Month: May 2019

There Is a Piano at OB Hardware – and Dottie Is Still There

It’s true – there’s an upright piano at the new OB Hardward.

Mayor Wants Feedback on Scooter Corrals for Ocean Beach

Surf Check and Auto Shop at Sunset Cliffs and Pt Loma Ave Are Gone

Memorial Day Remembrance at Ft Rosecrans Cemetery Almost Didn’t Happen

Red Tide Returns to the Coast

Suspected Drunk Takes Out Tree at Voltaire & Sunset Cliffs

Campland by the Bay Wants De Anza

The Ocean Beach Green Center – in its new storefront at 4862 Voltaire – is expanding its hours starting Saturday, June 1st.

The 30-year old OB center will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Noon to 6pm, staffed by friendly and knowledgeable volunteers. Its 30-year birthday was just celebrated earlier this month – and the Center received $1,800 in donations.

Come on down, step through the front door and enter into a world of environmental, cultural and political books, magazines, posters, and other resources – most of them offered gratis as a lending library and data center.

by Judi Curry

A coincidence? Or a mistake?

I don’t profess to know everyone in San Diego. In fact, I don’t profess to know one half of one percent of the residents of San Diego, but I do know that an inordinate amount of the people I know, male and/or female, have expressed to me the same problem in the past 3 weeks.

It didn’t matter if it was Don in Imperial Beach; Irene in Santee; Hitomi in the Convoy area; Michele on Shelter Island; Lucy in La Jolla; Jackie in Encinitas; Mary on Sunset Cliffs, Larry in El Cajon, Stephanie in Sierra Mesa, or myself in Pt. Loma – we are all suffering from almost debilitating headaches. Some of the people I spoke to said that they have headaches frequently but never like this.

Others, like me, seldom ever get headaches, but these are severe.

Because mine have been so bad in the past month, I have been to my Primary Care Physician; Urgent Care; the Emergency Room; the Ophthalmologist and just last week saw the Ear Nose and Throat specialist.

What did he say?

The Dirty Birds Bar and Grill on the corner of Cable and Santa Monica looks ready. At least its interior and exterior do.

The doors have been closed and nothing seemed to be going on inside for months, while the restaurant owners dealt with the denial of their full-bar alcohol license.

But now, they’re moving ahead – and have applied for a beer and wine only license.

It seems the saga of the old Nati’s building just keeps going.

Now we have learned the Pop Pie Co. has pulled out of putting in an eatery at the site. About two weeks ago, apparently, Pop Pie Co. owners Gan Suebsarakham and Steven Torres withdrew from the enterprise after having much of the former building demolished and making other improvements.

It was in January 2018 when news broke that the popular University Heights pie shop that specialized in “handcrafted savory and sweet pies” was moving into the former long-time Ocean Beach Mexican restaurant. But it’s not to be.

At 2:00 pm on Wednesday, Mad Munch Grilled Cheezer Co. at 4871-B Newport finally threw open its doors to the public – and twenty minutes later when this reporter stepped in to take some photos – the place was busy.

The long-anticipated opening now has Kate Uhle and her fiance Zach Heinz beaming.

It took them over 600-plus days to make it happen, Kate told me.

In a sign of the changing of the guard along Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach, one of OB’s oldest “greasy-spoons” is up for lease.

The Lopez family which has owned and run the Village Kitchen for 30 to 40 years is ready to retire. Mr. Lopez and his daughter Liz have been managing it – with Mr. Lopez in the kitchen – for much of that time.

The small eatery on OB’s main commercial street – around 1,700 square feet – definitely has its fans and many in OB call it their “favorite”. It’s still open with its regular hours.

On Wednesday, May 29, Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a statement about the Russia investigation. The statement, as prepared for delivery, is available below.

By Robert Mueller / May 29, 2019

Two years ago, the Acting Attorney General asked me to serve as Special Counsel, and he created the Special Counsel’s Office.

The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign.

I have not spoken publicly during our investigation. I am speaking today because our investigation is complete. … beyond these few remarks, it is important that the office’s written work speak for itself.

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There comes a time, indeed, when we – the citizens – need to stand up for our country. We need to stand for the Rule of Law. And we need to call for Trump’s impeachment.

That time is now – this Saturday, June 1 – when OBceans and people from all over San Diego will converge on Dog Beach to spell out “Impeach” with our bodies.

Simultaneously, people at Ocean Beach in San Francisco will be doing the same thing. This will be history in the making.

It is from the grassroots that the pressure for impeachment must come – for we cannot allow Trump’s misconduct and impeachable offenses to go unanswered.

It’s a little-known story that’s not breaking through U.S. mainstream media, but something that Americans need to know:

Iraq’s leaders are vowing to stand with Iran if Iran is attacked by the United States.

Period. Now just grok that for a moment. Iraq will stand with Iran if Trump moves on Iran militarily.

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali al-Hakim made the pledge following talks with his Iranian counterpart.

Hakim said:

“We stand by our neighbor Iran, and economic sanctions are unnecessary and cause great suffering to the Iranian people.”

This is all in the midst of the US government ramping up its rhetoric against what it calls the Iranian threat.

A number of scooter companies apparently have drawn up a list and map of where they want the City to install “scooter corrals” throughout Ocean Beach. They call them “Micro-Mobility Parking Corrals”.

The OB Planning Board was sent the list of locations and maps by the Mayors office. And the Mayor’s office wants feedback by June 10th.

Similar to what was implemented Downtown, and to avoid impacting on-street parking spaces , the locations selected were based on utilizing red curb spaces that :

AEG manages the old Sports Arena – now Pechanga Arena – and they went to court to prevent the city from turning over how much it makes to the group that owns the San Diego Gulls that is bidding to take over management

By Andrew Keatts / Voice of San Diego

The city of San Diego finds itself in the middle of what’s becoming a bitter fight between the company that runs Pechanga Arena and the venue’s most high-profile tenant. But the central contention of that dispute should be moot by July, when the two sides are scheduled to hash it out in court.

Last month, San Diego officials started accepting bids to run Pechanga Arena – the Midway district venue long known as the Sports Arena