SeaWorld rekindles Christmas celebration SeaWorld is hosting its annual Christmas celebration, this year with more sights and sounds. Among the new festivities is SnowWorld, a winter wonderland of snowmen, snowballs and family fun, along with real reindeer. SeaWorld’s Christmas Celebration takes place Nov. 25-27; Dec. 3-4; Dec. 10-11; Dec. 17-31, and Jan. 1, 2012, and includes “Shamu’s Christmas,” “The Polar Express 4-D Experience,” “Clyde and Seamore’s Night Before Christmas,” “Christmas Tails,” and breakfast with Shamu and Santa (by reservation). There will also be the nightly lighting of SeaWorld’s 320-foot Christmas Tree of Lights. Other attractions and activities: • Turtle Reef, an interactive attraction featuring a 300,000-gallon turtle aquarium; • SeaWorld’s all-new Shamu show, “One Ocean;” • “Blue Horizons,” featuring energetic bottlenose dolphins, pilot whales, a colorful array of exotic birds and human performers. Admission is $73 for ages 10 and older; $65 for ages 3–9; and free admission for children under 3. Parking $14. For more information visit www.seaworldsandiego.com or call (800) 25-SHAMU. DUI checkpoint in PB nets 12 arrests San Diego police set up a sobriety checkpoint in the 2400 block of Grand Avenue on Nov. 5, nabbing a dozen drivers suspected of driving under the influence. According to police officials, nearly 900 vehicles passed through the checkpoint and 37 of those motorists were subject to additional screening. Of that number, 12 motorists were arrested at or near the checkpoint, leading to the impound of seven vehicles. Funding for this DUI operation was provided to the San Diego Police Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Injured harbor seal, sea lion released back to sea SeaWorld animal-care specialists were able to see their nurting work through recently as they released a harbor seal and a California sea lion back into the ocean after nearly two months of medical attention and rehabilitation. Both sea animals were injured after being ensnared in fishing lines in mid-October. The animals were returned to their habitats Nov. 1. SeaWorld officials said both animals suffered a wound during the entanglements but were released without sign of infection — and with a renewed ability to forage on their own.