OB Rag

On the flip side of the OB Town Council’s monthly meeting agenda is a list of contact information for all the politicians who represent Ocean Beach and Point Loma.

Here we repost it:

Editordude: Sunday night, January 21st, the Point Loma- OB Democratic Club held their endorsement forum for the upcoming District 2 city council race. The following is unsolicited review of that candidate forum and does not represent the views of the OB Rag:

A Beans, Peas and Campbell Soup

By Michael Winn

Three people sought endorsement from the PL-OB Democratic Club Sunday night:

Mr. Bryan Pease said he’ll beat Ms. Lorie Zapf (the incumbent) because women voters like environmental attorneys (like him).

Mr. Jordan Beane said his chances are best because he’s young and a renter, since most District 2 voters are close to his age and income.

OB Women Noted in Media Coverage of San Diego Women’s March

In the San Diego U-T’s coverage of Saturday’s Women’s March in downtown, several women from OB were mentioned or highlighted. …

Two Pedestrians Injured at Voltaire and Cable

Adam Ewing reported on facebook, that two women pedestrians were hit by a van with Nevada plates on Sunday, Jan. 21, at the intersection of Voltaire and Cable.

Establishment Woman from Point Loma to Be Mayor’s New “City Manager”

This is not a surprise. Mayor Kevin Faulconer has chosen longtime establishment woman from Point Loma, Kris Michell, to be the City’s chief operating officer – which in effect is like being the city manager under the “strong mayor” model. …

To kickoff their first meeting of 2018, the Ocean Beach Town Council will meet our new community representatives from our elected officials’ offices and discuss our community concerns.

The Town Council meets at 7pm, Wednesday, January 24th at the Masonic Center, 1711 Sunset Cliffs Blvd.

The Town Council will also award the winners of the 38th Annual OB Parade with their award plaques. The parade theme was “California Dreamin’ in the Season of Love.”

The annual elections for the Ocean Beach Town Council Board of Directors is coming right up. Voting will take place from Monday, January 29th to Friday, February 9th.

Anyone member considering running as a candidate for one of the 7 seats open must submit their Candidate Statement by Tuesday, January 23rd.

Here is the statement from the OBTC website:

Off Austrialia, drone drops flotation device to stranded swimmers in world-first rescue mission

Two Australian beachgoers have learned first-hand how drones can be useful to lifeguards – and those they save.

New Atlas reports:

After being swept away by the surf off the coast of New South Wales, the two found themselves safely back on shore after a local lifeguard used a drone to deliver them a lifesaving flotation device.

Sometimes the column Daniel Powell writes at San Diego Reader is hilarious, and more often serious and thought-provoking when he repeats verbatim local Lifeguard reports.

Powell, son of OBcean Gail Powell, writes a weekly column that we find fascinating. Here are some quotes from only OB or Point Loma lifeguard reports:

Lifeguard reports for December 25 to January 1

14:25 Medical: Lifeguard requests medics for a 25 year-old patient with an altered level of consciousness. Emergency and medical units respond and transport patient to UCSD.

UPDATED WITH MORE PHOTOS
Here are more photos from Saturday’s San Diego Women’s March – most from OB Rag staffer Bob Edwards. There’s a bunch of really funny signs.

Buried under all the noise of the national circus over the last month was some fairly stark economic news. Despite all the hoopla about the stock market booming along and other financial happy talk, it appears the iceberg of economic inequality is becoming an even larger threat to our collective ship.

Late last December we learned that the world’s wealthiest people got a whole lot richer in 2017. As the Washington Post reported, “The richest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last year’s gain, as stock markets shrugged off economic, social and political divisions to reach record highs.”

25,000 San Diegans rallied at the downtown County Administration Building and then marched a few blocks around the waterfront for today’s historic Women’s March, that coincided with hundreds of similar marches around the country.

Based on a scientific estimate of the marchers, this reporter counted a minimum of 22,250 people in the march. This number did not take into account those who remained at the rallying point – at the Waterfront Park, those who came late or left early. (See below for my method.) So rounding up …

Editordude: District 2 candidate, Dr. Jen Campbell, gave a speech back on January 4th, during which she spoke disparagingly of homeless panhandlers. (Come inside to view her remarks)

Dr. Jen then sent the Free Press – not the OB Rag – an apology of sorts; we repost it below.

By Dr. Jen Campbell

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your article in the San Diego Free Press.

My comments referenced were regrettable and off-the-cuff and I apologize. They do not reflect my values or my beliefs .

Editordude: We received the following letter from Holly of Santa Cruz who wished to share some of her memories from the “Summer of Love” in Ocean Beach – the 50th anniversary of which the OB Rag celebrated enthusiastically – so, we now print it below without editing. On the outside of the envelope, she wrote: “A tiny fragment in the mosaic of time.”

By Holly

I was twenty years old in 1967 and a not so subtle change was taking place in Ocean Beach.

The “surfing USA” vibe was being altered, different ideas, sounds, and “things”.