We wish all our readers a heartfelt Merry Christmas. Thanks for checking in with us every now and again. We hope you have a joyous holiday season. Thanks for making Carslbadistan the world’s best place to spend Christmas.
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Santiago Piovillasenor Aganzaman, 23, of Carlsbad was riding a bike when he was hit and killed by a southbound Sprinter Train in Oceanside at 5:05 PM on December 23, 2008, according to a story on San Diego 6.
The collision occurred at the Wisconsin Avenue grade crossing in Oceanside at 5:05 p.m., according to Cpl. Mark Cook of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department. . . The man . . . tried to ride his bicycle across the grade crossing as the warning system was just beginning to operate.
According to the train’s engineer, Aganzaman didn’t appear to see the train coming.
[Link: San Diego 6]
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A while ago we mentioned the ridiculous lengths to which Westfield (the Australia-based owners Carlsbadistan’s Plaza Camino Real) would go to stop the construction of a competitor’s mall in Oceanside.
Now, they’ve gone even farther. Westfield is suing the City of Oceanside (22-pages long) claiming that the City Council did not properly review the environmental impacts of developer Thomas Enterprises‘ planned Pavillion mall on Highway 76, according to a story in the North County Times.
[Westfield] says its tenants, patrons and employees could be affected if the Pavilion alters air quality, noise or traffic. . . . The lawsuit claims that Oceanside made numerous errors in its analysis of the project, such as underestimating its possibly harmful effects on traffic, air quality, noise, water quality and air traffic. The city also should have required the developer to build a multimillion-dollar extension of Pala Road, from Foussat Road to Los Arbolitos Boulevard, the lawsuit states.
Isn’t it nice that Westfield is so interested in the environmental health of their shoppers and not at all interested in upgrading their own mall to attract quality retailers?
[Link: North County Times]
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We’ve been a little rough on the Carlsbad Convention and Visitors’ Bureau over the past couple years, but it looks like we haven’t been too far off, according to a story in the North County Times.
No one really knows what a “convention and visitors’ bureau” does and the one in Carlsbad doesn’t even organize conventions even though that word is part of its name, Nayudu said. The new name in all likelihood will be the one the bureau already uses on its Web site —- visitCarlsbad.com —- she said.
Now that executive director Kurt Burkhart is gone the organization has the chance to reinvent itself, with the help of a six-month $350,000 contract with the Irvine, California based consulting company MindGruve.
$350,000 for six months? We are definitely in the wrong business. . .
[Link: North County Times]
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Mako Steel is a Carlsbadistan-based company that “designs, supplies, and installs steel buildings for the self-storage industry” recently opened a sales office in Washington, DC, according to a story on Inside Self-Storage.
Mark Colwell [will be] the lead as Northeast sales and project manager. Colwell has worked with the company for more than five years.
Just another nationwide Carlsbad company we never knew existed.
[Link: Inside Self-Storage]
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One mouse trapped in Carlsbad has tested positive for hantavirus, according to a story in the North County Times.
The virus, carried by wild rodents, can spread to humans in the form of a rare and potentially fatal illness, county health officials said. So far this year, 11 mice trapped around the county have tested positive for hantavirus. Routine tests usually confirm between two and eight cases a year, officials said.
We sincerely hope that Santa doesn’t catch the hanta.
[Link: North County Times]
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The manager of the Victoria Secret store in Carlsbadistan’s Plaza Camino Real doesn’t seem to care about the rules as long as she gets her job done. Police were called when she refused to leave the business at 2:46 AM on December 20, 2008 claiming she had “some paperwork to do.”
According to the Carlsbad police log: A mall worker reported that “she is not allowed to work past midnight without a work order, which she did not have.”
She eventually left. Can someone give this dedicated employee a raise? Or at least a holiday bonus.
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A phone call cleared the Vons supermarket at 985 Tamarack Ave. on Friday December 19, 2008 at approximately 7:07 PM. A male caller reportedly said he “heard” that there was a “bomb in the back of the store.”
According to the police log “The caller was not definitive and seemed he was merely passing on info.” The store was immediately evacuated to the front parking lot.
After searching the store and the perimeter Carlsbad police reported that there was “nothing unusual” found.
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Compared to the deals we’ve been used to from Life Technologies (formerly known as Invitrogen) their $20 million purchase of a Houston, Texas based VisiGen Biotechnologies isn’t all that impressive. But it could be huge for Life and for the business of DNA sequencing.
Primary founder Susan Hardin remains at the helm as president and CEO, while the other five co-founders have chosen to stay at the university. . . . VisiGen has been developing a brainchild of Hardin — a radically new method of sequencing DNA that could achieve the goal of sequencing a human genome in one day at a cost of $1,000. A genome is the genetic code in a person’s DNA.
According to a story in the Houston Business Journal the cost of sequencing the first DNA was $3 billion. So doing it for $1,000 would make it a little more widely accessible.
[Link: Houston Business Journal]
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Last March we mentioned that Robert Hoehn, the co-owner of Carlsbad’s Hoehn Motors donated $25,000 in support of banning gay marriage (Prop. 8). Recently, his business has been picketed and he’s not happy about it, according to a story in USA Today.
I just hate being pigeonholed as a hate monger or bigot,” says Robert Hoehn, who contributed $25,000 to the campaign for Prop 8, which amended California’s Constitution to exclude same-sex marriage. “I have friends in the gay community, and I don’t think any of them would say that. . . . Hoehn has seen protesters outside his Carlsbad, Calif., car dealerships, his name and business have appeared on websites publicizing donors, and he has received “the most vitriolic kinds of e-mails, letters and phone calls.”
Guess Mr. Hoehn is experiencing some of the costs associated with supporting legislation that denies the personal rights of others.
[Link: USA Today]
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