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Melinda White (left) embraces an emotional Eva King during the memorial at Sunset Cliffs for Mike White, a well-known angler and surfboardshaper who grew up on Ladera Street. Melinda, Mike’s sister, helped organize the memorial and paddle out where dozens of friends and fam-ily, including King, who was a life-long friend and former girlfriend, came out to celebrate Mike’s life on Sunday, Aug. 11. ‘Sunset Cliffs washis world and his playground,’ said Melinda. ‘He loved it here.’ See page 10 for the story. THOMAS MELVILLE / PENINSULA BEACON

EMOTIONAL MEMORIAL

Residents are beingasked to sign a peti-tion on Ocean

Beach’s Neighborhood WatchFacebook page to take actionto “help to keep our sidewalksclean ensuring a healthierenvironment for everyone.”

“One complaint that is oftenheard about the downtownarea of Ocean Beach is howdirty, stained, and smelly thesidewalks are,” the online peti-tion reads.

“The OB Clean & Safe Pro-gram, a project of the OceanBeach MainStreet Association,is looking to change that byapplying for funding to providebi-monthly cleanings of New-port Avenue sidewalks, inaddition to installing addition-al trash bins along the street.

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OB surfboard makerAlbert “Ace” Elliott lostmuch of what he’s

acquired, including 50-year-oldirreplaceable memorabilia, whenhis shaping shed on Froude Streetnear Saratoga Avenue caught fireon Aug. 6.

Elliott’s workspace was full ofold boards and photos of friendshe’d made custom boards for.

“I saw my bike was on fire in mybackyard and I tried to put it out,”said Elliott, who’s been riding e-bikes for years. “I picked up a fire

extinguisher, pulled the plug, hitthe fire — and it exploded. It justblew up in my face, like little shot-gun shells going off.”

“It was a nightmare,” addedElliott of his loss. “It was my littlego-back-in-time sanctuary. It’s nota dollar thing.”

Fortunately, the OB fire stationwas just around the corner andthey came and put it out sparingdamage to the main residence.

“[The fire] took all my boardsand tools, got my truck andcamper,” noted Elliott.

Longtime Ocean Beach surfboard shaper trying to rebuild after fireBY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON

The charred remains of Albert ‘Ace’ Elliott’s shaping shed in OB. SCOTT HOPKINS / PENINSULA BEACON SEE FIRE, Page 5

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Some businesses – retail and clothing stores – could reopen May 8To ensure San Diego is ready to

safely reopen as soon as state orders are lifted, Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer and County Supervisor and Board Chairman Greg Cox on May 4 in-troduced guidelines developed by in-dustry and workforce leaders to pre-pare the region to restart economic activity. The guidance can be used by restaurants, hair and nail salons, and other businesses planning to safely reopen their doors.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on May 5 voted to adopt the Business Safety Framework, a general outline for local businesses highlighting the things they need to prepare for and do before they could reopen. The supervisors also requested that the County’s chief ad-ministrative officer ask Gov. Gavin

Newsom to provide the County with the autonomy to make region-relat-ed, COVID-19 decisions.

Starting Friday, May 8, some local businesses can begin to re-open if they have a plan in place

to protect their employees and the public. The goal of the framework is for businesses to be ready to reopen when authorized by the governor, who is expected to announce guid-ance on May 7.

But before businesses can re-open, they need to create a Safe Reopening Plan. A template is available now to review at sandi-egocounty.gov, but may be updat-ed depending on direction from the state. Businesses will need to complete, print and post the plan at their entrance.

They also must ensure proper sanitation, physical distancing and general business practices and communication.

An unusual sight in Ocean Beach. The usually thriving Newport Avenue was com-pletely empty in late April. JIM GRANT/PENINSULA BEACON

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The stars settle down and melt into the horizon. The ocean shim-mers and glows with a heavenly turquoise brilliance. Each wave breaks and shines and lights up my heart. Are we still on Earth? The luminescence seems to trans-form the water as well as the as-tral dimension we inhabit. This planet has unseen levels of life, doesn't she?

The rising tide of electric-blue whitewater surges for our posi-tion on the beach. To our great, child-like delight, whatever area of sand that was touched by the ocean was activated with this light-show too. For every step, stomp, tip-toe, and leap, a force-fully corresponding f lorescent aura would display where body met Earth. If only there was such poetic feedback for our ev-eryday impacts.

Embraced here, in this dreamy higher dimension. Linear-time fades as the feeling-of-moments is how we track our lives now. A

wave breaks and explodes with an ecstatic celebration of color. Like a supernova on some far, dreamy, aqua-spectrumed star. It claims the honor of 'Best One Yet,' for now. Until the next one of course. The ocean always has a next one.

In between sets we f lick sand with our feet and watch the transcendent speckled patterns of the blue streaks upon the dark beach. A plethora of 'Best One Yets' come. Orion's Belt eases into the black, watery horizon, and the moment feels like a good time to depart. A rumble in our bellies for the Thai take-out back in the truck beckons us as well.

Moments like tonight f ill me with the specialness and sacred-ness of life's gifts. This story may seem like some lucid dream, but I assure you, truth is more awe-some than fiction.

Andrew Oster is an Ocean Beach resident and Peninsula Beacon reader

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Bioluminescence expert Michael Latz, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, said the current red tide, which stretches from Baja California to Los Angeles, is due to aggregations of the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedra, a species well known for its bioluminescent displays. Each microscopic cell contains some “sunscreen,” giving it a reddish-brown color.

On sunny days, the organisms swim toward the surface where they concentrate, resulting in the intensified coloration of the water – and the reason for the term "red tide." At night, when the phytoplankton are agitated by waves or other movement in the water, they emit a dazzling neon blue glow.

The ocean along San Diego County

is still brown in color, but now the sulfury odor is intense. The strong odor has reached about 1 ½ miles inland. There is also foam, indicating the breakdown of protein and other organic material. There are also reports of fish kills along beaches and in lagoons and harbors. The breakdown of the red tide by microbes results in low oxygen conditions that are deleterious to some animals.

Is the water safe for surfing/swimming? In general, during a red tide there is lots of dissolved and particulate matter in the water with associated enhanced microbial activity. It is personal choice whether to go in the water, but there is no public health warning associated with the red tide.

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The crowds of people visiting Sunset Cliffs have been growing larger for the past 5-6 years and bringing with them more garbage, noise, and traffic, much to the dismay of many residents in that neighborhood.

But after reopening the park on April 27, which was closed for about a month due to the Covid-19 pandemic, neighbors claim the sit-uation has become unmanageable and are calling on the City to close the state park down and block ac-cess to it at night.

“It has now been about 10 days since the city opened up Sunset Cliffs Natural Park for walking,” said neighbor Glen Volk in a letter to City officials. “Since then we have seen enormous crowds that have never ever been seen here before.”

Added Volk: “Please consider making an emergency order to temporarily close the Sunset Cliffs area after dark or place a curfew on the area. You could set up road-blocks and check identification for entry into this area. If you do not have a Point Loma address, then you should not be allowed to pass into Sunset Cliffs after dark or some other sensible hour. It is not safe to allow this activity to continue.”

Sunset Cliffs neighbors have been putting up with at times disrespectful visitors watching sunsets in the late afternoon for the last six years, which Volk said that’s something people have learned to live with.

“But now we have a whole new problem with partiers at night that come to watch the biolumi-nescence (red tide),” Volk said. “And they do not leave until after midnight, often partying until 2 or 3 a.m. This is a very disrespectful crowd, and it is really ramping up tensions here. It is a sh*t show like the 4th of July on steroids. And it happens every single night.”

While acknowledging most pas-sive beachgoers have been observ-ing social-distancing regulations, the City admits Sunset Cliffs has been problematic.

“Sunset Cli f fs remains a trouble spot,” said District 2 Councilmember Dr. Jennifer Campbell. “That’s why I am call-ing on everyone, wherever you live, to obey the orders around so-cial distancing and beach access. Remember that the City’s ‘stay at home’ order is still in place and that beach parking lots are still closed.

“We do not want to follow the

example of other California counties and risk losing what we’ve worked so hard to gain. Do not gather in groups, respect your neighbors, and remember it’s now mandated that if you do leave your place, you must cover your face,” Campbell said.

“This past weekend, the beach-es were fantastic. We did not issue any citations to anyone who did not use the beaches passively,” said San Diego Police Department spokesper-son Lt. Shawn Takeuchi. “All SDPD did was educate and remind people of the order and got compliance. On Friday (May 1), we placed new park-ing signs in the Sunset Cliffs area and that seemed to help.

“I am not aware of any problems we had there. However, I’d contin-ue to urge community members not to go to that area to watch the bioluminescence. When many people think the same thing small areas, such as Sunset Cliffs, cannot appropriately accommodate the crowds,” Takeuchi said.

At midnight on Saturday, May 2, San Diego Fire Rescue saved a Navy sailor on Sunset Cliffs Boulevard who fell off the cliffs into the ocean, underscoring the need for greater security in the area.

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“We have decided to open as some of the grocery items will be allowed and more vendors are ready to return,” said Sara Berns, executive director of Discover PB. “We will still need to depend on a couple of volunteers to maintain the crowd. The biggest issue is there are very strict rules the pub-lic needs to adhere to, i.e. no eat-ing on-site, one person per family/group can shop, no sitting, etc.”

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OB OPTOMETRIST DONATES MASKS TO LIFEGUARDS

Local optometrist Dr. Eli-Ben-Moshe is donating 200 protective masks to lifeguards at the Ocean Beach tower to hand out to beach-goers not wearing one.

And besides helping those on ar-ea beaches, Ben-Moshe is distrib-uting masks to anyone stopping by Newport Avenue Optometry during regular business hours starting tomorrow (May 9).

"I would be happy to offer a mask to anyone living in the Ocean Beach or Point Loma areas," Ben-Moshe said. His office is located at 4822 Newport Ave.

FEEDING SAN DIEGO AT DEWEY ELEMENTARY

Feeding San Diego announced the expansion of the Feeding Heroes initiative to provide ad-ditional hunger-relief services to military and veteran families throughout San Diego County at new sites, including Dewey Elementary, 3251 Rosecrans St., and Armed Services YMCA at 11 a.m. on Mondays. Amid the grow-ing need for food assistance, San Diego is home to the largest con-centration of military and veterans in the country, including 143,000

active-duty service members with 260,000 military dependents. The total is expected to grow by 15,000 within the next three years as five additional ships will be homeport-ed in San Diego. In total, more than 1.2 million veterans, active-duty military, and their dependents reside in the county, meaning 37 percent of the population is directly associated with the military.

“Research indicates that an es-timated 20 percent of households experiencing hunger have a mem-ber who has served, or is current-ly serving, in the United States military,” said Vince Hall, CEO of Feeding San Diego. “Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, Feeding San Diego is committed to providing nutritious meals to military and veteran households who have dedicated their lives to this country.”

STAY HOME ORDERS, SOCIAL DISTANCING SAVES 13,000 LIVES, UCSD STUDY SAYS

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors received an update this week on the County’s ef-forts to mitigate the impact that COVID-19 is having in the region.

They heard from Dr. Natasha Martin, associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UC San Diego. Martin’s simulation models help to explain disease epidemics and to predict the impact of pre-vention interventions.

Her modeling looked at the rate of infection of COVID-19 in the region, as well as the number of

deaths that were potentially pre-vented by implementing physical distancing.

Martin explained that with so-cial distancing, one infected per-son would transmit COVID-19 to another, and that person, in turn, would infect a third individual and so on. Without physical dis-tancing, an infected person would have exposed four others and each of those four people would infect four more.

According to Martin, because of physical distancing, a lot fewer San Diegans have been infected with COVID-19 or, more impor-tantly, have died.

Without social distancing, Martin’s model indicated that more than 13,000 San Diegans could have died by now. But be-cause people were required to stay home and keep their distance from others, the lives of about 6,000 to 18,000 San Diegan lives have been saved.

PHASED REOPENINGCounty Public Health Officer

Wilma Wooten went over the fed-eral criteria the County have met so that it can move forward and ease even more of the local restric-tions in her health officer order. The County has met four of the five federal criteria for reopening:

• The County has experienced a 14-day downward trajectory in the number of people with influ-enza-like illness at local emergen-cy departments.

• The County has registered a downward trajectory of COVID-like syndromic cases reported within a 14-day period.

• The number of positive cases of COVID-19 in comparison to the number of tests administered over a 14-day period has been in a downward trajectory.

• The local health care system has been able to handle the num-ber of patients needing hospital-ization for COVID-19 and other illnesses and diseases.

The f ifth criteria involves COVID-19 testing, an area where the County is making daily progress.

“We are beginning to ease the local public health order and will be following state guidance so that we can move from stage one to state two,” said Wooten, adding that the guidance for the public remains the same. People should continue to stay at home, wear a face covering when in pub-lic, stay six feet away from other people and take other preventive measures, such as washing their hands and staying home when sick.

FACE COVERINGS REQUIRED IN PUBLIC

Beginning on May 1, all San Diego County residents are re-quired to wear cloth face cover-ings in public when within six feet of another person who is not a household contact.

“When you wear a face cov-ering, you protect those around you,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health offi-cer, “When others use a face cov-ering, they protect you.”

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Businesses, individuals are trying to figure out what’s nextBy DAVE SCHWAB | The Beacon

It’s called the new normal.What is it? What will it look like?

Is it already upon us?These and related questions are

on everyone’s lips. But the reality is, many public groups, schools, and other institutions have already changed their modus operandi, switching over to remote confer-encing and other operations likely to carry over post-pandemic.

The Peninsula Beacon surveyed a representative cross-section of small businesses and individuals in the community to get their take on if – or how – things will be different moving forward.

“It’s a mess, just a rat’s race to figure out what’s going on,” is how Brett Murphy, owner of La Jolla Sports Club at 7825 Fay Ave., which has been shuttered since mid-March, summarized the pan-demic “pause,” and efforts of small businesses like his to secure gov-ernment stimulus funding. “The wait times are ungodly on the

phone calls,” he added.Acknowledging he’s “remained

positive” during the six weeks his fitness center has been shuttered as non-essential, Murphy has been busy setting up a food bank to help his laid-off employees. He’s also getting around to doing some fix-its in his fitness facility.

With the coronavirus situation changing daily, Murphy said inti-mations are he may be allowed to re-open July 1. But he noted, even what his exact operating condi-tions will be like for reopening, are uncertain.

“We have no clue,” Murphy said. “We’re being told people in gyms may have to wear masks and gloves, and that we may have to temperature check everyone who

walks in the door and provide six-feet of distancing.”

Murphy’s also being told it’s possible he may have to take 20- to 30-minute breaks periodically to sanitize things.

Given the uncertainties, Murphy’s certain of one thing. “What I’m go-ing to do is make my club the safest and cleanest you could possibly work out at,” he noted.

“We fully expect that things will slowly emerge and improve,” said an upbeat Denny Knox, executive director of Ocean Beach MainStreet Association. “Many of our business-es have been very creative in trying to market a portion of their business model. I’m hopeful that the public will want to support their favor-ite small businesses because they

realize that their support will mean the difference in the long run.”

Added Knox: “If you just love a business in OB, make sure you post great things about that business, recommend that business to your friends, and shop there as often as possible. Anything is possible when a whole community, like Ocean Beach, comes together to make it thrive.”

Mission Beach small-business owner Greg Knight, who owns San Diego Kids Party Rentals, said the coronavirus pause has left him tem-porarily practically dead in the water.

“Last year in April we did $145,000 in sales,” Knight said. “This year in April, I did $280.”

Knight said it’s obvious he’s go-ing to have to drastically change aspects of his business model,

which includes lots of bounce hous-es for kids that he has warehoused.

“We have to figure out how we do social distancing in them,” Knight said. “Maybe do things like having only one kid in at a time.”

Knight’s studying the feasibil-ity of steam cleaning his bounce houses to ensure they’re safe and sanitized.

Councilmember Dr. Jennifer Campbell, whose district includes the Peninsula and Pacific and Mission beaches, said the new nor-mal will be with everyone for the foreseeable future.

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The governor announced that retail and manufacturing busi-nesses with curbside pick-up will be allowed to reopen because they represent a lower risk of spreading COVID-19. Among them are book-stores, clothing stores, toy stores, florists, and sporting goods.

"San Diego is ready to recover, and is preparing for a reopening that's safe, strategic and specific to our diverse industries. These guidelines will help get the econ-omy back on its feet and get San Diegans back to work when state and regional orders are lifted," Faulconer said. "Businesses can use these strategies to get a head

start on their reopening plans. We have one goal: protect employees, customers and the public."

The City’s recommended strat-egies come from the Responsible COVID-19 Economic Reopening (RECOVER) Advisory Group, which was established on April 17. Cox and Faulconer created the group to give voice to businesses and their employees, and to plan for the unique needs of the region’s diverse industries.

"This proposal will take input from the RECOVER group and from others to create a framework to safely re-open non-essential businesses when the time comes," said Cox. "This will be a starting point for what we ex-pect will be a long, evolving return to business for San Diegans."

The RECOVER Advisory Group guidelines provide steps a business can take when creating a health and safety plan specific to its daily operations, customer base and em-ployee needs. Businesses can con-sider adopting these recommended strategies, in coordination with forthcoming guidance from public health officials, to secure the safety of customers and workers.

The plan includes five focus areas and a check list of corresponding actions, which have been recom-mended by the RECOVER Advisory Group with input from County Public Health officials. They include:

· Employee health: Require per-sonal protection equipment (PPE) for employees and commit to vol-untary compliance with public health officials on contact tracing and testing.

· Safe worksite entry: Establish controlled entrance and exit practices to avoid queuing issues and work with the Public Health Department to create processes for employee symptom checks.

· Workplace distancing and con-ditions: Evaluate occupancy and capacity to ensure proper physical distancing and keep shifts consis-tent with the same employees in each rotation or shift.

· Employee training and com-pliance: Ensure signage on safe-ty requirements, such as hand washing, physical distancing and reporting procedures for employ-ees who become ill.

· Enhanced cleaning and sani-tation: Develop a sanitation plan that includes frequent cleaning of restrooms, workstations, and pub-lic spaces.

The RECOVER Advisory Group also provided enhanced guidance specific to various industries, in-cluding restaurants, wellness fa-cilities, attractions and tourism, commercial real estate, construc-tion, and hospitality.

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Little has changed at Lucy’s in Ocean Beach since ownership switched hands the first of this year.

Which is what folks, new owners and longtime patrons alike say they like about it, that Lucy’s, hopefully, will always remain the same iconic landmark watering hole.

Husband-and-wife team Mary and Bobby Cooper, who opened the establishment on the corner of the crossroads at 4906 Voltaire St. in 1994, sold the tavern to local in-dustry investors Todd Brown, Sean Green, Patrick Gallahue and Ryan Dhu. The new owners are connect-ed to Good Time Design (The Blind Burro, Moonshine Flats) restaurant group.

The Coopers have since retired and moved on to Las Vegas. But not before one big well-attended wing-ding thrown in their honor by seemingly everyone in the com-munity before they left.

“My wife and I didn’t know any-thing about it,” said Bobby Cooper from their new place in Vegas. “I saw some people (gathering) across the street and wondered what they were doing over there. Everybody showed up to give us a good goodbye.”

“I’ve been wanting to say thanks to all my staff and patrons,” chimed in Mary Cooper noting she and Bobby will be splitting time living between Vegas and their other place in Seal Beach.

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Assured Mary, “I think Lucy’s will be even better with the new owners.”

Mary added they’ll be coming back to OB for visits from time to time.

Speaking on behalf of Lucy’s new ownership group, Todd Brown talk-ed about when – and why – they took over the place.

“We took over operations on Dec. 18 and it was a deal that had been in the works for a while,” said Brown adding, “This is a special, iconic place: just fun.”

Of Lucy’s ambiance, Brown said, “The sense of community in this place is just phenomenal, the extent

of who you’re engaged with when you’re there,, both employees and patrons.”

Added Brown, “We kept the whole staff. Everybody stayed.”

Brown said making wholesale changes in Lucy’s is not part of the new business plan.

“Our intention from the very beginning was not to change any-thing,” he said. “We just wanted to make some improvements, do some things to make it better. We thought, ‘It ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’”

Brown pointed out people from all walks of life, including lawyers and judges, have “had their turn in there (Lucy’s) at one point in time.”

Brown noted that became very clear to him at Lucy’s annual Christmas party the night before they took over.

“People came in to do a gift ex-change and I’ve never seen such a participation level,” he said. “It is just an amazingly cohesive spot in the community where people can go to blow off a little steam.”

Lucy’s is as real as they come. “You can’t fake it,” concluded Brown.

Patrons and friends of Lucy have also raved about the Cooper “ad-ministration” at the bar.

“I met the Coopers the day OB lost Dago Choppers due to a fire (many people were at Lucy’s who were at the fire scene), and Mary and Bobby offered their restroom and donated food to all of us that were on the scene of the fire,”

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Music promoter Gale Hopping, who books bar bands for places like Lucy’s, agreed it’s one of a kind.

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Nurses discuss life on the frontlines; urge residents to wear masksBy DAVE SCHWAB | The Beacon

Covid-19 is changing the way we live and work, including healthcare workers like nurses, who continue to engage patients individually in hospitals and out in the field.

The Peninsula Beacon caught up with four of them for a Q&A discussing how the battle is go-ing against the pandemic on the healthcare front lines.

The impact is far-ranging for nurses, from little or no impact to a great deal – and suddenly.

PB: How is working during the

pandemic different than before?“There are so many differ-

ences in the day-to-day, but the glaring ones are the avail-ability of supplies/PPE, and the level of anxiety and fear that comes with the job,” said Tiffani Zalinski, a critical care nurse in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit at UCSD Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla. “When Covid-19 broke out (March 14), I realized there was no PPE available on my unit, when our unit was previ-ously stocked full of PPE, includ-ing N-95 masks, gowns, gloves, goggles, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizers. On March 14 when I came to work, all the PPE had been confiscated by the adminis-tration and locked away. We now had to obtain permission to get these supplies.”

Added Zalinski, “We go to work every day wondering things like, ‘How many people here are as-ymptomatic carriers that haven’t been tested? Am I one of them? Are my coworkers infected? Are we going to get sick? Are our fam-ilies going to get sick?’”

“For me personally, not that much is different as I have been doing telephone triage for a while now,” said Mimi Kramer, RN, a triage nurse for Advantage Health Systems, Hospice Division, in San Diego, which handles pa-tients countywide. “What is dif-ferent is when I get a call about a patient who is running a fever or having difficulty breathing, I immediately think they may have Covid-19 and I need to assess what the ramifications of that would be.”

“Well it is a bit scary when you hear news of healthcare work-ers falling ill and dying from

this virus,” said Angelito Tan, an RN in San Diego with the California Nurses Association. “We have had TB, HIV, Hepatitis, and MRSA (in hospitals), and a lot of healthcare workers have contracted such diseases during their careers. No one seems to question the hazardous condi-tions we as healthcare workers face every day, simply because it does not cause death in a matter of weeks. Now with coronavirus, everyone is now talking about how hazardous our jobs are.”

“The pandemic has brought a whole new animal into health-care,” said Shannon Cotton, a registered nurse in the Covid-19 designated ICU at UCSD-Hillcrest. “Covid 19 does not discriminate: it can infect anyone even if they don’t have any medical history. Patients are coming in, requir-ing only a small amount of ox-ygen, then, suddenly, they can’t

catch their breath and they need a breathing tube down their throat and a mechanical ventilator. Also not having visitors in the hospital is a kind of eerie. The nurse and doctor are the only connections a patient in the ICU with Covid-19 has to their family.”

PB: Are nurses overworked or

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“We are certainly over-stressed,” said Zalinski. “But those with critical-care skills in San Diego may also feel some-what overworked. We have been ordered to cross-train to ICU in the event of surges or critical needs. Our PACU staff has all undergone extensive “refresher” courses in ventilators and oth-er aspects of Covid-19 patient care. The assumption is that if they need us, we will rise to the occasion.”

“This is a very stressful situation to be a healthcare worker during,” Kramer said. “If a nurse has to see a patient suspected or confirmed to have Covid-19 in person, that is very stressful.”

“Nurses have always been over-worked, management always looks at trimming staff to boost profits,” said Tan. “Not saying that hos-pitals aren't suffering financially during these times, but how of-ten have we had a pandemic like this? Over the last decade hospitals across America have been making hundreds of millions if not billions in revenue yearly. We (nurses) do not benefit from that … Maybe if these hospitals would stop giving multi-million dollar bonuses to their chief executive officers and instead invest those dollars to hos-pital equipment/PPE, maybe we wouldn't be facing a shortage. It seems management is able to plan and prepare to maintain profits, but cannot do the same to protect the safety of their staffs.”

“In the ICU, the stress level is pal-pable,” said Cotton. “Danger and disease is part of my job descrip-tion, but with this new virus, and no cure, it can be very anxiety-pro-voking entering the room and knowing, ‘Hey, I could contract Covid-19.’ We know that over 60 nurses in the U.S. have died from Covid-19, and it’s probably more due to insufficient testing. But I would never change my job or not show up. I love my patients and my community.”

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Obituary – Point Loma High grad and motocross champion Marty Smith, and wife NancyBy DAVE SCHWAB | The Beacon

Motocross champion and Point Loma High School alumnus Marty Smith, 63, and his wife Nancy died in a rollover dune buggy ac-cident in the Glamis sand dunes in Imperial County April 27.

The Smiths were with anoth-er couple, good friends Lee and Tammi Ramage, who were unhurt in the tragic accident.

Smith was remembered fond-ly by fellow PLHS alumnus Jim Harvey. “My memories of Marty are 50 years old,” noted Harvey recalling, “I was 14 and Marty was 13 when we played Pony League on different teams. He was a very

gifted athlete, super fast and coor-dinated. He was a local legend on his motorcycle before he went pro.”

Smith went pro during his senior year in high school.

Clyde Williams, a Point Loman who met Marty “Smitty” Smith at PLHS, could see his friend’s racing potential early-on, having trail biked with Smith in Point Loma and Miramar in the early ‘70s.

“Marty was clearly the ‘fast’ one out of our rag-tag bunch of moto-cross guys here that grew up with him, while he was living with his parents on Temecula Street in Point Loma,” said Williams adding, “After high school, Marty’s national profes-sional MX trade soared to stardom.”

Williams recalls Smith always being positive. “He was always an upbeat type of guy,” he said.

Williams shared some memora-bilia of Smith with the Peninsula Beacon, which included: a mag-azine with Marty on the cover (featuring him during his high school motocross championship); a magazine poster when Smith was recognized with other mo-torcycle champions in 1976; and a photo took in 2012 when Marty received an award at Glen Helen Raceway honoring Marty’s moto-cross career.

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Smith started racing young at age 14 at SoCal’s Carlsbad Raceway, on his way to becoming a factory rider for Honda in 1974. Smith continued his winning ways with Honda throughout the mid-’70s, earning national victories in all three AMA Motocross classes (125, 250, and 500cc), and demon-strating how versatile he was with wins in the 250cc Supercross, Trans AMA, and FIM Motocross World Championship series. In 1977, Smith won the AMA 500cc

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Survivors include siblings Todd and Jeanette; three children, Tyler, Jillyin, and Brooke; and seven grandchildren.

The Smiths had resided in rural Alpine in East County in recent years.


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In what almost seemed inevi-table, the 41st annual OB Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off, originally scheduled for June 27, has been postponed until next year. The event will now be held Saturday, June 26, 2021, due to updates re-garding the coronavirus from the City and County of San Diego to ensure the public’s safety.

“We had to make the call,” said Denny Knox, executive direc-tor of Ocean Beach MainStreet Association. “We just couldn’t commit to signing a contract. The risk is too great. What if the City decided we all had to go back in for two weeks, and we were right in the middle of it?”

Added Knox: “Plus we have less than two months to stage it. We’d never pull it off. It takes a lot of money to stage that event … and we don’t really know what the rules are going to be. How would you run a special event like a street fair if you were required to have 25% fewer people? The timing was just really bad so we said better safe than sorry.”

Every year, the Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off features food booths, art, beachfront entertainment, and shopping. The chili competition showcases tastings from amateur entrants competing for the titles of Hottest Chili, Judges' Award, and People's Choice Award.

OBMA had more than hinted two weeks ago that the event, like

nearly all large-scale events re-gion-wide including Comic-Con and the San Diego County State Fair, would be canceled for 2020 due to pandemic safety concerns.

Previously, Knox noted the summertime classic street fair makes up 80% of OBMA’s budget that finances all the extra com-munity work the business im-provement district does, all the murals, all the banners around town. “I’m not sure how we’ll replace the lost income, at this point,” Knox said.

Concerning how OBMA will at-tempt to make up such a shortfall, Knox said, “We’re working on it, but it’s a slow process to figure out how to reinvent yourself like every other business has had to do.”

OBMA’s executive director not-ed its also tough to plan ahead because everything with the pan-demic is a moving target. “You just don’t have a date when everything might be back to normal,” Knox said, adding, "It’s going to be a struggle, and it’s going to look dif-ferent than we’ve seen in it in the past,” of daily business operations once things return to some degree of normal.

On a more positive note, Knox said they’re working on bringing the OB Farmers Market, which has been on hiatus due to the pandem-ic, back likely by the end of May or early June.

Knox added she’s also encour-aged by the response of merchants in OB, whom she said have been

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“It’s so nice to see how generous our businesses are even in this kind of terrible situation,” contin-ued Knox. “Steve Yeng has been incredibly generous to all kinds of groups, and they’re really working hard to keep people employed.”

And Knox pointed out that, slowly but surely, businesses that have been closed are gradually be-ing allowed to come back online.

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Knox relayed an interesting quote she’d heard which summa-rizes ongoing efforts to adapt to the pandemic.

“Somebody said this whole sit-uation is like building an airplane while you’re flying it,” she said. “That’s such a funny statement, but it’s so true.”

Volk thanked Councilmember Campbell and SDPD Police Chief David Nisleit for beefing up the po-lice presence at Sunset Cliffs. But he warned it isn’t enough.

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Volk has heard from several Sunset Cliffs neighbors who are reaching their breaking point.

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my trash on the streets,” he said. “I haven’t talked to a single resident who’s not disgusted with what’s going on. We need to wake peo-ple up.”

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PB: How about a couple of pointers on what folks can do to help make nurse's jobs a little less difficult during these trying times?

“Please stay home,” implored Zalinski. “Be our ally. Wash your hands. Maintain social distanc-ing. We recognize that it is hard to feel isolated and without our normal outlets. But the more peo-ple who choose to ignore these warnings, the more stress and strain it puts on the healthcare system. If too many people get sick at once, more people will die. And what’s even scarier is that if more healthcare workers get sick, who will be there to take care of the laypeople?

“Wash your hands,” said Kramer.

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Point Loma, 3 BD, 2 BA, 1364 ESF $1,095,000 Newly renovated single level home, located south of the flight path inFleetridge. Enjoy modern amenities, custom kitchen & baths with tastefulfinishes. The open kitchen, living & dining room lead to the secluded patio& yard. Low maintenance fenced yard, 2 car garage, quiet cul-de-sac street.Great location! Shelter Island, Liberty Station & Beaches minutes away!

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Point Loma, 1+ BR , 862 ESF $499,000 Rarely Available & completely remodeled! First level, courtyard adjacent, loft-style oversized one bedroom condo w/ 400 ESF private patio, 9’ ceilings. plus 2 covered parking spaces & storage. Upgrades include wood beam ceilings, polished concrete flooring, remodeled bath w/ rain shower & in-unit laundry. Enjoy resort stylegated complex!

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4484 CORONADO 4BR/ 3.5BA VIEW ONLINE AT: TINYURL.COM/4484CORONADOMultiple view decks add 1400 sq. ft. of space. The rooftop deck, the property’s crowningglory, features 270 degree views of the Pacific Ocean framing Sunset Cliffs, La Jolla,Carlsbad, and Mission Bay to Bay Park. The view is a truly awe-inspiring backdrop abovethe outdoor, gas fireplace. Additional amenities include: chef’s kitchen with large cook-ing space, private deck off owner’s suite, indoor/outdoor space to enjoy beautifulweather, large and usable back yard with enough space to add a pool. Thishome was completely rebuilt in 2020. Seller will entertain offer between$1,999,900 and $2,247,000

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