OB Rag

Here’s the agenda for the OB Planning Board’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 5th. The Board meets at 6pm sharp at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Avenue.

On Wednesday’s agenda, besides the usual reports, are two items of interest.

World Oil Wants Extension for Their Sunset Plaza

The first item of interest is an action item, a request by World Oil for an extension of time for their Coastal Development Permit that allows them to build a 6609 square foot, two-story office building at the corner of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Voltaire Street. The corporation years ago was approved to construct what they call the Sunset Plaza, but have yet to move on the development at the site of their one-third acre of prime OB property. They did purchase the Dover Plumbing lot – and both parcels have been boarded and fenced up for years.

That particular corner has a weird and controversial and contentious history.

Red Sails Inn
2614 Shelter Island Dr.
San Diego, CA 9210
619-223-3030

I bet it has been twenty years since I had a meal at the Red Sails Inn. Today two members of my widow support group – Irene and Candy – and I decided to get together for brunch and go up to the cemetery to visit our spouses. We usually go somewhere in Ocean Beach, but wanted something different this time so, after looking at the “Beacon” list of top restaurants, we decided to try the Red Sails Inn.

The first thing I noticed was that the “musty” smell that I remember from twenty years ago was gone. The restaurant hadn’t changed much nor had the menu. The breakfast menu consisted of approximately 20 items, plus a number of different kinds of omelets and side dishes. The price range was from $4.95- $11.95. The lunch menu had 8 kinds of burgers, 13 different sandwiches, 2 soups, and an array of seafood dishes, as well as salads.

by Ernie McCray

Lyric Allen Anderson arrived on this earth on May 29th, 2013. He’s become the tenth person I can claim as a grandchild and every one of them is dear to me. But this beautiful baby boy is particularly special in that he’s the first to carry within his veins the blood of his Grandma Nancy, who passed away four years ago, and mine. She was my valentine and I welcome Lyric Allen to the world in behalf of both of us.

Oh, I don’t know if I can describe what it felt like holding him in all his raw innocence, for the first time, as what words can convey how one feels when one of the dearest beings in the world to him gives birth to someone equally as cherished? I’ll portray it as simply a wonderful moment in time.

A Toyota pickup flipped over near Rosecrans Street off of I-5; the driver fled but he left a 5 year old boy dangling still strapped to his car seat.

7NBC has the story. A black Tundra flipped over while going southbound on I-5, near Rosecrans and Old Town, landing on its side over an embankment on Jefferson Street. The boy was partially ejected, reportedly, and witnesses saw him dangling out of the window.

One witness, Veronica Simmons, stated:

“I started screaming ‘There’s a baby in the car, there’s a baby in the car.’ “

Initially, the driver fled, but then returned and unbuckled him from the truck. A CHP officer said that the boy fell on his back on a concrete curb.

By Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

Former New York mayor Ed Koch envisioned bicycles as vehicles for the future. In 1980, he created experimental bike lanes on 6th and 7th avenues in Manhattan where riders were protected from speeding traffic by asphalt barriers. It was unlike anything most Americans had ever seen, and some people roared their disapproval. Within weeks, the bike lanes were gone.

Twenty-seven years later, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and his transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan saw the growing ranks of bicyclists on the streets as a key component of 21st-century transportation, and began building protected bike lanes in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Press covers ceremony honoring death of paid mercenaries, traditional military sacrifice honors ignored

By Fran Zimmerman

Now that Memorial Day 2013 is over, let’s record how the red/blue politics of the day trumped history and tradition and every lemming newspaper in this Navy town went along.

Apparently the Los Angeles Times, U-T San Diego, San Diego Reader and La Jolla Light forgot that San Diego is home to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, final resting place for more than 115,000 servicemembers and their families from all branches of the armed forces and site of the largest Memorial Day commemoration in the city.

Questions have arisen of late by Ft Rosecrans visitors about the conditions of the trees and the grass at the National Cemetery. Trees are gone and the grass is all brown. The recent Memorial Day threw the situation at the cemetery into high relief.

Our own Widder Curry recently commented:

The widows and I went up to Ft. Rosecrans today to visit our husbands.

We were shocked to see that all the trees near their burial wall were gone. Uprooted. Patches where they used to be. And the grass was brown. All brown. No shades of green.

The cemetery is depressing enough, but seeing it in this condition was heart rendering. What is going on?

In what looks like it could have been a conflict arising from a “love-triangle” – an incident this morning that began in or near an apartment at the intersection of Santa Cruz and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard ended with the police involved in a fatal shooting close to SeaWorld.

There are some conflicts in local news reporting on this incident, but around 9:12 a.m., Saturday, June 1, a man drew a gun on another guy in OB. Then the man with the gun drove off in a silver Volkswagan sedan – going north on Sunset Cliffs Blvd.

Well, what did it take? Two weeks? The brand, spanking new bronze lifeguard statue just unveiled has already been vandalized….

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OB Rag is Model for Coverage of Neglected Neighborhoods

The San Diego Free Press – which is about to celebrate its first year anniversary June 4th – has for the last three to four months been using the OB Rag as its model in its coverage of different communities around San Diego.

All during this past month of May, the Free Press has targeted the community of Golden Hill.

By John P Anderson

Address: Miramar Greenery / Landfill – 5180 Convoy Street, San Diego, CA 92111 (Miramar / Kearny Mesa)

Date and Time: Monday – Friday 7 AM to 4 PM, Saturday – Sunday 7 AM to 4:30 PM

Best For: Reducing water usage, increasing plant life, healthier neighborhoods

In San Diego residents can pick up free mulch at the Miramar Greenery (part of the Miramar Landfill).