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Longtime Covenant resident Eamon Callahan will fill the seat left vacant on the RSF Association board by former director Jack Dorsee.

Six candidates applied to fill the spot. The board selected the new member by secret ballot on Sept. 15. None of the other candi-dates’ names were revealed.

“We were so pleased with the re-sults we had,” said Jack Queen of the number of candidates who responded to the opening on the board. “We had six outstanding candidates and it was really very pleasurable in-terviewing these people…We really hope they’ll stay in-volved in the community.”

Callahan said he was interested in serving on the board as he plans to retire next month. He holds several degrees in electronic engineering and was a vice president of four dif-ferent defense companies, in addition to owning four retail businesses.

He first retired when he was 34 and quickly learned that it wasn’t the best idea for a self-described “doer” who likes to get things done. In his second retirement, he wants to make sure he’ll have a job to do.

“I thought (serving on the board) was a great opportu-

New director selected to fi ll RSF Association board seat

See TRUSTEE, page 21

Eamon Callahan


The Rancho Santa Fe Association will chip in for half of the $44,000 re-pair cost of the RSF Golf and Tennis Club parking lot, the Association board decided in a 5-1 vote on Sept. 15.

The club’s lots have deteriorated due to use, water erosion and invading roots of large trees growing adjacent to the lots. The last improvements were done in 2007 and the lot is in need of repair, seal coating and restriping.

According to research, 37 percent of the business in the Golf Club dining room comes from non-Golf Club members of the Association. Addition-ally, the Association often uses Golf Club facilities for meetings, retreats, dinners and events.

In light of that shared use, the As-sociation will contribute $21,866 to-

ward the project on the condition that the Golf Club reduces its bank loan by a corresponding amount from its free reserves.

The funding request was met with some resistance from Association direc-tor Ann Boon.

Boon noted that the Association’s homeowner assessment delinquencies are up and last year for the first time property values went down 3 percent, which in turn meant the Association’s income went down 3 percent. She said she’s heard that the Golf Club has a positive cash flow and its revenues are strong.

“(The Golf Club) is fine and we’re facing delinquencies. It doesn’t matter who uses the parking lots, we don’t need to be handing out money until we get a long-term fix on our budget,” Boon said.

She suggested that Golf Club member assessments pay for mainte-nance and that maybe the Association should charge a lease on the club land.

Mike Irvine, the RSF Golf Club president, offered a counterpoint that the club was hit just as hard as every-one else by the economic downturn. He said new memberships have dropped and earlier in the year it was reported golf rounds were down 12 percent.

Association director Dick Doughty disagreed with Boon and said that the club has a well-established agreement with the Association—he said $21,866 was a small amount of money and giv-ing it to them was “the neighborly thing to do.”

“Small amounts of money can re-ally add up,” Boon said.

RSF Association board agrees to share repair cost for Golf and Tennis Club parking lot

See COST, page 21

The RSF Community Center/Wells Fargo Back-To-School-Bash/Carnival was held Sept. 16. The event included favorite carnival games from last year, bouncy houses, games for the older kids and more. Later that evening, a Community Center/Wells Fargo family Movie Night was held at The Inn at RSF. See more inside. (Above at the Bash) Cupcake, Caroline Bedikian, Isabelle Katz, Ashley Bedikian, Marlo Katz. Photo/Jon Clark

Billy Ray Smith and Corey Grant attended the inaugural “Refined with Time,” a wine and cuisine event benefitting the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito, held Sept. 17 at a private home at The Bridges in Rancho Santa Fe. See page B23 for more. Photo/Rob McKenzie

For the kidsBack-To-School Bash

BY CITY NEWS SERVICEVerizon Wireless announced this week that it will ex-

pand its 4G cellular network in northern San Diego County and in Riverside County.

Among the new 4G coverage areas in the North County starting Oct. 20 will be Carlsbad, Encinitas, Rancho Santa Fe and Torrey Highlands, according to a Verizon announce-ment.

Much of the city of San Diego, Chula Vista, El Cajon, Poway and Escondido are already served by a Verizon 4G network, the most advanced technology used by smart phones, tablets and laptop computers to connect with the Internet.

Verizon says its 4G network provides speeds up to 10 times faster than its 3G counterpart.

For commuters who live in southern Riverside County, the new service areas will also include Temecula and Murrie-ta, according to the company.

Verizon Wireless to expand 4G cellular network to RSF

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The first of two 28,000-horsepower pump turbines at the San Diego County Water Authority’s Lake Hodges Pump Storage Project has begun opera-tions. The facility is now available to help meet the region’s water and energy demands, by providing 20,000 acre-feet of emer-gency water storage and up to 20 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the region, enough power for 13,000 homes.

“This is visionary and innovative infrastructure that will pay water supply

and power reliability divi-dends for decades,” Water Authority Board Chair Mi-chael T. Hogan said. “The hydroelectric operations will also benefit our ratepayers by generating revenue that will help offset the facility’s operating costs.”

The $196 million Lake Hodges project is a key part of the Water Authority’s $1.5 billion Emergency Stor-age Project, a system of res-ervoirs, pipelines and pump-ing stations designed to en-sure that up to a six-month supply of locally stored wa-

Lake Hodges project begins pumped storage and power generation operations

See HODGES, page 21

The Santa Fe Irrigation District is asking its customers to check and, if needed, reset their automatic irrigation sys-tems. Following the county-wide power outage last week, many customers’ automatic sprinkler and irrigation sys-tems may have reverted to their default setting once the power was restored.

Most irrigation timers have a battery that will store wa-tering settings in case of a power outage and download the settings when the power is restored. However, if the battery is old or no battery is installed, your controller could de-fault to a schedule of 10 minutes a day – every day – for ev-ery station. This may affect customers’ water bill, and result in water waste, as the irrigation system may be on longer and more frequently than before the power outage.

The district suggests customers check their automatic irrigation timers to find out if theirs has defaulted. To tell if the controller has defaulted, the display on many control-lers will “blink” on and off as a warning. Customers should check the controller’s day and time settings, and reset them to the normal irrigation settings. In addition, Santa Fe Irri-gation District suggests that customers replace the back-up batteries as a precaution.

As a reminder, September is a good time to inspect your irrigation controller and decrease the amount of water use as the autumn days become shorter and temperatures cooler.

For additional information on water conservation, vis-it the district’s website at www.sfidwater.org.

Individuals with questions can call the district office at (858) 756-2424.

Santa Fe Irrigation District asks customers to reset their irrigation controllers

Those big binders of information that RSF Association directors used to lug around are now a thing of the past. The Association has gone completely electronic and each director now has an iPad stored with meeting agendas, min-utes and background documents.

The good news about the Association going electronic is that agendas may be able to be posted online before the meeting for public view, as well, Association Manager Pete Smith said. Currently, agendas are posted on the board out-side of the Association office.

— Karen Billing

RSF Association goes electronic

When the blackout hit San Diego County on Thursday, Sept. 8, many local grocery stores reportedly had to throw out a lot of perishable food. Rancho Santa Fe’s Stumps Vil-lage Market was not among them due to a renovation com-pleted five years ago, manager Matt Basham reported at the Sept. 15 RSF Association board meeting.

Basham said that the renovations of their Rancho Santa Fe market included new coolers with a battery pack that can run up to eight hours. The dairy box is normally kept at 34 degrees and the “danger zone” is probably at 45 degrees—during the blackout the temperature only raised to 41 de-grees and all of the food was fine.

“The ice cream didn’t even melt,” Basham said. — Karen Billing

Stumps Village Market not impacted by blackout

A Rancho Santa Fe resident saw a mountain lion cross her property, located in the 16600 block of Zumaque, on Sept. 12 around 10 a.m. The cat did not approach her or anyone else. It proceeded down into the San Dieguito River Canyon, which is their habitat. If you should see a moun-tain lion, you are encouraged to call Fish and Game at 858-467-4257. If the animal is a threat, call 911.

Mountain lions’ main food source is deer and coy-otes. Eliminating plant species that attract deer help dis-courage mountain lions from coming into the area.

“Mountain lions are most active at night, as well as dusk and dawn,” RSF Patrol Chief Matt Wellhouser said. “Do not leave children outside unattended; don’t leave pet food or food that may attract animals outside. Do not leave animals outside unattended. Horses should be kept in stalls in the barn. Be careful when walking/ jogging at dusk and dawn time periods. If you see a mountain lion, make noise-lots of it. Yell, scream, and bang on some-thing. For example, pocket- sized air horns are a good way to do that.” If you have any questions please call the Dept of Fish and Game at 858-467-4201 or the RSF Patrol 858-756-4372.

Another mountain lion spotted in RSF

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James Lock and Devon Roeper, both 16, traveled to Uganda during June of 2010 with the Children’s Heri-tage Foundation, a Del Mar nonprofit foundation. Initially, they both spent time working at the Victor’s School in Mokono, an orphanage and boarding school which boards about 400 school children in barrack-like quarters and provides K thru 8 education for a total of about 800 children. Although the school and dormitories provide a safe environment for the children, the liv-ing conditions were basic at best with 20-30 children to a bedroom and no electricity or indoor plumbing. The only water source was a pump in the middle of the school campus. They also noted that the youth in the com-munity hung around in large groups and had no safe or constructive activi-ties to participate in. James stayed at the Victor’s School and helped build a soccer field. He remembers how excit-ed the kids were to have a place to play soccer. “They wanted to help us during their class breaks. It was so hot and humid, but they never complained, and they started playing on the field before it was complete.”

While James remained in Moko-no, Devon traveled to the north of Uganda and worked with a mobile medical team, providing medical treat-ment to people in the bush near the Congo and Sudan boarders. The team served 600-700 people a day, many of whom had never had access to a physi-cian or medical treatment.

When James and Devon re-turned to Rancho Santa Fe, they were determined to make a positive dif-ference in the lives of the children in Uganda. They both had a love for bas-ketball and played for their respective high school teams, so they started to investigate the pos-sibility of building a basketball court in Mokono. They be-gan to think of ways to raise the money necessary to build the court. Instead of receiving presents for birthdays and Christmas, James and Devon decided ask for dona-tions for the basketball court. They also each asked friends and family to donate to their efforts. By the spring of 2011, James and Devon had collec-tively raised over $13,000. With the help of parents and other adults, they coordinated the acquisition of land, the hiring of contractors and the pur-chase of supplies. Work on the court began in May of 2011. From 9,000 miles away, they watched pictures posted on Facebook that chronicled the completions of the construction of the first public basketball court in the region. Not just content with a basket-ball court, Devon began looking for

donations for basketball jerseys. She approached her high school, Bishop’s, and was elated at a donation of over 150 jerseys and shorts. In June of 2011, James, a student at Santa Fe Christian, returned to Mokono with The Chil-dren’s Heritage Foundation. He was able to witness the progress on the court, as well as help with some of its construction.

James and Devon have been told that the court has taken on a life of its own and has become a gathering place; not just of children of the town but for the adults, as well. It is a community source of pride and is providing a healthy, safe, drug-free environment for the town. Currently, boys and girls teams have been organized and have started to play teams from other com-munities, with the goal of competing

Two RSF teens raise money to build basketball court in Uganda

Devon Roeper and James Lock

in some national tournaments.James and Devon are not done with their commitment

to make a positive change in the lives of the children in Mo-kono. They both plan to return to Mokono in August of 2012 to hold a basketball clinic for boys and girls in the town. During this year, they plan to get donations for bas-ketball shoes and equipment. They are both interested in having their efforts be bigger than just the building of a bas-ketball court and are hoping to see a legacy of partnership develop between their schools and the kids of Mokono, that outlasts their time at Santa Fe Christian and Bishop’s.

James and Devon want to publicly thank everyone who has contributed to making the basketball court a reality. “We couldn’t have done it alone,” James says.

If you would like to donate money, basketball equip-ment, athletic shoes, or uniforms for the children of Moko-no and the Victor’s School, please contact: Robert Lewison, Children’s Heritage Foundation at robert@ childrensher-itagefoundation.org or (619) 787– 8587.

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The Community Concerts of Rancho Santa Fe, a community service organization and a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, announce the creation of a performing arts student schol-arship. On Sept. 6, Sharon McDonald, presi-dent of the Community Concerts of Rancho Santa Fe, announced the creation of the Holly Wilson Performing Arts Student Schol-arship.

Wilson was the founder of the Commu-nity Concerts of Rancho Santa Fe 11 years ago. The scholarship is for $2,500 per year for four years and is for pursuit of an educa-tion in the performing arts. Ruby Edman, EDD, is the scholarship chair for Communi-ty Concerts of RSF. She is the former princi-pal in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District.

Dr. Edman will be following procedures as outlined by the San Dieguito High School District for administration of the scholar-ship. Her previous experience of working with the Del Mar Rotary and Maega Com-munity Organization on scholarship proj-ects is an asset to the administration of the project.

Funding for the student scholarship will be provided from proceeds from the Com-munity Concerts of RSF Endowment Fund, which is held by the Rancho Santa Fe Foun-dation. The fund originated at the onset of Community Concerts of RSF by visionary patrons to insure continuation of this orga-nization. The development of the scholar-ship was a result of the Community Con-certs of Rancho Santa Fe’s expanded mission of developing talent for the future.

To be eligible, recipients are to be gradu-ating seniors at either Torrey Pines or Can-

yon Crest high schools who have demon-strated academic excellence with a mini-mum grade point average of B+ and are pur-suing a career in either the vocal or instru-mental performing arts. For additional in-formation, call Dr. Edman at 858-755-1414.

Community Concerts of Rancho Santa Fe’s other activities include a season of four eclectic concerts coupled with an outreach program for various schools and community organizations (artists give an abbreviated performance on the day of the concert). Ad-ditionally, the CCofRSF, has created a forum for benefit concerts in support of local orga-nizations, such as the Performing Arts Cen-ter at Rancho Santa Fe on the R. Roger Rowe campus.

This coming concert season opens on Nov. 18 with jazz sensation, Anna Wilson and continues to Jan. 25th with Intersec-tion, a classical string quartet, then onto March 21, 2012 with The Water Coolers, a musical comedy group. The final concert is on April 13, 2012 with vocalist, Christiane Noll. Complimentary catered hors d’ oeu-vres, desserts, coffee, soft drinks and wine (the wine is donated by Northern Trust Bank) are served at each concert. In support of encouraging children’s musical interest children less than 18 years are admitted without charge. The concert venue is the Fellowship Hall of the Village Presbyterian Church. Join them for four delightful eve-nings with your friends and neighbors.

For information visit www.community-concertsofranchosantafe.com, e-mail [email protected] or con-tact Sharon McDonald at 858-922-4440.

Community Concerts of Rancho Santa Fe announces Performing Arts student scholarship

The International Bipo-lar Foundation (IBPF) will celebrate National Bipolar Awareness Day with a visit from former Congressman Patrick Kennedy at a public forum from 3:30-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, at the Hilton Del Mar, 15575 Jim-my Durante Blvd.

At the event, a Mental Health Awareness badge, de-veloped by IBPF and being piloted in San Diego-Imperi-al Counties, will be unveiled and presented to the first group of Girl Scouts.

Kennedy will speak about mental health, stigma, and the need for ongoing brain research. A question-and-answer session will fol-low. He served 16 years in

Patrick Kennedy to speak at event launching Scouting’s Mental Health Awareness badge

the U.S. House of Represen-tatives and is predominantly known as the author and lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity & Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

The legislation provides millions of Americans, who

were previously denied care, with access to mental health treatment. Now, Kennedy is co-founder of the One Mind for Research campaign, the next step in the effort to bring together scientists working in various domains of brain research toward a common goal.

The event is free and open to the public. If you, or someone you know, would like to attend the public fo-rum, please contact [email protected] or call 858-342-0327. To learn more about Girl Scouts San Diego, please visit www.girlscoutss-di.org

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The Rancho Santa Fe Republican Women will hold its annual Candi-dates Forum and Mixer on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 9, from 3-5 p.m. in the Courtyard of the Pantry Restaurant.

Official candidates and current office holders will each speak shortly and then mingle with all who attend. Congressional candidates include Brian Bilbray, Dr. Wayne Iverson and John Stahl; California Assembly can-didates Marie Waldron, Sherry Hodges, Kevin Davis, Farrah Douglas, Rocky Chavez and Martin Garrick; County Supervisor candidate Steve Danon and Bill Horn; City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and San Diego Mayoral Candidates Carl DeMaio, Bonnie Dumanis and Nathan Fletcher round out the group.

Cost is $25.00 per person, mail checks to RSF RWF, P. O. Box 1195, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067. Please reserve by Wed., Oct. 5, with Kathy at [email protected] or 858-756-9906.

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Local teenager Morgan Hicks spent part of her sum-mer vacation singing “Happy Birthday” to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Her memorable birthday tribute came courtesy of the One Young World Summit in Zurich, Switzerland, where Hicks was one of 1,600 young delegates selected to attend from around the world.

Hicks, a senior at the Bishop’s School, was treated to seminars on world issues given by some of the most well-known experts on the topic, such as Tutu, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, activist Bob Geldof, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunis, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Doctors With-out Border co-founder Bernard Kouchner, and Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who organized protests in Egypt.

“It was inspirational,” Hicks said. “I’m in such a bubble here and a lot of these topics I had never experienced. We heard about politics, the environment, capital-ism, economics, leadership and how to have relationships with other countries to promote world peace.”

Hicks was selected to attend the sum-mit by the International Community Foundation (ICF), a National City organi-zation she has interned for since her fresh-man year. Donor Antonio Diaz, through his San Diego-Tijuana Talented Youth Op-portunities Fund at ICF, sponsored Hicks’ trip.

ICF President and Founder Richard Kiy, also a local resident, thought Hicks would be the perfect ambassador for their organi-zation for all the “amazing” contributions she has made in such a short time.

At ICF, Hicks helped launch the Youth International Philanthropy Council, which encourages and inspire youth to take on cross-border giving.

“There’s a lot of opportunity for kids to take on projects but they feel like they don’t have the vehicle to do so,” Hicks said, noting that her council gives them one.

One of her first projects was helping raise $125,000 for a new playground in Mexico for abandoned and neglected chil-dren.

With the knowledge gained from her experience at ICF, Hicks also wrote “The Teenagers Guide to International Giving,” which will be published in the fall.

“I’m proud that we were able to spon-sor Morgan and hope it leads to others to follow in her path,” Kiy said. “I look for-ward to her inspiring others on how they can make a difference.”

In addition to her work with ICF, Hicks also co-founded the “Students Against De-structive Decisions” club at Bishop’s and is a member of the cross country, soccer and track teams.

“I’m very busy but I like it that way. I get more things done when I’m busy,”

Hicks said.At the One World Summit, Hicks met

fellow delegates, ages 18-30, from all over the world. She was one of the youngest there but connected with people from Eng-land, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Morocco, Libya and Syria.

“It was really interesting and hum-bling to hear the opinions of the other del-egates about the U.S.,” Hicks said “Com-pared to a lot of countries, we are such a young nation and we have a lot to learn. I think we can learn a lot from different countries and it was interesting to hear their perspective.”

Hicks heard presentations on a wide variety topics, from feminism and women’s rights to issues in Africa; learning about the problems the country is facing and steps that can be taken to ensure it doesn’t get worse.

She was inspired by a delegate she met from Rwanda who used to be a child sol-dier.

“That blew me away,” Hicks said. “De-spite everything that happened he doesn’t want to crawl in a hole and hide, he want-ed to make a difference. It was amazing and inspirational.”

She took very detailed notes during the presentation by Doug Richards, an entre-preneurship expert. Hicks said Richards spoke about the challenges of the world to-day and how as young leaders, they are in charge of making it better.

Hicks will carry Richards’ words and all the other invaluable messages she re-ceived at the summit, as she continues in her efforts at ICF and beyond. While she doesn’t know what college she will attend, she knows she wants to study social entre-preneurship.

“Change starts from one person…Don’t be afraid to make a difference,” Hicks advised.

Initially she was nervous about work-ing in Mexico but pushing herself outside her comfort zone allowed her to discover that it was a wonderful country and also al-lowed her to meet the people she was tak-ing an active role in helping.

“You learn something if you put your-self out there,” Hicks said. “Your physically being in the experience changes you, rather than just sending a check.”

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Morgan Hicks, third from left, with other youths in Zurich, Switzerland.


BY JOE TASHContributor

For the past 15 years, Ken Druck has helped griev-ing families move on with their lives. On Sunday, Sept. 11, he stood at a spot where the entire country’s grief was focused — the memori-al park at “Ground Zero,” where New York City’s World Trade Center towers once touched the sky.

Druck and his wife, Li-sette Omoss, traveled to New York to meet with fam-ilies of people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, and Druck also delivered a talk on promoting resiliency at a “Day of Remembrance” event organized by the non-profit group Voices of Sep-tember 11. Keynote speakers at the event also included

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Secre-tary of State Hillary Clinton.

Druck, a local resident and founder of the Jenna Druck Center, also attended the ceremony on Sept. 11 marking the 10th anniversa-ry of the attacks and the un-veiling of the memorial park, which includes pools where the towers once stood, and low walls en-graved with the victims’ names.

“ I was feeling like I was in the presence of some-thing so honorable that had been given to the families of those who were lost, includ-ing police and firefighters and first responders, and the overwhelming sense of love,” said Druck of the cer-emony.

Local man’s quest to help others deal with grief takes him to N.Y.

Above: The memorial pool at the former World Trade Center site.

Left: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ken Druck. PHOTOS COURTESY

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Join the Jenna Druck Center for “Girl Power” on Wed., Oct. 19, a wonderful evening at the Del Mar home of Leigh and David Johnson. Help honor Maria As-saraf, recipient of “The 2011 Spirit of Leadership Award,” and share an unfor-gettable evening of fun, live music, fan-tastic food and sur-prises.

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Ken and his wife, Lisette Omoss

Jenna Druck Center founder visits ‘Ground Zero’

Druck was inspired to launch a nonprofit foundation dedicated to help-ing families through the bereavement process after his older daughter, Jenna, died in a 1996 bus crash while studying in India. The Jenna Druck Center of-fers support groups, grief education and other services for people whose loved ones have died. The center also has a program that offers mentoring and leadership training for teenage girls.

Over the years, Druck — who was trained as a psychologist but no longer practices — has been called to assist at numerous tragic events, from airline crashes to school shootings. In 2001, he received requests to help families of the Sept. 11 victims deal with their loss. Over the next four to five years, he traveled back to his native New York to meet with families, consult with the New York Fire Department and help set up programs for the bereaved.

He has also worked with North County residents and others from South-ern California who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 attacks.

His approach, said Druck, is to deal with grief on a human level.“Our orientation is to normalize and humanize grief,” he said. “Grief is a

human, normal response to loving somebody and losing them.”The Sept. 11 commemoration, he said, offered a bittersweet opportunity

to reconnect with people he has worked with over the years, and also to expe-rience the newly opened memorial in person.

He recalled one man who came up and hugged him, because an inspira-tional CD Druck had recorded about dealing with the loss of a loved one had helped the man deal with his own grief.

Druck said he spoke with Hillary Clinton, who along with her husband, President Bill Clinton, helped clear the way for Jenna Druck’s body to be transported back to the United States after her death.

Druck continues to serve on the board of the Jenna Druck Center and also run support groups and teach grief education classes. His for-profit busi-ness, Druck Enterprises, Inc., provides such services as executive coaching, or-ganizational consulting and team-building support.

He said he is proud of the role the Jenna Druck Center has played in helping victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy, along with helping others dealing with the loss of friends or relatives.

“Our challenge as a community and a nation is trying to become more grief-literate. Our challenge going forward is to turn painful memories into expressions of love for what we’ve lost,” he said.

For more information, visit www.jennadruckcenter.org.

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Dr. Ariel Feldstein, 38, is the father of four young children, including trip-lets.

He’s also a pediatric physician and scientist rec-ognized for his innovative research and treatment of children with liver diseases and for inventing non-in-vasive diagnostic proce-dures to make a child’s clinical experience easier and less painful.

And he’s the newly-re-cruited chief of the Pediat-ric Division of Gastroen-terology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Rady Chil-dren’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in Cali-fornia and the largest

source of comprehensive children’s medical services, including outpatient clin-ics, in San Diego.

Feldstein took up his new position at Rady’s two months ago after serving seven years on the pediat-ric staff of the renowned Cleveland Clinic in Cleve-land, Ohio, the last three years of which as director of pediatric research.

We interviewed him in his office at Rady’s main hospital on Children’s Way.

He is definitely a man with a mission.

His philosophy of liv-ing and working is simple: “Do things you feel pas-sionate about; don’t be afraid of changes; learn

from your failures and suc-cesses; and surround your-self with people who in-spire you and push you to be better.”

Last year, Rady’s gas-troenterology division conducted 15,000 outpa-tient and inpatient visits and performed more than 2,100 procedures. With 19 specialists on staff, the di-vision also operates outpa-tient clinics at five loca-tions, including the main hospital and Rady’s facili-ties in Escondido, Encini-tas, Oceanside and Murrie-ta.

“My vision,” Feldstein said, “is to continue to strengthen what is being done at Rady’s and in the next several years for it to become one of the Top Five programs in the coun-try.”

Rady’s gastroenterolo-gy division recently ranked #31 among 177 U.S. chil-dren’s hospitals in a recent U.S. News & World Report survey to identify the top children’s hospitals in the country in 10 pediatric specialties.

Asked how he intends to accomplish his goal of getting into the “Top Five,” he said: “We have just recruited a director for a new motility center for the testing of children with digestive disorders that we are opening later this fall; and we are in the process of recruiting a new director for the liver trans-plant program; and we are creating a new inflamma-tory bowel disease center.

“With these three comprehensive centers, our goal is to provide the best possible care for chil-dren with these conditions and, at the same time, to innovate and find new treatments and new non-invasive tests to diagnose and monitor these diseas-es.”

Nationally, the num-bers of children suffering from GI-related diseases, including liver diseases, has been growing “expo-nentially,” over the last two decades, Feldstein said, “and we believe that this in part is related to

the obesity epidemic.”The most common liv-

er disease in children, he said, is called the fatty liv-er disease, directly related to overweight and obesity and associated with insu-lin resistance and diabetes.

Statistics indicate that 10 percent of children in the U.S. have fatty liver disease. “The vast majori-ty of them have a benign condition;” he said. “how-ever, a percentage of them have significant, progres-sive liver disease, with the increased risk of progress-ing to cirrhosis of the liver eventually requiring liver transplantation.

“Those are the chil-dren for whom we are a national referral center here at Rady’s,” he said, “and part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consortium selected to study this disease.”

Children diagnosed with liver fatty disease are treated with an intense, lifestyle program that in-cludes diet, exercise, and counseling. “There are no medications that have been approved specifically for the treatment of the disease — and that is an area of intense research that we are significantly a part of. We are trying to identify new, safe medica-tions that can be used be-cause we know, unfortu-nately, that the lifestyle approach only works for a small percentage of chil-dren.”

Feldstein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of a cardiologist. He remembers, as a child, going to his father’s office and helping out in any way he could. Both he and his older sister followed in their father’s footsteps and

became physicians. His sis-ter is a breast pathologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“It was in my genes,” he acknowledged, “and there was no doubt that was what I wanted to do.”

His grandparents were Russian Jews who had fled persecution in Russia be-fore the 1917 Russian Rev-olution and had immigrat-ed to Argentina.

He grew up post-Peron Argentina. It was a time of transition from military dictatorships to democra-cy, he said, and as such, was, politically and eco-nomically, a chaotic time, “as is typical in Argentina, but it was a time of free-dom, which was unique.”

By 1983, when Feld-stein was 11, he said, Ar-gentina had passed through its period of mili-tary rule, and had become a democracy.

He earned his M.D. from the University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, with honors, in 1997.

At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he did a postdoctoral fellow-ship in liver pathobiology, a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediat-ric gastroenterology and nutrition, completed in 2004.

He subsequently joined the Cleveland Clin-ic where he developed a pediatric preventative met-abolic clinic with a multi-disciplinary team of doc-tors and healthcare profes-sionals who provided a comprehensive approach to preventing the onset/progression of metabolic complications of obesity in children.

In 2008, he was ap-pointed director of pediat-ric research at the Cleve-land Clinic and served as such until joining Rady’s.

To keep in shape, the youthful-looking physi-cian runs four miles a day, three or four times a week, and plays tennis.

He’s an avid reader of contemporary and classic novels, and South Ameri-can literature.

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Name: Ariel E. Feldstein, M.D.

Distinction: As a leading physician/scientist in pediatric hepatology (liver diseases among children), Dr. Feldstein recently joined the staff of Rady’s Children’s Hospital as Chief of the Pediatric Division of Gastroenterology, Hepa-tology and Nutrition. He is also a professor of pediatrics at UCSD.

Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 38 years ago

Education: M.D., with honors, University of Buenos Ai-res, School of Medicine, 1997; Postdoc Fellow, Depart-ment of Physiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1997-98; residency in pediatrics, Mayo Clinic, 1998-2001; Fellow in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, Mayo Clinic, 2001-04.

Family: He and his wife, Bettina, (nee Papouchado), met in medical school in Buenos Aires. His wife is a patholo-gist. They have four children; Lucia, 4, and triplets, Nata-lie, Emily, and Dylan, 8, students at Sycamore Ridge School.

Interests: Running, tennis, reading contemporary and classic novels, and South American literature.

Current reading: “Freedom,” a novel by American writ-er Jonathan Franzen, and re-reading the classic Russian novel, “The Brothers Karamazov,” by Fyodor Dos-toyevsky,

Favorite getaway: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Favorite foods: “Being an Argentinean, the barbeque is my weakness. I have to confess that.”

Favorite films: Woody Allen films

Philosophy: “My philosophy is: ‘Do things you feel pas-sionate about; don’t be afraid of changes; learn from your failures and successes; and surround yourself with people who inspire you and push you to be better.”

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Prior to opening Poppy, Hunter built a local follow-ing selling apparel on her re-tail website “Pink Icing” and with a small selection for sale at Plume in the RSF vil-lage.

Hunter is very excited to bring the store to the neighborhood where the bulk of her clients call home.

“There aren’t a lot of options for people in the area to shop, it always feels like such an event to go to somewhere like Nordstrom or the mall,” Hunter said. “I wanted to have multiple op-tions close by, a boutique that can really cater to the community. This communi-ty was able to help me build my business and I want to provide a service back to

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“My clientele grew and grew so I needed more space,” Hunter said.

Her new space in Del Rayo looks fresh and new—she completely remodeled the former Gracie location, lightened and opened it up. The boutique is crisply white with splashes of funky hot pink and orange. Clear globe lights hang from the ceiling and a pair of Capiz shell chandeliers make a big statement over a display of jewelry, courtesy of M&M Gems, a line run out of Fair-banks Ranch.

Poppy has items for ev-eryday casual looks such as tops, jeans and cardigans, “easy to grab and good for gifts,” as well as a variety of dresses from American con-temporary designers, good finds for women busy with events and functions. Hunt-er said when a woman de-clares there’s nothing in her closet and there’s an event

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The store carries looks from the aforementioned von Furstenberg, Trina Turk, Milly, Ella Moss and Velvet, to name just a few.

Hunter is “very excited” to bring a store to her most loyal local clients — she even let them participate in naming the store “Poppy.”

“I just love the sound of it — it sounds so light and fun,” Hunter said.

Stay tuned for details on Poppy’s grand opening event, set for Sept. 29. Pop-py is located at 16087 San Dieguito Road, Ste D2, Ran-cho Santa Fe, CA 92067 and is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-day-Wednesday, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Satur-

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The Rancho Santa Fe Women’s Fund (RSFWF) re-cently received word from the Angels Foster Family Network (Angels) – one of eight local organizations to benefit from this year’s funding awards – that its grant has already made a huge impact.

Angels, a recipient in the Health and Social Servic-es category, used most of the $40,000 donation to pay for a wide-reaching public rela-tions outreach and media campaign.

“We had the largest group ever at an orientation last week — 16 couples — and as a result we are now offering two informational sessions per month so that we can get everyone inter-ested into an orientation and those who qualify, signed up for the October training series,” said Cathy

Richman, the agency’s founder and director. “We are thrilled at the high vol-ume this campaign has cre-ated and, most of all, we re-main so very grateful to the RSF Women’s Fund group for making this all possible.”

The media effort is to recruit qualified foster fami-lies, to increase community awareness of the critical need for foster families and to spotlight some of the problems faced by infants and toddlers, some of them abused and in desperate need of care.

There were five mem-bers of the RSFWF who were assigned to the site visit committee: Annabel Moore, Kathy Yash, Gail Kendall, Becky Horowitz and Diane Murphy, committee leader. Each were touched by what they learned about the orga-nization.

“I volunteered for this site visit because I have a friend who actually has fos-tered for something like this and is deeply rewarded for the love and protection of a child,” said Horowitz. “The way the government works, you have so much slip

through the cracks [but] the woman who runs the orga-nization is strictly volunteer-ing and has given time and unconditional love to make this work.”

During the site visit, at Richman’s office in San Di-ego, a foster mother was there with her baby whom she was planning to adopt. “Needless to say, I had a lump in my throat through-out the visit,” Horowitz re-called on meeting that foster mother.

The encounter also touched Murphy. “We were informed of the circum-stances of this baby being taken away from his parents and his physical and emo-tional state at that time. To see, months later, how hap-py and healthy-looking this little boy was and how at-tached he was to his foster mom showed how very im-portant it is to have a foster family agency such as An-gels be available to place ba-bies with their wonderful

families,” she said.Unlike traditional fos-

ter care agencies, Angels fo-cuses solely on newborns to 2-year olds. Families must pass stringent screening re-quirements and undergo orientation prior to foster-ing. They care for only one child or sibling group at a time and one stay-at-home parent is required to pro-vide full-time love and care for all babies under 18 months. In addition, the families agree to keep the babies until their perma-nent home is decided by the court, said Murphy.

Foster parents train for eight weeks. Training is in-teractive and includes a pass/fail component. Angels social workers are on call 24 hours a day to Angels foster parents and, as such, no phone call or request is left unattended for more than five-six hours, said Richman.

Angels has been placing children in foster homes for 12 years. “We stay in close touch with many of our families over the years and we are able to monitor the progress of children now up to 12 years old,” Richman

said. Overall, children who

came into placement as in-fants, drug exposed in-utero, with broken bones, severe bruising, or malnourished have developed at normal rates once stabilized with their Angels families. Ap-proximately 50 percent of those children who have been in foster care for a peri-od of 90 days-plus, are ad-opted by their Angels family because reunification efforts with their birth families proved unsuccessful, said Richman.

“How fortunate these babies are to live with one loving family for the dura-tion of their foster care time, rather than go back into the foster care system and move from family to family,” said Murphy. “Hopefully, one day soon, Angels’ goal of substantially increasing their foster fami-ly base will be realized so that they will never have to turn a child away for lack of foster parents.”

To find out more about the Angels Foster Family Network, visit www.angels-foster.org

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Are All Real Estate Statistics Created Equal?If everyone is pulling the same initial dataset from the Multiple Listing Service for a given area and time period, how could there be differences between a report coming from Realtor A and another coming from Realtor B? Surprisingly, there can be significant differences, even with basic statistics like Market Time, Sales/Original Listing Price, Number of New Listings, Median Price, etc.

Most reports floating around are prepared by a real estate company’s corporate office or a service provider, and then distributed to realtors. Very few realtors create their own reports from raw data, like I have been doing for the past decade. While this does take time, it also allows one to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the data and reports, as well as market nuances not found in generically prepared area reports.

Recently, I received such a report in the mail and was curious to compare its numbers to mine. One statistic after another differed. Immediately, I realized their numbers were different because they had not cleaned their raw data before creating their statistics. Then it struck me; readers were gambling on the accuracy of data without knowing. For example, after pulling raw data from the Multiple Listing Service, there could be one listing with an original listing price of $3,500,000 January 1, 2011 that expired six months later on June 30, 2011. There could also be another listing with an original listing price of $3,200,000 July 1, 2011 that sold for $3,000,000 two months later on August 31, 2011. However, unless one looks to see that this was the same property that was originally listed on January 1, 2011, then re-listed on July 1, 2011, the statistics created from this raw data would be bogus.

Let’s see how many basic real estate statistics are corrupted from not cleaning this single common data integrity issue. First of all, marketing time is underestimated. Instead of calculating the marketing time as 8 months, January 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011, the marketing time would be calculated as 2 months, July 1, 2011 – August 31, 2011. Secondly, any statistic that depends on a correct original listing price, such as “Sales/Original Listing Price”, becomes corrupt. Without cleaning the raw data for this issue, the original listing price appears to be $3,200,000 rather than $3,500,000, creating a Sales/Original Listing Price ratio of 94% ($3,000,000 / $3,200,000) compared to 86% ($3,000,000 / $3,500,000), respectively. Thirdly, one could even argue that something as basic as the number of new listings is over-estimated. After all, if a listing expires and the property is put right back on the market, is that really another new listing?

This is the risk of not properly preparing data before creating statistics. One issue typically affects many statistics. However, even if the data was properly cleansed before the creation of the statistics, some reports can still mislead more than others. For example, there are a lot of reports on Rancho Santa Fe that provide a chart plotting historical median price. This would be acceptable for a homogeneous geographic location, where all the properties were alike, essentially substitutes for one another, but that is not Rancho Santa Fe. Here in Rancho Santa Fe, we have properties ranging from $1,000,000 to well over $10,000,000. This is not a homogeneous market. Rancho Santa Fe is comprised of submarkets with different behaviors, especially in a turbulent economy. It is common to see one submarket’s volume change at a different rate and even direction than another, like an increase in sales in a lower-priced submarket and a decrease in an upper-priced submarket. This will completely skew median price to be nonsensical, yet you will find report-after-report prominently positioning a single median price chart for Rancho Santa Fe, rather than break it up into submarkets.

Lastly, what is a buyer or seller to do with a report full of supposedly accurate statistics? How do they relate to one another? What are they collectively saying? This is the real challenge. Often one will find contradictory statistics. How do they reconcile to tell the true story? Without piecing the puzzle together, the report is no more than trivia. Yet, to piece the puzzle together, one often has to take a deep dive into the data to answer specific more-focused questions. This is where canned reports more often than not fail. There is no way to go under the hood to answer those deeper questions.

There used to be a time when Rancho Santa Fe real estate was as simple as intimately knowing the inventory and clients’ needs. Today that is not enough. Today, buyers and sellers are also demanding to understand market behavior and performance. There is no way to understand the market without robust, reliable reports and the assistance to take them apart to answer deeper questions that are unique to particular clients.


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This year the Rancho Santa Fe Educa-tion Foundation has committed to raising $1,000,000 to fulfill our grant to the school to support the budget of the Rancho Santa Fe School, which allows for an enriched pub-lic education experience that is among the best in the country with small class sizes av-eraging 18, specialized teachers (61 percent of teachers have advanced degrees), a litera-cy excellence program from Columbia Uni-versity for reading and writing, integrated science and differentiated math programs.

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Education program, but it takes the support of all parents to maintain the effort. Parents are asked to contribute to the best of their ability, keeping in mind that the “Fair Share” cost per child is $1,497 ($1 million divided by 668 students). Families that contribute at the higher Cap & Gown and Scholar’s Circle levels receive special recognition.

Red Envelope Friday, Sept. 30 – Partic-ipation Counts!

It is strongly encouraged that everyone contribute, or pledge to contribute, on or be-fore Red Envelope Friday. 100 percent partic-ipation among school families is necessary to maintain this world-class education in the current climate of cuts to state and local edu-cation funding, and encourages community and corporate donations. On Sept. 30, Red Envelope Friday, volunteers will be at drop off and pick up collecting pledge forms and contributions. Also, parents will notice red boxes at the office and around campus where they can drop their contributions. Five-Star Education Programs are in place for 2011/12 and the funds are due immediately to cover their costs – please contribute to-day!

Contribution RecognitionAll contributions are tax-deductible, re-

ceive car window stickers and a student di-rectory. As well, the first “Thank you con-tributing families, teachers, staff and com-munity partners” list will be published and distributed to all families shortly after Red Envelope Friday, recognizing all those who have contributed.

There will be no matching funds this year so don’t wait to contribute. “What is the difference?” The answer is the Education Foundation’s tagline, “The difference is YOU.”

For more information about Red Enve-lope Friday or to make a contribution, con-tact the RSF Education Foundation at (858) 756-1141 x208. You can also go to the Edu-cation Foundation’s website at www.rsfef.org and download contribution forms online.

RSF Education Foundation contribution campaign is celebrated with Red Envelope Friday Sept. 30

RSF Rotary Club welcomes new members, donates funds

(Top left) RSF Rotary Club Past President Patrick Galvin presents a check to RSF School District Superintendent Lindy Delaney. The check was proceeds from the RSF Rotary Rummage Sale, which benefitted the school, RSF Community Center, RSF Garden Club and RSF Rotary Club; (Top right) New RSF Rotary Club member Erin Weidner, executive director of the RSF Community Center (left), with membership chair Katie Hawkes (right). (Bottom) Alan Balfour, RSF Rotary Club president, with new member Elie Feghal and membership chair Katie Hawkes.

Photos courtesy of Brad Britton

Jewish Learning Institute opening new branch in RSF After months of planning, Rancho San-

ta Fe is finally on the map of premier Jewish learning. Beginning this fall, the Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) opens a new branch in RSF, which brings the total number of JLI locations to over 350 worldwide.

The JLI is the first international educa-tional institution to present traditional Juda-ism in a professional, innovative, academi-cally challenging-yet-accessible format. The JLI was created to address the need of Jewish adults for in-depth Jewish knowledge. Au-thorities on each subject have organized the curriculum and teaching materials for each course.

JLI’s mission is to remain the world’s pre-eminent institute for adult

Jewish learning. “The Jewish Learning Institute allows you to explore basic Jewish ideas, to share critical analysis and intensive discussion with exciting instructors and classmates,” said [name], chairman of the lo-cal JLI committee.

“At the heart of Jewish culture there has always been Jewish learning — an engaged and vibrant meeting of minds,” explains Rabbi Levi Raskin, the local JLI instructor. “We’re excited to be able to bring this open and interactive learning environment to our community.”

The program begins with Fascinating Facts in November, continues with Money Matters in February 2012 and concludes with The Art of Marriage in May 2012. This sequence is designed to provide a deeper un-derstanding and appreciation of Jewish thought, heritage, and tradition, and en-ables students to achieve basic Jewish litera-

cy as well as an understanding of cardinal Jewish beliefs and observances.

Fascinating Facts: Exploring the Myths and Mysteries of Judaism, provides a com-prehensive overview of Jewish heritage to promote a Jewish cultural literacy. Fascinat-ing Facts guarantees to enlighten even the most seasoned trivia buff with a treasure trove of “Who knew?” Jewish factoids. The course answers questions on the Jewish view on Satan, the evil eye, whether angels have wings, and why pork is considered the quintessential non-kosher food. Fascinating Facts spans a wide range of intriguing sub-jects including Jewish myths and urban leg-ends, biblical events and stories, Jewish foods, the Hebrew language, Jewish life cycle events, and mysteries of the occult. The course will be held on six consecutive Mon-days at 7 p.m., beginning Nov. 14, at the Chabad Jewish Center of RSF 5690 Cancha de Golf RSF, 92091. The course fee is $99 and includes textbooks and refreshments.

Importantly, Fascinating Facts is de-signed for people at all levels of Jewish knowledge, and participants don’t have to have any prior experience or background in Jewish learning to attend and enjoy this course. All JLI courses are open to the entire community, and people do not need to be a member of any particular synagogue or tem-ple in order to attend. Local community members are welcome to register for the course and sample the first lesson free of charge, with no obligation to continue fur-ther. You can register on line at Jewishrsf.com or call 858-756-7571.

Kids Korps/Teen Korps, Rancho Santa Fe will hold an infor-mative coffee on Monday, Sept. 26, at 9:15 a.m. in the Perform-ing Arts Center at Rancho Sante Fe School.

Since 1995, Kids Korps’ & Teen Korps’ mission has been to instill in youth the spirit of giving while providing valuable ed-ucation in leadership and responsibility.

Kids Korps provides children 5 through 12, and teens 13 though 18 with the training, support, guidance and access to more than 1,300 unique projects serving the needs of more than 350 non-profit organizations throughout San Diego.

Kids Korps works in all areas of community service from helping to preserve the environment, supporting senior citi-zens, honoring the military, homeless shelters, animal shelters, the underprivileged, and the community.

Best of all, it’s fun and rewarding! Questions? Contact Dana Knees, RSF chapter president, 858-832-1702, [email protected],

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Vanessa Pius, a 16-year-old junior fashion maven from Torrey Pines High School, is putting her passion for fashion and publishing on display with her very own magazine HABIT. HABIT’s first issue hit Torrey Pines on Wednesday, Sept. 21, and Vanessa aims to put out five issues a year on campus and to outside subscrib-ers.

“We want to branch out of Torrey Pines, too, because it’s too unique and cool a product to keep to ourselves,” Pius said of her hopes to get schools like Canyon Crest Academy and La Jolla High involved. “It’s a professional magazine run in the same way on a much smaller scale as any other publi-cation. As difficult as it is, it’s a wonderful opportunity for me and everyone that gets to work on it.”

Vanessa started taking more of an in-terest in fashion in her freshman year of high school. Her personal style developed by taking inspiration from the trends she saw around her and putting her own spin on them.

“It’s about trends but working the trends so that you’re not looking like every-one else. You’re in style but you’re not a carbon copy, you bring your own personali-ty to the trend,” Vanessa said.

Her fall must-haves include midi-length skirts, muted animal print and the red pant.

After joining the staff of the school newspaper, The Falconer, as a freshman, she became absorbed in learning every-thing there was to know about publishing. She decided to strike out on her own with HABIT last December — a sample issue went out at the end of May and received a good response from her peers.

Realizing she couldn’t do all the work on her own, Vanessa set to work building her staff and contributors, even casting for young models.

“I held interviews because I have in-credibly high standards and I found a cou-ple really cool girls and one cool boy,” Van-essa said.

The magazine is heavy on photo spreads because her sample issue received the most reaction from them. “We have re-

ally beautiful spreads,” she said, noting one is Halloween-themed with splashes of “very in” leopard print.

The September/October issue also in-cludes some pieces on beauty and a feature on luxury movie theaters.

Most of the clothing is loaned or do-nated by local boutiques — La Femme Chic in Solana Beach has been especially sup-portive. The store donated some fabulous Gucci boots (“We wouldn’t see those in our budget for 20 years,” Vanessa said) and even played host for a HABIT launch party on Sept. 22.

While it is challenging managing fel-low busy students and making sure all deadlines are met, Vanessa is having a great time,

“I absolutely love it; it’s like having two full-time jobs,” Vanessa said, noting that school always comes first, “It’s like having a constant project to do, working on something different every day and it all comes together to create a really beautiful magazine.”

Learn more about HABIT on Vanessa’s blog at habitmag.blogspot.com or face-book.com/HABIT-Magazine

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RSF Library Guild to present Fall Author Talk SeriesThe RSF Library Guild will hold its Fall Author Talk Series at a private residence. The events include author presentation, question and answer session, cocktails and

hors d’oeuvres. The first event will be held on Friday, Sept. 23, at 6 p.m. with author Shilpi Somaya Gowda, who will present her #1 bestseller “Secret Daughter.”

The second event will be held on Friday, Oct. 14, at 6 p.m. with writer and producer Da-vid Prybil, who will present his novel “Golden State.”

$25 donation includes signed copy of the author’s book.To make a reservation (and receive the event address), contact the guild office at 858-

756-4780 or email: [email protected].

Del Mar ‘Taste and Art Stroll’ is Oct. 2Del Mar Village Association, with support

of the City of Del Mar, is presenting the annu-al Taste & Art Stroll in Del Mar. Held this year on Sunday, Oct. 2, the event takes place along Camino Del Mar/Pacific Coast Highway 101 starting at 15th Street in downtown Del Mar.

The Free Art Stroll opens at 10 a.m. where talented, local and regional juried art-ists exhibit their work until 5 p.m. Live musi-cal entertainment is heard throughout the

day, along with kids activities and a pet stroll. During the afternoon, between 1 p.m.

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New members join RSF Unit of Rady Children’s Hospital Auxiliary

Jenn Phillips, Ally Wise, Gloria Morl, Jan Wehlage, Cindy Leonard

The Rancho Santa Fe Unit of Rady Children’s Hos-pital Auxiliary held their prospective new member luncheon last week at the home of Unit Vice- Chair Sandra Den Uijl. Eighteen current members hosted 11 prospective members to meet and learn about the auxiliary’s mission and aux-iliary-wide fundraising events.

Current members in-troduced themselves and spoke about in-unit fund-raisers. Membership Chair, Ally Wise put the event to-gether and warmly wel-comed the prospective members with her efferves-cent spirit. Alex Coe spoke about the hospital’s center activities, Unit Chair Cindy Leonard gave an overview of the Auxiliary and the RSF Unit and Unit Member Kathy Flather gave testimo-ny of her personal experi-ence with the Hospital and the RSF Unit. Shaunna Kahn, 2012 Ways and Means Chair, gave an up-date on the Unit’s primary

Morgan Run Club & Resort to host a San Dieguito Wetlands Restoration Project Forum

Morgan Run Club & Re-sort will host a complimen-tary Knowledge Seekers Fo-rum on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. This month Jim Nelson, president, trea-surer & museum curator for the Solana Beach Civic & Historical Society, will be discussing the San Dieguito Wetlands Restoration Proj-ect. Nelson will be review-

ing the early history of the area, trace the destruction of the wetlands, and review the $86 million restoration project currently nearing completion. The San Diegui-to Wetlands Restoration Project is now near comple-tion and will restore 150 acres of coastal wetlands in the San Dieguito River Val-ley. The restorations main

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fundraising event, Stand Up for Rady Children’s Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, which will be held on March 3, 2012.

Unit Member Tiffany Catledge said, “The meeting was very well received and all 11 of the prospective members have signed up to join the Unit — a record 100 percent.”

A new member orientation will be held at 10 a.m. on Oct. 6 at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club. The Unit, which now has 52 active members, held its first general meeting Sept. 15 at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club (see page B1).

For more information about Rady Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, visit the hospital’s Web site at helpsdkids.org

Ranch Clubhouse Connection: Enjoy Bavarian cuisine, Beer Garden at Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest comes to the Ranch Club-house on Saturday, Oct. 1. The festival will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Included in the festival is a Beer Garden with hosted beer and wine from 6 to 7 p.m. Starting at 7 p.m. enjoy a buffet of classic Bavarian cui-sine, including such items as assorted Ger-man sausage, traditional pretzels with cheese dip, cold cut platters, wienerschinit-zel, zwiebelrostbraten (sirloin with onions) and for dessert, traditional apple strudel. Music by the Bavarian Beergarden Band and dancing will highlight the celebration until 10 p.m. Cost is $40 per person plus service and tax. Members and guests must be 21 years of age to attend.

Join your friends and neighbors for the complimentary monthly wine tasting, Fri-day, Sept. 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring wines from Chambers and Chambers Wine Merchants. Come and taste La Follette So-

noma Coast Pinot Noir, Chappellet Moun-tain Cuvee, Lynmar Russian River Chardon-nay, Easton Zinfandel and Plancornello Ros-so di Montalcino.

After the wine tasting, stay and enjoy dinner at the clubhouse. In addition to the regular dinner menu, the Friday night spe-cial is Veal Scaloppini.

The holidays are fast approaching. It is time to book your holiday parties at the clubhouse. For more information, please contact Special Events Director Tamara Ken-ny at 858-756-1182.

Covenant members can go the club-house web site to review or download the complete selection of menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner at www.rsfgolfclub.com. For assistance with login and password in-formation or to make reservations, please contact Bobbi Ferraro or Shanon McCarthy at 756-1182.


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Energetic director discusses reimagined ‘Odyssey’Q. “Odyssey” is part of the

Globe’s Southeastern San Diego Residency Project. How did it originate?

A: I had a commission to create a piece for The Globe so several years ago I came to San Diego to meet as many different San Diegans as possible. Then Todd and I started working on the idea. He wrote the music and lyrics, and we imagined this ideal version of “what ifs” – we had the Valhalla High School Percussion Ensemble or 30 children from San Diego Jr. Theatre come running out from the floor, or Culture Shock San Diego to perform, St. Stephen’s Church Choir to sing and be the voice of Athena, or the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory to score a dream ballet of Odysseus’ homecom-ing?

At one point Todd and I looked at each other like, really? Every outlandish thing we thought of we got, and we’re so happy the groups said yes.

Q. The cast features 200 people. How do you pull that off?

A: This is the largest cast I’ve ever worked with, but once it’s

above 50 people it’s the same whether 60 or 300. You have to be organized in the same ways of directing a parade, pageant or the Olympic opening ceremonies. I do have a stage manager team of four who are the most on-top-of teams I’ve ever worked with, but necessary since I need to know very hour what we’re working on.

Q. You worked with Todd before on several shows includ-ing “On the Levee” at the Lin-coln Center. What’s your collab-oration like?

A: There is fluidity between us that makes it possible to do something like this. He’s one of the most talented composers of a new generation of musical the-ater writers, and he has a gener-ous spirit, which this project re-quires in working with all of these people.

Q. “Odyssey” chronicles the trials the ancient Greek hero Od-ysseus faces on his long journey home from the war at Troy. Dis-guised as a beggar he must win back his wife, Penelope, and take revenge on the suitors who have been circling her in his ab-

sence. Why was this the story you chose to tell?

A: I spent 14-hour days talk-ing to people all over San Diego – from Balboa Park, the YMCA, border guards, and people taking tutoring sessions – to ask how they came to make San Diego their home. A recurring theme arose that made me think of the “Odyssey,” one of our great nar-ratives of a journey toward home, or someone trying to rec-oncile with their family.

Q. Does it help that choreog-raphers Tony and Maria Caliga-gan have Globe experience?

A: Yes. In addition to know-ing the space and institution, they have an ease with each oth-er, and with this big of a produc-tion, you need two choreogra-phers.

Q. In addition to communi-ty groups there are professional cast members as well?

A: Yes. Todd and I worked with Shelly Thomas (Penelope/Circe) before in “On The Levee.” Todd knew Alvin Crawford from Julliard and thought he would be the perfect Odysseus. And Todd plays the Singer.

Q. Do you have a favorite

element of the show?A: Every time a new group

comes into the room I feel like I’m falling in love with them. They are all so great, especially since among the 47-core ensem-ble, a lot had never performed a production before. But then we have three female students from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts who blew us away. It will be a terrific event.

If you go:

What: “Odyssey”When: 8 p.m. Sept. 30,

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In celebration of The Old Globe Theatre’s 75th anniversary, director Lear deBessonet and writer Todd Al-

mond will pre-miere a musical theater event, “Odyssey.”

The work reimagines Homer’s epic poem from deBessonet’s conversations with San Die-gans at large. Commissioned by The Globe,

“Odyssey” has a three-day run Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in the Lowell Davies Festi-val Theatre.

DeBessonet is an energetic artist who is no stranger to creating big events. Her resume includes “The Scarlet Letter,” “My Fair Lady,” “Don Quixote,” a community-based collab-oration with a homeless shelter in Philadelphia that was named in “Best Shows of 2009” by Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She was eager to talk about “Odyssey.”

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Every time Torrey Pines High School junior Harrison Schneider walked down the street to babysit Henry Reif, 9, he knew he could expect several things: nerf gun wars, hide and seek games and animated movies. That much was certain. What Schneider didn’t see coming was the heartwarming rela-tionship that Henry would soon lead him to – and the fundraising crusade that would help Henry battle a life-threatening illness.

In March, Henry’s mother, Tracy Spiegel, took him to Rady Children’s Hos-pital to get his tonsils re-moved. The procedure went flawlessly and as they left the doctor gave him the standard medical warnings and reminded him to eat a lot of ice cream.

But it wasn’t until six days later that Henry began to cough up excessive amounts of blood. He was rushed to the Emergency Room, and was immediately taken into surgery to stop the bleeding. After the sur-gery, he was brought to Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children’s Hospital, where care is provided by the He-matology/Oncology Divi-sion of Rady Children’s Spe-cialists of San Diego. He spent the night at the hospi-tal, undergoing several blood tests. Within three weeks, Henry was diagnosed with type B hemophilia.

Lacking the ninth blood-clotting factor, hemo-philia hinders Henry’s body’s ability to clot blood properly, making every inju-ry a life-threatening emer-gency in which he must be rushed to the hospital to be monitored for internal bleeding. Because only 3,300 people have type B hemo-philia in America, the factor medicine is not supplied at most hospitals and Henry’s mom, Tracy Spiegel, must keep at least three doses on hand, each costing $5,000.

“Even when I’m not bab-ysitting Henry, we still hang out all the time. Our families are closely intertwined. Our fathers work together and our mothers workout together,”

said Harrison. “Since his diag-nosis, we have still been able to pass the football around and go swimming. But it’s sad to know he won’t be able to play flag football or lacrosse like he planned on doing be-fore.”

By April, Spiegel had begun crafting the basis of what would soon become “Henry’s Fund,” a Miracle Maker Fund affiliated with Rady Children’s Hospital and dedicated to finding a cure to the disorder and aid-ing families who cannot af-ford the factor medication. In need of a partner, Spiegel approached neighbor, baby-sitter and trusted family friend, Harrison, and asked him if he would like to get involved with the founda-tion. Without hesitation, Harrison accepted.

“Since it’s not as preva-lent of a disorder as others, it’s the job of the family and friends of the person to come together and do some-thing, instead of waiting for some corporate company to step in,” Harrison said.

This summer, when Harrison wasn’t at crew practice or SAT training, he was going door-to-door in his neighborhood, The Bridges in Rancho Santa Fe, asking for donations. He also worked with Spiegel to develop a tagline, logo and fundraising plan.

Henry, who Harrison describes as mature beyond his years, has also played a key role in the fund and its success. During a communi-ty meeting at the Children’s School in La Jolla, Henry got up in front of his entire school, explained his condi-tion and asked students to join his cause. Additionally, he came up with the idea of donating video games carts and specially-designed Wii programs to the Peckham Center at Rady Children’s Hospital.

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only officially began in June, they have already raised $125,000. The bound-less support they have re-ceived from family and friends has confirmed their tag line: “Caring is in our blood.”

Together, Henry and Harrison are currently work-ing on their biggest fund-raiser yet: The Shamu and You Family Walk at Sea-World for Rady Children’s Hospital on Oct. 1. Recently, Henry and Harrison have been recruiting friends to walk in the event and asking neighbors to sponsor them. So far, Henry’s Fund has raised $10,587 solely for the event. The 68-member team has its own name too: Hen-ry’s Hemophiliacs.

Eventually, Spiegel and Harrison would like to be able to hire a fellow — a medical doctor who will be sponsored to study hemo-philia. Henry’s Fund is vacil-lating between two subjects of potential study. The fel-low’s research will either be focused on performing stem cell therapy to find a cure or making the doses of factor more affordable by finding a way to make injections last for five days, rather than only one.

Although this goal still awaits in the future, Harri-son and Henry are keeping busy with the many current plans they have together.

“One thing we will be doing is speaking together at the Rady Children’s Hospital gala fundraiser. We will be speaking about all the fun times we’ve had together and also what Henry has gone through. I know it will be a good experience and hopeful-ly it will bring in some dona-tions,” Harrison said.

To donate, find out more or participate in the Shamu and You Family Walk, email Harrison at [email protected].

TPHS junior helps raise $125K for Henry’s FundCommunity encouraged to participate in SeaWorld event

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The RSF Community Center/Wells Fargo Back-To-School-Bash/Carnival was held Sept. 16. The event included favorite carnival games from last year, bouncy houses, games for the older kids and more. Later that evening, a Community Center/Wells Fargo family Movie Night was held at The Inn at RSF. Photos/Jon Clark

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understanding that it’s a very expensive process.

He is also interested in supporting the retail com-munity.

“The rents are high and I don’t think the communi-ty really supports the retail businesses here,” Callahan said.

Callahan’s goals appear to be in line with board president Queen, as he has made an effort this year to bring local business owners to Association meetings to introduce them to the com-munity and also hear about their concerns about operat-ing in the Ranch and how the Association may be able to help.

Callahan will be sworn in at the Association’s Thurs-day, Oct. 6, board meeting.

nity,” Callahan said. “I have to stay busy so this is a good change, to do something for the community. Like any-thing I do I would like to come in and try to learn what’s going on and make decisions based on some knowledge.”

Callahan is a 17-year Covenant resident, although he’s lived in the area for 24 years—he spent the other seven years in Fairbanks Ranch. A New York City na-tive, he moved to San Diego from Connecticut.

“The area attracted me because it is a lot like Con-necticut, very rural, great schools and a little commu-nity with a lot of communi-ty feel,” Callahan said. “It’s a great place to live.”

By serving on the board he hopes to keep it that way, although he admitted that the more turbulent years ap-pear to be behind them and few controversial issues face the board currently.

Callahan said he is very interested in the under-grounding issues in the Ranch and would like to ob-tain more information about the subject and see how the Association might help get some of it done,

Association director Larry Spitcaufsky also expressed concern about the alloca-tion, although he voted in favor of it.

“We now know we have 3 percent less income so we’re spending money we don’t have. We keep doing this every meeting,” said Spitcaufsky, who at the Sept. 1 meeting voted against a $48,000 contri-

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bution toward Osuna Ranch repairs because he had con-cerns about the warranty and unknown maintenance costs.

Spitcaufsky was con-cerned that the Association may be digging itself into a financial hole but board president Jack Queen said that is not an issue: “We don’t have a cash problem,” he said of the Association’s free reserves.

While Queen agreed that the Association’s contri-bution to the cost of the Golf and Tennis Club’s park-ing lot repair was the neigh-borly thing to do, he did note that the contribution set a precedent he was not entirely comfortable with.

However, Irvine reas-sured the board that, “I wor-ry about setting a precedent, too, and I doubt that we’ll be back real soon.”

ter will be available for the San Diego region if a disaster or other event interrupts im-ported water deliveries.

The Lake Hodges proj-ect connects the city of San Diego’s Lake Hodges to the Water Authority’s Oliven-hain Reservoir and the re-

gional water distribution system for the first time. Previously, Lake Hodges water was available only to local customers of the San-ta Fe Irrigation District and San Dieguito Water District.

The connection, via an underground pipeline, will make 20,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Hodges available for emergency use around the county. An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, or enough to supply two average single-family households of four people for a year. The project enables the Water Authority to add imported water to Lake Hodges to provide a more consistent water supply and lake level during dry years. It can also move captured runoff out of Lake Hodges during wet years for storage else-where, reducing the potential for lost water from overflows of the reservoir’s dam. Lake Hodges has the largest watershed of all lakes in the region.

In addition, the project generates hy-droelectric power for the region by sending water from Olivenhain Reservoir through the pump turbines as it flows approximately 770 feet downhill into Lake Hodges. Power is being generated during daylight hours when electricity demand is highest, and wa-ter is pumped back into Olivenhain Reser-voir during off-peak hours when energy costs less.

When both pump turbines are opera-tional, the Lake Hodges facility will have the capacity to generate 40 MW of electricity on demand to help meet the region’s energy needs. The Water Authority expects the sec-ond pump turbine to begin operations in 2012.

“This is a great new asset for the region-al power system,” said Michael R. Niggli, president and chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). “The Lake Hodges project will enhance reliability by

adding capacity and flexibility to SDG&E’s system, allowing us to better manage power supplies during periods of peak electrical de-mand. This project also represents a ‘win-win’ for both water and electricity customers in the greater San Diego area by providing needed energy and water supply infrastruc-ture at a lower cost than if two projects were to be built to meet those needs separately.”

The entire Lake Hodges project consists of the 1.25-mile pipeline tunnel connecting Lake Hodges and Olivenhain Reservoir, a pump station, an electrical switchyard, an inlet-outlet structure under the surface of Lake Hodges, and modifications to the pump station to enable hydroelectricity gen-eration. The pump station facility is built mostly underground near the shore of Lake Hodges and contains vertical space equiva-lent to a 10-story office building.

The emergency water storage benefits from the Lake Hodges Project will be real-ized once the Water Authority finishes an-other key element of the Emergency Storage Project – the San Vicente Dam Raise project in Lakeside. The dam raise project, the larg-est such project in the United States, will raise the current dam by 117 feet to more than double the capacity of the city of San Diego’s San Vicente Reservoir. It will pro-vide an additional 52,100 acre-feet of re-gional emergency water storage capacity and up to 100,000 acre-feet of carryover storage – water stored in wet years for subsequent use in dry years. Construction is under way with completion expected in 2013.

More information on the Lake Hodges Project and the Emergency Storage Project is available at www.sdcwa.org/lake-hodges-projects and www.sdcwa.org/emergency-storage-project.

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Community Center program coordinator Michelle Fallon, Natalie Durket, Community Center program director Christie McGonagle

Craig McAllister, RSF Tennis Club Co-Director Dophie Poiset, Alan Balfour, Tennis Club pro Derek Miller

Valerie Mott, Community Center office manager Linda Durket

Tamara Kenny and Scott Johnson from the RSF Golf Club

Entertainment was provided by Jesse Johnson (www.Jessejohnsononline.com)

Stephanie Trily, Gretchen Kyle

Bill Milligan, Rancho Santa Fe Association Manager Pete Smith

Paul Brown and Jonathan Collopy from Toastmasters

Deborah Moceri and Madison of Helen Woodward Animal Center

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Rotary and more than a dozen Rancho Santa

Fe organizations and nonprofits gathered for a “Meet & Greet” Community Con-nection on Sept. 14. The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe provided appetizers.

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Marci Cavanaugh, Suzanne Newman and Yvette Letourneau from Country Friends

Don Meredith, Camille Zeleny, Rotary President Alan Balfour, Bridget McDonaldProgram Chair Mary Pierson and President Helen Dizio of the RSF Garden Club

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The Rancho Santa Fe Unit of Rady Children’s Hospital Auxiliary held its kickoff meeting at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club Sept. 15.

“We have a dynamic group of women this year with 12 new enthusi-astic members all dedicated to the well-being of the hospital. It’s going to be a very exciting year.” said Cindy Leonard, unit chair of RCHA-RSF.

Unit treasurer Sandra den Uijl talked about the upcoming Tee Up for Rady’s Golf Tournament to be held Oct. 3 at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club. Lesa Thode and Kristen Spector urged members to join them for Kids NewsDay coming up Oct. 25. Kim King, Fantasy Event representative, of-fered details for the Fantasy on Ice event taking place at Horton Plaza in November. For more information about the Auxiliary and the Rancho Santa Fe Unit please visitwww.RCHA-RSF.org. Photos/Rob McKenzie

Rady auxiliary kickoff meeting

Pooneh Hamzei, Roni McGuire

Gloria Morl, Gabriela Stratton

Maureen Sage, Cindy Leonard, Sandra Uijl

Jean Rudman, Kely Baldwin

Kathy Flather, Beth McCain

Cindy Leonard

Shaunna Kahn, Tiffany Catledge, Catherine Fox

Heidi King, Judy Ohrn-Hicks

John Phillips, Diane Dale, Michele Stephens.

Deana Ingalls, Tina Bennett

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BY WILL BOWENContributor

The third annual La Jolla Art and Wine Festival (LJAWF) will be held in the middle of Girard Street, from Pearl to Genter, on the weekend of Oct. 1-2. The 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. event is being directed by Joseph Lillis for the second year. Lillis is known for his triumphant handling of the Sausalito Art Festival in the Bay Area.

Lillis reports there will be 150 artist booths set up under white tents arranged in a zigzag pattern on Gi-rard. At the end of artists’ row, there will be a stage for music with different groups performing jazz, folk, gypsy, blues, and surf rock on the hour each day of the event. Beyond the stage, there will be a large picnic-style beer and wine garden for sam-pling fine wines and great tasting beers.

On the east side of the Girard, a gourmet food court will spring up. On the west side, Geppetto’s Family Art Center is planned, where kids will be able to splash paint over everything — includ-ing a donated car!

All proceeds from the

festival will go to La Jolla, Bird Rock, and Torrey Pines Elementary Schools — to support the art, mu-sic, and science programs on the budget-chopping block.

Lillis is optimistic about the future of LJAWF, too.

“Sausalito and La Jolla have a lot in common. Both are situated on the

water in a beautiful set-ting. There are many art-minded people here, as in Sausalito, and I think we can build this festival into a Top 10 event,” he said.

Lillis explained that he upped the quality of the art at LJAWF and brought in a nationally recognized panel of jurors who selected a very high level of works “to attract

greater interest.” “I promise that you

are going to see some very unique things — things you never expected to see. We were able to get top-notch artists to attend be-cause they know they can sell well at my events. In Sausalito, some of the sculptors were making up-ward of $100,000 in the three-day event.”

Lillis has a background in musical theater and puts on his art events like they were a Broadway show.

“It’s just like producing a show for the stage,” he laughed. “The artists are the cast for the festival, much like the actors are for the theater. The sets are the booths and tents, and the focus is on entertainment.

“And we are also go-ing to make this festival look very good. We are bringing in all the artists’ tents, so everything will be uniformly attractive. We will have set the tents up like a promenade; it’s go-ing to be like strolling up the Champs-Élysées in Par-is.”

How ‘Merlot’ can you go? La Jolla’s Art & Wine Festival will show!

If you goWhat: 2011 La Jolla Art & Wine FestivalWhen: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sun-day, Oct. 1-2 Where: Girard Avenue, Pearl to Genter StreetsWho: 130 regional and national artists, 14 musi-cal acts, dozens of vint-ners and food vendorsWhy: Since launching in 2009, the LJAWF has raised more than $40,000 per year for La Jolla’s elementary schoolsAdmission: $10; se-niors (65+), military, kids $5; age 2 and un-der, free. Note: The event re-places the Open Aire Market Sunday, Oct. 2 Website: LJAWF.org

The 2010 La Jolla Art and Wine Festival

Jimi HendrixImage from 2010 festival

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FEATURING JURIED FINE ARTISTS, A WINE & BEER GARDEN PRESENTED BY BBC, LIVE MUSIC ON THE NIGHT & DAY STAGE, A GOURMET MARKETPLACE, A SILENT AUCTION, AND THE GEPPETTO’S FAMILY ART CENTER. ADULTS: $10 | KIDS 12 & UNDER, MILITARY & SENIORS: $5 | KIDS 2 & UNDER: FREEFOR MORE INFO WWW.LJAWF.ORG

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT SUPPORTOUR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS:

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CHECK OUT WHAT'S HAPPENINGHerb Alpert & Lani HallFriday, November 18 at 8 p.m.

Balboa TheatreTickets: $77, $57, $27

Herb Alpert is one of this generation’s true Renaissance men. The eight-time Grammy® Award winning trumpeter will be joined by his wife for an evening of Bossa Nova and hits from the American Song Book.

(858) 459-3728www.LJMS.org

The Most Beautiful Museums of EuropeThursdays at 7:30 p.m.9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13

Art historian James W. Grebl, Ph.D. will explore the remarkable history, splendid architecture and amazing collections of Europe's preeminent art museums in a series of four richly illustrated lectures. For complete series information, visit us at www.ljathenaeum.org/lectures.

Series: $40/60Single lecture: $12/17(858) 454-5872ljathenaeum.org

“A Must See!” - LA TimesMILK LIKE SUGAR

Must Close This Sunday

Like all teenagers, 16-year-old Annie and her friends crave the hottest designer phones, handbags and fashion. But their prospects for the good life seem limited in the dead-end town they call home. When the girls decide to create their own future by entering into a pregnancy pact, Annie is confronted with the challenge of choosing between the safety of the life she knows and the danger of the life she desires.

Contains strong language and adult content.

(858) 550-1010LaJollaPlayhouse.org

Teacher Open HouseSept. 28: 5-7 p.m.

Be our guests as you are introduced to the world beneath the sea and the resources available to you through Birch Aquarium at Scripps. Enjoy presentations about the aquarium’s school programs, take a behind-the-scenes tour, meet the education staff, win fabulous prizes, and more!

RSVP Required: 858-534-7336 or at aquarium.ucsd.edu

FREE: Pre-K to Grade 12 teachers


Water is a basic necessi-ty in life, yet, according to the Wine To Water organiza-tion, nearly one billion peo-ple in the world today lack access to adequate water, 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, and waterborne illnesses kill more people than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. This stunning fact motivated Doc Hendley – a “Top Ten CNN Hero” in 2009 and founder and president of the organi-zation — into action.“We are devoted to fighting this epidemic,” he affirmed.

On Saturday, Oct. 15, BRAVA Creative will host a free wine-tasting and catered fundraiser at Coast Photog-raphy on South Cedros Ave. in Solana Beach to benefit Wine To Water, a non-profit aid organization that pro-vides sustainable water sys-tems to needy people around the world.

Hendley will be at the event to tell his story and explain to those present how charitable donations fund water treatment proj-ects in developing countries like Sudan, India, Cambo-dia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Haiti and elsewhere.

Making guest appear-ances are Lt. Col. Jay Kopel-man (Ret. U.S. Marine Corps), author of “From Baghdad, With Love: A Ma-rine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava”and a former NBC military analyst; Chef Jeff, caterer and personal chef and founder at Taste Culinary; and Downtown Rob, ambassador of Down-town San Diego, who will serve as guest bartender for the evening.

A former bartender in Raleigh, NC, Hendley re-called how the name of the organization and the con-cept came to him before he even knew about clean wa-ter issues. In December 2003, while he visited his parents in their North Caro-lina mountain retreat, a per-sistent phrase, “wine to wa-ter,” kept going over and over in his mind. And as the phrase was backward from

the title of the familiar Bibli-cal story where water was turned into wine, it caught his imagination.

While thinking more in-depth about that phrase, Hendley considered if there were any issues with water and researched it online. “I was completely shocked to find out that more children die from unclean water than anything else in the world. I was more shocked that I had never heard about it and neither had any of my friends.” The movement was thus born.

In 2008, the economic downturn coincided with Hendley’s 1-year-old child suffering serious health is-sues. The organization strug-

gled to survive. Then in Feb-ruary 2009, Hendley was sur-prised to get a call from CNN when he found out that he had been nominated for rec-ognition as a CNN hero, one of over 9,000 nominees from 120 countries.

A bartending colleague had put forward the nomina-tion when she witnessed Hendley leave everything be-hind in the USA and move to Darfur, putting himself in harm’s way to start the orga-nization in early 2004. A ce-lebrity panel of judges chose Hendley as one of the Top Ten CNN Heroes from a short list of 30 finalists.

“It was such a relief and brought the organization to another level,” said Hendley. “From there a storm of good things happened,” he add-

ed. When he secured a book deal to write his story, which will be released by Penguin Books on Jan. 5, 2012, the advance helped Hendley pay off some of the debt in-curred through his child’s illness. And the award gave greater visibility to his orga-nization.

The free Wine To Water event will include opportu-nity drawings with items do-nated from Microsoft Corp, a portrait session and fine art print from award-win-ning photographer Kevin M. Connors, plus the chance to spend a day with a Navy SEAL, and more.

It is anticipated that around 200 people will at-tend the wine-tasting event. It is hoped that $10,000 will be raised through individual

donations and purchase of raffle tickets which cost $10 each or $40 for five for prize drawings. “Wine symbolizes fortune in our society,” said Hendley. “Our goal is to give the fortunate population an opportunity to fight for those who can’t fight for themselves.”

The event is on Satur-day, Oct. 15, from 6 p.m.-10 p.m., and will take place at Coast Highway Photogra-phy, 415 S. Cedros Avenue, Solana Beach. This is a free event but tax deductible do-nations are welcome. Visit http://winetowater.charity-happenings.org/ to RSVP, for more information, and to purchase raffle tickets. Log onto http://winetowater.org/ to find out more about the organization.

Fundraiser to benefit ‘Wine To Water’ organizationGroup helps get sustainable water systems to those in need

Doc Hendley PHOTO: PAUL SHERAR

Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Women’s Symposium to be held Oct. 1Attend the inaugural Women’s Symposium to kick-off Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

A day inspired by women for women that goes beyond awareness to help you be better in-formed and more proactive about your health, wealth, and overall well-being.

The program includes: Dynamic and engaging speakers sure to leave a lasting impres-sion; Workshops providing practical lessons in health, wealth and emergency preparedness; Opportunities for networking, socializing, and relationship building.

It will take place at the Del Mar Marriott on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., cocktail hour to follow, and will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure, San Diego.

For more information or to purchase tickets visit: www.hoylecohen.com/womens-sym-posium.


BY KELLEY CARLSON

One of North County’s newest restaurants, Burlap, appears to be cut from a different cloth. Opened in July by celebrity chef

Brian Malarkey and James Brennan — who also collaborated on Searsucker in downtown San Diego — the social dining establishment carries an “Asian Cowboy” motif.

“Worldly, rugged, adventurous … that’s what I wanted to convey,” Malarkey said.

Thomas Schoos designed the 9,000-square-foot space (formerly the home of Wherehouse Music in the Del Mar Highlands Town Center) with items from China, Thailand, South Africa, India, The Philippines, Japan and Brazil. There are water buffalo skulls, Pakistani rugs, 200-year-old metal dragons, taxidermic specimens, a saddle, and oriental-patterned and animal-print cushions found throughout the restaurant; the establishment’s namesake “burlap” fabric is paneled on some of the interior walls.

Authentic Chinese “Lion Dance” masks hang over the indoor bar, while the outdoor counterpart is inlaid with a dark brown, hand-carved, 19th century Indonesian wall.

Outside, patrons can lounge in chairs around a fire pit or dine at a table, and watch koi glide through a pond full of lily pads; bamboo surrounds the patio’s exterior.

The lively Burlap is often full of chatter — guests may easily migrate from the lounge to the main dining area, to each of the bars and outdoors. Progressive music played by a DJ can also be heard Thursdays through Saturdays.

A private dining room is available for those seeking more seclusion.

Malarkey noted that food can be eaten anywhere in the establishment. “You can stand up in the corner if you want to,” he said.

Burlap’s motto is where the “West Eats Meat”; the menu is heavy with Asian-influenced protein entrees, many of which contain ingredients such as ginger, soy and pepper. Malarkey’s favorites include the Dungeness Crab, with wasabi cocktail and avocado; Spicy Tuna-Crispy Rice, featuring albacore and spicy caper mayo; Whole “Angry” Snapper, containing serrano, orange, garlic and basil; Garlic Noodles; and Pork Belly with steamed bun, lime hoisin and pickled vege.

Some vegetable options are available, such as Heirloom Tomato & Tofu, Field Greens (strawberry, seven-spice walnuts, goat cheese and plum vinaigrette) and Enoki Mushroom (arugula, smoked soy vinaigrette).

“Completely kid-friendly” for lunch and early dinner Sunday through Wednesday, Burlap does not offer a children’s menu, according to Malarkey. However, the restaurant

will prepare items like french fries, chicken satay and rice, for the youngsters.

Malarkey advises grown-ups to come in with friends and “work your way through the menu.” Try something new each time, he suggests, and then hang out in the lounge and order a mixed cocktail. Burlap’s signature drinks include the Shanghai Mule, made with Ty Ku sake, ginger beer, fresh lime juice and house-made Chinese five spice bitters; and the flaming Smoke and Mirrors Cocktail Co. Punch, which contains light and dark rums, Velvet Falernum, guava puree and pineapple juice.

Burlap tends to get booked, especially Thursday through Saturday nights, so Malarkey recommends reservations, although walk-ins are welcome to find a seat on a couch.

“There are so many things we offer,” he said. “We’re social, huge, there’s the decorations, the staff is warm and funny, the drinks are amazing. The food is over the top, unusual, fun and exciting. We’re the whole package.”

Burlap■ 12995 El Camino Real, Suite 21, Del Mar Heights■ (858) 369-5700 ■ www.burlapeats.comMenuOn

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■ The Vibe: Social, casual

■ Signature Dishes: Whole Roast Duck, Venison Carpaccio, Spicy Tuna-Crispy Rice

■ Open Since: Summer 2011

■ Reservations: Recommended

■ Patio Seating: Yes

■ Take Out: No■ Happy Hour: No

■ Hours:• Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday• Dinner: 5-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday• Dinner: 5-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday• Brunch: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Burlap offers ‘the whole package’ to diners seeking new sensations

The Chocolate TartPHOTOS BY KELLEY CARLSON

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Jan Burke answers questions in an interview below:

When did you know you were a writer and then when did you actually begin to write?

From about the age of 7. I had been writing poems and stories almost from the time I learned how to use pencil and paper, but that is the clearest age at which I can remember saying to myself that I wanted to be a writ-er. Seriously sitting down to write a novel? That didn’t happen until I was in my late 30s.

How did you find your first agent, and what was the road to the publication of your first book?

First I finished a manuscript. I think a lot of begin-

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ners want to skip that step and go right to the limo ride for an interview on “Good Morning, America.” Once I finished writing and revising the book, I read guidebooks about getting published. This is all pre-World Wide Web, by the way. I tried to learn the names of reputable agents who might represent mysteries, but didn’t really have a lot of luck — not be-cause they weren’t out there, but because I was so inexpe-rienced. Most guides said that if you had any contact with anyone connected to publishing, pursue it.

My father-in-law had been ill, and while he was in the hospital, someone sent him a few advance reading copies of some books. I fig-ured those had to come from someone inside a pub-lishing house. My husband made some phone calls, and learned that the daughter of some friends of my hus-band’s parents worked in ad-vertising at Simon and Schuster. I had never met this woman, and she did not work in the editorial part of the house. But I thought she might work in the same building as the editors, and perhaps she could land

“Goodnight, Irene” on top of the slush pile for me. When my husband and I talked to her, she said she

would be willing to take a look at it and ask editors to rec-ommend agents that represented similar works. So I sent the manuscript to her. When she received it, she started reading the first few pages, got hooked, took it home and finished reading it in one night. She brought it in to work the next day and gave it to the publisher with a glowing recommen-dation. Time passed (he was a busy man), but eventually he read it and liked it, and passed it along to an editor, who called me and offered me a three-book deal.

While the publisher had it, I was frantically looking through writing books for advice on what to do if someone said “yes” to your unsolicited, unagented manuscript. Most of the advice was on how to cope with rejection. I finally found what I was looking for in one of Lawrence Block’s books. If you wanted an agent, and the house was reputable, ask them for a list of agents. I did. I spoke with several of these agents and their clients, as well as editors who worked with them, and I found my agent in this way. Even though I later found other representation, I was much better off with an agent than I would have been on my own. I strongly urge anyone who is not an expert on negotiating literary contracts to work with an agent.

How would you describe your genre, and what drew you to it as a writer?

I write in more than one genre now, but most of my work has been in crime fiction. I was drawn to it because I loved reading mysteries, suspense, and thrillers.

From where do you get the inspiration for your novels?Inspiration for novels and short stories comes from a

wide variety of sources. Often, I find myself responding to a small piece of information that happens to come my way — something I’ve found in the course of research, said by a friend in casual conversation, or a news story. What hap-pens is the mental equivalent of a dog lifting its ears up and tilting its head sideways when it hears a sound it wants to understand. I’ll have moments of hearing something I react to, and I ask myself what I’m reacting to and why.

What are the primary differences between writing stand- alone novels and writing a series?

For me, writing the Irene Kelly series has allowed me to show changes in Irene and other characters in her world — and in her relationships with them. Some of these changes take place over a long period of time. It also allows me to show how the events of one book influence her in another.

It has allowed readers get to know her in ways they rare-ly know the characters of stand-alone novels. A series also allows the writer to build a complex world for that character that may be revealed over many stories. The series has allowed me to throw obstacles in her way that vary more than they could in a single book, to create situations that would never fit together in a single story.

But as a series grows, the world of the characters and who they are becomes more and more defined. Irene cannot suddenly have the background of a CIA co-vert operative. Las Piernas cannot be in England. She cannot be 23 in a year when she has been 39. The stories center around a reporter in a Southern California commu-nity, so it is unlikely that the President of the United States will call her asking for help in chapter 2.

Stand alones allow complete freedom when it comes to characters and the world they live in, as well as the stakes. I could not put Irene in the would Tyler Hawthorne inhabits in “The Messenger,” or even the world of the characters in “Nine.” That freedom can come with its own challeng-es, but I find it keeps things fresh to write outside of the


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The winner of “Best Event in San Diego County” for 2010, this year’s event will again feature live music, danc-ers, stilt theatre walkers, and visual artwork scattered about the CRT. Unlike last year, however, activities will take place along the section of CRT on South Highway 101 that spans from Lomas Santa Fe south to Via de la Valle.

“It will be a fantastic day for art appreciation for the community,” said Carol Beth Rodriguez, a member of the Public Arts Advisory Commis-sion that has overseen and organized the event with the City of Solana Beach. “There will be something for every-one. People will be able to ac-tually experience the arts with their families.”

There will be a mask cre-ation station for children and adults – with all materials provided – headed up by five founding members of the So-lana Beach Arts Association. Children age 10 and under should have an adult with them. And there will be plen-ty of inspiration along the CRT from which to draw, said Rodriguez. Local artists and students have created over 60 hand-crafted masks that will be on exhibit. Some of the masks may be purchased, while most will be part of a si-lent auction along with the Arts Alive hand-painted ban-ners that were hung through-out the city earlier this year. Monies raised go directly to support the city’s public arts programs.

Canyon Crest Academy Dance Troupes will perform three separate dance pieces di-rected by CCA instructor and choreographer Rayna Stohl, who will also perform. The dances will take place on the Rosa Street Bridge and will in-corporate the mask theme that is central to the event.

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Repertory Theatre School, each performing live theater; Rodrigo with his recycled art-work; Solana Beach’s Bruun Boys giant sculptures; the Liv-ing Statue; Patrick Burke and his steel drums; and back by popular demand, the Dragon Knights Stilt Theatre.

The event takes a lot of manpower to organize and stage with many community volunteers involved. Kather-ine Schmiedeberg, a former commissioner on PAAC, and a Solana Beach resident, has a passion for the arts and is an active volunteer in aiding city arts events. She said that preparations for the 2011 Arts Alive on the Coastal Rail Trail began in January of this year. But with plenty of lead time and willing volunteers, all as-pects of the event have come together smoothly, said Schmiedeberg, who did a lot of the behind-the-scenes work to find those volunteers, to design the advertising, and to organize the auction part of the event. “I like to see all the components come to-gether successfully, which they did,” she said.

Activities will take place close to the Rosa Street bridge, which creates a pedes-

trian link to South Cedros Av-enue, increasing foot traffic there. “So people may walk across the bridge and also en-joy going to the farmers’ mar-ket,” said Schmiedeberg.

It is anticipated that the event will be a huge draw for the city and nearby coastal communities. “This is a unique, exciting event,” said Rodriguez. “And wonderful to experience things that you don’t normally see, all at once.”

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Chef Timothy Ralphs, executive chef of the Es-tancia Hotel and Spa, will be the guest speaker at the annual membership event for DreamKeepers Project, Inc. on Oct. 10. Each year this event provides guests the opportunity to enjoy chocolate desserts, partici-pate in an opportunity drawing for special gift baskets and learn about the mission of DreamKeep-ers, Project Inc. Chef Ralphs will discuss his up-coming cookbook, “A Jour-ney Through the Seasons” and demonstrate several items for tasting from the book. In addition, Chef Ralphs will discuss the var-ious farms in the area which provide produce and food items that are from “farm to table.”

DreamKeepers Proj-ect, Inc., provides support to the women and chil-dren who reside at the Family Recovery Center in Oceanside. This residential facility helps women to re-cover from substance abuse so they can become more productive members of society and provide a healthier home life for themselves and their chil-

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The center provides a safe and positive environment for the women, babies and children as mothers recover and re-unify their families.

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At age 25, Martin Pieronek is liv-ing the American Dream. The Torrey Pines High School graduate holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering, and he recently landed a job in Texas that involves the marketing of process simulation soft-ware products. But the road to success involved some obstacles for the native of Vietnam.

Helping Martin navigate the path were local residents Cindy and Jim Pieronek and their son, Chris.

In the mid-1990s, the Pieroneks, unable to have additional children, considered adopting a young child through agencies connected with their congregation, the San Diego Church of Christ.

“We were in limbo,” Cindy Pieronek said.

Around this time, a friend of theirs from church was traveling back and forth from Vietnam, in the process of adopting a baby girl from a family liv-ing on the street. The friend informed the Pieroneks that while she was in Vietnam, she met a nice, young boy whose 72-year-old adoptive mother, Tuyet, was seeking better opportunities for him in America. Tuyet had broken her hip, and she was concerned that she couldn’t care for the energetic Mar-tin — known then as Hong An — who was 11 years old, according to Cindy Pieronek.

“I thought: ‘Older child? Are you nuts?! This wasn’t what we were think-ing!’ ” Pieronek said, who was dealing with 7-year-old Chris’ ADD (attention deficit disorder) issues.

Martin had been with Tuyet since he was an infant; he had been given up by his birth mother several days after

his arrival into the world. During her pregnancy, his moth-er had to be seques-tered and protected to ensure Martin’s safety in Communist-run Vietnam, Pieronek said.

“It was culturally not sanctioned” to be pregnant out of wed-lock, she added.

Fortunately for Martin and his birth mother, they had the assistance of Catholic nuns working in a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).

“The Catholic nuns did their best to take children off the street and care for them,” Pieronek said. They bought the homeless chil-dren books, clothes and uniforms, so they appeared similar to those who were paying for school. The nuns also fed the children and taught them how to read and write, Pieronek added.

The nun who aided Martin’s birth mother initially took Martin into her home, but it was her sister Tuyet — a career nurse — who adopted the baby boy and lovingly raised him as her own.

“Martin had a beautiful, wonder-ful extended family,” Pieronek said. “He never knew he was adopted until later on.”

When the opportunity arose for the Pieroneks to adopt Martin, the tim-ing appeared to be a concern. The fam-ily had recently moved to this area from Albuquerque, N.M., after Jim ac-cepted a job offer at Qualcomm.

“At the time, we were financially strapped,” Cindy Pieronek said. “I said to my friend, ‘We’ll pray about it and see what happens.’ ”

The cost of the adoption was esti-mated to be $15,000 to $20,000. The Pieroneks prayed, and they received plenty of advice from close church friends. As soon as they started doing that, the money started coming out of nowhere, Cindy Pieronek said. Jim re-ceived a bonus from work, and Cindy landed a job as a technical writer for a biotech company.

“God provided money, resources and help,” Cindy Pieronek said.

The Pieroneks then began what became a two-year private adoption process. In Vietnam, they received as-sistance through a businesswoman whom they were introduced to by their church friend. The businesswoman’s own father had been killed by the Viet Cong and was an orphan, and she was

Local family shares inspirational tale of adoption

Martin, Chris, Cindy and Jim PieronekCourtesy of Cindy Pieronek

sympathetic to the cause. Her uncle was Dr. Nguyen Xuan Oanh, former prime minister of South Vietnam, who was serving as economic adviser at the time of this process and whose help would prove to be the key.

In January 1998, the Pieroneks flew to Vietnam to meet Tuyet and Martin.

Martin’s first impression of Cindy — which he revealed to her later — was that he was scared of her.

“Unlike the Vietnamese women at the time, I wore makeup and bright eyeshadow,” Cindy Pieronek said. “My hair was blond, short and spiked up; to him (and others in Vietnam), I looked like I came from the moon.

“We instantly developed a great relationship with Tuy-et, his mother, and she liked us right away.

“We could see how Martin was doted upon,” Pieronek said. “He was the crowning centerpiece of that family. He would go from house to house (many family members lived close by) and get fed all day long.”

Pieronek noted that Martin had no father, since Tuyet never married.

“The older cousins took on the role of being father fig-ures,” she explained. “Extended families are so important in Vietnam.”

While in the country, the Pieroneks also met Martin’s relatives.

“No one spoke English, but it was OK,” Cindy Pieronek said. “We went sightseeing together, ate together, and they were very kind to us.”

After a successful visit, the adoption process continued — the businesswoman continued her behind-the-scenes work in Vietnam, while in the U.S., the Pieroneks went through home studies, in which social workers make sure a home is appropriate and safe for an adoptee.

But before the adoption was finalized, the paperwork suddenly “disappeared,” and a Vietnamese government agency reviewing the case asked for money in order to “con-tinue” processing, Cindy Pieronek said.

“We were worried we’d have to start over again,” she said. “We prayed and prayed. And God intervened.”

Jim Pieronek made a return trip to Vietnam and met with Oanh. Together, they went to the office where the pa-perwork was hung up.

“It was like walking with President Clinton — everyone stepped aside,” Cindy Pieronek said.

Oanh found the office’s director, who apologized pro-

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The Village Church Community Theater is holding auditions for a musical version of “A Christmas Carol” on Sunday, Oct. 2, from 1-4 p.m. and Monday, Oct. 3, from 6 -8 p.m. at the Village Church Community The-ater, 6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe. Roles for solo singers, chorus and actors ages 8 - adult. For audition in-formation and appointment, www.villagechurchcommu-nitytheater.org.

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Village Church Community Theater to present ‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Murder’

On Friday night, Sept. 30, and Saturday night, Oct. 1, mystery will be “in the air” at the Village Church. “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Murder,” an Ag-atha Christie spoof on her thriller, “Ten Little Indians” will be presented by the Vil-lage Church Community Theater.

Comedy is also the theme as the jokes pile up with the mysterious deaths.

With dinner first on the menu for the evening, guests will enjoy an intimate theater experience with a full course meal served at tables of eight with reserved seating followed by the play. Priced at just $25 for single tickets and $180 for a table of eight, this is one of the best dinner theater bar-gains around. Reservations can be made on line at www.vil-lagechurchcommunitytheater.org. or by calling (858)756-2441.

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Orchestra Nova San Di-ego will be joined by Broad-way stars flying in from New York to perform Broadway Then…and Now! at the Cali-fornia Center for the Arts Es-condido (CCAE) on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 4 p.m. Perfect en-tertainment for the entire family, the show is made possible by generous sup-port from Jean Will and Donald & Janet Sutherland.

The performance will be packed with fantastic music and video as the sing-ers and musicians, led by ar-tistic director Jung-Ho Pak and associate conductor Dana Zimbric, take guests down memory lane for the best hits from Broadway’s golden eras through today’s megahits: everything from Irving Berlin’s There’s No Business Like Show Business to Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and so much more!

Guest artists are Susan Egan, Rachel York and Doug LaBrecque.

Tickets for Broadway Then…and Now! are avail-able online from Orchestra Nova or by phone at 858-350-0290 or from CCAE or by phone at 800-988-4253.

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Santa Fe Christian (SFC) Lower School, a college-pre-paratory Christian private school in Solana Beach, was named 2011 National Blue Ribbon School, a distinction by the U.S. Department of Education that ranks it among the highest perform-ing schools nationwide. Santa Fe Christian was one of only 49 private schools in the nation awarded this year and the only private school named in California. The U.S. Department of Educa-tion will honor the entire 255 public and 49 private schools with their National Blue Ribbon School awards at a conference and awards ceremony Nov. 14-15 in Washington, D.C.

The National Blue Rib-bon Schools Program hon-ors public and private schools based on one of two

criteria: 1) Schools whose students are high perform-ing. These are schools ranked among each state’s highest performing schools as measured by their perfor-mance on state assessments or, in the case of private schools, that score at the highest performance level on nationally normed tests; or 2) Schools with at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged back-grounds that improve stu-dent performance to high levels as measured by the school’s performance on state assessments or nation-ally-normed tests. Santa Fe Christian Lower School is awarded under the high per-forming schools category.

Before selecting Nation-al Blue Ribbon Schools, the Department asks for nomi-nations from the top educa-

tion official in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, the Depart-ment of Defense Education Activity and the Bureau of Indian Education. The Council for American Pri-vate Education (CAPE) nom-inates private schools. A to-tal of 413 schools nation-wide are nominated, based on the number of K-12 stu-dents and the number of schools in each jurisdiction. The schools are invited by the Secretary of Education to submit an application for possible recognition as a Na-tional Blue Ribbon School.

A list of the 2011 Na-tional Blue Ribbon Schools is available at http://www.ed.gov/nationalblueribbon-schools.

Santa Fe Christian Lower School named 2011 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence

Students from Santa Fe Christian’s Lower School jump for joy when their school was named a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. SFC’s Lower School serves 250 students in grades K-5.

San Diego Botanic Garden to hold Orchid Fair Oct. 1-2Join the San Diego Bo-

tanic Garden for the splen-didly colorful San Diego In-ternational Orchid Fair, Oct. 1 (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) and Oct. 2 (9 a.m.-4 p.m.) where countless varieties of or-chids grace the grounds, some in exhibits and some for sale.

Learn from the experts how to care for your newly

purchased orchids at “Or-chids 101,” the ongoing lec-tures on culture and care.

Have your orchid judged. The show is an offi-cial AOS (American Orchid Society) judging event and there will be ribbon judging as well. To register your plants for judging bring them to the Ecke Building on Thursday, Sept. 29, 4 – 7

p.m. and Friday Sept. 30, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Someone will be available to help you classify your plants. Please make sure they are pest-free, flowers are staked, and plants are clean. Judging be-gins at 2 p.m.

For information on vendors, judging and more, visit www.SDBGarden.org/orchid.htm.

Consignment sale for kids, moms opens Sept. 29Local online luxury chil-

dren’s boutique owner Jen Klair, of www.jenklairkids.com, will be hosting a huge kids’ and moms’ consignment sale with JK Kids Consign-ment in the San Marcos/Carlsbad area for four days only, Sept. 29-Oct. 2. This sale is going to be where luxury meets a bargain. Come to sell and shop, make money and save money.

JK Kids Consignment Sale will be held at the corpo-rate office of Stroller Strides, a workout for mom and fun for baby. Classes combine full body workouts using the en-vironment, your stroller and exercise tubing. Stroller Strides classes are offered na-tionwide but you are sure to find a class close to you in San Diego County.

The consignment sale will have high-end consign-ment clothing, toys, accesso-ries and much more. They will also have a designer sec-tion for kids & moms and brand new items at low prices from jenklairkids.com. Some fabulous designers & retailers are sending past season items and overstock inventory for the sale, too.

JK Kids Consignment of-fers a pre-sale (before the sale

opens to the public) for consignors, volunteers, new/pregnant moms and special guests. Facebook and Twitter fans will also get pre-sale deals and first opportunity to receive special guest passes. Consignors can sign-up online now at www.jkconsign-ment.com.Stroller Strides is located at 1850 Diamond St., #102, San Marcos.

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The California Interscholastic Federa-tion has named the boys varsity lacrosse team at Pacific Ridge School, a nonprofit, in-dependent school (grades seven through 12) located in North County, the top academic lacrosse team in the state. After achieving top honors in academics in the San Diego section for the 2010-2011 academic year, the team went on to win the state title for reach-ing a combined, unweighted 3.49 GPA. The team includes two Rancho Santa Fe resi-dents.

“Pacific Ridge School is so proud of its students for earning such a prestigious award,” said Darren Lawlor, athletic director and boys varsity head coach, Pacific Ridge School. “Not only do our students demon-strate academic excellence, but each of our players is a great example of the Honor the Game culture we have created at the school, emphasizing character both on and off the field.”

Pacific Ridge School promotes the pur-suit of excellence on the fields and in the classroom. More than 80 percent of Pacific Ridge School students play one or more sports. Together, the middle and high

schools offer 12 sports and 43 teams, rang-ing from basketball, volleyball, flag football, and lacrosse, to cross country, soccer, tennis and, most recently, golf. Since its opening in 2007, Pacific Ridge has had six undefeat-ed seasons, competed in regional and state playoffs, and brought home seven champi-onship trophies. Last year, Pacific Ridge School became a member of the Coastal Conference, one of the most competitive in-dependent high school leagues in the state. The boys varsity lacrosse team holds a re-cord of 9-7 for the 2011 season.

In addition to a state all-academic team title, the Pacific Ridge School athletic pro-gram has reached another significant mile-stone: the groundbreaking of its 35,236 sq. foot Athletic Center. The new building will be one of the largest and most state-of-the-art high school athletic centers in San Diego County.

For more information about Pacific Ridge School and its athletic programs, visit http://www.pacificridge.org. Stay connected with the school on Twitter at http://twitter.com/prs_carlsbad and Facebook at http://facebook.com/pacificridgeschool.

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Ernest Rady has joined the board of directors of San Diego Private Bank, a client-centric institution that provides unparal-leled service through customized financial solutions.

A businessman known for his philan-thropic endeavors, Rady’s participations in the community include the Rady Chil-dren’s Hospital and the UCSD Rady School of Management.

“Ernest brings banking experience, asset-management expertise and business acumen, and we look forward to his assis-tance in growing San Diego Private Bank into a leading West Coast concierge finan-cial services business,” said Selwyn Isakow, Chairman of San Diego Private Bank, which services high net-worth individuals, business professionals, businesses and non-profit organizations in San Diego County.

He is the founder and current Chair-man of the privately held American Assets Inc., a conglomerate that controls busi-nesses that include financial services, in-

vestment management and real estate. American Assets Real Estate Group is one of the largest real estate groups in the San Diego area and controls $2.5 billion in real estate assets in the Western United States. He was formerly the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Westcorp, a NYSE-traded financial services company that was sold to Wachovia Corp. in 2006.

His career includes a wide variety of industries, including beverage wholesal-ing, radio stations/telecommunications towers, oil and gas, and professional soccer and major league baseball.

Rady has served as past chairman, board of trustees, director and treasurer of the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center.

Rady has also served as the chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Rady School of Management at UCSD, act-ing member of UCSD’s Chancellor’s Asso-ciates, Trustee of the Salk Institute for Bio-logical Sciences and as a Trustee of Scripps Health.

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The Friends of Del Mar Parks welcome the community to the fi nal evening of the Del Mar Shores Cinema Series on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Del Mar Shores Park. Films roll at sunset (7:30 p.m.), but Bull Taco and Bearclaw Coffee will begin serving food and refreshments at 6 p.m.

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BY ATHENA PHILIS-TSIMIKAS, M.D., SCRIPPS HEALTH

You’ve probably heard that diabetes has become an epidemic in the United States. According to the American Diabetes Associa-tion, 18.8 million adults and children have been diag-nosed with the disease, and another 7.0 million are yet to be diagnosed.

Despite the rapidly in-creasing number of cases, however, diabetes is not a disease that happens over-night. Most cases of diabetes are type 2, which develops over time as a result of life-style factors such as obesity and lack of exercise. Type 2 diabetes often begins as a condition known as predia-betes, in which a person’s blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not yet elevated enough to quali-fy as diabetes.

Prediabetes is estimated to affect 79 million people in the United States, although most don’t even know they have it. Though it often has no symptoms, it can do seri-ous damage. Many people with prediabetes will develop health problems commonly associated with diabetes it-self, such as an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Moreover, prediabetes is like-ly to lead to type 2 diabetes within 10 years.

Since the condition has few if any symptoms, how do you know if you have it? A blood test that measures the level of glucose or sugar in your blood can give you an answer. There are several tests used for diagnosis. Two require fasting for at least eight hours before testing to ensure that you don’t con-sume anything that may af-fect the test results (eating or drinking may raise your blood glucose levels). The fasting plasma glucose test (FPG) measures your glucose levels first thing in the morning after you have fast-ed during the night. A fast-ing blood glucose level be-low 100 milligrams per deci-liter (mg/dl) is considered normal; 100-126 mg/dl is considered “at risk” for dia-betes.

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To Your Health: Are you at risk for diabetes?ance test (OGTT) measures your blood glucose once after you have fasted. Then, you will be given a special high-glucose beverage to drink; two hours after you finish it, your blood glucose levels will be measured again. At this point, a blood glucose level below 140 mg/dl is normal.

Recently, a newer non-fasting test, HbA1C, has been used to measure how well your average blood glucose has been controlled over a period of two to three months. This test measures the percentage of glycated hemoglobin, or HbA1c, in your blood. A normal value is less than 5.7 percent; a value between 5.7-6.4 percent puts you in the “at-risk” category.

Who should be tested? If you are age 45 or older and overweight, it’s a good idea to have a prediabetes screening at your annual physical exam. Adults of any age who have other risk factors for diabetes or prediabetes, including a family his-tory of diabetes, high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, or a history of gestational diabetes should be tested as well. Ask your physician if testing is right for you.

Does being at-risk mean you are destined to develop dia-betes? No. By taking steps to reduce your risk factors, such as losing excess weight and increasing exercise, you can lower your risk of developing full-blown diabetes. The recent Diabe-tes Prevention Program (DPP) study sponsored by the Nation-al Institutes of Health found that losing just 5 to 7 percent of body weight helped people who had a higher risk of diabetes delay or prevent the disease. This weight loss, along with 30 minutes of daily moderate physical activity such as walking, reduced the onset of diabetes by 58 percent. In fact, some pa-tients have even seen their blood glucose levels return to nor-mal levels as a result of this treatment.

Athena Philis-Tsimikas, M.D., specializes in endocrinology with Scripps Health and is Corporate Vice President of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute. For more information on staying healthy or for a physician referral, please call 1-800-SCRIPPS or visit www.scripps.org.

Pegasus Rising of San Diego to hold ‘Wine & Feed’ fundraiser Oct. 1

Pegasus Rising of San Diego (pegasusris-ing.org) is celebrating its second annual “Wine & Feed” fundraiser at the Pegasus Ris-ing Stables on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 1-4 p.m. Its goal is to raise funds so that they can continue to provide therapeutic equine-based services free of charge to the tens of thousands of veterans (and their families) who reside in San Diego County and who have served this country with honor and pride.

The afternoon will feature a silent auc-tion for gifts donated by local merchants and artists, as well as local artwork on dis-play for sale. Guests will also enjoy a variety of handpicked local wines, The Lost Abbey beer and non-alcoholic beverages as well as

a sampling of appetizers and desserts. Please join them as they celebrate the 2nd Annual Wine & Feed Fundraiser and support their mission to “partner horses and humans for healing.”

Tickets may be purchased by: Payable to The Pegasus Rising Project mailed to P.O. Box 8562, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067. Please note if you will be attending the event.

For inquiries contact: Gary Adler at 760-994-0024; email: [email protected]; www.pegasusrising.org

Please remember that if you are unable to physically attend the event, you can still support our project by purchasing tickets & indicating that you cannot attend the event.

Your Family Matters: To spank or not to spank?

Dr. Keith Kanner

For Dr. Kanner’s column this week, visit www.rsfreview.com and go to the “columns” section. Or type “Kanner” in the search menu. Dr. Kanner’s column will return to the newspaper next week.


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Cedros Ave. to hold ‘A Feeling for Fall’ event

The Merchants of Cedros Avenue invite the public to come see what’s new for the season on Saturday, Oct. 1 and Sunday, Oct. 2, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The event is free. Enjoy a weekend of activi-ties, demonstrations and sales, while ex-ploring a street of individually owned, one-of-a-kind stores.

Jessica Arendsee – Santa Fe Christian; Meghan Pickwell – Torrey Pines; Olivia Anne Lafferty - Bishop’s; Alexis Neumann-Canyon Crest Academy; Aly Feldman – La Costa Canyon; and Hailey Hofer – Pacific Ridge.

Sophomores prepare for National Charity League fashion showHigh school sophomores from eight local

schools are preparing for their National Charity League fashion show, “STYLE re-di-find,” to be held Oct. 2 at the La Costa Resort & Spa. In ad-dition to rehearsing on the catwalk and being fitted for the latest fashions from Tobi Blatt, Pink Lagoon, TRE and other boutiques, these girls re-cently posed for a photo shoot at San Dieguito County Park, which provided a natural back-ground to highlight the “vintage femme” theme. Photographer, Lindsey Carlyle, worked her magic capturing the youthful beauty of each girl.

The mission of the National Charity League is to foster the mother-daughter relationship in a philanthropic organization committed to com-munity service, leadership development and cul-tural experiences. The purpose of the annual fashion show is to provide the 10th grade girls with training in the areas of poise, stage pres-ence, self esteem and personal style. This year the event will also be a collection point for the “WE CAN” drive of canned goods for San Diego Food Bank and Military Outreach.

For more details, please contact event co-chairs Taunja Feldman at [email protected] or Ve-ronica Forougi at [email protected].

The 1st Annual JCC Wellness Fair, presented by the JCC Wellness Committee, will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Sunday, Sept. 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Well-ness fair is an event for families and is fun for people of all ages and faiths. This event is free for anyone to attend.www.lfjcc.org/wellness

JCC Wellness Fair is Sept. 25

Creighton-Davis Gallery opens

Creighton-Davis Gallery, estab-lished in 1986 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., has relocated to Solana Beach. Currently Creighton-Davis Gallery is located at 115 N. Highway 101, Solana Beach, CA, Phone 858-259-8616. Crieghton- Davis Gallery is noted for its exten-sive experience in buying and sell-ing rare art from the 15th to 21st century. Currently, the gallery is showing works of Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Roberto Matta, Picasso, Henry Moore, Georges Rouault and Gayle B. Tate as well as many other works by museum quality artists.

Creighton-Davis acquires art from estates, private collections, museums, and other secondary sources and is always looking to pur-chase fine individual works or dis-tinctive collections. Creighton-Davis also represents in-depth a select group of artists whose work has gen-erated substantial critical interest but who are less well known. The principle focus of the gallery is to represent works that are likely to sustain the interest of connoisseurs, curators, and art historians over time.

Creighton-Davis presents special showings of works or collections from time to time and interested art lovers may sign up by email to re-ceive notices of events, shows, auc-tions, etc. Emails regarding works for sale or events inquiries can be sent to [email protected].

Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Jewish year, and the anniversary of creation of man.

Join Chabad Jewish Center for a delicious Rosh-Hashanah Dinner in a warm and friendly environment. For reservations or more infor-mation please contact Rabbi Levi Raskin at Chabad -RSF Jewish Center: Phone 858-756-7571,www.jewishRSF.com

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Mike Gazzaniga, University of California, Santa Barbara

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A look at 13 artists working in Los Angeles in the 1960s and ‘70s, whose perceptual investigations and use of light and inno-vative materials helped de-fine an era of art making in California, opens Sept. 25 at the Museum of Contempo-rary Art San Diego.

Organized by curator Robin Clark with museum director Hugh M. Davies, who are calling it “our most ambitious exhibition to date,” “Phenomenal: Cali-fornia Light, Space, Surface” will be on view through Jan. 22 at MCASD’s two lo-cations in La Jolla and downtown San Diego.

“Phenomenal” fea-tures the art of Peter Alex-ander, Larry Bell, Ron Coo-per, Mary Corse, Robert Ir-win, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Bruce Nau-man, Eric Orr, Helen Pash-gian, James Turrell, De Wain Valentine and Doug Wheeler.

“We have a long histo-ry with all of these artists¬, perhaps longer than any other contemporary art in-stitution in Southern Cali-fornia,” Davies said. “We

have shown the artists since they emerged in the ’60s and ’70s, and are immense-ly gratified to be presenting them again as part of the largest exhibition in our history.”

Combining key works from the museum’s collec-tion with major loans from prominent public and pri-vate collections, the exhibi-tion includes immersive light installations together

with rare, ephemeral, and site-conditioned works, some seen in California for the first time in decades, ac-cording to curators.

“Phenomenal” will be accompanied by an illus-trated catalog co-published by MCASD and University of California Press. “Due to the generosity of the partic-ipating artists and their es-tates, each of whom have opened their studios and ar-chives to this project, the book is the most compre-hensive publication in MCASD’s history, and something we hope will be valuable to researchers and general audiences for years to come,” said curator Clark.

“Phenomenal: Califor-nia Light, Space, Surface” is part of an initiative called “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,” a col-laboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California, which collectively tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foun-dation. PST will take place for six months beginning in

October. MCASD’s La Jolla gal-

leries will feature works by Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, Eric Orr, Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, De Wain Valentine and Doug Wheeler. In addition to light environments, sculp-ture, and paintings, the La Jolla presentation includes a selection of drawings by the artists, offering an un-usual glimpse into their working process, and ex-amples of ideas for projects realized and unrealized.

— From museum reports

Museum promises new show is ‘Phenomenal’If you go

What: ‘Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface’When: Sept. 25-Jan. 22. Closed Wednesdays. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thurs-days-Tuesdays, to 7 p.m. ThursdaysWhere: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla, (858) 454-3541. 1100 & 1001 Kettner Blvd., downtown San Diego, (858) 454-3541.Admission: $5-$10Website: mcasd.orgPacific Standard Time events: pacific-standardtime.org

Craig Kauffman, Untitled, 1968, Synthetic polymer vacuum-formed Plexiglas with acrylic lacquer 23 x 51 x 12 in. ©Craig Kauffman. Collection MCASD, Gift of Arthur and Carol Goldberg in honor of Margo Leavin.

De Wain Valentine, Slab, 1968, Cast polyester resin, 70 x 23 x 17 in. ©De Wain Valentine. Collection MCASD, Gift of First Interstate Bank of California, Los Angeles.PHOTOS: PHILIPP SCHOLZ RITTERMANN


Rob and Eriko Dalton and Terry Beall

Geoff Westermeyer, Randa Gerrity, Mitch Hill

Grant Featherston, Kevin Leach, Pete Lawly

Bob Burke, Liz Burke, Mike Orlando

Tod and Lisa Kilgore, Alan Fishman

Gina Jordan, Henny and Sandra Den Uijl

Sid Levine, Deborah Chew, Kevin Yoo

Jenny Liu, Yuko Kato, Kumiko Niwayama

Kathy Colarusso, Nancy Ryan

Andy Voss, Joyce BeallJoseph Sr., Joseph Jr., and Graceann Colarusso Twyla and Chuck Martin, Jennifer Myers

The Bridges Club at Ran-cho Santa Fe hosted the seventh annual Prospec-

tor Golf Tournament on Sept. 17. The festivities included a players buffet luncheon, a golf exhibition with U.S. long-drive champions, a two-person “Shamble Tournament” and an event lawn pavilion awards re-ception and dinner. PHOTOS: JON CLARK

Bridges Club site of golf tournament

Liz Johnson, Jim and Robin Lumadue

Brian Nash, Kimberly Alexi, Bill Julian

Judy Levine, Heather Yoo

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ADOPTIONcontinued from page B8

Chris got along well togeth-er, often playing video games and having fun with their two cats.

To further adjust to liv-ing in the United States and to help him catch up on his English, the Pieroneks had Martin repeat seventh grade and take English as a Second Language for a short amount of time. Martin caught on quickly, and went on to take honors English, Spanish and four years of Japanese when he attended Torrey Pines High School.

After graduating from Torrey Pines, Martin went to UCLA and received a bache-lor’s degree in chemical en-gineering in 2008. But the recession hit, and jobs in the field were few. Martin found work at a Radio Shack near his home and was top in cell phone sales, Cindy Pieronek said.

“He has a natural ability with people and business,” she added.

Wanting to pursue more in his career, Martin went back to school in Au-gust 2010, and received his master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Uni-versity of Florida this spring.

Now with a company in Texas, where he is teaching clients how to use their soft-ware products, Martin will be periodically traveling to Asia for work.

“We’re really proud of him,” Pieronek said. “We talk with him just about ev-ery other day. And he still stays in communication with his family back home (in Vietnam).”

She added that Martin finally met both of his birth parents, which occurred in the last few years. Tuyet died about two years ago, Pieronek said, which was hard for Martin.

“When he thinks of Mom, that’s who he thinks of,” Pieronek said.

She hopes the tale of Martin’s adoption will be an inspiration to others.

“My goal is that by sharing our story, I will show how God moved to make this a reality for one native son of Vietnam and encourage others to consider adopting children and older ones at that, not just ba-bies,” she said. “Martin has been a great blessing to our family, and we will forever be entwined with Vietnam and its people.”

fusely, and the paperwork’s processing continued with-out further incident.

But there was another factor creating problems in Martin’s situation — there was no paperwork or proto-col for a second adoption within Vietnamese law.

According to Pieronek, Oanh took the issue to Peo-ple’s Committee — equiva-lent to the U.S. Congress — and got a bill written to get Martin out of the country.

He made it out “under the wire,” Pieronek said — the U.S. consulate was slated to be closed for three weeks in Ho Chi Minh City, and the last day it was open, Martin was processed. The Pieroneks flew to Bangkok, where the processing was completed, and took him home. It was the summer of 1999, and Martin was now 13 years old.

Living in the United States was an adjustment for Martin, who didn’t know any English. Cindy Pieronek said that for a long time, she was unaware that he cried himself to sleep often during his first year.

But the Pieroneks en-couraged Martin to main-tain his ties to his Vietnam-ese family.

“Even after he was ad-opted by us, he would call and talk to his mom Tuyet and relatives,” Pieronek said.

And during the sum-mers, Martin would fly to Vietnam and stay with them for about a month.

“He had a real love for Tuyet, who raised him,” Pieronek said. “It was impor-tant for him to stay close with his Vietnamese adop-tive mother and maintain his culture and language.”

The Pieroneks also en-couraged Martin (Hong An) to choose an American name so he could more easi-ly relate with other kids. The boy had grown up with Bud-dhist and Catholic beliefs, and when he was baptized in the Catholic Church, the ceremony was performed under St. Martin.

Along with the lan-guage barrier, Martin had a difficult time with traveling and often got motion sick-ness — cars and airplanes were not his primary mode of transportation in Viet-nam.

Cindy Pieronek added that Martin and 9-year-old

On Oct. 1, De Anza will hear the humorous talk, re-plete with puns, ti-tled “Fabulous Facts about our American Presidents.” Known as Attila the Pun and Conan the Grammarian, Dr. Richard Lederer also has a penchant for little known facts of American history. The luncheon event will be held at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Reservations are required. See below for reservation in-formation.

With over a million in print, Dr. Lederer

authored more than 35 books about lan-guage, history and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current book, The Gift of Age. Magazines as diverse as “The New Yorker,” “People” and the “National Inquirer” have profiled him. He is founding co-host of “A Way with Words” on Public Radio. Dr. Lederer’s col-umn, “Looking at Language,” is syndicated in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He earned the title of In-ternational Punster of the Year and won Toastmasters International’s Golden Gavel. In February 2012, Dr. Lederer’s newest book, American Trivia: What We Should All Know About Our Great Nation, will be released. He will autograph books sold at the event.

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quit the day job based on the advance of their first book. Some hit that place after two or three. Some hit it after book 10. Many nev-er hit it. I have friends who couldn’t leave their day job even after many years, then suddenly hit it so big every-one in their family could quit their day jobs. I know of writers who got big ad-vances on their first books who were never able to sell a thing after that. So this isn’t a question that can be an-swered with accuracy. The experience is individual.

I can say, though, that advances on first books for 95 percent of writers are no-where near where they need to be to make a living.

No one should write solely as a means to quit a day job. This can only lead to unhappiness. Write be-cause you love to write.

How do you deal with deadlines, and do you ever find them difficult?

A deadline only means that someone wants your work. I find nothing bad about that.

How has the publishing industry evolved over the years, and how has this evolution impacted writers?

Publishing is changing. It has been constantly changing since Gutenberg first printed on a piece of

series now and then.How does a writer’s ca-

reer shift once they reach the NY Times list?

That depends on the writer and how the writer’s publisher reacts to that. For me, and for most of my col-leagues, it has been good for the business side of our ca-reers. But it doesn’t come with a set of elves who will write the next one. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t re-alized that your blank page looks exactly like any other writer’s blank page — the thing you really need to fo-cus on does not change.

How many successful books does it take for the average writer to be able to leave their day job?

Wouldn’t it be great if I could say, “Three,” and point to the Rule Book of Writing Success that declares How Writing Careers Work for Everyone? There is no rule about this — not even a general set of guidelines. Books differ, contracts differ, publisher excitement is driv-en by forces that can’t be predicted by anything other than phrases that make new writers crazy (e.g., “Write an original and captivating book.”). Some writers can

support of forensic science, untested evidence stock-piles, often allowing the guilty to remain free, stall-ing investigations, delay-ing trials, and causing the innocent to be held un-justly. Murderers go unde-tected because medicolegal death investigators are un-trained. We are affected in many other areas of life by forensic science — home-land security, disaster re-sponse, workplace safety, product safety, public health and more.

There is a need to en-sure that forensic science services are provided by those who are properly ed-ucated and trained, that our labs are using proven scientific methods, and subject to the best quality control measures available.

You can learn more about the CLP at http://www.crimelabproject.com

I founded the CLP af-ter working with forensic scientists for the research in my books. There was a huge gap between public perception and reality — many people believed their local labs looked like the ones on CSI. Forensic sci-entists did not always feel free to call attention to problems facing their labs. So I called some writer friends, and we pledged to do all we could to get the word it. It grew from there.

What is the best ad-vice you ever received as a writer?

Legendary music pro-

ducer Bones Howe (hus-band of acclaimed mystery writer Melodie Johnson Howe) once gave a group of mystery writers some of the best writing advice ever. We were at a party and many of the writers were doing the kind of complaining that is com-mon at such gatherings, standing around worrying about making bestseller lists, whining about an un-pleasant writer’s unde-served success and so on. I was the newcomer, first book about to be pub-lished, and in awe of the rest of the company. So I was lucky that I saw Bones shake his head and heard him say to us, “Keep your head down.”

By that he meant, stay focused on your passion — writing the book. Don’t get caught up in the exter-nals — the politics in the business, organizational in-fighting, other writers’ problems, the craziness, the envy, the whining. Don’t spend your time worrying over who’s getting paid what, who got a better cov-er, what the reviewers say (good or bad). If you stay focused on writing, you’ll be fine.

I later learned the ad-vice was part of his “Poor Bones Almanac,” as other music engineers called it. It’s now online on his Web-site, with several of his oth-er wise sayings.

What advice do you typically give to aspiring authors?

I often repeat the excel-lent advice Bones gave me all those years ago. Visitors to my Website (http://www.janburke.com ) can go to the FAQ page and download a document with a few pag-es advice. [exact link is http://janburke.com/PDFs/Advice%20for%20Writers.pdf ] Three items taken from those pages:

1) Take an author to bed.

In other words, read, read, read. The best univer-sity for writing is on the shelves of your local public library. Teach yourself to read like a writer — study how it’s done by reading.

2) Visit Writer Beware. Writer Beware can be

found at http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-be-ware

It’s sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, but if you don’t write in those genres, don’t worry — the advice on this site should be read by every writer. Writer Beware has won praise from many quarters and has the backing of other writers’ or-ganizations. The advice on Writer Beware will help to protect you against some of the sharks that infest the publishing waters.

3) Be a lousy writer. Go ahead, practice on

the page. Be lousy. It’s okay. You’re learning a craft that is complex. Don’t fret about being criticized or criticize yourself into paraly-sis. Let the fact that you will be able to revise free you to write your first draft.

paper using movable type. While electronic publishing is driving much of what is changing now, publishing will be influenced by some-thing else tomorrow. Writ-ers should not let this dis-tract them from what they must focus on. What mat-ters most is what we put on the page.

Tell us about the Crime Lab Project – what it is and how you got involved.

The Crime Lab Project works to raise awareness of the need to improve forensic science in the U.S.. Despite what you see on television dramas, most American crime labs and medicolegal death investigation offices are understaffed, housed in inadequate facilities, and lacking the equipment they need. We’ve been failing to provide the support they need for decades, and pay a price for ignoring them. A recent congressionally man-dated report by the National Academy of Sciences found “serious deficiencies in the nation’s forensic science sys-tem” and called for “major reforms and new research.” Among the problems cited, it found “many forensic sci-ence labs are underfunded, understaffed, and have no effective oversight.”

As a result of our lack of


BY KELLEY CARLSONCONTRIBUTOR

A person go-ing through a di-vorce may find that having attor-ney Nancy J. Bick-ford on his or her side can be an as-set.

Bickford is the only certified family law special-ist in San Diego County who also has an active CPA (certified public ac-countant) license.

“What that means is that I am fa-miliar with financial statements, I am fa-miliar with such concepts as business ap-praisals, tracing and income from busi-nesses, so that I can conduct and under-stand discovery and tracing of financial and business issues in a divorce more readily than most other family law attor-neys,” she said. “I love helping my cli-ents understand and solve complex fi-nancial matters and unwind complicated tracing issues that many, if not most, other divorce attorneys may not under-stand or enjoy.”

The Law Offices of Nancy J. Bick-ford exclusively practices family law, providing assistance in areas such as cus-tody, spousal and child support, and

property division. Established in Carmel Valley in 2002, the firm serves all of San Diego County.

Bickford didn’t initially set out to be a lawyer. Growing up in Ohio, she earned a bachelor of science degree with a dual major in systems analysis and mathematics from the state’s Miami Uni-versity. She went on to receive an MBA in accounting from San Francisco’s Gold-en Gate University, graduating in 1976.

After college, Bickford worked for Arthur Andersen & Co., where she audit-ed businesses and financial institutions. Shortly later, she married and became controller for a firm operating hotel and real estate investments.

During her career as controller, Bickford and her family moved to Scripps Ranch in 1985.

“San Diego is a wonderful city,” she said. “It’s a great place to raise children.”

In 1992, Bickford went off on her own. Realizing the need to support three children, she decided to pursue a career in law.

“I knew I would have to go to work every day and work hard,” Bickford said. “The career of law is a very jealous mis-tress; it can be all-consuming. If you don’t love it, it can be very tedious. But it’s something I love to do. ... Helping people makes it all worthwhile.”

Bickford attended the California Western School of Law in San Diego, and received her juris doctorate degree in

April 1996. She worked for a couple of San Diego-area law firms until 2002, when she opened her own practice in Carmel Valley.

The attorney found many qualities that attracted her to the area — the life-style, schools, and proximity to dining, friends and the beach, among others.

“It was my absolute positive dream (to live and work there),” Bickford said.

These days, Bickford works with two associates in her office: Jeffrey B. Miller, a fellow California Western School of Law grad who joined the firm in 2005; and Bethany M. Ward, a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law who came aboard in 2007.

The team highly encourages its cli-ents to resolve issues through mediation.

Bickford said litigation is a last re-sort, “but we have the financial and business sophistication to get the results you deserve should you need to resort to litigation in your divorce.”

At least 90 percent of the firm’s cas-es are settled out of court through medi-ation and negotiation, Bickford added.

The Law Offices of Nancy Bickford is in the Del Mar Technology Center, at 12348 High Bluff Drive, Suite 220, in Carmel Valley. General office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For additional information, call (858) 793-8884 or go to www.bickford-law.com.

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Carmel Valley now has another option for high school students who prefer smaller class sizes and individualized in-struction. High Bluff Academy has recently been accredited as a full-time comprehensive school for students in grades 8-12. Classes are limited to 10 students and most classes have fewer than this. Parents can also opt to have their child take classes one-on-one. The school’s mission is to provide a high quality college prep program with an emphasis on health and fitness. For this purpose, the academy has formed a partnership with the Pacific Athletic Club. All stu-dents will be able to benefit from fitness instruction at the club as part of the physical education program.

High Bluff Academy, located on High Bluff Drive, was founded in 2002 as a learning center for tutoring, test prep and college counseling. In 2005, it began offering courses for high school credit for students enrolled at Torrey Pines, Canyon Crest Academy and other schools in the area. More than 500 students a year attend courses and tutoring at High Bluff Academy. Many of these students have been accepted to prestigious colleges including UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stan-ford, Yale, Harvard, and other Ivy League schools. Struggling students, who had been discouraged from seeking a college education, have received help from High Bluff Academy and are now doing well in their chosen universities.

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NOTICE OF PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENTTO THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE

RANCHO SANTA FE SCHOOL DISTRICTNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Education Code Section 5092, that

On August 1, 2011, a vacancy occurred on the above-named governing board; and

On September 12, 2011 the remaining members of said governing board appointed Tyler Seltzer as the provisional appointee who shall hold office until the next regularly scheduled election for district governing board members on November 6,2012; and

The provisional appointment confers all powers and duties upon the appointee immediately following his or her appointment; and

Unless a petition calling for a special election is filed with the County Superintendent of Schools within thirty (30) days after the date of the provisional appointment, it shall become an effective appointment; and

A petition calling for a special election shall be filed with the County Superintendent of Schools, 6401 Linda Vista Road, San Diego, California 92111-7399 not later than October 12, 2011 and shall contain the following:

1. The Registrar of Voters' estimate of the cost of conducting the special election.

2. The name and residence address of at least one, but not more than five, of the proponents of the petition, each of which proponent shall be a registered voter of the school district.

3. The text of language of the petition shall not appear in less than six-point type.

4. Signatures of at least one and one-half percent (1-1/2%) of the number of registered voters of the district or twenty-five (25) registered voters, whichever is greater, at the time of the last regular election for governing board members. In districts with registered voters of less than two thousand (2,000) persons, a petition shall be deemed to bear a sufficient number of signatures if signed by at least five percent (5%) of the number of registered voters of the district at the time of the last regular election for governing board members.

A petition calling for a special election shall be prepared and circulated in conformity with the requirements of sections 100 and 104 of the Elections Code.

Date: September 12, 2011 Rancho Santa Fe School District

By _____________

Title: SuperintendentRSF190, Sept. 22, 2011

Way, Rancho Santa Fe, CA., 92067, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 630 San Marcos Dr., Solana Beach, CA., 92075. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The first day of business: was 9/21/10. This business is hereby registered by the following: Ashley Ward, 630 San Marcos Dr., Solana Beach, CA., 92075. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 09/06/2011. Ashley Ward, RSF188, Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 2011

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No: F525624 CA Unit Code: F Loan No: 0047070107/JANICE J. AP #1: 303-101-12-00 T.D. SERVICE COMPANY, as duly appointed Trustee under the following described Deed of Trust WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (in the forms which are lawful tender in the United States) and/or the cashier’s, certified or other checks specified in Civil Code Section 2924h (payable in full at the time of sale to T.D. Service Company) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property hereinafter described: Trustor: JANICE J. WELLS, TRUSTEE OF THE WELLS FAMILY TRUST DATED JUNE 16, 1999 AND AMENDED JANUARY 21, 2000, LYNN T. WELLS, TRUSTEE OF THE WELLS

LEGALSFICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2011-025345Fictitious Business Name(s):Knock Out Errands ETC. Located at: 13051 Caminito Bautizo, San Diego, CA., 92130, San Diego County. Mailing Address: Same. This business is conducted by: Co-Partners. The first day of business: has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: #1 Karen Asaro, 13051 Caminito Bautizo, San Diego, CA., 92130. #2 Keri Wright, 9115 Judicial Dr., #4418, San Diego, CA., 92122. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 09/07/2011. Karen Asaro, RSF189, Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 2011

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2011-025238Fictitious Business Name(s):a. Pawz n Clawz Grooming Spab. Paws n Claws Grooming SpaLocated at: 6525 Helen Woodward


Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: August 30, 2011 T.D. SERVICE COMPANY as said Trustee, T.D. Service Company Agent for the Trustee and as Authorized Agent for the Beneficiary CINDY GASPAROVIC, ASSISTANT SECRETARY T.D. SERVICE COMPANY 1820 E. FIRST ST., SUITE 210, P.O. BOX 11988 SANTA ANA, CA 92711-1988 The Beneficiary may be attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained may be used for that purpose. If available, the expected opening bid and/or postponement information may be obtained by calling the following telephone number(s) on the day before the sale: (714) 480-5690 or you may access sales information at www.tacforeclosures.com. TAC# 944227 PUB: 09/08/11, 09/15/11, 09/22/11, RSF187

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENTFile No. 2011-024269Fictitious Business Name(s):Environmental Resources Inc.Located at: 11815 Sorrento Valley Rd., San Diego, CA., 92121, San Diego County. Mailing Address: 11815 Sorrento Valley Rd., San Diego, CA., 92121. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The first day of business: has not yet started. This business is hereby registered by the following: Environmental Resources Inc., 11815 Sorrento Valley Rd., San Diego, CA., 92121, California. This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on 08/25/2011. Jerome B. Kleiman, RSF185, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011

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Prudential Real Estate Affiliates recently recognized the Rancho Santa Fe office for ranking #1 for sales pro-duction through the first two quarters of 2011, out of the company’s offices in the Western region with 41 - 75 agents.

“There’s no question that the real estate market has been challenging for the past few years,” noted Herb Josepher, manager of Pru-dential Rancho Santa Fe. “However the resourceful-ness and marketing skills of the agents in my office have allowed them to remain suc-cessful in furthering the in-terests of their clients.”

Acknowledging that a substantial percentage of homes in the area are fine homes and estates, Josepher explained that, “The mar-keting and sale of homes in the upper tier of the market requires highly specialized knowledge. Our agents are experts at preparing homes for sale and have a detailed understanding about which publications reach the most potential buyers.”

The impact of Pruden-tial California Realty’s Luxu-ry Division has been over-whelmingly positive, espe-cially for sellers looking to

get maximum value for their homes. To de-liver short market times and optimal results, the Luxury Divi-sion leverages Prudential’s vast network of alliances in the luxury real estate market, highly collaborative agent network and proprietary contact lists.

“Of course, it’s not all about representing clients with the sale of their home,” laughs Josepher. “There are a lot of excellent opportuni-ties out there for buyers right now, and the agents at Prudential Rancho Santa Fe are talented negotiators with deep local ties. They love sharing their community knowledge to find the per-fect home for their buyers, and the fact that they are the initial point of contact for many people who are new to our area is a source of pride to them.”

To contact the best qualified Realtor, please con-tact Prudential California Realty’s Rancho Santa Fe of-fice at 858-756-7899.

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In an effort to stay abreast of changing market conditions where the percentage of distressed properties has risen sharply, Nancy White has re-cently completed the intense course and completed the exam which affords her the designation Certified Dis-tressed Property Expert. White has been a Realtor for over 25 years and

holds many designations, including Certified Residential Specialist, Seniors Real Estate Specialist, Certified Negoti-ations Specialist, and others.

“There is so much confusion in the market today, and property owners don’t know where to turn. My goal is to give accurate information and offer solutions to these homeowners who are an integral part of our local com-munities. I serve in an effort to help address issues and seek solutions with an actionable plan as a trusted agent, with the right tools, for smarter deci-

sions.” “The percentage of distressed

properties in a healthy market is some-where around 1 to 3 percent. Recent changes in the real estate market have pushed that number many times high-er. Given the market conditions facing many local communities—Nancy felt the need to understand distressed properties is no longer a luxury, but rather a necessity,” said Steve Salinas, branch manager of Coldwell Banker Rancho Santa Fe.

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By popular demand, local trust and es-tate attorney Kristina Haymes will offer a free living trust and “Kids Protection Plan-ning” workshop on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at “Pump It Up” in Sor-rento Valley. The event will provide critical information to more San Diego County fam-ilies about how to make sure their children are protected no matter what and every par-ent can have the peace of mind of knowing their children would never be at the mercy of the “broken state court system.” Partici-pants have raved about the seminar. Ran-cho Santa Fe resident Leslie Lehberg said, “The seminar was excellent, my kids loved it, and even though my husband is an attor-ney and we already had a will/estate plan in place, we did not realize our kids were not completely protected! We received great val-ue from the seminar; I highly recommend it to all families with small children.”

Haymes will also host a “Living Trust

and Family Wealth Planning” workshop in Solana Beach on the Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m. At this fun and educational event, Haymes will discuss: 1) Why recent estate tax law changes could render an older trust obsolete; 2) How to avoid the six most com-mon guardianship mistakes people make to ensure your children never end up in the arms of strangers; 3) Why many living trusts don’t work and how to ensure your trust and estate plan will accomplish your goals; 4) How to minimize taxes and fees and also how to pass on more than just your finan-cial wealth, how to create legacies that last and pass on your life wisdom.

Register (and receive location informa-tion) by calling Haymes’ 24/7 reservation hotline at 858-207-4884. Internet registra-tion is also available by visiting www.HaymesLawGroup.com/events Don’t delay, space is limited.

Attorney Kristina Haymes offers free ‘Living Trust Workshops’ again Sept. 24 and Oct. 4

Hope for a Cure’s annual fundraiser, which includes a wine tasting, appetizers, enter-tainment and a silent auction is coming up soon. This year the event is on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Del Mar Marriott.

Hope for a Cure is a unique non-profit organization. Its board identifies cancer re-searchers in the San Diego area that are in need of scientific equipment to further their ef-forts in the treatment of cancer. Hope for a Cure raises the funds, locate the equipment, purchase it directly from the manufacturer and donate it directly to the scientist. They have no overhead or administrative fees. 99% of every donated dollar goes to purchase the equipment.

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