A GoFundMe page has been established to help Mother’s Saloon in Ocean Beach rebuild. The restaurant suffered a major fire over the weekend.
By Geoff Page
The Midway-Pacific Highways Planning Group held its first monthly meeting of 2021, Wednesday, January 20, using the Zoom meeting on-line system. The only action item was a request for support from an all-volunteer organization that is advocating strongly for how parks are treated in the City’s new Complete Communities Plan. They don’t like some of what they see and they are alerting the public.
The “Parks and Recreation Coalition,” or PARC, consists of “city planners, landscape architects, architects, and community planners, each volunteering to improve the Parks Master Plan.” Some of the names are familiar including activist Tom Mullaney and former Planning Commission member Carolyn Chase. Here is the fill list of volunteers from PARC’s presentation:
Susan Baldwin, Nico Calavita, Carolyn Chase, Julie Corrales, Howard Greenstein, Diane Kane, Debby Knight, Stacey LoMedico, Tom Mullaney, Deborah Sharpe, Rene Smith, Mike Stepner, Andy Wiese, Wally Wulfeck
PARC has an immediate need for support of comments and requests PARC is putting to city council concerning the Parks Master Plan, or PMP, component of the Complete Communities Plan. These volunteers have pored over the city’s plan and found it wanting. The most serious concern, among a number, is the city’s proposal to completely drop the current design standard of 2.6 acres of park land per 1,000 residents in favor of a highly flawed points system.
by Ernie McCray
Feeling so relieved
these days,
joyful
for this chance
to change our ways
to what “normal”
used to be,
when the news
didn’t necessarily
give you the blues,
a feeling of being
alive,
like a young eagle
taking to the skies
soaring above
dark clouds that
for years
dropped rainstorms
of confusions and lies,
Stormy sunset in Ocean Beach by Cameron Crombie Reid, Jan. 23, 2021. Cameron said, “These iPhone 12s really do a great job.”
The Ocean Beach Town Council (OBTC) Board of Directors is now accepting Candidate Statements for the 2021 board election.
If you would like to take your community involvement to the next level, here’s a great opportunity to do so.
As a volunteer OBTC Director you would help to plan and organize the many local OB events produced by the Town Council. You will also serve as an elected voice communicating the views and needs of the community to the appropriate agencies, be at the forefront of community discussions, take appropriate action on community issues and be a leader in promoting the general betterment of Ocean Beach.
There are 15 seats on the Board of Directors. OBTC members elect Board Members for two-year terms. Half of the Board stands for election every year. This year, eight seats are up for election.
If you would like to be considered for candidacy, please submit your Candidate Statement to: www.obtowncouncil.org/election no later than Monday, January 25, 2021 at 11:59pm.
The Ocean Beach Planning Board will hold its first monthly meeting of the new year on Wednesday, January 6. It will be held virtually via Cisco WebEx – and you can register for the meeting (see below).
The main item on the short agenda is the formation of an election committee to oversee the annual community election to the Board in March. Every year in March, about half the Board seats are open for election. And it’s quite an honor – and responsibility – to sit on the Board and represent your district.
In fact, now is a good time to think about running for the Board. You don’t have to be an engineer, a social scientist, or planner, you just have to be interested in your OB community, its history, and concerned for its future.
Here are some of the Board Member and Candidate Eligibility requirements & Instructions
January Events All events are online and free unless stated otherwise.
San Diego Real Estate Industry Awards “Public Official of the Year” to Trio – Including Jen Campbell
By Bernie Sanders / CNN 
ACE – or Albert C Elliott – has shared some New Year surfing pics. And here they are – ‘surfing off the big jetty,’ in color and black & white – the days of the storm surf.
Here is the full text of Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” which she delivered at the Biden-Harris inauguration:
Straight-Up With a Twist
By Colleen O’Connor
Ken Stone over at 
By Eugene Robinson / 
Editordude: The following column by Thomas Ultican was written before the announcement that President-Elect Biden had chosen Cindy Marten for his education team.
An unidentified woman is fighting for her life after she was thrown from an electric scooter after it struck a crack in the road in Ocean Beach.
There are two projects up for review at the Wednesday night meeting of the Project Review Committee – a sub-committee of OB’s Planning Board.
By Colleen O’Connor
Older San Diegans who know their local history might get a chuckle – or grimace – over this photo of Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro exiting the West Wing.
By Emily Sinsky and Zachary Searight / 
by: 
Is Impeaching the President an Act of Bravery?
From 
Dustin Trotter of Defend East County, was just elected to the Santee City Council (by just 5 votes)
By Michael Moore / Michael Moore’s Facebook Page – 
Chris January 25, 2021 at 7:46 pm on GoFundMe Page Set Up to Help Mother’s Saloon in Ocean Beach RebuildNo worries. She used to work @ Lucy's. My wife and I were chatting with her about new plans when things get back to normal(ish),...
Frank Gormlie January 25, 2021 at 7:44 pm on GoFundMe Page Set Up to Help Mother’s Saloon in Ocean Beach RebuildWell, I'll tell you, Don, if they still supported trump at this point, I'd take down the post. The OB Rag is not going to...
Geoff Page January 25, 2021 at 7:37 pm on GoFundMe Page Set Up to Help Mother’s Saloon in Ocean Beach RebuildDo they have insurance on the place, does anyone know? 
Janet Miller January 25, 2021 at 7:27 pm on Feeling the Joy? 
Don January 25, 2021 at 7:15 pm on GoFundMe Page Set Up to Help Mother’s Saloon in Ocean Beach RebuildWas trying to respond to frank asking their political affiliation 
Douglas Blackwood January 25, 2021 at 7:05 pm on Info on the Recall of Jen CampbellJen, you gotta: GO GO GO GO GOODBYE! 
Val January 25, 2021 at 5:58 pm on GoFundMe Page Set Up to Help Mother’s Saloon in Ocean Beach RebuildThe Trump flags that were hanging outside before the election scared me away from that place. 
