Musicians and vocalists enlivened the community garden in a well-attended holiday sing-along last Saturday afternoon.
Finishing a Legacy Begun by Others The open space initiative on this year’s ballot has raised questions and inspired debate. People naturally want to know how it would work, while some argue that it’s not necessary. For those with questions, I encourage you to visit the campaign website, lagunaopenspace.com. You’ll find that Measure CC would [...]
Thumbs Up for New Sustainability Committee I recently attended the reorganized and renamed Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC). The seven-person group meets at the Susi Q Senior Center on the fourth Monday of each month at 6 p.m., and the meetings are open to the public. As a former member of that body when it was [...]
The public is invited to join Village Laguna’s annual potluck picnic at Aliso Beach on Monday, July 23, at 6 p.m. Burgers, hot dogs and drinks will be provided. Participants should bring their own re-usable eating and drinking utensils, a potluck dish to share and a sand chair.
Hello readers! I’m back and so is “Green Light.” My column has not appeared for the past several months. Luckily, the Indy has seen fit to grant me a hiatus this past spring in order that I could travel to Japan with my family and then on returning finish my textbook, “Pacific Eldorado: A History [...]
Is Nuclear Safety an Oxymoron? I was pleased by last week’s 4-1 City Council vote supporting San Clemente’s plea to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) remove spent fuel from its site in order to be relicensed. It brought before our community a critical issue that I [...]
Editor, The 24th year of global warming hysteria was inaugurated appropriately enough by Tom Osborne with his annual “warm mongering” statement in last week’s Indy. Say, Tom, don’t you think you would have more success in warning us about climate change if it actually felt warmer? Richard Moore, Laguna Beach
Of John Steinbeck, Tide Pools, and Stars There’s so much to do at this time of year. Holiday cards are coming in to our house but none have gone out. I’m in the final stages of doing revisions of my California history textbook, which has kept me very busy. Thus I had not intended to [...]
A Robust Recovery As Lagunans await implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act along our coast, an exciting announcement went out two months ago from one of the world’s premier science centers, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This past August, the Scripps website (http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=1180) reported: “Results of a 10-year analysis of Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP), [...]
Is the Environmental Committee Sustainable? At Tuesday’s City Council meeting the fate of the city’s Environmental Committee hung in the balance. Most of the committee’s seven members would not be returning for the next term, which is scheduled to begin in November. Even worse, no candidates stepped forward to take their place. City Manager John [...]
Putting in a Plug for Laguna Beach By Tom Osborne I attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of our city’s first two electric car plug-in stations last week. I learned that Laguna Beach is the second city in Orange County (Anaheim being the first) to take such a step. Kudos to our city for [...]
Film Focuses on Interfaith Relationships A film that explores the lives a Muslim and Jewish leader in medieval Islamic Spain will be shown at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 10 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in an interfaith gathering for all faith communities. The screening of the documentary, “Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their [...]
Where Common Good Reigns Sign a petition for the Open Space Initiative; do it for the common good. Let me explain. Mother Nature has given bounteously to Laguna Beach, which is why my family and many others live here. Our seascape and landscape have few if any equals in scenic beauty in Southern California. On [...]
Kelpfesting, Then and Now Thirteen thousand years ago our Laguna Beach ancestors likely celebrated the life-giving bounties of kelp. These ancient Californians or their forebears, like countless other coastal dwellers along the western shoreline of the Americas, had voyaged along what University of Oregon anthropologist Jon Erlandson calls the “kelp highway.” The term refers to [...]
By Tom Osborne There seems to be no shortage of environmental challenges confronting our species at this moment in history. Climate warming, air pollution, undrinkable water, ocean contamination and depletion of fish stocks, rising sea levels, escalating fuel and utility costs—nearly all of these growing concerns related to our dependence, no addiction is more like [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
