Encinitas: Our History and People
Encinitas: Our History and People By the Encinitas Historical Society Authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Jim Filanc and Garth Murphy Cover painting by artist Kevin Anderson Published by HPN Books and Ledge Media ©2021 Visit www.ledgemedia.net/encinitas to order printed copies And visit www.HPNBooks.com for info on how to publish your own book as a fundraiser for your community
Encinitas: Our History and People
By the Encinitas Historical Society
Authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Jim Filanc and Garth Murphy
Cover painting by artist Kevin Anderson
Published by HPN Books and Ledge Media ©2021
Visit www.ledgemedia.net/encinitas to order printed copies
And visit www.HPNBooks.com for info on how to publish your own book as a fundraiser for your community
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• Cardiff-by-the-Sea Mainstreet Association, formerly Cardiff Chamber of<br />
Commerce, is identified as an official main street organization (C 101).<br />
2015 ä<br />
• <strong>Encinitas</strong> Community Park (425 Santa Fe Dr.) is officially opened on January<br />
10th. Formerly the greenhouse floral business of Robert Hall, he sells the<br />
property to the City of <strong>Encinitas</strong> in 2000 for $17,000,000. The total cost over<br />
the next 15 years totals $42,750,000. This 44-acre park boasts a 13,000-<br />
square-foot renowned skate park, kids play areas, two acres for the Maggie<br />
Houlihan Memorial Dog Park, athletic fields <strong>and</strong> lots of open green spaces.<br />
• <strong>Encinitas</strong> Arts, Culture <strong>and</strong> Ecology Alliance (EACEA) enters into negotiations<br />
with the City of <strong>Encinitas</strong> to transform the closed 2.8-acre Pacific View<br />
Elementary School into a viable arts center. Rehabilitation commences in a rightof-entry<br />
lease situation while the long-term lease requirements are finalized.<br />
• Coastal Roots Farm (441 Saxony Road), dedicated on September 30 <strong>and</strong> located<br />
on the Leichtag Property, begin their certified organic farming operation. It is a<br />
non-profit educational community farm where growing organic vegetables<br />
“nourish connections—to ourselves, our neighbors <strong>and</strong> the l<strong>and</strong>”, inspired by<br />
Jewish wisdom. Fresh organic produce is sold at their Farm St<strong>and</strong> as a pay-whatyou-can<br />
system to offer healthy, organically grown produce for all.<br />
• Organic Fruit Grove is dedicated at Glen Park in Cardiff-by-the-Sea on October<br />
3rd, inspired by Cardiff resident <strong>and</strong> former mayor Teresa Arballo Barth. This is<br />
an organically managed city park setting the tone for healthy organic gardening.<br />
• Friends of the Arts received non-profit status on November 27. Created in 2014,<br />
the mission of EFA is to partner with the City of <strong>Encinitas</strong> by “fund raising <strong>and</strong><br />
advocating for art in <strong>Encinitas</strong> <strong>and</strong> city owned art venues promoting all art forms”.<br />
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Below: <strong>Encinitas</strong> Sign on Coast<br />
Highway 101. The Downtown<br />
<strong>Encinitas</strong> Mainstreet Association<br />
contracts Bob Partlow <strong>and</strong> Terry<br />
Weaver in 2014 to create this Welcome<br />
sign on the south end of the business<br />
district entering the coast highway.<br />
COURTESY OF DAPHNE FLETCHER<br />
C h a p t e r 8 F 9 1
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