La Mesa Courier - April 2014

ROSS MOVING IN TO OLD RALPHS SITEBy Ken Stone

La Mesans looking for another discount clothing store can circle the date – Sept. 15. That’s when a Ross Dress for Less is projected to open on Grossmont Boulevard.

Documents at City Hall and interviews with builders and Pleasanton-based Ross Stores reveal the contours of the project taking the place of the razed Ralphs supermarket.

“Everything’s going smoothly, just like it was designed,” said Vance Dietz, the veteran project super-intendent for Moorefield

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See Borkats, Page 10

Maisoon Mona and Ben Kalasho hosted the

Chamber’s opening gala.

Sylvia and Philip Borkat, both 101, credit their longevity to good genes, healthy habits and an upbeat attitude.

A Timeless Love By Jeremy Ogul

Seventy-six years after they tied the knot, Phil and Sylvia Borkat – both 101 – are still holding hands like teenage lovebirds.

“When we walk, we do that, and people say, ‘Why are you holding hands?’ ” Sylvia says. “And he tells them, ‘Well, to keep from slugging each other!’ ”

The La Mesa couple remain mentally sharp and relatively healthy. They revel in cheeky banter and finishing

each other’s sentences. Sitting on the couch in their humble Maple Avenue condo, they recount stories and speculate about how they made it so far.

They first met in their fourth grade classroom, where they sat in adjacent rows, but they didn’t go on their first date until the age of 16. The year was 1929. Philip drove a Nash to pick up Sylvia on their way to one of John Philip Sousa’s final concerts.

Chaldean community making inroads in La MesaBy Jeremy Ogul

Chaldean Catholics consti-tute a significant chunk of the East County population - as many as 81,000 call San Diego County home, by some estimates - but the portion of Chaldean business owners who affiliate with the broader business community through the region’s various chambers of commerce is negligible.

Chaldean entrepreneur Ben Kalasho hopes to change that with the San Diego East County Chaldean-American Chamber of Commerce, which launched last fall.

Kalasho says that if Chal-deans want to move up from behind the counters of liquor stores and fast-food restau-rants, they must venture beyond their cultural enclaves and engage with the broader business community in La Mesa, El Cajon, Santee and

La Mesa theatre gets a new homeBy Tom Roebuck

Lamplighters Community Theatre has a new home.

The volunteer theatre that has been producing shows in La Mesa since 1937 is readying a space at the corner of Amaya and Severin drives, nearly eight years after it lost its former digs when the Ben Polack Fine Arts

Center was demolished.Lamplighters is in the process of converting

three small retail spaces into a theater that will offer a more intimate setting for the audience and performers. While the Polack Center was built as a theater – with 110 seats and the audi-ence looking up at the stage – the new Lamp-lighters will bring audience and performers closer together.

“In this theater, it will be down more on the floor,” said Mark Loveless, president and artistic director of Lamplighters.

The remodeling plans have been approved and the proper permits have been issued. The next step is to transform the three retail spaces into one, install the seats, lights and sound equipment, build a lobby, expand the bath-

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The winners at the Miss La Mesa Pageant

Noteworthy La Mesans in the News

Pageant winners crownedMandy Bakker, a 21-year

old student at San Diego State University, was crowned the new Miss La Mesa during a March 10 pageant. Kelli Loper, a 15-year-old Grossmont High School student, was chosen as Miss Teen La Mesa.

Bakker and Kelli will represent the city and the La Mesa Chamber of Commerce at ribbon cuttings, business mixers and various commu-nity events throughout the year.

Judges at the event were local kindergarten teacher Jill Lehto; Dirk Eperson, an engineer for the city; Caro-line Battah, a cosmetologist at JDM; 1989 Miss La Mesa Kelli Cando Yale; and 10News reporter Melissa Mejia.

Former planning commissioner moving up

Former La Mesa Planning Commissioner Lisa De Jesus Wright has joined The Correia Group at Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty in the Liberty Station Office.

Wright specializes in resi-dential real estate listings. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from San Diego State University and an associate’s degree in Spanish from Grossmont College.

School employee honoredTysen Brodwolf has been

recognized as the Fourth Quarter Outstanding Classi-fied Employee of 2013-2014 for the Grossmont Union High School District. She began her career with the Grossmont District in July 1999 as a bus attendant and currently holds the position of bus dispatcher.

Tysen has long been noted for her thoroughness and dili-gence, and has been described by parents, students, special education teachers and aides as being compassionate and conscientious.Realtor of distinction

Cannon Christian of La Mesa-based Renovation Realty has been selected as one of 50 finalists for REALTOR Maga-

NEWS IN BRIEFCelebrating the butterfly

The Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College will unveil its new Dorcas E. Utter Memorial Butterfly Pavilion during the April 5 Butterfly Festival.

The 644-square-foot pavilion is the first of its kind in the area and features butterflies found in Southern California. A model butterfly ecosystem offers an interac-tive educational experience for children and adults, with lessons on plant and animal relationships, the importance of butterflies in the ecosystem and what people could do to nurture and observe the colorful creatures.

Funding for the pavilion came through a grant from the family of the late Dorcas E. Utter, who was a long-time volunteer at both the Water Conservation Garden and the nearby Ornamental Horticultural Department at Cuyamaca College. She is remembered as an avid nature lover who gave tours of the garden with her seeing-eye dog, Sharla, by her side. She created and managed the garden’s first volunteer training program, and most weekends she and Sharla could be found welcoming

visitors at the garden’s front entrance.

A pavilion courtyard is being named in honor of a gift from William and Norma Verbeck.

The Butterfly Festival is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Water Conser-vation Garden is at 12122 Cuyamaca College Drive West in El Cajon.

Helix Water District holds drought seminar

Helix Water District will host a drought workshop on April 17 to inform the public and area officials about state-wide, regional and local water supply issues and ways to conserve the precious resource.

The event is scheduled for 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the district’s operations center, 1233 Vernon Way in El Cajon. A question-and-answer session will be included.

RSVPs are required by April 3. Persons wishing to attend are asked to send an email to [email protected] or call 619-667-1711. If you are responding for a group, please provide the number of expected attendees.

The workshop will include speakers from the San Diego County Water Authority and Helix’s operations and conser-

vation sections.The Helix Water District

recently announced its decla-ration of “Drought Level 1” in response to California Gov. Jerry Brown’s declaration of a “Drought State of Emergency” and San Diego County Water Authority’s declaration of Drought Level 1.

Drought Level 1 is a “Drought Watch” that calls for the public to volun-tarily increase conservation measures. No mandatory restrictions are expected this year, as Southern California

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Construction of Santa Ana.He said his “turnover

date” for the 25,000-square foot Ross store — the 11th in San Diego County — is Aug. 1. Dietz, a Las Vegan sporting a long blond ponytail, has been on the site since Feb. 1, he said.

Why did the 32-year-old Ralphs have to be demolished?

Dietz said that property owner Sunbelt Investment Holdings —depicted as Mann Enterprises of San Diego in city paperwork — didn’t want to deal with leasing the much larger Ralphs to two tenants. It was 41,000 square feet.

Also, with Ross set back farther to the north, the shop-ping center at 8800 Grossmont Blvd. would appear “more uniform,” Dietz said. “Ralphs (stood out) like a sore thumb.”

Why Grossmont Boulevard?

Ross Stores spokeswoman Connie Wong said: “The La Mesa location was a great opportunity for us. When deciding on any given loca-tion, we consider a variety of factors including targeted demographics that are in sync with our core customer, popu-lation density, great visibility and high traffic counts.”

If the Grossmont store follows patterns, it will employ more than four dozen people. (Dietz says about 100-125 people are helping build the store.)

“On average, each new Ross store hires approxi-mately 50 new permanent full-time and part-time associ-ates,” Wong said.

Only 2½ miles away is another Ross Dress for Less. That store, which opened in 1985 at Lake Murray Boule-vard and El Paso Street, isn’t set for a major change, though.

“We’re not going to close,” said Maribel, a supervising manager who declined to give her last name. “We’re going to stay open.”

Wong wouldn’t disclose the cost of the Ross Retail Center, saying only that the “landlord is constructing this project for us.”

Designing the store is Ziebarth Associates of San Diego. And City Hall files indi-cate that trees with “pedes-trian friendly tree grates” must be planted in the side-walk every 40 feet.

Construction manager Dietz said the new Ross conforms to state and

federal energy-saving rules. For example, the new Ross will have no light switches. Instead, sensors will activate lights automatically when movement is detected.

Otherwise, lights are off by default.

Dietz, 57, is working out of the vacated 3 Day Blinds store just east of Ralphs. He’s lefty his mark on La Mesa before.

He said he helped convert Grossmont Center’s Mont-gomery Ward to a Walmart, for example, recalling how he halted work during the 2003 firestorms.

The Grossmont Boulevard location has been deemed safe.

Engineers with Geocon told the city that they reviewed geologic maps, studied aerial photos from 1953 and took soil samples from borings drilled at the 2.5-acre site east of Toys R Us.

Geocon’s John Hoobs and Shawn Foy Weedon said the site is 10 miles east of the nearest active earthquake fault (Rose Canyon).

And being 580 feet above sea level — and 14½ miles from the Pacific — “the risk of a tsunami affecting the site is negligible.”

Historical View

LA MESA’S PIONEERING POULTRY HERITAGEBy James D. Newland

By the time this gets published, the La Mesa City Council will have decided the much-anticipated, and long-awaited, question of how much “fowl” presence will be allowed again within our fair city.

It has been quite awhile since the rapidly growing suburban City of La Mesa outlawed the presence of chickens, turkeys and other similar fowl creatures from its residential lots.

What many may not know is that nearly 100 years ago La Mesa and its surrounding commu-nities were indeed prime poultry country.

Although the initial speculators and devel-opers of the “mesa” region in the 1880s had hoped that the area would join into southern California’s extremely lucrative citrus industry, the troubles of the local San Diego Flume Co. and its successor, the Cuyamaca Water Co., in consistently providing adequate irrigation water hampered those efforts.

La Mesa locals’ big push for promoting and introducing this feathery, egg-laden industry came just shortly after World War I. The center of this activity was in the western areas of today’s La Mesa in the Maryland Heights (near Lake Murray), La Mesa Heights (centered at today’s 70th Street and El Cajon Boulevard) and West La Mesa (west of the Village, between University and El Cajon).

Poultry-raising promoters touted the prof-itability of chickens, turkeys and the egg busi-ness as perfectly suited for the region’s arid climate. Also, they constantly reminded locals of the minimal amounts of water required for such operations in contrast to the heavy irriga-tion needed to produce sweet and juicy citrus.

On June 20, 1920, led by local rancher W. L. Houghton, the poultry men of La Mesa Heights formed their own Poultry Club, inviting those

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Student attendees at the “Ethics in Business” symposium network with business professionals

as well as learn business ethics.

Grossmont High School

Foothiller Footsteps By Connie and Lynn Baer

In the early 1920s, Grossmont High School’s curriculum included an emphasis on business through its Commercial Department. In 1926, classes in bookkeeping, penmanship, typewriting and office training, which included Shorthand for Beginners, were offered. In the 1928 yearbook, the editors state that the department utilized “The Wiese-Coover Kinesthetic Method of Learning Touch Typing…the first truly scientific method of learning typewriting,” with student Gertrude Helm achieving a record 57 words per minute. “Tiger Stroke!” “Motion-feel!” and “Kinesthesis” were terms every student knew.

While the details of Grossmont High School’s business curriculum have evolved over the past 90 years, the desire to train its students for employment in a business career after graduation remains the same. Many wonderful teachers have assumed a lead-ership role in fulfilling this goal. From the 1960s to 1990, state-wide competitions in DECA, Distributive Education Clubs of America, revealed a competitive and educational achieve-ment among Grossmont’s business students that distinguished them on a statewide and national level.

In the 1990’s, under the leadership of Anna Lipksi, a new course began: English for Business. Its purpose was to ensure that students develop the skills needed for succeeding in the real world. In 1992, the first EFB class was offered for students planning to attend community college or enter the work-force upon graduation. In 1994, the University of California approved EFB

for college entrance. In 1997, Gross-mont College and Cuyamaca College, in cooperation with the Grossmont Union High School District, agreed to grant three units of credit to Grossmont High School students who completed English

for Business with an A or B. Once these approvals were received, the number of EFB classes increased each year until by the year 2000 there were as many as eight sections with one full-time and one part-time teacher. During this time, FBLA students won State and National competitions in the Job Interview Event.

Today’s English for Business teacher, Nicole Thren, has taught the class for 12 years. The popularity of the course is shown by the fact that since 2003, five sections have been offered each year – with 197 students enrolled this year.

Springing forward atHelix Charter High School

There is a tradition of excellence at Helix High School in many different areas. Athletics, arts and academics all are emphasized at Helix, and each is an important part of a well-rounded person. We are so proud to see our students excel in these areas. Here are just some examples:

• Our winter sports teams fared well in their seasons.• The Girls’ Basketball team finished their season as CIF Champions.• The Girls’ Soccer team advanced to the CIF Championship game,

which ended regulation time in a scoreless tie. They ended up losing in a shootout.

• The Girls’ Water Polo team made it to the CIF Semi-Final match.• The Boys’ Basketball team made it to the CIF Playoffs.• Five members of the Wrestling team qualified for the Masters meet.• All of our student-athletes are to be congratulated for outstanding

performances.Members of Helix’s Performing Arts Department also made their mark.Twenty-six members of the Instrumental Music Department were named

to the District Honor Band or Orchestra.Twenty-three members of the Speech & Debate team qualified to compete

at the California High School Speech and Debate Championships in April, and the team placed 2nd overall at the San Diego Imperial Valley Speech League State Qualifier Tournament. Students will be competing soon to qualify for the National Championships, which will take place in June in Kansas City, KS.

The Dance Department will have its first production in the new Performing Arts Center on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, both starting at 7 p.m.

It is also the season for students to hear from colleges and universities regarding acceptance. As of mid-March, colleges and universities had made 330 offers to 160 Helix students, and most colleges are not finished with admis-sions. Many students have been offered scholarships for academics, athletics, and arts.

Finally, we invite the community to participate in Helix’s 2014 Senior Boards. All Helix seniors must complete the Senior Project, which entails creating a product, coordinating an event, planning a performance, or providing an actual service that has been designed by them. The final phase of the Senior Project is “Senior Boards”, which provide an opportunity for our students to shine and to feel a sense of accomplishment as they demonstrate their knowl-edge and skills to their community.

Senior Boards will take place on Tuesday, May 28, and Wednesday, May 29, from noon to 4 p.m. Community members are welcome to participate in either or both dates. Please contact me at [email protected] to confirm your participation.

The Senior Project is just one example of Helix’s ongoing efforts to provide graduates with the tools neces-sary to succeed in their future endeavors, whether it is college, full-time employment, trade school, or the military.

As always, we welcome your questions and comments.

Helix HighlightsBy Jennifer Osborn


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Gen-X in La MesaBy Genevieve A. Suzuki

As a parent of a 5-year-old, the words, “let it go,” have a brand new meaning in 2014.

What once meant, “You’re not getting that Equestrian Girl doll no matter how much you cry, pout or throw yourself on the ground in Toys ‘R’ Us on Grossmont Boulevard” now has the same effect as, “Kiss the Girl” or “A Whole New World” had on my genera-tion – it cues my daughter to break into song.

For anyone who doesn’t have a young child to drag them to Frozen or didn’t see Broadway superstar Idina Menzel bring down the house at the Oscars, “Let It Go” is the name of the most popular song from Disney’s recent animated blockbuster.

At first, I really loved the music. I didn’t mind Quinn requesting it over and over and over, and then over again some more. “Mommy, I want to hear number five,” she said. (Yes, she became so familiar with the CD she began calling them by their numbers rather than their actual titles.)

“Sure,” I’d say, hitting the button several times to No. 5. And while the opening notes used to give me goosebumps, they now give me chills for a whole other reason. Hearing the overture to “Let It Go” now causes me to empa-thize with prisoners of war tortured by music.

I began waking up to

“Let it go, let it go, can’t hold it back anymore” playing in my head. I also caught myself humming the song in line at Vons. Eventually, I heard it while waiting for my cases to be called in court.

Trust me – “Let It Go” isn’t the best thing for an attorney to be mumbling around family court.

In addition to tattooing the song on my brain, my daughter also entered an identity crisis phase. Suddenly, she needed to be “Queen Elsa!!!” all the time. (Please note: “Queen Elsa!!!” must always be said with a flourish and at least three exclamation marks.)

And Disney, that wily Disney, they are marketing the heck out of Frozen, a film that has brought them back to the pinnacle of success. They’ve released blonde pre-braided Elsa wigs – a godsend for those of us who do not know how to French braid – and blue frosty Elsa gowns.

My husband, Derek, who adores his daughter to distraction, immedi-ately bought her the wig and dress for Christmas. It seemed harmless enough until Quinn insisted on donning the wig and dress every waking hour.

After we dressed her and secured the wig on her little head, she would play the “Let It Go” video, acting out Elsa’s every movement and turn.

It was funny until it

brought me my one and only “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” moment. See, my back finally decided it was time to experience sciatica. I was down on the ground in our bedroom, fighting the pain enough to call for Derek.

Suddenly I heard quick little footsteps up our stairs. Quinn appeared in the doorway, wearing the Elsa gown with the pale blonde wig hanging off to one side. “Quinn, get Daddy,” I said weakly. “Quinn…”

All at once she was in front of me, sticking her face within inches of mine, yelling, “There is no Quinn! I’m Queen Elsa!!!”

Thankfully, Queen Elsa!!! finally let it go. The wig and dress were placed alongside Cinderella, Ariel and Snow White’s gowns to be used sporadically rather than anytime she’s home and awake.

When the Lego movie came out, I was happy to introduce Quinn to a new interest, something other than Queen Elsa!!! and Princess Anna. Even better, my stereo could enjoy a break from the Frozen soundtrack.

Unfortunately, the Lego movie also features a catchy song. So nowadays in our house, we’re no longer letting it go, but instead exclaiming, “Everything is AWESOME!”

LA MESA ROTARY CLUBGETS SWEET ON CHARITIES

An abundance of dessert and a silent auction will highlight La Mesa Rotary Club’s 3rd annual fundraising event, Sweet Retreat, April 26 at Mission Trails Interpretative Center.

The Rotary is hosting the event for several beneficiary organiza-tions, which can sell tickets and auction items to directly benefit their own groups. The organizations also are invited to recruit sponsorships, with levels from $500 to $5,000 that also raise funds for their causes.

“The struggle you have, if you’re a small-to-medium-sized orga-nization, is it’s hard to have an event because it might cost $7,000 to $15,000,” said Sweet Retreat chair James Thompson, a San Diego dentist. “Then you have to raise that just to break even, and that can be a daunting task for these organizations.”

Thompson said La Mesa Rotary spends approximately $10,000 to put on the event and hopes only to recoup whatever funds spent to host the Sweet night. The focus for the night is to raise money for the beneficiaries, he added.

Money from sponsors at the $500 or $1,000 levels is split evenly between La Mesa Rotary and the recruiting organization. Anything more than $1,000 only earns $500 for La Mesa Rotary, with the beneficiary organization getting the bulk of the contri-bution. In other words, if a company sponsors the retreat for $2,000, La Mesa Rotary only takes $500 from that commitment and $1,500 goes to the organization that found the sponsor.

This year there are five organizations: La Mesa Parks & Recreation, East County YMCA, Volunteers in Medi-cine, InterFACE, and La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club.

The Sweet Retreat prom-ises to be a delicious event for attendees. Desserts will be provided by Grove Bakery, healthy chocolate from Xoçai, wine from San Pasqual Winery and beer from Stone Brewery. Big-ticket auction items include a black opal and diamond ring, courtesy of Michael Collins Fine Jewelers, a signed basket-ball from the current San Diego State University Aztec team, Disneyland tickets and fine art.

Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased online at lamesarotaryevents.org.

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An inspiration to her studentsLa Mesa Courier

Adrian Lindeen played sports her whole life and knew that she wanted to do something sports-related as a career; she just wasn’t sure exactly what that was. When she was a junior in college, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma – she’s been in remis-sion for 10 years now – and that experience was a crystallizing one.

“It was a life-changing expe-rience and it puts some things into perspective for you,” she said. “I was also coaching high school sports at that time, so all that together led me into wanting to teach.”

Lindeen, 32, chairs the phys-ical education department at Grossmont High School. She’s been a teacher for seven years and was recently recognized in the “I’m Thankful for My Teacher”

campaign, which gives families and communities an opportunity to thank the special teachers in their lives. Mission Federal Credit Union, Cox Communications and Junior Achievement organize the effort and the top eight winning teachers receive a $100 gift card. The students in the class of the winning teachers get a party or field trip, and Junior Achieve-ment’s financial education curric-ulum is taught in their classroom.

Lindeen has won the recogni-tion twice before, and this time is no less special.

“It means a lot to me… my students are recognizing me and are thankful to have me in their lives, for whatever reason,” Lindeen said. “That is very impactful for me and rewarding to me.”

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at Maryland Heights to the north and Lemon Grove and Spring Valley to the south to join them at meetings to be held as the La Mesa Heights School (on the site of today’s Harriet Tubman School). Houghton and his poultry raising neighbors joined with the county’s Farm Bureau to follow the lead of the already established poultry men of El Cajon Valley and the Ramona areas.

Such was the rapid growth of the local industry that starting in 1922, the La Mesa Heights Poultry Club held annual poultry shows at the Irving Gill designed schoolhouse and its large grounds. Each year during the 1920s, the La Mesa Scout newspaper featured the annual Heights Poultry Show results.

By the mid-1920s the small but active La Mesa Heights and Maryland Heights Cham-bers of Commerce continually promoted their newfound and successful ventures – inviting others to buy land and join in the profits. Scout headlines such as the May 1925 “West La Mesa Section Fast Coming to Front as Poultry Raising Center” indicated the entrenchment of poultry in La Mesa’s west side.

One of the most notable of the operations was Maryland Heights’ Swiss Villa Ranch. By the early 1920s, prospective poultry ranchers could join with the Ranch’s cooperative opera-

tion that held classes on all aspects of the busi-ness. Information on how to build brooders and coops, what varieties would be better for eggs or meat, and how to cost out supplies and expenses were provided to those who joined.

The educational support for the local poultry men of the area was also institutional-ized at the region’s recently opened Grossmont High School. Starting in 1927, the Grossmont Union High School Agricultural Department obtained state funds to establish a state-spon-sored poultry “trap nest station” for the campus.

With so many students active and inter-ested in the poultry business it was no surprise that Grossmont High won first prize in poultry at the Southern California high school agricul-tural competition in 1928, outscoring second-place Perris High of rural Riverside County and third-place Antelope Valley High of Lancaster.

Although the Great Depression of the 1930s cut funding for the agricultural program at Grossmont, it continued up into World War II.

Of course, with the rapid and exponential suburban growth of the city in the decades after World War II, the popularity of having neighbors with poultry coops and the associ-ated sounds and smells quickly turned from a local asset to a suburban liability. Thus, the city’s eventual ordinance outlawing them.

zine’s 2014 class of 30 Under 30.Christian, 28, is the only finalist from the

region and was selected among hundreds of applications based upon sales success, commu-nity involvement and general leadership. The annual competition is held by the National Association of Realtors to honor agents nation-wide under the age of 30.

Christian founded Renovation Realty in 2011. He has been named one of San Diego

Business Journal’s 2013 Emerging Genera-tion: 25 in their 20s. He was also named one of San Diego Daily Transcript’s 2013 Young Influentials, while his company was named one of SD Metro Magazine’s 2012 Most Admired Companies.

Christian attended Santa Clara Univer-sity, where he received a bachelor’s degree in finance. He is a licensed real estate broker and general contractor in the state of California.


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Satisfying Lunches atTerra American Bistro

Since moving his restaurant, Terra Amer-ican Bistro, from Hillcrest to a few blocks west of La Mesa on El Cajon Boulevard in 2011, Jeff Rossman has continued to provide approach-able meals in a relaxed, casual setting. And Terra – the Latin term for earth – is an appro-priate name; all the food in his restaurant organic and sustainable and whenever possible uses local sources such as bread from Sadie Rose and cider from Julian.

Which all make for a rewarding dining experience.

There’s nothing surprising on the menu for brunch, lunch or dinner at Terra, where excel-lence has become routine. You’ll find traditional breakfasts served from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with three glasses of complimentary champagne/mimosas and full dinner entrees that are equally satisfying – such as the lager braised pot roast. For the mid-day set, the lunch will have you convinced that the food at Terra goes beyond eco-consciousness to sandwiches that are pretty damn delicious.

Their version of the ubiquitous burger is transformed with Gorgonzola cheese, truffle aioli and caramelized onions. The beef is cooked to your preference and served sizzling hot on a piece of stone slate. One juicy bite in and you’ll wonder why all burgers aren’t this rich (hint: their burgers are helped by butter). Upgrade their standard bistro fries to truffle fries ($15.50 for the combo) and it’s a meal you’ll be returning to soon.

Equally delicious is the lobster BLT ($16). Toasted bread is layered with chunks of Maine

lobster, bacon, lettuce and tomato. The inter-play of rich tender lobster with crisp smoked bacon alone make this sandwich an instant hit but it’s the tarragon mayo that adds the final touch tying everything together. Other lunch

meals that also deserve serious consideration are the crab sliders using Maryland-style blue crab cakes with citrus slaw and any one of their customized bowls ($13-$18; choose from chicken, fish, skirt steak, tofu or lobster) with either a Latin, Asian, Californian seasoning.

Regardless of what your order or even which time of day, a visit to Terra won’t leave you hungry. You’ll be planning your return visit instead.Darlene Horn is a San Diego-based food blogger and has penning her opinions on food at MyBurn-ingKitchen.com and Zagat San Diego. She’s also the author of the semi-autobio-graphical, food-centric comic, The Girl with the Donut Tattoo, drawn by her husband and artist, Paul Horn.

The class goal is to help the students become college and career ready, with an emphasis on career. First semester the students spend time researching a career, developing a personal budget, and completing the necessary steps to apply and interview for a job in that chosen career. Second semester, students participate in a job shadow to give them the “real” outlook on that career so they can make an informed deci-sion before they begin college.

According to Nicole Thren, one memorable annual event is the mock job interviews first semester, which involve community partici-pation; last year two companies that actually performed real interviews offered two students internships with state Sen. Joel Anderson’s office, and two were offered jobs with Best Buy. Another memorable event is the annual Ethics in Business conference sponsored by the

East County Chamber of Commerce and East County CTE. Nicole believes that “Although I can only bring 35 of my EFB students, those who are able to attend get a great experience in networking with business professionals along with a wonderful learning experience in busi-ness ethics.”

For nearly 94 years, through the efforts of dedicated teachers such as these, Foot-hillers have benefited from a curriculum which prepares them for life after high school. For more information about the EFB class, contact Nicole Thren at [email protected].

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Religion Notes

LIFE BEHIND THE COLLARLa Mesa Courier

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a minister? Here’s your chance to find out, to ask ques-tions, to ponder the story, adventures, trials and rewards of someone who’s been there, done that and is still proud to wear the t-shirt (and the collar).

On May 4 at 2 p.m., the Rev. Martin Copen-haver, pastor, president-elect of Andover-Newton Theological Seminary and award-winning author of books on the Christian faith and life, will take an up close and personal

look at “A Life of Service.” The conversation will take place in the sanctuary of the United Church of Christ of La Mesa, 5940 Kelton Ave.

All are welcome, but reservations are required. To RSVP, email [email protected]. Information: 619-464-1519, or www.ucclm.org.

Does your house of worship want to get the word out about an upcoming event? Send items to [email protected]. Please be sure to send notices at least two weeks before the event.



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water agencies have made significant investments over the last decade to increase water storage to help the area withstand dry seasons.

Northern California is experiencing extreme condi-tions and additional Southern California conservation will help ease the strain on the entire state water industry.

‘Star Party’ being held at Mt. Helix Park’s Amphitheater

Mt. Helix Park and the San Diego Astronomy Associa-tion will hold a family-friendly `Star Party’ on April 5 from 6:45 to 9 p.m.

Members of the Astronomy Association will explain what is visible in the night sky and will have telescopes available for gazing into the galaxy. Amateur astronomers are welcome to bring up their telescopes as well. Picnicking (no alcohol, please) prior to sunset is encouraged. Sunset will occur at 7:11 p.m., with viewing starting about 7:45 pm.

Parking and a shuttle will be available next to the San Miguel Fire Station at 10105 Vivera Drive. The first shuttle will run up to the Mt. Helix Park Amphitheater at 6:45 p.m.

Visitors are also welcome to walk up from the parking lot. There will be no parking

at the summit. If it is cloudy, the event will be cancelled. For more details visit mthelix-park.org or call 619-741-4363.

Women’s Opportunity Conference set

Soroptimist International of La Mesa will present a Women’s Opportunity Confer-ence on May 3, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Corporate Educa-tion Center at San Diego City College, 1551 C St., in San Diego.

Plenty of information, inspiration, resources and support for women who want to move beyond personal obstacles and improve their

lives will be on tap. The target audience is women who are trying to enter or return to the job market, those who lack the education or training to improve their employment opportunities and women who are trying to overcome various challenges, such as abuse, neglect, poverty and a lack of confidence.

“We believe that women, their families, and communi-ties benefit when women are able to pursue their goals and live fulfilling lives,” said Lisa Moore, president of Soropti-mist International of La Mesa. “Sometimes all they need is

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THERAPY DOGS SERVING AS ANGELSBy Tom Roebuck

A group of volunteers that brings their dogs into assisted-living facilities to visit the residents are looking for a few new faces to join their crew. La Mesa Pet Therapy currently has about 40 people on their list of dog owners willing to brighten someone’s day, and they are currently accepting applications from more people who love to show off their dog.

The concept behind La Mesa Pet Therapy is simple: Many dogs love to take trips and interact with people. Many people love dogs. Bring dogs into nursing homes and other facilities and watch the happiness unfold.

“We get a lot of positive feedback,” said Lu Zemlick, La Mesa Pet Therapy coordinator. “Not only the residents but the staff too, it’s a pick-me-up. It’s something to look forward to. When you see a dog, you have to smile.”

Volunteers can choose

how often they participate and where they visit. Some develop regular schedules, usually weekly or monthly, while others conduct visits when they can, Zemlick said.

The program is admin-istered by the La Mesa Enrichment Center, under the auspices of the La Mesa Police Department. All volun-teers must complete a fairly thorough background check, including providing finger-prints for an FBI review. Dogs don’t have to provide pawprints to the FBI, but they are screened by the police department’s animal control officer to make sure they have

the right personality and are not dangerous. One more temperament screening is done by Zemlick at the facility.

“Sometimes they behave at the police station, but once they get to an assisted-living facility they act different,” Zemlick said. “One dog saw a person in a wheelchair and started barking. That won’t do.”

Dog owners considering volunteering with their cute canine can pick up applica-tions at the La Mesa Enrich-ment Center at 8450 La Mesa Blvd., or call (619) 667-1322 to have applications mailed. Two applications need to be submitted, one for the Enrich-ment Center and another for the animal control officer, Cassie Gremillion.

All dogs and owners must meet with Gremillion and bring identification, proof of immunization, dog licenses and other documentation. Fingerprints are taken for

Borkats, from page 1

See Borkats, Page 13

Phil did not want to marry until he could support a family, so they waited until the age of 25, when Phil was offered his first permanent job working for the government in Washington, DC.

“He picked up the phone and he said, ‘Sylvia, get everything ready. I’m coming to marry you,’ ” Sylvia says. “And I said, ‘Holy smackeronavich!’ ”

The couple relocated to Cleveland when Phil landed a job as chief engineer for the Viking Air Conditioning Corp., which manufactured parts for the military during the war effort. They had three children and stayed in Cleveland until 20 years ago, when they moved to La Mesa to be closer to one of their sons. Phil has now been retired for almost as many years as he worked.

But they remain active and until recently attended Shabbat services every Saturday at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego.

“We admire not only their intelligence and their ability to do so much at this age, but also they demonstrate for all of us how a loving and caring couple should act,” said Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal.

So what are the secrets to reaching the age of 101?“My analysis for our extended life is based on three things:

good genes, good hygiene and good nutrition,” Phil says.“One more thing: attitude,” Sylvia says. “You need to have an

upbeat attitude.”Genes certainly tell part of the story. Sylvia’s mother lived

past her 98th birthday. Her father died at 81. Phil has lived longer than his own folks, too. They passed away at 85 and 86.

Phil was a heavy smoker until 20 years ago. It never gave him any problems, he says, but he gave it up “just like that.”


See Rother, Page 14

Caitlin Rother

TRUE CRIME AUTHOR SPEAKS IN LA MESABy Marty Graham

Although Caitlin Rother’s true crime novels immerse her in the darkest of human behavior, her fascination and skill as an author take us to the darkness of the human mind rather than the violence.

“I’m really curious about why people do these things, how they think and what we can learn so it doesn’t happen again,” Rother said at the La Mesa Library, where she talked about her books and her career on March 15. “I was a psychology major.”

Rother’s ninth book and sixth true crime novel, I’ll Take Care of You, has just been published, and she has a series of speaking engagements in March and April, including appearances at the El Cajon Library and the Encinitas library.

I’ll Take Care of You is the story of Nanette Johnston Packard, whose involvement in the murder of her Newport Beach sugar-daddy in 1994 finally was confirmed by a cold case investigation that ended in conviction nine years later.

“It’s the Real Housewives of Orange County gone bad,” Rother said. “She epitomizes all the greed and materialism of the times – this woman transformed herself into who

she wanted to be by stealing identities, stealing people’s accomplishments and plastic surgery.”

The beautiful young blond mom found medical device millionaire Bill McLaughlin through a personal ad worded “I’ll take care of you if you take care of me.”

He moved her into his Newport Beach house, and, over a period of four years, she used his resources to live a very good life that included removing her engagement ring when she went to the gym looking for a different kind of sugar.

She found it in Eric Naposki, an NFL player of little note, who shot McLaughlin six times as he sat in his house. The case went cold until 2008 when a new team of investigators revived it. Packard, meanwhile, had collected more than $1 million in life insurance and palimony,

then remarried and moved on with her consumptive life.

Rother has also written a novel and co-authored two well-received books about people who have recov-ered from devastating life experiences.

She worked as a reporter for nearly two decades, much of that time at the San Diego Union-Tribune. She covered county government and poli-

See La Mesa Reads, Page 12

La Mesa ReadsGetting spruced up for springBy Heather Pisani-Kristl, Librarian

The La Mesa Community Library is brighter this spring, with new carpeting, a laptop bar, and additional art displays. The City of La Mesa and the County of San Diego deserve many thanks for their collaboration in making the library more comfortable, functional, and, yes, stylish. If you haven’t seen us lately, come by and take part in our programs for all ages, such as preschool storytime (Thursdays at 10:30), moral and philosoph-ical discussions (first Wednesdays at 10:30), Scrabble (Mondays at 4), or e-book tutoring (by appointment at 619-469-2151).

Book lovers will enjoy the website libraryreads.org, which launched in December and features recent releases reviewed by librarians. The April issue reviews The Axe Factor, a new mystery by Colin Cotterill, one of my favorite authors. This novel is No. 4 in a series featuring dutiful daughter, Jimm, a former crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail, who has reluc-tantly left the big city to care for her eccentric family and their failing seaside inn. Though she makes pennies as a stringer on the village newspaper, her professional experi-ence renders her uniquely skilled at solving

mysteries alongside the local police. In The Axe Factor, Jimm investigates the connection behind sudden disappearances of women in rural Thailand, while managing to ignore the suspi-cious attentions of an English expat.

Colin Cotterill began publishing in the U.S. in 2004 with The Coroner’s Lunch, introducing Dr. Siri Paiboun, an elderly coroner who chafes against the excesses of the Pathet Lao government and uses his latent shamanistic talents to outwit malevolent spirits. The Dr. Siri series has since grown to nine titles set in 1970s Vientiane, a backdrop of power outages and Communist dogma laced with Dr. Siri’s cynicism. Dr. Siri and

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Lamplighters, from page 1

La Mesa Reads, from page 11

rooms and a long list of other tasks. Loveless said construc-tion companies are reviewing the blueprints and the new theater should start taking shape in April and be open by early summer.

Keeping Lamplighters in La Mesa was a top priority during the search for a new space, Loveless said, and the new location will be easy to get to for former season ticket holders, who were mostly from La Mesa.

“It’s mostly a Monday through Friday shopping center and that’s why it was a

good fit for us because we do our shows on the weekends and there’s ample parking available for us and our patrons,” Loveless said.

Once the theater is up and running, Lamplighters will take up where it left off in 2006 with a familiar lineup of productions.

“We basically have a formula that we’ve been happy with. We normally do two comedies a year, we do a drama, we do a mystery and usually a musical every other season,” Loveless said. “As artistic director I have many

shows up my sleeve and direc-tors behind me already.”

Plans call for producing five plays per season, as well as a children’s theater program, dramatic readings for the blind, and training opportuni-ties for people wanting to learn about the technical, artistic and administrative aspects of theater production.

Lamplighters is a non-profit community theater completely staffed with unpaid volunteers who donate their time and labor because they love the theater, Loveless said, and their dedication is the reason that the group has thrived for close to 80 years. The group welcomes new volunteers to help with demo-lition and construction of the new space, plus assisting with productions once the shows return to the stage. Cash dona-tions are also being accepted to help defray construction costs and other expenses.

“I’m always searching for new talent and anybody inter-ested in joining us at Lamp-lighters, believe me, is always welcome,” Loveless said.

To volunteer or donate money to Lamplighters Community Theater, call Barbara Eisele at (619) 448-1926 or the box office at (619) 286-3685.

Jimm – as well as their friends and family – are detectives you won’t soon forget. To engage in some armchair sleuthing, ask for their stories at the library.

April is National Poetry Month. In honor of the occa-sion, La Mesa Community Library will be having a poetry-writing contest. Local poets of all ages can submit a poem about or inspired by their favorite book or author; winners will receive prizes. Details and an entry form

will be available in the library starting on April 1 (no fooling).

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an FBI background check, which the city pays for, and results can take as long as a month to return. Zemlick said that fingerprints are not kept on file and are discarded when the background check is completed.

The approval process for people as well as the dogs is necessary to keep everyone involved in the program safe, Zemlick said.

“We’ve had a few people that were not approved. If they have any kind of police record,

no matter what, they’re not approved,” she said.

There are 10 facilities in La Mesa that welcome the dogs and their volunteers, with visits ranging from 45 minutes to three hours. At some facili-ties the dogs move through the halls and visit residents one by one in their rooms, at others they gather in a common room and make an afternoon party out of it.

While the program is ideal for dogs – more than 100 dogs have participated over

the last 10 years – cats are not completely discriminated against. Five cats have made it through the approval process.

“Cats are more difficult, we have to be more careful with them,” Zemlick said.

To remain on the active list of participants, volunteers must log at least 20 hours of visits per year, or about two hours a month. Zemlick said the active volunteers love sharing their precious pets as much as the residents love seeing them.

“That’s the idea, to make people happy,” she said.

Sylvia says she’s a “nut” about nutrition, balancing each meal with a protein, a carbohydrate and vegetables or fruit. She gets help from the Jewish Family Service’s Food Mobile, whose volun-teers drop by three times a week to deliver meals.

“At our age, I have one thing to complain about,” Sylvia says. “I am so slow. I have slowed down in every way. That’s natural.”

“You ain’t no youngster anymore,” Phil interjects.Born when William Howard Taft was president, the Borkats

have seen an enormous amount of change in their lifetimes, from radio to television to streaming videos on Netflix. They’ve been around longer than frozen food and sliced bread. In fact, they were born just 10 years after the first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. and a little more than a year before the first commercial airline in the world was launched in Florida.

Asked about how people have changed, Sylvia notes two things.

First, divorce no longer carries the stigma it once did.“People never would talk about divorce,” Sylvia says. “People

used to think it was a disgrace to talk about it.”Similarly, the social pres-

sure to keep disease hidden has faded.

“Nowadays diseases are talked about,” Sylvia says. “They’re faced head on. Talking things out and learning from others is a good thing. We are mortal.”

Thinking about their own mortality, neither Phil nor Sylvia feel much fear or hesita-tion. They simply hope it won’t be painful for themselves or their family.

“I’m ready whenever it comes,” Phil says. “I have nothing to regret. I’ve had a good full life. I can’t complain. I had my partner with me the whole time. That’s good.”

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tics, and developed strong investigative skills that led to her nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.

She honed her writing with the help of a beloved writing coach who taught her to use a narrative style – as opposed to the constant attribution and sourcing that’s standard in news writing. As she perfected her narrative style, she also found she had a growing rest-lessness at work.

“I got tired of all the spin with the politics of government and I felt like I was writing the same story over and over again,” she said. “And I was realizing that I’m really a researcher.”

She reported on the inves-tigation into the death of Greg deVilliers, which was first thought a very strange suicide, and the eventual murder pros-ecution of his wife, Kristin Rossum, who worked as a toxicologist for the San Diego County Medical Examiner. Rossum had taken her boss as a lover and was dipping into the seized drugs at the office.

“I wrote 50 stories for the newspaper, and when I finished covering the story, I

got a book contract,” Rother says.

Since then, she has written about a serial killer who turned himself in, the murders of a young retired couple who were lured to sea by killers posing as buyers for their yacht, and the murders of Amber Dubois and Chelsea King.

“My books don’t have violence. They’re psycholog-ical,” Rother said. “I’ve moved towards looking for something positive to learn, something to bring forward, some way we can learn from these tragic crimes.”

At the same time, Rother does things for her work that scare a lot of people, like inter-viewing killers at high secu-rity prisons, including San Quentin.

“I find myself thinking I need to be careful about what I say to him, because if he dives across the table, he could kill me pretty quickly,” she said. “But they’re usually really nice.”

“They want to impress me. They want to improve their public image,” she says, shaking her head. “I don’t think that’s even possible.”

the “how-to” knowledge and support to do so.”

Open to women age 18 and over, the conference will offer workshops and semi-nars, panel presentations and resource table clinics focusing on education and training opportunities, job searching techniques, personal finance, health, fitness and more. Attendees will also have the opportunity to apply for small grants to help them pursue their education or training goals or to start a small business.

Women interested in attending should register by April 19. The $5 per person pre-registration fee will be refunded when they check-in at the conference. A conti-nental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Founded more than 60 years ago, Soroptimist Interna-

tional of La Mesa is a nonprofit service club of women from various businesses and professions. Its mission is to “improve the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world.”

For more information about Soroptimist, or to get a conference registration form, visit silamesa.org.

Adam Day appointed to university board

Del Mar Fairgrounds board member Adam Day has been named by Gov. Jerry Brown today to the California State University Board of Trustees.

Day, 44, is the assistant tribal manager for the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. Previously, the Alpine resident was general manager at NCG Porter Novelli and vice presi-dent at the Flannery Group.

The Republican also served on staffs for county Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Supervisor Greg Cox, former Supervisor George Bailey and Senator Pete Wilson.

This position requires Senate confirmation. The compensation is $100 per diem.

Oliver! at the KrocPeter Pan Jr. Theater will

present the enduring musical “Oliver!” on April 2, 3, 4 &5 at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre at the Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Commu-nity Center, 6845 University Avenue, just two blocks west of La Mesa.

The Peter Pan Jr. Theater involves children grades 4 through 8 who live within the La Mesa - Spring Valley School District boundaries.

Tickets are $15 each and can be purchased via ppjt.org or at the box office. All shows are at 7 p.m., with an additional 1 p.m. matinee on Saturday, April 5.

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News Briefs, from page 14

Kalasho, from page 1

elsewhere in the region.Kalasho, who was born

in Iraq and immigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was 8 years old, is “semi-retired” now after successfully starting and selling several businesses, including a scaf-folding company, a cell phone contracting firm and a car wash.

His interest is in getting people together to make connections and bridge divides, especially among the more recent Chaldean refu-gees from Iraq who are often less warm to the idea of assim-ilation, he said.

“Refugees have an oppor-tunity to change their life now, and we’re helping them do that,” he said.

The organization has grown rapidly over the past few months, claiming 167 members, including doctors, attorneys, real estate agents, entrepreneurs, nonprofit orga-nizations and government agencies.

The chamber is open to everyone, not just Chaldeans, and Kalasho believes the inclu-siveness of the organization is what has made it so successful in such a short time.

“We’ve attracted the movers and shakers in our community,” Kalasho said. “If you’re an American attorney, what better way to penetrate the Chaldean community than to join the chamber?”

The chamber’s board of directors is a mix of Chaldeans and other local leaders such as

Jack Doyle, former mayor of Santee; Joel Scalzitti, member of the Helix Water District board; Cathy Hilton, realtor and investor; and Dan Goar, an officer in the plumbing and pipefitting union, UA Local 230.

“I think it’s about time that the Chaldean community had a bigger piece of the pie in East County with buyers and sellers,” said realtor Linda Nickerson, who serves on the chamber’s board, at a launch party for the chamber last November.

Kalasho’s group joins a crowded field that includes the La Mesa Chamber of Commerce, the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, among others, but it is in no way meant to compete with them, Kalasho said. Instead, the goal is to increase the number of Chaldeans who are active in the business community.

In March the chamber hosted a networking mixer at BO-beau kitchen + garden in La Mesa that featured speakers on financial planning.

On April 3 the chamber will host the Miss Middle East Beauty Pageant, featuring 18 women of Kurdish, Lebanese, Persian, Palestinian, Egyptian descent, among others. The goal is raise money for schol-arships and elevate the goals and aspirations of Middle Eastern women, Kalasho said.

On April 11 the chamber will host a golf tournament

at the Sycuan Golf & Tennis Resort to raise money to buy toys and food for the needy during the holiday season later this year.

The chamber’s biggest challenge so far has been legal wrangling with another chamber of commerce founded shortly after the San Diego East County Chaldean-Amer-ican Chamber of Commerce was founded. A pending lawsuit against the Chal-dean American Chamber of Commerce of California claims that organization adopted a similar name and mission to deliberately sabotage the East County group.

The Chaldean immi-grant population came to East County in two big waves, according to Kalasho. The first wave began arriving during the regional military conflicts of the 1980s. Many of them were families like Kalasho’s who had the financial means to leave Iraq and start a new life in the U.S.

The second wave of Chal-dean immigrants began arriving during the Iraq War of the 2000s. Unlike the first wave of immigrants who left by choice, many in the latter group left reluctantly to escape terrorism and persecution and ended up in East County by chance.

Kalasho said his organiza-tion is working with the San Diego Health and Human Services Agency to reach out to refugees who need help navi-gating the healthcare system.

Lindeen, from page 5

This year, Lindeen teaches aerobics and is also the site teacher for the Coordinating Early Intervening Support program, which works with students who are at risk for not completing high school. Part of her responsibility in the program is to manage a caseload of 100 students and to spend more individual time with 50 of them who require extra attention and guid-ance. As a physical education teacher, her job is rewarding in a number of ways. She has the luxury of being able to have more conversations with kids and interacting with them through playing sports and games. They get to chal-lenge her on the field or court. And watching the growth that comes with an accomplishment like going from a 14-minute to an 11-minute mile is a joy.

Her class size is typically 55 students, so she focuses on being firm and maintaining structure, disciplined, and practicing follow-through on consequences. It helps her classes run smoothly so that she can have fun with the students.

“I try to make it fun for them, I high-five them. Lots of positive reinforcement. I try to join in and play with the kids and I like to highlight some of the kids who’ve done great things that week,” she said. “I want all the kids in my class to succeed, not just the athletic kids, but the special ed kids, the kids who are over-weight, the kids who normally wouldn’t get any acknowledg-ment from a teacher.”

Do you know of a teacher, student or school that should be in the spotlight? Send suggestions to [email protected].

Hills Local Pub to the neigh-borhood on April 3 with a ribbon cutting and business mixer.

The owners of The Hills Local Pub, 8758 La Mesa Blvd., have remodeled the location. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. and will end at 7 p.m. and will include hors d’ oeuvres, a complimentary glass of house wine, handcrafted beer and soft drinks.

The Chamber of Commerce will host a raffle throughout the evening. Barry Mantel, owner of Nights of the Sound Table, will provide music.

The first 25 Chamber members to register will be admitted for free. Pricing for chamber members after that is $10, $15 for guests and $20 for all “at door” attendees.

To RSVP, email [email protected] or call 619-465-7700, ext. 2.

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