by The Editors on September 27, 2007
This year The Rotary Clubs of Carlsbad is presenting its 25th Annual Oktoberfest at Holiday Park in Carlsbad on Saturday October 6th from 1 to 10 PM.
The family event features German food, German music, dancing, and a host of children’s activities, including a pumpkin-decorating contest, facing painting, clowns, and much more. The pumpkin-decorating contest is for children 5-15 years old. . . Roger and the Villagers will play its traditional brand of polka music, including the beloved “Chicken Dance, from 5 to 10 p.m. . . . A German dinner will be served from 1 to 8 p.m. . . . Tickets are $10.
Oh, and there will also be beer. . . lots of beer. Did we mention that? For more info click the link below.
[Link: Rotary Oktoberfest]
by The Editors on September 26, 2007
Carlsbad-based Aptera Motors is the dream of CEO Steve Fambro and COO Chris Anthony (founder of Epic Wake Boats). According to a story in the North County Times, Fambro’s prototype vehicle gets 300 miles to the gallon.
Made out of strong, lightweight composite materials such as fiberglass, the Aptera is a three-wheeled, hybrid diesel/electric vehicle that looks like something out of the Jetsons. The Aptera weighs 850 pounds, seats two, and the company says, gets 300 mpg. . . Because it has been classified as a motorcycle by California, the Aptera can legally use the car-pool lane —- even if there’s only one passenger.
Fambro has already rounded up $1 million from Idealab and another million from “Esenjay Explorations, an oil and gas drilling company based in Corpus Christi, Texas.” But now, as you might expect, the company needs more money. . . don’t we all.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 26, 2007
If these look like the kind of exciting, interesting, people you’d like to spend a Saturday morning with, then you’ll be happy to know that The Palomar Audubon Society will be invading Carlsbad on Saturday September 29 at 8 AM for a Bataquitos Lagoon field trip. The group will be on the lookout for “shorebirds, gulls, waders and waterfowl.”
[Link: Palomar Audubon Society]
by The Editors on September 25, 2007
Oscar winner Geena Davis (star of Thema and Louise) will be at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad on Thursday September 27 to host a $75 a person “celebrity luncheon and auction” to raise money for SJ Los Angeles an organization that urges that “the entertainment industry, parents, and the general public recognize the need for gender balance and varied portrayals in the overall universe of kids’ entertainment.”
Okay, so she’s not raising money to cure cancer, but if you want to buy one of the dresses she or Sharon Stone wore once in a Hollywood movie (and who doesn’t ) then click here for tickets.
[Link: SJ Los Angeles]
by The Editors on September 25, 2007
These are the kind of stories that make us sigh and harken back to those quieter, gentler times when girls at a slumber party could go out and TP their friend’s house without the police being called. Well, Calavera Hills mom Jeanne Brandone “has had it with giggling young people sneaking into her yard in the middle of the night to toss toilet paper onto her trees” so she’s called the police and contacted a lawyer.
Hit by toilet-paper tossers twice in two weeks, Brandone has her suspicions that the incidents have something to do with her 16-year-old daughter . . . Brandone estimated that 25 to 30 rolls remained up on her roof, and she wants to hire someone to get the stuff off the palm trees. She’s now on the hunt for the perpetrators, she said. She’s got leads on a few possibilities, but she’s not releasing what she knows to the media. Her family lawyer has advised her that it’s better to keep her mouth shut, she said.
Talk about making things harder for your kids at school.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 24, 2007
Carlsbad High School’s Kaylee Weil has the classic earmarks of a motivated world dominator. The 17 year old is ranked first in her class of 800, she is the editor of the school newspaper, “studies calculus” and hopes to attend Stanford or Dartmouth, but that’s not all, according to a profile in the North County Times.
Weil said she spends as much time as she can working with “pro-peace” organizations. “I think a lot of students my age mistake peace for anti-war,” she said. “Those aren’t synonyms.” . . . For about a year, the 17-year-old has been involved with such groups as Kids for Peace, which is a parent-driven program; Americans for the Department of Peace, which advocates for the passage of a bill to create a cabinet-level U.S. Department of Peace; and the Student Peace Alliance, which is a student organization.
Anyone who can honestly say that “Peace” and “anti-war” aren’t synonyms has an extremely bright future in politics. That’s for certain.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 23, 2007
Sadly, we didn’t take any bets when we made our predictions that there would be no “big winter storm” this weekend. Check out what the San Diego Union Tribune had to say:
The intense, winterlike storm the National Weather Service buzzed about all last week did not live up to its billing, at least not in San Diego County. . . . Most of the region got little rain Friday night and yesterday, and the extreme conditions that were forecast – thunderstorms, hail and possible mudflows – never materialized.
We did, however, see a couple water spouts like these at noon on Saturday.
[Links: San Diego Union Tribune and Carlsbadistan]
by The Editors on September 23, 2007
Leave it to the Oceanside City Council to ignore a recommendation from their own Planning Commission and approve an “82-room hotel, a restaurant and four 3,400-square-foot condominiums” on the northern shore of Buena Vista Lagoon, according to an opinion piece by Judi Wilson in the North County Times.
Buena Vista Lagoon, located on the border between the cities of Carlsbad and Oceanside, was designated California’s first Ecological Reserve in 1969. From far inland, along Buena Vista Creek, this ancient watershed nourishes the only fresh water lagoon in San Diego County, offering shelter, food and nesting habitat to a vast variety of birds and animals.
The Buena Vista Audubon Society along with several other groups is going to appeal Oceanside’s decision to the California Coastal Commission. For more info visit the Buena Vista Audubon Society Thursday September 27, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nature Center, 2202 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 22, 2007
[Click HERE for all the photos] This year the Carlsbad Education Foundation’s 11th Annual Taste of Carlsbad joined up with Art Splash for a combined event that made us think was a perfect Saturday afternoon excursion in Carlsbadistan. And from the packed isles and lines at the booths (especially Darios) we don’t think we were alone.
Taste of Carlsbad features exemplary cuisine from twenty Carlsbad restaurants. One $20 donation to the CEF buys visitors a card good for samples at 15 of the restaurants. Before you jump into the photos here were our favorites: El Puerto Mexican Food (next to the Golden Tee in the Albertson’s parking lot), The El Camino Real Grille (by the people who created Savory), Knock Out Pizza (in the Village), Lola’s, and the Tri-City Medical Center’s Cafeteria.
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by The Editors on September 22, 2007
[Click HERE for all the photos] Today around noon the “big winter storm” that had been forecasted began loading up some clouds off shore with close to six water spouts. The clouds moved on shore just in time for Carlsbad’s Art Splash on Armada Drive behind the Flower Fields. Though it rained for about 20 minutes, it was not enough to slow any of the dedicated chalk artists .
We lost a little in the rain, but it wasn’t bad, ” said Eugenia Bizzaro as she and her husband Blane worked under the bright sunlight.
She and Blane (Bizzaro Creations) are artists who take this transitory art form very seriously.
“This is a true art form pasted on from generation to generation,” Virginia said. “It’s great for the kids to watch and learn because the way school art programs keep getting cut back these days kids rarely get to see artists at work. That’s why we are here. We want to encourage kids to be more interested in art.”
Several thousand people enjoyed the first day of the two day event. While there wasn’t that much chalk art to see today, there were booths showing art of all mediums and style. For the completed chalk art be sure to check it out tomorrow.
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