Thanks for helping with PB Day at the Fair
Thanks to the following people and businesses who attended or who provided product for our giveaway at this year’s Pacific Beach Day at the San Diego County Fair.
People and businesses that attended the fair were Barbara Marker, Tom Plonka, Art by Jessi, Pacific Coast Bicycles, Aquatic Adventure, Da Glassworks, B-cat Threads, Illuminate Your Life, Hot Rod Surf, Hanson Sodas, 92109 Codewear, San Diego Scooters and your Pacific Beach Town Council.
Providing product this year were Pacific Nissan, Star Surfing Company, Vons, Ralphs, Staples, Teaser’s Hair Salon, San Diego National Bank, Dziner Eyez, Lotsa Pasta, RT’s Longboard and Grill, Broken Yolk, Subway, SeaWorld, Fred’s, Eat, Drink and Sleep and Discover Pacific Beach.
Thanks again to my many volunteers, with special thanks to Lee Houck and Ashley Rhoades, who went a little extra to help me out, and also to the businesses in Pacific Beach who helped make this the great town that we live in.
Thanks, everyone.
Karl Jaedtke
Chair, PBTC Day at the Fair
Gotch commercialized park against voters’ wishes
I have long wondered why Eve Anderson and others of the PB establishment have for so long harbored such affection for Mike Gotch after he so egregiously betrayed Pacific Beach and Mission Beach.
Finally the answer has come in her column in the Beach & Bay Press (Small World, June 12).
It had occurred to me that their affections might be prompted by Mike’s good looks ” and I note that Mrs. Anderson did mention “the boyishly good-looking candidate.” But I see that Gotch’s looks aren’t the only answer; Mrs. Anderson has fallen prey to the all-too-human tendency to never find any fault with those to whom we have committed. She managed his campaign from the beginning and apparently never got over her feelings of devotion.
In case The Beach and Bay Press’ readers have forgotten, or never knew, Gotch told the people of PB/MB that he would support turning Belmont Park into an honest-to-goodness park, after the idea of a commercial development was put on the ballot in 1986 and turned down by the people by 2-1.
Then when the vote came in the City Council, he voted to turn it into the commercial area that you see today. Interestingly enough, Gotch’s chief fundraiser’s spouse was the co-developer for the project.
I think about this every time I wander through Belmont Park and contemplate its uncertain commercial success, with many empty buildings to this day.
Then I consider what a splendid oceanside park it could have become, except for Mike Gotch’s betrayal.
Alan Campbell
Pacific Beach
Governor’s budget plan shortchanges CSU
The governor’s May revision, while seeking to restore some critical funding to the California State University system, still falls short of the minimum needed to stop the door from closing on qualified students’ admission to the CSU. At this crucial economic juncture, it is imperative that the CSU continue to get the resources it needs to produce a highly skilled workforce and increase college-going rates of underserved communities in California.
The CSU still faces $215 million in reduced funding and serious fiscal challenges plus $124 million in mandatory cost increases not covered by state funds, including rising health care and energy bills. Without funding to mitigate these costs, students will be facing a closed door when trying to enter the CSU this fall and current students may see an eroding quality of education.
I believe this is the wrong direction for the state to go; cuts to the CSU will only hurt California’s economy by reducing the number of qualified and trained individuals in key job industries.
We need to ensure that there is adequate funding for educating the next generation!
Sophia Habl Mitchell
Ocean Beach