Month: April 2018

Complete Text of King’s Last Speech (inside)

In U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love) Bono sings:

Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

These lines are about the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4th, 1968 – 50 years ago. King was in Memphis where he had gone to provide support and encouragement to 1300 African-American sanitation workers who had walked off their jobs in that city.

The day before he was assassinated, King gave his final speech, known as ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech.

Nuclear Shutdown News March 2018

By Michael Steinberg / Blackrain Press

Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear power industry in the US and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those working to create a nuclear free world. Here is out March 2018 report.

Decline and Fall of San Onofre Nuclear Plant Not Over

The decline and fall of of Southern California’s San Onofre nuclear power plant still has not hit bottom. Located in Orange County, home of Disneyland, the plant operated 3 nuclear reactors. The first one started up in 1969, while Richard Nixon occupied the Western White House

The Ocean Beach Planning Board meets this Wednesday, April 4th, and by the looks of it, has a full agenda for the evening’s monthly meeting.The Board meets every month in the Community Room of the OB Recreation Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue – and the meetings usually start sharply at six.

4763 Pescadero

On the list is a project at 4763 Pescadereo – where the owner is applying for a coastal development permit to construct “a 465 square foot, 2-story residence over a 493 square foot garage”

By Dan Dennison

For starters , understanding the fundamental issues involved with recommendations from the Park’s comprehensive Master Plan and how to accomplish them is detailed and controversial. Despite the continuing deterioration of the Park and the largely uncontrolled stormwater runoff into the Ocean it took 22 years to have a Master Plan approved.

Erosion control is the first priority of the Master Plan. Repeatedly one sees calls for an environmentally responsible comprehensive drainage study and drainage plans for the Park.

“If you can sail to Catalina,” someone once said to me, “you can sail around the world.” — From Where We Sail

Editor: Here’s a wonderful review by Anna Daniels of the sailing memoirs of our friend and Point Loman Dianne Lane, who recently released her book, From Where We Sail.

By Anna Daniels

The road trip is a well-established genre in America’s literary cannon, and Point Loman Dianne Lane’s recently released memoir From Where We Sail is an engaging narrative within this literary tradition. The full title of the book includes the additional description: A Family’s Six and a Half Year Journey Around the World on Sorcery.

The Resister Sisters of Ocean Beach have struck again and this time

A new Limebike prototype hit Ocean Beach this morning.

A reader of ours talked to the guy dropping them off on Newport Avenue.

He was showing the local the changes made in response to community feedback specific to Ocean Beach.

By Dan Dennison

Sunset Cliffs Natural Park was dedicated by the City of San Diego in 1983 as a City Park. Extending 1.5 miles along the Point Loma Peninsula’s western shoreline, it encompasses 68 acres. In 1988, the Sunset Cliffs Natural Park Recreation Council was chartered by the San Diego Park and Recreation Board as the officially recognized advisory group for Sunset Cliffs Natural Park.

Baseball is back, and, as I do every year—no matter how bad the Padres are—I enjoy re-immersing myself in the game. And, as opposed to our president who argues in this ridiculous interview that talent comes strictly from innate ability and is made manifest on the Social Darwinist proving ground of sport, I know that it’s all about focus and work. Perhaps the most important thing of all is failure that leads to more focus and work and honing one’s craft.

You alone with the thing itself.

On the diamond this cliché holds true: even the best players fail most of the time, sometimes quite badly. .