{"id":244449,"date":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/uptown-briefs-3\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T07:00:00","slug":"uptown-briefs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/uptown-briefs-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mission Hills’ French Marche<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe Mission Hills Business Improvement District will be holding the Mission Hills March\u00e9, a French-inspired street festival, on July 23, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

The March\u00e9 will include businesses along Goldfinch and Washington Streets as well as Fort Stockton Drive. There will be handcrafted art, paintings, unique gifts, jewelry, fashion accessories, glass art, silks, cards, home d\u00e9cor and more on display by Mission Hills artists, as well as food, drinks, special promotions and coupons offered by businesses along the March\u00e9.<\/p>\n

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. there will be live French music performed by accordionist Lou Fanucchi, and performances by Bviolin and the Gypsy Knights Ensemble from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Meshuggah Shack parking lot at 4048 Goldfinch St.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit missionhillssandiego.org.<\/p>\n

Two San Diego residents newly inducted into the ASLA Council of Fellows<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recently inducted 40 new members to its 2011 Council of Fellows.<\/p>\n

Two of these new members come from San Diego, one from the Uptown area.<\/p>\n

Kelly Broughton, who lives in Encinitas, was inducted into the Leadership\/Management category, and Laura Burnett, who lives in Little Italy, was inducted into the Works category.<\/p>\n

Broughton has served as San Diego\u2019s principal landscape architect since 1989, playing a key role in San Diego\u2019s small-business development, affordable housing, government efficiency and sustainability.<\/p>\n

Burnett, who just opened her own practice called Burnett Land and Water, does community service work with The Cultural Landscape Foundation and serves as a board member for the ACE Mentor Program. She is a LEED accredited professional and has been involved in the LEED process for a variety of projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaura cares profoundly about the ways landscapes are made and how they engage the public,\u201d said David Reed, ASLA San Diego Chapter President in a release. \u201cA gifted designer and skilled project manager, she brings to her work a strong commitment to the principles of sustainability and the cultural, functional, and aesthetic interface of human activity and natural systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of the inductees will be publically recognized at the 2011 ALSA Annual Meeting and EXPO from Oct. 30 through Nov. 2 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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\nAdopt a new pet at the third annual doggie street festival<\/strong>The third annual Doggie Street Festival, July 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Liberty Station, 2600 Cushing Rd., is Southern California\u2019s largest dog-adoption festival.<\/p>\n

Over the last two years, the festival has found more than 250 shelter dogs homes, and with the goal of increasing awareness about pet adoption, this year is expected to be no different.<\/p>\n

The Doggie Street Festival will also provide information about pet care, training, health and general well-being. There will be a photo booth, a kid\u2019s area, food and treats for your dog. There will be pet adoptions available from rescue groups from all over San Diego County. For more information, visit doggiestreetfestival.org.<\/p>\n

NPMS welcomeds a new executive director<\/strong>
\nNorth Park Main Street (NPMS) is saying goodbye to Executive director Liz Studebaker whose last day will be today July 22, and welcoming its executive director, Angela Landsberg.<\/p>\n

The July mixer, held on July 21 at Queen Bee\u2019s Center for Arts & Culture, 3925 Ohio St., was dedicated to wishing Liz goodbye and good luck and welcoming Angela as the new director with drinks, appetizers and a cake from Heaven Sent Desserts.<\/p>\n

Uptown road repairs underway<\/strong>
\nCouncilmember Todd Gloria announced earlier this week that 12 streets in Council District 3 would have repair work begun by today\u2014starting with filling the surface cracks on Boundary Street on July 21. Additional\u00a0street repairs and repaving around the city were already taken care of on July 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cContrary to how some may feel, infrastructure work like street repairs is exciting to me,\u201d Gloria said in a statement. \u201cIt shows our commitment to core services and literally protects the foundation of our City.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to this proposed work on streets such as Kansas, 31st, Upas and 30th, a list of street segments has already been approved by the City Council to receive repair work in the upcoming months, including parts of El Cajon Boulevard, Madison Avenue and Felton Street.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Gloria releases statement about Plaza de Panama.<\/p>\n

On July 19, City Council decided to move forward with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Plaza de Panama Committee in order to complete environmental reports concerning potential projects that would alter the Plaza de Panama area of Balboa Park.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Todd Gloria released a statement in response to this decision, saying that the approval of a MOU is necessary to accomplish an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) which is in turn a necessary step when considering removing parking and traffic issues within the Plaza de Panama.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I have strong concerns about the potential impacts of the Plaza de Panama Committee\u2019s proposed project, I am interested in having the analysis of the project and alternatives so that when the time comes I can weigh all of the possibilities in the correct context,\u201d Gloria said in his statement. \u201cThe MOU does not commit me or the City Council to supporting the project once the EIR is completed.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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