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San Diego’s Food Day School Passport Challenge brought nearly 1,000 San Diego Unified School District students, staff and families to three Farmers Markets around the city, with Sunset View Elementary winning the challenge over Rosa Parks, Central, Cherokee Point, Crown Point and Pacific Beach elementary schools. Sunset View received a healthy local food party catered by Chef Andrew Spurgin of Waters Fine Catering.
In a continuing analysis of the historic national election last week, the U-T San Diego has developed an inter-active electoral map.
This after-election pencil-pushing has uncovered President Obama’s best precincts – and they were in San Diego’s urban core: Golden Hill, Logan Heights, Barrio Logan … and Ocean Beach.
Ahh, hope fills the air that I breathe, as I move, light and easy, like a river dancer on a cloud that’s floating in a gentle wind, as Bob Filner becomes my mayor and Barack Obama my president, again.
It’s a nice high I’m in, hallucinogenic, with music, Sam Cooke singing, “It’s been a long, a long time coming, but I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will.”
Oh, it feels so good having a couple of guys in high places who view what people have worked towards for years as earned “benefits” not “entitlements,” and see unions as who they are, “We the People!” Not “bandits.”
This just in: we’re not the Wisconsin of the West. There were some big winners and losers in last week’s election and the principal players themselves have gotten the bulk of the attention. Here are a few of the most noteworthy victors and flops besides the candidates themselves. Let’s start with the triumphs:
1) Labor-Community Alliances:San Diego elected the first genuinely progressive mayor in its history even though the Filner forces were outspent.
To whom it may concern regarding the United States federal elections of 2014, 2016 and beyond:
Allow me to introduce myself to you, the existing (or aspiring!) strategist for the Republican Party. My name is Eric Arnold Garland and I am a White Man. Boy, am I ever – you need sunglasses just to look at my photo!
If I read the news correctly, I fit a profile that is of extreme importance to the GOP, as I embody the archetype that fits your narrative of Real Americans. Just how much should my profile interest you? Are you sitting down?
Another OB woman has been assaulted. This latest incident occurred on Ebers Street Friday night, November 9th. The woman, whose identity will not be disclosed at this time, was walking home around 11:15 coming home from a bar on Newport.
A man began following her from Sunset Cliffs. She noticed that and had words with him. He reportedly half-apologized. But he kept following her. And somewhere between Santa Monica and Saratoga, across the street from the small park, he attacked her. He grabbed her hair, threw her down and they began scrapping.
That’s right, kids. Our ol’ tech support folks decided to switch servers and in the process, the OB Rag went…
Join Respect OB and let’s clean up our neighborhood! Rain or shine we will be there Saturday – November 10th.
What are we cleaning: Outside of the OB Post Office, as well as all the collection mailboxes throughout OB.
The amazing story of the mysterious ashes left at the OB Suds Car Wash has had a dramatic turn. We now know much more about Henry Lefebvre – whose ashes were in the gold metal box discovered by the carwash owner more than 6 months ago.
As you may recall, the ashes were found and then turned over to the OB Mainstreet Association for safekeeping.
Voters in Ocean Beach went for Bob Filner big time on Tuesday, Election Day 2012. Filner beat DeMaio by a margin of 19 and a half points, with Filner getting 53.9% and DeMaio obtaining 34.4%.
This is compared to the overall City vote where Filner won 51.5 ^% of the vote to DeMaio’s 48.5 %.
This was no surprise, as OBceans voted en masse for Filner during the June Primary as well.
By Sub-Committee/ San Diego Free Press
The first meeting of the ad hoc sub-committee that was recently formed to handle the increasing interest/protest over the proposed life guard beach tower in North Pacific Beach also convened last week, packing a crowd in the library community room. Although many agree that the lifeguards merit better facilities at this beach than the rusty cargo container which currently serves as their storage unit, the problem is the location and size and use of the proposed plan.
From San Diego Hospice Staff:
OCEAN BEACH – San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine was recently presented a check for $10,000 from proceeds raised by Ocean Beach’s legendary Pacific Shores Cocktail Lounge at its 5th Annual Charity Golf Tournament. Held at Riverwalk Golf Club in Mission Valley, nearly 100 golfers played in the charitable event to support the vision and mission of San Diego Hospice.
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