Month: October 2017

Called a temporary “bridge-to-housing” shelter for homeless people, the City of San Diego plans to open such a facility in the Midway District. With city hopes that it will open by December, the local site to house more than a hundred people is behind the Goodwill building along the 2700 block of Sports Arena Boulevard, and will be run by the Veterans Village of San Diego.

The Midway location is one of three temporary shelters the City plans to open. The others are:

By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press

As Hurricanes Batter the Caribbean and Southeast US, Nuke Plants in Texas and Florida Refuse to Shut Down, Heightening Risk to Already Devastated Communities

On September 19 the Austin American-Statesman ran this story “South Texas Project stayed open during Hurricane Harvey.” South Texas Project is a nuclear plant with two reactors near Bay City, TX on the Gulf Coast, 90 miles from Houston. It has been operating since the late 1980s. Austin Energy is one of three utilities that owns it.

The newspaper article’s subtitle was “Some question decision to keep Texas nuclear plant open during Harvey.”

The name “Taylor Winston” might as become a household name in Ocean Beach, for he was one of the heroes at the mass shooting at the Las Vegas country music concert Sunday night. He’s been all over the local news – and rightly so – for Taylor, a former Marine, and a friend drove up to 30 critically injured victims to a hospital.

Winston – in the middle of the carnage – “borrowed” a work truck parked with its keys nearby, loaded critical victims he could find, and drove to the Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center. He was doing this before ambulances arrived. Here is what he told

by Ernie McCray

I just left Vegas a few days ago, with very fresh memories of how loud and all aglow it was, which makes it particulary difficult for me, in these moments, to fathom a man mowing down people who are having a good time as though they were foes on a battlefield.

Such a tragedy tears at your heart and it came at a time when we Americans are already suffering as we seem to be spinning aimlessly away from embracing each other as fellow citizens.

The Ocean Beach group, “No Target in OB” is sponsoring a community rally and press conference Wednesday, October 4th at the foot of Newport Avenue. They put out the call:

For OB Lovers: No Target in Ocean Beach.

Join us for a Community Rally and Press Conference
We will start gathering at 5 pm but come when you can. Press conference at 6 pm.

Here are the four stages of how Americans respond to mass shootings, such as the horrific massacre in Las Vegas that just occurred Sunday night:

The Four Stages

Stage 1:

Grief and outrage and condemnation.

Laying a NEW Foundation

at the
Ocean Beach Woman’s Club
Thursday, October 5th from 5:00-8:00

Come join the Ocean Beach Woman’s Club members and supporters for a social gathering celebrating the community who helped them ‘Lay a NEW Foundation!’

By John Thickstun, Esq.

In February 2016, Senator Dianne Feinstein received a letter from a concerned San Diego resident about the growing number of short term vacation rentals in her neighborhood.

Senator Dianne Feinstein replied:

I believe that the growth of short term vacation rentals will also cause the already high cost of living to further increase and exacerbate the shortage of affordable housing, as homeowners and renters will leave their units to rent them out to hotel users.”

The Coastal bluff repair project from the Inn at Sunset Cliffs returns to the Ocean Beach Planning Board Wednesday night, October 4th at the monthly meeting.

The meeting begins at 6pm inside the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue.

The only project before the Board is the Inn at Sunset Cliffs coastal bluff repair, at 1370 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The Board does have other business, such as:

• West Mission Bay Dr. Bridge report
• Catalina Emergency Pipeline replacement
• Soccer City project.

Here is the official agenda.

By South OB Girl

Areas with dead trees at Dusty Rhodes Park have been cleared of them. And the stumps were removed as well. This was a two phase process, with separate equipment required for stump removal, according to Monica Honore, the area manager for Parks and Rec.

Some of the changes we see happening at Dusty Rhodes Park are occurring because the City is currently maintaining the park. The contract with Aztec Landscaping wrapped up at the end of June 2017, and City staff have now been taking care of the park.

A gunman who fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip has killed at least 58 people, police say. Some 515 people were injured in the mass shooting and panic that ensued. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

The suspect in the case is also dead. He’s been identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, a white male who is a resident of Nevada.