FROM 2013 MCAS “DON’T TRESPASS” VIDEO
8 San Diego Reader March 30, 2017
NEWS NEIGHBORHOOD Continued from page 6 MIRAMAR
Marines to reopen bike trail “Everybody has to go through the permit process.” The old Stowe Trail that has connected Santee to Poway for more than 100 years is slated to open back up in mid-April. The trail travels along the eastern side of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. According to Susie Murphy, executive
director of San Diego Mountain Biking Asso- ciation, the trail has been used by mountain bikers for at least 30 years. “When it was a Navy base in the Top Gun
days, they didn’t seem to care and the bound- ary was rarely enforced,” said Murphy. “When the Marines took it over, it became more of an issue. They have a firing range and riders started making their way into the base up onto the ridge in the line of fire. This was the impetus for bikes getting confiscated in 2016.” In January 2016, Miramar military police
confiscated approximately 45 bikes when they found riders within the base’s borders. Some riders claimed they didn’t know they were trespassing, blaming lack of proper signage. Others claimed they weren’t even on the base
Regional Park, which will be reviewed by the city council in May or June. A draft of the master plan is already posted online. Woodworth said that the only
Signs posted at MCAS Miramar
and were ticketed on county property. Marine colonel Jason Woodworth said,
“Ninety percent of those bikes [confiscated in January 2016] were on the installation — and there were a couple where they were [ticketed] off the installation, [but] they were seen in the installation.” According to Woodworth, the Marines
took over the base from the Navy in 1997 and the problem with cyclists and hikers has been going on for years. In 2015, everything came to a head when there were ten incidents inside the firing range when Marines were training. Over the past year, a compromise was
found with a lot of different players: Marines, City of San Diego, County of San Diego, City of Santee, and private developers. According to Murphy, the bigger plan
to connect the trails can be found within the master plan update for Mission Trails
way anyone will be allowed to ride Stowe Trail is to apply for a permit. “Everybody, including me, my family, any active military, has to go through the permit process. No exceptions.” Children under ten can be added to
their parents’ application. The permits will be similar to a driver’s license. According to Woodworth, the permits will last for one year and there will be no mechanism for reminding anyone about renewals.
JULIE STALMER CORONADO
Gas from the past Dinosaur mascot first walked the earth in 1932 The Valero gas station in Coronado switched its branding last week. And it has some cus- tomers reminiscing about family road trips through the Midwest. The station, at 400 Orange Avenue, had been a Valero station. The signs changed to Sinclair — home of Dino the Green Dinosaur. Sinclair gas stations haven’t been seen much outside of their traditional market —
the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. Only 23 of the brontosaurus-mascoted sta- tions can be found in Southern California. The company has plans to expand rapidly
in SoCal, said Sean Conja. He and his family own the distributorship for the Sinclair brand for areas south of Los Angeles. He also owns one of two other San Diego County stations recently converted to Sinclair. His station in Alpine was converted last July. The Circle K on Hwy. 94 in Campo was converted to Sinclair in January of 2016 and became the first Sinclair station south of L.A. “You wouldn’t believe the promotional
products people come in to buy — air fresh- eners, pens, T-shirts, hats, everything,” said Conja. The company’s dinosaur logo has been used since 1932, and was even paro- died in Pixar’s Toy Story and Cars films, as DinoCo Gas. The company’s website states Sinclair Oil
was founded in 1916, the brand was once owned by Arco/BP until the Utah-based Earl Holding family took it private in 1976. In 2016, Forbes magazine reported Sinclair was the 62nd largest privately owned company in the U.S., maintaining the brand with 2067 stations, and expanding its presence with 12 large truck-stop terminals along major interstates in the Midwest.
KEN HARRISON
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