Record numbers turn out for Coastal Cleanup Day  Waterways around San Diego are a little bit cleaner this week following a record-breaking turnout for the 25th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day. An estimated 65,000 pounds of trash was removed from 80 cleanup sites during the California Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 19.  A total of 9,587 volunteers participated at the event’s 80 cleanup sites – a record number. Trash bagged ranged from the expected — cigarette butts, bottle caps and plastic bags — to the unexpected, including an ATM machine, a fake nose and pickles. MBREA golf tourney benefits Pacific Beach Elementary School Golfers can take time off for a full day on the links, all for a good cause. The Mission Bay Real Estate Association (MBREA) is sponsoring the ninth annual Links for Learning charity golf tournament benefitting Pacific Beach Elementary School on Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. on Riverwalk Golf Course in Mission Valley. Participants get a golf cart, lunch, a goody bag and dinner, all for the entry fee of $150. Raffle prizes include a Palm Desert condo stay, rounds of golf, clubs, wine, and dinners.To sign up or to become a sponsor, call Don Brown, (619) 908-3407. Candlestick attacker sentenced to five years Andrew Lee Spedding, 34, has been sentenced to five years in state prison for assaulting a Pacific Beach woman in her bed with a candlestick. Spedding pleaded guilty to burglary and assault on Daphne Huckaby, who received six stitches at a hospital for head and facial injuries July 12. Spedding, who is also known as Andrew Howe, broke into the home through a window during the night. Spedding pleaded guilty before San Diego Superior Court JudgeKathleen Lewis, and asked for immediate sentencing. Lewisfined him $1,120 and denied probation, according to court records. Spedding did not know the woman or her husband. Man gets one year for breaking woman’s nose Vinzen Matthew Williams, 21, was sentenced Sept. 14 to one year in county jail and ordered to attend anger management classes for twice punching a lesbian musician outside a Mission Beach restaurant after she had hugged and kissed her girlfriend. Rhythm Turner, 25, suffered a broken nose and broken eye socket in the incident on May 14. Pacific Beach man found guilty of attempted murder and rape A jury on Sept. 15 convicted Pacific Beach resident Walter Cordell, 53, of premeditated attempted murder, assault, making a criminal threat and rape of his former girlfriend that came before an 11-hour standoff with SWAT officers on May 30, 2008. Deputy District Attorney Lindsey Krause said Cordell faces several life terms in prison. The 45-year-old victim was beaten in the head with a sledgehammer and suffered a broken arm along with “hours of repeated sexual assault,” said Krause. San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn set sentencing for Oct. 15. Cordell remains in the George Bailey Detention Facility without bail. The victim testified Cordell told her to close her eyes, saying he had “a surprise” for her. Seconds later she was hit with a 2-pound sledgehammer. She escaped, and paramedics took her to a hospital, but Cordell barricaded himself in the Wrelton Drive house all night. SWAT officers threw tear gas canisters into the house and he eventually came outside 11 hours later. Beach & Bay Press photo contest nears the Oct. 5 deadline, Beach & Bay Press seeks entries from amateur photographers who have shot scenes of the Pacific Beach or Mission Beach area and who wish to submit them in the paper’s annual Amateur Photo Contest. Photos must have been taken between October ’08 and October ’09, and are due Oct. 5. The public will judge the photos by voting at the Beach & Bay Press booth during the Oct. 10 BeachFest in Pacific Beach. Prizes will be awarded for the top three photos, which will be published in the Beach & Bay Press. Visit beachandbaypress.com for full information.