The Carmel Valley Recreation Council is meeting on Tuesday, June 2, at 7:00 PM at the Carmel Valley Recreation Center. See the Rec Center Page for more information on the center. Here’s the agenda: (more…)

From the Community Liaison at Miramar: From June 1 - June 4, there will be standard rotary-wing operations each day using the Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) from the late afternoon to late night (concluding before 10:30 pm).

Here’s the Agenda for the next Carmel Valley Maintenance Assessment District meeting, on Tuesday, June 2, 4:30 PM at the Carmel Valley Recreation Center: (more…)

The Carmel Valley Recreation Council has announced its 2009 Summer Serenades Concert Series, and would like to thank the event sponsor, Pardee Homes, for their continuing support. The concerts are all on Sunday evenings, from 5:00-7:00pm. Bring a blanket or low beach chair and enjoy the show!

• July 12 at Solana Highlands: Shockwaves (Rock and Roll)
• July 19 at Sage Canyon: Corvettes (Best of 50’s & 60’s)
• July 26 at Solana Highlands: Atomic Groove (Variety Dance Band)
• August 2 at Sage Canyon: Upstream (Reggae)

Note: Upstream and Atomic Groove have swapped dates. See the Concert Page for details.

The 2009 Summer Program Brochure for the Carmel Valley Recreation Center is now available. Registration for summer classes begins at 9:00 AM on Saturday, June 6, 2009 (although some people get there really early to line up! Note that the Rec Center staff will hand out line numbers at 7:00 AM. Also note that, for some programs (such as Master Sports and Kid City) you register online with the vendor.

There are two upcomming free concerts at the Carmel Valley Library. First, on May 27, violinist Jennifer Lynn will perform a program that will trace the evolution of the violin, from baroque to classical to modern. Second, on June 10, Soprano Maja Markovic will perform a program of Eastern European folk songs. She will be accompanied by violinist Arina Skripka, accordionist Dusko Trajkovic, and guitarist Miki Brkovic. See the CV Library Concert Page for complete details.

The new Ocean Air Community Park in Carmel Valley (near Torrey Hills, south of SR-56) will be opening this summer (no, I don’t have the opening date, yet.) Last I heard, the park will be opening in September 2009. I’ll post after I hear the final date. I understand that much of the park looks complete, but there is still work to do (and the operations budget has to be approved by the City Council.)

On Saturday Morning, you can sign up for Summer Camps at the CV Rec Center at 9:00AM, and then walk across the street to the CV Police Station, where they’ll be holding an Open House starting at 10:00AM. After you’ve seen the police dogs, mounted patrol, toured the station and watched the helicopter fly-over, you can head to the CV Skate Park. Don’t forget your pads and helmet!

Here’s the Agenda for the next meeting of the Carmel Valley Planning Board, Tuesday, May 12, 7:00PM at the Carmel Valley Library (3919 Townsgate Drive): (more…)

Starting in June, the City of San Diego will require reductions in water usage from everyone.  The Mayor has issued a Fact Sheet on the Level 2 Drought Alert, which provides general information on usage, enforcement and variances. You should know that you can only water 3 days a week (specific days based on odd or even house number), with a maximum of 10 minutes per station. There is also a Water Allocation Formula Fact Sheet, which expects residences to cut water 5% for interior use and an astonishing 45% for exterior (landscape) use! In addition, parks and other landscape areas (homeowner’s associations?) seem to also fall into the 45% reduction. Expect to see a lot of brown grass this summer… Update: It looks like the allocation fact sheet is out-of-date and the water reductions won’t have to be that large. More when I find the information, but be ready for cutbacks in June.

Here’s the agenda for the Wednesday, May 6 meeting of the CV Planning Board’s Regional Issues Subcommittee. Meeting at the CV Library at 4:30 pm: (more…)

Here’s the agenda for the Tuesday, May 5 meeting of the CV Rec Council. 7:00 pm at the CV Rec Center: (more…)

Time Magazine has a good article called, “Was the Alarm over Swine Flu Justified?”. As the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to declare this a “pandemic”, we should remember this from the article:

…it’s important to understand that pandemic does not necessarily equal apocalypse. A pandemic occurs when a new flu virus emerges and starts spreading easily from person to person, and then from country to country… A pandemic doesn’t mean that the new virus is unusually deadly, only that it spreads easily…

So, when the WHO says, “pandemic”, they really mean the disease has spread worldwide, not that it’s been a global killer. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be on alert, but given Flu Experts are Encouraged by the Strains Mildness, perhaps we don’t need to panic just yet.