Helen Jacqueline “Jackie” Nelson died peacefully in Mission Viejo on Jan. 23, 2014, at the age of 94. Born to Emelia Hagely and Amos Sapp on Oct. 27, 1919, in Newnan, Ga., Jackie grew up in Quartzsite, Ariz., and entered Colton Union High School at the age of 12. She graduated with honors as the valedictorian, […]
Lionel Mytinger, a longtime Laguna Beach resident known to many as “Train,” passed away on Jan. 17 from natural causes. He was 68. Mytinger was a surf legend, a nurseryman, a caretaker, and lover of people. Born on June 24, 1945, in New York City, Lionel was a young boy when his family set out […]
Editor, A keen irony did not escape notice as to reporter Jennifer Erickson’s tandem pieces on today’s intersection of the arts and government in Laguna Beach. So, City Council opted to recruit a design firm to create plans for an inviting, landscaped pathway between F.O.A. and City Hall without noting scale, scope or budget? (“Design […]
Editor, There once was an artist name Louis Whoʼs project I fear makes me flu-ish. It ought to be small If any at all. So this whole thing I feel is quite foolish! Regumbah Connolly, Laguna Beach
Editor, While I was pleased to read in Horst Noppenberger’s “Speaker’s Corner” editorial (Feb. 7 edition) that the prime purpose of the proposed canyon artist live-work apartment complex is to provide affordable living to artists, I was puzzled by the ratio of only eight of the 30 units being held to low-income rents. Since by […]
Editor, My connection to Laguna goes back to the 1970s when I absorbed copious amounts of green paint in the service of the Pageant of the Masters, posing as a statue from Gettysburg. Burnished with a teaching credential, I spent a year coaching swimming and water polo and teaching part time at Laguna Beach High […]
Editor On Feb. 10, I attended the transit meeting sponsored by the consulting firm hired by Laguna Beach to address the lack of ridership on our buses, traffic and parking problems. Though I appreciate that the public was invited to give its input, the whole meeting seemed like a complete waste of time. No one […]
Editor, This letter was addressed to City Council members. The principal driver in the current village entrance proposal Plan ‘D’ is the “replacement parking” stipulation dictated by the California Coastal Commission. It reads much like a rigid principle of physics such that public parking shall be conserved when planning a municipal design project. It is […]
Editor, One of the last requests made by Mr. Laguna, Harry Lawrence, before he died was that the Beautification Council which he founded sixty two years ago, continue to grow. Under the guidance of its new president Ruben Flores, owner of Laguna Nursery, the council has council has reorganized as its own 501c3 nonprofit entity […]
Editor, It’s amazing what this City Council and City Hall are doing. The council claims they are waiting for community input before voting on letting the Boys & Girls Club completely take over the meeting room at the south end of Lang Park’s community building and partially take over the “gym,” and yet expensive improvements have been […]
Editor, I have lived in Laguna over 20 years. I am just recovering from a toxic shock from gluten in my system. I am of Italian descent and I love to cook I have wanted to cook for the homeless and now is the right time. I will be cooking gluten free at the Friendship […]
Editor, What has happened to the integrity and honesty of our City Council and mayor? Why are we fighting another ill-conceived project? Why are we wasting our energies when we could be spending our time on projects that have a higher priority? We are spinning our wheels again dealing with dishonest people. We have rules […]
“If we all speak softly, everyone can be heard.” Besides being good advice for democracy and human relations in general, this phrase from former mayor Dan Kenney was specifically applied to signs, the issue he focused on during his terms on the city council, 1982-1990. Kenney saw that without controls, competitive sign making had the […]
Even as Laguna Beach’s shoreline evokes images of hidden coves rather than buried treasures, a forgotten landmark was recently unearthed during restoration of an Ocean Avenue building, originally home to the now defunct Laguna Federal Savings and Loan Association. The project team knew of a wall-size fountain turned off long ago when a courtyard receded […]
Without government aid, a group of determined human rights activists opened a second shelter for homeless people in Laguna Beach last week when it rained, taking in the overflow crowd turned away from the city’s at-capacity, year-round homeless shelter on Laguna Canyon Road. Twenty-five people bedded down in the temporary overnight shelter in St. […]
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