Is the California State Parks trying to close those budget gaps by renting out our Tamarack Beach parking lot to out-of-state companies for private parties?
A “corporation from Tennessee” has reportedly flown out their 1000 plus employees to stay at the La Costa Resort & Spa this week. All day Monday and possibly Tuesday they have purchased the right to close the parking lot for their event.
Guess the State of California has to make money somehow. Wonder if this “Tennessee” corporation is going to serve alcohol on the beach at their party? Out of glass containers? You know, in violation of California State Law.
Every hundred years the slumbering residents of Brigadoon awaken for a day to celebrate their unchanging lives, united in the knowledge that if anybody leaves town, their enchanted village will disappear forever.
Last week at the Dove Library, Carlsbad’s 2010 state of the city video (embedded above) gave a hundred local residents their annual reassurance that all is well in their village, and they can keep it that way by not leaving town to shop.
Mayor Bud Lewis explained there’d be no questions allowed from the floor because he didn’t want the event to become an election forum. You could approach staff and council members individually with your questions after the show.
Carlsbad Mayor Pro Tem Ann J. Kulchin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Rick Sapp, Head of School Dr. Eileen Mullady, Assistant Head of School Bob Ogle, Director of Finance Philip Hitch cut the ribbon.
Carlsbadistan’sPacific Ridge School celebrated the official opening of their new 32,500-square-foot high school building on August 31, 2010 and it seems like everyone was there.
. . . more than 800 students, parents, faculty, community members, and local constituents gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the school’s new 32,500-square-foot high school building. . . With global engagement and ethical responsibility as cornerstones of the Pacific Ridge School mission, the building was designed to be environmentally friendly and sustainable. The green project design features passive air conditioning methods, passive light shelves, Crestron lighting controls, solar tube skylights, solar shading, roofing reflectance techniques, bioswales, and a number of other green building and site components.
Nothing but the best for Pacific Ridge. Maybe if we keep playing the lottery we’ll be able to send our kids here someday. But then we’ll just get dinged with four years at Stanford, Harvard, or Yale. Follow the jump for the official release. [click to continue…]
Carlsbadistan’s Lancers opened the 2010 season and officially broke in the new Swede Krcmar Field with a 21-12 win over Saint Augustine.
Two blocked field goals, solid defense, potent passing and running offense and a loud home crowd pulled the Lancers to a strong win.
For the full play-by-play check out Jay Paris’ story in the North County Times of follow the jump for a skydiver photos. . .
Appy Entertainment, our favorite Carlsbadistan Village-based IOS game developers were pretty stoked when Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that the new Apple iPod Touch comes standard with a front facing camera because that means that Appy’s FaceFighter game finally works perfectly on the device.
“Camera-enabled gaming is a new experience possible only with this generation of mobile devices,” said Appy Entertainment CEO Chris Ulm. “Mobile gamers want personal experiences, and there’s no better way to personalize a game than making a photo of a friend or enemy the center of your game. Appy is proud to publish iTunes’ finest photo game experience in FaceFighter, and we’re just scratching the surface of what this new game form can achieve!”
The Museum of Making Music’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Series continues at 7 PM Friday, September 10, 2010 with a concert by composer, guitarist, vocalist and arranger Chico Pinheiro, along with vocalist Luciana Alves, drummer Celso Alberti, and bassist Scott Thompson.
A leading figure in the contemporary Brazilian music scene and a remarkable international presence, Pinheiro is an exceptional guitarist with great fluidity, and a composer of originality and maturity.
The Carlsbad Republican Women Federated have invited all of the City Council Candidates (Jon Wantz, Farrah Douglas, Dr. Mark Packard, and William Jubb) to a candidates forum on Tuesday afternoon, September 28, 2010 at the Hilton Garden Inn. A morning session will feature candidates for City Treasurer. Being a Republican is not required, but an RSVP is for the $25 “plated lunch”.
To reserve a spot at the lunch table please respond by noon September 23, 21010 to Beverly by calling 760/434-6478 or sending an email to bevy17@att.net.
Thanks to the charismatic leadership of music teacher Katie Browne, the Aviara Middle School Band in Carlsbad added 90 beginning music students to its roster this year. The school is scrambling to provide instruments for all those eager students. It will try to use Booster Club funds to purchase instruments, but is concerned that this will take away from the scholarships that it provides for uniforms and materials for students with financial hardship. Mrs. Browne is asking for donations of used band instruments to help get those ninety enthusiastic band geeks playing!
To make a donation please contact Bridget Smith at familyadventureguidebooks-at-gmail.com. Of course monetary donations are also welcome, since some kids are dreaming of playing the less readily available instruments like the oboe or the soprano sax.
Carlsbad is always a generous community and middle school as well all know is not an easy time of life. Let’s show these budding musicians some support!
There’s an old saying that to get elected to public office in Carlsbad, you have to be a Republican.
So it isn’t surprising that the two leading candidates seeking to replace Mayor Bud Lewis, who is retiring after a 24-year reign, are both Republicans who actively sought the endorsement of both the local party and its Lincoln Club offshoot, a group of mostly business leaders whose mission, according to its website, is to “advance free market principles and ideas by recruiting, endorsing, and financing business-friendly candidates and ballot measures.”
In the end, veteran councilman Matt Hall got the endorsement of both groups—which rarely happens in a race that pits a Republican against a fellow Republican. But in this case, freshman councilman Keith Blackburn is being actively supported by two public-employee unions, the “associations” representing Carlsbad firefighters and police officers, and as we all know unions are anathema to any red-blooded GOP partisan. [click to continue…]
Carlsbadistan’sMaxLinear, makers of a “highly integrated radio-frequency analog and mixed signal semiconductor system-on-a-chip” was listed as number 17 on the Inc. Magazine top 500 fastest growing privately held companies list this month saying that the company has grown 8784% in the past three years to a 2009 revenue of $51.4 million.
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