by The Editors on September 28, 2007
In a letter to board members of Orange 21 the Carlsbad-based parent company of Spy Optic, Thesis Capital LLC (a New York City-based “institutional investor and beneficial shareholder in the company”) suggested that the company should be put up for sale because if sold its would be worth much more than the $4.96 at which the stock currently trades.
“We believe that through a sale process, the Company would be valued in excess of $7.00 per share conservatively assuming the median price-to-sales of recent optics transactions.”
Follow the link for the entire letter and maybe you can help us figure out if this is anything more than a simple ploy to run up the stock price.
[Link: Trading Markets]
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by The Editors on September 28, 2007
It’s hard to keep a traveling according player tied down. Last January Matt Hensley announced that he was quitting the band Flogging Molly and was going to spend a little more time with his family in Carlsbad. He even bought Squid Joe’s and turned it into Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub & Grill. But now, with a new album in the works, it appears that the former pro skateboarder is getting back in the band.
Matt says of his return, “The truth is that my life makes sense again, and I feel like I’m where I need to be in this world.” He also ads, “I missed the feeling of ‘knowing where you’re at.’ Being the accordion player in this band is my zone; where I belong. I got emails all the time from people who care deeply about the band. I missed being able to affect people in a positive way.”
While we’re going to miss seeing him around Hensley’s, Flogging Molly fans around the world are going to be much happier that Matt has returned to the band.
[Link: Transworld Skateboarding]
by The Editors on September 28, 2007
Hey look, another Carlsbad bank was robbed yesterday at 3:40 PM. This time it was the Union Bank of California that is located inside the Ralphs at Avenida Encinas. The man asked for cash and:
The teller handed over the cash and the robber escaped after running south through the parking lot. He was described as black, in his mid-30s, 5 feet 11 inches tall, of medium build, with his hair in dreadlocks. He wore dark pants, a gray sweat shirt and sunglasses and carried a dark backpack.
The man walked with less than $1000 in cash. Though police “searched the area for almost an hour” with the help of the San Diego County Sheriff helicopter they did not find him. This is the fifth Carlsbad bank robbery since May.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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]
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