by The Editors on April 29, 2010
Early Sunday morning, May 2, 2010, the streets of Carlsbadistan will close and the booths will pop-up throughout the Village in preparation for the bi-annual Carlsbad Street Faire. Need a new miracle mop? A salsa making machine? A blender or miniature surfboard with your name on it? Then the Carlsbad Street Fair is the place. Arrive early, park politely, and stay all day. Just be careful in the beer garden.
Click the links for Carlsbadistan coverage of past faires: November 2009, November 2008, November 2007. Wow, we’ve been around a while. Guess we’re almost three!
by The Editors on April 28, 2010
Carlsbad’s Pacific Ridge School junior Anisha Mudaliar, 16, was one of 12 students nationwide to win a scholarship in the Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition in Washington, DC the weekend of April 23-26, 2010. Mudaliar won $15,000 for her research on youth onset diabetes.
“I was concerned by the increasing prevalence of diabetes and its complications in children and adolescents, especially among Asian Indians,” she said. “I was determined to further study this issue in the greater context of public health.”
Anisha was one of 60 regional finalists from 21 states who were invited to present their projects. Congrats to Anisha, and to Pacific Ridge School.
by The Editors on April 28, 2010
Last night at the Carlsbad City Council meeting Carlsbad Village Association executive director Robin Young and other Carlsbad Skatepark, Museum and Action Arts Center proponents presented their plans for the space currently occupied by the City Yard on Oak Ave. near State St. according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
During Tuesday’s meeting, council members listened to the skateboarding proposal and asked questions, but did not endorse the idea. . . Councilman Mark Packard said he hoped that the group understood it would be several years before the land would be available. Project supporters said they knew this. . . “At first, we went ‘Oh, darn,’ and then we thought it gives us more time to raise the funds,” Young said. . . During her presentation, she had stressed that project supporters expect to fund their center through donations and grants. No city investment is needed, Young emphasized.
It seems the City Council was not all that interested in the project currently but as City Manger Lisa Hidabrand is quoted as saying, “Now’s a good time to plan, and we’ll be happy to work with the community to plan what’s out there.” Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but we’ll take it.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on April 28, 2010
Former USD Men’s Basketball Coach Brad Holland has been named the new Executive Director/CPO at Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad, according to a release sent out yesterday.
“I am delighted to say that we have identified the person we believe is best prepared to lead us into the future. Brad Holland’s experience and ability to inspire those around him make him an exemplary leader,” stated Scott Chelberg, the Club’s Board President. “We are excited to welcome him into our Clubhouse, and watch him interact and connect with our young members, board members, as well as community and business leaders.”
Holland is the all-time winningest basketball coach in USD history and he even won a World Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. That doesn’t happen without amazing leadership skills. Holland sounds like a welcome addition to the team.
For all the details and the entire release, follow the jump.
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by The Editors on April 28, 2010
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, join the California State Parks for the Third Annual Carlsbad Beach Fest and coastal clean-up day.
The Carlsbad Beach Fest’s main focus is to provide citizens and beach users with the opportunity to participate in a beach cleanup. To take part in the cleanup and earn a raffle ticket, please sign in at the California State Parks Welcome Station down on the sand at Tamarack/Frazee State Beach at Pine Avenue. The beach cleanup will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m on Saturday, May 1st. Trash and recycling bags will be made available. Participants should bring gloves.
But that’s not all. There will be live music, entertainment and at 9 AM beach volleyball legend Karch Kiraly will host a free volleyball clinic. Throw in 15 artists, a food court, and magicians and it makes an amazing day at the beach in Carlsbadistan. For more information click the link below.
[Link: Carlsbad Beach Fest]
by The Editors on April 25, 2010
On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, proponents of the Carlsbad Skatepark, Museum and Action Arts Center will present their plans (which include the skatepark shown above) for the old City Yard on Oak Avenue near State Street to the Carlsbad City Council.
The San Diego Union-Tribune outlines the group’s plans and discusses just how deeply skateboarding history runs in Carlsbad in a story titled Skateboarding legacy focus of Carlsbad plans.
Since January, the Carlsbad Village Association and a group of downtown business owners have been working on plans for a Skateboarding Museum and Action Arts Center. They say it would offer a much-needed outlet for local skaters and draw tourism to the city. . . “The (term) ‘skate park’ was actually coined in Carlsbad,” said Robin Young, the association’s executive director. “We thought, ‘What a perfect opportunity to pay homage to that rich history.’ ” . . . The association proposes building the center on land occupied by a city maintenance yard at Oak Avenue and State Street that is slated for redevelopment. Organizers envision a skateboarding museum, a skate park and an interactive, urban arts center.
Those in support of skateboarding in general and in Carlsbad specifically are encouraged to attend the City Council meeting on Tuesday evening at 6 PM. For more information click the links below and please vote in our poll in the right hand column of this page.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune, CSMAAC, and facebook]
by The Editors on April 25, 2010
The Surfrider Foundation has definitely not thrown in the town on their opposition to the Poseidon Resources Desalination Plant scheduled to be built in the shores of Carlsbadistan’s Agua Hedionda Lagoon.
The environmental group filed a lawsuit on Earth Day (April 22, 2010) challenging a permit approved by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board. Surfrider says that the “facility would kill countless marine organisms, with an illegal plan to replace these fish and other marine life through a restoration project somewhere else.”
“When the law says you must ‘minimize the intake and mortality’ of marine life, that doesn’t mean you can kill millions of marine organisms and then try to replace them somehow,” said Joe Geever, Surfrider Foundation’s California Policy Coordinator. “The Regional Water Quality Control Board misinterpreted the law, and it’s unfortunate the project has progressed this far without a final decision on the type of intake and facility design that meets California’s law to protect our precious marine environment.”
According to Michael Burge story in the San Diego Union-Tribune this is one of six lawsuits that have been filed regarding Poseidon’s plans for the lagoon. Three are still progress.
For the entire Surf Rider release, follow the jump or click here for Carlsbadistan’s coverage of the entire saga.
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by The Editors on April 25, 2010
We’e been skipping out on the Thursdays On The Coast Art Walks lately and we’ve been missing out. Don’t follow our example this week. Get on the streets of Carlsbadistan from 5:30 – 8:30 PM Thursday April 29, 2010. It will be a good time.
For more info visit http://www.shopcarlsbadvillage.com.
by The Editors on April 22, 2010
On Tuesday night (April 20, 2010) at about 8 PM a black man in his late 20s to early 30s used a handgun to rob The Pita Pit in the Carlsbad Village Faire, according to a story in the North County Times (they called it The
The man brandished a gun and demanded money, police said. . . When the man fled, the shop owner followed the robber, who got away in a white Cadillac. The shop owner followed the vehicle southbound on Interstate 5 until the car exited the freeway at La Costa Avenue. . . The suspect was described as a black man, about 25 to 35 years old, wearing a black and blue hooded sweatshirt and had a goatee, police said.
The man got out of the car on La Costa Avenue near Vulcan and ran away, according to the story. Police were able to arrest a “A 39-year-old woman behind the wheel was arrested on suspicion of robbery, conspiracy and commercial burglary and was booked into Vista jail on $50,000 bail,” according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
[Link: North County Times and San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on April 21, 2010
We’re probably the last of the Carlsbadistan four-eyed to discover William Stevenson’s Hot Shots Eyeware Repair located downstairs in the Village Professional Center at 690 Carlsbad Village Drive. But damn, can this guy fix glasses.
The shop, in a building we never even knew existed, was packed like a Kaiser ER waiting room when we arrived. William, wearing his Hot Shots apron, stood in the middle of the sparsely decorated room when we arrived explaining to a customer why there would be no charge for the repair he’d just performed.
We grabbed one of the two empty chairs and asked the woman next to us how long Hot Shots had been around. “I’ve been coming here for a couple years,” she said. “And I drive all the way from San Diego. I don’t know how he does it. I’m always stepping on my glasses and he keeps fixing them.”
On the wall behind the glass counter, prices for all the different repairs Stevenson performs are hand lettered in erasable marker next to their corresponding parts on a four-by-five foot white board that features a schematic of a pair of glasses. There are pieces to glasses that we didn’t even know had names, but for between $5 and $15 Stevenson will fix pretty much anything that can break on a pair of glasses.
After disappearing with our frames into his “restricted area” workshop it was only a matter of minutes before our glasses were on the counter, sparkling, and as close to perfect as possible. Thankfully we didn’t need new $100 lenses and we didn’t have to wait. The charge? $5.
We’ll definitely, be back. There is no reason to go anywhere else.
[Link: Hot Shots Eyeware Repair]
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