Parents invited to tour Bird Rock school Bird Rock Elementary will host a tour of the school today, Feb. 4 from 10 to 11:45 a.m. A reception will follow the tour for parents of prospective students to meet the school’s principal, kindergarten teachers, PTA members, Governance Team and parents. The tour is open to adults only. The school is located at 5371 La Jolla Hermosa Blvd. For more information call (858) 488-0537.   La Jolla man pleads guilty to stabbing in PB Agahan Alemdar, 23, of La Jolla, will be sentenced Feb. 10 after pleading guilty to stabbing a man he had an argument with in a courtyard of a Pacific Beach apartment complex. Alemdar faces a maximum four-year prison term in the Aug. 3, 2009, assault upon Nathaniel Thompkins, said Deputy District Attorney Steve Marquardt. Alemdar stabbed Thompkins in the neck and Thompkins had to receive emergency surgery in a hospital. The incident took place around 4 p.m. at an apartment building at 1038 Hornblend St. Alemdar drove off in a green BMW, but surrendered to San Diego Police the next day. San Diego Superior Court Judge Howard Shore changed his $100,000 bail to no bail following the guilty plea on Jan. 11. Alemdar admitted to personally inflicting “great bodily injury” to the victim, Marquardt said. Alemdar remains in the George Bailey Detention Facility. Snorkelers rescued off Shell Beach Last weekend’s high surf and strong rip currents sent lifeguards into the water to rescue two people snorkeling at Shell Beach in La Jolla and a surfer at Black’s Beach on Jan. 31. Lifeguards rescued the two snorkelers at Shell Beach, north of Children’s Pool, after they were swept away by strong rip currents around 1:30 p.m., according to lifeguard Lt. Andy Lerum. A seasonal lifeguard in his mid-20s was injured when his board hit him in the back while surfing at Black’s Beach around 2:25 p.m. Two La Jolla Shores lifeguards and a supervisor responded to the 911 call with a truck and Jetski, leaving two lifeguards to monitor La Jolla Shores, Lerum said. Recent storms had washed away the access road, however, and the lifeguards had to run the last 300 yards to the injured surfer. The fire department helicopter transported the surfer to Scripps Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for a contusion but did not break any bones. Peters picks Port position over CCC Former District 1 City Councilman Scott Peters will not serve as an alternate for the California Coastal Commission, since the state Attorney General ‘s Office informed Peters he could not simultaneously represent the San Diego Port Commission and the Coastal Commission.   “I wish to remain a member of the Port Commission, where I have important work on economic development and environmental protection in the San Diego region,” Peters wrote in a Jan. 27 letter to the governor’s office. “Accordingly, I regret that I must hereby decline my appointment as an alternate member of the Coastal Commission.” Coastal commissioner Khatchik Achadjian of San Luis Obispo had appointed Peters as her alternate. Peters previously served on the Coastal Commission from 2002-’05. Both positions are unpaid.  Holiday Inn, neighbors monitor illegal dumping The empty lot next to the Holiday Inn on La Jolla Boulevard had become a dumping ground for someone’s furniture. Except that this person — or persons — seems to have a never-ending supply of couches that continue to find their way to the Electric Avenue alleyway in the middle of the night. Couches were appearing two or three times per week for five years. “It was an absolute abuse of the citizens of La Jolla,” said Glen Rasmussen, president of the Streetscape/Beautific-ation committee and a trustee of Promote La Jolla. “If couches were back there, the homeless would sleep on them.” The Streetscape/Beautification Committee, a joint committee of Promote La Jolla and the La Jolla Town Council, worked with neighbors and the Holiday Inn to periodically watch the lot for culprits. Meanwhile, Junk MD agreed to haul the discarded furniture away for free.  “Junk MD is the real hero,” said Susan Knapp, general manager at the Holiday Inn. “They came and dumped it at no cost. They came three or four times in the past eight months.” Two months ago, a Holiday Inn manager caught two men dropping off some bar bells and a bench press. The men, in their 20s, drove away when the clerk asked if they had permission to leave the items. So far, no couches have appeared. “Everyone is looking for a good spot to put their stuff and this seemed like a good place,” said Holiday Inn manager Randy Abbley.