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COMMUNITY ICON SHUTTERED Burns Drugs, which shuttered on April 15, stood by the community and, in one case, may have saved lives in the process. COURTESY PHOTO
Long, historic chapter in La Jolla lore ends with closure of Burns Drugs
Like the passing of an old friend, La Jolla residents who’ve treasured mom-and-pop Burns Drugs for the past 62 years are mourning the loss of yet another Village bedrock business. The family-owned ...
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The Mission Beach Women’s Club engaged in a highly successful fundraiser April 5 to assist the men and women of Fire Station 21 in Pacific Beach in needed equipment and exercise gear that local first-responders have not had access to in tight budget times. Photo by Dave Schwab
MB Women’s Club helps local heroes with heroic fundraising of their own
The Mission Beach Women’s Club (MBWC) raised $27,000 and counting at its annual April 5 fundraiser at Mission Bay Yacht Club to aid the local, selfless heroes of Pacific Beach Fire Station 21. The ...
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Mission Bay is among the areas targeted in the campaign to create a local ecodistrict. Photo by Ethan Orenstein
Eager for an ecodistrict in PB? Now is time to get your two cents’ worth in the mix
Now that experts have weighed in on how Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and Mission Bay Park can become more eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable, it’s up to local residents to make that happe...
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Roll up those sleeves for Rose Creek, Earth Day awareness
With Earth Day fresh in the minds of environmental advocates, the Pacific Beach community is being asked to pitch in for the annual, roll-up-the-sleeves Creek to Bay Cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon Sat...
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Huge PB School Yard Dash fundraiser ready to sprint
The Friends of Pacific Beach Secondary Schools will host its largest annual fundraiser for Mission Bay High School and Pacific Beach Middle School on Saturday, April 26 at De Anza Cove in Mission B...
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— John Fry may be reached at (858) 272-6655, or by email at mail@johnfry.com.
Remember When?
REMEMBER WHEN there was a Union 76 station at Ingraham and La Playa streets? I took this night shot on Aug. 1, 1982. It’s now a mixed-use residential building, soon to feature a Promiscuous Fork ea...
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Must Do
The 13th annual Point Loma Garden Walk is set for Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event is a self-guided tour of eight private gardens in the Fleetridge area of Point Loma. There is ...
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Mission Bay High School's boys’ water polo team received the CIF San Diego Section All-Academic Team Award recently. The team had the highest grade-point average of any water polo team in the San Diego metro area. Pictured with the team is coach Troy Landon, MBHS principal Fred Hilgers, athletic director Jorge Palacios, Jim Esterbrooks from the California Interscholastic Federation, and Angie Lasagna from Mission Federal Credit Union, which sponsored the award.
Education Notebook
MISSION BAY HIGH • Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), a student organization at UC San Diego, is offering a Student Sustainability Outreach Day on Thursday, April 24, at Mission Bay High Scho...
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Blue Dot Refill has set up shop in Ocean Beach just in time for Earth Day celebrations on April 22. The shop is San Diego’s first and only eco-soap refill shop. Courtesy photo
OB, Point Loma to join the world in feting Earth Day
On April 22, 1970, grass-roots activism came to call in workplaces across the U.S. It was a Wednesday, when the organizers of the country’s first Earth Day figured they had the best chance to entic...
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Point Loma family with sick infant rescued from their distressed vessel
A critically-ill infant aboard her Point Loma family's damaged sailboat who was rescued by the military and Coast Guard and Air National Guard parachutists on April 3 about 925 miles off Cabo San L...
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Participants celebrate during a previous San Diego Credit Union MS Walk. This year’s event will be on April 26 at Liberty Station. Courtesy photo
Walkers ready to put best foot forward in fight against MS
A three-mile fundraising walk along San Diego Bay benefiting the war on multiple sclerosis will culminate at Liberty Station on Saturday, April 26. The 2014 San Diego County Credit Union Walk MS at...
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Capt. Jerome Hinson, Navy chaplain with the Third Fleet, demonstrates his religious passion during a previous Easter Sunrise Service at Cabrillo National Monument. Courtesy photo
Kiwanis to host 65th Easter Sunrise Service
The Kiwanis Club of Point Loma will again present an ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service at the Cabrillo National Monument, 1800 Cabrillo Memorial Drive in Point Loma, on Sunday, April 20. The servic...
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Birch Aquarium launched this year's installment of its grunion-run events on April 1.
Birch Aquarium grunion run is under way
This is La Jolla, after all, and everybody at one time or another seems to get deep into the perennial tradition that is surfing, even if only as observers. But this time of year, a species of smal...
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Block party OKd, loading vote delayed at TNT parley
At its March meeting, La Jolla’s Traffic & Transportation (TNT) board approved a September block party, postponed final consideration of converting a commercial loading zone into public parking and...
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Men and women 45–80 sought for Parkinson’s study
UC San Diego is seeking men and women aged 45 to 80 suffering from Parkinson’s disease to participate in a research study evaluating the impact of the drug Azilect’s potential for improving cogniti...
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