La Jolla groups seek reduced construction fencing in Scripps Park for summer
The La Jolla Parks & Beaches board voted to join the La Jolla Community Planning Association in co-authoring a letter to the city of San Diego asking that construction fencing be reduced and brought closer to the Scripps Park restroom facility that is being built.
(Ashley Mackin-Solomon)
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To make as much park space available to the public as possible during the summer, the La Jolla Parks & Beaches board and the La Jolla Community Planning Association will co-author a letter to the city of San Diego asking that construction fencing around the Scripps Park restroom project be reduced and brought closer to the facility.
La Jolla Village Merchants Association discusses digital kiosks and introduces parking website
The La Jolla Village Merchants Association is given a presentation via Zoom about IKE digital kiosks that may be coming to San Diego.
(Ashley Mackin-Solomon)
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Although implementation is still away off, the La Jolla Village Merchants Association was briefed during its May 12 meeting on a proposal to bring digital kiosks to San Diego, and possibly The Village.
LJVMA Executive Director Jodi Rudick said the board was asked to explore the idea of installing some digital signage as part of the November opening of the Mid-Coast Trolley, which will extend trolley service between San Diego’s Old Town and the UC San Diego and University City areas, and a possible shuttle to bring visitors into The Village from the trolley stop.
Seal Society volunteers return to La Jolla beaches for Earth Day cleanup
Marisa Butler and J.P. Rosal aid the Seal Society’s Earth Day effort to rid the Children’s Pool beach of litter.
(Elisabeth Frausto)
April 25, 2021 9:49 AM PT
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Earth Day 2021 brought more than a dozen volunteers to the La Jolla coast for a beach cleanup the first such in-person effort organized by the Sierra Club Seal Society of San Diego since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The April 22 collection netted 21.5 pounds of trash.
The group met when the tide was lower at 10 a.m. at the gazebo overlooking the Children’s Pool to distribute gloves, trash bags, trash pickers and more before dispersing north and south, clearing the walkways, bushes and beaches between Shell Beach and South Casa Beach.
Two harbor seal pups born early in the seal pupping season were deemed abandoned by their mothers and needed to be rescued from the Children’s Pool in La Jolla by SeaWorld San Diego.
The first pup was born Dec. 19, according to Pam Thomas, who volunteers with the Seal Society of San Diego, an organization that advocates for protection of harbor seals and sea lions in La Jolla.
An abandoned seal pup is held by a rescuer from SeaWorld at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla.
(Mandy Etpison)
“Someone called us and said there’s a white seal on the beach,” which Thomas said indicates a premature birth. The white comes from the pup’s lanugo coat, which is normally lost before birth.