8 San Diego Reader April 20, 2017
NEWS NEIGHBORHOOD NORTH PARK Continued from page 6
Del Mar Fairgrounds was home to the Good- guys 17th Meguiar’s Del Mar Nationals. If one is into older cars before 1972, this is the show to come to. It’s an indoor and outdoor car show with
over 2500 rides, including rods, customs, clas- sics, muscle cars and trucks thru ’72. “But what about the lowrider?” asked
Ron from the Nuestro Estilo car club. “We deserve our own category.” He drove in from Fresno that Saturday to drop off some parts (in Tijuana) to get chromed, then “checked out the lolos [lowriders] inside the show before heading back.” On the promotional campaign for the car
show, their fliers and the website do not men- tion the word “lowrider” as one of the 2500 cars, but they do recognize the other genres of customized and original cars. The lowrider question even went on social
media when a well-known lowrider owner posted a photo of the Goodguys advertise- ment: “The flyer doesn’t even mention LOW- RIDERS even though we actively participate,” he said. “They’ll take your money but won’t even recognize.”
MIKE MADRIAGA
Pizza Hut instead of Olympic Café
Olympic Café instead of Jersey Joe’s When Olympic Café lost its longtime lease at 2340 University Ave. (at Texas Street), it was up in the air over what would move in there. It’s turned out to be a Pizza Hut franchise restaurant, currently at 2786 University Ave. (corner of Idaho Street) in North Park. Meanwhile, Olympic Café, noted for
its big-portion comfort food, will open soon in a remodeled restaurant building formerly occupied by Jersey Joe’s Pizzeria at 2310 Uni- versity Avenue. Extensive renovation has turned the building’s storage space into a patio dining area, with a custom wrought-iron gate in front. An upper-left area of the structure now has decorative faux shutters.
DAVID BATTERSON
NORMAL HEIGHTS Moms react to homeless spillover Benches may be gone at park next to Adams Elementary “It’s shameful. I don’t feel safe walking in my own neighborhood or even using this park sometimes. You can’t go more than a few blocks without seeing people sleeping on the streets.” This was said by a mom watching her son play
baseball at the Adams Elementary School field on April 7. Right beside the field, next to the recreation center, was a homeless camp in a play area designed for young children. In March planning meeting notes, it was
stated that the rec council had decided to take some action about Adams Park by removing and changing the layout of seating and tables to discourage camping in the park. Gary Weber, a retired city planner and
member of the planning group, talked about park deficiencies in Normal Heights. He said that while Normal Heights should have 48 acres of park space, they only have about 8 acres.
Normal Heights has two main parks.
The largest is Ward Canyon Park (3905 Adams Avenue). The other is Adams Park located next to Adams Elementary (3491 Adams Avenue). A resident at the March planning meeting
pointed out that more parks means more homeless in the neighborhood. Nancy Palmer said that while the home-
less are most visible at parks, she said they’re more concentrated in canyons, off-ramps, and alleys. Even though she has befriended many homeless people, she hesitates to let her kids walk alone near the park. She called out the shelter system as use- less and horrible. “You can’t start to see if
there’s space in a shelter until nearly sundown and then realize there’s no spot for a mother and small child in a shelter and have them figure out plan B in the dark, downtown. I have helped multiple mothers who were temporarily displaced and they would rather stay in the park than go downtown to try to get in a shelter and get turned away left to stay downtown with their babies. I’d stay in Normal Heights, too.”
JULIE STALMER
OCEANSIDE Fountain, turned back on, comes into view City eyes Camp Pendleton front gate for water source A five-foot high, decorative wrought-iron fence erected around the Oceanside Civic Center’s large plaza’s fountains has finally come down. The 400 feet of temporary blue fence was
first erected in April of 2015 to help facili- tate the draining, repairs, and sealing of the fountains. Unfortunately, once the $300,000 project was finished, the drought was in full swing. City staff recommended, under the governor’s water restriction order, that the fountains not be filled and turned back on. The city finally declared their water cri- continued on page 62
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