www.BeachandBayPress.com | September 1, 2011 WHAT’S INSIDE: • Sightings of a pos- • Guava Beach is the sible great white ideal spot to watch shark close Mission the Chargers, PACIFIC Beach twice, Vikings showdown Page 3 on Sept. 11, Page 8 • Live music roundup, • MBHS football looks to rebound Page 4 after a disappointing 2010, Page 9 NISSAN • Local lifeguards prove • Hilton San Diego they’re tops in annual eyes a $1.1 million “Highway 5 on Mission Bay Drive” relays, Page 5 renovation, Page 10 www.PacificNissan.com (858) 581-3200 • 4433 Mission Bay Drive, Pacific Beach BACK TO SCHOOL 2011 ‘WE SHALL NEVER FORGET’ Good, bad, ugly changes to this year’s programs PB memorial to BY MARIKO LAMB | BEACH & BAY PRESS In the good news category, class sizes in grades K-3 will remain low, punctuate 10th Like it or not, summer is over while school police services have and the school year is back in ses- been maintained and the school sion on Sept. 6. board restored more than $1 mil- anniversary of San Diego Unified School Dis- lion to the district’s visual and per- trict (SDUSD) trustee Scott Barnett forming arts program. — who represents the district’s Additionally, MBHS has beach-area schools — and Mission expanded its international bac- Sept. 11 horror Bay High School (MBHS) Princi- calaureate program, offering new Firefighter Tim Swanson of Station 21 in Pacific Beach, left, pal Fred Hilgers said there are courses in standard-level senior designed a Sept. 11 Twin Towers tribute to be unveiled Sept. 9. good, bad and ugly changes that English, film arts, business man- Artist Tara Tarrant, right, is assisting. Photos by Paul Hansen I Beach & Bay Press Tribute will stand at Station 21 parents and students should be agement, a semiweekly advisory aware of for the upcoming school BY MARIKO LAMB | BEACH & BAY PRESS year. SEE SCHOOLS, Page 3 he San Diego Fire Rescue Foundation (SDFRF) and San TDiego Fire-Rescue Depart- ment (SDFD) will host two events in Pacific Beach to commemorate the lives and heroics of emergency first responders during the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center a decade ago. On Sept. 9, city leaders — including Fire Chief Javier Mainar, Police Chief William Lansdowne and District Carolina Vazquez, left, an incoming ninth-grader at Mission Bay High School, gets 2 City Coun- a Tdap vaccine shot from registered nurse Joyce Donely on Aug. 30 at the high cilman Kevin school. The Tdap vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis Faulconer — (whooping cough). Photo by Paul Hansen I Beach & Bay Press will unveil a 9/11 commemorative memorial at Pacific Beach Fire Sta- tion 21. SDFRF will also present special guest speaker retired FDNY Lt. Joseph Torrillo, who will tell his story of survival during the 9/11 Faulconer developing plan to attacks and how he was mistakenly thought to have perished in the rub- secure funding for sea wall fix ble. The memorial, designed by BY LEE CORNELL | BEACH & BAY PRESS Council] Budget Committee, 24-year-old Station 21 firefighter which Kevin sits on, in the fall.” Tim Swanson, consists of a black The deteriorating sea wall in Residents have been hearing concrete base and two polished-alu- Mission Beach has been gaining about a complete overhaul to fix minum columns that represent the attention among concerned resi- the wall for years, and many said fallen towers. The columns are dents in the area. The condition they still have their doubts. inscribed with the names of all the of the concrete wall is steadily “We have been asking for the emergency first responders who Sept. 11 memorial designer Firefighter Tim Swanson watches as Tara Tarrant, who owns La getting worse and District 2 City repair plan for the existing sea died in the 9/11 attacks, and a piece wall for at least six months now Jolla Stone Etching, begins to etch the names of each of the 343 emergency first respon- Councilman Kevin Faulconer ders killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 10 years ago in New York City. of steel from the Twin Towers is said he plans to address the issue and understand that things do incorporated into the front façade soon. not get resolved in two weeks or of the project. “It’s a large project and Kevin’s even two months. Two years THE MEMORIAL “The piece of steel was donated pushing to get it started,” said would be more like it,” wrote Mis- The Sept. 11 memorial that will be unveiled to the SDFD from the fire depart- Matt Awbrey, communications sion Beach Town Council Area 9 at Station 21 in Pacific Beach on Sept. 9 consists ment in New York with the stipula- director for Faulconer. “Kevin is representative Bob Craig in an of a black concrete base and two polished-alu- tion that it be used on a public art working to secure funding in the email to Faulconer’s office on minum columns that represent the fallen Twin project. They’ve had it for a couple of next $100 million infrastructure Aug 4. Towers of the former World Trade Center in New years, but never quite got started on bond for the sea wall. That is York City. A piece of steel from the Twin Towers scheduled to come to the [City SEE SEA WALL, Page 5 is incorporated into the front of the memorial. 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