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With the help of Garrison Streetresidents and other Peninsulans,funds are being raised to make a dif-ference in the life of Point Loma HighSchool junior Divina Leal – one cup ofhot chocolate at a time.
Leal recently lost her mother todomestic violence.
It's all part of the Christmas spiritand tradition at two homegrownPoint Loma Yuletide events – the Dec.19 Ybarra family's “Hot Cocoa for aCure” annual hot chocolate charityfundraiser and the annual GarrisonStreet holiday light show.
The 16th annual Garrison Streetcharity fundraiser, to be held Satur-day, Dec. 19 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. atthe Ybarra Freitas residence at 3616Garrison St., will sell upward of1,000 cups of $1 hot chocolates andscrumptious baked goodies. All eventproceeds each year are donated to alocal person in need.
This year, the recipient of theneighborhood's largesse will be Leal,who's mom Josie Jones, a native ofPoint Loma, was killed by an ex-boyfriend in Nevada, where she andLeal previouslyresided.
Leal nowlives in PointLoma with heraunt and uncle,Carree andJohn Anderson.
“Divina isbasically start-ing her life overin a new town, trying to adjust, whileliving with this horrible, tragic loss,”said the Ybarras on their charityevent Facebook page, facebook.com/events/507749592719283/. “Div-ina could really use the support fromher new community. We look for-ward to seeing you Dec. 19 and
BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON
The City Council Dec. 15 voted 8-0 to pass one of the nation's mostambitious climate action plans,which has an ultimate goal of 100percent clean energy use in SanDiego by 2035 through transit, walk-ing and biking.
There were 93 speakers in favor,and two opposed, to the city's pro-posed Climate Action Plan (CAP) pro-gram.
Calling it a “momentous occa-sion,” Mayor Kevin Faulconer intro-duced the CAP proposal, pointing outit enjoys such widespread supportbecause “we know San Diego is a city
that innovates.”Noting San Diego is a city where
“our environment is absolutely essen-tial to our quality of life,” Faulconersaid the CAP measure's passage will“help our community thrive and alsocreate the green jobs of tomorrow.”
Faulconer added that the CAP willensure that San Diego “stays on trackto significantly reduce greenhousegases.
“We have the ability to make SanDiego the green energy and solar cap-ital of the world,” enthused Faulcon-er, adding, “We will increase the useof clean energy with a goal of using
See the lights andhelp a great causeat Garrison Street
Representatives from each militaryservice branch and community mem-bers honored veterans, rememberedfallen heroes and taught childrenabout the sacrifices made by veter-ans and their families at the FortRosecrans National Cemetery dur-ing the Wreaths Across America cer-emony on Saturday, Dec. 12. Fol-lowing the ceremony, volunteersplaced wreaths on veterans’ graves.Wreaths Across America is a non-profit organization with the mission‘Remember, Honor, Teach.’ With thehelp of sponsors, donors and volun-teers, WAA continues the annualtribute of laying wreaths in veterancemeteries across the UnitedStates. Visit www.waasandiego.comfor information.
PHOTOS BY KEVIN HAGGERTY
San Diego going green withambitious climate action plan
‘Tis the season for California SpinyLobster catch, but an investigation bythe City Attorney’s Office found lobstersdon’t always make their way into the“lobster rolls” at local sushi restaurants.
The “truth-in-menu” investigationwas launched last year to see if SanDiego consumers were the victims of
seafood fraud. It resulted in criminalconvictions against sushi restaurantsin Carmel Mountain Ranch, El Cerrito,Hillcrest, North Park, Ocean Beach,Point Loma, Rancho Penasquitos andTierrasanta.
On the Peninsula, OB Sushi, 4967Newport Ave., and Ikiru Sushi, 2850
Womble Road, pleaded guilty earlierthis year.
Investigators with the Consumer andEnvironmental Protection Unit of theOffice of the City Attorney purchasedadvertised “lobster rolls” from varioussushi restaurants throughout SanDiego, then sent them to a laboratorywhere DNA testing confirmed that nolobster was in fact in any of the rolls.
Instead of lobster, the testingrevealed the substitution of varioustypes of less expensive seafood such ascrawfish or pollock. Follow-up restau-rant inspections by the CaliforniaDepartment of Fish and Wildlife andthe City’s investigator found no lobsterin any of the businesses.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith was dis-appointed with the food fraud findings.
“The public should be able to count ontruthful advertising from anyone doingbusiness in San Diego. Honest customerservice is not only required by law, it isgood business,” Goldsmith said. “Ouroffice will continue to prosecute business-es that lie to their consumers.”
The undisclosed substitution of thecheaper seafood is a criminal violationof California law that prohibits theadulteration of food and the false adver-tising or misbranding of food items.Along with fines, California law alsorequires the offending businesses toreimburse all of the investigation costs.The eight sushi restaurants paid a com-bined $14,000 in fines and more than$5,000 to reimburse investigative costs.
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The mayor characterized the CAP as a“great first step” in a long-term effort toachieve quantifiable sustainability goals,like making city vehicles 50 percent elec-tric by 2020 and 90 percent electric by2035.
Extolling the CAP's virtues, Faulcon-er said it “strikes a sensible balancebetween protecting our environmentand growing our economy.” He addedSan Diego can “support clean technolo-gy, renewable energy and economicgrowth, as well as be a leader in innova-tion and sustainability. Let's use this topreserve our children's future and passalong a San Diego that is clean and fullof more opportunity.”
Nicole Capretz, executive director ofthe Climate Action Campaign (CAC), awatchdog climate action organization,described CAP's passage as a “down pay-ment on our future.”
Arguing that climate change is “thegreatest threat to our survival and thesurvival of future generations,” Capretzsaid the Council-approved action toendorse CAP “sets a legacy for every-body here today.”
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ed a victim of juvenile diabetes and aboy who was shot and survived.
Carrie Ybarra said her family's chari-ty fundraiser started out small.
“Sixteen years ago it was just a littlehot chocolate stand run by my twodaughters out in front of our house toraise money for a little girl in Tijuanahaving leg surgery, and we raisedenough money to buy her a Barbie,” shesaid. “Now it's turned into a communi-ty event where people not only donatebut help run it.”
Garrison Street neighbor Kerry Peteragreed the charity event's size – andimportance – has outgrown its originalintent.
“It used to be just a few kids sellinghot chocolate on one night,” Peter said.“Now it's a big event for the whole com-munity. Everyone donates chocolate,cups and baked goods.”
Peter added the event is not about sell-ing hot chocolate but rather “givingback, showing people who need helpthat we care.”
Best of all, said Peter, the chocolatecharity directly benefits someone local.
“We're not giving to a big charity,”she pointed out. “This is really hands-on. It goes to a person that's in our com-munity who needs our help.”
But the Dec. 19 Ybarra hot chocolatecharity is just the star topping the treefor neighbors on Garrison Street. Neigh-
bors light up the night for more than amonth with their annual Christmaslight display, which starts Thanksgivingnight and runs until Jan. 5.
Nazare Judd is a granddaughter in thefamily that started the Garrison StreetChristmas Light tradition. She said itbegan as a “friendly” competition near-ly 30 years ago between her mother andgrandmother that she, half-jokingly,admitted “got out of control.”
The Garrison Street Christmas cele-bration of lights is on the block betweenChatsworth Boulevard and GarrisonPlace. Judd noted neighbors annuallytry to outdo one another with theirChristmas displays, an activity that's
earned the community a well-deservedreputation as a holiday destination.
The Christmas tradition began with-out anything elaborate, just a smallNativity scene. Then there was a Santain the window. Then angels in the win-dows. Then Mickey Mouse characters inthe windows. Now some have likenedsome homes’ entries to Disneyland.
Other homes nearby subsequentlyjoined in adding lights and other things,like big blow-up displays of Santa Clausand his reindeer, snowmen and otherChristmas icons.
Kyle Ybarra noted the Garrison holi-day light show “has started to stretchbeyond our little two blocks. We have
new families on Garrison Place that arelighting up that side of the street thathas been pretty dark. Eventually, maybea few years from now, it will be consider-ably larger.”
Kerry Peter described her familyhome's Christmas light display as “moresimple, clean. Our house is not coveredin lights like some others. We have moreof a San Diego theme with a surfin'Santa on the roof.”
Peter said they also have five 4-foot-tall multi-colored wreaths on display aswell as a snowman.
Special appearances at the Dec. 19Ybarra hot chocolate charity are toinclude Steve Grady's band playing live,
a fire truck visit from Station 22 andSanta.
The Ybarras request that friends, fam-ilies and neighbors show up on Dec. 19 tobuy hot cocoa, treats or make a donation.Carrie suggested they bring baked goodsor an item needed for the event.
“If you sign up to bring something,please drop it off by Thursday, Dec. 17,with the exception of baked goods,” saidCarrie Ybarra, adding, “Individuallywrapped baked goods can be dropped offanytime on Friday, Dec. 18. Please leaveall items on the porch of 3631 GarrisonSt., noting who it’s from.”
All money raised will go to a collegefund for Leal.
Donations can accepted at the eventor through the mail. Checks can be writ-ten to Carree and John Anderson (Div-ina's aunt and uncle) and dropped off atthe event or sent to: Garrison StreetFundraiser, c/o Carrie Ybarra, 3631Garrison Street, San Diego, CA 92106.You may also donate directly atwww.gofundme.com/josiejonesandkids.
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HOT COCOA FOR A CURE Where: Ybarra Freitas residence at 3616Garrison St.
When: Saturday, Dec. 19 from 5:30 to 10p.m.
What: Event proceeds each year are donat-ed to a local person in need. This year, it’sPoint Loma High School junior Divina Leal.
Information: facebook.com/events/507749592719283/
Ginny Nolan tells Santa Claus (Steve Cota)what she wants for Christmas. (Left) The Gar-rison Street light display from last year.
Kisstletoe captures holiday tradition in a jewel of a product and a vital cause
Its places in history are as storied asthey are diverse. Early England'sDruids regarded its berries as sacredafter the fruit saved a warrior's life;centuries later, the berries and leaveswere found to be poisonous, causingvomiting and blurred vision. Today,it's considered a parasite, its rootsquickly draining water and nutrientsfrom the trees and bushes unfortunateenough to get in its way.
And its old Anglo-Saxon translationdoesn't exactly inspire confidence(“mistel-tan” means poop on a stick).
But we nonetheless hold mistletoein high esteem at Christmas. We'venamed a bunch of drinks after it, and
as you know (wink!), it's the centralitem among prospects for holidayromance (the kissing thing startedwith the rough-and-tumble ancientNorse, making its way to 18th-centu-ry Britain as a custom between rough-and-tumble household servants). Yup,mistletoe has made it through thickand thin – and one Point Loma busi-ness has drawn a bead on the idea,packaging the paragon plant into anappealing little jewelry product calledKisstletoe and supporting a colossalcause at the same time.
“I'm an artist,” Kisstletoe creatorSusan Winkie says. “I like circles. I likecolor. I often work with resin. Mistletoeis just a lovely old tradition – so whenI dreamed up the idea to create a neck-
lace of preserved mistletoe and thenfollowed that with the name Kisstletoe,well, I knew it was special, unique anda brand new twist on the under-the-mistletoe kiss.”
The see-through pendants containmistletoe sprigs and are flanked by tinyappointments that lend themselves tothe pendants' names. Kisstletoe sellssix varieties and plans for more – andit's a cinch the company won't run outof product. San Diego County's east-ern mountains are loopy with sixspecies of the evergreen derivative,which cling to cottonwood, oak andsycamore trees the way your momclings to you.
Even so, Winkie and daughter/co-worker Megan are careful to select the
freshest greens – the thing aboutmistletoe as a parasite is quite true, tothe point that the plant is involved inits own demise. It lives a life of easeand squalor, stealing its host trees' sus-tenance so aggressively that the trees'eventual illness can sometimes affectthe robustness of the offending mistle-toe.
And the process itself isn't as easy asit seems. The sprigs need sifting anddelicate preparation for the resin thatwill preserve them – and you can'tglue the enclosures before the resindries. The process can take twopainstaking days per Kisstletoe.
The process also commands Point Loma resident Susan Winkie is theKisstletoe pendant creator.
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Continuing its longstanding SanDiego tradition, the 44th annual SanDiego Bay Parade of Lights will enter-tain bayfront crowds during theevening of Sunday, Dec. 20. Partici-pants in this year’s highly anticipatedholiday boat parade will adorn theirboats to fit this year’s theme, “Christ-mas Around the World.”
Presented by the Port of San Diego,the San Diego Bay Parade of Lightsbrings more than 100,000 San Diegoresidents and visitors to the shores ofSan Diego Bay each year. The proces-sion of approximately 80 lavishly dec-orated boats has become one of themost iconic events in the region.
Beginning at 5:30 p.m., the parade
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The parade takes about two hoursto pass any given point, and there aremany comfortable waterfront view-points along the route. A map of theroute is available at sdparade-
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For added insight into the partici-pating boats, viewers can watch theparade from near the announcersareas. Announcers will be located atthe Maritime Museum on the Embar-cadero and at Coronado Landing. As
each boat passes these viewing points,the announcers offer a brief historyand description of the participatingvessels.
This year, there will be judges at twopoints along the parade route, theMartime Museum and the docks atPoehe’s Restaurant in Coronado. Par-ticipating boats must pass both sets ofjudges to be eligible for prizes.
Awards are presented to the bestdecorated boats and those that trulycapture the event’s theme.
All participants receive a participantplaque and are invited to the awardsdinner on Jan. 6 at Tom Ham’s Light-house.
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“The plight of women in so manyparts of the world is dismal,” Winkiesays, “so Kisstletoe has given me theability to do something I've alwayspromised myself I would do, which isbe part of the movement to empowerwomen all over the world.
“I feel so strongly about howwomen are treated and oppressed in somany parts of our planet. Many sim-ply do not have a voice. Many do nothave an education. Many are abusedand mistreated. Young girls are mar-ried at crazy young ages. I could go onand on about the atrocities and horror– but instead, I am focused on sellingKisstletoe so we can give back.”
Meanwhile, Winkie is quite upbeatabout her product and the demandshe believes it fills on so many levels.“We've got a very marketable productfor the holidays,” she says, “somethingsimple and fun with something famil-iar. It's a local product because of themountains, and the girl can hold itclose to her, so she's always in con-trol.”
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Building a legacy, along with restaurant and retail space, at Liberty Station Liberty Station has plenty of new
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Liberty Station is a mixed-use develop-ment on the former Naval Training Cen-ter (NTC) site in Point Loma. The 361-acre project includes a retail andcommercial district, a promenadefocused on nonprofit activities, an edu-cational district, a residential district, ahotel district, an office district and apark/open space area along the boatchannel.
The Liberty Station project started in1993, when the Navy announced it wasclosing NTC. The City of San Diego thencreated a 27-member commission todetermine how to reuse the site. Thecommission developed, and the cityaccepted, a detailed plan that is beingimplemented by master developer TheCorky McMillin Cos.
Liberty Station is about 90 percentbuilt out, noted Nathan Cadieux, vicepresident for The Corky McMillin Cos.But some of the best is yet to come withthe remaining 10 percent, he added.
“The project has really developed fromthe south to the north,” said Cadieuxnoting, “That leaves us with the last(development) piece on the north side ofthe project where the arts district is.”
Liberty Station’s north end arts dis-trict will be home to a highly anticipat-ed new class of concepts in early 2016including Liberty Public Market, Fire-side by The Patio Group, Buona Forchet-ta, The LOT, Kid Ventures and BreakfastRepublic.
Cadieux said the inspiration behinddevelopment of this final, northerly sec-tion of Liberty Station was to “dreambig” fulfilling all the remaining needs ofthe emerging neighborhood.
Those dreams will be partly fulfilled,noted Cadieux, with the opening of Lib-erty Public Market, expected by Feb. 1.Liberty Public Market is a 22,000-square-foot artisan mecca in Building 1at 2816 Historic Decatur Road. The pub-lic market is being divided up into 32separate retail spaces, all to be inhabitedby local entrepreneurs marketing large-ly homegrown products.
Also coming online next year in Liber-ty Station is a new concept, MonikerGeneral, which Cadieux described as a“lifestyle retail store with a coffee shop
and a beer tasting room.” Cadieux notedother new Liberty Station concepts areto include: Kid Ventures indoor play-ground with themed areas and a par-ents lounge; Buono Forchetta, an Italianpizzeria expanding from South Park;Breakfast Republic gourmet restaurant;and The LOT, a new upscale multi-the-ater complex.
“We've really worked very hard to tryto curate this (retail) mix,” said Cadieux,adding, “We felt like San Diego needed aplace that was intrinsically authentic toSan Diego.
“We wanted a place that San Dieganscould be proud of,” said Cadieux, addingdevelopers have strived to make LibertyStation's arts district truly representa-tive of San Diego's cuisine, business andculture. He said tenants were sought to“participate in that vision and add theirown character to it.”
Another goal with the remaining 10percent of redevelopment in thenortherly arts district was to create morepleasing recreational space for gueststhrough public improvements.
“We're going to have a new outdoorliving room, which will have a large kidsplay area and a fire pit and a shade struc-ture,” Cadieux said, noting tenants on
Sims Road where Stone Brewing is, andthe soon-to-open Liberty Public Market,has “become our main street.”
“We're doing more landscaping,planting more trees,” said Cadieux.“We're going to be creating a wonderfulpedestrian environment.”
Liberty Station's ultimate buildout,noted Cadieux, is “part of the legacy forThe Corky McMillin family in San Diego.The McMillins want to make sure thisnew evolution is just a continued valida-tion of their desire to serve this district.”
On a personal level, Cadieux said, “It'sbeen fun for me to have a small part intaking it (redevelopment) to the nextlevel. The overarching motivation in allthis is that we're (McMillin's) really pas-sionate about this idea that Liberty Sta-tion can be a community where a lot ofdifferent things are going on, where peo-ple can come to connect and react withother people and learn from their sto-ries. We're trying to bring restaurants,artists and retail products where there'sa heart, soul — and a story — to it.”
New developments debuting in Liber-ty Station in 2016:
• Breakfast Republic, a new restau-rant expected in spring, offering pan-cakes and egg-based creations to the
1,520-square-foot space that was pre-viously Sushi Mura, including buildoutof a new 600-square-foot patio. This isthe concept’s second location sinceopening in North Park in June.Owner/operator Johan Engman planson getting a full liquor license for an all-day cocktail menu.
• Liberty Public Market (opening theend of January) Operator: Blue BridgeHospitality, San Diego’s premier artisanmarket housing 30-plus locally focused,specialty purveyors within a 22,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor historic1920s-era warehouse-style building.
• Fireside (opening in Jan-uary) Operator: The Patio Group trans-forms Liberty Station’s original firehouseat NTC into a neighborhood-centricgathering place with indoor/outdoorseating, fire pits, wood-fired grills andfamily-style fresh fare.
• Buona Forchetta (opening in early2016) Operator: Buona Forchetta, oneof San Diego’s most beloved authenticItalian pizzerias
• THE LOT (opening early 2016) Oper-ator: Backlot Hospitality, a dining, drink-ing and cinematic experience.
