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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 />

Introducing Assisted Living at <strong>The</strong> Meridian.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Meridian at Lake San Marcos offers Independent<br />

Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care, all on site, in<br />

quite possibly the perfect location . . . nestled in the foothills<br />

surrounding Lake San Marcos.<br />

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Three Gourmet Meals Daily<br />

Engaging Programs and Entertainment<br />

Caring Staff Available 24/7<br />

Exceptional, Personalized Support<br />

Concierge Services<br />

Spacious Apartments with Walk-In Closets<br />

Memory Care on Campus<br />

Welcome Center<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 />

CROWDFUNDING<br />

CONTINUED FROM A9<br />

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 />

COUNCIL<br />

CONTINUED FROM A1<br />

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 />

EARTH<br />

CONTINUED FROM A4<br />

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.

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