by The Editors on May 12, 2010
Leesa Bellesi, the wife of Carlsbad’s Coastline Church pastor Denny Bellesi has apparently called for a boycott of the Miss USA Pageant after photos of the contestants posing in lingerie showed up on the Internet, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
Bellesi, who has made a tradition of watching the pageant, sent out an e-mail to hundreds calling on people to boycott the show, which airs live from Vegas Sunday night on NBC. . . “Christians and young women in general in these pageants are being asked to compromise themselves regarding modesty of any kind,” she wrote.
It’s true, but sadly sex sells every single time.
[Link: OC Register]
by Thomas K. Arnold on May 12, 2010
It’s one of the best ideas I’ve heard yet for Carlsbad’s quaint downtown village: turning an ugly old city maintenance yard on the south end of State Street into a skateboarding museum and “action arts center.”
The plans, presented to an unimpressed Carlsbad City Council by the Carlsbad Village Association, are absolutely, positively brilliant. In addition to the museum, the decrepit old yard would be home to an art gallery, an education building, a multimedia production center and a skatepark. Best of all for a city concerned about its finances, supporters aren’t asking for a dime of city money, hoping to fund the project solely through donations and grants.
All they want is the land.
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by The Editors on May 12, 2010
Emcee Mark Walton, Scott Meritt and Brian Hargett from the Carlsbad Police Officers Association, and Chris Lawrence and Ken Sugahara from the Carlsbad Firefighters Association (L-3730) present their donation to the Carlsbad Educational Foundation at the Celebrate Carlsbad Day at Legoland event on May 1, 2010.
For the past seven years the Carlsbad Education Foundation has teamed up with Legoland California Resort on Celebrate Carlsbad Day at the park. This year it was held on Saturday, May 1, 2010. With a specially priced $15 tickets, it’s the one day a year that we can actually afford to visit the the theme park. But more importantly, it’s a day that Legoland donates their proceeds to a very good cause: helping to educate the youth of Carlsbadistan.
Legoland donated $116,000 to help fund weekly music instruction for every elementary school student in the Carlsbad Unified School District through the upcoming year. And that’s pretty generous.
“This year’s ‘Celebrate Carlsbad Day’ was a major success, enabling us to raise enough funds to support our elementary school music program across nine schools for the entire first semester of the upcoming school year,” said Valin Brown, chief executive officer of the Carlsbad Educational Foundation. “This means that more than 5,000 local students will receive weekly music instruction as a regular part of their public education. We couldn’t have done this without the tremendous generosity of LEGOLAND California as a phenomenal corporate partner that cares deeply about public education.”
Thanks, Legoland and donors who helped with the rest of the $137,000 raised. For more information on the day follow the jump.
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by The Editors on May 12, 2010
No disrespect to the young women who complete in the Miss Carlsbad Pageant, but we’ve never been big fans of beauty pageants in general. So each time we run into members of the Miss Carlsbad court at various Carlsbadistan events we’re almost surprised to find them being so kind, polite and helpful in whatever they are doing.
Miss Carlsbad Alaina Crabtree and Miss Teen Carlsbad Skyler Blankenship were interviewed together in a story published yesterday on Carlsbad High School’s Lancer Link in which both girls discuss the pageant, what it means to be a Carlsbad Miss, and why they competed. Click the link for the rest. . .
[Link: Lancer Link]
by The Editors on May 12, 2010
Michelle Frye, the former spa director at SE Dan Deigo Hotel, has been appointed director at the La Costa Resort & Spa, according to a story on Hotel Interactive.
Frye will manage The Spa at La Costa, an elegant 43,000-square-foot sanctuary envisioned by world-renowned spa specialist Sylvia Sepielli. Divided into two spaces, a 28,000-square-foot interior and 15,000-square-foot outdoor courtyard, the spa creates an environment in which guests feel connected to nature whether they are indoors or out.
As long as she doesn’t change the Roman Waterfalls or cut the Cucumber Water we’re happy she’s here. Sounds like it might be a good time for a double-dip deal.
[Link: Hotel Interactive]
by The Editors on May 12, 2010
by The Editors on May 11, 2010
Carlsbadistan’s world famous Rubio’s Fish Taco restaurants has agreed to be purchased by a Greenwich, Connecticut based private equity firm called Mill Road Capital, according to a Bradley Fikes story in the North County Times.
If the deal goes through, Rubio’s stockholders will get $8.70 per share. That’s about 45 percent more than the closing price on Oct. 14, just before Rubio’s disclosed an unsolicited offer, the company said. . . Rubio’s board declined that particular offer from a group headed by Los Angeles-based investor Alex Meruelo. But Rubio’s said it was open to receiving other offers. . . Shares closed Monday after the sale announcement at $8.50 each, up 84 cents from Friday’s close of $7.66.
Rubio’s founder Ralph Rubio says he and the management team will be staying on with the company. “They like what we’re doing, they appreciate the management team, and the results we’ve had, so the management team stays on in our current roles,” Rubio said.
Then again that’s what the new owners always say, isn’t it?
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on May 11, 2010
Last week the California State Water Resources Control Board voted to protect sea life by phasing out “once-through cooling for seaside power plants” like Carlsbadistan’s iconographic Encina Power Station because the process “kills more than 2.6 million fish and 19 billion fish larvae annually,” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
“It will have the result of retiring a very high portion of the coastal, once-through cooled power plants,” said Steve Hoffmann, regional president for NRG Energy, which owns the Carlsbad facility. . . “We have to conform with this new water policy by the end of 2017,” Hoffmann said. “We either have to put in closed-loop cooling, or we have to have a way of screening marine life from our intake, which is technically very difficult.”
Maybe they could just dismantle the entire plant and ship it to Arizona. . . leaving the tower, of course. . .
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on May 11, 2010
On June 5, 2010 Legoland’s Sea Life Aquarium will celebrate World Oceans Day and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Suess’ One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish an entire day of activities according to a release posted on Zoo and Aquarium Visitor.
Young guests visiting SEA LIFE during the Dr. Seuss themed World Oceans Day celebration can take part in fun, hands-on, ocean-related activities throughout the day while interacting with SEA LIFE educators and learning more about our oceans and the creatures that call them home. The highlight of the days’ activities is a special dive show featuring an underwater reading of Dr. Seuss’ One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish! Sporting ‘Seussian attire’, the exploration diver will be using an underwater communications system allowing guests to speak to the diver through the viewing window while the diver reads aloud to them from inside the Aquarium.
If this is one of your favorite Suess books of all-time (like it is ours) be there June 5, 2010.
[Link: Sea Life Aquarium via Zoo and Aquarium Visitor]
by The Editors on May 11, 2010
Carlsbadistan’s McClellan-Palomar Airport will be closed this week while workers repair 5,000 feed of runway, according to a story on 10News.com. It appears that some recent tests showed that “the existing runway could collapse” which is never good.
Renovations on the 5,000 foot runway began late Sunday night. The airport will be closed for one week to renovate 5,000 feet of runway at McClellan-Palomar airport. . . Officials said the project will be completed in five phases, which each phase taking one week, while the airport will reopen every other week to allow for normal operations.
That means the airport will be closed every other week for 10 weeks. Isn’t summer a really high traffic time for Carlsbadistan? Guess those who fly every other week are stoked.
[Link: McClellan-Palomar Airport via 10News.com]
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