by The Editors on September 8, 2007
Apparently someone threatened two Carlsbad schools on Friday and that required sending officers and dogs to two of Carlsbad’s schools.
Police were checking the campuses at Carlsbad High School and Valley Middle School at midday today, in response to a reported threat. . . Students at both schools were taking their lunch breaks on a normal schedule as police K-9 officers searched classrooms. Neither school was put into a lock-down situation.
According to the North County Times story, no future details were available.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
Sunday night September 9 at 8 PM Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub & Grill will be presenting Chicago’s Deal’s Gone Bad as the eighth stop on their West Coast Road Show. Here’s what the band says on its Myspace page.
What do you get when you mix the chugging rhythms of Jamaica, the energy and emotion of American Motown, and the overthe-top pub/rock of the Pogues? Now in their 14th year, Deal’s Gone Bad is touring extensively with its strongest and most consistent line-up in its history. With elements of ska, rocksteady, reggae, and American soul, DGB is sure to please on the dancefloor as well as on their fourth release to date, “The Ramblers” on Megalith and Jump Up! Records (March, 2007).
Sounds like a show no one should miss. Follow the link for more info on the tour and the band.
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by The Editors on September 7, 2007
If you happen to notice a lot of people walking down PCH in south Carlsbad today it’s not an evacuation. It’s day one of the three day Sprint MS Challenge Walk. Starting at 6 AM this morning at the Flower Fields participants will walk 20 miles south along the coast. Day two is a walk from Del Mar to La Jolla, and day three will see the walkers ending up in downtown San Diego.
The Sprint MS Challenge Walk may be the greatest journey you will ever take. It will definitely be unlike anything you have ever experienced. It’s an event that will test your spirit as much as your strength. Carlsbad to San Diego, California
The goal of the walk is to raise $1.2 million for multiple sclerosis research. And currently they are only a couple hundred thousand short. If you’d like to donate money to sponsor a walker, click here.
[Link: Sprint MS Challenge Walk via Click On Carlsbad]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
Jennifer Semmes and Andrew Wilson will happily open Carlsbad Village’s The Wine Spot today with special wine and food events going on all weekend.
Join us to celebrate the grand opening of downtown Carlsbad’s fun, new wine store and tasting room. All weekend, we will be pouring a complimentary, sample of wines and serving appetizers. We would love to see you here! Friday- 4-8, Saturday- 11-8, Sunday-11-5
The Wine Spot is located at 2801 Roosevelt Street. Free Complimentary wine and appetizers, in Carlsbadistan? Yes, please!
[Links: North County Times and Local Wine Events]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
A proposal to ease up development restrictions in The Village was supported Thursday night by a 4-0 vote of the Carlsbad’s Design Review Board according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
The proposed overhaul of building regulations aims to improve business conditions in the Village and encourage more multifamily residential structures atop retail shops, said Debbie Fountain, the city’s housing and redevelopment director. . . Known for its cosy shops and tree-lined streets, the Village area is centered around Carlsbad Village Drive and State Street. Though famed for its charm, the area hasn’t been a retail powerhouse of late and the city wants to improve sales tax figures. The conflict has been how to improve the area without sacrificing its character.
Unfortunately, easing parking requirements, increasing residential density, and allowing taller buildings isn’t necessarily a good thing for the long-term health of The Village in our mostly uninformed opinion. What is needed most is for the City to build one (or more) public parking structures with spaces that can be shared by all the downtown businesses. But then all that money was probably spent on The Crossings.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
Nothing like dropping in late with news of a fire, however, on Wednesday morning September 5 at about 9 AM what is being called an “electrical fire” started in the attic of the building that houses the Daily News Cafe on the corner of Coast Highway and Carlsbad Village Drive.
Fire crews evacuated the building, made sure the blaze had not spread through its walls and worked to contain water damage, Heiser said. . . Although firefighters finished working at the scene in about 90 minutes, water damage and some electrical problems kept businesses there from immediately reopening, Carlsbad Division Chief Chris Heiser said.
But it didn’t slow down the Daily News, they were open for business and “rolling” when we spoke with them this morning. Phew. We like that place.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
According to a story by our favorite North County Times reporter Barbara Henry, Carlsbad’s planning commission decided Wednesday to delay their vote on the controversial Ponto Beachfront Village Vison Plan because they still had “many questions relating to traffic and other topics.”
Their unanimous vote to continue the discussions when they meet Sept. 19 came after four hours of questions, staff presentations and public comment. “I … think we’ve got a plateful tonight, and we should take some time to digest it,” said Commissioner Bill Dominguez. . . Most of the others on the commission agreed, though Commissioner Frank Whitton said he was nearly through with his questions and could make a decision that night.
Hey, as far as we’re concerned the longer this project is stalled the better.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
Frank Rizzo, 85, moved to Carlsbad in 1979 with the intention of retiring from a career “repairing, renting and selling pinball and other arcade games.” He’d been at it since 1949. But things didn’t go as planned:
Though he had come to retire, he soon established a game route nearly as big as the one he left back in the Midwest. Within a few years, Rizzo was operating games in close to 100 Pizza Hut locations. . . At that time, simple black-and-white video-arcade games such as Pong, Asteroids and Space Invaders were taking hold. Soon, advanced games with color graphics such as Pac-Man, Centipede and Galaga were introduced.
Since then Rizzo and his San Marcos-based, family-run business Area Amusements has become San Diego’s leading pinball and commercial video game service company repairing, refurbishing and selling some of our favorite old games. If there’s an old game you always loved, check with Frank; he probably has one for sale.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on September 7, 2007
Every once in a while we like to remind ourselves that Carlsbad is home to some really big-brain businesses. You know, companies with advisory boards that are chaired by infamous Nobel laureates and such. Check this one out:
Cambridge-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. reports it has teamed up with a fellow biotechnology firm to launch a jointly owned California startup to commercialize drugs made with microRNA, or miRNA. . . . Regulus Therapeutics LLC, based in Carlsbad, Calif., plans to combine technologies from Alnylam and Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., also of Carlsbad. The joint venture also features a separate management team, board of directors and scientific advisory board, chaired by Nobel laureate David Baltimore, officials said.
Or this:
Patriot Scientific Corporation, a leading intellectual-property licensing company, today announced that DMP Electronics Inc. of Taiwan has purchased an implementation license to the company’s microprocessor patent portfolio for use in DMP’s semiconductor devices.
It’s like we’re living in Southern California’s hot bed of smart and we don’t mind it a bit.
[Links: Biz Journals and CNN/Money]
by The Editors on September 5, 2007
Each year Amusement Today, the trade journal of the amusement park industry issues their Golden Ticket Awards recognizing the finest in the business. This year our own Legoland was awarded the titled of Best Children’s Park.
We applaud this year’s class of Golden Ticket Award winners and finalists for their achievements,” says Gary Slade, publisher and editor-in-chief of Amusement Today. “When we began this survey 10 years ago, I never would have dreamed it would become such an anticipated and big sensation.
After reading the list of winners it’s hard to believe there are any parks in the US that didn’t win some kind of award. But we’re still proud of Legoland.
[Link: Amusement Today]
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