Pat DeMarce • Lori Saldana’s holiday party • The Lily Pad Store • Hillcrest Clean TEAM •

— Worldwatch Institute

Ho ho ho Nicole Ramirez, handsome Joe Kocurek (area rep for Lori Saldaña) and local businessman Richard Britton were among the community members at the 76th State Assemblywoman’s holiday party held last night at the Balboa Park Club. Entertainment filled the hall including Thai dancers who encouraged audience participation, the Gay Men’s Chorus and an African drum and dance troupe from the World Beat Center. Lori’s guests brought needed items for the Monarch School, which provides an accredited education and basic needs for over 100 homeless and at-risk youth.

The Lily Pad Store (3746 Sixth Ave) is filled with holiday treasures for all the children on your list, and they’ve extended hours until 6pm Sundays, 7pm during the week,
and until 9pm on Friday/Saturday!

Owners Keiko & Ingrid wish you
and your family every joy this
holiday season & all the best
in the New Year!

God bless the whole world.

Happy 25th Birthday, Grace!
(she’s one of those lucky duckies living above the Hillcrest sign)
Thanks for celebrating part of your silver b-day
picking up trash from the gutters of Hillcrest.

A BIG THANK YOU to all the volunteers — including the Imperial Court, Todd Gloria, Mr Handyman, women surfers and the good folks on the street who picked up a broom and joined the cleanup effort. Kudos also to LGBT Pride, ACE Hardware, Hamburger Mary’s, City Deli, Chipotle, Hillcrest BID, David’s Coffeehouse, MetroMint Water, Jack in the Box and Baja Betty’s for your contributions. Next month’s cleanups will be on Jan 8 & 22...mark your calendar and join us for some good clean fun.

Empress Ophelia, Todd Gloria, Emperor Richard

A clean Hillcrest rocks!

So do Ophelia, Todd and Richard who joined the Hillcrest
clean T.E.A.M. for a today’s street cleaning party. Extra kudos
to the Imperial Court de San Diego monarchs for returning
early from a Palm Springs trip so they could pitch in.

Let’s put the “neighbor” back in the ’hood!

For more info email Cathy!

< No, this isn’t Scott or Jimmy...

but Richard (the boyz new partner!!)

Friday, December 16	“Since the end of the Cold War, the world has spent $140 on the military for every $1 spent on peace.” — Worldwatch Institute
Thursday, December 15	Ho ho ho Nicole Ramirez, handsome Joe Kocurek (area rep for Lori Saldaña) and local businessman Richard Britton were among the community members at the 76th State Assemblywoman’s holiday party held last night at the Balboa Park Club. Entertainment filled the hall including Thai dancers who encouraged audience participation, the Gay Men’s Chorus and an African drum and dance troupe from the World Beat Center. Lori’s guests brought needed items for the Monarch School, which provides an accredited education and basic needs for over 100 homeless and at-risk youth.
Wednesday, December 14	The Lily Pad Store (3746 Sixth Ave) is filled with holiday treasures for all the children on your list, and they’ve extended hours until 6pm Sundays, 7pm during the week, and until 9pm on Friday/Saturday! Owners Keiko & Ingrid wish you and your family every joy this holiday season & all the best in the New Year!
Tuesday, December 13	Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night was a single mom who worked nine hours before rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her kids. Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested man who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester. Remind us that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares. Help us to remember that the old couple, walking annoyingly slowly through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress, are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together. We need to remember each day that, of all the gifts given us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. We need to open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love. God bless the whole world.
Monday, December 12	Happy 25th Birthday, Grace! (she’s one of those lucky duckies living above the Hillcrest sign) Thanks for celebrating part of your silver b-day picking up trash from the gutters of Hillcrest. A BIG THANK YOU to all the volunteers — including the Imperial Court, Todd Gloria, Mr Handyman, women surfers and the good folks on the street who picked up a broom and joined the cleanup effort. Kudos also to LGBT Pride, ACE Hardware, Hamburger Mary’s, City Deli, Chipotle, Hillcrest BID, David’s Coffeehouse, MetroMint Water, Jack in the Box and Baja Betty’s for your contributions. Next month’s cleanups will be on Jan 8 & 22...mark your calendar and join us for some good clean fun.
Sunday, December 11	A clean Hillcrest rocks! So do Ophelia, Todd and Richard who joined the Hillcrest clean T.E.A.M. for a today’s street cleaning party. Extra kudos to the Imperial Court de San Diego monarchs for returning early from a Palm Springs trip so they could pitch in. Let’s put the “neighbor” back in the ’hood! For more info email Cathy!

Saturday, December 10	< No, this isn’t Scott or Jimmy... but Richard (the boyz new partner!!) Formerly in Hillcrest (and Mission Hills) Scott James has opened a new gift boutique in East Village at 915 E Street just east of the Post Office and the central library. Looking for something unique to give for the holidays?This is where to find it. Great jewelry, candles, home accessories, cards, bar ware, stationary and much more.
Friday, December 9	The longtime president of Balboa Park’s Committee of 100, Patricia DeMarce (at left with Mayor-elect Jerry Sanders & the Old Globe’s Craig Noel and, at right, with Senator Christine Kehoe & Deputy Mayor Toni Atkins at last week’s dedication of the west arcade along the Prado) passed away Wednesday at her Fletcher Hills home. After succeeding Bea Evenson (the organization’s first president) DeMarce led the restoration efforts to preserve the Spanish Colonial architecture in the park over the last three decades, including the Casa de Balboa (1981), the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (1983), an arcade near the Lily Pond on the Prado (1992), the House of Charm (1996) and the House of Hospitality in (1998). “She was a leader who was so excited about what she was doing that it was very easy to follow her,” said Betty Jo Williams, vice president of the Commitee of 100, which was formed in 1967.

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