
Watching the Del Mar City Council stumble clumsily toward decisions about downtown re(sic)vitalization, it seems they have a bit of amnesia about how the community has evolved over the years. We did not achieve our status as one of the most admired cities in California by “fast tracking” our decision-making processes.

Though we teach healthy communication skills to the couples we work with in our office, we also realize that no technique will be effective at home for our couples if there are no safe and solid underlying agreements between them—ground rules, so to speak—of how to treat each other in the most respectful and loving ways. Here are the basic Relationship Agreements that we believe create the safest environment for a healthy relationship to take place:

My 400-word limit for these musings often leaves me with more material than I can use, so my desk becomes cluttered with info-bits about the topics of recent columns and other interests.

Outstanding Canyon Crest Academy seniors were recognized May 19 by the Dollars for Scholars Committee for their achievement in a broad range of activities and interests throughout their high school career.

The Canyon Crest Academy Foundation held its fundraising event “Cirque du CCA” at the Anthology in Little Italy on May 20.
David Jaffe, San Dieguito Union High School District executive director of curriculum and assessment, has resigned his position to become principal at Chabad Hebrew Academy, a private Jewish day school in Scripps Ranch serving students from preschool to eighth grade.

As the wine director for new San Diego wine company Vineagogo, Del Mar resident Josh Orr is occasionally spotted around town making deliveries or appearances in “Merlot,” the company’s 1964 DIVCO milk truck.
May 28, 2011 | Posted in
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Torrey Pines High School and Canyon Crest Academy’s second annual collaborative Fashion Show fundraiser was held May 18 at the CCA Proscenium Theater.
An upcoming townhall-style meeting will discuss errors in the presentation of Islam in the seventh-grade history textbook currently in use in San Dieguito Union High School District middle schools and throughout the state.
May 27, 2011 | Posted in
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Torrey Pines High School is currently competing in a robotics competition called Botball in which teams build from scratch and program up to two robots to accomplish various tasks against another team’s bots.
May 27, 2011 | Posted in
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