Maybe we’re the only one’s who haven’t done this yet, but Google Maps now has “street view” images of Carlsbad Blvd. all the way through Carlsbadistan. A simple click, click, click and you’re down the coast from Off Shore To Vigilucci’s. Looking at all these images kind of makes us wish we’d been on on the sea wall when the camera car rolled by. Better check the photos, maybe you were.
[Link: Google Maps]
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From the North County Times:
Jodian Squire has touched a lot of lives, and now teachers and parents at the Carlsbad Country Day School are turning out to touch hers.
After trying for months to find out why she was feeling pain in her chest, Squire, 35, was diagnosed in October with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, said school director Melissa Reed.
Teachers are holding a silent auction to raise money to help cover the Squire family’s $30,000 medical bills. For more info on how you can help, call (760) 804-0550.
[Link: North County Times]
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It’s cool of places like Hensley’s Flying Elephant to help people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day even if they can’t do it up on Monday. Hensley’s is throwing down the same party two days in a row so no one misses out, and other celebrate for 48. Today, beginning at 2 PM it’s The Bad Blokes (Traditional Irish “foot stomping” tunes are blended with covers from popular Irish rock groups like The Pogues, Waterboys, Young Dubliners and Gaelic Storm) and then from 5 to 10 PM it’s Skelpin.
[Link: Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub & Grill]
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As Marty said while posted up on Coast Highway just north of Cafe Elysa: “Sometimes you just have to take things into your own hands.”
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Those looking to roll into St. Patrick’s Day smoothly have already posted up on the patio at Dini’s on Coast Highway. For people who enjoy watching the sun set with a good drink in their hand, Dini’s is always the place. Just be careful, their cocktails are so well-crafted that they can (and occasionally do) sneak up on you. Which can be trouble, especially when you’re peddling your Electra cruiser home.
[Link: Dini’s Bistro]
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Robert Hoehn, the co-owner of Carlsbad’s Hoehn Motors, has reportedly donated $25,000 to help support an initiative that would “ban same-sex marriage” in the state of California, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. But he’s not alone in getting behind this issue. San Diego developer Doug Manchester, Mission Valley developer Terry Caster, and La Jolla businessman Roger Benson have also donated a total of more than $300,000.
Damn, buying your way into right-wing California power politics is getting expensive.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Ten years ago more than $57 million was spent restoring Batiquitos Lagoon, but now some are saying that “the natural beauty is hiding an ecological time bomb” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
“If you drive I-5 and look out over the east basin, you’ll see mud flats that historically haven’t been mud flats,” said Keith Merkel, principal ecologist for Merkel & Associates. . . . “That will have to be dredged and removed,” said Merkel, who monitors the lagoon for the California Department of Fish and Game, which manages Batiquitos.
When reading stories like this we’re always reminded of what one of writer Edward Abbey’s characters might have said: There’s nothing you can do to that lagoon that’s going to mitigate the freeway that runs right through the middle of it.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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The North County Transit District will be adding 130 parking spaces to the lot at the Village train station according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
Construction work should be done by mid-April, giving regular Coaster train commuters a little welcome relief before the busy summer season arrives, transit district spokesman Tom Kelleher said Thursday. The parking project is expected to cost $203,900.
More parking is good, but a lot more parking would be better.
[Link: North County Times]
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In his March 14, 2008 Los Angeles Times column Joel Stein, like all of us lately, is trying to figure out what would motivate New York Governor Elliot Spitzer to spend up to $80,000 on high-end adult entertainment, and more importantly, what did he get for his money. Stein brought Carlsbad into the mix by titling it: “Maybe Spitzer just needed time at La Costa.”
In fact, I’m not sure why going to a brothel is illegal but visiting a spa is considered classy. Because, really, a spa is just all the parts of sex that women like: candles, soft music, scented oils, questions about how you feel. How can it be psychologically healthy in a marriage for either partner paying to be touched in pleasurable ways? As a husband, I know I can’t compete with a $100-an-hour shiatsu guy with an iPod full of flute music.
Not sure we’re really following your logic there, Joel. But thanks for mentioning our favorite spa. There’s nothing Carlsbad needs more than shady politicians visiting The La Costa Resort and Spa.
[Link: The Los Angeles Times]
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If you find yourself waiting behind a gaggle of 13-year-olds in neon sunglasses at the Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven, or diving for cover as mohawked, shirtless boys recklessly wail a boomerang into the air just remember: Spring Break will be over in four long, painful weeks.
If you have a “spring break in Carlsbadistan” story to share with us please leave it in the comments.
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