Beach alcohol ban extension on agenda
The La Jolla Town Council’s Parks and Beaches Committee will discuss an extension of the beach alcohol ban at its next meeting on Monday, Aug. 27 at 4 p.m.
Citizens have requested expanding the ban, which currently covers La Jolla Shores and Marine Street beaches. Public comment will be heard.
The agenda also includes the Scripps Master Plan and updated plans for the lifeguard station at Casa Beach/Children’s Pool.
The meeting will take place at La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St.
Watershed Plan public comment period closing
The draft of the La Jolla Shores Coastal Watershed Management Plan is now available for public perusal and comment.
The plan, a collaboration between the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the City of San Diego and San Diego Coastkeeper, is designed to safeguard and improve water quality in two Areas of Special Biological Significance off the La Jolla coast.
Copies of the draft plan are available at the Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave., or online at www.sdcoastkeeper.org, www.ThinkBlue.org or www.cordc
.ucsd.edu.
Public comments will be accepted through Aug. 31 and can be submitted online at www.ThinkBlue.org or by mail to San Diego Coastkeeper, Attention Kate Hanley, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92106.
Pilot parking plan entails extensive paid parking
The La Jolla Community Parking District Advisory Board has released a draft of a proposed pilot parking program for La Jolla ” and as many predicted, paid on-street parking is its centerpiece.
The board proposes a one-year test of both the paid on-street parking component and a residential parking program for neighborhoods near the commercial district.
The paid on-street parking would be tested on both sides of the following streets: Prospect between Cave and Draper; Girard between Coast Boulevard to Pearl; Fay Avenue between Prospect and Pearl; Herschel Avenue from Prospect to Torrey Pines Road; Wall from Girard to Herschel; Silverado between Fay and Herschel; Kline from Fay to Herschel; Coast Boulevard from South Coast Boulevard to Prospect; and Jenner between Coast Boulevard and Prospect.
The rate initially would be set at $1 per hour, effective between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily, with a time limit of two hours except for Coast Boulevard, which would have a four-hour limit. The board also proposes a Village Parking Pass, available for $50 and good for one year. Cars with passes would still be subject to time limits, however.
Parking on residential streets surrounding La Jolla’s business district would be subject to a two-hour time limit, except for residents whose vehicles displayed a residential parking permit. The permits would be sold for $10 per year, with a limit of two registered vehicles per household. Guest passes and contractor parking permits would also be sold.
The La Jolla Community Parking District Advisory Board would collect 80 percent of the revenue generated by the pilot parking program, with the money going for implementation as well as a GPS-equipped parking enforcement vehicle, new and improved signage, street improvements and expansion of subsidized bus pass and van-pool programs.
For information, visit www.lajollabythesea.com.
Country Day to host fencing tourney
San Diego students will be “en-garde” this Sunday at the first annual Torrey Challenge, a juniors fencing tournament hosted by La Jolla Country Day School. The tournament will raise money for the San Diego Adaptive Wheelchair Sports Foundation and feature a special wheelchair fencing demonstration by the national champion Scott Rodgers.
A 2008 Paralympic Games hopeful and an instructor at the Sorrento Valley Team Touché Fencing Center, Rodgers will show competitors and spectators how to fence from an immobile wheelchair, according to Ted Padgitt, the fencing center and tournament director.
Rodgers “recently just came back from Poland, Warsaw, where he took third in epee and foil [two fencing categories] in the world, so he is a real heavyweight internationally,” Padgitt said. “He will talk and invite challengers, who always get schooled, of course, but that’s part of the fun.”
The tournament “” designed for competitors ages 11 to 20 “” will kick-start La Jolla Country Day School’s “revamped” fencing program, according to Padgitt, who is also Country Day’s newly hired head coach.
“This will be a very serious fencing program, which is unique to San Diego,” Padgitt said. “Most schools have maybe one or two practices a week, but during the competitive season at Country Day we’ll do five a week.”
Snacks and fencing equipment will also be for sale.
The tournament will begin at 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 26 in the gym at La Jolla Country Day School, 9490 Genesee Ave. Rodgers’ seminar is scheduled for 2 p.m. For more information, visit www.teamtouche.com.
Liquid Nation Ball set for La Jolla
La Jolla residents Fernando and Vicky Aguerre will host the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association’s fourth annual Liquid Nation Ball and fund-raiser on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 7:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. at their oceanfront home.
Aguerre sits on the board of directors of SIMA, a trade association made up of surf industry members, and has been hosting this event since its conception, said Joanne Forster, communications representative for SIMA.
The Liquid Nation Ball will feature live music and an open bar as well as a live auction to raise money for 13 humanitarian organizations. These organization “are all different, but all related to surfing,” Forster said. “Everything from Surfers Healing, which deals with autistic kids, to Surf Aid, which fights malaria and other diseases in Asia.”
The one-of-a-kind items to be auctioned off at the ball include a Quiksilver Heliboard, a private surf photo session with Jeff Divine, a private surf session with Laird Hamilton and exotic surf trips.
Tickets cost $300 per person and are limited to 400, sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For information and to purchase tickets, visit www.liquid-nation.com or call event coordinator Shannon Park, (949) 366 1164 ext. 2.
