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Carmel Valley Events
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Tracking Walk
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
8:00 a.m., Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve
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Chase Morrin
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
7:00 p.m., Carmel Valley Library
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Tracking Walk
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008
8:00 a.m., Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve
Carmel Valley Photos
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Carmel Valley Blogs
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My Neighborhood
By chessman - June 20, 2008
My neighborhood is very unique and diverse. All of my neighbors are very amiable and different in their ways. Much ...
Carmel Valley Stories
Winter Storm
Back When
| Sorrento Valley
Published Feb. 27, 2008
Thirty Years AgoWhile I have permitted myself, the last week or two, to become hopelessly tangled up in writing about, or trying to, Wim Wenders’s The American Friend, a near traffic jam of other important movies ...
Letters
Carmel Valley
| Letters
Published Jan. 23, 2008
It’s Good Good article on soccer moms! Karyl Miller via email Neurotic Moms I came out of Vons and saw the Reader cover story (“Soccer Moms Are the Absolute Worst,” Cover Story, January 10), and I ...
Innocents Saved from the Trash
City Lights
| Sorrento Valley
Published Jan. 9, 2008
Ten years ago, Elissa Davey received her vocation. She was a 50-year-old realtor, mother of two sons, and resident of San Marcos when the call came in the form of a story in the newspaper about ...
Excavation Of 5000-Year-Old Man, 1968
Picture Story
| Sorrento Valley
Published Sept. 13, 2007
Ten years earlier, plans got under way to develop the 780-acre Sorrento Valley Industrial Park -- "one of the greatest industrial parks in the nation," according to developers quoted in the local daily. As development progressed, ...
Christian City Church San Diego, Carmel Valley
Carmel Valley
| Sheep and Goats
Published June 28, 2007
Denomination: nondenominational, but one of 230 Christian City Churches worldwide Address: services held at Carmel Valley Middle School, 3800 Mykonos Lane, Carmel Valley, 760-804-8524 Founded locally: 2005 Senior pastor: Jurgen Matthesius Congregation size: about 600 Staff ...
Back When
Back When
| Sorrento Valley
Published Oct. 26, 2006
Thirty Years Ago Contreras's headquarters is the Centro Medico del Mar in Playas de Tijuana. After waiting an hour or so, I was ushered into a small office where Dr. Contreras greeted me. I learned that ...
Behind the Joke
Calendar Highlight
| Sorrento Valley
Published July 6, 2006
'All jokes are about shattering assumptions," says San Francisco Comedy College founder Kurtis Matthews. "Horror has the same structure of comedy, but the result or surprise [horror hopes to achieve] is fear, pain, or confusion." To ...
Big Bird Comes to North Park
North City
| North Park
| Restaurant Review
| Tioli's Crazy Burger
Published May 17, 2006
Our great national spokesman, Chuck Berry, pictured our country as one "where hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day." He wrote those words back in the pre-Golden Arches USA, when burgers didn't come from ...
Kehillas Torah, Carmel Mountain Ranch
Carmel Mountain Ranch
| Sheep and Goats
Published Dec. 15, 2005
Denomination: Rabbinical Seminary of America Address: 14133 Via Alisal, Carmel Mountain Ranch, 858-613-0222 Founded locally: 1998 Senior pastor: Rabbi Baruch Lederman Congregation size: 50 Staff size: 1 Sunday school enrollment: 8 Annual budget: $100,000 Weekly giving: ...
Inflatable Joust
Crasher
| Sorrento Valley
Published Aug. 4, 2005
In June I got a call about Patrick Henry High's grad-night event at Party Pals in Sorrento Valley, not far from where I live. I had three other parties to go to that night (tough life, ...
At Home in San Diego
Carlsbad
| Carmel Valley
| City Heights
| Cover Story
| Del Mar
| Escondido
| Hillcrest
| Julian
| Kensington-Talmadge
| Lemon Grove
| Linda Vista
| Mission Beach
| North Park
| Ramona
| San Ysidro
| Scripps Ranch
| Serra Mesa
| South Park
| University City
| University Heights
| Valley Center
Published Dec. 30, 2004
LA COSTA When I think of La Costa, I remember the wildlife -- the skunk that lived under our house, for instance, a beautiful creature whose size would double when it puffed up its fur after ...
Oh, Deer
Mira Mesa
| Sorrento Mesa
| Straight From the Hip
Published Aug. 19, 2004
Matt Alice: On the streets that go through the canyons of Mira Mesa and Sorrento Mesa, you'll see yellow caution signs advising of deer. There used to be several herds there before Mira Mesa was built. ...
Explore Lopez Canyon, a serene minor member of the canyon system in Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve.
Roam-O-Rama
| Sorrento Valley
Published Feb. 5, 2004
A sparrow hawk alights upon a sycamore limb, then launches with outstretched wings to catch a puff of sea breeze moving up the canyon. A mule deer bounces across the pathway, pausing to take your measure ...
Best of 2003: Best Pastime For Suburban Moms
Carmel Mountain Ranch
| Rancho Bernardo
| Sabre Springs
| Best of San Diego
| Scripps Ranch
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Bunco If you're a bored mom in Sabre Springs, Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch, or Carmel Mountain Ranch, put your ear to the ground and listen for the sound of dice rolling and blenders whirring. Bunco -- ...
Best of 2003: Best Place To Find Out Who's Your Daddy
Best of San Diego
| Sorrento Valley
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Genetic DNA Profiles 6122 Nancy Ridge Drive, Sorrento Valley www.geneticprofiles.com 800-551-7763 Dr. Gilroy uses buccal (cheek) swabs from mother, child, and the alleged father to determine DNA. Results take 7 to 10 days. Fees to test ...