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Founded in 1991 Vol. XXIII, No. 9 | September 2014

Sustainable Water SourcesBy Russ Butcher

It is well known here in OHCC that, over the last six years, the Master Board and all of the landscape commit-tees have been seriously looking into the many ways to conserve and more wisely manage our use of water. They have also looked at our various water supply options. In 2010, OHCC hired RBF Consulting of San Diego to exam-ine those options. They included our current de-watering wells, capturing our storm water run-off, drilling new wells, and accessing reclaimed water.

The first two were rejected because the quantity was unreliable and be-cause the poor quality would require expensive treatment to render it usable. RBF estimated that the cost to drill the required five or six wells would be around $2.25 million, with the likeli-hood that there would be an addition-al $1.5 million or so for water treat-ment to make it acceptable for our use. All the wells studied by RBF were in the 280- to 760-foot depths and were all low-flow wells yielding a mere 30 to

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Editorial

ParticipatingSometimes outsiders consid-

er Ocean Hills Country Club as “God’s Little Waiting Room.”

To some, that may be true. But for others, our Village offers something even more meaningful. OHCC has long been a magnet for those whose hair may be gray, but whose hearts and spirits are as active as ever. This is not a housing development where people are virtual strangers. This is a living and breathing community, a tight-knit Village where people socialize and involve themselves in activities. And they are only too willing to help neighbors in need. This need not be a place where people simply retreat and build a wall around themselves, with the excuse of advanced age or an ailment.

Larry thought of himself as a very ordinary person. He was a paraplegic since he was 18, having suffered a spinal injury when he was thrown from an overturning military vehicle. But while hospitalized, he realized he was to be confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. While there, he invented “wheelchair basketball” and toured the U.S. veterans hospitals across the country. After being

OHCC will not be drilling for water.

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discharged, he attended Otis Art Institute to become an art-ist. He then went on to become an architect.

Upon retiring at OHCC, he taught watercolor and oil painting. As an architect, he helped design the chapel at St. Thomas More Church on Cannon Rd. As a musician, he helped teach ukulele to residents. And as a humanitarian, he initiated a donation program to provide dozens of ukuleles to children at an underprivileged middle school in San Di-ego.

But the most important lesson we received from Larry was the fact that despite challenging handicaps we may have, there are activities here in which each of us can participate. Sports such as water volleyball, tennis and walking and hiking excursions are at one end of the spectrum, while sewing, photography and bridge are at the other. More than 40 clubs and other organizations are only too willing to have you join and participate.

The example of Larry’s activities in the Village cannot be overstated. “Live, love and learn” was his philosophy. It can be ours too.

A well-worn wheelchair is now parked, unused, in Larry Eaks’s garage. After participating here for many years, Lar-ry passed away last month. n

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60 gallons-per-minute. By contrast, OHCC’s water require-ments are around 200 gallons-per-minute (gpm).

In a July 31, 2014, meeting with RBF, current board mem-bers Don Lopez and David Hefler were told that the proba-bility of finding a sustainable supply of usable water at any depth was only about 10 percent. Add to that the stark re-ality, as RBF mentioned, that wells throughout San Diego County are drying up.

RBF further explained that in order to find a high-flow source of subsurface water, we would have to drill to 1,500 feet or more. However, even if we were to find the poten-tial of at least 200 gpm from such a deep well, that does not mean we would be permitted to actually draw that amount from the aquifer (underground basin). Were we to pump out water at that rate, we could be depleting the supply of that particular aquifer more rapidly than Mother Nature is able to replenish it and we could also harmfully impact oth-er legitimate users.

This scenario would likely trigger a process of adjudica-tion, in which a court could decide just how much water we would be allowed to withdraw. A court might decide, for example, that our share is only 100 gpm, which would mean we would be forced to find the other 100 gpm from another

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The Village Voicesource. All of this would happen only if we were fortunate enough to find a source of high-flow water in the first place.

After realizing that we would need to drill down to per-haps 1,500 feet or more, OHCC’s attorney was asked to ex-amine our deed to determine if, in fact, we own subsurface water rights to that depth. He found that our subsurface water rights extend down to 550 feet — but not below that depth. We would thus be legally blocked from tapping into such an aquifer.

At the July meeting, RBF Consulting reiterated that re-claimed water is our best option for a long-term, sustain-able supply of usable water. Now that we know we lack the right to drill below 550 feet, it appears that reclaimed water is indeed our best option. The City of Oceanside has offered us incentives to be an early user of their reclaimed water. As Don told us, those talks are currently under way and OHCC expects it will soon receive a letter of intent from the city. n

Managing Water DrillingA landmark groundwater-management law was just

passed by the California Legislature and signed by the gov-ernor, in response to the state’s severe drought and declining underground aquifers. Lester Snow, the executive director of the California Water Foundation, was quoted by The New York Times as saying, “The ability of people to keep drilling was equivalent to deficit spending.” With the [new] law, “we have to balance our groundwater basins and manage our groundwater sustainably.” n

Water Rate ChangesMay 19, 2014 -The San Diego County Water Authori-

ty has proposed rates and charges for 2015 that support the agency’s commitment to water conservation during the statewide drought, help maintain its solid financial position, and incorporate new costs related to providing a safe and re-liable water supply.

The largest component of the Water Authority’s budget is the cost of water. At $832.8 million over the agency’s current


two-year budget, the costs of water supply and treatment account for 56 percent of the agency’s overall costs. The big-gest factor behind the Water Authority’s rates remains the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Overall, MWD represents 74 percent of the Water Authority’s cost of water. MWD’s treatment surcharge will jump 14.81 percent in 2015.

For a partial year of deliveries in 2015, desalinated sea-water is projected to cost $2.27 per month for typical house-holds. When construction on the desalination project be-gan in late 2012, the Water Authority estimated the cost of that water for residential ratepayers would be $5 to $7 per month. For the first full year of desalinated water deliveries in 2016, typical monthly costs currently are projected to be $5.14 per household, at the low end of the Water Authority’s 2012 forecast. (Note: Estimates are based on current cost and sales assumptions.)

The legislation signed by Governor Jerry Brown, AB 1471 by Assembly Member Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), re-places the $11.14 billion water bond previously set for the November ballot. The bipartisan legislation passed the Sen-ate 37-0 and the Assembly 77-2.

The new bond includes $7.12 billion in new debt, plus the repurposing of existing unspent bond funds of $425 mil-

lion for a total of $7.545 billion. None of the repurposed bond funds will be taken from existing projects.

The bond provides for water use efficiency and recycling, groundwater cleanup and management and $2.7 billion for additional water storage. It invests in safe drinking water, particularly in disadvantaged communities, and provides for watershed restoration and increased flows in some of California’s most important rivers and streams. An outline of the final bond can be found at http://goo.gl/EujRDH. n

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Last month, San Diego Gas & Electric Company an-nounced that it will reach California’s 33 percent renewable energy target six years ahead of the state’s mandated dead-line of 2020. In other words, by the end of this year, one-third of our utility company’s power will be generated from such renewable sources of electricity as solar and wind proj-ects. A company spokesman explained that SDG&E has been able to reach its goal more quickly because of having built the transmission infrastructure that reaches solar- and wind-generating facilities – notably the 117-mile Sunrise Powerlink line that was completed two years ago. The com-pany said that the 33 percent does not include rooftop solar generating facilities on homes and businesses. n

OHCC MentionedIn case you missed it, an Aug. 31 news article in the U-T

San Diego, reported that “With liberal use of rebates and a sprinkling of recycled water, homeowners associations in Southern California can update their landscaping, observe drought restrictions and still maintain aesthetic standards, officials said at a recent meeting of the Community Associa-tion Institute.

“The session . . . sought to equip community association managers and their boards to deal with the drought. Man-datory conservation rules impose limits on outdoor wa-tering, but also offer tools for landscape conversions, said Becky Groenewold, general manager of Ocean Hills Country Club in Oceanside.

“’The mandates are here,’ she said. ‘They’re not going away, and we need to use them to help us make the neces-sary changes.’

“Residents in that HOA development got a wake-up call in 2009, when the city notified them that water costs would rise about 80 percent, she said. To reduce the financial bur-den, the community agreed to cut water use by at least 20 percent by pulling out underused turf and replacing it with low-water plants. . . .

“Though bids for the job came in as high as $600,000, Groenewold said the final bill came to about $30,000 after the community took advantage of government rebates for turf removal.

“The HOA also installed ‘smart irrigation’ equipment to control water costs, and it’s gearing up to use recycled water for outdoor landscaping sometime next year.” n

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Are We Living at theEdge of a Volcano?

Well, yes and no.Have you ever driven on Lake Boulevard, on the way to

Walmart or Costco, and glanced to your left to see a strange looking mountain with a flat top. That’s a volcano — or at least the remnant of a volcano that was active some 22 mil-lion years ago. It’s called Mount Calavera.

Mount Calavera is actually not a mountain at all, nor is it a volcano. It’s what scientists call a volcanic plug, which is a mass of volcanic rock that became solidified within the vent of a volcano. When the volcano was no longer active and started to erode away, the volcanic plug was all that re-mained. This is but one of three such volcanic plugs in Southern California.

Beginning in the early 1900s and lasting for 30 years, a portion of the plug was mined for gravel. This rock quar-rying operation was accomplished by stripping away the west side of the mountain, causing it to resemble part of the Grand Canyon. The blemish can still be seen from the south end of College Blvd., just before the street bends toward the west.

So if someone proudly tells you we live near a volcano

A volcanic plug that was mined for gravel: Mount Calavera.

and points to Mount Calavera, you can respond by explain-ing that it’s not really a volcano, it’s a volcanic plug. That will keep him quiet. n


Each August and September, impressive, huge billowy thunderclouds, known as cumulonimbus, often build tens-of-thousands of feet above the mountains to the east of us, in the eastern part of San Diego County. While long-time resi-dents may only casually glance at the phenomena, newcom-ers can find them fascinating, or familiar to those who’ve moved here from such places as Arizona and New Mexico.

Thunderclouds rarely form over Oceanside and other coastal areas during the summer, since the monsoonal mois-ture flowing into California typically reaches only to the mountains.

A monsoon occurs when humid tropical air sweeps into America’s Desert Southwest – coming either from the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of California regions. This influx of tropical humidity, which creates a thermal low, triggers rain-fall that may even cause serious flooding from locally heavy downpours, accompanied by violent displays of thunder and lightning.

Usually by late September and October, humidity tends to decline and temperatures begin to cool down, reducing the chances of monsoonal rain to nearly nil. n

MonsoonalThundercloudson the Horizon

A massive thunderstorm cloud as seen from Ocean Hills on Sept. 7.

Saturday, November 8, will mark OHCC’s final 30th An-niversary Celebration. From 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., the Clubhouse will be humming with a wide variety of activities. The 30th Anniversary Book and related items will be available. Resi-dents will display and sell their wares at the Arts Fair in Abra-vanel Hall. OHCC’s CERT will provide CPR classes and survival information, and will sell survival kits. Musi-

30th Anniversary Activities – November 8cal groups at several locations will provide live entertain-ment throughout the day and evening, a musical revue will be followed by a professional ballroom dance exhibition, and a grand finale with The Music Station. And of course there will be free champagne and an Anniversary cake, as well as catered lunches and food-truck dinners. Please mark your cal-

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Bird of the Month

American KestrelNorth America’s smallest and most abun-

dant falcon is the American Kestrel. It measures only about 9 to 12 inches long, with a wingspan of about 22 inches. Its plumage is russet on the back and upper surface of the long, black-tipped tail that some-times fans out. The upper surface of the wings is gray on the adult male and russet on the female. Similar to oth-er kinds of falcons, the kestrel has a distinctive black-and-white facial pattern, resembling two black sideburns fram-ing each cheek. While the kestrel hunts for such prey as insects, small rodents and small birds, it frequently hov-ers some distance above the ground, as it rapidly beats its wings, before swooping down to seize its prey. It also hunts while perching on exposed places such as power lines. The

Kestrel focused on hunting for prey.Photos by Ray Spencer

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kestrel’s call is a sharp, high-pitched killy, killy, killy or klee, klee, klee. As with many raptors, this species favors farm fields and

other open areas, such as OHCC’s golf course. The kestrel’s range extends from coast-to-coast in the United States and northward throughout much of Canada. n


Getting To KnowOur NeighborsBy Helen Nielsen

(Editor’s note: Of the roughly 16 million Americans who fought in World War II, we are fortunate that there are still more than 1 million veterans of that war who are still with us today.)

George NaffDuring his teen-age years in Detroit,

Mich., George Naff developed a great love of airplanes and an interest in aeronautical engineering. He enjoyed watching planes come and go at Detroit Metropolitan Air-port. All his dreams of becoming a pilot came to fruition when, in early 1942 at the age of 18, he enlisted and chose Naval Avi-ation as his service. After completion of training and being commissioned as ensign, he chose to become a fighter pilot.

In early 1944, George was assigned to a squadron on the aircraft carrier the USS Intrepid in the South Pacific. A large aircraft carrier such as this was capable of holding nearly 100 aircraft — consisting of 36 fighter planes, 36 dive bomb-

ers and 20 torpedo bombers. In addition to machine guns, his fighter plane, the F6F Hellcat, carried a pair of 250-pound bombs — one under each wing. George went on a grand total of 87 combat missions — straf-ing Japanese-held targets, firing on and bombing a wide variety of Japanese war-ships in convoys and ports, and engaging in “face-to-face” combat with Japanese war-planes.

Our fighter pilots also flew above our warship fleet, guarding against any ap-proaching enemy aircraft. While perform-ing high-altitude guard duty one day, he received the alarm call of approaching ka-mikaze planes. He quickly positioned his plane and shot down four Japanese planes. He and the other fighter pilots succeeded in destroying all of the enemy planes and our

warship was left unharmed. George participated in the larg-est naval battle of the war when Japan’s remaining warships headed south and were intercepted and destroyed by our naval air power.

One of the most dangerous and successful Japanese strat-

Geoge Naff.


egies was their use of kamikaze planes, as they could accurately dive bomb and completely disable or sink a ship. On one mission, 20 planes had taken off from their aircraft carrier just before two kamikaze planes dive-bombed and severely damaged their aircraft carrier. George and the oth-er pilots knew they could not return to the carrier; so, after they completed their mission, they were instructed to land on a recently built airstrip. For two weeks, they joined with Army Air Corps pilots in fighting the enemy, after which they rejoined their squadron and were re-assigned to anoth-er aircraft carrier.

George served missions involving two aircraft carri-ers, the Intrepid and USS Hornet and was involved in ma-jor battles on Formosa (now called Taiwan), and Luzon, Ma-nila and Layte in the Philippines. In 1944-45, George spent Christmas and New Year’s Day on a British troop ship head-ed for the San Francisco Bay port at Alameda. From there he went to North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego for training in the newly designed F8F fighter plane, preparing for the invasion of Japan. While there, he met a young lady and planned for marriage after the war ended. He had ex-pected to return to active duty, but when the war suddenly ended, he married his sweetheart and returned to his home in Detroit.

George enrolled at Wayne State University where he ful-filled his boyhood ambition of becoming an aeronautical en-gineer. Knowing there were many opportunities in Califor-nia, he moved here in 1950 and worked for 45 years with Hughes Aircraft Corporation and North American. Over the years, he progressed to project manager in design aspects of the space shuttle program. Some of his work also involved NATO defense contracts, and in 1968, Hughes invited him to move to Brussels, Belgium, as a coordinator between NATO countries.

George retired in 1997 from his long and distinguished career and moved to OHCC the following year. n

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BridgeBy Dan Neilson

Aces Take Kings

Since bidding is determined by the points the team holds, if you can destroy the opponents’ points, you limit their trick-taking ability. Covering an honor with an honor is usually sound because, even if they can overtake you and win the trick, they will use up twice as many honor points as you give up. Aces are at the top of the “food chain.” They are very valuable because they control their suit and can take anything. It is rarely a good idea to lead them because it sets up opponents’ honors. If partner has bid, howev-er, the chances are lessened that the opposition holds good cards in that suit. Here, leading your ace is determined by length. With a singleton or doubleton, lead the ace. With three or more, you must guess where the missing honors are. If you think the opposing honors are on the right, lead a low card and hope your partner can finesse back to you. If on the left, lead the ace.

Unless you can cover something, hang on to those aces. Supposing opponents are in four spades and you see the fol-lowing hand in dummy: Qxx Jxxxx x Axxx. Declarer gets in and leads the singleton diamond. Holding the ace of di-amonds, do you duck like a man or wimp out and play the

ace? Many times the declarer holds the KQ of diamonds and gets two diamond tricks to make the contract. Ducking the singleton will rarely cost a trick and will pay handsome dividends over the course of many hands. The real test is when they are in a slam contract. It may still be correct to duck, but few of us are that courageous.

One last item: Don’t get stuck with the high trump hon-or in your hand. Even if you are not given an honor to cov-er it, it is usually best to take your ace while you still retain a trump. If you hold on to your ace until the end, declared will abandon trumps and force you to use it on a side suit. n

Health & FitnessBy Andy Truban

Osteoarthritic Hand —A Common Complaint Among Women

Imagine the frustratingly painful ordeal many people suffer when performing daily tasks requiring their osteoar-thritic (OA) thumbs to swivel, pivot, pinch or grip things. Yet, somehow they must work with their hands to start the car’s ignition, unlock the front door, chop and cook food, button shirts, write checks, etc. This painful arthritic degen-eration of the thumb is called “carpometacarpal” (CMC). In the United States, it comes in second to arthritic knees.

Symptoms that signal a CMC arthritic joint include pain and tenderness, as well as swelling at the base of the thumb after prolonged use of the hand. Osteoarthritis causes the cartilage to wear away, bones to rub against each other cre-ating friction and further joint damage. This joint may also appear enlarged, or develop a prominent bony bump over the joint that limits the thumb’s motion.

Osteoarthritis at the base of the thumb is gender specific. As Cleveland Clinic’s orthopedic surgeon, Steven Maschke, says, “women over 40 years of age are more susceptible to CMC joint arthritis. A female’s reproductive hormones can loosen the ligament within the base of the thumb joint, lead-ing to a joint misalignment and cartilage wear.”


Dr. Maschke further explains, “although CMC arthritis can be debilitating during its initial stages, there are sever-al non-surgical treatments that can ease the pain and help re-store function. Icing the joint for five to fifteen minutes sev-eral times a day, and taking anti-inflammatory medication may help reduce inflammation and swelling.”

And he adds that “A patient starts treatment by wear-ing all day a soft splint similar to a biking glove that relieves the pressure by repositioning the thumb. At night, we ad-vise wearing a more rigid splint to allow the joint to rest. If pain relief is not accomplished after splinting for a three-month period, the next phase involves steroid injections di-rectly into the joint. The first two injections of cortisone can be given several weeks apart. Beyond that, I prefer to wait six months between injections. When nonsurgical treat-ments are no longer effective and pain becomes overwhelm-ing, CMC surgery is an option.”

Corrective surgery is usually a one-hour outpatient pro-cedure known by the tongue-twisting name of “Ligament Reconstruction and Tendon Interpositional” (LRTI). It pro-vides 95 percent pain relief, and returns grip strength of 70 to 80 percent of the hand. This surgical procedure involves partial or complete removal of the “carpometacarpal” ar-thritic joint called the “trapezium” bone, located at the base of the thumb joint. After the bone removal, the empty space is maintained with soft tissue by using the patient’s own tendon. Afterwards, a series of hard casts and splints is worn for up to eight weeks.

My wife, Dora, has undergone corrective surgery on both thumbs and wrists. Therefore, we are well-versed on this corrective procedure. After struggling with pain for many years, she had a highly successful left-thumb operation in 2010 and right-hand surgery this past March. If you desire more information, we welcome questions. n

(Reference: www.arthritisadvisor.com — June 2014.)

Kippel’s Pet KornerBy Ellen Kippel

In the August 5th U-T newspaper, there was an amazing story of a lost dog reunited with her owners through a new free mobile phone app called “Finding Rover.” This past May, Finding Rover and the San Diego County Department of Animal Services joined forces. San Diego became the first county in the nation to integrate Finding Rover’s technology with the shelter’s intake process. This remarkable story of the family can attest that the integration is proving to be life-saving. Within four hours of arrival at the shelter, the family was able to pick her up.

Finding Rover helped re-unite Roxy with her San Di-ego family because the county animal shelter workers were able to positively identify Roxy with a lost report on Finding Rover and get Roxy home that same day. Losing a beloved pet can be one of the most traumatic experiences a pet own-er can go through. New technology is making the search easier than ever. With a computer or a smartphone, anyone can now identify a lost dog just by taking a photo. Finding Rover’s revolutionary facial recognition technology is re-uniting families and mending hearts every day.

It would be worth your time to go to the Finding Rov-er website and register your pet. Of course, this does not re-place the need for having a current county license tag and name tag on your pet at all times or having the pet micro-chipped with the tag from the company also on the collar. You should make sure that the name tag, license tag and mi-cro-chip all have your current contact information including your cell phone. This makes it much easier to re-unite a lost dog with its worried owner(s). n

I Love a MysteryBy Ira M. Landis

Daniel Silva’s 17th thriller, The Heist, provides up-to-the-minute in-sight about the world of stolen art and leaders of terrorist organiza-tions seeking to launder their mis-appropriated funds. Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice working to restore an altarpiece by Veronese, when he is contacted by the Italian police to assist them in solving a murder.

London art dealer Julian Isherwood, a long-time friend of Allon, has happened upon a grisly murder scene in Lake Como and is the prime suspect. Gabriel must hunt down the real killers and find the world’s most famous missing painting. The dead man is a British spy who has been deal-ing in stolen artworks and selling them to a mysterious col-lector. Among the missing paintings is Caravaggio’s “Na-tivity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence.”

Gabriel’s search takes him to Paris, London, Marseilles, and Corsica, and to a small private bank in Austria where a



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very dangerous man stands guard over the stolen wealth of a brutal dictator. A brave young woman employee of the bank is a survivor of one of the worst massacres of the 20th century. With Gabriel’s help she is given the opportunity to strike back at those who destroyed her family. Readers are provided with interesting insight into the workings of the British, French, Swiss, Israeli, Italian and various terrorist intelligence agencies. Those who have read earlier books in this series will welcome back many of Al-lon’s supporting team members and associates. I hope Sil-va will quickly provide us with another novel in this grip-ping series.

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I just finished a gripping thriller, Field of Play, by John Sandford -- another in the Lucas Davenport series. This novel held me captivated through the last page.

However, I don’t recommend it for the squeamish as there are many dead bodies and much violent sex, mixed with comedic moments. What a strange combination for fans of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The body count kept rising as law enforcement unearthed an abandoned cistern that gave off a horrific odor. The site had been abandoned for many years and was covered with grass

and bushes. Two teenage lovers who parked in this lovers’ lane were overwhelmed by the smell and brought the situa-tion to the attention of police.

Many false leads were investigated extensively while the killer(s) lived in the community without suspicion. Even the police were targets and suffered at the hands of the de-ranged murderers. The killings of blonde women took place over a period of at least a 20 years. This story provides in-teresting insight into the lives of Minnesota police and their families. n


Cooking withBeverlyBy Beverly Nickerson

Vegetable TianTians and Gratins go way back in

French culinary history. Originally Tian just meant a shallow earthenware casserole in the Cam-argue and Lanquedoc areas of southwestern France. A Tian originally was filled with vegetables plus lamb or fish. To-day, Tians have become popular again as different mixtures of vegetables baked in any shallow casserole. Gratins are also vegetables baked in shallow casseroles, but often have cream or a Bechamel sauce added and sometimes buttered crumbs or cheese on top. I first became aware of Tians in Richard Olney’s Simple French Food, in the 1970s; and in the books of French chef Roger Verge, in the 1980s.

½ medium onion, chopped1 zucchini about 1¾ inches wide and 7 inches long, wash,

cut off ends1 White Rose potato 2 x 5 inches long, peel (low starch

potato)

2 tablespoons x-virgin olive oil mixed with ½ teaspoon dried oregano or thyme

1 large garlic clove finely chopped in a round cake panSix 1½-inch pieces Trader Joe’s Roasted Red Peppers (bell

peppers)1 medium onion, peel, cut five ½-inch slices3 small, ripe tomatoes 1¾ to 2 inches in diameterSalt and freshly ground black pepper to taste¾ cup shredded Gruyere or Parmigiano Regiano cheese

(Optional)special Equipment: Oval or round shallow casserole

about 8½ x 11 inches, spray with “Pam,” piece of foil to cov-er casserole, long narrow “fish” spatula.

temperature: 425°servings: FourPlace the chopped onion over the bottom of the shal-

low dish. The object is to have the vegetables as close to the same size as possible, cut the zucchini into ½-inch rounds (8 slices) cut the potato into ½-inch slices, if the potato is too wide, slice off one side of the potato (8 slices). Place just zucchini and potatoes in the olive oil, garlic and herb mix-ture in the pan, set aside. Cut 3 small tomatoes each into 3 slices, discard ends (9 slices).

You will be placing alternating vegetables in TWO over-lapping strips down the dish. Start on the top left side with a slice of zucchini, then a slice of onion, then a piece of pepper, then a slice of potato and finally a slice of toma-to. Repeat to the end of the dish. Start a second row down the right side in the same sequence. Drizzle the oil mix-ture left in the pan over the top. Salt and pepper. Cover the whole dish with foil, dull side up, place on the center rack of a preheated 425° oven and bake 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake 20 minutes. Turn off oven, remove casserole, add cheese if using and place back in oven just several minutes; or remove casserole from oven, raise oven rack up to next to the highest position. Place casserole on rack under the broil-er and broil on high several minutes. Lift out portions with a long fish spatula to keep slices in place. n

Vegetable Tian.


Home Décor inthe VillageBy Theresa Howell

Window Treatmentsand Fabric Selections

When addressing drapery treatments, several principles should be considered: Need for priva-cy and protection from the sun. Colors should be consid-ered when balance is needed for symmetry in a room. Drap-ery treatments should always reflect the look that you wish to achieve, as well as the types of fabric that hold up better with solar exposure.

Cotton, synthetics and fiberglass can be used. But fiber-glass requires a memory stitch to be placed at the hemline because this material tends to flair out. Cotton can discolor with age. Therefore, synthetics seem to be your best selec-tion. Blends that have some rayon in them look good when fabricated and they hang nicely.

When using sheer curtains by themselves, you should use 300 percent fullness. If you are using sheers with side panels, 250 percent fullness is adequate. Printed fabrics should always be lined, because the light coming through the fabric will distort the colors.

There are many alternatives to draperies. Cornice boxes can be very effective when using them with indirect lighting. Swags, valances, cascades and jabots will always hang better when using softer fabrics. Shades, straight or Roman, should be considered when working with window coverings. They should often be considered to solve problems. For example, French doors can be addressed very nicely this way.

Certain drapery headings will complement décor better than others. Cylinder pleats, straight headings attached to a wall or decorative rod, are more effective with a contempo-rary décor. French pleats, sheer on rods, swags or decora-tive valances, lend themselves to a more traditional décor.

Another option is to use blinds (such as those made by

Straight draperies heading is effective with finials.

HunterDouglas) that, when fully raised, are neatly hidden behind boxed valances. This gives a clean look to the win-dow treatment. Also, “black out” blinds can be installed on bedroom windows.

If budget is not an issue, automation can be considered for any of the above window treatments. Just the push of a button will open and close your draperies or raise and low-er your blinds.


And remember that vertical patterns are for more formal interiors, while horizontal patterns are for less formal décor. If you have any questions about window treatments, please email me: [email protected]. I will be happy to help you. (By the way, if any reader has “before and after” photographs of the interior of his or her home, please con-tact me.) n

On DiningBy a Staff Writer Chicken Plus309 W. Mission Ave.Escondido, CA 92025760-480-1348

This tiny restaurant has been on the same cor-ner for the past 24 years. It was formerly Sid’s Place, but has morphed into something more contemporary. While mainly a chicken-and-ribs eat-ery, they do offer a dozen or so Greek dishes. It’s the Greek dishes that are so appealing, although the chicken fare ap-peals to a broader range of customers. They offer both.

The restaurant itself has but a dozen tables and is sur-rounded by lace curtains that are a constant reminder that this is a homey family-style place. A crowd of people at the front desk is deciding on their take-out food, while diners

are ushered immediately to their tables. The front two pag-es of the menu list a la carte items and sandwiches (mostly under $6), while the back page lists complete dinners rang-ing from $9 to $13. I spy zucchini stick appetizers and recall the good old days, 50 years ago, when this item was only of-

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After “inhaling” most of the zucchini sticks, my partner ordered from the Lite Fare, 1 piece of chicken with 3 bones of BBQ ribs. She claims that was the best chicken she had ever tasted, while the ribs were tender and equally good. Three bread sticks accompanied the dinner (an unbelievable $5.99 plus 59¢ more for white meat).

I ordered the lamb shank and the dinner started with a house salad that contained a dozen (count them, a doz-en) different items that ranged from carrots, red cabbage and feta cheese to pepper rings and Greek olives. A perfect-ly done lamb shank arrived on a bed of rice and was smoth-ered with a luscious topping of tomatoes and onions en-hanced by a cinnamon-and-nutmeg sauce. We normally associate those two spices with perhaps breakfast rolls or pumpkin pies, but here the Greek chef added just a touch of these spices that elevated the dish to the zenith of perfection.

Formerly a mom-and-pop operation, the parents no lon-ger participate in the operation or cooking. The son, howev-er, is there — engaged the patrons and providing excellent service. The restaurant is located at the busy intersection of Mission Ave. and Escondido Blvd. Parking is readily avail-able. House wine is fairly priced ($4.49 a glass). Chicken Plus is open on Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sundays from 12 noon to 8 p.m.

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On the Street Where You LiveBy Dora Truban

Alicante Way

Alicante, or Alicant, is a historical Med-iterranean beach city and port located in Spain’s famed Costa Blanca. Founded in 324 BCE, Alicante became a crossroads for Phoe-nicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths and Arabs. Its name echoes an Arabic origin: Al-laquant. Romans called it Lucentum.

Presently, more than 334,300 inhabitants live in 77.71 square miles. About 15 percent of the population is foreign — mostly Argentin-ian, Ecuadorean and Colombian immigrants. Illegal immigrants from Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Morocco are not counted.

Besides the beach, Alicante’s attractions include Canalobre Cave’s impressive stalactites and stalag-mites; medieval Santa Barbara Castle; 19th century San Fer-nando Castle, and Spain’s most beautiful palm-lined Ex-planada de España. This promenade is paved with 6.5

million marble floor tiles that create a stunning wavy form. Alicante’s name is found in Orange County’s Alisio Vie-

jo and in Palm Springs, and of course, for our own lovely neighbors on Alicante Way. n

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Military Chronicles

Audie L. Murphy,a True American Hero

Audie Murphy (1925 to 1971) was born into a large sharecropper family in Hunt County, Texas. He was the seventh of twelve children. When his father abandoned the fam-ily, Audie left school in the fifth grade to pick cotton and find other work to help support his family. His skill with a hunting rifle enabled him to help put food on the table. He was 16 when his mother died in 1941. To earn more money, he then took jobs at a radio-repair shop and a general store-gas station.

In June 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army after his old-er sister helped him falsify documentation, so he was able to meet the minimum age requirement for enlisting in the military. He fought in many battles, leading up to action at France’s Colmar Pocket in January 1945.

In one engagement, the Germans scored a direct hit on an M10 tank destroyer, setting it ablaze and forcing its crew to flee. Audie ordered his men to retreat to a position in the forest, while he remained alone at his post – shooting his M1 carbine and directing artillery fire by way of his telephone.

As the enemy was aiming its firepower at his position, he climbed onto the abandoned, burning tank destroy-er and began firing its .50-caliber machine gun at the ad-vancing Germans. For an hour, Audie remained atop the tank destroyer, continuing his single-handed fight against the advancing German foot soldiers and tanks – killing and wounding 50 of the enemy. Even after sustaining a leg wound, he stopped only when he ran out of ammuni-tion. He then rejoined his men and led them back to resume the attack against the Germans. He insisted on staying with his men even while his wound was being treated.

Audie was ultimately promoted to first lieutenant. For his bravery in both the Mediterranean and European the-aters of battle, Audie Murphy – a true American hero, re-

ceived numerous awards and decorations from the United States, France and Belgium. These included the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars, the Legion of Mer-it, two Bronze Stars, three Purple Hearts, the French Legion of Honor and the French and Belgian Croix de Guerre. Specifically for his actions in the Colmar Pocket, he received the Medal of Honor. He was only 19 years old.

Unfortunately, after his years of valiant ser-vice, he suffered from insomnia and periods of depression. Post-traumatic stress, known at that time as “shell shock” and “battle fatigue,” was exacerbated by his own moodiness, and he was plagued by nightmares relating to his warfare experiences. Consequently, he became

a strong advocate for the increase of the federal govern-ment’s research into the emotional impacts of wartime com-bat on soldiers.

(For additional information, visit Google: Audie Murphy – This Is Your Life. Throughout his acting career, from 1948 to 1969, he made more than 40 feature films and one televi-sion series. He died in a plane crash in Virginia at the age of 46.) n

The CrustyCurmudgeonBy Bob Wong

Ebola Is Coming! Ebola Is Coming!

It was last Monday when, after a rather strenuous day at my volun-teer work at Camp Pendleton, I de-cided to rest my tired limbs and took a well-deserved nap on the couch. Meanwhile, my wife had just finished read-ing an extensive account of Ebola – how it originated in Afri-ca and has spread up and down the west coast of that conti-nent. She is convinced that it has spread to the west coast of the U.S., as well.

“Aren’t you feeling well, honey?”“No, I’m just taking a rest. I feel tired.”Aha, I knew it! You have the first stages of Ebola. You worked

at Pendleton where the service people are returning from deploy-ment in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is connected to Jordan, and Jordan is connected to Egypt, and Egypt is next door to West Af-rica. Let me take your temperature. I have the thermometer they gave me at the hospital. Hmmm, just as I thought: You have a temperature.”

“Woman, that thermometer is wrong. You’re using a rec-tal thermometer.”

“Well, you could be right. But I see you’re becoming jaun-diced.”

Audie Murphy, war hero.


“Dearie, you forget. We spent a week on Catalina and when you’re at a beach, you do beach things in the sun. I got sun-tanned.”

“That doesn’t look like suntan to me. I think your liver is giv-ing way.”

Don’t be daft, woman. When I get jaundiced, I’ll let you know.”

“And didn’t you complain about your stomach the other day, that there was some sort of pain you had never felt before. I think the Ebola virus has attacked your intestines and that’s the reason for your ache.”

“Honey, that was the night I had your new recipe for Stroganoff. That would cause anyone to have a stomach ache.”

“Don’t be belly-aching about my cooking. You had two serv-ings, remember?”

“Come to think of it, I also had a headache.”“Now, I think you’d better get up and get started on your

promise to clean out the garage. And you said you would help me plant those begonias in the backyard. And you promised to wash down the cars after all that rain.”

“Honey, I think you are right. I do believe I’m com-ing down with Ebola. My stomach aches, my head aches

and my liver is giving me trouble. I think I should rest for a month or so.”

“Didn’t you know Ebola is contageous? I’ve called the para-medics and they’re on their way now to isolate you at Emerald Hills.” n

Scams UpdateBy Ira M. Landis

Some folks are receiving federal jury summons by e-mail. Anyone who receives one should not respond. That’s right, ignore it. This isn’t a chance to become a scofflaw or an easy way to get out of jury duty. The e-mails are fake, the latest in a brazen series of phishing schemes to trick consumers into giving up private information. U.S. District Court officials are warning that fraudulent juror e-mails threatening arrest and fines for failure to fill out a requested form have been re-ported in at least 14 federal court districts. The e-mails come on the heels of other bogus federal e-mail and phone mes-sages, including ones in May claiming to be from the In-ternal Revenue Service. These messages are not real. They are scams: Lies. Shams. Tricks. Dupes. Cons. Fleeces. Bilks. Rooks. Rip-offs. Most people want to be good citizens by do-ing their civic duty. Repress the urge.

According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the e-mails inform people they have been select-ed for jury duty and demand recipients complete a form with such information as Social Security and driver’s li-cense numbers, date of birth, cellphone number and moth-er’s maiden name — basically all the information an identity thief needs to start applying for credit and opening accounts in someone else’s name. “According to the e-mail, anyone who failed to provide the information would be ordered to court to explain their failure, and could face fines and jail time,” court officials said in an alert last week that urged all U.S. District Court officials to post warnings on their public websites.

The e-mails also falsely claimed affiliation with eJuror, an online registration program used in about 80 U.S. court


districts. The U.S. District Court website describes the eJuror program as an electronic alternative to mail. It allows poten-tial jurors to respond to qualification questionnaires or sum-mons through the websites of local courts. Jurors can also update personal information, check when they need to re-port for jury service, submit a request for an excuse or de-ferral, and select an alternate time to serve through eJuror. “eJuror never requests that personal identification informa-tion be sent directly in an e-mail response,” court officials said in the alert. “Requests by courts to complete a qualifica-tion questionnaire would be initiated by formal written cor-respondence. Such letters tell jury participants how to access an authenticated, secure online connection.”

Hitting the delete key on this scam might not be enough because e-mail isn’t the only form it takes. People are also being targeted with phone calls using the same script. “In the calls, the threat of a fine for shirking jury service is used to coerce those called into providing confidential data,” ac-cording to a separate alert from court officials. “These calls are not from real court officials.” Federal courts do not re-quire anyone to provide personal information over the phone, and court officials will not ask for Social Security numbers, credit card numbers or other sensitive informa-tion. Anyone who receives an e-mail or call is asked to notify the clerk of courts in their district. n

Out and About inSan Diego CountyBy Jack Shabel

Before moving to Ocean Hills Country Club, when we would visit my sister in Rancho Santa Fe, we would always include a ride on the Old Town Trolley for a tour of San Di-ego. Now that we have people visiting us, this is one of the things we do with them. But taking the tour now is even bet-ter, because they have a program called Hometown Pass. If you are a resident of San Diego County, you can ride for free if you are accompanied by a paying adult ticket holder. It is basically a 2 for 1 ticket.

The tour stops at 11 locations: the Coronado Ferry Termi-nal, Hotel del Coronado, Old Town, Little Italy, Balboa Park, the waterfront near the Maritime Museum and the USS Mid-way Museum, Seaport Village, the Convention Center, Hor-ton Plaza, the Gas Lamp District, and the Embarcadero Wa-terfront Park. The beauty of the tour is that you can get off at any of these stops and spend as much time as you wish be-fore hopping aboard the next available trolley. You can only make the circuit once. But if you plan it right, you can park your car in Old Town, get your ticket and see all the best sights in our beautiful city by getting off at all of the stops that interest you, then return to Old Town on the trolley to


pick up your car and head home.The tours are narrated by the trolley drivers and we have

had a good time with all of the drivers we have had. Some are funnier than others, but they are all well informed, very courteous and helpful. It is a great way to spend a day and show off America’s prettiest city to guests.

The best place to buy tickets is at the ticket kiosk in Old Town, because there is a free parking lot within a block of the booth and trolley stop. Tickets are $39 for adults and $19

for ages 4-12. Under 4 is free. If you buy your tickets online, they are 10 percent cheaper, but you can’t get the Hometown Pass deal online, since that has to be purchased at the kiosk.

Details on getting the Hometown Pass are provided on the website at www.trolleytours.com/sandiego. A 100 per-cent refund is guaranteed if you are not satisfied with the tour, but I don’t think you will have a problem with the quality of the tour. Check it out. I think you will enjoy the tour and appreciate letting someone else do the city driv-ing. n

The Golf GameBy Pete Russell

I recently received a golf tip from a golf pro who was try-ing to demystify the method of hitting a golf ball from an uphill lie. Of course this was another YouTube event, but it made sense to me! I’ll try to summarize as it really hit home. Here is the TIP:

a. When you stroke a ball from a flat surface (e.g., some-where on the fairway) you know what to expect from the re-petitive process of practice. Let’s assume that you most of-ten hit the ball straight, and where you want. But now you are faced with an uphill lie and aren’t sure that you can ef-fectively strike the ball for your approach shot.

b. In the first instance (a flat surface), note that the club grooves are parallel with the grass surface. In the second in-stance, with the club head a foot above your feet, the club head grooves are no longer FLAT, which makes sense be-cause you are hitting with your feet below the golf ball!

c. It will invariably result in a ball strike that will veer LEFT from your normal straight flight path. That is because the grooves are no longer flat and don’t react in the same manner when striking the ball.

d. The tip is to move your normal address to the right (how much will depend on many other variables!) and stroke the ball in your normal manner. The ball trajectory will be drawing to the left! And that is the TIP.

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ball when struck, and use that to your advantage. For example, the balls most al-

ways have a rotation when cleanly hit by a driver and may cause the ball to spin as much as 3,500 rotations per min-ute — toward you! Or a reverse spin. The pro golfers use that to their advantage all the time. Controlling the rotation will cause a very good drive to go forward on a drive with a great carry, extending the length of their drives. In the same manner a shot chipped on the green with back spin can stop

the ball by actually backing up, presumably toward to the hole. That is really controlling the ball, and it comes from hitting the ball with a force and direction that imparts the spin on the ball, as the golfer wants to control the ball under those circumstances.

In summary on this topic, all you have to remember is that the grooves are no long on an even keel as before, and you need to compensate by hitting the ball to the right.

I’m still working on the technique to hit a drive with a fade or draw when I want to. For now that is well over my

How you hit the ballmatters.

Level lie.Uphill lie.


head, believe me, but as always I don’t give up! Enjoy your golf outing by paying attention to your environment and thinking about what you need to do to get the most out of your day in the sun! This is similar to course management, but that is another story for another column. n

The Movie SceneBy Joan Buchholz

A Hundred Foot Journey

What’s this? Another foodie movie? We’ve seen Chef, and now there is A Hundred Foot Journey. But this film has all the elements of good story telling. While this is a Disney movie, the producers were Steven Spielberg and Oprah Win-frey. They don’t disappoint.

and even close relatives. What is unusual is the film direc-tor’s recording of the boy’s life and his parents’ lives. The parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke) are divorced and each travels on her and his own path. Mom returns to school, gets married again and faces financial struggles, while Mason’s father appears on occasional weekends.

Every 10 to 15 minutes, the film jumps to the next peri-od in their lives and we are fascinated by a drama that un-folds before our very eyes. Nothing is shocking: Mason’s first day at school, his self-conscious crush, his first kiss-es, drinking — uneventful occurrences that have faced most kids everywhere in the U.S. But the movie provides the illu-sion that each segment is a series of vignettes tied together by the main character. We are witnesses to a stranger grow-ing up and wonder, how has life passed so quickly in our own lives. I give it three smiles for one of the unique movies I have seen this year. n

The Real EstateCornerBy Tom Brennan

(Tom has been involved in all aspects of real estate for more than 40 years, both as a lawyer and a realtor.)

The Earnest Money Deposit

The earnest money deposit (also known as a good faith deposit) is an integral part of buying a home in California. This deposit is an indicator of the buyer’s willingness and seriousness in acquiring the property while at the same time providing a modicum of protection to the seller should the buyer breach the purchase agreement.

The amount of this deposit will vary according to local custom but also may change as a result of market conditions (e.g., if the real estate market is “hot,” the seller may require a larger deposit). The deposit is not a down payment but merely an amount of money the purchaser provides to se-cure the contract to purchase the property (a down payment

Manish Dayal learns from Helen Mirren in A Hundred Foot Journey.

The Kadam family, run by Papa, is displaced from their native India when their restaurant is destroyed due to po-litical unrest. Papa’s wife is killed and Papa takes his fam-ily via England to a small village in France. There they lo-cate an abandoned place to establish an Indian restaurant only to discover it is 100 feet across the street from a classical French restaurant run by a classical French woman, Mme. Mallory (Helen Mirren). The conflict commences, each pro-viding obstacles to the opponent’s success. However, there is an attraction between Mme. Mallory’s sous chef (Charlotte Le Bon) and Papa’s son. Soon there is a delicious blending of two cultures and, as expected, there is a warm and happy ending. This is a “must see” movie for us seniors and I hand it three smiles. Bon appetit!!

Boyhood

This film chronicles the story of Mason Jr., a six-year-old boy through the subsequent twelve years of his life. There is nothing unusual about his life. We have witnessed people and families such as his before in our friends or neighbors


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is usually a much larger sum of money). Although most buyers prefer as low an earnest money deposit as possible, a higher deposit could at times prove to be advantageous to a buyer in that it may indicate to the seller a strong intention on the part of the buyer to acquire the property.

Typically, the realtor will advise the potential purchaser of the amount and form of the deposit. In California, where an earnest money deposit is mandatory, the amount is usu-ally between 1 and 3 percent of the purchase price. In Ocean Hills, the deposit is ordinarily about $10,000. Normally, the deposit should be made payable to an independent third party (never the seller) and deposited in escrow in either the realtor’s separate trust account or with a reputable es-crow company, title company or law firm until termination or completion of the purchase contract. The deposit is cus-tomarily made in the form of either a wire transfer, certified check or cashier’s check, and is delivered within three busi-ness days of mutual acceptance of the contract.

It is important for the parties to the purchase agreement to specify, in sufficient detail, the disposition of the depos-it upon termination of the contract. Generally, if problems occur at the early stages of escrow, such as title deficiencies or the finding of major structural damages, the deposit like-ly will be returned to the buyer but beyond those instanc-es or other specified circumstances in the purchase contract which protect the buyer, the seller should receive the depos-it. Nevertheless, if a buyer is determined to withdraw from a sale without forfeiting the deposit, it is not unusual for such buyer to try to manufacture a valid reason to avoid the sale (such as claiming that the CC&Rs are too restrictive and burdensome). These types of ploys have led to considerable litigation over the years. Again, this points out the necessi-ty for both the buyer and seller to make as clear as possible in the purchase contract the terms of payment or repayment of the good faith deposit. Moreover, California requires both buyer and seller to agree in writing as to the disposition of the deposit before the funds can be distributed to either par-ty. If the buyer and seller cannot agree on the disposition of the deposit then the escrow holder will deposit the funds

with a court which will determine the issue for the parties.Accordingly, as stated in past articles, the buyer and sell-

er should read the purchase contract and escrow instructions carefully (including the provisions of the earnest money de-posit) and, where necessary, seek professional advice. n

Travel RecollectionsBy Joe Ashby

India – Part 5After breakfast at the Hotel Jaypee Palace in Agra, it was

a short bus ride to where we transferred to smaller electric buses that took us to the main outer entrance to the Taj Ma-hal. Because of the “ethereal beauty” of its architecture, the white marble mausoleum, framed by four 130-foot-tall min-arets, was designated in 1983 as a UNESCO World Heri-tage Site and is treasured as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Its design is Mughal architecture, combined with and enhanced by elements of Islamic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles.

Fortunately, the skies and atmosphere were relatively clear, the crowds of visitors were not as large as on my pre-vious visit, and it was not too hot. As our group walked from the imposing crenellated red sandstone-and-mar-ble great gate (darwaza) toward the Taj, we passed by the side of the long reflecting pool and around landscaped gar-dens and lawns. Our guide, Arvind, was determined that we should know all there was to know about Mughal Em-peror Shah Jahan and the construction, from 1632 to 1648, of this fabulous memorial of love. The grand structure was de-signed and built by many thousands of artisans and crafts-men to honor his third and favorite wife and queen, Mum-taz Mahal, who, at age 39, died giving birth to his 14th child.

The symmetry of the Taj Mahal, its white marble walls richly inlaid with semiprecious gems, the great central dome, the four smaller domed kiosks (chattris) nestled against the base of the main dome, and the vaulted arch-ways were all as magnificent as I had remembered from an


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earlier visit. After don-ning paper booties over our shoes, we climbed the steps and entered the dimly lit main in-ner chamber to view the empty tombs, known as cinotaphs. (The actual tombs of Shah Jahan and his wife are located in a crypt beneath the Taj Ma-hal’s main chamber.)

We exited the Taj from the side overlooking the River Ya-muna. Off to the left and the right of the Taj we could see two large, identical red-sandstone-and-marble structures – one the Taj Mahal mosque and the other that may have served as a guesthouse. From there, we circled back to the main entrance and made our way through a sea of hawkers. The frenzy they created was far more fun to see than the few tourist “treasures” they offered.

Our second destination of the day was Agra Fort, an-other World Heritage Site, just across the river from the Taj Mahal. It was built in the mid-1500s of red sandstone, con-taining grand palaces, halls for public events and private au-diences, and gardens. The massive walls are surrounded by a moat. The fort was built over a period of eight years by 4,000 laborers as a defensive fortress against invading Mus-lims. From its elevated balconies we could look back across the river to the “shimmering beauty” of the Taj Mahal.

After stopping at a restaurant for lunch of mushroom soup and hot garlic naan, we took the bus back to the hotel and bade farewell to Arvind, Mr. Singh our driver and the young helper who had been with us these past six days. Af-ter our second night in Agra, we decided to visit the Moth-er Theresa orphanage here. Many of the children were de-formed and most gave signs of having been malnourished. The nuns were friendly and helpful in explaining the servic-es they provide. The orphanage was clean and the children were well loved.

After returning to the hotel, we boarded a 10-passen-ger van for the drive back to Delhi. Our Air India flight de-parted at midnight for the 12-hour flight back to the United States. Another travel adventure had come to a successful ending. n

Above, Agra Fort.Right, Taj Mahal.


Village HappeningsBy Selma Leighton

Yes, I have the gossip on three more of our residents. Some of them have led interesting lives. First, I ask you, what is a New Yorker? Unless you’ve been one, it’s hard to explain. But it seems that no matter how long they have lived in Cali-fornia or wherever, they’re always a New Yorker.

One distinguishing feature is their sense of humor. They will tell you a joke that they think is hysterical, and people will stare at them and wonder what the heck they are laugh-ing at. lorna goodman is just such a person. She has lived in California since 1961, but still has that New York blood running through her veins. She makes me laugh all the time.

She was a school teacher who taught in a high-crime area, even though she lived in North Hollywood. She walked out of every classroom backwards for safety sake, and learned more about Uzis than anyone should have to know.

But, she says, every once in a while, a youngster would come along in whose life she could actually make a differ-ence. And that was worth all the hard work. We should all

be grateful that there were and are teachers like her.Lorna and her husband, Stuart, have lived in Ocean Hills

for many years, but they will be moving away later this year. Many residents will miss them and we all wish them well.

frank dowling attended a high school with 100 stu-dents, one of whom became the acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy. After a year of college, he left Oak Ridge, Tenn. (his father worked on the atomic bomb project) to spend 17 years as a Jesuit, four of which as a priest. Among many wonderful experiences, two have left an indelible impres-sion: One was being only 10 feet from President John F. Ken-nedy at the Dallas Love Field, on November 22, 1963; and the other was when he and another Jesuit spent 15 minutes with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta King and Martin III, on August 15, 1965, at New York’s Riverside Baptist Church.

Frank worked for the NBC television network from 1982 to 1991. This work gave him the opportunity to meet many television and movie stars, as he worked on Hill Street Blues and other popular shows. It was while serving as an execu-tive for TV movies of the week that Frank had the good for-tune to meet Lynn. He said he knew a genuine star when he saw one, and she subsequently became his wife.

When I interview people, I usually ask them to tell me something funny that happened in their career. With Frank, I didn’t have to. If you want funny, just talk with him. He has a great sense of humor. He is also a very caring person, generously giving of his time and energy to Ocean Hills and other worthy causes.

Joan gross was born and raised in Brooklyn (another New Yorker). She says she was one of those old-fashioned girls who lived at home until her marriage in 1960. She graduated from Brooklyn College with an RN degree and a minor in business. Since her husband was a medical stu-dent in Philadelphia, they moved there in 1963. Because of her college background, she landed a job as supervisor of an extended-care unit. In 1966, she became the supervisor of nursing at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medi-cine, which she held until her husband joined the U.S. Army, stationed in Jackson, Miss.


After her husband’s stint in the Army, they moved to Scottsdale, Ariz. Since Joan was not one to just sit around indefinitely, she bought a physical examining company that handled insurance claims and drug testing — actively run-ning the business for more than two decades.

It’s hard to find funny things in medicine, but one thing stands out: men’s fear of needles. One man saw the nee-dle, passed out cold and silently slid to the floor. Joan and I agree, MEN ARE SISSIES. And “the bigger they are, the harder they fall,” as the saying goes.

Spending seven summers here in Ocean Hills to es-cape Arizona’s heat, Joan fell in love with the people and all that our community has to offer. She became a permanent resident in 2012. But Joan’s real claim to fame is that she brought pickle ball to Ocean Hills. People seem to love it. It’s fun. You’ll like it. (“Mikey liked it.” Remember the TV commercial?)

Is it not fun learning about your neighbors? And you know I like fun-ny. n

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On Saturday, November 1, Brother Benno’s Auxilia-ry will hold its Annual Luncheon at the Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa, in Carlsbad. This year’s theme is “Bounti-ful Blessings.” A delicious luncheon, live entertainment by Emily Craig, beautiful door prizes, centerpieces, opportu-nity baskets, cash drawings and silent-auction items will be the scenario for a day of fun. All of this is for a good cause – supporting our two women’s shelters.

This luncheon event is the Auxiliary’s way of helping the Brother Benno Foundation care for women in recovery and displaced women with children needing an opportunity to rebuild their lives. In the past, Ocean Hills has helped sup-port this vital program at the luncheon, and the Auxiliary will be grateful for your help once again.

Tickets, which are now available, are $60 per person or $600 for a table of ten. If you are unable to attend, but would still like to make a donation, you may do so as well. Please make a check out to Brother Benno’s Auxiliary. For a table assignment, you may call Penny Sallee at 760-912-8566. You may mail her a check to 4462 Ibis Way, Oceanside 92056 or put your check in the tube of Vera Bayliss, the auxiliary’s president, at 4684 Adra Way.

Everyone at the Auxiliary is grateful for your generosi-ty to and support of this vital program. They will appreciate any help you can provide! n

Village Veterans MeetingDid you know the U.S. Coast Guard had engagements

off the coast of Vietnam? Did you realize the Coast Guard had operations in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan too?

On Thursday, Sept. 25, LCDR John Bannon from the U.S. Coast Guard will speak on the latest news about the Coast Guard in San Diego — from Camp Pendleton to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Colorado River system from Yuma to Lake Powel l. He will explain such activities as intercepting the drug trade off the coast and rescuing people in danger in coastal waters and in the Arctic. Bannon is also responsi-ble for “Waterway Management” that oversees events in riv-er activities such as the safety of participants, crews, vessels and spectators.

All are invited to hear LCDR John Bannon, USCG on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at 3 p.m., Abravanel Hall. Refresh-ments will be served. n

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We have received a request for caring Ocean Hills resi-dents who are either interested in forming or have already formed a support group — to make daily calls with each other to be assured all is well in those households. If you can offer information about such a group or would be inter-ested in forming a new group, Rose Hyman asks that you please contact her at 760-630-1891. n

PricelessPictures Lost

I recently left a new Panasonic video camera on the table at the last Holiday Road Show with the Vil-lage Tappers, in Abravanel Hall. It was turned in to the front desk. Unfortunately, when I checked with the front desk a few days later, it had “disappeared.”

I had purchased the camera to photograph my six-year-old twin granddaughters in a “Circus” they were performing in at their kindergarten. Those pictures and those of my wife performing in the Village Tappers show are priceless to me. They are all I really want.

I would be extremely grateful for the return of the memory card containing that video. Whoever has the camera is welcome to keep it . . . with no questions asked! Please turn the memory card in at the Club-house front desk, or put it into my tube at 4739 Agora Way. Thank you in advance for returning my priceless-to-me photographs.

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As you reach the front gate and en-ter the Village, you may have noticed a large tree on your right in glorious yel-low bloom. It’s an Acacia tree — proba-bly a Golden Australian Wattle Acacia.

There are more than 800 species of acacia trees and shrubs around the world, most of which are native to Aus-tralia. Others are found in warm and tropical parts of the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Many have fern-like foliage – their compound leaves con-taining finely divided leaflets.

The blossoms on our tree grow in rounded, elongated clumps of flowers that appear fuzzy because of each flow-er’s multiple stamens. A few trees of another species, growing along Shad-owridge Drive, boast large, conspicuous rounded, cylindrical clusters of bright yellow blossoms that appear in early to mid-summer.

Most acacias have a life span of 15 to 30 years and tend to grow quick-ly, reaching heights in excess of 40 feet. The island of Molokai in Hawaii is home to a number of indigenous Koa Acacia forests that are closely guarded. The wood is highly-prized and extreme-ly valuable.

Our tree is passed everyday by driv-ers and walkers — and is unfortunately seldom noticed. n


Watching WildlifeBy Russ Butcher

Our Colorful Butterflies

I’m willing to bet that virtually everyone in Oceans Hills enjoys watching butterflies fluttering around our patios and common area landscapes during the warmer months. One of my personal favorites is the stunningly pat-terned Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. Measuring about 3 to nearly 4 inches, its con-spicuous wings are lemon yellow with contrast-ing black stripes and black outer border. A pair of distinctive black tails at the base of the hind wings is suggestive of a swallow’s tail. This butter-fly, which ranges from Baja California to British Co-lumbia, is one of more than 20 kinds of swallow-tails in the United States.

Another common species we see here is the Monarch Butterfly, which measures about 3½ to 4 inches. The bright orange upper surface of its wings is patterned with black veins and white-dotted black borders. The vast range of this species extends across most of North America (except Alaska and the coastal Pa-cific Northwest) and southward through Mexico, Central America and much of South America. It is the only butter-fly that, like many kinds of birds, migrates in the autumn and spring.

For example, monarchs that spend the summer in the Si-erra Nevada and other California mountains, winter along coastal Central and Southern California. Most of North America’s monarchs, however, migrate en masse from the Eastern and Midwestern United States and adjacent Can-ada. As many as 60 million to 1 billion of these butterflies have been annually migrating 2,000 to 2,500 miles to win-ter in a remote area of old-growth pine-and-fir forest, in the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains of central Mexico. Here they congregate in as many as 14 densely packed colonies from October to March. Some of this wintering habitat lies

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within a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Monarch Butterfly Bio-

sphere Reserve, located about 60 miles northwest of Mexico City.

Unfortunately, the population of this remarkable butterfly all across eastern North America has been plummeting in recent years. The decline stems part-ly from illegal logging that has reduced

the area of forest habitat for the monarchs.An equally if not more serious threat to the monarch’s

eastern population is the widespread eradication of the vi-tally important milkweed plant. Widespread spraying of chemical herbicides on farmlands all across the North-east and Midwest have wiped out large expanses of this plant. Why is the milkweed, which farmers consider a “weed,” so important to this insect? Monarchs lay their eggs only on the milkweed. When the caterpillars hatch out, they feed exclusively on their host plant. Without the milk-weed as their source of food, the caterpillars die.

When we see these beautiful orange-and-black butter-flies fluttering through our patios, we can only hope that ef-forts to reintroduce the milkweed in eastern North Ameri-ca and to preserve what little remains of Mexico’s fir forest will prove successful. But unlike the more stable population of swallowtails, the future of the monarchs remains uncer-tain. n


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