by The Editors on October 18, 2007
According to a report released by Carlsbad’s Callaway Golf Co. (ELY) yesterday, it is highly likely that they will show a profit for the third quarter of this year. In the golf business that is apparently enough news for a celebration.
The high-end golf club maker said it expects its quarterly results to range from break-even to profit of 2 cents per share, including two charges and a gain on the sale of a building.
While the numbers won’t be released until November 1, the news was good enough to send the stock up $2 to $17.27 this morning in early trading.
[Link: Houston Chronicle]
by The Editors on October 18, 2007
If the Carlsbad City Council gives the Ponto Vision Plan (a development that could include “a 215-room Hilton resort; a 269-room hotel; a 161-unit condominium and live-work complex; and a 180-room hotel and 126 time shares”) the thumbs up it’s going to greatly increase traffic on La Costa Avenue. That means the road will have to be upgraded. But exactly who is going to pay for that has become a point of contention between the cities of Carlsbad and Encinitas.
Carlsbad estimated that the improvements would cost $5.34 million and determined that Ponto developers should pay 27 percent, with Encinitas paying the rest, Encinitas officials said. . . . Encinitas Planning Director Pat Murphy said Ponto’s developers should pay 70 percent of the improvements. His staff based its calculations on the developers’ share of the additional traffic that would be using La Costa Avenue, yielding a much higher share for the developers.
We have an easy solution: don’t build out Ponto.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on October 18, 2007
The Mitsuuchis family is hoping to sell 18 acres of land on the northeast side of Batiquitos Lagoon to the California Coastal Conservancy as open space according to a story in the San Diego Union Tribune.
Deborah Ruddock, the California Coastal Conservancy’s project manager for North County lagoons, said the property has been appraised at $2.4 million. The conservancy’s board will consider committing $1.7 million toward buying the property at its meeting Nov. 8, Ruddock said. . . She said the California Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are trying to come up with the balance.
Open space on the lagoon is a good thing, right?
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on October 18, 2007
We’re not going to pay $250 for a “three day hands-on approach to drumming and rhythm” or spend the weekend of November 9-11, 2007 with “featured drummer, composer, author, and educator Ed Roscetti .” But for those into drumming and percussion this over-18 event hosted by the Museum of Making Music may be the best drum school ever.
Styles covered include: samba, olodum, Afro-Cuban, jazz, blues, rock, funk and hip-hop. The rhythm section will accompany large and small group ensemble classes leading up to a final performance. On the last day, family and friends are invited to enjoy this interactive day of fun and music as students showcase their newly developed rhythmic skills.”
Contact Jillian Jepsen at (760) 438-5996, ext. 212 for information and registration. Get it on, bang a gong, get it on.
[Link: The Museum of Making Music]
by The Editors on October 16, 2007
While local government and other groups are well behind the proposed Carlsbad Desalination Plant the Surfrider Foundation is still asking people to do all they can to stop it.
This project would be the largest and most damaging ocean desalination facility in the western hemisphere and should not move forward if we want to improve the health of our coastal areas and ocean water quality. Though there is never a good reason to destroy public coastal property, this project is especially threatening because it will cause the destruction of marine life and ecosystems of one of Southern California’s last remaining coastal lagoons, and exacerbate global warming.
They’ve posted a form letter on their website that will allow people to send email to Coastal Commission Chair Patrick Kruer and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi asking that they vote no on the project. If you’re against this project, please click the link to take action.
[Link: Surfrider Foundation]
by The Editors on October 16, 2007
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (yeah, remember him?) was in Solana Beach yesterday kicking off plans for his $42 billion campaign to “rebuild the state’s aging infrastructure.” His first project? Adding diamond lanes to Interstate 5 all the way to Cannon Rd in Carlsbad.
Schwarzenegger said the $66 million project to extend car-pool lanes on Interstate 5 from Via de la Valle in the Del Mar area to Manchester Avenue in Encinitas. . . Getting under way this week, the two-mile-long car-pool project is expected to be completed by March 2010. The project is the first leg of a $1 billion effort that ultimately will extend diamond lanes north to Cannon Road in Carlsbad by the middle of next decade, transportation officials said.
Wow. When you think of all the cool public transportation ideas that could use $1 billion, it seems like a crime to spend it making an already gigantic freeway one lane wider. Talk about a lack of vision.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on October 16, 2007
Some evenings when we don’t get the right table at our favorite Carlsbadistan restaurant we end up walking to three of four eateries before settling on the right one. On October 21, 2007 from 3 to 6 PM the Carlsbad Village Business Association is encouraging people to restaurant hop as they present the fourth annual Flavors Of The Village.
Take a stroll through the Village of Carlsbad and enjoy samples of the most delicious menu items from the best restaurants in the Village. . . The Village will be alive with live music, great food, wine and champagne, and desserts served at select Village Merchants. . . Gather a group of friends and family and enjoy a great day in the Village.
Carlsbadistan restaurants involved include several of our favorite places: Vigilucci’s Cucina Italiana, Fidel’s, Le Passage French Bistro (the best lunch in North County), Pizza Port Carlsbad Brewery, Fresco Trattoria & Bar, Knockout Pizzeria, KoKo Beach, and a couple of our not so favorite places. For tickets visit one of the participating businesses or call 760/434-2553.
[Link: Carlsbad Village Business Association]
by The Editors on October 15, 2007
The Washington Post has a blog called The Trail that is “a daily diary of Campaign 2008.”
In today’s update they were listing all the money that Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been spending on what they are calling “posh hotels.” Guess who was near the top of the list? Our own La Costa Resort and Spa:
Whether it was $2,010 at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, $4,034 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., or $5,370 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, the former mayor found himself top-notch lodging.
Top-notch indeed. Wonder how much they charged him for valet parking?
[Link: The Trail]
by The Editors on October 15, 2007
According to a Denver Post Food Section blog, the Southern Sun brewpub in Boulder, Colorado is celebrating the Hop Harvest during the month of October and one of their featured beer samples is Pizza Port’s Hop Suey Double IPA:
It’s 9 percent alcohol, and it’s so hoppy it could strip paint. And I loved it. It carried plenty of citrus, but the emphasis hinged entirely on the powerful hops. I’d love to down one of these. But three in an evening? It might be too much hop.
Looks like the mountain hippies like it.
[Link: Denver Post]
by The Editors on October 15, 2007
Looks like six kids at the Calavera Hills Middle School have come down with the chicken pox and officials have warned parents that their kids may have been exposed.
“We are working closely with school officials to identify children who may have been exposed,” said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer. “Parents should check with their physicians to make sure their children are inoculated against chicken pox and other preventable diseases,” she said.
It’s that itchy, scratchy, red-blotchy, high fever time of year. Hopefully, your kids have been vaccinated.
[Link: 10news.com]
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