WEB UPDATE: It’s Poway vs. RB for CIF crown

The baseball teams of Poway and Rancho Bernardo will play one more time
this season, and this time the winner will walk away with the CIF San
Diego Section Division I crown.

The Titans and Broncos will take the field at 7 p.m. Saturday (June 5)
at Tony Gwynn Stadium at San Diego State University. Admission will be
$10 for adults (ages 18 and over) and $7 for students (ages 5-18) and
seniors (ages 60 and over).

UPDATE: Thursday ceremony for teen killed in crash

Rancho Bernardo High junior BreAnna Erickson will be remembered Thursday at a vigil service.

It will begin at 7:30 p.m. in The Church at Rancho Bernardo, 11740 Bernardo Plaza Court.

Her memorial service at noon Saturday will also be held in the church, which she and her family attended.

Erickson, 17, was killed in a two-vehicle crash at 5:22 p.m. May 28
on the 12500 block of Sabre Springs Parkway. She was a passenger,
riding in the backseat and wearing a seat belt.

The driver, a 17-year-old girl who received her provisional license
two months ago, and three boys — two age 16 and one 17 — were all
hospitalized with serious injuries, said Det. Dan Wall from San Diego
Police Department’s Traffic Division.

Services Sunday for RB High photography teacher

UPDATE: A memorial service for Larry Gagnon, a popular Rancho Bernardo High School teacher, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 13 in the school gymnasium, 13010 Paseo Lucido Drive.

Most will remember Larry Gagnon  through his photography — capturing tragedies as well as the joys in people’s lives.

After a series of illnesses this spring, he died Sunday of cardiac
arrest at a San Diego hospital, according to his friend, Pauline Repard.

He worked for the Bernardo News in the mid-1980s, later transitioned
to Pomerado Newspaper Group in 1992 when it purchased the RB paper,
becoming the Rancho Bernardo News Journal, and freelanced more recently
for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Prop. D means bigger government, costs millions in taxpayers’ dollars and means less accountability

By San Diego City Councilmember
Donna Frye

Does anyone think it’s a good idea to increase the
size of government with the city facing a ongoing budget crisis? Does it
make sense to spend more taxpayer dollars to add another council
district in light of all the unfunded public projects?

If you
said no, you are in good company. The San Diego Police Officer’s
Association, the League of Women Voters, the Clairemont Town Council,
and the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club all oppose Proposition D.

Driver pleads guilty in crash that killed Poway mother

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A motorist who was under the influence of
prescription drugs when she struck and killed a single mother of two
walking to
work in Poway pleaded guilty today to gross vehicular manslaughter while
intoxicated.

Becky Marie Anderson, 45, who also pleaded guilty to DUI
causing great bodily injury, will be sentenced to 16 years in state
prison on
June 28, said Deputy District Attorney Ted Minahan.

Prosecutors had alleged that Anderson had two prior DUI
convictions from Minnesota in 1998 and 1999, but those allegations were
dismissed as part of the plea agreement, the prosecutor said.

Kristen Ann Bedard,
36, was struck and killed near Community Road and Aubrey Street about 7
a.m.
last Nov. 23. She was on her way to work at a Target store.

According to authorities, Anderson was driving alone, south
on Community Road, when she swerved into a bicycle lane south of Aubrey
Street,
killing Bedard.

Sam Hinton Folk Festival is coming to Old Poway Park

Old Poway Park will come alive with the sounds of folk music on
Saturday, June 5 as San Diego Folk Heritage hosts the 2010 Sam Hinton
Folk Heritage Festival, featuring an eclectic lineup of local
performers.

The event takes place from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the park,
14134 Midland Road, and is free. Templar’s Hall will be the site of a 7
p.m. evening concert of storytelling of haunting stories that has a $10
admission.

Dick Jay, the group’s chairman, said this is the fifth year that the
22-year-old festival will be held at the Poway park. It was named after
Hinton, the beloved singer songwriter and marine biologist who died
last September at the age of 92. Hinton made his last public
performance at a festival in 2002.

Ken Graydon will be presenting a tribute to Hinton at 12:30 p.m. on
the main stage, and Jay said he’s sure that many of the performers will
include some of Hinton’s songs in their sets.

WEB UPDATE: Poway volleyball falls in semis; other playoff results

The Poway boys volleyball team ended its season Thursday after
losing the semifinals of the 2010 CIF Southern California Regional
Volleyball Championships to top-seeded Loyola High School.

The team lost in three games, and the score was 19-25, 22-25, 21-25.

Coach Charlie Jackson said his team played well, but couldn’t establish their game under their opponent’s tough serves.

Councilwoman Rexford recuperating after fall

City Councilwoman Betty Rexford is recuperating after breaking her hip Sunday in a parking lot near Templar’s Hall in Old Poway Park.

Rexford underwent hip replacement surgery earlier this week at Pomerado Hospital, and was then moved to Palomar Medical Center for several weeks of recovery, said Dee Fleischman, a Rexford family friend.

Fleischman said Rexford’s husband, Paul, confirmed that his wife fell as she was walking into a parking lot on city property near the park off Midland Road.

Rexford was expected at the Poway Woman’s Club 50th anniversary party Sunday afternoon but never showed up, according to Joye Davisson, the club’s incoming president.

New pub to offer more than 100 beers

The restaurateurs behind the Rancho Bernardo wine bar The Barrel Room
will be expanding their range to beer, as they soon will open a
neighboring gastropub to offer one of North County Inland’s largest
craft brew selections in a single setting.

Urge American
Gastropub will feature over 100 beers – including 40 on tap – from San
Diego County microbreweries as well as non-local specialty brews from
around the country. Foreign beers will be offered from countries such as
Canada, Holland, Germany, Italy and France.

The Barrel Room
proprietors Grant Tondro, Zak Higson and his brother Nate Higson plan to
open Urge American Gastropub in July. Like their wine bar/bistro, which
the three Rancho Bernardo High School alumni started in 2007 and own
and operate, the new pub-restaurant will feature a gourmet menu to
accompany an extensive drink list.

Around the Ranch: PCPA Foundation hosts golf fundraiser

It could be called an intermission of sorts. It comes each year after
the end of one performance season and before the beginning of the next
one.

The entertainment moves from the stage at the Poway Center
for the Performing Arts to the golf course at the Country Club of Rancho
Bernardo with fun, frolic and food to follow when the sun goes down.

Call
the result of the tournament a “three-peat” as Tom McGowan, Michelle
Hershberger, Ryan Rowson and Dave Giese won for the third consecutive
year.