Serving OB, the Peninsula and San Diego Beaches
Here are the results to the very recent election of the OB Community Foundation Board of Directors that ended July 3.
The winners — in order of percentage of votes received — are:
Not everyone is happy with Point Loma Nazarene’s appointment of a new president.
Longtime provost and chief academic officer Kerry Fulcher was picked after a long and national search for a new leader for the conservative religious campus. Yet, the choice has sparked controversy due to Fulcher’s role in a controversial firing in 2023 of Mark Maddix, PLNU’s dean of theology, due to Maddix’s backing of a former teacher who supported LGBTQ+ people.
The Union-Tribune reported:
A coalition of LGBTQ+ alumni and donors condemned the selection, saying it would hinder the university’s already strained relations not just with some students and faculty but also with San Diego’s LGBTQ+ community …
On July 4th, 1776, we kicked the king out, and on July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court brought the king back. It took 248 years.
Because of the calamitous direction our country is headed, today, July 4th could be the last time we celebrate the nation’s founding. Seriously. This is not hyperbole.
Trump and the Supreme Court are burning the flag.
San Diego police broke up a “rave” Monday night, July 1, being held at Garbage Beach – a fragile ecosystem off Sunset Cliffs — and reported that this was the second such party that they’ve had to disperse in less than a week. The first one was on Sunday, June 23 at the same site.
The rave — which was held at midnight — was attended by dozens — if not hundreds — of partygoers, many of whom had to get to the beach site via the dangerous cliff trails.
Lt. Dan Meyer of the SDPD reported that 4 officers responded to the party shortly after midnight, according to Fox5.
2024 OBCF Candidate Statements
The Ocean Beach Community Foundation (OBCF) is electing up to nine new Directors to serve on the OBCF Board. Candidate forum took place at a community forum on Wednesday, June 26 at the Point Loma / Hervey Branch Library.
Community voting will be held June 26-July 4, with newly elected candidates starting their term on July 8, 2024.
Each voter can select 1 to 9 candidates to join the OBCF Board. The link with voting instructions follows these candidate statements:
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels famously said that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. We’ve definitely seen how this has played out at the national level with Trump denying he lost the 2020 election. But it also happens at the local level.
And this is what has happened since mid-June when the developer-aligned group Circulate SD issued a report claiming the California Coastal Commission is worsening the housing crisis.
The so-called “report” which is full of half-truths and exaggerations was picked up by several other local media as gospel,
It appears that a final vote by the San Diego City Council on the redevelopment deal the city has with Midway Rising won’t occur until early 2025. And this is mainly due to the city shoring up a consultant to ensure that Midway Rising gets government financial assistance to build its pledged affordable housing units.
Just this past Monday, June 24, the Council got the latest developments in an update from Christina Bibler, head of the city’s real estate division spearheading negotiations with Midway Rising.
More than 50 people turned out on Saturday, June 22 to protest a 12 unit “Bonus ADU” being built on one single family unit property in Clairemont. The project at 4578 Jicarillo Ave off Moraga Ave in Clairemont/Bay Ho will have no parking, has had no community input, is being built on a very severe fire zone canyon, and none of the units will be low income.
Organizers with Neighbors for a Better San Diego who helped organize the event object to the city’s transparently false rationale that no parking is needed because new residents will walk up to one mile to a transit stop.
Based on other similar projects, the “affordable” one bedrooms will probably rent for $2700+ and the market rate units for $2900+, with no parking and no yard.
The company building the 12 units is SDRE Homebuyers, who advertise they know “how to decisively bring in a top-dollar offer for our real estate opportunities.”
The U-T’s online magazine, the Point Loma-Ocean Beach Monthly, will now charge readers – as they established a paywall last Friday, June 21.
The publication warned its readers:
If you receive our emailed monthly newsletter, you will still receive it, but starting June 21 you’ll need a subscription to open articles.
… As all U-T publications will require.
As of this writing, 2 pm, Thursday, June 20th, Rag writer Geoff Page can report that the City has not done a thing about the dangerous crack in the bluff at Sunset Cliffs. Page just visited the site — and witnessed a number of beach goers — and a child or a pet — directly below the cracked bluff section.
Geoff reported there was no caution tape or any kind of warning at the beach near the bluff endangered.
The Rag notified the city yesterday, June 19, of the situation at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park and Page met with 3 lifeguards in the afternoon.
As it seems like it happens so often these days, large trees are cut down either on or near public property and the community is not informed, notified or sought out for advice.
It has happened again — this time at Liberty Station, the former Naval Training Center. At least 20 large what appear to be ficus trees have been chopped down completely around High Tech High and even the stumps have been ground down.
These photos tell the story — or at least part of it.
by Dave Schwab / Peninsula Beacon / June 13, 2024
Marking its centennial this year, Ocean Beach Woman’s Club has something special to help its celebration along with its milestone brew.
Bill DeWitt of California Wild Ales, and Jim Millea, head brewer of OB Brewing have collaborated to craft “Making Waves Blonde,” a centennial-hops ale made especially for OBWC’s centennial anniversary. The new brew will officially be dedicated on the summer solstice from OB Brewery’s rooftop bar.
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