Diane Jones30Marketing DirectorMarriedCollege AreaInterviewed at the Natural History Museum, Balboa Park I’m grateful that my father — he’s 63 — is healthy and happy. He had an accident last year; he had a flesh-eating bacteria …
November 26, 2003
News & Stories
100 grateful San Diegans
Woods Rock to Whistlestop
Candice got onstage before the next singer and reminded people to keep their cell phones off, “unless your wife is at home pregnant or something.”
November 26, 2003
A Metabolife Death
On November 15 at 8:54 p.m., certified public accountant Michael Compton died of a gunshot wound to the head. The county medical examiner's office ruled it a suicide. Compton, who lived in Spring Valley, was …
November 26, 2003
Unnecessary Seal Harassment
Ellen Browning Scripps had intended to create a safe place for children, the handicapped, and the elderly to swim in the ocean. The beach was smaller and farther back from the water then.
November 26, 2003
Like daughter, like father, like Pete Wilson
When 36-year-old San Diego native and longtime Pete Wilson operative Margita Thompson was named press secretary to new Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger two weeks ago, nothing was said in local media about her father, Barnard …
November 26, 2003
Oh rats!
Hey Matt: The other day I popped open the hood on my Mitsubishi Montero gas-guzzling SUV, which I park outside, and found about 6 to 8 somewhat intact snail shells. The shells weren't smashed but …
November 26, 2003
Dog-paddling armadillos
Mr./Ms. Matthew/Alice: Perhaps you could resolve a lingering dispute between a friend and me. He insists that armadillos cross streams by holding their breath and walking along the bottom until they reach the other side. …
November 26, 2003
Explore palm groves and trickling streams in the upper reaches of Anza-Borrego's Bow Willow Canyon.
Winding fjordlike through the boulder heaps of the arid In-Ko-Pah Mountains, Bow Willow Canyon promises -- and delivers -- solitude. During a weekday-morning's exploratory venture into Bow Willow's moist upper recesses, no one disturbed my …
November 26, 2003