OB Rag

A San Diego Airport Authority program that has been soundproofing homes in Point Loma for more than 13 years and which has soundproofed more than 2,000 homes, has had its image sullied recently with the report of three thefts by crews working under the program.

The program – called the Quieter Home Program – is funded by grants from the Federal Aviation Administration and is administered by the Airport Authority. It was set up nearly a decade and half ago

There are no new updates, according to police, on the OB jogger groped repeatedly by a bicyclist on Wednesday, August 15th.

About 11:30 in the morning, a woman was jogging along the bike path next to the San Diego River in Robb Field, when a man riding a bicycle rode up behind her and grabbed her buttocks. She looked at him and then tried to run away, but he came up to her and grabbed her again twice, before riding off.

The sounds of low-flying helicopters over Ocean Beach and Point Loma have been an occasional sore-spot among some of our bloggers. We’d raise more questions than answers, for example, Judi Curry queried as a troubled insomniac:

It almost appears that there is a heliport only blocks from the house, because nightly there are any number of helicopters that fly over the house at all hours of the late night and early morning. Helicopters that are loud; noise polluters; and wake people from deep as well as fitful sleep.

Over the course of the few years that we have been published, we have posted a number of reviews of local Ocean Beach and Point Loma restaurants – mostly by Judi Curry – but occasionally others have ventured out in the warm world of judging food and service at our local eateries, and have written about it here in these pages.

Here then is a compilation of all of our restaurant reviews as we eat our way across the Point Loma peninsula:

• A Tale of Two Ovens: Azucar & Stephanies Hit OB’s Sweet Spot – by Doug Porter

• Restaurant Review: “Denny’s – I Hardly Knew Ye” by Judi Curry

• Restaurant Review: The Souplantation – the “Hungry” Eater Strikes Out – Again! – by Judi Curry

• Ocean Beach Italian Restaurant – Ciao Bella – Whets the Taste Buds – by Judi Curry

• New Northern Mediterranean “Kecho’s Cafe” in Ocean Beach – by Judi Curry

By Danny Cappiello

At first impression, Jared Criscuolo and Kristian Gustavson seem like typical San Diegans. And in some ways they are. They both love the water. They both surf, stand up paddle (SUP) and anything else you can do on or in the water. And they both detest those days when rains make the water inaccessible to them. What makes them different is that they decided to do something about it.

By Ellen Brown / OpEdNews / August 13, 2012

Today, the market of the unbanked and underbanked has grown again, including about one in four U.S. households, according to a 2009 FDIC survey. Without access to conventional financial services, people turn to an alternative banking market of bill pay, prepaid debit cards and check cashing services, as well as payday loans.

Planners Agree With Grand Jury to Suspend Conditional-Use Permit for Church

by Tony De Garate / sdnews.com / Originally published August 9, 2012

The majority of Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB) members agree with a recent San Diego County Grand Jury report, which recommends the city suspend a conditional-use permit for The Rock Church to operate at Liberty Station — its home since 2007.

San Diego has played an important role in American aviation history. Indeed, some of the earliest attempts at controlled flight have occurring here.

While most historians recognize the pioneering work of Montgomery, Curtis, Ryan, and Lindbergh, most ignored the role women played in San Diego’s aviation history.

Alex Bevil – the California State Parks Historian – will focus on the untold story of San Diego’s female aviators within the broader context of the history of women’s aviation.

The OB entryway sign is under attack – by termites and the weather. The wooden iconic welcome was installed back in the mid-Eighties, but now nature has taken its toll. It needs to be replaced.

The OB Town Council had issued a call to the community for new designs. And the Council reports that of those designs submitted fourteen were accepted; they will pare the entries down to about five – and then place the issue up for a community vote. (It’s unclear how that vote will occur – it could be via facebook.)

Editor: The day’s big scandal is the felony vandalism at the Lily Pond in Balboa Park caused by a midnight water gun fight. Doug Porter – over at San Diego Free Press – covered it – but below is a further development into the investigation of the caper.

By Thom Senzee / LGBT Weekly / August 13, 2012

Neither officials at District 5 City Councilman Carl DeMaio’s council offices, nor at his campaign headquarters are commenting on the fact that DeMaio’s life partner’s media company helped publicize a midnight water-gun battle that became a crime scene in Balboa Park.

Here’s the official County of San Diego Medical Examiner’s Office report on Lawrence Kenneth Booth – the PB resident found off the Ocean Beach Pier on Saturday, August 11th.

Monsanto’s genetically modified sweet corn will soon be arriving on grocery store shelves of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart Stores, Inc., and will not be labeled as such. Despite an onslaught of consumer pressure, the company confirmed late last week with the Chicago Tribune that it has no objection to selling the new crop of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GE) sweet corn.