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A20 THE COAST NEWS<br />
NOV. 9, <strong>2012</strong><br />
NORTH COUNTY STARS<br />
North County Girl Scouts shine at the Oct. 7 Girl Scout New<br />
Day 5K at Mission Bay. Girl Scout Senior Sarah Wikler<br />
(center), 16, of Oceanside Troop 4477, receives congratulations<br />
for placing first among girls age 16 to 18. Courtesy<br />
photo<br />
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Resource center opens new thrift shop<br />
OCEANSIDE —<br />
Community Resource Center<br />
(CRC) has opened a f ourth<br />
thrift store in North County<br />
with proceeds aimed at putting<br />
people back to work.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new Thrift Store &<br />
Donation Center at 1405 S. El<br />
Camino Real, is already open<br />
from 10 a.m. to 6 p .m. daily,<br />
with a grand opening set f or<br />
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goals have raised nearly $350<br />
million.<br />
In San Diego County 238 projects<br />
were successfully funded,<br />
bringing in more than $2.5<br />
million, according to<br />
Kickstarter’s stats.<br />
According to J ustin<br />
Kazmark, a spokesman for<br />
Kickstarter, the most common<br />
contribution for projects is<br />
$25.<br />
Some have suggested<br />
crowdfunding websites like<br />
Kickstarter could supplant<br />
publishing houses, film studios,<br />
venture capitalists, private<br />
funding and government<br />
grants.<br />
Kazmark, however, sees<br />
Kickstarter’s role as being<br />
one that, “complements the<br />
current ecosystem f or arts<br />
funding, not replaces it.”<br />
And there is a major distinction<br />
between venture capitalists<br />
and those who back<br />
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License # 374603339<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>. 10.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 5,000-square-foot<br />
store and donation center<br />
offers bargains on designer<br />
clothing and shoes, furniture,<br />
books, house wares, and<br />
more, with new inventory<br />
every day.<br />
Customers who bring a<br />
bag of donated items to the<br />
grand opening on No v. 10<br />
Artist Manuelita Brown with a scale model of Sojourner Truth, a former<br />
slave who became an abolitionist and women’s suffragette. Brown has<br />
embraced the crowdfunding trend in hopes of creating a full-scale statue<br />
of Truth. Photo by Jared Whitlock<br />
projects on Kic kstarter, he<br />
said. Profit and shares motivate<br />
venture capitalists, while<br />
Kickstarter supporters are<br />
“mainly interested in seeing<br />
the project come into exis-<br />
who unsuccessfully ran for<br />
Council in 2010, picked up<br />
the two remaining seats.<br />
Shaffer secured 23.2<br />
percent of the v otes, while<br />
Kranz took in 18.5 per cent<br />
and Muir got 14.3 per cent,<br />
according to the San Diego<br />
County Registrar of Voters.<br />
Kranz and Muir could<br />
not be reached for comment<br />
by press time.<br />
Mayor Jerome Stocks,<br />
who has ser ved on Council<br />
for more than a decade, finished<br />
in f ourth with 12.7<br />
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retreat from philosophy and<br />
politics, and focus instead on<br />
tending one’s garden — the<br />
mundane, ordinary necessities<br />
of life.<br />
Our gardens are expressions<br />
of our politics, as our<br />
habits are indicative of our<br />
values. Striving to do more<br />
receive a 10 per cent-off<br />
coupon for purchases made<br />
that day.<br />
CRC will oper ate the<br />
new thrift stor e to gener ate<br />
program income as w ell as<br />
train and employ individuals<br />
at risk of homelessness.<br />
<strong>The</strong> enterprise includes<br />
a partnership with<br />
Manpower, a leader in w ork-<br />
tence.”<br />
“<strong>The</strong>se are the people<br />
who will be the first to try<br />
your product or will be at the<br />
opening night of your film,”<br />
Kazmark said.<br />
percent. Barb Yost finished<br />
next in polling with 10.2<br />
percent.<br />
Voters also w eighed in<br />
on how Encinitas c hooses<br />
its mayor.<br />
Previously, a mayor was<br />
elected via a Council majority<br />
vote, one of the fe w<br />
cities in San Diego County<br />
to do so.<br />
Propositions asked voters<br />
whether the y’d like to<br />
select a mayor with a direct<br />
vote beginning in<br />
<strong>Nov</strong>ember 2014<br />
than “same old, same old,”<br />
you bet I v oted (seeking<br />
statesmen and women, settling<br />
for politicians), but I<br />
also buy local (prefer Made<br />
in the USA), conserve water<br />
and avoid chemicals and<br />
excess packaging.<br />
It is challenging, yet liberating<br />
to li ve plastic-andpesticide-and-herbicide-free.<br />
Quoting Captain Charles<br />
force development, training,<br />
and job placement. CRC’s<br />
expansion is supported by<br />
<strong>The</strong> Roberts Enter prise<br />
Development Fund (REDF),<br />
a California venture philanthropy<br />
organization that<br />
added CRC to its g rowing<br />
portfolio of nonpr ofit social<br />
enterprises in 2011.<br />
Call (760) 231-7909.<br />
“It’s not in vestment or<br />
donation; it’s the intersection<br />
of commerce and patronage,”<br />
he added.<br />
Preston Caffrey, an entrepreneur,<br />
said he’s been surprised<br />
by the amount of aid<br />
he’s been given by people he’s<br />
not acquainted with.<br />
Caffrey launched his<br />
Kickstarter late last week and<br />
has until Dec. 7 to bring in<br />
$35,000 for a l ine of coffeeinspired<br />
teas he’ d like to<br />
launch.<br />
He’s off to a str ong start;<br />
75 backers have provided<br />
$4,300.<br />
“Friends and family have<br />
contributed, most are people<br />
I’ve never met,” Caffrey said.<br />
“People go on the Kickstarter<br />
website just looking for people<br />
to donate to.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> support has made<br />
him into a crowdfunding convert.<br />
“This wouldn’t be possible<br />
without Kic kstarter,”<br />
Caffrey said.<br />
(Proposition K), and<br />
whether the ma yor’s term<br />
should be f or two years<br />
(Proposition L) or f our<br />
(Proposition M).<br />
Ultimately, residents<br />
approved propositions K<br />
and L, leaving residents to<br />
elect a mayor for a two-year<br />
term next election.<br />
Proposition K passed<br />
with 56 percent in favor and<br />
57 percent of r esidents<br />
approved Proposition L,<br />
according to smartvoter.org.<br />
Moore, author of “Plastic<br />
Ocean,” “You can stick your<br />
head in the sand, but you’ll<br />
discover it’s full of plastic.”<br />
Regardless of how we spend<br />
our time in this life, we only<br />
have one garden — this beautiful<br />
planet Earth. Tread<br />
lightly.<br />
Celia Kiewit is an<br />
Encinitas resident.