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Julian residents and property owners sat
through an entire day of a Board of
Supervisors' hearing on property referrals
involving the General Plan 2020 update on
September 20, without being able to testify.
After 4:00 p.m., Chairman Greg Cox
informed those still waiting to speak on back
'county community issues that they would
need to come back on October 1st if they still
wished to address the Board.
1he Chair of the Julian Community
.Planning Group (JCPG) was heard in the
morning, when the Supervisors allowed
representatives of the planning and sponsors
groups to speak. Gene Helsel informed the
Board that his group is attempting to preserve
the rural character of Julian while
accommodating growth. Helsel told the
Supervisors that this planning area features
2,600 vacant parcels.
There was no mention of the fact that
Department of Planning and Land Use
(DPLU) staff has repeatedly been asked how
many of those parcels are simply Assessor's
Parcels, how many are actually legal building
sites on which a property owner could obtain
a building permit or how many are
unbuildable because of septic or other
problems. DPLU has been unable to provide
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<EEPING HIGHWAYS CLEAN: Julian
Woman's Club members pick up litter
to keep the town looking great. Here
Betty Hildebrand [left] and Carol Klipp
start a morning's volunteer work.
by Merleen O'Connor, Contributing Writer
Julian Woman's Club members adopted part of Julian's main highway
several years ago to help keep the roadside litter picked up -- and it's an on-
going job.
"Every few months, our members and their husbands volunteer to walk
the highway, wearing orange vests and hard hats, and carrying ever-
expanding bags of the litter we pick up as we walk," says Carol Klipp,
Woman's Club Highway Cleanup Chair. The County then hauls away the
resulting bags of trash.
Some surprising and many ordinary items are found. Everything from a
baby playpen, broken car parts, and road barricade pieces to piles of cigarette
butts, McDonald's hamburger boxes and cups, papers, and discarded used
diapers find their way out of cars and trucks onto the scenic mountain roads.
It can be easy to figure out who's responsible for what: chances are the
fast-food containers are tossed by visitors who bring them up from the cities.
Sheet rock and other building supplies, however, probably fly off of locals'
vehicles.
Considering the number of convenient waste receptacles in Julian's pop-
ular downtown area, it's surprising that there is so much debris tossed along
the road.
A number of service groups help the cleanup effort; some patrol their
assigned areas of the highways regularly, others apparently do not.
Among clubs are: (Highway 78) Tuesday Nighters, Early Broncos Lim-
ited, Sherrill Orchards, Julian Pie Company, Leaning Oak Ranch (Pygmy
Goats), Kiwanis of Ramona, Packards of Ramona, and McDonald's of Ramona. Others (Highway 79) are Julian
Woman's Club, Blue Knights, Harley Owners of El Cajon.
Julian Women's Club members have noticed that a long day's work can be erased by just one holiday weekend of
trash tossers. But they'll be back - orange vests, hard hats, and optimism - keeping Julian highways looking beautiful.
CORONADO "RACE AT THE BASE" TO
BENEFIT NAVY LEAGUE
by Bob Engberg, Contributing Writer
Staged on the runways and taxiways of
Naval Base Coronado with Navy aircraft and
ships in the background, the Chrysler Speed
Festival will feature over 200 of the world's top
racing cars from years gone by, competing on a
spectator-friendly, 1.6-mile course. The races will
be held the weekend of October 11-12.
The vintage race cars are chosen to com-
pete on the basis of their historical significance
and certified authenticity. Among the cars
accepted for entry are Ferrari and Maserati, the
1,956 LeMans-winning Jaguar D-Type. Historic
Can-Am cars and the thundering Historic Trans
/ racers -- including Camaros, Mustangs, and
P4brsche -- round out the racing schedule.
Julian residents Bob and Sherry Engberg Bob Engberg's 1956 Lotus at last month's Monterey Historics.
hve entered their 1956 "Lotus Eleven," a car
first raced in England and on the Continent before appearing on American circuits. In 1965, the Lotus qualified for the First
St3CA "West Coast Runoffs" held at Riverside Raceway. Bob found the car in Atlanta, has restored it, and has been racing
it the last two years at the Wine Country Classic and the Portland and Monterey Historics.
Discounted tickets are available when purchased before the event weekend, and a portion of the cost of each ticket is
donated to the U. S. Navy League to benefit the families of navy personnel stationed in San Diego. Kids 12 and under are
free with paid adult admission.
.; Coronado Speed Festival tickets are now on sale. For information call (619) 2835808.
PLEIN AIR PAIHTER PAT KELLY EXHIBITS
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PAT KELLY
Revisited: New Work from Famiiiar Places
Oclober I I - November 16
At Santa Ysabel Art Gallery, October 11
through November 16, will be Revisited - New
Work from Familiar Places, an exhibit featuring
the beautiful plein air paintings of Pat Kelly, well-
known San Diego County plein air painter and
teacher of plein air painting at La Jolla's Athe-
naeum School of the Arts. Kelly's paintings are
characterized by a sensitivity toward nature that
expresses itself in an open sense of space and
form -- a cutting to the essential feel of a land-
scape. Reception for the artist is Saturday, Octo-
ber 11,4 to 8 PM. The public is invited.
The show will feature plein air paintings from
five of Kelly's favorite San Diego County painting
spots -- these places revisited again and again
and painted during different seasons, times of
day, and lighting conditions. Pat Kelly's favorite
painting locations showcased in the exhibit are Balboa Park's lily pond, Old Mission Dam in Mission Trails Regional Park, La
Jolla Cove, Penasquitos Canyon Preserve, and her own rural neighborhood in Ramona. Revisited will feature, in addition to
the paintings, Kelly's plein air field journal containing her painter's notes -- both practical and poetic -- and covering the time
period that the paintings in the show were done. This exhibit will be as interesting to view for painters as it will be for non-
painters.
Santa Ysabel Art Gallery is located at 30352 Highway 78 at Highway 79 in Santa Ysabel, seven miles below Julian. A
feature of the gallery is the James Hubbell Room where the art of Hubbell -- San Diego County's internationally known artist,
poet, and builder of organic houses -- is on exhibit. Admission to the gallery is free. Hours are Thursday through Monday,
11 AM to 5 PM and by appointment. The gallery is closed Tuesday and Wednesday. For more information about the gallery and
this exhibit, call 760-765-1676.
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JOYS OF
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LIVING
by
Vee Lumpkins
Senior Contributing Writer
1. The month of September started out
with a bang, or I should say with lots of
banging overhead. The first day threatened
rain. The second day, thunder and lightning
storm struck at 3:20 p.m. Overhead loud
rumbles sounded like they were going to
break our hills, the vibration was so strong.
After 4:30 p.m., it moved westward and still
booming until it quieted down at 5 p.m. We
received lust a few raindrops through all this.
On the 4th day, more thunder with some rain
for a total of .10" On the 5th day, a heavy
downpour brought us a total of .50". So, the
total of rain for the month was .60" according
to my gauge.
2. The rest of the month, we had hot clear
days in the 90's degrees. The calendar
indicated that summer ended on the 22nd. It
was 97 degrees on that last day of summer.
On the first day of Autumn, it was 94 degrees
and the month ended mostly in the early
nineties degrees. Some folks have
commented that this has been the hottest
summer and at this writing it seems Miss
Summer will not let go of her reign on our
weather.
3. On the 4th day after the rain shower, at
dusk there was a high formation of clouds
reaching to the sky reflecting the sunset with
rose colors mixed with the gray, a lovely
scene. The cloud formations have been very
spectacular this month.
4. A lovely pink lady plant sprung up
about three feet tall in my yard and had seven
lovely lily like pink blossoms. Some call it
'naked lady". Seems strange that just one
long stem with no leaves could produce such
a lovely array of blossoms.
5. I'll long remember September as being
the"peaches" month. The peaches at Meyers
fruit stand and at Apple Lane Orchard have
been wonderful. Apple Lane Orchard also has
some wonderful plums. Tyler Johnson has a
cute baby goat named Isabel and a guard
dog as greeters at his store.
6. Things have been busy at the town hall
with full-time craft shows.
7. The Bluegrass Festival came and went
and it was a very busy weekend in town.
8. On Saturday morning on the 20th
around 3 a.m., the sound of crickets in
concert woke me up. There was one
especially loud that drowned all the others
out. I closed my window and soon a cricket
began its loud singing. I discovered it was in
my bedroom. I continued my sleep.on the
couch in the living room. A couple of hours
later, I heard it again. It had moved on to the
hall. I closed the door and went back to sleep
on my bed the next couple of hours. I love the
sound of crickets, but this one must have
found out that I do and decided to give me a
)dvate solo concert. My bedroom is on an
upper level and I don't know how the cricket
got there.
9. The new public restrooms behind the
town hall are almost ready.
10. There has been construction work
going on at Main Street at the hardware store.
This building has been divided into two
steres. It will continue being the hardware
stere and the other part is a rental.
11. The serum has arrived at our medical
cliinic and many of us have already received
our flu shots. This is a wonderful service in
our community and we are grateful.
12. We've turned the calendar over to a
new month which we hope will bring us cooler
weather and we're looking forward to the fun
events during Apple Days and the annual
melodrama at the town hall.
***I'M GLAD I LIVE IN JULIAN"*
Bob Stuart, Senior Contributing Writer
those differentiations.
Following the September 24th meeting,
former planning group member Juli Zerbe
researched a representative Sample of vacant
parcels and found that only a small
percentage are even large enough to meet
the County's requirements for septic systems.
Helsel also indicated that the JCPG
agrees with all the staff recommendations.
Those recommendations include support for
a JCPG proposal to change a large majodty
of the planning area (16,400 acres) from 40
acres per dwelling to 80 acres per dwelling.
According to the draft minutes for the
JCPG's September 8th meeting, Helsel
explained the staff recommendations to the
group, but no vote was taken by its members
on whether or not to support them.
Several errors were contained in the staff
report to the Supervisors. The 40 to 80 acre
density change was labeled as Referral 160.
Under this item, the report listed the names of
five individuals who had spoken in support of
the change and indicated that they were
representing the JCPG Three of those
persons are members of the group and two
are not. Board Policy I-1, which regulates
planning groups, states that the chair of each
group is the only person who can speak for it
",ess the group specifically authorizes
another representative. None of the five
persons listed was the chair and none of
those five were authorized to speak for the
group. They had previously indicated they
were not speaking for the JCPG but as
individuals but this was not mentioned in the
staff report.
Part of the staff rationale for supporting
this change was that, "higher density
development (than one unit per 80 acres)
would be detrimental to existing community
character (i.e ..... agricultural activities ....)?
Staff seems unaware that the most viable
agricultural activities in the Julian area are
apple and pear orchards, most of which are
on less than 10 acres.
PLEASE SEE PAGE 9
FOR RELATED ITEMS
ON PLANNING
GROUP
Under Referral 163, for the Hoskings
Ranch, staff indicates that the County
Planning Commission position is to support
the staff recommendation of one dwelling per
80 acres, which the 2002 General Pan 2020
Working Copy map had shown as one
dwelling per 40 acres. The latter is what the
property owner was requesting and what their
filed map shows. The consultant on that
project has indicated that this 1,570 acre map
Continued on page 12
HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVES SUPPORT
OH ZOLL SCHOLARSHIP POSITION
Two Former Teachers Appear at Meeting
by Bob Stuart, Senior Contributing Writer
During the September 18th Julian High
School Board of Trustees meeting, David
Galusha and Michael Cunningham, who
formerly taught at Ray Redding High School,
appeared for the purpose of supporting the
Board of Trustees in their opposition to
awarding a James Zoll scholarship. The
donor had intended the scholarship to be
awarded each year to a graduating senior in
the amount of $1,000. The board had
previously declined to award it if it includes
Zolrs name.
Galusha read his letter, which follows,
to the board and Cunningham supported it,
also stating that both attendance and
graduation rates dropped at Ray Redding
High School during Dr. Zoll's tenure as
principal at that school. He noted that both
students and teachers lost the desire to
attend school, and that Dr. 7oll was a
negative influence, according to the draft
minutes for the meeting.
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Normally when you think of
honoring someone by a scholarship it,
is for an organization, honorable •
person such as Superintendent Ray
Redding or Principal Bob Hamilton.
Normally when you award a
scholarship the student has met
certain criteria for scholarship and
leadership, which are necessary to
enter schools of higher learning.
What I have to say this evening is
nothing new. It has been said by aft
but one of the JUHS teachers in an
public school board meeting
approximately two and half years ago.
At that time, the teachers and
students were under constant threat
by this individual So to come before
the school board was not taken
lightly. Some of us had a prayer
meeting asking God for the
appropriate and important words to
share with the board.
Let us use the same yardstick an
applicant is 'measured for a
scholarship. These qualities include:
leadership, honesty and morality.
Leadership: The man was fired
from his position as Superintendent
for not performing the requirements
Continued on page 13
JHS CHEER SQUAD HOSTS DINNER FOR
FUNDRAISING AT LEGION OCT. !0
The Julian High School Cheer Squad is
suiting up to serve dinner this Friday Oct. 10,
in the American Legion Dining Hall. The
event is being made possible by the
American Legion Auxiliary, a committed
group of ladies dedicated to supporting local
veterans as well as Julian's youth community.
All proceeds from the dinner will go directly
towards the cheer squad to help compensate
costs for uniforms, cheer camp and
competition fees.
Marta Kendall is acting as lead chef for
the evening. Her menu will consist of
boneless perk ribs, au gratin potatoes,
cranberry salad, dinner roll and apple crisp for
desert. The cost is $9. The Julian High
Varsity Football home game vs. San Pasqual
Academy kicks off at 3:30 p.m. and the first of
the limited 125 dinners will be served at its
conclusion, starting at 5:30 p.m. The
cheerleaders are planning to come directly
from the football game to the dinner.
"These girls work very, very hard three
times a week and they have improved
immensely," said Joanne Bakken Auxiliary
President and JHS supervisor to the squad.
'Their goal is to go to the Aloha Cheer
Competition next February in Hawaii.
'We are really hoping for a great turnout,"
she added. 'These girls really need your
support so come out and make it an entirely
enjoyable evening for the family."
For more information on the
Cheerleader's benefit dinner check the
American Legion Menu listing in the Julian
News or contact Joanne Bakken in the Julian
High School office at (760) 765-0606
extension #100. The Legion is located at
2503 Washington Street.
UPCOMING EVENTS t IMPORTANT NOTICES
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N THE NEXT BOARD MEETING IS ON WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8 AT 6 PM. N
EET YOUR MERCHANTS MONTHLY BREAKFAST. •
N WEDNESDAYt OCT. 15,'AT 8ANN
Venue: Angels Landing Country Inn & Resort
Speaker: Laurie Hallihan from Laurie Hallihan's
State Farm Insurance Office in Alpine - will share
her knowledge about Business Insurance Policies.
$100 Cash Drawing for members , Raffle /
- Upedtmizlg Even - We Need Volunteer -
• N 29: Annual Country Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
• Dec. 13: CommwMy Christmas Party
BUSINESS OWNERS - COME JOIN THIS HARDWORKING GROUPt
To join, please call Lisa at (760) 765-3364
For more JMA info, or to volunteer please ca//
Dan Manley at (760) 765-2578
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Visit JMA online - www.JulianMerchants.org
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