The Carlsbad bank robbery spree continued on Thursday April 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM as a “6-foot-3 thin white male wearing a white tank top” knocked off the Washington Mutual at 6985 El Camino Real. He “demanded money but did not display a weapon, police said.”
And, as usual, he got away.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Fans of the The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Precious Ramotswe will be standing on line at the Carlsbad Library on Dove Lane this afternoon waiting for free tickets to hear Scottish law professor/best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith speak as part of Carlsbad Read Together.
Some who have heard McCall Smith speak say he is one of the most entertaining, enlightening speakers they have heard and that his lecture should not be missed.
Tickets to the Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium event will be distributed first-come first-served starting at 6 PM, however, library staff claim “you’ll have to come much earlier than that if you expect to get in.”
Bring a chair and a couple McCall Smith books and join the lit line party.
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Thanks to a planned public works center and police and fire training facility (that will be built on the land currently occupied by the Carlsbad Skateboard park) there is some worry that skateboarders will have no park at all until the new park at the Alga Norte is completed, according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times. But don’t expect the Carlsbad City Council to care.
The City Council unanimously decided Tuesday that it does not want to find an alternate location for the Orion Way skatepark, since Alga Norte is opening soon. The council will revisit whether the city needs two skateparks —- as some skateboarding enthusiasts have suggested —- after Alga Norte opens.
When a location in the Calavera Hills Park site was suggested for a possible interim or second skateboard park Council member Ann Kulchin threw this idiotic line into the discussion: “There’s a lot of residences there,” she said. “I’m not sure they would welcome a skatepark.”
Carlsbad was the home of the world’s first concrete skatepark, it is the birthplace of modern skateboarding (and the industry that surrounds it) and yet this is the kind of response we get from our City Council. It’s pathetic. Truly.
[Link: North County Times]
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At approximately 3:05 PM today (April 23, 2008) a woman in her mid to late-20s was hit by a car while crossing the street in front of the Vons Supermarket in the parking lot of the Vons shopping center at the corner of Aviara Parkway and El Camino Real.
According to a witness, a woman driving a green Nissan Pathfinder turned the corner in the Vons parking lot and struck the pedestrian before even seeing her.
“She just came around the corner and hit her,” said the witness. “She didn’t even see her until after she had knocked her to the ground.
The woman was placed on a backboard and transported via Carlsbad Fire Department ambulance. The Carlsbad Police responded as well. We’ll have more as information becomes available.
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A ski mask-wearing bandit wielding a “small sword” robbed a man at the ATM of the Washington Mutual Bank Branch at 699 Grand Ave. at 6:30 AM yesterday in the VIllage of Carlsbadistan.
The victim withdrew $100 from the Washington Mutual Bank branch at 699 Grand shortly before 6:30 a.m. and was accosted by the robber, said Carlsbad police Lt. Jay Eppel. . . .The man demanded the cash as he threatened the victim with the sword, and the victim complied, Eppel said.
The robber was described as white, about 30 to 40 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, wearing a dark-colored hooded sweat shirt and baggy jeans.
The robber ran away and the robbery victim was not injured.
[Link: 10news.com and The San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Employees and teamriders from IPATH, a Torrance, California-based action sports footwear company, joined The Surfrider Foundation on Monday morning to help clean up Carlsbad State Beach on Earth Day.
“Going green isn’t a fad, it’s a movement IPATH has been a part of since our beginning and we’re thrilled others are joining us,” said Bruce Gordon, IPATH’s general manager.
We’re glad, too. We like clean beaches.
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As an assistant director Carlsbad’s Jack Roe helped create some of Hollywood’s best loved films. Sadly, he died April 6, 2008 of heart failure, according to a story in Variety.
A celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 27 at El Camino Country Club, 3202 Vista Way, Oceanside. Born in Omaha, Neb., Roe served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. . . . After joining the Director’s Guild in 1963, he worked as a assistant director on films such as Funny Girl, Paint Your Wagon, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Sunshine Boys, The Bad News Bears, Silver Streak, The Goodbye Girl, and The In-Laws.
In all he worked on more than 50 feature films. Our thoughts are with Mr. Roe’s family and friends.
[Link: Variety]
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On Monday April 21, 2008 at approximately 6:30 PM Jeffrey Samora, 24, of Oceanside stepped in front of a speeding Amtrak train near the Carlsbad Village Station and was killed, according to a story on NBCsandiego.com.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said the man who was killed was trespassing on the tracks at the time of the accident.
The death has now been ruled a suicide.
Witnesses said the man, in his 20s, jumped from the Carlsbad Village Drive station platform onto the tracks about 6:20 p.m. and stood there until he was hit by a train going about 60 mph.
[Link: NBCsandiego.com and San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Three of the 55 applicants for the position of City Manager for the City of Carlsbad have made it to round two of the interview process according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
“We screened six,” the mayor [Bud Lewis] said, as he discussed an all-day, closed-to-the-public interview session the City Council held last week. “And we’re coming back for three (finalists) we’re going to look at again. . . “Hopefully, within the next few weeks we’re going to have a city manager,” he added.
Current acting City Manager Lisa Hildabrand, 52, is still in the running for the job, but the names of the other two have not be released.
Seems like a pretty nice way to make over $200,000 a year.
[Link: North County Times]
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A Carlsbad man, Dr. Jackson Streeter, is working on an investigative light therapy that he says can help save injured brain cells, specifically in cases of nerve and spinal cord injuries, as well as Parkinson’s disease. The company is called PhotoThera and it’s device works like this:
A hand-held probe delivers an infrared energy signal into the brain. It stimulates mitochondria, which provide energy to each living cell. The mitochondria in neurons shut down when the brain is injured. “When that energy transfer takes place, it keeps cells alive inside the brain that might otherwise die,” Dr. Streeter says.
We wouldn’t mind trying to rescue some of our damaged brain cells. Streeter hopes to get FDA approval by next year.
[Link: New4jax.com]
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