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How Kori Jensen owns home and rents it out part-time
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Illustration by Jay Allen Sanford
Once a nurse’s dorm for the nearby hospital, by the turn of the 21st century it had devolved into the most fleabitten of fleabag hotels.
Never checked out
I rarely, if ever, check the author of an article of the magazines I read. About two paragraphs into “Nothing Friendly About the Friendship Hotel” (Feature Stories, February 17) I didn’t have to; I just knew I was experiencing the divine grace of another masterpiece by the Rock N’ Roll Comic himself, Jay Allen Sanford. And of course, the name credit at the end confirmed my intuition for the holy.
OCEANSIDE
Residents spoke out strongly this week against a suggestion that Oceanside close its aging Brooks Street pool and use the savings to operate its soon-to-open El Corazon Aquatics Center.
“It really was hurtful and . disrespectful . to suggest closing the pool,” said Wayne Godinet of the Oceanside Samoan Cultural Committee at Wednesday’s Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. A lifelong Oceanside resident, he swam at Brooks Street as a child.
For the record:
9:26 AM, Feb. 22, 2021An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the location of the El Corazon Aquatics Center. It is in City Council District 4.
City Councilman Christopher Rodriguez proposed earlier this month shutting down the Brooks Street Swim Center, which serves a low-income, ethnically diverse neighborhood, and using the money to operate the new El Corazon Aquatics Center, which is over three miles away in a more affluent area.
Some people at the meeting praised councilmembers for choosing Jensen to fill the vacant council seat, but they appeared to be in the minority.
NBC 7 reached out to Jensen to hear her side of the story, and she responded via text message, “I cannot comment now but I will be able to very soon. I will contact you at that time.”
The San Diego County District Attorney s office said it fielded public complaints and is now looking into the matter.
Rod Wilson who lives next door to Jensen doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. He’s known Jensen for nearly two decades and said Jensen rents the house out mostly to friends and relatives.
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The Oceanside City Council voted 3-2 last week to delay opening the new El Corazon Aquatics Center while it considers whether to save money for its operation by closing the 50-year-old Brooks Street pool.
Mayor Esther Sanchez voted no and said she was outraged at the idea, which would close a heavily used pool in a older, low-income, mostly Latino neighborhood to open the new aquatics center in a wealthier, less ethnically diverse part of the city.
“I am really surprised that this would come up, that we would be taking from the poor to give to the rich,” Sanchez said during the discussion Wednesday. “That’s what it looks like . we are going to deny a huge resource to kids that cannot even get to the beach.”