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“With an aging parent, I join the millions in America that are taking a more active role in taking care of their elderly parents...I’m sad because I love the city, but I’m happy to be able to play that role and be there for my mother — to make what ever she has left in her life be the best that it can be.”
— Nancy Graham in her 2004 resignation letter from West Palm Beach’s downtown development agency
Head’s up:
Avoid SIXTH AVENUE (between Upas & Pennsylvania)
since it will be CLOSED
24 hours a day until at least
next Tuesday for a major sewer replacement by the city.

Movie on the roof: Little Miss Sunshine
The community picked the flick, and it’s been ordered for this summer’s Hillcrest movie under the stars. Little Miss Sunshine featuring Abigail Breslin will be shown Wednesday evening August 6 atop Whole Foods Market. Bring your folding chairs and blankets for a free night of fun from their parking lot. Enjoy this award-winning movie with your friends and family. Bring a picnic and come early, the viewing area opens at 6pm. Free snacks will be provided. Pizza orders and BBQ fare will also be available. The movie begins at dusk (about 8pm).

2nd annual Toast to Hillcrest will be Thursday, August 14
Join this year’s Wine, Spirits & Nibbles Tour from 5:30-8pm all over the neighborhood for those age 21+. Stroll from restaurant to pub, to wine bar to cafe and sample your way across Hillcrest. You may also jump on and off the big red double decker bus that will be run from 5-9pm. Buy your ticket in July and save $6. ($25 tickets are only $19 through the end of the month.) Participating businesses include Asian Bistro, Babbo Grande, Baja Betty’s, Bite, Bombay, Brass Rail, Busalacchi’s, Chef’s Wok, City Deli, Crest Cafe, Kemo Sabe, Kous Kous, #1 Fifth Avenue, Ono Sushi, Ortega’s, Pizza Fusion, Terra Restaurant, Urban Mo’s, The Wit’s End, Whole Foods Market and Wine Steals with new listings being added daily.
This is a fun-raiser for the Hillcrest History Guild. Buy tickets online or call (619) 260-1929, then bring your ID to will-call or purchase the evening of the event at the HHG booth next to Hillcrest’s WaMu (Fifth & Robinson) beginning at 5pm.
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Newslinks
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- Man stabbed at beach drum circle recovering
- Pickens pitches plan to move US away from oil
- This week’s letters to the editor of the GLT
- Congress OKs $48 billion for global AIDS fight
- 3 other San Diego non-profits will be audited
- Nancy Graham, CCDC president/COO resigns
- Dow Jones down 283 points on renewed fears
- Air Force: our officers fell asleep at nuke switch
- 100 female military members have died in Iraq
- Village Hillcrest takes on $31M refinance loan
- Ghost bike: A memorial to cyclist Atip Ouypron
- Obama draws 200,000 to the heart of Berlin
- Is CBS covering up humiliating McCain error?
- Crane raising church steeple kills man in car
- SEDC chairman signed over funds to developer
- 3 US-allied guards killed in drive-by shooting
Hillcrest Town Council
With the mission statement: “To provide a voice & enhance the quality of life for Hillcrest renters & homeowners while supporting actions that benefit our neighborhood.”
Next month’s neighborhood meeting will
be Tuesday, August 12th from 6:30-8pm
at Joyce Beers Community Center (map
6-B).
Help make one the nation’s
top ten
GREAT neighborhoods even GREATER.
Show up * Speak up * Get involved!
Resources...
- HillQuest Urban Guide
- Hillcrest Town Council
- Hillcrest Crime Stats
- Uptown Aerial View
- Pia’s map 1 & 2
- San Diego Today
- Developer Alert
- Neighborhood Clean-ups
- HillQuest Cam
- Area Traffic
- Hillcrest Development Watch <new
- Local Weather
- HealthQuest
- DMV Customer Wait Time
- Government Representatives
- Local Organizations & Media Links

