Crescent Bay Advisors made a historic run through the Tournament of Champions, winning four games and claiming the 2013 minor division championship by beating the Rancho Niguel Tigers 7-0 on Sunday, June 9. The VFW majors team also won, the first two TOC championships in Laguna Beach Little League history. For CBA, Booker Frith pitched [...]
By Arnie Silverman June 2 marks the anniversary of the start of the Korean War. On that date in 1950 armed forces from communist North Korea attacked South Korea, starting the Korean War. The U.S. came to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and for many a frustrating war for the next [...]
Editor, Although our dedicated and highly trained lifeguards do a spectacular job for our city and on our beaches, it’s individuals like Pat Watson who truly make our community special (“Skim Boarder Dives For a Miracle Save,” May 31 edition). After quickly and selflessly diving into big surf to make a spectacular rescue he deserves [...]
Editor, Several weeks ago City Council voted to advance the village entrance project. Council members showed leadership in presenting proposals each having a number of redeeming features. This coming Tuesday, June 11, the Council will consider actions after nearly 20 years of studies, consultants, debate, and consternation, to determine design, costs, financing and to determine [...]
Editor, Doing something in the vicinity of Forest and Broadway to provide an entrance is long overdue. But isn’t $126 million a tad high to add a few parking spaces and strip of parkland next to City Hall? Believe it or not, this is the potential cost of the council’s foolishness in charging ahead with the [...]
Editor, We strongly support Mayor Kelly Boyd’s desire for and leadership position in acquiring revisions to the city’s View Ordinance. We find it unconscionable anyone would insinuate that Mayor Boyd was acting irresponsibly by selecting and appointing individuals as a committee to draft a revision of the city’s view ordinance dealing with trees and vegetation. [...]
Editor, If the proposed view ordinance passes we will turn Woods Cove into the Sawdust Festival South. The proposal states views are always king and that trees, even heritage trees, have to voluntarily genuflect or be decapitated. This policy is wrong. I just bought a home in lower Temple Hills. My primary ocean view is [...]
Editor: The steering committee of the Citizens for View Preservation and Restoration (CVPR) would like to respond to the inaccurate and misleading statements made in recent letters to the editor critical of CVPR and the View Equity Committee. We do not condone booing or heckling at public meetings. We encourage a civilized discussion and we [...]
Editor, Many thanks to the Laguna Beach Independent for covering our annual memorial “Remembering With Flowers and Flags,” May 31 edition). It was rewarding to see the many children, veterans and other patriots attending this function. It is to remember the fallen and for the youth of our community that we do this so they [...]
Editor, It is true, very true, as Councilmember Bob Whalen said that “there is a steep learning curve when you go on the [Planning] Commission,” (“Incumbents Prevail on Arts, Planning Boards,” May 31 edition) Planning commission is important as well because it is so frequently a stepping stone from which candidates run for City Council. [...]
Editor, Thank you for featuring SchoolPower’s Wireless Upgrade fund-a-need in this week’s paper (“Schools Wired for the Future,” May 31). Really nice coverage. Please pass along our appreciation to Rita for her enthusiastic reporting! Robin Rounaghi, Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach Little League held its end-of-season awards, awarding the regular season league winning championship to team VFW, recipient of this year’s Jack Norworth Trophy. The Rhoads Martin Trophy winner, awarded annually to the league’s outstanding volunteers, went to Steve and Jennifer Sweet. The award is named after a former league president. The winners of [...]
Laguna Beach’s Blue Lagunas girls under 11 team, which won an AYSO Extra championship in fall and finished first in a spring club circuit, won Irvine’s Joy Fawcett Classic tournament last weekend. The team was moved to the top flight just a week before the tournament, which meant that the Blue Lagunas faced teams playing [...]
by Chris Quilter My mother’s mother was a perfect lady. If she were starving, she would politely ask you if you were hungry. (No? Are you sure?) On occasion, however, she could flash the will of steel she usually kept cloaked beneath her garment of gentility. As she grew dangerously wobbly, for example, she [...]
By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler Laguna Beach supports a large number of resident bird species and one of the more distinctive species sighted is the Brandt’s cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus). Found only in North America, Brandt’s cormorants are marine birds that are mostly permanent residents of the Pacific coast and congregate in colonies on rocky [...]
Ill Prepared Hiker Rescued from Hillside
A sheriff’s helicopter was used to extract a hiker who suffered an anxiety attack and was unable to move from a steep trail in Laguna Beach’s open space about 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, police said. Lifeguards in an all-terrain vehicle coordinated the extraction from thick brush and a steep slope between Alta Laguna Park [...]
