The Sandpiper

inside the July 2008 sandpiper

pdf version of the July 2008 issue

The Necessary Cost of Clean Water by Dave Druker

Limits to Growth a guest editorial by John Kerridge

Conflict Sprouts in the Garden by Sam Borgese

Let's Eat Our Yards by Mary Friestedt

Keep Our Beaches Dry by Jon Edelbrock

Historic Pink Lady Gets Makeover by Art Olson

Al JaCoby, 1927-2008 by Carol Mason

Barbara Schneiderman, 1935-2008 by the Schneiderman family

Speaking Confidence for a Lifetime by Bertha Leone

Cathy's Perspective: Differing Ideas about Summer by Catherine D

Where the City Meets the Wildland by Dismas Abelman

Thank you from the Winston School

We Know What You're Doing by Susan Miller

Revitalization: A Proposal Too FAR? by Mark Whitehead and Wayne Dernetz

July Community Calendar

Community Connections

Corrections to our June Issue

The Necessary Cost of Clean Water
by Dave Drucker

Everyone wants clean water to drink and wants the water that drains into our ocean and lagoons to be clean. In the past, Del Mar has done a good job of ensuring the water that goes into our oceans and lagoons is clean. But over the past seven years, the state has mandated a number of changes that have increased the expense for monitoring and ensuring the cleanliness of the water that is discharged into our oceans and lagoons. more>>

San Diegito Lagoon on July 27. more>>

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Revitalization: A Proposal too FAR? by Mark Whitehead and Wayne Dernetz

“The only incentive is increasing FAR”, argued councilmember Richard Earnest in describing the willingness of property owners to invest in improving the village commercial center. more>>

Historic pink lady gets makeover
by Art Olson

After four years of intensive work, careful restoration, and architecturally sensitive additions, the renovation of the house on Avenida Primavera originally built by Charles A. Canfield in 1910 has finally been completed. Known alternately as the Canfield-Wright House, Wrightland, and The Pink Lady, this Spanish Revival house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and reflects the rich history of Del Mar over the past 100 years. more>>

conflict sprouts in the garden
by Sam Borgese

From the tone of the recent Planning Commission meeting, it sounds as though, despite 40 to 70 (depending on how one counts)