A man acted as the getaway driver in a series of five takeover- style bank robberies — including one in Rancho Bernardo — that netted more than $293,000, a prosecutor said Monday. But a defense attorney said there wasn’t enough evidence to tie his client to all of the holdups.
Thaddeus Williams, 24, is the first of four defendants to stand trial in the series of bank robberies that occurred between September 2008 and January 2009. Jeremy Gibbs, 23, Tranes Goins, 29 and Terry Mixon, 25, will be tried next month.
Feb 28 2011 | Posted in
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Outstanding high school students are being honored with membership in the Fraternity of Academic and Civic Excellence (FACE), a program sponsored by the Pomerado Newspaper Group and Visual Photography. These students are selected by their schools for outstanding academic and community service. (Click on the photos below to view the profiles).
Feb 28 2011 | Posted in
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Sign up quickly if you want to spend an hour helping pack 500,000 meals for the hungry during a popular and easy community service event in Rancho Bernardo.
Friends & Family Community Connection will start accepting volunteer registrations on Sunday, March 6 for its 23rd food packing event on March 26 and 27. Go to www.ffccsd.org. Those without Internet access can call 858-204-9643.
The PowPAC, Poway’s Community Theatre, is staging a modern romantic comedy starting next week when it presents “Skin Deep.”
Shirley Coggon and Joe Solazzo star in “Skin Deep,” which opens Friday at PowPAC, Poway’s Community Theatre. (Photo provided by Tony Eisenhower)
The show will run March 4 through March 27 at the theater, 13250 Poway Road.
The story, written by Jon Lonoff, features a protagonist, Maureen Mulligan, who is a plus-size, middle-aged single woman who is good-natured and looking for love, but is more at ease cracking one-liners about her weight.
It was the end of the line for the boys basketball teams of Poway and Maranatha Christian, who lost their quarterfinal matches on Saturday and were eliminated from the playoffs.
The Poway girls soccer team scored a 3-2 victory over Grossmont High School in the quarterfinals on Saturday, advancing to the semifinals. Poway had goals from Maegan Macasa, Jenna Pellegrino and Courtney McCandless.
The Titans will host Rancho Buena Vista at 5 p.m. Wednesday for the semifinals. Rancho Buena Vista defeated Rancho Bernardo 4-3 at home on Saturday.
Feb 27 2011 | Posted in
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A dozen wrestlers from Poway and Rancho Bernardo high schools got their ticket to the State CIF wrestling championships, which will be held this coming week in Bakersfield, after finishing in the top three at the Masters Championship.
The qualifying tournament held Friday and Saturday at the Canyon Crest Academy featured the top wrestlers from all San Diego Section CIF divisions.
Poway High led the field, qualifying eight wrestlers to the state championship, which will be held March 4-5 at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield. Four Rancho Bernardo grapplers qualified for the tournament, which is the top level of high school wrestling.
LAKESIDE (CNS) – An 18-year-old Poway man found crushed under an 800-pound hunk of concrete at a Lakeside industrial site was apparently trying to keep warm after leaving home because of personal problems, it was reported Sunday.
Matthew Christopher Mitchell was found dead at Anderson Drilling at 10303 Channel Road about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Feb 27 2011 | Posted in
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The Poway girls basketball team defeated Carlsbad 56-36 at home on Friday, advancing to the semifinals on Tuesday.
The third-seeded Titans will travel to San Diego High School on Tuesday (March 1) for a 7 p.m. semifinal match against the defending Division I CIF section champion. The winner will be one of two teams that will move on to the finals, which will be held at 6:05 p.m. on Saturday (March 5) at the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
The boys soccer teams of Poway and Rancho Bernardo have advanced to the semifinals after winning their quarterfinal matches on Friday.
Poway, which defeated Mira Mesa at home 3-1 on Friday during a quarterfinal match, will host Torrey Pines (12-7-5 overall) at 5 p.m. Tuesday (March 1).
Feb 26 2011 | Posted in
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The release date for a draft environmental impact report on the Poway Walmart expansion proposal has once again been pushed back, this time to April.
“We just got the last section last week so all has been reviewed,” said Bob Manis, the city’s development services director. “We are now waiting for our comments to be addressed by the consultant.”
The last section addressed “sustainability” issues, which include greenhouse gas emissions, he said.
“We are expecting the EIR to be complete sometime in April,” he said Thursday.
Valley Elementary School’s Homework Club is beginning its 11th year, four of which have been with Itziar Haumschilt overseeing the program.
Most of the kids and everyone else at the school call Haumschilt, who has vibrant red hair and a Spanish accent, by her nickname “Itzy,” she said.
According to “Chappy” Dave Walden, Valley’s program is a faith-based Christian ministry, which he helped start in early August 2000. Of four homework clubs he started, only Valley has survived.
