With the amount of unwanted dogs rising each year in San Diego County, a solution to this delima had to be met.
Shelter Dogs to Dream Dogs, the K9 training facility and shelter rescue program, takes in ‘unadoptable’ dogs from local shelters and trains them to be family, therapy or service dogs.
Shelter Dogs to Dream Dogs works in two ways – local shelters call owner Cate Sacks when they have dogs in line to be euthanized.
EL CAJON — East County citizens on opposing sides of the political fence will join together to protest a law they consider unconstitutional and a violation of long established American rights of due process.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed by President Obama December 2011, has provisions which might be interpreted to allow the U.S. military to detain indefinitely American citizens who are apprehended in the U.S. without charges or trial.
The NDAA was passed almost unanimously in the U.S. Senate and Congress.
EL CAJON — As part of the year-long 50th anniversary celebration, Grossmont Community College is hosting a special Sweethearts Desert reception on Feb. 10. These sweethearts are couples who have met at the college and later married.
A dozen couples have already confirmed that they would be there. Some of them share their stories in this newspaper.
Chris Lee said that she met her future husband, Randy, during their first semester at the college in 1975. They met in a beginning volleyball class with Coach Gillespie.
LA MESA – Mary England, the president of the La Mesa Chamber of Commerce, has announced her candidacy for the 79th district State Assembly seat.
She is the first Republican to enter the race.
“Businesses are going under or leaving this state in droves,” England said. “The voters are very suspicious right now. They know politicians in Sacramento have lost their way. The spending, the pensions, everything is out of control.
LEMON GROVE — Bolstered by State Senator Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) and Assemblyman Brian Jones (R-Santee), as well as dozens of supporters, Mary England officially began her quest for the 79th state assembly seat at DHC Honda on Thursday, Feb. 2.
Los Alamitos Mayor Troy Edgar will move on to the November ballot for the State Assembly post in the 72nd District after he was the top vote getter in the primary on Tuesday.
The Los Alamitos Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to recognize the launch of the News Enterprise web site, newsenterpise.net. and the opening of the CMC (Community Media Corporation) Digital headquarters in the Los Alamitos office. Dignitaries from the Chamber of Commerce and other local business leaders were on hand to celebrate this occasion.
Measure L in Cypress passed on Tuesday with 70 percent of the votes. The measure allows for rezoning of the closed Cypress Golf Course for such things as hospitals, churches, schools and affordable senior housing. There have been reports that developing the land could create nearly 700 jobs.
The patch of land borders on Los Alamitos, raising the question of the impact in terms of things like additional traffic. The golf course closed in 2004.
The following is a press release from the Rossmoor Community Services District
Second grade students at Steve Luther Elementary School got a lesson on both sides of the economic process last week during their Community Days project. The La Palma School is part of the Cypress School District.
San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob is asked state regulators to reject a proposal by SDG&E that would force ratepayers to shoulder the costs of the 2007 wildfires and future wildfires.
The California Public Utilities Commission held a public hearing on the matter on Thursday, April 5 at the Al Bahr Shriners Memorial Auditorium in Kearny Mesa.
Dozens of angry and dissatisfied citizens showed up for the conclave.
Domenico Donato first came to America from Italy over 50 years ago and has never desired to to return to the Old Country.
Until now, that is.
Donato, owner of Mangia Bene, recently received a notice from the El Cajon Community Development department in regard to what businesses can and cannot do with advertising signs on or in front of their property.
EL CAJON — An 18-year old Lakeside racing with another driver which crashed, killing two East County teenagers, was ordered him to stand trial for two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter (while under the influence of marijuana).
California Highway Patrol officers CHP officers testified that Michael Sebastian Johnson repeatedly denied racing the other 16-year old driver upon further questioning in the hours following the horrific crash on April 4 on state Route 52 near Convoy Street.
After four months and an eight-hour meeting, the San Diego Board of Supervisors abandoned a plan to demolish or limit the planning and sponsor groups after nearly forty people spoke in favor of the groups. However, the supervisors did vote in favor of mandatory training and possibly a two year term limit for the chairperson of each group, though that latter element was left unclear. The decision was made at their Mar. 28 regular meeting as part of their decision on the 17 recommendations of the “Red Rape Reduction Task Force.”
The Board of Supervisors held the “red tape” hearing at 2pm instead of moving it forward even though there was a packed house on the planning group/”red tape” issue, so people were left waiting 4 hours plus a 45 minute lunch. Before public comment, the Board ran through the recommendations. On planning and sponsor groups there would be two possibilities: rescind board policies I-1 and I-1a and thus remove the groups from the county umbrella, or keep them under the county umbrella within a limited scope. Solution one would have saved $350,000 a year for 26 planning and sponsor groups, but it would have split the planning and sponsor groups into small fragments with the power of citizen’s groups. The other option would have reduced the scope of the groups to general plans, forced them to take two year term limits, reducing them to seven members, and making them only meet four times a year.
Free appeals for planning groups would have been removed; it would cost $500 each time a planning group appealed a county decision.
The other recommendations of the task force were to get rid of the Resource Protection Ordinance, a 1989 rule which covers elements of resource protection not covered in state or federal law, allowing for development on RPO land; reorganize the county government so the Department of Planning and Land Use would vanish; create a troubleshooter position or make all county managers into troubleshooters, create a corporate-style continuous improvement plan to “create the right culture”, getting rid of cross jurisdictional approval, outsourcing whenever possible, getting rid of residential guidelines, and self-certification of professionals, among other ideas.
First to speak in opposition was Oliver Smith, chair of the Valley Center Community Planning Group.
“No investigation or analysis of actual problems in the forty year old process has been performed. Such an investigation need to have the board of supervisors start with an objective, based on an all-stakeholder determination of what, if anything is wrong with the current planning and sponsor group process,” said Smith.
”Are there any documented instances where sponsor or planning group action created any “red tape” problems for developers?
There is no known basis for the elimination or evisceration of the public input.”
Smith then went on to say that the red tape report was off by $62,000 concerning liability costs for the groups and that “six major project developers” had sent in letters supporting the Valley Center Planning Group.
He finished by telling the board that the chairs of the planning groups had met and approved the following points: eliminating planning and sponsor groups does nothing to get rid of red tape.
He also added that the groups do nothing but give recommendations only, and the county process is not dependent on them; eliminating planning and sponsor groups gets rid of organized public information dissemination and much of any organized community input; each planning group can determine the number of members it needs. He also added that self-certification of documents was “not acceptable”; demolishing the resource protection ordinance would be a severe cut-back on the ability of the county to protect and manage wild spaces, and the related California Environmental Quality Act could not be stretched to do the RPO’s job.
He then added that term limits are not acceptable because planning and sponsor group members are unpaid and some long term members are the institutional memory for the group; cost incurred by the groups are not “red tape” issues; reducing the Environmental Impact Report system may not be possible legally; and finally that the loss of free appeal rights cuts into the groups’ ability to represent their communities. Part two upcoming
minute speaking time.
EL CAJON — A leaked search warrant mistakenly released by a superior court staff person seems to show that the hate crime motive behind the recent killing of an Iraqi woman may not have been triggered by racial intolerance or religious prejudice, after all, but by internal family turmoil.
Two weeks ago, The East County Californian published an editorial entitled “Is the media hoping for a hate crime,” in which the case for another motive in the beating death of Iraqi woman Shaimi al Alawadi, 32, in her El Cajon home on March 21,
was made.
California Senator Diane Feinstein (D) visited Oxford Academy in Cypress and answered some questions from a group of students on Thursday.
Are you looking for a safe, fun, affordable program for your kids this summer? Summer registration is now available at the Boys & Girls Club of Cypress. The Club’s Summer Program is offered from June 18 through August 17.
