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VILLAGE LA JOLLA NEWS LA JOLLA’S LOCALLY OWNED INDEPENDENT VOICE SERVING UNIVERSITY CITY AND LA JOLLA TODAY & EVERYDAY SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER GROUP FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016 LAJOLLAVILLAGENEWS.COM | VOLUME 18, NUMBER 15 Merchants mull event date clash, seal stench, Padres' La Jolla Day By DAVE SCHWAB Souza. Souza stressed the event, which In March, La Jolla Village Mer- includes a beer garden, live music chants Association took on the and other entertainment, is open arbitration of an event conflict in to all community members and November and got updates on the has been growing in size and par- Cove seal problem and the third ticipation each year. annual Padres La Jolla Day. From the audience, Jerry Par- The group also voted to support ent, co-owner of Adelaide's a proposal to attempt to create a Florists on Girard Avenue, pointed Maintenance Assessment District out that there is a competing long- to beautify the Village, which time community event on that would require creation and pas- same day – the Holiday Open sage of a ballot measure. House, sponsored by several busi- WEARIN' OF THE GREEN It's everybody's excuse to party – but it's also a tribute to the Roman Catholic saint who throws Tresha Souza approached the nesses in the 7700 and 7800 it. St. Patrick, a bishop credited with driving the snakes out of Ireland (neat trick, as Ireland has no indigenous snakes), gets his merchants group to seek its blocks of Girard Avenue. own special day Thursday, March 17, and La Jolla is no exception to the neighborhoods that will celebrate. Hennessey’s Tavern is approval for the fourth annual So Parent said last year's compet- a case in point -- and if you don’t believe us, check out the action above from a recent year. For more on Hennessey’s, see our Din- Fine on Kline event, a community ing So Fine on Kline event had a ing entry on page 11. Lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! COURTESY PHOTO block party benefiting Mary Star negative impact on that event. of the Sea Catholic Church and “Our bottom line was down other worthy causes in La Jolla, about 30 percent, and merchants SDSU's Steve Fisher: All roads lead to the classroom scheduled for Nov. 13. spent $100,000 on holiday “This event isn't just to make décor,” Parent said. He aded that By TERRI STANLEY basketball players and coaches as to national prominence. The team, money for the church but to give he thought the impact was so well as the Washington police which closed out this season's something back to the communi- great because So Fine “was block- As soon as Steve Fisher sits down union. Ades was known as a guy record at 23-8, was the No.1 seed ty and bring people out, bring in his office at the Fowler Athletic who could get things done and a going into the Mountain West tour- some energy to the Village,” said SEE MERCH, Page 2 Center at San Diego State Universi- tough negotiator — a good person nament and was led by two out- ty, he starts a story about how he to have on your side. standing seniors, Winston Shepard met his mentor Rob Ades, who died After winning basketball's and Skylar Spencer. who received A month later, sick sea lion pup is improving two years ago at age 65 of leukemia. National Invitational Tournament an emotional farewell after their last Fisher, head coach of the SDSU in 1997 and taking the University of regular season game from Aztec SeaWorld veterinarians say a booth at The Marine Room, an men’s basketball team, says he Michigan team to the NCAA tour- fans and faculty. starving sea lion rescued a month oceanfront restaurant in La Jolla. shared a love of the game with nament six times with a national (The Aztecs eliminated UNLV ago after finding its way into a She has been cared for at Sea- Ades, a prominent Washington, championship in '89, Fisher was from tournament play on March 5 fancy San Diego restaurant is on World's Animal Rescue Center. A D.C., lawyer who represented many fired as head coach over an off-court in Las Vegas and opened the event the mend. newspaper report says experts scandal, a decision that sent shock by clawing their way to a win over The vets said that the 8-month- remain cautiously optimistic about waves through the college basket- the Utah State Aggies, 71-65, on old female pup, named Marina, has her recovery. If all goes well and ball community and is still debated March 10.) put on about four pounds and that her weight continues to increase, today. Ades negotiated an initial seven- her bloodwork is encouraging. she could be released back into the Fisher says he and his wife, Angie, year contract with SDSU for Fisher The underweight and dehydrat- ocean within the next six to eight were at a low point in their life, and in 1999, and the rest is history. Fish- ed sea lion, its left eye swollen shut, weeks. they credit Ades with helping them er’s stats are more than impressive – was found Feb. 4 asleep in a dining out. he has led the Aztecs to the NCAA In fact, Fisher says, it was Ades tournament seven times, including who stepped in and advised Fisher to six consecutive NCAA bids, Sweet pull himself together, because not Sixteen appearances in 2011 and only was he going to get through 2014, four Mountain West Confer- this but he was going to get a better ence wins, nine 20-win seasons job. After a one-year stint in the and... the list goes on. Ever the teacher, Steve Fisher drills NBA with the Sacramento Kings, out a lesson or two from the sidelines. that “job” Ades referred to was lead- COURTESY PHOTO ing the SDSU men’s basketball team SEE STEVE, Page 8 Marina in darker days, God bless her. COURTESY PHOTO LOCAL COMPANY - LOCAL SPRING WATER Home & ( ) Business Call for 760 682-0355 naturally Delivery alkaline PalomarWater.com 7.2pH FRIDAY · MARCH 11, 2016 2 LA JOLLA VILLAGE NEWS Community Robotics: Here's a garage band from the post-garage band era By SANDY LIPPE MERCH >> CONT. FROM PG. 1 Remember when garage bands Isabelle's dad, Richard Ho, is one were (and still may be) the rage? In of the two coaches. He explained ing off a major street and people the 1960s, surf and rock, blues and that the garage is home to the team. were complaining, especially older psychedelic sounds (along with the "We call ourselves a garage team people, that there was no parking occasional funny scent of smoke) because that's where we meet,” he and no way to get in (to the Vil- came from your neighbors' garages. explained, “because we expanded lage).” Today, robotics teams, comprising from family friends, and kids go to Souza responded that the block high school-age kinds, are gather- different schools; most of them only party area is a “dead street,” not- ing in some garages and producing see each other at our meetings." ing she was at a loss to explain rock stars in robotic competition. The other coach is Veronique why business was down elsewhere Fame should follow RoBowties in Jones. Mike and Sheila Azeka are in the Village when So Fine drew the next decade just the way it did team mentors. participants who frequented other for some super-talented garage Recently, the RoBowties entered parts of the community that day. bands of the '60s. competition at FIRST Tech Chal- Those crazy kids from RoBowties proudly display the hardware they won during Association board member For the English major unfamiliar lenge. Richard Ho explained that the FIRST regional competition on Feb. 27. COURTESY PHOTO Nancy Warwick, whose War- with the topic, robotics is the art of FIRST stands for For Inspiration and wick’s Books bookstore is on artificial intelligence as applied to Recognition in Science and Technol- 3-D printers. by-10-foot booth for the Oakland Girard, took a moment to note that the practical use and control of ogy, a global nonprofit charity Other categories include innova- competition and are into a steam- the community has a tradition of robots. San Diego is a hotbed of high founded way back in 1989 to inspire tion, team spirit and robot program- punk theme, deriving from the sci-fi respecting pre-existing events and school kids who want a piece of the young people to be science and tech ming. writing of authors like Jules Verne not scheduling new events that action. leaders. Additionally, Field Play Competi- and H.G. Wells. The FTC world might compete with them. So it is with the RoBowties core Thousands of teams around the tion is a 2.5-minute period centering championships will be held in St. Board member Christophe team, which has been together for world compete regionally, using on attempts to surmount global Louis in April. Cevasco asked, “Why not combine seven years. Isabelle Ho is the cap- autonomous and tele-operated, self- challenges, wherein FIRST tech Robotics as we know it has been the two events, the vendors and tain and a junior at High Tech High designed robots to solve challenges challenge teams build robots to around since 1942, when sci-fi writ- the food? Media Arts in Point Loma's Liberty set by FIRST. Half San Diego's 60- compete against other teams.