Baja authorities searching for missing 11 year old girl
K. Mennem 10:50 a.m., May 23
Sorrento Valley Stories
Worthwhile hike to the Corner House
Ed raids a farmhouse (from Point Loma) in the valley (Sorrento).
Garden of Innocence gets another angel
An abandoned-baby cemetery has another angel watching over its little ones at El Camino Memorial Park after a hand-sculpted bronze statue was permanently placed on the grounds March 25. Carole Lee, of Vista, is a ...
Why Would the FBI Give $223 Million to This Man?
He is the man who helped build a greater part of Las Vegas with millions of dollars from Jimmy Hoffa’s mobbed-up Teamsters’ pension fund. Along with his close friend and business partner, the legendary Moe ...
Train Chatter
An Amtrak passenger train operating from San Diego to Los Angeles Sunday night, September 27, experienced a delay near Sorrento Valley that may have been due to an engine fire. At about 8:45 p.m., a ...
Ivy and Concrete
“Squash is associated with Ivy League schools and expensive athletic clubs,” says Renato Paiva, executive director of Surf City Squash. “But that image is changing. Right now there are 55 colleges in the country [with ...
Winter Storm
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 ...
Innocents Saved from the Trash
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 ...
Excavation Of 5000-Year-Old Man, 1968
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 ...
A Farmhouse in Qualcommland
"You walked all the way from the Coaster? Try the Ironman sandwich."
Back When
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 ...
Behind the Joke
'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." ...
Inflatable Joust
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 ...
Explore Lopez Canyon, a serene minor member of the canyon system in Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve.
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 ...
Best of 2003: Best Place To Find Out Who's Your Daddy
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 ...
Did Bin Laden's Brother Live a Secret Life in San Diego?
"He showed me a catalog full of pictures of beautiful flowers, and I ordered a huge amount, great big beautiful daffodils, like the kind they grow up in Puyallup, Washington. I also ordered some wonderful ...
Best of 2000: Best Delivered Organic Food
Seabreeze Organic Farm 3909 Arroyo Sorrento Road, Carmel Valley (858) 481-0209 Also at Farmer's Markets in O.B., Encinitas, Del Mar, Hillcrest You stand at the supermarket veggie display. It looks too good to be true. ...
Best of 2000: Best Baseball School
Valley Baseball School and Softball Academy 11526 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite P, Sorrento Valley (858) 792-2255 Many Valley Baseball students have gone on to play professional ball after their training here and it's easy to ...
