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Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?

Bay Park | Clairemont | Downtown | Hillcrest | Linda Vista | Mission Beach | Mission Hills | Mission Valley | Neighborhood News | Ocean Beach | Old Town | Pacific Beach | Point Loma
Published June 30, 2008

Two opposing views regarding the ban on brew at San Diego's beaches inadvertently surfaced during the June 25th meeting of the Ocean Beach town council. When Officer David Surwilo, community liaison for the police department's Western ...

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Sheep and Goats

Mission Valley | Sheep and Goats
Published Nov. 21, 2007

Last week, the Evangelical Philosophical Society held its annual conference (in conjunction with the Evangelical Theological Society) at the Town & Country Convention Center in Mission Valley. On Friday afternoon, a crowd gathered in the center's ...

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Mission Valley Motion Mixup

City Lights | Mission Valley
Published Oct. 18, 2007

If you ever suffer insomnia, you might play the streaming video of a San Diego City Council meeting. While you're at it, check whether the minutes of the council meeting are accurate. The video of a ...

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Back When

Back When | Mission Valley
Published Aug. 30, 2007

Thirty Years Ago The last remaining farm in Mission Valley has come to look almost invincible over the years. The farm is the one east-west commuters know so well, the one Interstate 8 bisects, east of ...

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Kaleo Church, Mission Valley

Mission Valley | Sheep and Goats
Published March 15, 2007

Denomination: nondenominational Address: services held at former Mission Valley movie theater, 1640 Camino Del Rio North, Mission Valley, 619-741-8153 Founded locally: 2003 Senior pastor: a plurality of elders Congregation size: about 320 Staff size: 4 Sunday ...

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LifePoint Christian Community, Mission Valley

Mission Valley | Sheep and Goats
Published Sept. 21, 2006

Denomination: nondenominational Address: 4698 Alvarado Canyon, Suite A, Mission Valley, 619-750-3537 Founded locally: 2005 Senior pastor: Ken Hensley Congregation size: 68 Staff size: 1 full-time, 1 part-time Sunday school enrollment: none Annual budget: n/a Weekly giving: ...

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San Diego First Assembly, Mission Valley

Mission Valley | Sheep and Goats
Published June 29, 2006

Denomination: Assembly of God Address: 8404 Phyllis Place, Mission Valley, 858-560-1870 Founded locally: 1923 Senior Pastor: in transition Congregation size: 1100 Staff size: 8 pastors Sunday school enrollment: 200 Annual budget: $1.8 million Weekly giving: $33,000 ...

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The Little Enabler

Crasher | Mission Valley
Published June 8, 2006

At the Belly Up Tavern I overheard some girls talking about a Memorial Day party. I asked them if I could go. Two of them looked at me as if I was crazy, but one smiled ...

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South Pacific

Mission Valley | Restaurant Review | Bali Thai Café
Published April 19, 2006

Bali Thai Café just celebrated its first anniversary. That makes it an exception to the very short shelf life of most Indonesian restaurants in California, which typically open with bare-bones budgets and go under before they've ...

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Multicultural Mixers

Crasher | Mission Valley | National City
Published April 6, 2006

Tiffany was turning 30 and hosting a party in the clubhouse of her Mission Valley apartment complex. I got there a few minutes after 7 p.m. as she was setting up, so I shot pool with ...

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First United Methodist Church of San Diego, Mission Valley

Mission Valley | Sheep and Goats
Published March 9, 2006

Denomination: United Methodist Address: 2111 Camino Del Rio South, Mission Valley, 619-297-4366 Founded locally: 1869 Senior pastor: Reverend Jim Standiford Congregation size: 3000 Staff size: 70 Sunday school enrollment: 350 Annual budget: $2 million Weekly giving: ...

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San Diego Church, Mission Valley

Mission Valley | Sheep and Goats
Published Jan. 19, 2006

Denomination: nondenominational Address: Dave & Buster's, 2931 Camino Del Rio North, Mission Valley Founded locally: January 2004 Senior pastor: Chad Furlong Congregation size: 140 Staff size: two, plus two volunteers Sunday school enrollment: TK Annual budget: ...

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Holiday Hookah

Crasher | Mission Valley | Pacific Beach | Rancho Bernardo
Published Dec. 29, 2005

I got a call from Susie in P.B. who was turning 28 and planning a holiday party. She requested toys be brought for the Toys for Tots program. I went out and bought a toy for ...

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Mission Valley Project May Violate Code

City Lights | Mission Valley
Published Dec. 22, 2005

In early September the plan to build the Pacific Coast Office Building into Mission Valley's southern hillside sounded innocuous enough to community watchdog Randy Berkman. Then the building's developer, Robert Pollack, sent him a mid-October e-mail ...

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Football Follies

Crasher | Mission Valley
Published Dec. 1, 2005

I was invited to a tailgate party a few weeks ago in the parking lot of Qualcomm Stadium. Although the choice of tailgate food wouldn't have been mine -- sushi -- they had everything else covered, ...

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