Saturday, May 19.  We meet at the Powerhouse Park at 8:30 for a light breakfast.  The walk, to the Torrey Pines Beach and back, begins at 9:00.  Families are encouraged to walk together.

Please click here to be taken to the online event registration form.   Families: $60.  Individual: $25.  Child under 12: $15.

You are invited to a series of forums to discuss the formation of a County Arts Council. 

Thursday, May 24, from 6 to 8pm at the Powerhouse

Thursday, June 28th, 6-8:00 pm at the Lyceum Theatre in Downtown San Diego at the Horton Plaza

The Council would unite cities in planning for the arts and supporting each other's offerings as well as submitting joint applications for funding future programs.  details>>

Note: There is a San Diego City Arts Council but it does not represent the rest of the county. 

Week of May 14 :  New Trash Carts delivered this week 

You can expect your new trash carts to be delivered the week of May 14.  A blue cart is used for all recycle trash and the grey/black for household trash.  

If you are gone on your regularly scheduled trash day, please arrange with a neighbor to bring the carts to your property.

Dear Editors:

This attempt to urbanize the north county coast will be the single biggest detriment to the quality of life that Del Mar, Solana Beach and Carmel Valley have ever seen.  It won't matter what the Village Specific Plans are for our individual communities, as this kind of dense development will cement the fate of this region.....please write a letter, and please sign the petition and pass this along to others who care.

Thanks,
Drew Cady, Stratford Court

The Cirque du Soleil has set up at the fairgrounds occupying all, or nearly all, of the main paved parking lot.  Grading and earth moving has also occurred on the East Overflow Lot (EOL) and South Overflow Lot (SOL) in the past few days. Can they be planning to use the EOL for Cirque du Soleil parking? 

These pictures were taken on Friday, April 20th at about 6 pm. It looks like they took the dirt that had been piled in the SOL and spread it around on the EOL in preparation for parking.  They have done significant grading and earth moving, and have once again impeded the ability of the EOL and SOL to return to wetland status. The earth they are moving looks as if it came from barns as it is full of trash and debris.

We understand the Coastal Commission enforcement staff is "looking into" the situation.  These photos show the problem activities are still ongoing.

The Cirque du Soleil has set up at the fairgrounds occupying all, or nearly all, of the main paved parking lot.

Grading and earth moving has also occurred on the East Overflow Lot (EOL) and South Overflow Lot (SOL) in the past few days.

The earth they are moving looks as if it came from barns.

It is full of trash and debris.

Beach Safety Center

The Friends of the Powerhouse is proud to announce the beautiful, new Beach Safety Center (Lifeguard Tower) is ahead of schedule and will be complete before the summer rush. The project includes a new walkway, garden and seating area. Groundbreaking took place on October 3rd, 2011 and construction started October 19th.

There is still time for everyone to participate. Here are the choices: Staff Locker - $350.00; Bricks - $250.00; and Planks for the new walkway - $1000.00.
Please call 755-1641 or go online to www.friensofthepowerhouse.org/ for info.

Sandpiper
3-Year Fundraising Goal
$ 75,000 / 80%

Donations to Date
$63,000

dEr Sandpiper Editors:

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4 xampl, IK d Sandpiper S preoccupied W d wrd count of evryting dey prnt. dis, I imajn, S due 2 d fact dat wrds transl8 N2 column inches, n column inches r XpNsiv!

hrs w@ I propose: Nstead of printn d Sandpiper n en, as uv done sinC 1997, Y? dnt u prnt it n txtN lingo. dis w%d cut dwn d column inches n w%d av gr8r appeal 4 Del’s Mar’s yungA citizens.

Cutting dwn on column inches n @ d same tym increasn yr audience appeal, w%d clearly transl8 N2 Big $!

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Percy Strings, Del Mar Terrace

Editor’s note: Thx Prc, we wl put yr sgstion whr it blngs

Garden Project Gets Life by Art Olson

The SANDPAPER put out this outrageous April Fool’s story. We hope most found its foolhardy fantasies amusing. In any case, here are two responses to our April Fool’s story, which may have turned the joke on us, since we’ve been unable to identify the contributors as Del Mar residents.  Original piece

Let’s Get Real

Just curious ... Is the article by Art Olson published on April 1, 2012 an April Fool’s Day joke or is it real?

Thank you. Claudia Job Kennedy

Brain #@*&

The article by Art Olson is either a travesty or a tongue-in-cheek spoof for the Del Mar business persons to ponder. Such a manifestation of a “Del Mar Correctional Center” is certainly a “brain #@*&” of huge proportions... simply ghastly!

The editor, Art Olson, should have visited some communities with such a facility and determined if that added any form of “status” to the community. The dollar signs must have blinded him or twisted his weak mind to entertain such a project. It is a very negative attribute Del Mar doesn’t need. Visit El Cajon and see all the wonderful businesses around the city’s jail, or any other jail oriented town. They’re disasters from a community’s quality of life standpoint and will always be so.

Sincerely, Richard White

Q: The whole town seems to be “all atwitter” over the plans being made to shrink Camino Del Mar into one cart-width (as you have put it) each way. Apparently part of the idea is to mitigate the effect of through traffic on our village. Isn’t there some other way of accomplishing this? - j.y.

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When the word “mansionization” was first introduced into the Del Mar development vocabulary it addressed combining two lots to allow a large FAR (floor area ratio) residence and other livable space on the enlarged property. Today mansionization is rearing its ugly bulk and mass on single lots through developments with massive basements and equally massive covered outdoor “living or entertainment” areas.  more>>

..... The large, snowy- white Victorian Edelweiss house

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• Developer pulling out all stops   more>>
  from the website What Price Main Street? 
  

• Unmitigated Failure   more>>
  Bob Fuchs

• LIKABLE LOOP    more>>
  Ann Gardner

• Too Clever X4   more>>
  Gabriele M. Prater
  

The previous edition of the Del Mar Sandpiper introduced three candidates pursuing the District Three Supervisorial position in San Diego County: Dave Roberts, Carl Hilliard and Steve Danon. If one of the candidates receives over 50 percent of the votes cast on June 5th, he wins the position; otherwise the election of November 6th will yield the final determination.    more>>

“Avez-vous visité la France?” Oui, Oui! We replied in chorus. At least we got that right. It became more difficult after that since the entire class was conducted in French – except when frustration resulted in English.

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Deliveries of our new waste carts will begin the week of May 14. You should receive both the cart for solid waste and recycle cart, ordered last month, on your regular trash day. If you plan to be out of town please make arrangements with neighbors to bring the carts onto your property.  more>>

At the April 10th meeting of the Del Mar Planning Commission several residents, many from the North Beach area, expressed their opposition to the Traffic/Parking Advisory Committee’s (TPAC) “paid parking” proposal. Some, however, believe that these recommendations are one of the few ways that Del Mar residents and visitors can fairly share the costs of maintaining the beach for all of us.    more>>

Mercedes Martin came to Del Mar to work for Jim Sandoval in the Planning Department in 1988. At that time her son was 2 years old and she was working full-time while going to school half-time. Early in 1994 then City Manager Lauraine Brekke-Esparza promoted her to City Clerk where she has served Del Mar for 18 years.

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