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Dana Mariners Captivate Packed Playhouse
Performance Dedicated to Outgoing Principal By Scott Landers Dana Middle School’s Musical Theatre class wowed an audience Friday evening, April 19, with a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, “Pirates of Penzance: the Slave of Duty.” It was a remarkable night of song, dance, and terrific comic acting led by award-winning teacher and director W. […]
National Comedy Theatre’s High School League Competion
National Comedy Theatre’s (NCT) High School League is holding an improv comedy tournament for all high school participants on May 4 and 5, 2013. The winner of the competition will play against NCT’s main stage cast on Friday, May 11. “The NCT High School League is a unique opportunity for high school students in San […]
Creating a Safer Walking Community in Mission Hills
This past month, at the intersection of Goldfinch and Fort Stockton and at the intersection of Hawk and Fort Stockton, General Services of the City of San Diego added thermal vinyl, ladder crosswalks for traffic calming purposes. According to Tom Curl, president of the Mission Hills Business Improvement District (MHBID), these intersections have become considerably […]
Tax Efficient Investing, Part II
Last month I wrote about different types of investment earnings, including taxable and tax-exempt income and capital gains. This month I’ll discuss how investors can go about creating portfolios that take advantage of these characteristics. Given the different types of earnings from investments, it should be clear that each will have a different impact both […]
A Tribute to My Dad, Clarence Wilbert Herrman
Over the past year, I’ve had to say goodbye to some very special friends and family members. However, I wasn’t expecting that one of those people would be my Dad. This past month, Dad was recovering from hip replacement surgery in a hospital in Colorado. Prior to Dad’s surgery, we were told he had […]
Tell a Nurse You Care
My sister is always saying how grateful she is that the Multiple Sclerosis that attacks her body does not give her bouts of pain. Last week was an exception. Intense pain brought her to the doctor’s office where we were told it was probably best to go straight to the emergency room. I hesitated. Emergency […]
Planning a Season of Opera
by Ian Campbell Is it the chicken or the egg? Is it the singer or the title? Is it audience appeal or the need to expand horizons? And frequently, is it affordable? Putting together an opera season of four operas can be challenging, and San Diego Opera’s 2014 Forty-Ninth International Season is no exception. Were […]
La Piñata – Old Town’s Oldest Restaurant
Many visitors to Old Town enter the park by getting off Highway 5 at Old Town Avenue then following the curving road to the entrance. There is another entrance, though, on the north side of the park, off Taylor Street’s exit to Highway 8. That entrance, onto Juan Street, goes past Casa Guadalajara and, next […]
Part I Bromeliads
Easy to grow and Easy on the Eye In April, Joann Dossett, long-time member of the Mission Hills Floral Association, San Diego Horticultural Society, and a host of other botanical organizations, gave an enthusiastic workshop on bromeliads at her beautiful home. She began by apologizing. It seems a troop of raccoons has fallen in love […]
