Art Hood (left) and Joe Hill (right) stand outside the PACT House at the San Clemente Pier. Photo: Heidi Mefferd
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Bill Waibel was once an engineer with that type of personality that drives him to keep occupied. Involved in the oil and gas world, Waibel’s career moved him to Australia for four years and Brazil ...
Jul 28, 2010 | 0 | 3 |
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The largest professional surfing competition in the world—the US Open of Surfing—is set to run July 31 through August 8 at the Huntington Beach Pier. This year’s presenting sponsors, Hurley, Nike 6...
A rendering that includes just part of the Playa Del Norte Project. This structure will be the pavilion entry at Avenida Pico and Calle Deschecha. Courtesy rendering
Jul 21, 2010 | 31 | 3 |
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Debate ran high through Monday night and into the early morning hours of Tuesday in a special City Council meeting regarding the Playa Del Norte project. Just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, following nine ...
Nate Yeomans at the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay. © ASP/Kirstin Scholtz
Jul 21, 2010 | 0 | 3 |
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San Clemente surfers Nathan Yeomans and brothers Patrick and Tanner Gudauskas saw success in early rounds of the 2010 Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay contest—event No. 4 of the Association for Surfing P...
Gordon and Penny Rose. File photo
Jul 21, 2010 | 3 | 8 |
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After seven years as one of San Clemente’s most popular and decorated restaurants, Gordon James Grill is shutting down citing the ongoing recession as the prime culprit. Gordon and Penny Rose notif...
Courtesy photo
Jul 21, 2010 | 1 | 8 |
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Brian Burns’ bedroom is probably what you’d expect from any 17-year-old: A television, an Xbox, a desk for homework and a bed to relax on. But what really catches your eye as you enter the San Cle...
Kylani makes a piggy bank for donations. Courtesy photo
Jul 15, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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Jenny Buchanan trusted her mother’s intuition when her two-year-old daughter Kylani fell ill last December. What initially showed up as a rash on Kylani, ended up being a far more serious diagnosis...
Brad Parks. Photo: Heidi Mefferd
Jul 07, 2010 | 0 | 4 |
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It was 1976, and Brad Parks, an athletic and adventurous 18-year-old student at the University of Utah and member of an amateur freestyle skiing circuit, was warming up on the slopes before a compe...
OC Dana Point Harbor Operations Manager Paul Lawrence stands with Marina Trash Skimmer inventor Louis Pasoz on a floating dock in the harbor where the equipment is installed. Photo by Andrea Swayne
Jul 06, 2010 | 0 | 4 |
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On a lunch date with his wife in Long Beach, Louis Pasoz watched as marina staff cleaned floating debris from the water. No sooner had the workers finished and left the area than debris began float...
Photo: Brian Miller
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 | 3 |
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San Clemente High School’s 2010 senior graduation started with beautiful bagpipe notes from Mr. Duncan Wilson, a science teacher at the high school. Mr. Wilson’s melodic tunes helped lead the schoo...
Camp Bow Wow volunteers collect fur from San Clemente pick-up spot, Pet Treasures. (L to R) Kiki, VIP Pet Spa owner Kristin Hrenkevich, Camp Bow Wow owner Kimberly Simons, Camp Bow Wow Camp Scout Melissa Shea and Pet Treasures owner Matt Hrenkevich. Photo: Andrea Swayne
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 | 4 |
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As concerns continue to mount over the severity of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, salons and groomers across the country have been asked to collect their clippings for use in hair mats...
Courtesy of JP Van Swae
Jun 23, 2010 | 0 | 3 |
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When you think of a legend in the surfing world, and what ultimately defines their legacy, certain images tend to hold precedence over others. These days it may be a 10-point ride in the heat of co...
Michelle Blanda with her dad Marty (right) and Ole Hanson Beach Club Director Marty Walsh (left). Photo by Austin Reagan
Jun 23, 2010 | 0 | 5 |
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With the end of the 2009-2010 school year just days away, many local students are planning on hitting the beaches and enjoying the sunny weather that San Clemente is known for. One individual howev...
Lt. Paul D’Auria with the San Clemente team. Photo: Heidi Mefferd
Jun 17, 2010 | 0 | 4 |
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Every year is busy for San Clemente’s deputies. Whether they’re responding to crime calls in the community, making the rounds or issuing citations on the street or beach, their goal is simple—keep ...
The scene at last year’s International Surfing Day Surfrider Foundation South OC Chapter beach cleanup at Salt Creek Beach. Photo: Rick Erkeneff
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Paddle out on Father’s Day, June 20 with thousands of surfers around the world in observance of the 6th Annual International Surfing Day (ISD). Founded by the Surfrider Foundation and Surfing Magaz...
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Jun 10, 2010 | 0 | 3 |
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Just a little deuce coupe with a flathead mill But she’ll walk a Thunderbird like she’s standin’ still She’s ported and relieved and she’s strokin’ four She’ll do a hundred and forty in the top...
Rick Delanty. Courtesy photo
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Rick Delanty, a professional artist from San Clemente, along with 22 other painters, was recently invited by the Friends of Hearst Castle to paint for two days on the grounds of the museum and stat...
T. Patterson Surfboards owners Vicki and Timmy Patterson and Store Manager Mike Gee at the new store in south San Clemente. Photo: Andrea Swayne
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From North Beach to Southside, San Clemente’s surf community now has two T. Patterson Surfboards locations to choose from. Owners Timmy and Vicki Patterson opened their second store in San Clemente...
Photo: Christina Scannapiego
Jun 03, 2010 | 0 | 4 |
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As fixtures on our buzzing summer beaches in South County, lifeguards are some of California’s most quintessential public servants. Amidst our natural sunny disposition on the shores, the fact rema...
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In the fall of 2008, native Floridian turned San Clemente surfer, Nicole Grodesky, sat with her roommate, Nicolas Guerin (a soon-to-be business grad student) in their apartment near the pier bowl w...
(From left) Kitty Schmitt, Una Baker, Trudy Podobas, and George Duarte. Courtesy photo
Jun 03, 2010 | 0 | 5 |
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At this year’s annual Sunset Luau, three members of the San Clemente Educational Foundation (SCEF) will be honored for their tireless work within education in the community. SCEF’s 2010 Luau honore...
Joseph Farley, superintendent of Anaheim Union High School District, will take the helm at Capistrano Unified on July 1. Photo: Jonathan Volzke
May 27, 2010 | 1 | 12 |
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The headquarters of Anaheim Union High School District are in an old Fedmart, in an industrial part of that city just off the Santa Ana Freeway. Even Superintendent Joseph Farley admits his office,...
Nic Romano, founder of VR Green Farms. Photo: Katherine Sweet
May 27, 2010 | 0 | 11 |
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A golf course may not be a typical place to find a farm. But nestled mere feet from the clubhouse of San Clemente’s Bella Collina Towne & Golf Club lies VR Green Farms, a 1.5-acre Italian organic v...
May 26, 2010 | 0 | 13 |
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When Drew Brophy was a kid, he was a doodler. At the age of four, he painted his name on his very first surfboard and from then on, his love for both has been an integral part of his life. Growing ...
May 20, 2010 | 0 | 11 |
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There’s nothing quite like capturing a moment in time. Whether that moment is catalogued as a distant memory, prose on the page or as a stunning photograph, ultimately, truth is found in the lastin...
May 19, 2010 | 0 | 11 |
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The culmination of the ten-contest season of Western Surfing Association action took place last weekend, May 15 and 16 at San Onofre, Church Beach. Around 300 competitors took turns giving it their...
Photo: Jamal Al-Sarraf
May 19, 2010 | 1 | 8 |
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Typically, when a boy sees a squadron of deputies in front of any house it’s usually a sign of trouble. But that was not the case with San Clemente’s Gage Roberts, 8, who recently came home to a ...
May 14, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, unveiled its newest exhibit, “Tomorrow’s Artists Today,” with a student art reception May 7. The 7th Annual San Clemente Student Ar...
Gerry Filteau, president of Separation Processes Inc., shows off his company’s equipment in the desalination test station at Doheny State Beach. San Clemente is a partner in the project. Photo: Jonathan Volzke
May 13, 2010 | 2 | 20 |
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Officials this week unveiled the latest step in a multi-organization effort to tap into the “world’s largest reservoir,” the Pacific Ocean, for drinking water that would serve residents in San Clem...
6.0 Lowers Pro winner Gabe Kling goes vert off the top. Photo: Andrea Swayne
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After four days of competition, May 4 to 8, at the world-class cobblestone break of Lower Trestles, it was St. Augustine, Florida’s Gabe Kling who took home the win over Australia’s Chris Davidson....
From left: 2nd Vice Chairman Michael Johnson, Chief Financial Officer Chuck Narey, Chamber CEO/President Lynn Woods, 1st Vice Chairman Steve Ynzunza, Vice Chairman Nancy Hunt, Immediate Past Chairman Nick Ragenovich and Chairman of the Board Jeff Bott. Photo: Heidi Mefferd
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San Clemente has a vast network of people and businesses that help turn its wheels of production, making the city an economically viable home for its residents, and a desirable destination for visi...
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A Richard Simmons look-alike stretching out in short shorts on the beach with the song, “Let’s Get Physical” playing in the background, sign-waving surfers on strike picketing around him and an ass...
Shonda Davis proudly stands next to one of her recent works of art. Photo: Heather Turney
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On the morning that Shonda Davis awoke to find that the walls of her bedroom appeared convex and distorted, she knew that her eyes would never be the same again. After being diagnosed with macular ...
Photo: Madi Swayne
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Classes quickly returned to normal in the Capistrano Unified School District this week, as teachers laid down their picket signs to end a five-day strike with an agreement reached late Wednesday ni...
Fellow big wave surfers celebrate with BWWT champion Carlos Burle. Photo: Vittorio Sommella
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A new chapter in big wave surfing was written on April 24 in San Clemente as Carlos Burle of Brazil was crowned the first ever Big Wave World Tour Champion. With this presentation, surfing history ...
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A war of words fought with a flurry of letters and news releases exploded in the classroom this week, as Capistrano Unified School District teachers announced they would call a strike starting on A...
Kolohe Andino wins Surfing America Prime Champion titles in both Boys U16 and U18 divisions. Photo: Jack McDaniel
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San Clemente was very well represented along the Southern California coast last weekend. Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18 were busy days for local surfers, many of whom shuttled from contest to...
Betty Woods cuts the ceremonial ribbon Monday as (L-R) Mike Cotter, Michael Kaupp, Michael King, Jay Fisher and councilmembers Lori Donchak and Wayne Eggleston look on. Photo: David Zimmerle
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San Clemente celebrated the completion of two more tile murals along Avenida Del Mar Monday, April 19. The series known as “Landmarks on Del Mar” had its third and fourth murals installed as the e...
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