Sept 2,
2010
Sept 1,
2010
August 31,
2010
August 30,
2010
August 29,
2010
Labor Day next up!
That means it’s time for kids to head back to school (check out the opportunity to help out below) and summer vacations will be ending soon (if not already).
June-July-August have been a ton of fun, even if
San Diego had the worst summer weather on record...but the sun shined
on Hillcrest events — from June’s delivery of HillQuest’s 8th Urban
Guide followed by the Hop
in the
’Hood (July 11), Pride
(July 16-18), CityFest
(Aug 8), Movie on 
the Roof (Aug 4)
through this month’s Toast
to Hillcrest
(Aug12).
Prior to that HillQuest published our 8th edition. Did your pick up your new copy of our annual Urban Guide? Stop by Whole Foods or City Deli to grab a free copy...or look at the three newest volumes online. Enjoy!
August 28,
2010
August 27,
2010
Have some extra paper or pens to help schools?
Doctors Thy Doan and Brian Shui (left) of Shui
Chiropractic & Wellness are practicing the gift of giving by
extending help to San Diego schools with needed school supplies. “We
invite you to please join us in our 
Back-To-School-Drive.”
When you bring in any of the basic school supplies listed below, you will be entered in a drawing for a FREE one hour massage. Dr. Thy and Brian are also giving away 10 free exams (three remain) in appreciation of your donations which will help several San Diego elementary school children.
Suggested donations include: 24-count Crayon Box; Map Pencils; #2 Pencils; Pens in Black, Blue or Red; Glue Sticks; Glue; Pocket Folders w/brads; Wide Ruled Notebook Paper; Scissors — 5" blunt or 5" pointed; Classic Color Markers; 12x18 Manilla Paper; 12x18 Multi-Color Construction Paper; Spiral Notebooks; and /or Rulers. The more the merrier!
All donations will be distributed to those in need by Operation Community Outreach. Please drop your school supplies by the office on your next adjustment or just because you want to help out a good cause. Shui Chiropractic & Wellness is located at 2722 Fifth Avenue in Bankers Hill, just north of Nutmeg across the street from St. Paul's Cathedral. Questions? Please call (619) 688-3089.
August 26,
2010
Today is Women’s Equality Day
Every year on August 26 we honor those who fought in the struggle for a woman’s right to vote. When writing the US Constitution our founding fathers forgot about their mothers, aunts and daughters. It took 144 years (from 1776 to 1920) before these women were allowed the same right as their brothers to choose leaders on election day. “Failure is impossible,” said Susan B. Anthony. But she forgot to mention how slow success could be. Susan B. Anthony was amazing — working every waking hour for 50 years so women could vote. Sadly, she died 14 years before it happened. Don’t take her struggle for granted.
This Thursday afternoon at 5pm join the 4th annual Suffragist Parade in Balboa Park. Wear Suffragist clothing...bring your banners, signs and sashes to honor equality. March across the Laurel Street Bridge to the Organ Pavilion for a picnic and a free concert. Meet at the Kate Sessions statue on the west side of the Laurel Street Bridge.
Women’s Equality Day downtown on the plaza at SD City Hall >
Thank you, Alice!!
< Alice Paul was an ardent fighter for women’s suffrage and equal rights. She founded the National Woman’s Party and in 1923 drafted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Alice worked for its passage into the 1970s, although it still not has become law. Celebrate Women’s Equality Day by watching the movie “Iron-Jawed Angels” and learning more about Alice Paul (1885-1977).
August 25,
2010
Stop sign to finally be installed at Fifth & Spruce
Restaurateur Jimmy Carter has been asking for a stop sign here for more than a decade, but he never gave up. Over two years ago another local resident wrote in the HillQuest Community Forum regarding neighborhood pedestrian experiences: “I agree that we need more traffic calming (stop signs and lights) on Fifth. A woman was killed at Spruce a few years back, and still no stop light.”
Well that time has
come (almost).
It was learned Monday that City Traffic Engineering now expects that the installation of a long awaited stop sign on Fifth Avenue at Spruce Street will occur before the end of September. Because the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee forwarded Uptown Partnership’s contract to the City Council with the inclusion of this stop sign, the City Attorney has told Traffic Engineering that it can proceed with the installation. Hip hip hooray!
Two weeks prior to the final installation the City will post signs meant to notify drivers on Fifth Avenue.
Keep your fingers crossed that no one else will be hurt in an accident (at the left on Friday, August 13th) at this dangerous intersection. Change CAN happen. (The community was continually told that the crosswalk above, painted last year on the south side of the Spruce Street, was impossible, too.)
August 24,
2010
August 23,
2010
An open
letter from Dionne Carlson to
Mayor Jerry Sanders & the SD City Council
Shocking, shameful, illegal demolition of this historic Art Deco at 12th & Broadway
I am just horrified to learn from SOHO of yet another historic building now lost. And you promised this wouldn’t happen again!
So… just how was this allowed?
Please investigate, and more importantly, pass
the changes and reforms that SOHO, the Neighborhood Historic
Preservation Coalition, Mission Hills Heritage, the Hillcrest History
Guild and others asked for...and which the city promised at the
LU&H hearing on Historic Preservation this year. Among them: (1) No
demolition permit should ever be issued on a weekend, and no demolition
should be permitted to occur over a weekend. (2) No demolition permit
should be issued without the proper noticing and review 
Currently the fines do not even make a dent in the pocket of someone intent on flouting the law.
This was the old Ford dealership; an extremely important building designed by the internationally renowned Walter Teague. It shares design elements with a companion building in Balboa Park that is on the National Register. Staff at HRB had been notified in writing by San Diego preservationists on numerous occasions of its significance.
I am sadly disappointed that you permitted this to occur on your watch, and I sincerely hope you will take the steps necessary to ensure it does not re-occur.
