OB Rag

The Callen Report

By Kate Callen

1. Are you surprised that so many of your 2020 supporters are sitting out your 2024 campaign?
2. Do you understand why the picture of you perched on a golden throne has exposed you to ridicule?
3. Is it true you’ve already set the record for ribbon cuttings, proclamations, dedications, celebrations, and other “victory lap” photo ops by a San Diego mayor in a single term?
4. When you cut the ribbon at the 2022 opening of North Park’s “climate action” 30th Street bike lanes, were you driven to and from the event in your city-issued gas-guzzling SUV?

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.

A San Diego ice cream shop that landed the top spot on USA Today’s list of the best independent ice cream shops in the U.S. is coming to Ocean Beach. According to their website, An’s Electronic Repair will open at 1861 Bacon Street this summer.

Join Charles and Alise Landon and Phil Rockhold in their video of the 2024 OB Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off.

Members of Change Begins With ME Indivisible and local activists to mark two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade by mobilizing pro-abortion voters ahead of the 2024 election.  Hundreds of Indivisible chapters nationwide are hosting similar events this same weekend.

Mission Bay Park (grassy area just south of Mission Bay Beach Club) – 2688 E Mission Bay Dr, San Diego, CA 92109 on June 23, 2024 / 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

“Ceasefire in Gaza” rally this Saturday, June 22nd, 2024 at Noon in the Ocean Beach area !!

Come join a growing number of your friends and neighbors, 40 folks last Saturday, our largest group ever, standing out on a busy corner in Ocean Beach, demanding a CEASEFIRE in Gaza, and demanding that the U.S. stop providing Israel with weapons that have already killed 35,000+ Gazans.

The 44th Annual Ocean Beach Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off offers attendees eclectic fun in the sun for all ages. Tens of thousands of visitors will attend the event from 10 am to 8 pm on Saturday, June 22, 2024, for a tasty festival nosh, art, beachfront entertainment, shopping, and more.

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.

From Media Alert

By Mary Brady

Dozens of homeowners and renters in the Clairemont/Bay Ho neighborhood will stage a protest demonstration focused on the City of San Diego’s refusal to halt the destructive and illegal construction by a developer who is cramming 12 so-called “Accessory Dwelling Units” on a single family lot abutting a canyon.

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 Blake Nelson / San Diego Union-Tribune / June 16, 2024

Early one morning in 2022, Christy Gillette was woken by sheriff’s deputies.

The officers told her to move or face arrest. Gillette, who’s now 51, had been sleeping outside near the Santee Drive-In and responded that she couldn’t leave without her walker. The deputies instead threw the walker away, along with the cremated ashes of her husband and son.