OB Rag

Groups Complain Redistricting Commission Is Catering to Coast

55-Year Old Surfer Girl Loves to Be in Front of Tower 5 in OB

Point Loman Woman Approaching 100

OB Woman Celebrates Her 100th

OB in 1987

From SOHO Newsletter

In 2006, SOHO Executive Director Bruce Coons wrote an impassioned, history-rich appeal to San Diegans to write and speak out against Caltrans’s plan to sell its surplus Old Town office property—a 2.5-acre site at the corner of Juan and Taylor Streets that it had already promised the Old Town Planning Group that it would go to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. For thousands of years this land had been a Kumeyaay settlement along the San Diego River.

SOHO contacted local politicians to work to acquire the property to expand the park and interpret this “lost” corner to honor Kumeyaay heritage and culture and the connection to the river.

By Norma Damashek / NumbersRunner / November 2, 2021

Each and every ten years, as decreed by Article I Section 2 of the United States Constitution, we engage in the ritual of counting the number of people living in our country.

We then use the updated population numbers to reapportion our Congressional districts and the political boundary lines in our state, county, and city governments–aiming for reasonably balanced districts. In practical terms, reapportioning and redistricting determine which representatives you’ll be eligible to vote for in upcoming elections.

Ten years ago, San Diego faced a bigger-than-usual redistricting challenge.

By Thomas Ultican / Tultican

An intricately connected network of organizations is controlling dyslexia discourse in the US and taking over dyslexia screening and remediation. Thirty-nine states now have adopted dyslexia laws. Most of these laws contain the International Dyslexia association’s (IDA) remediation recommendation of being “multisensory, systematic, and structured.” Researchers Jo Worthy et al state, “This approach is not well supported by research, but it is officially sanctioned through legislation in many states and has had a profound effect on policy and practice.”

IDA, the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA), and the International Multisensory Language Education Council (IMSLEC) are three big players.

Amidst one of the highest vaccination rates in the state for any county, at above 80 percent, the City of San Diego has just become the most restrictive among the state’s most populated cities in limiting public participation at city council meetings. City officials have announced that public meetings will continue to be held entirely online with no in-person participation.

Back in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the City of San Diego went from in-person meetings to online-only. Since then, city officials have been slow to warm up to a return to in-person meetings even while local vaccination rates are relatively high.

In comparison with other cities …

Nuclear Shutdown News

By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press

Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear power industry in the US and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those working to create a nuclear free world.

Concrete Cancer Spreading in New England Nuclear Plant

On October 5 Boston TV station WBZ reported “Concrete Cracking at Seabrook Nuclear Plant” in New Hampshire. The 36 year old nuke plant has been developing fissures in its structures for some time.

All events are online and free unless stated otherwise.
* Every Saturday 10:15 am. Climate Mobilization Coalition Zoom Meeting. November 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th.
* November 1st to November 30th Red Nation Film Festival recommended by Peace San Diego
November 10th and November 11th Green Connections 2021 event by Swedish American Chamber of Commerce San Diego
November 10th Wednesday 4 pm – 5:30 pm Women in Green – California Mega Session Steadfast and Strong:
November 11th Thursday 5:30 pm Renewable Energy Opportunities

Here is the official artist’s rendering of the new OB library, expanded. More models and details were be displayed at Wednesday’s OB Planning Board meeting.

From the City:

The Ocean Beach Library Expansion will include demolition of the 2-story adjacent building (the Annex), remodel the existing 5,095 sf library and construct a new 4,205 sf extension to the library. The new extension will designate space for expanded book collection area, a community meeting room with kitchenette, study rooms, office space, a Teen area, storage rooms, outdoor gathering area and new restrooms.

Redistricting San Diego is happening – whether we pay attention to it or not. What will it mean for OB or for District 2? Or for other districts? For instance, folks in Clairemont are really pissed off as the redrawing has cut their community into 4 different districts.

Redistricting is the government-mandated process of redrawing political district lines every 10 years following completion of the U.S Census, which occurred in 2020. The federal government requires that districts must have nearly equal populations and must not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity.

Restaurant Review

Cocina de Barrio
3924 West Point Loma Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92110
619-222-6600

By Judi Curry

Over a decade ago there were four younger ladies that were members of the Peninsula YMCA. They attended the Water Aerobics classes daily and became friends. However, as time passed, these four ladies went separate ways, and although kept in touch on Face Book, only met together one time in the past 12 years. The ladies left it up to me to decide where to go for lunch, and since Cocina de Barrio was relatively new and none of us had eaten there before it seemed like a good choice – and it was.

Tracy Van De Walker is a resident of Ocean Beach and recent palm tree activist. She became the center of the fight to keep the palm trees on Newport Avenue standing, when she stood in front of the trucks and chainsaws to protect the trees.

OB restaurateurs must be happy. On Tuesday, October 26, the San Diego City Council tentatively approved a program that will permanently allow outdoor dining previously envisioned as temporary during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Called “Spaces as Places”, proponents claim it will allow for outdoor areas for dining, walking, biking and other activities, and provides ways for temporary outdoor structures to become permanent installations.