated for redevelopment. Organizers envision a skateboarding museum, a skate park and an interactive, urban arts center.
Those in support of skateboarding in general and in Carlsbad specifically are encouraged to attend the City Council meeting on Tuesday evening at 6 PM. For more information click the links below and please vote in our poll in the right hand column of this page.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune, CSMAAC, and facebook]
by The Editors on April 25, 2010
The Surfrider Foundation has definitely not thrown in the town on their opposition to the Poseidon Resources Desalination Plant scheduled to be built in the shores of Carlsbadistan’s Agua Hedionda Lagoon.
The environmental group filed a lawsuit on Earth Day (April 22, 2010) challenging a permit approved by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board. Surfrider says that the “facility would kill countless marine organisms, with an illegal plan to replace these fish and other marine life through a restoration project somewhere else.”
“When the law says you must ‘minimize the intake and mortality’ of marine life, that doesn’t mean you can kill millions of marine organisms and then try to replace them somehow,” said Joe Geever, Surfrider Foundation’s California Policy Coordinator. “The Regional Water Quality Control Board misinterpreted the law, and it’s unfortunate the project has progressed this far without a final decision on the type of intake and facility design that meets California’s law to protect our precious marine environment.”
According to Michael Burge story in the San Diego Union-Tribune this is one of six lawsuits that have been filed regarding Poseidon’s plans for the lagoon. Three are still progress.
For the entire Surf Rider release, follow the jump or click here for Carlsbadistan’s coverage of the entire saga.
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by The Editors on April 25, 2010
We’e been skipping out on the Thursdays On The Coast Art Walks lately and we’ve been missing out. Don’t follow our example this week. Get on the streets of Carlsbadistan from 5:30 – 8:30 PM Thursday April 29, 2010. It will be a good time.
For more info visit http://www.shopcarlsbadvillage.com.
by The Editors on April 22, 2010
On Tuesday night (April 20, 2010) at about 8 PM a black man in his late 20s to early 30s used a handgun to rob The Pita Pit in the Carlsbad Village Faire, according to a story in the North County Times (they called it The
The man brandished a gun and demanded money, police said. . . When the man fled, the shop owner followed the robber, who got away in a white Cadillac. The shop owner followed the vehicle southbound on Interstate 5 until the car exited the freeway at La Costa Avenue. . . The suspect was described as a black man, about 25 to 35 years old, wearing a black and blue hooded sweatshirt and had a goatee, police said.
The man got out of the car on La Costa Avenue near Vulcan and ran away, according to the story. Police were able to arrest a “A 39-year-old woman behind the wheel was arrested on suspicion of robbery, conspiracy and commercial burglary and was booked into Vista jail on $50,000 bail,” according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
[Link: North County Times and San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on April 21, 2010
We’re probably the last of the Carlsbadistan four-eyed to discover William Stevenson’s Hot Shots Eyeware Repair located downstairs in the Village Professional Center at 690 Carlsbad Village Drive. But damn, can this guy fix glasses.
The shop, in a building we never even knew existed, was packed like a Kaiser ER waiting room when we arrived. William, wearing his Hot Shots apron, stood in the middle of the sparsely decorated room when we arrived explaining to a customer why there would be no charge for the repair he’d just performed.
We grabbed one of the two empty chairs and asked the woman next to us how long Hot Shots had been around. “I’ve been coming here for a couple years,” she said. “And I drive all the way from San Diego. I don’t know how he does it. I’m always stepping on my glasses and he keeps fixing them.”
On the wall behind the glass counter, prices for all the different repairs Stevenson performs are hand lettered in erasable marker next to their corresponding parts on a four-by-five foot white board that features a schematic of a pair of glasses. There are pieces to glasses that we didn’t even know had names, but for between $5 and $15 Stevenson will fix pretty much anything that can break on a pair of glasses.
After disappearing with our frames into his “restricted area” workshop it was only a matter of minutes before our glasses were on the counter, sparkling, and as close to perfect as possible. Thankfully we didn’t need new $100 lenses and we didn’t have to wait. The charge? $5.
We’ll definitely, be back. There is no reason to go anywhere else.
[Link: Hot Shots Eyeware Repair]
by The Editors on April 21, 2010
It’s been 13 months since Carlsbadistan’s Aviara Resort owner BRCP HEF Hotel Tenant LLC first tried to get out of its management contract with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in what we called the Battle of Aviara. BRCP claimed Four Seasons was not living up to its contractual obligations and Four Season disagreed.
Now, after lockouts, and checkpoints, and accusations from both sides it appears that arbitration has worked, according to a story on the San Diego News Network. Four Seasons is out and Hyatt Hotels is in.
Hyatt Hotels has been selected to take over management of the Aviara Resort in Carlsbad from Four Seasons Hotels, it was announced Tuesday. . . Hyatt plans to brand and manage Aviara Resort as part of its luxury Park Hyatt group on June 21, when it will become the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort, according to the company.
According to the story, the arbitration panel agreed with Four Seasons that no management agreements were broken, however they apparently decided that Four Seasons should no longer be involved with the property.
For the entire BRCP HEF Hotel Tenant LLC press release regarding the change please follow the jump.
[Link: San Diego News Network]
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by The Editors on April 19, 2010
On Sunday April 18, 2010 the California State Beach Lifeguards went in a little deep just north of Warm Waters and got stuck between some rocks and a soft space. See what happens when you drive on the beach kids?
by The Editors on April 16, 2010
Shoppers in the Apple Store at the Forum At Carlsbad this afternoon (April 16, 2010) were startled by a shrill alarm seconds before seeing two white males in their late teens or early 20s run from the store.
“We saw them walk in and they looked a little bit sketched out,” one shopper said. “Then when I heard the alarm and saw them running it kind of made sense.”
The men ran south to the parking lot behind the Sur La Table store with several Apple employees in pursuit. Bystanders called out which way the robbers ran, but just as the employees got the parking lot, the men came speeding right back through the mall parking lot in their black primer Nissan where helpful citizen copied down the license number as the car passed.
Workers, who first believed the thieves had stolen a popular, new iPad, eventually discovered that only two iPhone 3GS had been ripped from a display table near the front of the store.
“They really were the worst criminals ever,” said one shopper. “But I’m glad no one got hurt.”
by The Editors on April 16, 2010
Early Thursday morning (April 15, 2010) a 17-year-old girl driving a Ford F-150 truck plowed into these signs and into excavator on the closed portion of Historic 101 just south of the Hilton Garden Inn, according to a story in the North County Times.
About 1 a.m., police found the driver trapped in a Ford F-150 about 2100 feet past several closed road signs, Reno said. Without slowing, she had driven through orange barrel barricades and a chain link fence. Still going full speed, the truck dragged the fence before becoming lodged under a large excavator, he said. . . Carlsbad firefighters freed the teen, and she was taken by helicopter to Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, Reno said. Later Thursday, she was in stable condition but facing reconstructive surgery, the lieutenant said. Her name was not released.
As we were just telling a friend: there are very few good reasons to ever drive after midnight.
[Link: North County Times]
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, join the California State Parks for the Third Annual Carlsbad Beach Fest and coastal clean-up day.
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