August 2023

Gloria’s Homeless Encampment Didn’t Survive Hilary

August 21, 2023 by Source

Vic, a 61-year-old unsheltered man, helped others staying at Mayor Gloria’s homeless encampment to move out of the Golden Hill safe campsite before Hilary hit. Vic took the photos.

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‘I Survived Hilary’

August 21, 2023 by Source

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With the Help of Hollywood We’ll Define Ourselves

August 18, 2023 by Ernie McCray

by Ernie McCray

I see the movie industry
as a huge answer to
the way our society
defines Black people
so negatively
because Hollywood is a master
when it comes to painting an image
of a people,
as I remember growing up
watching many a movie
that made the world seem

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‘Cañon Street Crap’

August 18, 2023 by Source

The folks at Peninsula News are tired of the “Cañon Street Crap.” Here’s why (for any links, go to original):

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Pining for the ‘Dying’ Ocean Beach Pier

August 18, 2023 by Source

Long-time San Diego Reader writer Tom Arnold just wrote a cover piece entitled “Pier Review” about San Diego’s piers – and here is what he had to say about the Ocean Beach Pier — his favorite:

These days, my beloved Ocean Beach Pier has been making headlines because it is dying. The 1971-foot-long structure, with its dip in the middle and two asymmetrical arms at the end, is said to be the longest concrete pier in the world. …It hasn’t aged well.

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‘Hilary’: First Ever Tropical Storm Watch Issued for SoCal, Storm Has Potential to Be Tropical Cyclone – First One in Nearly Century

August 18, 2023 by Source

By Chris Lindahl/ Patch San Diego/ August 18, 2023

Hurricane Hilary has intensified to Category 4 status as it continues to make its way northward off the coast of Baja California Friday morning, bringing with it winds up to 140 mph.

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Latest Results in Special Election for County Supervisor Race

August 18, 2023 by Source

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The Back Story to Point Loma Pharmacies Being Sold to Vons

August 17, 2023 by Source

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Montgomery Steppe to Face Reichert in November Run-Off Election

August 17, 2023 by Frank Gormlie

It appears that Democrat Monica Montgomery Steppe will face off with hard-right Republican Amy Reichert in November’s runoff to resolve who will have the supervisor seat for District 4, according the latest from the County Registrar of Voters.

Montgomery Steppe came in with the top vote at just over 40%, holding an eleven-point lead over Reichert’s 29%.

The other Democrat in the Special Election to replace Nathan Fletcher, Janessa Goldbeck, came in at 25.3%. And the other Republican, Paul McQuigg, garnered 5%. McQuigg didn’t run any visible campaign.

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Friends of OB Library Newsletter – Mid-August 2023

August 17, 2023 by Source

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How to Stop SB9 & SB10 and Other Unwanted Building Codes? Support the Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative

August 15, 2023 by Source

By Leighann O’Reilly

Support the Our Neighborhood Voices initiative.

The Our Neighborhood Voices initiative restores the authority of your local representatives to decide what gets built in your community, on your street, and right next door to where you live.

We are organizing a campaign to bring back our neighborhood voices in local planning with a 2024 statewide ballot measure.

In San Diego, this means a two-step process to ensure voters have a say in their housing codes:

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Playing with Fire

August 15, 2023 by Source

Why are San Diego City leaders tempting fate with single-family zoning loopholes in high-risk fire zones?

By Sandra Johnson / Neighbors for a Better San Diego

The first call came in at 11:52 a.m. on Sunday, June 30, 1985, but the fire was already out of control when the first units arrived. By 1:00 p.m. it had gone to four alarms and formal evacuations were in progress. By evening, the Normal Heights fire zone was more than a mile long and a half mile wide.

Everyone thinks it won’t happen to them.

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OB Planning Project Review: Dish Wireless at St. Peter’s Church — Wed., Aug.16

August 15, 2023 by Source

Planners, applicants, and interested members of the public are invited to Wednesday’s meeting of the OB Planning Board Project Review Committee, Aug. 16.  The sub-committee will be meeting at their regular time and location this month, at the OB Rec Center at 6pm.

There is one project on the agenda. St. Peter’s By-the-Sea at 1371 Sunset Cliffs Blvd has submitted an application for a conditional use permit and coastal development permit to install a Dish Wireless with 3 panel antennas and 6 remote radio units and a bunch of ancillary equipment.

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Beauty on the Point

August 15, 2023 by Source

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Trump Wins Again

August 15, 2023 by Source

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Navy Mum as It Evaluates Shortlist of Redevelopment Teams for NAVWAR Property

August 14, 2023 by Staff

Having received proposals from redevelopment teams for the NAVWAR property last week, the Navy is absolutely mum on the number and types of proposals and who are the teams and their financial models and development schedules. It’s the final leg of the eating frenzy to select who will remake this huge prime piece of real estate.

Jennifer van Grove at the U-T reported late last week:

The United States Navy has moved into the final leg of a real estate competition to replace its obsolete NAVWAR facilities and remake the rest of the 70.3-acre military campus that bumps up against Interstate 5 in San Diego’s Midway District.

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Water Advisory Still In Effect at Dog Beach

August 14, 2023 by Staff

The County is still issuing a water advisory for Dog Beach in Ocean Beach due to high levels of bacteria and are advising people and pets to avoid water contact.

The advisory for Dog Beach has been in effect since August 3.

Station: San Diego River outlet to 300′ South (FM-010)
Status Since: August 3, 2023
Bacteria levels exceed health standards. Avoid water contact in the advisory area.

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‘NTC Centennial’ by OB Historical Society — Thursday, Aug.17

August 14, 2023 by Source

Aug. 17th, OBHS presents “NTC CENTENNIAL”

Join the Ocean Beach Historical Society on August 17, 2023, at 7 PM, for the NTC Centennial program.

The presenter is by Eric DuVall, OBHS prez, at Waters Edge Faith Church at 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.

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Point Loma Bakery Locks Door During Business Hours Due to Disruptions by Unhoused People – Customers Need to Ring Bell

August 14, 2023 by Source

A Point Loma bakery has announced that they are in “lock down until further notice” due to disruptions by unhoused people at their business.

Phatties Bake Shop in the 4100 block of Voltaire Street will still be open during business hours, but customers need to ring a bell for admittance. The bake shop continues to be open to the public daily from 7 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The owners say that they’ve been dealing with unhoused people stealing products, destroying property, coming in and screaming, and even one entering the bakery armed with a crowbar.

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OB Rag Fundraising: We’re Over 3/4ths to Our Goal – Help Us Hold San Diego Politicians Accountable

August 14, 2023 by Staff

The OB Rag fundraising campaign which we began on Friday is over three-quarters to our goal of $1500!

Help us make the rest today.

And help us hold San Diego politicians accountable. Somebody has to keep pushing for transparency in our city government. And county.

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Celebration of Life for Steve Rowell — at Robb Field Sunday, Aug.13

August 13, 2023 by Source

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Monica Montgomery Steppe for County Supervisor

August 11, 2023 by Source

By Mat Wahlstrom

As a rule, I rarely endorse anyone for public office — as when they invariably disappoint, as holding office tends to do, the mud may splatter back on one’s petticoat. And while I always assess a field of candidates and express my thoughts if asked, I tend to keep my own counsel.

I have not met any candidate or been contacted by any campaign. But after the barrage of disinformation and dirty tricks I’ve seen being used to rig the outcome of the special election this Tuesday for the District 4 seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, I must speak out.

If you choose to vote, the only person running who deserves it is Monica Montgomery Steppe.

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It’s the Annual OB Rag August Fundraising Campaign — Help Us Reach $1500

August 11, 2023 by Frank Gormlie

It’s August which means it’s the OB Rag’s annual summer fundraising campaign!

Help us reach this summer’s goal of $1,500. We do have bills — we have a yearly $600 server payment and we pay many of our reporters and writers a small stipend.

And, of course, with the recent sale of the San Diego U-T to a hedge fund, local journalism is all the more important.

How to Support Us

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Unhoused Caretaker of Point Loma Native Garden to Move On … Into a Home with Plans to Launch Bridge Between Housed and Unhoused

August 11, 2023 by Source

By Dorian Hargrove and Brian White / CBS8 / August 10, 2023

Michael Garvey rakes the dirt path at the Point Loma Native Garden in Ocean Beach. He cleans the area, removes leaves and weeds, wipes the wooden benches, and supplies treats to the dogs who go for walks in the garden. But soon, Garvey will not work at the small garden any longer.

Garvey is not a city employee who has been transferred to another job, he is a homeless senior who has been unhoused for nearly 40 years and has lived in the park for most of the past two years.

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Moving Forward or Moving Backward? Loss of Parking on Newport vs Outside Deck Patio

August 11, 2023 by Source

A reader sent us this photo and the announcement that a new street parking patio deck was going in on Newport Ave., this morning, Friday, Aug. 11.

It’s going up in front of the double-businesses of Harry’s Taco Club and Cass St. Cocktails & Burgers.

Is this progress, forward motion, or is it going backwards?

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Panel to Discuss Point Loma’s Cabrillo Monument — Friday, Aug.18 — in Balboa Park

August 11, 2023 by Source

From Times of San Diego

A group of experts brought together by World Heritage USA, and its western chapter, along with the San Diego History Center, will gather to discuss challenges surrounding the sometimes controversial structures – such as the Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma – at an upcoming free panel.

The program, part of a bi-coastal series entitled “Monuments Summer: A Season of Dialogue,” will be held at 1 p.m. on Aug. 18 at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park.

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San Diegan Strives For Equity in Local Cannabis Industry

August 11, 2023 by Source

By Katie Hyson / KPBS / August 8, 2023

Megain McCall tried hard to forget the day her life changed forever. It was around 2009, she said, when she was 28 years old. She was driving from San Diego with her aunt and mother to see her dying brother in Texas. At a Texas checkpoint, a patrol dog signaled the car. “I remember being super confident because I know I didn’t have anything,” McCall said.

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‘We’re Paying a Million Dollars a Month for Seized Russian Oligarch’s Superyacht’

August 11, 2023 by Source

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History Must Record Trump’s Plan for a Nationwide ‘Kent State’ Massacre

August 10, 2023 by Source

By Thom Hartman / Daily Kos and Economy for All/ August 4, 2023

Although it’s generally only mentioned in passing in the mainstream media, there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.

Both, to my mind, invoke Kent State, but on a much larger scale.

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‘Keep Those No on SB10 Yard Signs Up’

August 10, 2023 by Source

From Neighbors for a Better San Diego

Should you take your “No on SB10” yard sign down? Not so soon…

As reported in our previous email, following last Thursday’s — the 3rd — rejection of SB 10 by the Planning Commission, the Mayor’s office released

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