OB Rag

Thursday, November 21, at 7 PM, Ocean Beach Historical Society Presents “When Death Was a Hitchhiker: El Cajon’s Mass Murder” by Author Richard Carrico, at Waters Edge Community Center, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd., O.B.

In 1958, an El Cajon man picked up a sixteen-year-old runaway off of old Highway 80 near Alpine. The young man lived with the Pendergast family for several weeks. Two weeks before Christmas, the troubled young man killed Lois Pendergast and her four children.

Come along with local historian and true crime author Richard Carrico as he takes us back to the event that was then described as the “largest mass murder in San Diego history.”

By JW August

Fore!! The city of San Diego has received a lot of unwanted attention in recent years for some of its questionable real estate deals, but when it comes to its three municipal golf courses, it has a lot to crow about, based on a newly released revenue report.

The three courses — Balboa, Torrey Pines and Mission Bay — generated $40 million in sales, and after costs, cleared a $14 million profit for the 2024 fiscal year ending June 30, thanks to a record-breaking 420,000 rounds of golf played. Torrey Pines North  the most–94,000 rounds.That’s according to a report presented by the city’s golf division to the San Diego City Council’s Environment Committee.

By Alberto Garcia / La Prensa / November 12, 2024

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria benefited from five times more direct campaign funding than his opponent during a hotly contested re-election campaign that ended up being the closest outcome among high-profile competitive races in the county.

Gloria is currently ahead of his opponent, Larry Turner, by 55.3% to 44.6%, although about 140,000 votes still need to be counted throughout the County, with some yet-unknown portion of those expected to be from within the City of San Diego.

By Geoff Page

The Dog Beach fencing project, described here in The Rag four years ago, is finally underway. The work of drilling holes in the sand and placing 4×4 wood posts is almost complete.

The posts are four feet high and close together, perhaps ten feet apart. The existing “fence” was much shorter but ran along the same paths. The word “fence” is a bit confusing. There is an existing east/west path, on the south side of the Dog Beach dunes, that borders the wetland area.

Pt Loma-OB Monthly

The holiday season is just around the corner, and here are some of the ways Point Loma and Ocean Beach will celebrate.

• Liberty Station ice rink: The Rady Children’s Ice Rink will be open from Thursday, Nov. 21, through Sunday, Jan. 5, outdoors in the Central Promenade at Liberty Station, Point Loma. Normal hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily but are modified on opening day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and for other events. $20 for adults and $15 for children 12 and younger and military members. Tickets include skate rentals and helmets. rchicerink.org

• Liberty Station tree lighting: Liberty Station’s 88-foot decorated Norfolk pine tree will be lighted, along with live entertainment, firetruck rides, photos with Santa Claus and a showing of the movie “The Grinch” between 5 and 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, in the North Promenade. Free. bit.ly/40yK8bx

• Ocean Beach holiday tree: The annual tradition, dubbed the “crooked tree” because it typically leans to one side, will be on the beach at the end of Newport Avenue from Tuesday, Dec. 3, to Friday, Jan. 3. obcommunityfoundation.org/community-events/tree

City hosts community webinar on Monday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m, Nov.18

San Diego leaders Thursday asked for public input on several coastal resilience projects as the threat of rising seas could shape the future of the city’s coast.

San Diego recently released a draft Coastal Resilience Master Plan with multiple projects for public review.

“Our shorelines are increasingly vulnerable, and the Coastal Resilience Master Plan will implement the most cost-efficient, natural solutions for long-term viability,” said Council President Pro Tem and Environment Committee Chair Joe LaCava. “Backed by science and community input, these projects are designed to adapt our shoreline from the effects of sea level rise while protecting our coastal neighborhoods.”

by Danielle Dawson / Fox5News / Nov 14, 2024

Regional planners are revisiting a proposed connection between San Diego International Airport and public transit through a new San Diego Metropolitan Transit System Trolley alignment.

The renewed interest in a potential Trolley link comes after the region’s planning agency, the San Diego Association of Governments, went back into the modeling process for the long-discussed project in February over discussions with federal transit regulators.

Ah… the good life.

By Michael Moore / November 15, 2024

I couldn’t help but think as I tried to fall asleep the night of the election last week, after we were assaulted with the news that Trump had somehow won — Trump who wailed for four years that the 2020 election was “Rigged!” “Stolen!” and claiming that he, “Trump!”, was “The legitimately elected President!”, that Biden had an “inside operator” who “fixed the whole thing” to ensure Trump would lose.

I haven’t been able to sleep for over a week now, pissed off that that guy the Dems hired to steal the election again from Trump… HAD FAILED TO DO HIS JOB! WHERE WAS HE?! We learned from Trump that DEMS STEAL ELECTIONS!! WHY WASN’T THIS ONE STOLEN FOR HARRIS?! CAN’T THE DEMOCRATS DO ANYTHING RIGHT??!! I mean, we gave the Harris campaign nearly TWO BILLION DOLLARS! For two billion bucks we couldn’t even get a decent rigging using Hunter’s new laptop? ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!

Ok. Too soon. But am I at least allowed to make the case that if Trump was indeed the real winner in 2020, then by law he’s already been elected twice — in 2016 and 2020 as he’s said over a thousand times! So, per the Constitution, no president can be elected a third time! Right?

Here are a few more of the facts that we can confirm are correct but you won’t see much trumpeting of them in the mainstream media:

Nationwide, Kamala Harris won the following:

• all Independent voters,
• all Moderate voters,
• all Women voters,
• Black voters,
• Latino voters,