OB Rag

By Geoff Page

The Peninsula Community Planning Board had a lean agenda for its regular monthly meeting February 15 at the Pt. Loma Library but it still allowed for controversy anyway. One issue was the Prince Recycling Center next to the Stumps Market. The other issue was a request for support of a letter asking the city attorney for an opinion on how the Development Service Department is measuring the 30-foot height limit. The second attempt to get PCPB support for this letter stalled.

Prince Recycling Center

The Prince Recycling Center has been the focus of a quickly organized and contentious move by some people to get rid of the facility. The three leaders of this push are members of the Peninsula Community Planning Board,

by Alexis Szoke / lomabeat.com / February 19, 2018

“Because of all you do” was the premise of PLNU’s Pastor’s Day 2018, as worded under the Events tab on Point Loma’s official website.

I couldn’t help smelling the staunch irony that hung in the air last Friday as PLNU hosted its annual Pastor’s Day here on campus. An event that is likely intended to be a reverent nod towards our community’s pastors far and wide, it read to me more like a public statement in allegiance with one pastor currently at the forefront of all our minds.

In complete honesty, I didn’t know we celebrated Pastor’s Day here at Loma.

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Recycling Center Next to Stump’s Evicted

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by Geoff Page

Midway Planners Unhappy With Peninsula Planners Re Recycling Center Protest

Before diving into a discussion of the ponderous Midway EIR (Environmental Impact Report) at the Midway/Pacific Highway Community Planning Group meeting February 15, the board had something to say to Point Loma. The board had learned of the recycling center protest and effort to oust Prince Recycling from the Stumps parking lot on Voltaire Street. The people trying to get the center moved were proposing it be moved behind the Big Lots store in the Midway area.

The Midway planning board was not pleased because no one involved with the effort to move the recycling center contacted them to discuss this idea.

This coming Saturday, Feb. 24th thousands of workers, along with their families, friends, and allies in the community, will gather in San Diego to stand up for the rights of working Americans in the face of the impending Janus vs AFSCME decision by the Supreme Court that aims further rig the system against us. Against this assault, we will continue to insist on our right to form strong unions, raise our collective voice, and fight for equitable pay, affordable health care, civil rights, strong communities, and quality public education for all.

As public sector unions confront the threat of Janus, it is important to remember that fifty years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Memphis to support striking city sanitation workers. By the time of his assassination, King had come to see that it was impossible to fight for civil rights without including economic rights. The battle for racial equality was inextricably linked to the fight for economic opportunity.

There’s been questions of late on OB social media about what was happening next to the AutoZone on Santa Monica.

Finding myself on Santa Monica Ave on Thursday across the intersection from a small fleet of trucks, drilling equipment and workers clad in white suits next to the AutoZone, I jaunted over and made some inquiries.

Some workers were mixing and pouring what at first looked like mud but turned out to be carbon particles down a hole in the street (I couldn’t actually see the hole) – and this curious scene needed an explanation, I thought. At first I asked a couple of the workers, guys driving trucks or operating equipment, what was going on; they declined to tell me – and pointed me in the direction of somebody that could.

New details have emerged in the murder case of Elizabeth Sullivan, a Point Loma Navy spouse and mother, who went missing in 2014 and whose body was found two years later floating in San Diego Bay right off Point Loma.

Details came out during the arraignment for murder of Matthew Sullivan on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14th, in Superior Court in San Diego. Matthew Sullivan is the victim’s husband and chief suspect in the crime.

New elements of the crime now known include the fact that a knife used to slay Elizabeth and that her body had been hidden for a while – in some unknown location – for when her body was discovered in the water, it was badly decomposed but hadn’t been in water all that long. Her body was found in October 2016 – she had been missing since 2014.

The inevitable has happened … again.

Another fall off the bluffs at Sunset Cliffs – this Friday morning, around 3 a.m. Down near Ladera Street – where the stairs were recently closed – due to unstable cliffs.

Luckily the 30-year old guy – unidentified – survived after he fell roughly 50 feet down the bluff – just northwest of Sunset Cliffs Natural Park.

It appears, that for better or worse, the 4800 block of Voltaire Street in Ocean Beach is destined for some big changes. At least that is one likely development.

Two adjacent properties in the middle of the north half of the block are up for sale – and together they represent at least one-sixth or larger of that side of the block.

The property at Dover Plumbing at 4870 Voltaire is up for sale – and the next door property owned by well-known OBcean Jim Bell will also be up for sale.

The results of the two elections the Ocean Beach Town Council just held are now in.

13 individuals were seeking election to the seven open seats for Board of Directors positions, and that election is now over. Afterwards, at their Feb. 13th Board meeting, the Board voted in its new leadership, the Executive Board.

The big news is that Marcus Turner, formerly the vice president, was elected as the new president – and all three incumbents running for the Board were re-elected.

Here are the results for the open seats on the Board, for the 2018-2020 term for the Ocean Beach Town Council: