Apparently Adidas isn’t the only shoe giant sticking their feet into Carlsbadistan’s golf industry. Today Puma AG announced that they have purchased Carlsbadistan based Cobra Golf, according to a post on Businessweek.com.
Herzogenaurach-based Puma said Wednesday it will acquire 100 percent of Cobra Golf, but did not provide any financial details. The deal which faces regulatory approval is expected to close in the second quarter.
Last night, Friday, March 5, 2010 at approximately 9:45 PM Steven Anthony Kelley, 18, of Carlsbad was hit and killed by a car on El Camino Real near Cassia Road, according to a story on Fox 5 San Diego. The car did not stop
Carlsbad police officer on patrol at 9:45 p.m. Friday saw a man lying in the road at El Camino Real and Cassia Road. He thought a certain vehicle had just run over the man, so he stopped the driver and called for paramedics. . . .Accident investigators later determined that the victim had been struck first by some earlier, unknown motorist, police Lt. Jarlath Eppel said.
Kelley was transported toward McClellan- Palomar Airport for an Lifeflight to a hospital but was pronounced death along the way, according to the story. Our thoughts are with Steven’s family and friends. Anyone with information should contact investigators at (760) 931-2197.
NBC San Diego investigates a possible cancer cluster in Carlsbad. But the North County Times says that California Health officials say there is nothing unusual about the number of cancer cases in Carlsbad.
Officials released that information Wednesday, after word spread that local parents are mounting a new campaign to get the state and the county to test soil, water and air conditions in some parts of the city. . . “Each (state) assessment concluded that there was no evidence of any usual pattern of cancers compared to the rest of San Diego County,” August wrote.
On Saturday, March 27, 2010 the Carlsbad Art Farm will be set up at The Flower Fields to help students learn how to make art live and on the spot.
Look for our booth where students can learn how to make pictures from die-cut paper leaves in the images of animals and birds. Once you get the idea, you can collect and press your own leaves to make fantastic creatures. . . We will also have information and registration materials for the 2010 Art Farm Summer Camp season beginning June 14 and continuing through mid-August. We will be raffling off a certificate worth $315 good for a one-week session during the 2010 Summer Camp season. Students must be entering grades 2 -8 next fall to attend camp.
Carlsbad’s Art Farm, located a 10 acre farm in the heart of Carlsbadistan, gives students in grades 2 through 8 the foundational elements and principals of art as a formal discipline. For more information stop by the booth at the Flower Fields or click the link below.
Remember those Tamarack Surf Beach pay parking warnings we mentioned earlier this week? One of our readers got one last Saturday. “The employee who left it on my car would not confirm that there would be a grace period, he said. “When asked about the newspaper and TV reports he said, ‘That’s what the media is saying.’
And from the looks of this warning, the media is right. Two more weeks of free parking at least.
Just a little reminder from the Carlsbad Municipal Water District: thanks for being nice and conserving more than the eight percent that was requested. You know, the water has a long journey to get here and we should treat it well.
Carlsbad relies on water from the Colorado River and Northern California for 100 percent of its supply. California has faced severe water shortages due to a prolonged drought and legal restrictions on water pumped from Northern California. Recent local rain doesn’t help much because most of it runs off into the ocean and cannot be captured for future use.
Barbara Henry explores the issues surrounding the City of Carlsbadistan’s employee pensions and how the recently announced mayorial candidate stand on the issues in a story in the North County Times.
Councilman Keith Blackburn and Councilman Matt Hall —- have opposing viewpoints on the pension issue.
Hall, whose candidacy is backed by the city’s current longtime mayor, has said the city needs to rethink its annual pension expenditures before they come to dominate the city’s budget. Blackburn, a former Carlsbad police officer expected to be endorsed by the city’s labor groups, has said the city needs to proceed cautiously and not be among the first in the state to try to restructure its system.
Seems everyone agrees on the old cliché: if you want to keep good employees you need to pay them. It’s exactly how that is done that gets sticky.
The public safety unions, fighting to protect their overly generous pensions and health benefits, have just suffered a savage defeat in Oceanside with the failure of the recall campaign against Councilman Jerry Kern.
It was a classic union bait-and-switch to disguise the real issue: They riled up a group of senior citizens who felt Kern was rude and didn’t pay them the attention they deserved. They got them to launch a recall movement. And then they pumped huge amounts of money into the anti-Kern campaign in the hopes of getting a more sympathetic soul in council chambers —- a sympathetic soul who would turn a blind eye to the financial disaster these pensions and benefits pose to cities and states throughout our country.
Common sense, you see, invariably wins out. And the unions know their days of looting government treasuries are numbered, in light of the recession and gaping budget deficits. [click to continue…]
The Carlsbad Police department is reportedly investigating a fight that broke out on the beach near the Army & Navy Academy at approximately 5:15 PM on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 between “4 or 5” locals and “9 or 10” academy cadets, according to a story in the North County Times.
Accounts of the melee vary depending on who is telling the story, but punches started landing after one teen pushed or hit another with a surfboard, Cain said. . . “We don’t know for sure who did what or who started it,” he said. . . Cain said that after the surfboard blow landed, several more teens piled on from both sides. Eventually a local lifeguard intervened and separated the two sides.
One of the locals reportedly sustained a broken nose. Looks like the cadets stick together pretty well.
Top- Michelle Barkowski, Camille Posard, Sydney Reed. Middle-Hailey Koopsen, Kelly DiMarco, Rylee Blair, Keara Verran, Lani Yamanaka. Front Row- Sara Steffy, Whitney Wilhardt, Brittany Smith.
During this winter Olympic month Carlsbad Lancer Dancers have won a bronze medal of their own for their performance at the National Dance Team Championships at ESPN Wide World of Sports at Orlando Florida’s Disney World February 6-7, 2010.
The 11 member varsity team flew out with two substitute coaches and 28 family members to cheer them on. . . Carlsbad’s Varsity Dance Team, The Lancer Dancers, placed 3rd overall in the nation, in the Hip Hop competition with a dance choreographed by Erik Saradpon. . . “When they called our team we were so excited! We so wanted to bring a medal home for Carlsbad.”, said Lani Yamanaka, Lancer Dancer. As a Bronze Medal winner, they were interviewed in the locker room by ESPN and their performance will be aired later this month on ESPN2.
Congrats to all the girls. Nice work. We don’t usually watch Dance competitions on ESPN, but for this one we will make an exception. Click here and search for “Carlsbad” to watch all the performances.
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Apparently Adidas isn’t the only shoe giant sticking their feet into Carlsbadistan’s golf industry. Today Puma AG announced that they have purchased Carlsbadistan based Cobra Golf, according to a post on Businessweek.com.
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