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Thursday,
November 30,
2006		 Nancy Moors, 60th birthday — November 30, 2007


hAppY BirThDay #59


next year >>>
it’s maui wowie to celebrate your first six decades!
Wednesday,
November 29,
2006		 Star of India, San Diego Bay 2006 
The Star of India has called San Diego home since 1923. The world’s oldest seafaring ship was built in 1863 with an experimental design that used iron instead of wood. Launched as the Euterpe (the Greek goddess of music) the ship’s initial voyages involved some rough sailing. Her first trip included a collision and a mutiny. On her second journey she came face to face with a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, and with her topmasts cut away she barely made port. She sailed then her first captain died at sea.
 
But things got better...she served as a cargo ship to India, a passenger vessel hauling emigrants to New Zealand and a commercial salmon fishing and packing facility. Her name was changed to Star of India in 1906 and after 60 years of solid performance she was towed to San Diego. Saved from the ax or torch by concerned historians, she sat in port for over 50 years until funding helped renovate the tired old lady which was once a star. In 1976 the fully restored ship put to sea for the first time in fifty years, and she sailed beautifully once more. The Star now sets sail for special occasions.
Tuesday,
November 28,
2006		 “We spend millions of dollars on legal fees defending crooked city officials. We spend millions on audits. And we greatly overpay retired city employees.”
— Ralph Slocum re: the root problem of Balboa Park’s financial problems
Monday,
November 27,
2006		 San Diego Bay with Santa Fe train station in the background




Hope you enjoyed San Diego’s fabulous weather over Thanksgiving weekend!





Marin Co. couple calls for Orgasm for Peace
Sunday,
November 26,
2006		 Townhall meeting at The Center
‘Take Back Our Neighborhoods’
Attend Toni Atkins’ town hall meeting at The LGBT Center this Monday from 5-6pm to address the increasing crime in our area. Updates and safety tips will be shared. The time has come for neighbors and the community to get involved! A two-hour Stonewall Citizens’ Patrol training will follow. Need more information? Call Toni’s office at (619) 236-6633.
Saturday,
November 25,
2006		 “The mayor and City Council need to fully account for how it has used the additional TOT taxes it adopted 16 years ago to fully fund implementation of the Balboa Park Master Plan and pay for ongoing park maintenance.”
— Don Wood in Saturday’s letters to the U-T editor
Friday,
November 24,
2006		 Richard Amero

“NYC’s (Central Park) conservancy has surmounted problems of corruption, cronyism and elitism in the 26 years it has been in existence.”
— San Diego historian Richard Amero in Friday’s letters to the U-T editor

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