Archive for: September, 2009

Walter Andersen helps green thumbs

Whether you’re a gardening pro or are planning your first vegetable garden, Walter Andersen Nursery in Poway is ready to help.

Tour de Poway takes place this Sunday

The 21st annual Tour de Poway — five separate bicycle riding segments — will likely attract 1,500-plus riders this Sunday at Old Poway Park.

Thumbs: Oct. 1, 2009

Editorial in the Rancho Bernardo News Journal Kudos to the water wise THUMBS UP to all who have reduced their water consumption. According to the City of San Diego, water use in the city has dropped 13.9 percent (based on July 2008 versus July 2009 statistics). Per consumer category, residential use dropped 15.4 percent, commercial [...]

State bill could help PPH clinic open

For almost two months, Pomerado Hospital has had a new 7,200-square-foot clinic on the Outpatient Pavilion’s fifth floor, but patients have yet to use it.

Search still on for Poway bank robber

A woman wearing a plastic mask robbed a bank in Poway at gunpoint Wednesday.

Principal shaves head to keep promise

Amid hundreds of students chanting “Shave it off,” Monterey Ridge Elementary Principal Richard Newman saw his thick locks of hair fall to the ground.

Poway Dog Park to be renamed to honor trainer

Poway Dog Park will be getting a new name: the Bob Burkhardt Dog Park during a rededication ceremony 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 at Poway Community Park.

Letters to the Editor: Oct. 1, 2009

No tears for insurance companies Regarding Allen Polk Hemphill’s column of Sept. 24. The private insurance companies do work a discount with the doctors, but that is only in the supplemental insurance that seniors buy on top of the Medicare insurance. How come we are the only industrial country that allows insurance companies to make [...]

GEICO celebrates decade in Poway

The Government Employees Insurance Company, better known as GEICO, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Poway.

Firl: The illegal ‘alien’ problem, reframed after watching ‘District 9′

With the worldwide financial meltdown threatening to bring down the roof, and the politics of health care reform howling at the door, forgotten are the illegal immigrants out back.

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