At the moment, Green Sticker Money is being used by the state parks to purchase 14,000 acres near Ocotillo Wells in an area that has already been heavily, although illegally, used by ORV users for years.
April 13, 1978
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Off-road vehicles leave their mark on the Salton Sea
Jacumba is for sale once again.
Then, on top of Jacumba Peak, I rediscovered a time-worn gesture directed from one human being to all his fellows: There on a rock, painted in red, courtesy of the class of ‘79, was the ubiquitous finger.
March 16, 1978
Steve Mathias collects huge planks Duke Kahanamoku, Tom Blake, Joe Quigg used to ride
Steve Mathias decorates his house with surfboards the way you or I might decorate our houses with furniture, paintings, or plants. They line his driveway, border his shrubs, greet you at the front door. Rotting …
January 19, 1978
Surfers versus Oceanside Harbor
There's a classic confrontation in Oceanside these days that should be interesting to watch in the months to come. It involves the city council, Camp Pendleton, the Western Surfing Association, the Army Corps of Engineers, …
March 3, 1977
Whiskey and Water and the 11:00 News
He got on the phone and started calling his neighbors to see if someone could take him to the doctor, but nobody was home. He didn’t want to drive himself in that condition.
January 27, 1977
Who Are the Rosicrucians?
All right skeptics, here’s an exercise in faith... Try to imagine an old stone Gothic house some-where along the German-Austrian border. In this house live 12 wealthy and mysterious brothers, seven of whom hold down …
December 23, 1976
All the spots – Swami’s, Boneyard, ‘D’ Street, Beacons – were within walking distance
There had been indications, beginning with when the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom fell through the ceiling of the basement. Nobody was hurt, but it was an omen. Shortly after that fungus began growing on the basement walls.
December 9, 1976
Black's Beach – who are these people?
A hang-glider cruises low over the beach, his huge shadow startling sunbathers, awakening sleepers. He finds a break in the bodies, swoops, and lands. He unstraps himself, takes off his helmet, then his clothes. Someone …
April 29, 1976
Inside the Self-Realization Fellowship
The temple sits on the bluffs at the southern edge of Encinitas, perched beside the ocean and the community like a kind of 25-acre transplant from India, uprooted halfway around the world and dropped here, …
April 22, 1976
Carlsbad's Army-Navy Academy - citadel of discipline
“I liked the Academy from the first. I like the challenge of promotions, and I'm getting a better education here. The classes are smaller than in a public school, and there isn’t any racial prejudice.”
April 8, 1976
She hires surfers to cut Leucadia eucalyptus
When she has a pickup truck full of them, she drives them up to her hill - the lot of them happy in the back, knowing they’re finally going to make a little money.
March 4, 1976
San Diego's bureaucracy for the jobless
While I sit there waiting for my name to be called. I nervously rehearse my lies to myself. Names. Places I've looked for work. Sad stories about getting there an hour too late ...
November 27, 1975