Point Loma has a new sign gracing the entryway into the community from San Diego International Airport. “Weathered by years of irrigation overreach and ever-prevalent termites, the Point Loma sign on North Harbor Drive was declared to to be in critical condition last year by then-Rotary president Leon Scales,” said Cecilia Carrick of the Point Loma Association. “Quarts of BONDO and several layers of paint applied by our skilled Rotarian friends were barely holding the sign together until design and funds were arranged by the (association) for a new purchase. “That’s when a very generous Point Loma private donor and the County of San Diego stepped in to help out. The work, commissioned to Integrated Sign Associates, produced a vibrantly colorful replacement that is now in place.” Nonprofit Point Loma Rotary Club provides support for community projects in Point Loma, the greater San Diego area and the world. Created in 1961, the Point Loma Association comprises residents and businesses committed to improving the quality of life in Point Loma through beautification, education, charitable activities and civic collaboration. Carrick noted the North Harbor Drive gateway sign was originally installed by the association in 1980 and has served as a geographical landmark for millions of visitors and neighbors for more than 35 years. Association president Robert Tripp Jackson noted Dorothea (Dottie) Laub and her late husband Richard paid for the original gateway sign’s installation and for landscaping around it. “It was all wood,” said Jackson of the original sign. “It had started to deteriorate, and (the association) had it refurbished three or four years ago, but it was pretty much disintegrating. So (Carrick) found the people who’d made the OB sign. So they went ahead and produced a new one for us.” Jackson said two anonymous Point Loma donors and the county deserve kudos for stepping forward to assist with paying for the cost of the new sign, which he noted cost approximately $12,000.