San Diego City Council meeting minutes, May 22
Liz Swain 4:24 p.m., May 24
Lakeside Stories
Visit El Monte Park near Lakeside, where massive oaks spread below the stony gaze of "El Capitan" mountain.
Tucked against a rocky, sunburnt hillside in the San Diego River valley outside Lakeside, El Monte Regional Park is a shock to the eye on a bright summer day. The park spreads across 98 flat ...
The Lakeside River Irregulars
To get to Lisa Roger's house in the Eucalyptus Hills area of Lakeside, you have to drive past the sand-mining operations, tractor-repair yards, and prefab concrete outfits that line the San Diego River in this ...
Take a Sunday tour of the Audubon Society's Silverwood Wildlife Sanctuary near Lakeside.
Silverwood. The name comes from the glittering effect of sunlight upon the dark-green leaves of the coast live oak. Scores of these trees, some of them two-century-old giants scarred by fire, shade the canyon floor ...
Chaparral blooms in the springtime at Oak Oasis Open Space Preserve near Lakeside.
East County's Oak Oasis Open-Space Preserve covers 397 acres of oak woodland, boulder-studded hillsides, and mature stands of chaparral. Try visiting as soon as possible this month, when almost every living thing in the plant ...
Bring Me the Head of Ronald McDonald
Fred Buchanan is still trying to forgive himself for not grabbing that ash tray in Las Vegas. He hasn't seen another one since, and now there's a bole in his collection. It was a rare ...
